Good Bye 2014! Hi 2015!!!

Hi guys!!!

How are you spending your holidays? Are you having fun? Are you bored? Are you studying for your recuperation exams?

Well, as holidays are long, I guess you will have time for everything!

Are you getting ready for a New Year’s Eve party?   Are you going out on New Year’s Eve (31^st December)? Will you have the ‘Lucky grapes’ at home? In ‘Puerta del Sol’, any other place? You can write something on the blog telling us how you are spending these days…

Did you decorate your houses? I did.

 This is what I’ve done so far (for the moment).I went to my parents’ house in the village to spend Christmas Eve (24^th December) and Christmas Day (25^th December). I went by train on 23^rd December. I set ‘The crib’ or ‘Manger’ (this is the Nativity Scene; typical Spanish decorations at Christmas).

Here is a picture.

Do you like it? Do you set ‘The Crib’ in your houses? Post a picture and show it to me! And tell me what you are doing these holidays!

 On New Year’s Eve (31^st December) I’m going to the village again. I’m going to have dinner with my parents and my partner. After dinner, we’ll have the grapes at home and then, we’ll go out for a drink with some friends.

What about you? What are your plans for the last night of the year?

      

On these videos you can see some Christmas traditions in different English speaking countries.

I would like to remember what we did in our last class of the year.

Our end of term project was a Radio News Programme. I didn’t get the audio for the ‘Current Affairs section’, could you please email it to blogslenjoy2014@gmail.com?

So, we opened the information with ‘Current Affairs’. Paco and Jorge were the reporters for this section. Well done. Current news as of that date 18^th December 2014, were ‘The establishment of new relations between Cuba and the USA’, ‘How The Simpsons changed TV’ and the ranking of the top 30 millionaires in the world’.

David and Alejandro were in charge of the Sports section. They told us about basketball, formula one, Moto GP and …surprise, surprise, FOOTBALL!

Good for you, boys!

The girls, Andrea and Pilar, told us about Music. They told us about the Top Ten Hits of the week before Christmas and also ‘Five things we didn’t know about Ariana Grande’

Good job, girls. I liked your way of presenting the section. Unfortunately, our boys weren’t as quiet while you were recording as you had been when it was their turn!

New Year Resolutions? Respecting our classmates.

And, of course, ‘The ice of the cake’ (the top of everything, the final touch)’The Weather Forecast’ which was dealt with by…? Óscar, our weather boy!

Truth is that we have to improve pronunciation and intonation; but you made a great effort and you did fantastic research!  

We ended our last class of the year 2014 with our Games Awards winner…

ÓSCAR, congratulations!!!

We ran out of time (time finished) and we weren’t able to see the end of the film ‘Bend it like Beckham’. I’ll tell you the end: the girls were chosen to play in an American football team. The boy (the coach) was offered to train the men’s football team but he rejected (didn’t accept) the job and continued coaching the female’s team. The Indian parents of the girl, started to accept their daughter’s relationship with the Irish coach …and everybody lived happily forever after!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Your drafts for the radio programme:

 

Bend it like Beckham!

Thursday 11^th December

Hello everybody! Are you still busy with exams?

I’d like to thank you Pilar, Jorge and Óscar for having come to class last Thursday despite the exams. For the rest I hope you had good luck or even better, I hope you studied hard and that you had passed your exams with flying colours (very good marks)

As it’s been more than a week since I last saw some of you, I expect you to remember that we have our last class of this year next Thursday. I mean, we need to record the news programme. The programme you told me you had already prepared but that I haven’t been able to see with my own eyes or hear with my own ears… because I still don’t know if you made up your mind and the programme is going to be a radio or a TV one!

We started last class listening to the sentences using connectors that Jorge had written. Pilar and Óscar forgot their homework at home. Then we went through some more connectors so as to learn their use. We also viewed the video lessons on connectors that I had posted on the blog the previous week.

We revised punctuation, too.

Exercises on connectors. click here to know your level in the use of connectors.

And, as there was no point in going on with (continuing with) anything new because of the many absentees (people who didn’t attend to class), we saw a film. ‘Bend it like Beckham’. Jorge and I had already seen that movie but none of us could remember the end! The class finished and we couldn’t see the end of the film.

I think that the three main characters follow different paths in life and they end up in different countries. Jorge didn’t agree with me, but he couldn’t remember. Watch it and found out (see) for yourselves!

In our next class we’ll have our Games’ Awards and our end of term project…I hope!!!

Last points for this year

GAME 11

Player 1	---
Player 2	---
Player 3	10
Player 4	---
Player 5	---
Player 6	7
Player 7	7

Enjoy your weekend!

See you on Thursday!

(I presume!!!!)

Personal Values & Ideas

Thursday 4^th December, 2014

Hello guys!

I hope you enjoy the weekend although I know you have to study. In other words, in spite of having to study, I hope you enjoy your weekend. I really do, even though you have to study for your exams, for instance, chemistry or history or other subjects like maths or geography.

We started the class commenting on the terrible event that took place (happened) in Madrid last weekend. It was on Sunday before the football match Athletico de Madrid versus Deportivo de la Coruña. At about 8.30 a.m. supporters of both teams arranged to meet so as to fight. The result was a terrible clash that ended up (had as a result) with a casualty and many supporters injured and arrested.

This is a video on this piece of news.

We went on (continued) correcting the reading comprehension about ‘The First Thanksgiving Day’

 After that, we talked about personal values and ideals.

Most of us agreed on placing ‘family’ at the top of our lists, followed by friends or love. The least important in our lives seemed to be ‘politics’ except for Jorge. He thinks it’s very important to be faithful (loyal) to your ideas. He also thinks that money is the least important. Let’s face it, if you don’t have money, you won’t probably have a house. He replied that you have your friends’ or your family’s house. …you can’t live at your parents forever, can you?

Interesting points of view, I heard. For instance, Alex’s opinions.. He thinks that ‘your home’ is more important than your friends because if you don’t have a home you cannot invite your friends and enjoy their company.It was nice to talk to you…until you got tired and started to misbehave… All of us need a holiday!

 We read some emails related to values.

Compassion for people in need.

Environmental principles.

Ethical consumption.

Ethical work.

Bringing up (helping children to become adults) children morally.

We started studying connectors. If you have read the blog, you’ll have seen some of the connectors we came across (found) in our last class, in red.

And we finished the lesson playing Yes/No game.

Don’t forget to do homework . Write sentences using the following connectors: although, though, even though, in spite of, for instance, like, as well, also, plus, too, and. 11 sentences or fewer if you use two connectors in one sentence.

GAME 10

Player 1	8
Player 2	---
Player 3	7
Player 4	---
Player 5	5
Player 6	8
Player 7	5

Enjoy your weekend!

See you on Thursday!