Vocabulary
Summer Is Here!
Summer is knocking on our doors again, as usual… So, to keep you English up to date while we are on holiday, have a look at theses links and practice:
- A website with explanations in Spanish:
- The Isabel Pérez website has lots of explanations and exercises to practice the basic verb tenses.
- From Departament d’Educació de la Generalitat, look for any topic or grammar issue you need to review, practice or improve, sometimes you only have to follow the explanations by clicking on the “Play” button, and after that, click on “evalua’t” and then on “practica”):
- Another website from l’Xtec to practice basic linguistic issues.
- A very useful one, with all kind of resources, explanations and advice: ego4u.com
- The website of the EFL’s publishers, which links to the web page of your books: the EFL Beginners and EFL Elementary
- The website of the public net of libraries, look for anything you need (readings, films, grammar books…): http://sinera.diba.cat/
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f you eventualy panic, phone the emergency services! :lol (pay attention to the numbers in the yellow phone!):
Now, there you go, take care and…
Liberal Arts
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDJVpjkp0Nk&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]
After watching this, think about creating your own piece of art. Get inspired with the film and the text by William Blake Songs of innocence and experience and write a story or a poem containing some or all of these words and expressions:
– ‘A wise man in a red hat said to me: “Everything is going to be OK”‘
– ‘Nobody feels like an adult’
– dare
– bet
– cocoon
– caterpillar
– butterfly
– destiny
– vampire
– innocence and experience
– grateful
Silver Linings
Did you enjoyed the film?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub_aQeO-daQ&feature=player_detailpage[/youtube]
Now, try to write something about it. Use some or all of these words:
– Silver lining
– host
– guest
– crazy
– monster
– song
– sense of humour
– white lie
– eagles
– giants
– bet
Santa Claus & The Triplets
SONG (minute 12:35):
We wish you a Merry Christmas (x3)
and a Happy New Year.
Glad tidings we bring to you and your kin
We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Frank Sinatra, My Way (1969)
My Way is a song popularized by Frank Sinatra. Its lyrics were written by Paul Anka and set to music based on the French song Comme d’habitude (As Usual) composed in 1967 by Claude François and Jacques Revaux, with lyrics by Claude François and Gilles Thibault.
Claude François:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k97QacTDM5A[/youtube]
Frank Sinatra:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M90BHwNXn-0[/youtube]
My Way with Spanish subtitles:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEMgt-B8iDE[/youtube]
Activity: Frank Sinatra: “MyWay” sheet
When a Man Loves a Woman, Percy Sledge (1966, Alabama, USA)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQh112HQsoE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8raabzZNqw[/youtube]
Zombie, The Cranberries (1994, Limerick, Ireland)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv5wF-E9D8Y[/youtube]


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