THE LOST GENERATION

I came across this moving video based on an Argentinian political campaign advetisement and thought of displaying it here so that you could comment on it as part of your speaking marks for this term.

How do you feel about the video? What's your initial response?

2010 OSCAR RED CARPET

The 2010 Oscar Awards Ceremony took place on March 7th in the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. Whether you agree with the winners or not, the Oscar Ceremony is always a great oportunity to see all Hollywood and worldwide stars gathered together for the occasion. Below you have two videos with some of the interviews that took place on the famous red carpet just before the show. Listen to them and answer the questions:



1.- What was the weather like just before the ceremony?
2.- Which edition of the ceremony is this one?
3.- How does Penelope feel?
4.- What happened the first time she attended the ceremony?
5.- What's Jake Gyllenhall's new upcoming film?
6.- What advice did he give his sister?
7.- What's the character in "Up in the air" like?
8.- Why did he take the role?
9.- What is Sandra Bullock going to eat after the Ceremony?



1.- Who invited Zac Effron to present at the ceremony?
2.- What was the toughest thing for Matt Damon about performing the role of the South-African capitan?
3.- What role is Morgan Freeman nominated for?
4.- What are they going to do with their jewellery?
5.-  What makes a dress good for an Oscar ceremony according to Jennifer Lopez?

THEATRE IN ENGLISH: "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"

On Friday 5th we're going to see a famous Shakespeare's play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with students at BTO.
Dreams and reality, mixed identities, unrequited love, the supernatural, mythological and mortal beings all come together in one of Shakespeare's most celebrated comedies not forgetting the distinctive touch of humour, gags and songs that Face2Face brings to all its shows.

In the following link you can download a sheet with a short summary of the play and below you have some comprenhension questions I strongly advise you to answer before watching the play to make sure you understand the plot and the general setting. You can write your answers in the following VoiceThread or say them aloud. Don't forget to introduce yourselves so that I can reward those students who answer the questions.

BIOGRAPHIES BY 1st BTO STUDENTS

Listen to one of the following celebrities' biographies retold by students in 1st BTO and make an oral comment in the famous person you prefer. You can make a summary of what you have understood, comment on any interesting details you learnt about the person after listening to his/her biography and say the reason why you like him/her.


Due Date: Wednesday 17th March

LISTEN TO YOU!!!

You need to improve your pronunciation of English and I hope this activity will help you to. In this oral activity you must listen to one of the listenings in http://www.listenaminute.com/ and then read the script into this voicethread. Make sure your listening hasn't been chosen by anybody before recording your voice. Listen to the script several times and record a perfect reading of it.



Due Date: Wednesday 17th March

RELATIVELY SPEAKING

Pay attention to the following presentation on relative clauses and do the exercises below.

RELATIVE CLAUSES

View more presentations from nataliaeoi.

Basic Activities on Relative Clauses

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Rewriting Sentences

Now listen to the song, find the relative pronouns and identify the ones that have been omitted.









Now let's play JEOPARDY!!

CNN NEWS

Your next task has to do with news. Luckily for students of English, nowadays there are thousands of websites where you can listen to real English. The one I am presenting today, CNN StudentNews, is especially interesting because it contains real updated news for students. And the good thing is that if there's something you can't understand you can always read the script.
Each one of you will listen to one piece of news for one particular day twice and will comment about it on the following VoiceThread so that the rest of us will also know about it. Record a one-two minute summary of your news and give your personal point of view about it. Use your own words.
Click on the following link for the news distribution.

I can't wait to hear about your news in the VoiceThread below:



Due date for all your news: Tuesday 23rd February