Week 29: May 17th- Our last day

 

- On our last day we worked on a questionnaire that revisited many of the activities we had done during the year and had a coffee and a little something to eat together.

Some of us hope to see each other next year if we can offer the course, I'll keep you posted.

 

Thanks very much for your wonderful attitude and work, I wish you a wonderful summer!!

Week 28: May 10th, 2023- Coronation, Big Lunches, Eden Project and Future Learn. And a visual poem!!!

Coronation quiche

 - We saw the wonderful visual poem you have done with your short video and you explained what each video was.

- We also saw the video Vampiros, featuring Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro because Sarai had told us about bar Marsella, that appears in it.

- You told each other about your weekend and we saw something that had happened in Britain on Sunday with a CNN video and exercise.

- We checked on the coronation quiche. And we read and told each other about information on Big Lunches from Eden Project Communities.

- We saw a video on the original Eden Project and a second one on the specific work they do.

- We also saw a learning platform with lots of ideas to read and study in English: Future Learn. 

Week 27: May 3rd, 2023- Presentation and Artificial Intelligence

 

- We started the class with the presentation of our classmate Toñi, a very interesting talk about her job and the company she works for. This a descriptive video in English.

- We discussed what we knew of AI and saw a short video of an interview to Gerffrey Hinton, the so-called godfather of AI, expressing his worries about this technology. We identified the main ideas.

- We completed an exercise on a second video on AI up to minute 3'57'' Smart, seductive, dangerous AI robots.

Week 26: April 27th, 2023- World Book Day Celebrations!

 

- We told each other about books we had read.

- We listened to Roberto's presentation about visiting Portugal.

- We saw the video Why Should You Read Every Day. Benefits of Reading and did an exercise on it.

- We saw a little bit of Shakespeare's poetry by reading and listening to the original version of Sonnet 18.

Week 25: April 19th, 2023- More music!

 

- We started talking about the scientific information you had read about and discussing a piece of news from Euronews.

- We did a reading exercise witn an article divided in three you had to tell each other and we did two vocabulary exercises.

- We listened to Vivaldi's Spring and described it with a bank of words.

- We did the same with Ludovico Enaudi's Spring.

We finished the class listening to birds in spring from Carlos de Hita's website. This is the birds' recording. 

Homework:

For our next class you have to prepare a little presentation about a favourite book or author, as we'll be discussing books and working on literary ideas ;-))

Week 24: April 12th, 2023- Nacho's presentation, science and music!

 

- We listened to a very interesting presentation on traditional dance and music delivered by Nacho.

- We exchanged information about the photocopy with scientific facts about our planet that Gema had distributed.

- We saw and did a vocabulary exercise about a video on The Benefits of Music.

- We did an exercise while listening to Four Seasons in One Day, a song by Crowded House.

- Words to describe music. 

Homework:

Those of you who didn't share the scientific information on your photocopy can prepare it for next class.

For those of you who already shared that, you can have a look at this website and choose a piece of news you find interesting and you want to tell us about. This is a news site with news from a European point of view.

Week 23: March 29th, 2023- Easter, Alba's presentation and people in trouble

 

- We exchanged our plans and Easter traditions we had read about.

- We listened to our classmate Alba Hita and her interesting presentation about her job.

- We read and worked with some people writing to The Guardian Weekly and their problems.

- Homework: 

I gave you two pages from the book 100 Things to Know About Planet Earth for you to read and tell us after Easter break.