jueves, 30 de enero de 2020

Week 18: January 29th, 2020- Good news, animation and cartoons!

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- We told each other the good news we had read about.
- We did a listening on animation, while identifying 15 mistakes included in the story.
- We then discussed another very recent news item: the death of Kobe Bryant and identified vocabulary from a listening from NPR.
- We then saw the short animated video in which he participated, Dear Basketball.

Homework:
- You have to complete the speech balloons from the handout I gave you.

jueves, 23 de enero de 2020

Week 17: January 22nd, 2019- Forum Teatro Speech Balloon- Teatro José María Rodero

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- We went to see Speech Balloon at Teatro José María Rodero and we'll be talking about it next day.
- Don't forget to choose your own news item, as explained in the previous entry.

viernes, 17 de enero de 2020

Week 16: January 15th, 2020- New Year traditions and New Technology

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- We warmed up by explaining to each other about the picture we had chosen from the links from 2019 we browsed.
- We saw a video on New Year Ancient Traditions and completed some notes on them.
- We then practised how to talk about some of our own personal Christmas traditions.
- We saw a video on Technology to expect in the next decade and answered some comprehension questions on it.
- We had a laugh with a video on Technology that goes wrong.
Homework:
- You have to find a very good piece of news from 2019 to explain to the class next day. REMEMBER WEDNESDAY 20TH JANUARY: we're going to the theatre. It starts at 19.30 at Teatro José María Rodero in Torrejón. Let's meet at about 19.15. Anyone is welcome, 2 euros per student and 5 if you are not a student of the school.
I've found a couple of interesting good news sites and I've chosen one.
This is the news item I've chosen:

Doing Something Nice For Others Can Immediately Relieve Sensations of Physical and Mental Pain, Says New Study


- Top Ten Most Exciting Environmental Stories from 2019
- Good News Network.

viernes, 10 de enero de 2020

Week 15: January 8th, 2020- Entering the new year!

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Dear all, I'm happy to be back and wish you all the best for this year and for your English course!!

- Today we remembered our last class and spoke about the photo of this Christmas holidays.
- We spoke so much and so well that we didn't do the rest of what had been thought for the day, but still had some time to warm up with a couple of videos on voice recognition technology, which is something we're going to be speaking about next day.
- We also enjoyed with the problem of interfering voices.

Homework:
- This is a follow-up of the homework you had for Christmas holidays. You had to borrow a film and watch it in English. If you haven't borrowed one, you can still do it next week, or any other week in fact.
- If you have already seen yours, the homework I'm suggesting is to pick up an aspect of the film that you find relevant, such as an actor, or the music, or the setting, or the end... and prepare a presentation on it. Any presentation has to have an opening, a body in which you explain the different ideas you want to deal with and a suitable conclusion. Draft it and record it for me to give you feedback. Make it about 3 to 5 minutes long.
- We are also going to check out three websites with pictures that have been chosen as relevant to the year 2019. We're choosing our favourite and be prepared to tell the classmates the reasons why you prefer it to the rest. These are the sites:
I'm adding my favourite photo, although it wasn't taken last year but the year before. You already know why I like it and the story behind the photo ;-))

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miércoles, 8 de enero de 2020

Week 14: December 18th, 2019- Speaking class!

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- We warmed up by explainig one of our last Christmas holidays' photos and we went on speaking and speaking for the whole class!
- We missed our absent classmates and we hope to see you in the next class.
- You borrowed films to watch during the holidays, which was your homework, together with the showing of one of your Christmas photographs!
- Don't worry if you didn't borrow any film, you can still do it.