Week 29: April 24th, 2019- Earth and Book Days

OneEarthFilmFestival

- We exchanged information about our activities of the holidays.
- We talked about Greta Thunberg and her campaign to fight climate change and how her Asperger Syndrome has helped her communicate even better. There is a novel by Mark Haddon titled The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time that is not difficult to read and tells the story from the point of view of a boy with this condition.
- We were divided in two groups: one was going to identify the main ideas of the video and the other pick up vocabulary to adopt: words or structures we understand, we don't use but we would like to start using.
- We saw Greta Thunberg's speech to European members of parliament last April 16th.
- We also saw a part of Harrison Ford's speech in a Conservation International Meeting in 2018.
- And also saw a 2014 video of Leonardo Di Caprio talking to UN representatives.
- We finished the class honoring Book Day by listening to actor David Tenant reading Shakespeare's sonnet 18 and reading its translation into today's English.

Homework:

- Choose a book you have particularly liked and be prepared to tell your classmates about the book, the plot, the characters, the author and the reasons why you've picked it up.

- Remember May 8th is going to be our last class, so be ready to enjoy it!!

Week 28: April 10th, 2019- Spring and Brexit

Pxhere- Daffodils

- We talked a little bit about spring traditions, legends and movie and TV releases.
- We saw and practised Spring rhymes.
- We discovered other English words that DON'T have the same vowel sounds against all odds and practised them.
- We finally finished all the Ellipsis exercises!!
- We got experts on Brexit:
     1. First we saw a video from before the vote: The Brexit Debate explained in 2 minutes.
     2. Then we saw the different organisations around the EU that open many possibilities in the equation: Brexit Explained.
     3. And we finally did a comprehension listening exercise about Why is Northern Ireland holding up Brexit?

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We then went to say goodbye to our classmate Antonio that is heading to a new job in faraway Almería. All the best to you Antonio!! Thanks for all your work and kindness!

Week 27- April 3rd, 2019- Easter at Medina de Rioseco

Fábrica de harinas San Antonio

- Our classmate José María prepared and delivered a wonderful presentation about his hometown beauties and Easter celebration: Medina de Rioseco in Valladolid.
- We did a little exercise about a spring celebration in anglosaxon countries, April Fools' Day with this video.
- We identified spring words and completed the gapped lyrics of Crowded House's Four Seasons in One Day.

Homework:
- We have exactly the same homework, as we didn't have the chance to go through it. I'll be looking for a video on brexit, but if you want to have a look at this, I've found a website  with a lot of exercises, may be too many, if you want to have a look or have a go! Brexit exercises.