Watch this short video of Pepa Pig making a time capsule (like ours). Answer these questions:
1. According to the teacher, why do they make a time capsule?
2. What do the pupils put inside?
3. What do they think the future will be like?
4. What do Pepa Pig and and his daddy have in common?
5. When they open the old time capsule, what do they find?
6. What did Daddy Pig and his classmates think the future would be like when they recorded the tape for their time capsule?
Watch this short video from the famous old sitcom "Friends".
Now, tell me:
1. Why does Joey enter the ESL classroom?
2. Why does the teacher ask Joey if he is sure he is in the right place?
3. What kind of homework did the students have to do?
4. Why does Joey become "competetive" with Boris?
5. Why is he so impatient with Renata?
6. How would you describe Joey´s personality?
Watch this interesting video about Rosa Parks and answer these questions:
1. Did she have any brother or sisters?
2. In what state in the USA did she grow up?
3. What is she famous for?
4. What did she refuse to do the day that changed her life and the history of the USA human rights?
5. Did she plan to do what she did?
6. What happened to her right after the bus incident?
7. How did that event change her life?
8. Why do you think African Americans take her for a very important person in the Human Right Movements?
9. What awards has she received before her death?
10. When did she die?
How would you like to participate in our next project? Please, click on Radio Gaga and take a quick tour of what we are going to be doing in class. More information will be provided in the classroom.
This is the first entry for our class this year. I would like you to watch this really funny video from the Bill Cosby show, season 6. After you watch it, I would like you to answer a few questions:
1. What is the grandfather's job?
2. What is he trying to explain the little girl?
3. What is a stork? and a bassinet?
4. According to the girl, why do mothers get so big?
5. And why doesn't the stork take the babies directly to the mothers' homes?
6. Who do you think is the most stubborn of the two? why?
7. Why is Bill Cosby getting more and more upset as the conversation goes on?
8. Who "makes a point" at the end of the argument? What is the grandfather's reaction?
9. FOR HOMEWORK, find out some facts about the Bill Cosby show:
- Date of show
- main characters
- number of seasons
- years on air
- popularity
