Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Monday, 21 July 2008
PINK BOW TIE
We talked about a science fiction story: "Pink Bow Tie".
In that story, the principal character was a teenager who needed to explain to the principal of the school about the changes in the colour of his hair. The strange situation started in a train when he was returning to his house, with the rest of passengers and a machine called ‘Age rager’, which could change people’s ages.
We used different things to explain the story: cartoons, a pink tie, role play, and we compared the story with the film "Big" and made a crossword for our classmates.
Ah!!! Fernando has got "the pink tie" and if he wants...maybe...we will take a photo of him wearing it.
If you want to read the story and do some activities, go to: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/resources/britlit/pink-bow-tie
In that story, the principal character was a teenager who needed to explain to the principal of the school about the changes in the colour of his hair. The strange situation started in a train when he was returning to his house, with the rest of passengers and a machine called ‘Age rager’, which could change people’s ages.
We used different things to explain the story: cartoons, a pink tie, role play, and we compared the story with the film "Big" and made a crossword for our classmates.
Ah!!! Fernando has got "the pink tie" and if he wants...maybe...we will take a photo of him wearing it.
If you want to read the story and do some activities, go to: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/resources/britlit/pink-bow-tie
Friday, 18 July 2008
THE HAPPY PRINCE – ORAL PRESENTATION
Hi, there!
We are Lucía and José from “Escuela de Lenguas”. We want to tell you about our oral presentation we prepared in English for our classmates and teacher Sandra last month.
The theme of the presentation was “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde. To help us to tell this fairy story we showed pictures in a PowerPoint presentation with Julia’s projector. Thanks Julia! Those images were taken from a nice cartoon directed by Michael Mills in 1974, with the voice of Christopher Plummer and Glynis Johns. You can see the film in two parts at youtube. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI92hDyI2HY
We also gave a brief talk about the author, mainly extracted from:
http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/
Although it is an extemporal tale, to know something about the time and place we looked for “The Palace of Sans Souci” here:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580885/Sans_Souci.html
Surfing the Internet we found that a songwriter and composer named Daniel Cainer makes a high-tech presentation of “The Happy Prince” for children. We listened to a particular song which tells the Happy Prince’s feelings and we liked it. So we wrote the lyrics down and made photocopies for our classmates to sing it with the help of a cd-player. Here you can find all the Daniel Cainer’s songs:
http://www.danielcainer.com
We both think preparing this oral presentation was a very interesting experience and we hope our listeners have enjoyed it.
Bye, bye!
We are Lucía and José from “Escuela de Lenguas”. We want to tell you about our oral presentation we prepared in English for our classmates and teacher Sandra last month.
The theme of the presentation was “The Happy Prince” by Oscar Wilde. To help us to tell this fairy story we showed pictures in a PowerPoint presentation with Julia’s projector. Thanks Julia! Those images were taken from a nice cartoon directed by Michael Mills in 1974, with the voice of Christopher Plummer and Glynis Johns. You can see the film in two parts at youtube. Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI92hDyI2HY
We also gave a brief talk about the author, mainly extracted from:
http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/
Although it is an extemporal tale, to know something about the time and place we looked for “The Palace of Sans Souci” here:
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761580885/Sans_Souci.html
Surfing the Internet we found that a songwriter and composer named Daniel Cainer makes a high-tech presentation of “The Happy Prince” for children. We listened to a particular song which tells the Happy Prince’s feelings and we liked it. So we wrote the lyrics down and made photocopies for our classmates to sing it with the help of a cd-player. Here you can find all the Daniel Cainer’s songs:
http://www.danielcainer.com
We both think preparing this oral presentation was a very interesting experience and we hope our listeners have enjoyed it.
Bye, bye!
The Black Cat - Behind the scene
Here is the information that we have used to perform our presentation.
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