THIS IS HALLOWEEN!

Come and celebrate Halloween with the English department! You only have to follow the instructions on Thursday, 27th and get your treats!!!

On Friday, our Halloween wall appeared!

On Monday, the instructions were revealed

Come and check the riddles in our wall, learn one of them and tell it to your English teacher! Sweets are wating for you in the English department!

NOTTING HILL

The first week of November, we have the exam on Notting Hill, a wonderful book about love and other issues. Make sure you read it before the exam. We are sure you will read better by listening to the soundtrack of the film with the same title starred by Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Enjoy the songs!

AFTER WATCHING `THE KING'S SPEECH´

After watching the movie, why don't your write a moving speech and record it? Think about an interesting situation and some audience to address to:

...a Prime Minister addressing his/her country in times of crisis.

...an actor/actress making and Oscar acceptance speech.

... a civil rights leader asking people to react against injustice.

...a charity manager asking people to donate money for the Third world children.

... a doctor warning about the dangers of smoking cigarrettes.

... a best man on his friend's wedding day.

FOLLOW THE IDEAS ON THIS SPEECHWRITING PAGE

Agree on a deadline with your teacher and send it to him or to her

THAT'S LIFE!

We have to assume it. Our worst enemy when we want our students to study nowadays is Facebook. I found this pic in a group from facebook -yeah, I felt into disgrace as well!!

V FOR VENDETTA

Talking about a speech... not only kings, politicians or actors are the ones who can deliver a moving speech.
In this case it's an anarchist revolutionary, dressed in black and wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, trying to convice people to rule themselves and bring down the government.

You should listen carefully to what he says, maybe there are some similarities with the world wide revolution we're witnessing these days.

There are certain things, though, that you should know about. Read these questions and answer them before you watch the videoclip.

1- Who was Guy Fawkes?
2- "Remember, remember, the fifth of November..." What happened on 5th November 1605 ?
3- How do people celebrate that day in the UK?
4- Who says "a penny for the guy"?

Now, click here

JUST THE WAY YOU ARE, by BRUNO MARS

Another nice song by Bruno Mars. The activities will be handed by the teacher

THE KING'S SPEECH

On Friday 28th, We are going to watch a nice film, The King's Speech, with one of my favourite actors, Colin Firth. If you go to the nice and brand new site for Cinema per a estudiants, you can do several interactive activites and learn more about the King, his therapist and how he influenced his people with his first war speech.

MY BLACKBERRY IS NOT WORKING!

Blackberry has been failing and life's stopped for you, my dearest students. This would mean peace and no chats in the classroom. Have a look at this video, from a comedy programme in BBC. We'll work with it in class, but meanwhile, let's relax with all these silent blackberries.



Click here if you want to read in another blog what a nice person, Eduardo Mosqueira, has written in order to understand better the jokes in English.

ACT NOW!

We have listened to our students several times about their parents. An inspirational picture I found surfing the net -sorry I didn't write down where-. I'm sure they will think about how good life is inside the nest.