The Fonix 2.017. Official Poster

The Fonix 2.017: Be Prepared!

The Tenth English Competition for Catalan Schools (THE FONIX 2017), designed to promote the use of English among school students through a fun and educational competition in an informal educational setting, is hereby announced.

The objective of the competition is to select a finalist from each of the first two stages: local, territorial and the winners at the final stage.

The exercises in all the stages of the competition will consist of writing tasks, each based on a different theme (for example: geography, history or music). The written tasks contain a variety of activities on vocabulary, reading and writing. In the final stage of the competition, there will also be an oral section in the test.

STAGES OF THE COMPETITION: 

• LOCAL STAGE: The tests will be held at each school between 12th of January and 16th February 2017 inclusive.
• REGIONAL STAGE: The tests during the regional stage will be held on Saturday 25th February 2017 at 12:00 midday, and will last for a maximum of 55 minutes. The location of the examination will be made public well before the test date. The organisers will publish the names of the winners from the regional stage of the competition and the centres they represent as of 3rd April.
• FINAL STAGE: The final stage of the competition will be held Saturday 29th April 2017. The test at the Final stage of the competition will consist of an oral as well as a written section. The test will take between 40-50 minutes at the most, depending on the educations level of the candidates. The result of this stage of the competition will be the total number of marks taken from both parts of the test. The organisers will publish the classification of the candidates in each category and the school they attend by 13th May 2017. All students who qualified for the final stage will be formally invited to the awards ceremony at which the diplomas and prizes will be presented.

AWARDS:

1. All competitors at the territorial stage, and the schools they attend, will receive a diploma acknowledging their participation in the “Tenth English Competition for Catalan Schools”.
2. The following prizes will be awarded to the 120 candidates who classified for the final stage:

• 4 two-week stays in “English Summer Camps” in Catalonia for the four winners in the 5º Primary to 2nd ESO categories.
• 4 two-week stays in an English-speaking country for the four winners in the 3rd ESO to 2nd de Batxillerat/ Grau Superior de Cicles Formatius categories.
• 8 weekend holiday camps for the runners-up in each of the 8 categories.
• 32 standard on line English courses for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth placed candidates in each of the 8 categories.
• 72 sets of study materials for the remaining finalists.

3. The awards may not be exchanged for their cash value. However, a finalist awarded one of the main prizes (e.g. summer camps, stays abroad, in situ English courses) who is unable to accept his/her award because of the times, dates, for other reasons etc., will be offered an on line English course for the duration of an academic year.

Who Are "The Fonix" 2017

Did you know that THE FONIX comes from the English language Phoneme table? Have a look at the table below and see if you can spot the similarities:

We would like to introduce you to:

Which is pronounced like "V" as in "VERY"		Which is pronounced like "R" as in "READ"
Which is pronounced like "A" as in "AMERICA"		Which is pronounced like "P" as in  "PIG"
Which is pronounced like "TH" as in "THORA"		Which is pronounced like "OO" as in  "HOOK"
Which is pronounced like "G" as in "GORDON"		Which is pronounced like "S" as in "ASIA"
Which is pronounced like "TH" as in "HEATHER"		Which is pronounced like "OR" as in "GEORGE"

They are fictional characters which look a little bit like Martians. They are noisy, excitable, adventurous and full of energy. They get on really well with young people. In fact – this is why they are called THE FONIX, because in English SMS messages – this is how we write PHONICS.

We Are Unstoppable!

A clip straight from the Unstoppable Saint Rockers. They are this way... funny, energetic, nice, joker, shy... In one word, they are unstoppable!

Enjoy their video; it's worth it!

The Unstoppable Saint Rockers

Our students of 4th ESO-A will take part in the 7th Schools Song Contest. 

This contest consists in shooting a video clip with a cover version of a song in English and then performing this song in a live festival that will be held next May in the theatre of the Sant Gabriel school of Barcelona. 

They've chosen their artistic name The Unstoppable Saint Rockers And here you have their official promotional poster.