Week 4: October 2nd, 2019- A historical speech: Greta Thunberg in the UN

- We revised some vocabulary from last week's Summer Wine song.
- We exchanged information about the UN, the IPCC group, climate change and Greta Thunberg.
- We watched Greta's UN speech from last week's General Assembly.
- We identified main ideas and some interesting vocabulary from her speech.
- We revised some English sounds with diphthongs in two puzzles by joining the dots.

Homework: 

- I've given you a text on learning and I'd like you to record you reading it aloud, as well as you can. In another recording please tell me the difficulties you find in the pronunciation of some sounds and tricky passages or words you have found to be more challenging. I'll upload the text on Friday for those of you who could not come to class and don't have the photocopy. 

          Sorry guys!! I completely forgot to upload the text I had not with me the other day, here it is: TEXT TO READ ALOUD.

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!!