SHORT STORY! Let's vote!

Last class, I showed you 5 short stories. The idea is that we choose one for the first part of the year.
Please, vote for your favourite one here:

Speaking and writing activity: Describing people

Assignment #2

Here is another optional activity for you to do at home. 

SPEAKING

Go to your Students' book, page 7 (or look at the photocopy I gave you last class!)
Work on activity 6 (Speaking and writing). Complete the chart with information about a friend/family member. Using your notes, get ready to tell me about your friend/family member! The idea is that you practise what you are going to say at home! On Saturday, I'm going to ask you about it. 


WRITING

Using the same notes as in activity 6, write a short description o f your friend/family member. Remember to separate into paragraphs according to the topic you're writing about:

PARAGRAPH 1: Introduce the person (name, age, job, nationality) + your relationship with him/her
PARAGRAPH 2: Physical descriotion (use the vocabulary we learnt on Saturday!!)
PARAGRAPH 3: Personality
PARAGRAPH 4: likes/dislikes 

You can include a picture, if you want.

IF YOU DECIDE TO DO ANY OF THESE ACTIVITIES, LET ME KNOW ON SATURDAY!

Video activity: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder!

Assignment #1 

Here is a video activity that you can do at home. You can write the answers in a comment below this post, or you can write them on a piece of paper and give it to me on Saturday. 

NOTE: This special activity is optional. If you decide to do it, please let me know on Saturday.

BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER!

BEFORE WATCHING THE VIDEO

1) What is beauty, in your opinion? 

2) Can you make a list of 5 qualities that define beauty? (Number 1 should be the most important one)

3) Look up the definition of the following proverb in a dictionary (or you can also google it!): BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER. 
Do you agree with this proverb? Why/why not?

WHILE WATCHING

4) Watch the following video and pay attention to the general message.

AFTER WATCHING

5) Answer the following questions: 

• How does the film make you feel?
• How do the women in the film feel when they see their portraits? Why?
• What’s the message of the film?

6) At the end of the movie, you can see the following phrase:

“You are more beautiful than you think.”

This is the publicity slogan of Dove the product which made the short film. 

Do you agree with this slogan? Why do you think it was chosen?

7) Go back to the list you made before (task 2). Do you want to leave it the same way, or would you like to make any changes? Why?

8) Imagine you are the publicity manager of a MAKE-UP product. Think of a good slogan that represents the idea on the Dove video. 

Revision Booklet - ANSWER KEY

Here's the answer key of the revision booklet. Do the HW activities and check them at home. In class, you'll ask me your doubts (if any!) 

DOWNLOAD THE ANSWER KEY FROM THIS LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7nelnq69eopjne/Level%20III%20booklet%20-%20answer%20key.doc 

English File Website

Hello, everybody!

If you click HERE, you can get into the English File website. You can use this webpage to revise at home!

See you tomorrow!

Juliana

What do you do in your free time?

Hello everybody!

Here is some optional practice. You can watch this very short video about people's free time activities (or spare time activities) and then leave a comment about what you do on your free time. It's interesting! 

Have a nice day!! (despite the rain!)

Questions with HOW

Nice chart! :) 

Vocabulary from last class

Hi again!

Last class, some expressions came up in class that we didn't know in English ("perro de razas cruzadas" "cinturón rojo punta negra"). Here they are in English!

• Taekwondo Belts: http://www.butf.com/belts.htm    We say "red belt, black tag"

• Dogs: we can say "half-breed dog" (not very common) or "mixed-breed dog" (more common!) Here are some pictures!

See you on Sat!

Bibliography

We are going to use the book ENGLISH FILE PRE INTERMEDIATE 3RD EDITION (STUDENT'S BOOK AND WORKBOOK), Oxford.

You can buy the books at KEL ,at SBS or ESTARI LIBROS  

Also, for the very first lessons, we are going to use a REVISION BOOKLET. You can download it from here: DOWNLOAD BOOKLET
I have also sent it by email! 

PLEASE ORGANIZE YOURSELVES TO MAKE COPIES! 

We are going to start using the Booklet this Saturday!! (March 15th)

Have a nice week!

Juliana

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