At the doctor

This worksheet contains some interesting vocabulary related to health and medicine.

BRITISH SENSE OF HUMOUR vs. AMERICAN SENSE OF HUMOUR

Cultural differences make us behave in different ways and have different personalities. As a consequence, we laugh about/at different things depending on our culture, since it modifies our sense of humour.

Watch these videos. One of them is part of the American TV show Miss Swan (Click here)and the other one is part of the British TV show Little Britain (Click here).

The Fear, by Lily Allen

This is the song we worked with in our class. This website can be fun to use, since you can play the game and fill in the gaps while you listen to the song. At the end, you can check how many points you scored.

If you want to listen to the song by Lily Allen and practice with the lyrics, click here.

Cultural differences

These books are interesting to compare British and American culture. One of them (Notes from a Small Island) is available at our school library in case you want to take a look at it.

Stereotypes

These pictures are related to the topic we are dealing with in our classes these days. It's a funny way of approaching stereotypes. Sometimes, they could be offensive,but let's try to see them from this perspective:

Stereotypes: The Danger of a Single Story.

"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” 

This is a quotation by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the speaker of the video we watched in class when dealing with stereotypes. I would like you to listen to the rest of the talk, since we didn't have time to listen to it completely.  Our activity was based on the ten first minutes (we stopped in minute 9:37, to be precise).

To listen to it again, please Click here

Cultural Day: Tea with Dickens.

We are having our cultural day on May 14th. Among the activities we have are:

Afternoon Tea: 4 pm - 5 pm (room 3)

Talk on Charles Dickens: 5 pm - 6 pm (room 16)

Charles Dickens in the 21st century. February 7^th 2012 marks the 200^th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.  But what does this Victorian author have to say to those of us living in the modern world?

In this talk we will explore the fascinating and surprising facts about the man and his times.  We will also discuss what makes his work special and particularly relevant to our world today.

 The talk will be given by Brian Engquist. A native of the United States, Brian Engquist has spent the last 20 years in Madrid where he has been actively involved in the world of TEFL as a teacher, project coordinator and trainer. In his current position as a teacher trainer for Pearson he enjoys meeting and exchanging ideas with teachers and students from a variety of backgrounds and contexts all around Spain.

Gastronomic contest:  6 pm - 8 pm (Main hall/library). If you want to take part in the contest, you can bring your recipe to the staff room (sala de profesores) from 4 pm to 6 pm. After giving prizes to the winners, we will be able to taste the different dishes.

Click here if you want to see the poster

Click here if you want to know about Dickens and his public

Click here if you want to know about the world of Charles Dickens

Exploring Toledo: a webquest.

This activity is only for the students who are going to take part in the guided tour with the visitors coming from the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, France, Germany and Cyprus.
This pdf document contains some questions about the monuments we are going to visit. Please, do a little research on these issues. During the guided tour, we will ask you to check how much you know. You may need to look up some words in the dictionary, since some information is going to be a little technical and related to art.

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The Benefits of Biligualism

This is a very interesting article about bilingualism published in New York Times on March 17, 2012.

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Test driving the Tata Nano

This is the video activity about cars that we did in class. Here I am posting the link on YouTube and the quiz with its answer key. I hope it's useful.

Quiz: Click here

Video: Click here

Past perfect simple and past perfect continuous

We are going to review the use,structure and pronunciation of past simple and past continuous in unit 3. At the same time, we are going to study two new verbal tenses: past perfect simple and past perfect continuous. You can find attached a document to help you understand the structure and use of the latter ones.

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Gambling, computers, science and technology

These are some general conversation questions that may help you to practice for the oral test.



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Family Feud

This is a clip of the contest we played in our class. I thought it would be interesting for you to see what the real programme was like. Of course, this is just one example. You can find many other Family Feud clips on YouTube.

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