lunes, 19 de diciembre de 2011

lunes, 14 de noviembre de 2011

TRAILER

This is the link for the trailer:
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1506057497/

GOING TO THE MOVIES!



NEW FILM FOR NEXT WEEK:


The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Academy Award winner Helen Mirren) and Stefan (two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciaran Hinds of Focus' "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day"). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain [soon to be seen in "The Tree of Life"], Marton Csokas [Universal's upcoming "Dream House"], and Sam Worthington ["Avatar," "Clash of the Titans"]) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen of "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace") in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished - or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.


Interesting links
Learning English BBC Magazine
Reading activities from British Council
EOI Boadilla
Online activities in English: English Club
Online activities in English: Many Things. org
Radio Utopía: Olvida tu Equipaje

Listening practice
BBC Six Minute English (podcast)
British Council Podcasts
ELLLO. Lots of interesting passages with glossary
About.Com Audio exercises for learners
About.Com Videos for learners
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/podcast.html
CNN Student News (video)
ESL Listening Lab
ESL Wonderland listening

lunes, 24 de octubre de 2011

Let's go to the movies!!!!





On November 2nd you can go to the movies in Boadilla and watch a film in original version. This is a trailer of the film










If you are interested contact your teacher for discount tickets!!!!!

Happy Halloween!!

Everybody has heard of Michael Jackson's thriller. Did you know that the famous horror film actor Vincent Price sings the rap section of the song? Listen and watch, then try to order the words in the rap section. Good Luck!!!!

http://youtu.be/ZuuVojzfdqY

viernes, 25 de marzo de 2011

The Boy Who Loved Chocolate

TITLE: THE BOY WHO LOVED CHOCOLATE

INTERMEDIATE/LOWER SECONDARY

CHARACTERS:

Boy

Mother

Father

Argentinian

Policeman

SYNOPSIS:

A 13 year old boy is at home alone playing with his computer. He loves chocolate and decides to order by the Internet a 2000$ worth of chocolate and pays with a credit card number that he finds at random.

CHARACTER OBJECTIVES

THE BOY wants to get some chocolate and share it with his friends.

THE MOTHER wants to punish his son for the crime he has committed.

THE FATHER thinks the boy deserves a spank but he thinks it was very clever what he did and he is secretly proud of his resourceful son.

THE ARGENTINIAN is very angry and wants his Money back

THE POLICEMAN wants to solve the crime and bring the boy to justice

SCENE BREAKDOWN

SCENE 1 (a boy in his bedroom room)

A boy is alone in his bedroom with his computer . He loves chocolate. His parents do not allow him to eat chocolate. He has a great idea.

SCENE 2 (a couple of days later, in the same house)

Someone is at the door. The boy opens the door and gets a big parcel. He has to sign for the invoice.

SCENE 2 (a different house)

An Argentinian man gets home from work he fumbles with the mail, he opens a letter from his bank and shouts “What the heck!!!” or something in Spanish with an Accent.

SCENE 3 (at the boy’s house again)

The boy, the mother and the father are having dinner in the dinning room, somebody rings the bell. The father opens the door and sees a policeman. The policeman wants to ask some questions.

SCENE 4 (At court)

The 4 characters explain what has happened and answer the questions that is the end of the story.

Organisation:

Divide the class into 4 groups. Group 1 is going to play scene 1, Group 2 will play scene 2, Group 3 plays scene 3 and Group 4 acts out scene 4.

martes, 22 de marzo de 2011

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CINEMA

The idea of using different genres and music is very good and original. I could use it with advanced levels.

CHICKEN RUN

I read the outline for this play and I loved it. I loved the story (everybody knows the story and the film) and I liked the idea of having as many characters as you want because you can adapt the chickens to the number of students you have.
I would change the organization of the class though. Instead of having groups playing different scenes I would divide the class into groups but with the same character. For example: group 1: 3 (or 4) Mr Tweedy; group 2: 3 Mrs Tweedy; group 3: 3 Rocky; and so on and so forth... They prepare their roles together, helping each other and after some time you can have the four or five different groups to practice the play and finally the performe the play and vote for the best performance.