English for slow business

  1. The Mulberry tree.  Who is the director?  Watch the video. What is it about?      https://www.newyorker.com/video/watch/the-new-yorker-shorts-neil-labute-s-the-mulberry-bush   Comment on the mounting tension. How tension is built.  Comment on the last scene. 

    Watch the following video.  Before watching. What makes medieval towns characteristic?   WHILE WATCHING.  Jot down the names of the towns mentioned and the write the name of the country where they are.  What's the translation of the name?  Write down any interesting vocabulary that you could used in other contexts. Try not to write isolated words.  EX:                        the river meanders through the town center      Jewish Quarter      streets lined with trees     THE BASQUE COUNTRY.      The homeland of the proud and resilient Basque people is split between France and Spain. From our San Sebastián home base, we tour the ancient Basque capital of Guernica, the dazzling Guggenheim Bilbao, and then cross into France for more Basque Country charms. From yummy tapa bars to lightning-fast jai alai games, we’ll experience Basque culture at its most vivid.

    Where do you come from? Where are you? Where would you like to be in the future?    Have a look at the following blog. If you had to make a collage of your present , past and future, what images would you choose?  MY PAST; PRESENT AND FUTURE  COLLAGE blog entry. Past What makes you smile from you past? What makes you cry?  Important people in your past. Present What do you like of your preent life? What do you hate?    Who are the important people in your present?  What of the following quotes do you identify with?  The future.  Do you think a lot about the future?  Are you optimistic about the future?  How can the present affect in your future? Does it all depend on you?  Do you think you are part of a bigger project?  Are you afraid of what might come in the future? Are you worried about the environment, the climate change, inequality? How can all that affect you?  FINAL TASK. Prepare a power point presentation.  - Include a collage or pictures like in the blog to speak about you

        How was your experience during the lockdown?  What did you do?  How do you feel about going back to school?  What is new for you?     What students think about going back to school amid the health crisis Twelve children and teenagers from Spain discuss how they feel about face masks, social distancing and class bubbles – and what politicians got wrong when dealing with the coronavirus crisis  Have a look at the following vocabulary BUBBLE GROUP            FACE MASKS            OUTDOOR CLASSES           SOCIAL DISTANCING            Choosed one of the SEVEN texts and write down the new vocabulary. Comment it in the class.        Then choose another one and do the same.  1- Write your ideas about coming back to school and read the text in front of your classmates. 

  Do you like taking pictures? What kind of pictures?   This is what I came across on my twitter account. José Yosigo is a photographer. His real name is José Javier Serrano. How would you discribe his work?   Born in San Sebastian, José Javier Serrano , known as Yosigo , now lives and works in Barcelona as a photographer. Yosigo began and followed his graphic design studies and photography was just an escape route, a way to take his eyes off the computer screen. Then, with the passing of time, his hobby became his work. In his shots we find, however, his propensity for graphic design, we find it in composition, in the choice of shapes and color balance. We can say that what inspires his projects are the people, walking in the street or sunbathing on the beach. In the series of shots Animal Turista , Yosigo has immortalized human nature on holiday, at the sea, noticing how the man becomes a predator of everything around him, expands taking up all the space. Yosigo was able to