Rosa Parks

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?

Radio Gaga

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.

I hope you enjoy it...

Adverbs of Degree (unit 1)

Hi, class.
Please, watch this Adverbs of Degree Presentation

How mothers deliver a baby

Hi,

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

Settle Down by Kimbra

Write to me

• Tell me about your future plans for work or study.
• What important event do you think will happen soon?
• Your friend needs some help with some homework. What do you say?
• Tell me about your plans for this coming summer.
• Complete these sentence: If I don't understand this exercise ...
• What do you think future English lessons will be about?

My dream come true

Welcome back!
You have just arrived from a wonderful cruise trip and I am sure you have great memories you'd like to share with me.

Please write 200 words describing your experience in the cruise ship and the cities you have visited and choose one in particular to explain in detail what you saw and what you did there. Do not forget to provide information about the transfer from and to Barcelona, the weather, your friends, the chaperon teachers, etc.

I am eager to know!