SONG: BRUNO MARS

BRUNO MARS   " When I was your man"

Listen to the song, read the lyrics and then do the five activities.

Same bed, but it feels just a little bit bigger now
Our song on the radio, but it don't sound the same
When our friends talk about you all  it does is just tear me down
Cause my heart breaks a little when I hear your name
It all just sounds like uh, uh, uh

Hmmm too ……………………., too …………………….to realize
That I should’ve bought you flowers and held your hand
Should have given you all my hours when I had the chance
Taken you to every party cause all you wanted to do was dance
Now my baby is dancing, but she's dancing with another man.

My pride, my ego, my needs and my ………………… ways
Caused a good ……………. woman like you to walk out my life
Now I never, never get to clean up the mess I made
And it haunts me every time I close my eyes
It all just sounds like uh, uh, uh, uh

Too ……………….., too ………………. to realize
That I should ‘ve bought you flowers and held your hand
Should have given all my hours when I had the chance
Taken you to every party cause all you wanted to do was dance
Now my baby is dancing, but she's dancing with another man.

Although it hurts I'll be the first to say that I was ……………..
Oh, I know I'm probably much too late
To try and apologize for my mistakes
But I just want you to know
I hope he buys you flowers, I hope he holds your hand
Give you all his hours when he has the chance
Take you to every party cause I remember how much you loved to dance
Do all the things I should have done when I was your man!
Do all the things I should have done when I was your man!

1.   Place the adjectives in the correct position:   DUMB – YOUNG- SELFISH- STRONG- WRONG

       2. Write a modal verb used in the song:  ________  

       3. What should the boy in the song have done to the girl?

                ______________________/ ________________________

                ______________________/ ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­________________________

       4. Write three verbs in 3^rd person Present simple: ________/ __________/ ___________   

       5. Write an expression which is not grammatically correct:

                    __________________________ 

Watch an interview with Bruno Mars

Motivational Video

GLADIATOR MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO

Have you ever felt you couldn't cope with everything? Do you feel demotivated?

Watch the video and do your best.

Thanks to Victoria Bordera for sharing

MOTIVATION FOR GIRLS 

Sometimes you feel you are left out, because of your appearance, the way you think and other reasons, but remember that it's important to believe in yourself and be confident about you possibilities as Kate Winslet did. 

Watch her video at BAFTAs 2016 and think about it. 

1. What was Kate's problem?

2. Who rejected her?

3. How does she feel now?

Girl wants a demolition

8 YEAR OLD GIRL CALLS A DEMOLITION COMPANY

Listen and watch a 8 year old girl calling a demolition company

1. Where is Becky from?

2. What does she want to demolish?

3. Why does she want them to do that?

4. How did the people in the company feel?

5. Have you ever felt like that?

6. What would you like to demolish?

Fun video with a headmaster and a father

FATAL BEATINGS

Have a good time with Rowan Atkinson, a stand- up comedian.
A good lesson from a headmaster to a student's father.   

  Some words that maybe you don't know: 
- nip it in the bud " stop developing"  cortar de raiz
- to muck in  " participate" 
- sick bay " infirmary"
- rigleader " the chief, leader"  cabecilla
- preposterous " absurd"

 WRITE DOWN 4 THINGS THAT TOMMY HAS DONE WRONG

Follow the script here 

DESCRIBING PHOTOGRAPHS

Here you can see some useful tips for describing photographs. You can also see some examples and you can do some practice to get the best at your speaking tests.

Explotación de la actividad

El visionado de este video va orientado a los alumnos de ESO y Bachillerato para mejorar la destreza de "Speaking", más concretamente  la descripción de fotos. Los alumnos van leyendo los consejos que se explican en las diapositivas  y tienen fotos con preguntas o indicaciones para que vayan haciendo su propia  práctica. 

Se plantea como una introducción, que luego puede ser ampliada en el aula con la descripción de diversas fotos elegidas por el profesor para "testing" o elegidas por el alumnado para presentar en clase. Las fotos pueden ser de tema diverso: sobre una "topic" concreta que luego plantee debate  (fotos de deportes, temas sociales, actualidad), una obra de arte, contraste de fotos etc.

International Women's Day

Women's Day, also known as Working Women's Day, has been celebrated all around the world on March 8th since 1909.
It celebrates women's advances in society and equality and encourages civil conciousness and human rights.
If you want to know more about it, click on the following and get to know more about it.

International Women's Day

In 2013 United Nations Theme for it is "A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against women" and some singers and musicians gathered and created a beautiful song for it. 

ONE WOMAN

There are lots of songs to celebrate women's achivements and struggle to be equal, so if you want, listen to the following and the enjoy the music and images.

There are lots of women who have been fighting to achieve equality or against abuse and violence. So, as Cher in her song " Woman's world" says:
                                     "Stand up and come together, this is a woman's world"
Enjoy her video and her funny wigs and looks.

Charles Dickens Activity

In 2012 we  celebrated  the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens ( Portsmouth, February 7th, 1812) , one of the greatest storytellers of all time. Most of us have read books such as " Oliver Twist", "David Copperfield" etc in our childhood.

A lot of his novels have been adapted for the theatre and made into films or series, How many times have you seen " A Christmas Carol" ? and many of them, including Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby were originally published in a serial format, with a new part of the book being published each month. Dickens often wrote the episodes without knowing what would happen next.
Most of his characters and stories were based on people and events in his own life which was really interesting.
His works reflected real life in Victorian times, different social classes, hard times, romance, adventure, mystery etc, everyting you can think about.
So I encourage you to get into his world and read some of his novels or even know more about him clicking in the following links:
Dickens2012
Charles Dickens
More about Dickens and works
Click on the following link and watch a cartoon about his life.

Go Ahead and answer the following questions about Dickens and send the answers to your teacher who would be really pleased.

1.What was his birthdate?
2. What was his birthplace
3. What was his father's name?
4. What was Charles Dickens' first job?
5. How old was he when he started working?
6. How long did he work in the factory?
7. Where did he return to study after working in the factory?
8. What was 'Boz'?
9. Whom did he marry?
10. How many children did Dickens and Catherine have?
11. What novel was published in 1837-38?
12. In which other country was Dickens very popular?
13. Which famous novel did he write in 1843?
14. Which novel is considered to be largely autobiographical?
15. Where is Dickens buried?

21st century Flux: borrowings in English

English is a varied and changing language with lots of influences. There are lots of serious studies about that, but here you can see a different and funny way to see how it is evolving

Watch this rap created by rapper Dizraeli and enjoy it!

If you want to read the poem, click here.

There are many words which come into a language from different countries, these are called BORROWINGS

1. Borrowings in English: Match the borrowed words on the left with their language of origin on the right.

                     1 yacht                                a French

                2 tsunami                         b Australian Aboriginal

                 3 wiki                                   c Chinese

                4 shampoo                       d Arabic

                5 kudos                               e Greek

                6 giraffe                               f Japanese

              7 cuisine                         g Hindi

               8 boomerang                     h Hawaiian

               9 ketchup                          i Dutch

2. Can you think of any words in English that have been borrowed from your language? 

3.Can you think of any words in your language that have been borrowed from English?

Endangered Tribes

I suppose most of you have seen "Avatar" by James Cameron, but did you know that there are tribes in danger as the Na´vi ?.

 One of these tribes "The Dongria Kondh" in Orissa, India is fighting for the survival of their sacred mountain. They appealed to James Cameron for help.
There are more tribes like the Dongria, so if you want to know more about them or do something to help, click on the link and share your reflections with us.

http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes