REAL listening Practice to my ORAL recording_01- If you go to my country

wsh_105_ RECORDING A PASSAGE.

To record yourself and share the recorded file....

you only need to click on  Vocaroo.  So simple as that!

TASK. Record your voice on a passage following the prompts below:

BIT 1___

Hello. My name is .................... and I'm from ......... ( a place in the .......... county near BCN/Montserrat). And the question for today is ...:

what special little town should tourist see in your country?

BIT 2___
And even though I live in a town near Saint Benet,      I must say there's one place you should go to in Catalonia and that's a little, small town in ..........

And the reason why you should go there is not just because it's ..................,

it's also because that's where you can find ..............

          BIT 3___

And first time I went there was...........................,  and I still love going there. You have both:

• all these amazing .......... you can see around

• and also, ............ ............,

        BIT 4___

there's a lot of .......... things you can do there. Do not miss.............

So yes, if you go to my country, definitely go to ................................. That's the most beautiful place. I really like it.

BONUS TRACK. Improvise about this question.

 And explain why (couple of reasons)

But the question is though, where would you recommend people to go if they went to...:

• Iberian peninsula?

       (mainland / Atlantic coast/ east lands/ Andalusia...)

• Canary islands/  ...?
  Mediterranean shore..?

• Big cities / foreign places /...?

• New Zealand?

  

wsh_905_REAL listening Practice.

Then do Parallel Reading with the passage.

Work  with this pasage from someone from Denmark

ELLO  -ONE minute English

Video #1417

http://www.elllo.org/video/1401/1417-Lucille-FranceMusts.html

Follow FIRST the 7 selected chunks in green clour

Hello. My name is Lasse and I'm from Denmark. And the question for today is what should people see in your country?

And even though I live in Copenhagen I must say there's one place you should go to in Denmark and that's a little, small town in the middle of Jutland which is like the main coast but like far outside in the country side where it's a little small town which where the city where lego was found out.

And the reason why you should go there is not just because it's a city full of lego, it's also because that's where you can found the first legoland in the world.

And as a child, I went there a lot and I still love going there. You have all these amazing lego buildings you can see around and it's still an entertainment park, there's a lot of fun thing you can do there as well and of course, you can buy a lot of lego.

So yes, if you go to Denmark, definitely go to Billund, go to legoland. That's the most beautiful place. I really like it. But the question is though, where would you recommend people to go if they went to your country?

Second, select other 5 chunks you CAN repeat at the same speed.


YOUTUBE .... HERE

Then, record at least the 7 selected chunks in green colour

Michelle Obama - Trump duelling speeches

BBC NEWS 

Michelle Obama and Donald Trump just made duelling speeches on women13 October 2016 Michelle Obama and Donald Trump gave speeches within minutes of each other, and presented very different views on allegations about his treatment of women. -article 

TASK1.

Listen to it with pauses and repeat what you understood.

TASK2.

Make sentences using these syntax patterns:

We both  ....

Both   ..........   (dis)agree with   X/Y / both

Both of us ...

Neither  ....

                       (dis)agree with   X/Y / both

Neither of us ...

They both  ....

Both   ..........   (dis)agree with   [topics/each other]

Both of them ...

Neither X nor Y (dis)agree with  [topics/each other]

questionnaire for Isaac Rodriguez, - Sitges Film Festival 2016

  Questionnaire for 
   Isaac  Rodriguez, 
    our expert at 

    49th edition 
    -Sitges 2016

Isaac R. is a member of the jury made up of professionals from the audiovisual sector will award the following prizes:  In the CARNET JOVE Competition.
(one of the 7 categories, besides FANTASTIC)

Isaac and Tanit  won the 2013 award (both of them young and keen film directors) for Best Documentary Film. Together with Tánit,  their first work was taken to many venues:

    the Festival de Cannes, the Imagine India International Film Festival in Madrid, the Trento Film Festival.

At the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival,  they earned an award for the best direction in the emerging cinema section.  They are currently in the editing stage of their first feature length film.

 section1. Growing-up

    1.     When you were about  11 years old, did you have in mind to be involved somehow  in the world of cinema?
2.     What are your earliest memories of a shock for a film/scene/script? or  your interest in cinema?
3.     when was clear for you, that one day you would become a film director? 

section2. Inside the film planet 

   1.    What were the influences that make you study  to be a film director?
2.     how long have you studied to become a successful/fantastic film director?
3.     What were the foreign influences in your formative years (titles, directors, trends)?
4.     How do you choose the topic of your work? is there the soul/feelings more inportant than money or technical abilities? 

section3. Becoming a professional ...... a long process

   

    1.    Could you explicit both something you love the most/find it the hardest to do about your profession (job)?
2.     How many awards have ever you won?
3.     What do you think it is the strength of your Espés film? Was it the same  the jury found in the film?
4.     Personally, what was more important the money of the award or the social recognition (press, interviews...)
5.     who did you celebrate your 2013 award with?
6.     How succesful has been the money-gathering in your projects? 

section4. Sitges_2016 -personal 

 1. Do you think technology/ special effects is the key issue at        producing horror movies?

2. What were the two most striking/surprising things about taking part in the Sitges event? 3. What can you tell us about Sitges social life? international night hang-outs? gay life? 4. Could you share with us any funny/terrific/terrorific anecdote form the past week?

Train to Busan - Sang Ho-yeong (Korea)

      
       section5. Sitges_2016 -professional

1.     How succesful do you consider the media attention/billboard of the 49th festival?
2.     How did you find the festival this year? there were enough quality in all the awards?
3.     What was the main difficulty to make the final choice in your category (CARNET YOVE)? 
4.     Is there anything you would suggest as an improvement to for the next 50th edition Sitges festival?

OPERA PRIMA_the Game of Questions - Rosencrantz 1966

PLAYING the Game of Questions.

Questions, only questions. 
(Do you) fancy a question?

SCORE to the best of three:

• 1 - love   (O = love or ... nought....nil)
• 2 - love and matchpoint 
• 2 - 1  and matchpoint
• 3 - 1 = Game

FOULS (not accepted actions): 

• statement, 
• repetition, synonyms
• hesitation, grunts (
• breaking the sequence of thought (latin: non sequitur)

transcript

  BIT O.1  
1_ With spectators?2_ Do you want to play questions?1_ How do you play that?2_ You have to ask a question.1_ Statement. One - Love.

  BIT O.2   

2_ Cheating.1_ How?2_ I haven't started yet.1_ Statement. Two - Love. 

2_ Are you counting that?1_ What?2_ Are you counting that?1_Foul. No repetition. Three - Love and game.

  BIT ONE   

2_ I'm not going to play if you're going to be like that.1_ Whose serve?2_ Uh...1_ Hesitation. Love - One.

   BIT TWO   

2_ Whose go?1_ Why?2_ Why not?1_ What for?2_ Ha! No synonyms. One all.

    BIT THREE   

1_ What in God's name is going on?2_ Foul. No rhetoric. Two - One.1_ What does it all add up to?2_ Can't you guess?1_ Are you addressing me?2_ Is there anyone else?1_ Who?2_ How would I know?1_ Why do you ask?2_ Are you serious?1_ Was that rhetoric?2_  No. Statement. Two all. Game point.

   BIT FOUR   

2_ What's the matter with you today?1_ When?2_ What?1_ Are you deaf?2_ Am I dead?1_ Yes or no?2_ Is there a choice?1_ Is there a God?2_Foul. No non-sequiturs. Three - Two. One game all.

   BIT FIVE   

1_What's your name?2_ What's yours?1_ You first.2_Statement. One - Love.

   BIT SIX   

1_ What's your name when you're at home?2_ What's yours?1_ When I'm at home?2_ Is it different at home?1_ What home?2_ Haven't you got one?1_ Why do you ask?2_ What are you driving at?1_ What's your name?2_ Repetition. Two - Love. Match point. 

1_ Who do you think you are?2_ Rhetoric. Game and match!

source: Tom Stoppard in hte play _  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead  (1966)



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epilogue:

2009 - Harry Turtledove wrote a humorous time travel story entitled "We Haven't Got There Yet" (a line from the play) imagining how Shakespeare himself could watch a Stoppard play and what his reaction would be. It was published on-line at Tor's website.

Do You Speak English? - Big Train - BBC comedy

Do You Speak English? - Big Train - BBC comedy

Dec 20, 2008, Simon Pegg and the Big Train comedy sketch team perform a funny short on life of an English speaking tourist in France.

Watch a cartoon version in the video  below

           


Original video (in community --subtitles) amara-WEB

video with subtitles

Do you speak English? 

She:   Excuse me, excuse me, Sorry, Do you speak English?  

He:    No, I don't, sorry.  

She:  Aha, My car's broken down. I wonder if you could tell me where to find a garage.  

He:   You know, That's a waste on me. I don't understand what you are saying.  

She:  You don't speak any English at all.  

He:   Not a word. There's one of these things I wish I'd paid more attention in school 

She: (to he2) Excuse me, excuse me?        Do you speak any English? 

He2: English , no- What's the problem?  

He1: I don't know, I cant understand her.  

She: My car is broken down, and I need to find a                 garage.  

He2: No , I am sorry, I didn't understand you at all.  

She: Alright, well, thanks. 

He1: Anyway, If you go down that way, about half a mile.            There's a village. there might be some lads there who          speak English. 

               // ....  //

She: Ich spreche ein bisschen Deutsch, sprechen Sie      Deutsch? - Parlo una mica d'alemany, parla l'alemany                      vostè? 

He1: Deutsch? Nein. Sprichts du Deutsch? - Alemany? No. Tu parles alemany? 

He2: Deutsch? Nein, nur eins oder zwei Wörter, aber ich bin nicht fliessend. - Alemany? No, només una o dues paraules pero no fluid.
He1: We couldn't be of much help. 
He2: Sorry about that. You never know. Next time you are         over, maybe we would have learnt a little bit of English         for you.

       He1: Oder deutsch vielleicht! - O alemany potser!
          He2: Ja, das wäre toll - Sí, aixó seria fantàstic.

                 // ....  // 

              He1: I can speak English!

He2: So can I.

                  // ....  //

Newsletter : Another merry soul in seoul -Cardoner team

another merry soul in Seoul

meeting SEOUL EXPATS

https://www.smore.com/9g54c


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interesting webquests for English learners

Some interesting webquests for English learners – by Miquel Angel

You can find the full list (44) here::  http://webquestcat.net/category/llengua-anglesa/

             1st level

1 All about britain

http://all-about-britain.dedicatedfollowerofenglish.com/index.html

                2 level

2 BECOMING A KNIGHT IN THE MIDDLE AGES

https://sites.google.com/a/xtec.cat/webquest-middle-age-project/home 

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_timeline_questions.php

http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages/knight_armor_and_weapons_questions.php

              3r level

3a) Young explorers: Australia

https://sites.google.com/site/youngexplorersaustralia/   

Laia González i Prat,  -  12th July 2009.

3b) GONDWANA TALES

WEGENERS’S  theory (1912) wasn't accepted at the beginning: it would take time to other scientists to accept that Earth had a so long  and complex history.  (1933)

https://sites.google.com/a/xtec.cat/gondwanatales/home  

Project work:

Step 1: Work in teams of three. One session (1 h).

Step 2: Work in teams of three, reorganized from the previous session. One session (1 h).

Steps 3 and 4: Work in teams of three, keep the same teams as in Step 2. Two-Three sessions (2-3 x 1h).

Step 5: Same teams as in the precedent step. Two sessions, complemented by homework.

Portfolio and Workshop sessions should be inserted in this calendar following the needs and possibilities of the project. You should consider 2 additional hours for portfolio ( 40 x 10 min sessions) and Workshop sessions (5 x 15 min sessions).

            4rt level

4a)  NAME: Hollywood and the Oscars -2009

http://webquestcat.net/hollywood-and-the-oscars/

 
   LEVEL:  4th of English of Escola Oficial d'Idiomes
   TIMING:  3 / 4 sessions of about 1 hour 40 minutes
   STUDENTS: groups of 4 people, 

 by Natàlia Verdalet             : nataliaverdalet@gmail.com 

4b) Victorian Times

the brand new Time Machine !! The only chance you will have in your life to meet Charles Dickens, to follow the trail of the infamous Jack the Ripper, to witness the invention of the photography, to listen to Rigoletto for the first time, to wander round the Great Exhibition ….Come and join us !!! 

Autors: Anna Aznar i Jordi Jordán

http://www.xtec.cat/~jjordan/tecno/cts/victoria/index.htm

developed as part of the project LET'S LIVE A COUNTRY , with which students in Batxillerat learn about History and Literature of the countries whose language they are studying

The lesson is organized so that 2 or 3 students can follow the WebQuest directions at the computer to complete 7 tasks. Ideally, this project will take about ten, 50 minute class periods

 Teams ( 2 o 3 people ) and each team will be in charge of a different section.

assignment, you will need to produce the following pieces of work:

1.     A printed newspaper ( group-class)

2.     2. Written article/s ( individual work)

3.     3. A website ( team work )

4.     4. Oral presentation of team work to class (team)

                5e level

5a)  TODAY’S NEWS – ISABEL PEREZ (2009)

http://www.isabelperez.com/module4_tesis/m4_2.htm

English Department has organised a seminar about the press in Britain 

First, you are going to participate in several activities including a workshop about newspapers in Britain.

- After the workshop, you will take part in a competition to show which team has learnt more by doing two front pages of two papers covering a week period

5b)  OLOA: On Line and On Air

http://webquestcat.net/the-oloa-project/

December 2009  - by Mireia Grané          mgrane@xtec.cat

JOHN MCDOWELL AWARD -2009

 Your school radio is now a real project. You have been selected to create a school news bulletin with your team. You are part of an editorial team of four people.

C1 level 

6a) HUNTING FOR THE GENE

designed by Jordi Domènech Casal, Science teacher at secondary school in Spain. 

INS Vilanova del Vallès

https://sites.google.com/site/huntingforagene/

Discoverning new genes related to neurodegenerative diseases could be a way to make better diagnosis and to investigate ways to treat these illnesses.

Your goal is to identify genes that through their activity promote or prevent the development of neurogenerative processes.

To do so, you will work as a scientist, using real data and real bioinformatic tools from real in silico research to look for genes.

The whole activity takes about 12 sessions (x1 hour each).

Portfolio and Workshop sessions should be inserted in this calendar following the needs and possibilities of the project. You should consider 2 additional hours for portfolio ( 4 x 10 min sessions) and Workshop sessions (5 x 15 min sessions).