Natural Disasters

Here's the worksheets about Natural Disasters I gave you in class, in case you need to have a look or download them.

Making and Responding to Suggestions

Hi everyone! 

Click on the icon below to access to the PowerPoint presentation on "Making and Responding to Suggestions". You might find it useful to get some ideas for real conversations with the upcoming exchange students. Just have a look!

A Classmate's Profile

Here's all the information you need to get our first oral project of the year going. Have a look and start thinking about interesting questions to be included in your questionnaire.

A Classmate's Profile de eriscolazaro

This is NOT the End

Después de tres años increíbles en la Ciudad de los Ángeles -y algún que otro demoño que al final no fue tanto- toca emprender una nueva etapa. Hay una pequeña criatura, pero bien grande por dentro, que diría que 'This is not the end' y tiene razón, es otro de los múltiples comienzos de las múltiples vidas que vivimos pensando que es una sola.

Toca emprender una nueva etapa, pero os llevo conmigo. También hago espacio para mis nuevos alumnos y compañeros 'ateneos'.

En breve el blog volverá a estar operativo con nuevas entradas y actividades. Feel yourselves at home.

Writing: For and Against essays

Para preparar una composición dando razones a favor y en contra de un tema concreto, aquí os dejo una explicación que tomé "prestada" de Slideshare. ¡Muchas gracias, sarafant!

A for and against essay from sarafant

Oral Presentation: 'Movies'

As you all know, the oral project for the second term is about movies. Here you will find the structure in case you need to have a look:

+ Guessing Game (optional)
0. Introduction: title of the movie and reason why you chose it
1. Background Information
- Year of release
- Genre
- Crew members
- Cast: main characters / supporting characters
2. Plot: no spoilers!!
3. Awards
4. Anecdotes
5. Quotation: text, meaning and reason why you chose it
+ Trivia (optional)

Also, you will also be able to learn some new vocabulary and expressions to use in your presentation if you click on the presentations below:

Look Up: A Poem

Today's entry is all about filmmaker and spoken word artist Gary Turk. One of the things he does -brilliantly, I must say- is talking about daily life through poems, so you might easily relate to the topics he deals with. As sometimes "A picture is worth a thousand words", he makes videos out of his poems. You can watch some of them HERE.

Just to start with, I've taken a poem called 'Look Up'. As you can see in the video cover, it is about how an abusive use of technology can make us lose awareness of what happens around us.

Here's the poem in its written form as well. Hope you enjoy it!