Christmas 2.0

Funny Video on Christmas

WRITING

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Writefix

SPAIN'S SECRET CONFLICT

SPAIN'S SECRET CONFLICT from Jordi SF on Vimeo.

PASTS

Click on the following links and do the exercises:

Past Simple / Past Continuous

Past Simple/ Past Continuous I

Water Cycle

Watch the video and  answer the following questions:

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_low_intermediate.php?id=8795

Questions:

Water is very important to....
 Animals
 Living things
 People

Water covers more than ...... of the Earth
 70%
 7%
 17%

When water evaporates it changes from liquid to......
 Clouds
 Air
 Gas

When water condenses it forms .....
 A river
 Clouds
 Clowns

The rain runs into....
 Rivers
 Lakes
 Rivers and lakes

The water returns to.............. to complete the cycle
 Oceans
 Lakes
 Rivers

ECO-FRIENDLY

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Punctuation Chart

Correct your selectivity exams by checking out the punctuation in the following chart:

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Selectivitat ( Practice )

Click on the following link  Posa't a prova  and practise your reading.


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Obama's honour to Martin Luther King

Obama's speech

  

                                                  
                                    Martin Luther King's Biography

50 years ago, many places in the United States had laws called Jim Crow laws that were unfair to black Americans. Some of those laws made it hard for them to vote in elections, or get good jobs, or even eat in the same restaurants as white people. Martin Luther King Jr. spent his life working to change those laws and help black Americans get the same civil rights as white Americans.
Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929. He was the son of a Baptist minister, and he was an excellent student. In college, he learned about a man named Mahatma Gandhi who lived in the country of India. In India, Gandhi had helped change unfair laws by teaching people to protest without violence. King thought he could change unfair laws in the United States the same way.
In 1954, King became the minister of a church in Montgomery, Alabama. In Montgomery, when people would ride the bus, black people had to sit in back and let white people sit in front. One of the first things King did was to organize a protest against the bus company. He began to organize other non-violent protests, and soon he was a leader in the civil rights movement.
For many years, Martin Luther King went around the South and other parts of the United States giving speeches about civil rights and leading protests against unfair laws. In 1963, he led a march in Washington D.C. with over 200,000 people. It was here that he gave his famous "I have a dream" speech in which he said that people should not be judged by the color of their skin.
In 1964, Martin Luther King was with President Lyndon Johnson when the President signed the Civil Rights Act, a new law which threw out all the old, unfair laws. That same year, King won the Nobel Peace Prize, a very important honor, for all his hard work in peacefully changing the unfair laws.
Martin Luther King was a man of peace, but there were many people who hated him and did not want the unfair laws to change. King had been threatened and attacked many times over the years. In 1968, he was killed by a man with a gun in Memphis, Tennessee. Today, we honor the memory of Martin Luther King every year with a holiday in January.

*Listen to a part of the Martin Luther King "I have a dream" speech.

'I have a dream' Speech

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."²

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

                Free at last! Free at last!

                Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!³

Oral Presentations Evaluation Criteria

Rubric oral presentationHave a look at this worksheet to know what I'll take into consideration when doing  oral presentations.

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Ordering at a Restaurant

1) Have look at the following videos in order to learn the expressions to be used at a restaurant.

Getting a table

 Ordering a hamburguer

 I'll have the salad.

Ordering drinks

Not what I ordered

2) In groups of three, prepare a dialogue at a restaurant and then perform it in front of the class.

Eating out

Making an Oral Presentation

Making an Oral Presentation

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Nuances of English

What does Being British mean?  
1. How to be Polite:

 

2. How to complain:

Food

a) Click on the link and do the exercise. Choose three adjectives and write down a sentence with each one.

Food Adjectives I
Food Antonyms
Food Idioms
Food and Nutrition Quiz

b) Look at an online dicitionary the definition of an idiom. Then, click on the following link Food Idioms.
Choose 2 idioms and write a sentence using them next to a picture which defines one of the idioms you have chosen.

 

My Favourite Dish

1. What is your favourite dish?

Here you can see a picture of my favourite dessert recipe:

This dessert, although very easy to prepare, is delicious and it is not very fatty! 

 Orange with Greek yoghurt, with dried fruits and apricot jam on top!

a) Think about your favourite dish. Look for a picture on the net, upload it and write down the recipe of the dish.
You can browse several webs to find your picture.
- Images

Pretty Woman

SCENE DESCRIPTION:

Sit in pairs. Watch the video and tell your partner what's going on.

Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas

SCENE DESCRIPTION:
Sit in pairs. Tell your partner what's going on the video.

FASHION

Watch the video on fashion in New York.  

'In Flower'

PAU EXAM STRUCTURE

Click on the link below and practise for the PAU exam.
PAU (English)


Here you have writing types for the exam:

Open publication - Free publishing - More writing

What inspires Sir Ken?