FASHION

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1- WORK IN PAIRS AND DISCUSS WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THESE STATEMENTS:

1- What you wear says a lot about your personality

2-I usually spend a lot of time getting dressed before I go out

3-I really don´t care about what I wear

4-I hate having the same clothes as my friends

5-It´s important to me to look unique

6-I love fashion and try to follow the new trends

7-Second hand clothes can be cool

8-It´s important to me to wear cool fashionable brands

9- I don´t care about the brands as long as I like the garment of clothing

10-I like to go shopping for clothes, especially in the sales.

To what extent in this line do you agree or disagree with each statement?

Totally disagree -------------------------------------------------- Completely agree

2-HISTORY OF CLOTHING

Humans are animals. But why don't we ever see any other animals wear clothes like humans? How did we come up with the idea of covering our bodies with clothes? How did fashion change from wearing the skin of animals to fitting complicated materials we wear as clothes today?

WHILE YOU WATCH THE VIDEO, TRY TO FIND THIS INFORMATION:

- What fabrics were the first clothes made of? (mention 5 types of fabric at least).

- What is the big difference between clothes in the ancient times and clothes today?

 

3- GARMENTS OF CLOTHING

LIST THE GARMENTS OF CLOTHING MENTINED IN THE VIDEO BELOW. MAKE ANOTHER LIST FOR THE ADJECTIVES USED TO DESCRIBE THEM.

4- LET´S SHARE OUR EXPERIENCE ABOUT FASHION:

In pairs think of 3 questions you can ask your classmates about their experience related to fashion.

All the questions must start:

HAVE YOU EVER....

Here you have some verbs you can use (in the participle form, of course):

HAVE-WEAR-TRY-DYE-CUT-DESIGN-KNIT-PAY-BUY-SEE-SPEND-MEET-

5- QUESTIONS ON FASHION

a) Read the questions in the questionnaire on the link above.

b)Choose 5.

c) Copy them in your notebook and answer them from your point of view. 

d)Ask your partner the 5 questions .

e)Write a short paragraph about your partner´s answers

ETHICAL FASHION-  What is it?

-SHOPPING FOR CLOTHES

-SHOPPING FOR CLOHES II

ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:

From the first video:

1- What is the problem at the shop?

2-What kind of clothes is Vivian looking for?

3- When Vivian asks: "How much is this?" What does the shop assistant answer ?

4-What does Vivian argue then?

5- When she returns to the shop, what does she ask the shop assistants?

6- Do you think she tought them a lesson? Why?

From the second video:

7-Edward tells Vivian that shop assistantas are never nice to people, they are nice to....

8- When they get into a shop, what does Edward ask  the shop assistant´s manager?

WHAT IS SIZE INCLUSIVITY?

Watch the video and explain.

HUMAN RIGHTS

 1-Which of the Human Rights is connected with these extracts?

2-Find out some more information about each of the situations: 

a)Where does the story take place? When? Can you give any more details?

b)What is the present situation of this issue?

- Here you have examples of relative clauses . Use the examples to create your own relative sentences about Human Rights

WATCH FROM 8:11

NOW LISTEN TO THIS SONG:

What are the human rights you see violated in this video?

SHREK

 

Throughout all the Shrek films there are references to several fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Being acquainted with Nursery rhymes and traditional fairy tales broadens our horizons and makes it easier for us to understand when  we come across references to this important part or the cultural background of native speakers . Sometimes it is difficult for a non-native speaker to understand the language because there is a lot of shared knowledge that we don´t know of.

These are some of the examples in Shrek:

FAIRY TALES REFERENCES

The little mermaid

Tom Thumb and Thumbelina

Puss in Boots

Little Red Riding Hood

The Big Bad Wolf

Captain Hook

Pinocchio

Sleeping Beauty

Three Little Pigs

Rapunzel

Hansel and Gretel

Gingerbread Man

Fairy Godmother

Snow White

NURSERY RHYMES

Muffin Man

Three Blind Mice

Jack and Jill

SHREK 2- SOUNDTRACK

Shrek 2: Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack for the hit animated comedy film Shrek 2 and was released in May 2004, to accompany the release of the film. The soundtrack reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 and number 1 on the Soundtrack Albums as well as topping the albums chart in Australia

THANKSGIVING

 

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving dinner

After watching "Charlie Btown´s Thansgiving", answer the following questions:

a) How did the first Thangskgiving start?. Write a paragraph to explain it.

b) What is there in a typical Thanksgiving dinner?

c) What are you grateful for?

THANKSGIVING

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS by Jules Verne

WATCH THE VIDEO AND READ THE ABRIDGED VERSION OF THE CLASSIC BOOK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYaKDIeCtL4

Do these activities

And also...

You have some more activities here

And then...

 - Do the activities here

Find about the author here:

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PLATINUM JUBILEE

 

The UK’s Queen Elizabeth II just celebrated her Platinum Jubilee for a record-smashing 70-year reign as longest serving monarch.

To the surprise of many, she had tea with Paddington Bear to open the Jubilee concert in front of the her royal residence Buckingham Palace on Sunday, June 5, 2022.
AFTER WATCHING THE VIDEO, ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS:
            
   
1- Where does this scene take place?

2- What does this place look like?

3- How do the Queen and the butler feel about Paddington’s way of drinking his tea?

4- What is Paddington's response when he realizes?

5- What happens next?

6- What is the Queen’s response to Paddington’s clumsiness?

7- What does Paddington offer to the Queen?

8- What is the crowd doing outside?

9- When Paddington says “thank you for everything”, What does he refer to?

10- How is the Queen as a person, according to the video?

See the British Royal Family tree below. Who is who?

SUPER SIZE ME

Before watching activity

 WATCH THE 2004 DOCUMENTARY.

Do these activities

Activity 2

Activity 3

If you are interested, here you can find the full script

Charlie Brown´s HALLOWEEN

 

1- Watch the video in class

2- In pairs write down 4 full sentences with different events that took place in the video

3- Randomly, ask them to choose one of the sentences from their list and read it aloud. Make a list with 10 sentences

4-Give them the list to put the sentences in the right order, according to the story in the video

5-Read the moral. Do you agree? Class discussion

Do these activities

What is the moral of It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown?

Like many of the Charlie Brown movies, the moral of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is a story of hope and perseverance. No matter what happens, Charlie Brown always seems to bounce back and Linus is a never-ending optimist who always finds the best in everything.

TRASHED: A documentary on the environment

 

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-Watch 4 & 5 colloquial English.

Do the following activities ( taken from "English File" Upper Intermediate. Oxford University Press)

PART 1- TRUE OR FALSE:

1- Candida made the film "Trashed" because she wanted people to know more about the problem of waste.

2-Jeremy Irons is a person who loves buying new things.

3-Candida was surpised that the immediately loved the film proposal

4-Vangelis had previous experience of projects related to the environment.

5- Vangelis is a good friend of Candida's

6-She didn't need to do much research before making the film because she was already an expert on the subject.

PART 2: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS:

1- Which was the biggest problem for Candida: making the film visually attractive or trying not to make it too depressing?

2-What kind of pollution does she think is the most worrying: air, land , or sea?

LISTEN AGAIN. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH ONE WORD:

1- Candida had a _______________ DOP (Director of Photograpy)

2-She wanted to film in beautiful places that had been ______________ by man-made rubbish.

3- Whe would have preferred to make a more ________________ documentary.

4- She thinks they were very much aware that they wanted to offer ______________ at the end of the film.

5- She says you have to dig down over a foot deep on a beach to find sand that doesn't have any _______ in it

6- She says the pieces of plastic in the water become so fragmented that they're the same size as the zooplankton, which is  in  the __________ chain.

PART 3: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

1- Who does she blame for the problem of waste?

2-Why does San Francisco offer a positive note at the end of the film?

3- Has the film changed her own habits?

b- LISTEN AGAIN: What does she say about...?

1- hotels in San Francisco

2-her grandparents

3-her bicycle.

LOOKING AT LANGUAGE:

Listen to some extracts from the interview and write in the missing adverbs.

1- We ended up _______________ filming in 11 countries

2-"... but the stories that I've chosen are universal and,_______________ I spoke to people in communities, um, in more countries, um, than we actually fimed in..."

3-"...and so I sent him the treatment and ______________ he, um he loved it".

4-"but ______________ , again, he was very shocked, um, by the film and really wanted to get involved".

5- "...yes and no, um, _____________ enough. Obviously I had a wonderful, DOP, Director of Photography, so um, he can pretty much make anything look beautiful..."

6-" I did a lot of research and so, ____________ these things were repeatable and, and in every country around the world..."

7- "________________ what's happened with the way that soft plastic degrades in water is that ,um, the pieces become so fragmented..."

IN THE STREET

- WATCH THE FOUR PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT RECYCLING.  

a)WHICH PERSON SEEMS TO HAVE THE MOST POSITIVE ATTITUDE ABOUT RECYCLING?

Sally- Jo, Jill Pranjal

b) WHO...

1- ...thinks the government should offer money for recycling and producing less rubbish

_______ and _________

2-...thinks it's up to people themselves to realize that it's s worth recycling

_____________

3-...thinks the government should provide more containers for recycling

____________

4-...thinks the government should do more to show people why recycling is good for the environment

____________

COMPLETE:

1- ".... people haven't really got an _______________ not to recycle any more".

2- ".... well maybe they could offer a ___________ incentive for, for recycling"

3-"... I think we still have a ___________________ to go"

4-"... filling it up with cans and bottles, newspapers and all ___________ of _______________"

5- "... and so if everyone couid just get in that ____________ that the smallest change they can make in their lives makes a big difference"

TWO LOVE STORIES

 1-"LANGUAGE IS NOT A BARRIER FOR LOVE"

TARIQ SHEIKH AND TABINDA SHEIKH

In 1989, Tabinda Sheikh immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic and got a job in a New York City hotel as a housekeeper. It was there that she caught the eye of a fellow employee who was working behind the hotel’s front desk — her future husband, Tariq Sheikh. This is the story of how they fell in love, with the help of a Spanish-to-English dictionary and a moonlit park bench.

2-YOU MOVE ME

JAY MCKNIGHT AND ANDREA MCKNIGHT

This love story started with a song. It was Brooklyn in the late 1950s. Jay McKnight and his friends spent summer evenings outside, singing a cappella. One night, Jay caught the ear of a girl named Andrea. Jay and Andrea McKnight came to StoryCorps in New York to share their childhood romance, growing up, and growing old together.

INVICTUS - Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley - 1849-1903

Invictus 

Out of the night that covers me,

      Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

      For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

      I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

      My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

      Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

      Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

      How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.

VOCABULARY:

-pit: hole in the ground, hoyo

-in the fell  clutch  of circumstance' means 'in the evil grip of events beyond my control'.

-fell (adj.)- malo

-clutch (noun) (fig.) zarpazo

-to wince: hacer un gesto de dolor

-bludgeonings- apaleamientos

-wrath: ira

-to loom- cernirse

-strait- estrecho

-scroll,- pergamino, documento (rollo)

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-Listen to it recited here:

Click here to read an analyisis of the poem

And now watch this extract from the film: 

-CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FILM. (Do not pay any attention to the subtitles, the translation is really bad in this version)

ACTIVITIES ON THE FILM

  "Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people that little else has ... It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.   NELSON MANDELA

1- Click here and answer the questions about the film

2- Click here to do the activity

3- Click here to read some quotes in the film. Let´s reflect upon their meaning

THE JUNGLE BOOK

TASK: MAKE A POSTER (DIN A3) WITH ONE OF THE SENTENCES FROM THE FILM INCLUDED IN THE LINK BELOW. ADD A PICTURE RELATED TO THE SENTENCE.
YOU CAN EITHER DRAW IT OR CUT IT OUT AND PASTE IT. THERE MAY BE NO MISTAKES IN THE SENTENCE.

CLICK HERE FOR THE LIST OF SENTENCES.

LOVE ACTUALLY

LOVE ACTUALLY

The film follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

1- Click here to do the activities related to the film.

2- Click here to see the soundtrack in the film. Which is your favourite song?

THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW

1- Click here for some more information on the film
2- Click here for a activity on vocabulary
3-This is also a vocabulary activity- It has to do with verbs used in this context
4- And here there are some questions for discussion
5- Who said what?- Use the reported speech
6- An activity with reporting verbs

Carnage

Synopsis:Carnage is a 2011 black comedy-drama film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the Tony Award winning play God of Carnage by French playwright Yasmina Reza. The screenplay is by Reza and Polanski. The film is an international co-production of France, Germany, Poland, and Spain. It stars Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly. It is based on a play written by Yasmina Reza , a French playwright born in 1959. Many of her brief satiric plays reflec on contemporary middle-class issues.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Here you have a trailer: 

1-LISTEN TO KATE WINSLET SUMMARIZE THE STORY (first part of this video). THEN ANSWER THIS QUESTION :
a) What is the reason for these two couples to meet?

2-LISTEN TO JODIE FOSTER DESCRIBE THE CONFLICT (first part of this video). THEN ANSWER THIS QUESTION:  What can you say about the two couples at the beginning of the story?

3- What arethe protagonists´ names? What are their jobs?

4- Open this link and do the activities .
5- Click here to see expressions you can use at arguments
6- One more vocabulary activity. Click here for some more practice

WHEN THE WIND BLOWS

CLICK HERE TO READ SOME REVIEWS ON THE BOOK

CLICK HERE FOR SOME INFORMATION ON THE AUTHOR

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

Read the following lines from the film:

KEATING: "O Captain! My Captain!" Who knows where that comes from? Anybody. Not a clue? It's from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now, this class, you can either call me Mr. Keating, or, if you're slightly more daring, "O Captain! My Captain." Now let me dispel a few rumors, so they don't fester into facts. Yes, I, too, attended Hellton and have survived. And no, at that time, I was not the mental giant you see before you. I was the intellectual equivalent of a ninety- eight-pound weakling. I would go to the beach, and people would kick copies of Byron in my face. 

a) What do you think of the  teacher encouraging the students to call him "Captain"?

b)What do you think of the teacher calling himself a "mental giant"?

c) Through the teaching of poetry, what are the attitudes he tries to foster in his students?

d) In what ways is his teaching style "unorthodox"?

e) Is he fair with his students ? (remember the class when they had to read their out their own poems

1- CLICK HERE AND DO THE ACTIVITIES ABOUT THE FILM

THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS

1- Click this link and do the activity related to the REPORTED SPEECH 

2- Click this lind and do the activity related to the RELATIVE CLAUSES

INSIDE OUT- Changes in people´s lives

Watch the video.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:

WHILE YOU WATCH

5- What were Riley´s first impressions on the following aspects:

a)  The new house

b) Food. Eating out

c) Her father´s new routine

d)School

e) Hockey

AFTER YOU WATCH:

 1-  What was Riley´s life like as a baby?

2- What was her life like as a toddler?

She moved out with the family when she was a teenager

3- Where did they use to live?

4- Where did they move to?

6) What were the main changes in her human relationships?

a) With her family

b) With her best friend.

 WRITE DOWN RILEY´S TESTIMONIAL

1- In pairs: Write a paragraph in the first person

a) First row Introduction: Where- When- Why they moved

b)Second row: Body: Feelings when she arrived in the new city: house, family life, school, hockey...

c)Third row: Conclusion- Imagine Radley in two years time. She has adjusted and she is fine now.

2- In groups of 6 they put their paragraphs togetherand agree on the full narrative. They include at least one sentence with "used to". When they agree, they all copy the full narrative in their notebooks (one of them dictates to the group)

As I walked through my bedroom door, my mom came to stand beside me. The walls, once decorated with posters, and the bookshelves, once covered in toys and games, were now barren. Only two boxes remained-an old collection of toys and one last box ready to go with me to college.  Mom gasped and threw her arms around me as she saw the empty room. My excitement dampened when I realized how sad my mom was to see me go. I couldn't believe today was the day I would be leaving for college, and even though I was excited, I sure was going to miss my family.

CONTINUE THE NARRATIVE:

- Andy´s first impression at college (Bad points)

- How he settled (Good points)

-How he feels now

SULLY

On January 15th 2009 US Airways flight 158 failed in the air due to dual engine failure.  Sullenberg, the pilot, turned the Hudson river into a runway. All the passengers were rescued successfully. For some people he became a hero. For others he endangered the lives of 155 people unnecessarily. After this accident, they conducted a public hearing to analyse this landing. Clint Eastwood directed "Sully", the film which tells this story.

-Watch this trailer.

2- Click here to do the quiz: Are you a hero like Sully?
3-If you feel curious about the film, click here to know more about it.
4- Click here for some grammar practice- while revising the story in the film