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Monday, December 18, 2017

The Sea

Finding Nemo trailer

(clown) Fish (tail, stripes, fins), pier, boardwalk, dock, pelican, boat, deep sea, coral, school of fish, crabs, sand, shark, jaws, wreck, octopus, seahorse, starfish, ink, turtle, rock, jellyfish, pipe, lighthouse, aquarium, fish tank, hammerhead, dolphin, shell, wave, current



Beyond the Sea was part of the soundtrack of Finding Nemo.

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Listening Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals

MOVIE INFO

The unavoidable synopsis -- two young American Indians leave the reservation to resolve their problems and to find themselves -- belies the poetry of this well-acted, well-directed and largehearted movie.
Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com)
It was shocking to realize that as late as 1998, this was still one of the few movies made by insiders, written, directed, and acted by Native Americans. The father-son narrative is conventional but it has humor and is well acted.
Emanuel Levy


According to this part of the film Tom must change some aspects of his appearance to  be a real Indian.
  1. Indians are not supposed to ___________
  2. You must look _________ and look like a ___________
  3. You should look like you’ve just been _________________________
  4. You have to know how to____________________. An Indian man is nothing________________.
  5. You have to ________________ that suit.



Narrative tenses

This is the key of the exercises on narrative tenses

THREE WISHES AND A WINDSURFBOARD

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Students in team C (blue)

Please all students in team C blue read these two articles for Tuesday 12h and write two questions about them.
1. Starbucks cups controversy
Ellen on one of the already traditional Starbucks cups controversies

2. Should we say Father Christmas?

Monday, December 4, 2017

Key environment

Click here to check the key.

Native Americans

These are the videos we watched in class last week. 

REEL INJUN

Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond takes an entertaining and insightful look at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of cinema.

The Oscars
 Sacheen Littlefeather refusing to accept the Best Actor Oscar® on behalf of Marlon Brando for his performance in "The Godfather" - the 45th Annual Academy Awards® in 1973. Liv Ullmann and Roger Moore presented the award.



 CNN on Event honoring Native American veterans

Monday, November 27, 2017

Crime vocabulary

B burglar C committed    Ddealer    E evidence    F fraud   G guilty    H hacker   I innocent   J jury
K kidnapped   L let   M mugger   O offence   P pickpockets   Q question   R robberies   S stalker
T theft   V verdict    W witnesses

Thanksgiving

This is the video we watched in class on Thursday.

and this is the key of the crossword
  1. American
  2. Pilgrims

Monday, November 20, 2017

This is a call for all the students in Team D (pink)

These are the texts that you need to read for this week. Don't worry much about all the new vocabulary in the second text, just try to get the gist. Students in Team D (pink)
Texts


Key Grammar future perfect and continuous

The exercises on the articles will be corrected in class on Tuesday.


1.       Won’t be thinking

2.       Will still be working/will have been promoted

3.       Will have left

4.       Won’t be using mine