THE MAN THAT CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY.
MR CHRISTMAS SHOWS OFF HIS HOME.
READING.
FOOD
VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS FOOD.
RAMSAY'S CHRISTAMS RECIPIES.
SPANISH CHRISTMAS FOOD TRADITIONS.
Friday, December 17, 2021
Monday, December 13, 2021
ADMINISTRATION. UNIT 2.
WHY DO PEOPLE WORK?
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Superhero? Firefighter? Ballet dancer? Astronaut? Scientist? Share your answer with other people. Have a fun discussion about what you were excited about as a kid. Not sure?
Why do people work?
That’s an easy question.
- Money. People work to make money. They need money for food, for rent, and to have fun with their friends and family.
- Independence. Money isn’t the only reason to work. Working can also give you more independence and more control over your own life. When you work, you are learning new things, getting more skills, and making friends with people you meet through your job.
- Community. People work to be part of and contribute to their communities. This means that jobs exist not only for your benefit, but jobs also let you help others. For example, let’s say I have a job in an office delivering the mail. I’m helping the whole office save time and get stuff done.
VOCABULARY . ENGLISH AT WORK.
UNDERSTANDING JOB DESCRIPTIONS.
LISTENING.
Pre-Listening Exercise
Christmas
is a time when children hope to receive presents from their parents,
other family, and friends. Imagine that you are one of the children in
this conversation (a three-year-old boy and a six-year-old girl). What
Christmas gifts would you like to receive?
Idioms
“nose around” = look for something private or hidden
“The kids sometimes nose around the house for Christmas gifts.”
“umpteen (also, umpteenth)” = a great number of
“I have umpteen presents to buy before Christmas Eve.“
Now, listen:
MEDIA THEN AND NOW
SOCIAL MEDIA.
Vocabulary.
Feednews feature avegage amount of time
upload screen time
1. Do you use social media daily? If so, what kind of social media? What's your average amount of srceen time per day?
2. Do you consider this is positive or negative?
3. What else could you do instead?
CONVERSATION ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA.
4. What are the good things about social media? What about the negative ones?
5. Is the parents' perspective different from the children's? What do your parent's think about your use of social media?
JOBS
READING
ANSWER
1. What does to have a job mean for most people?
2. Why is his job special?
3. What does he do?
4. What does he do when he is in Tokyo?
5. What does he do with Gustavo?
6. What are the negative things about his job?
7. Does he speak eighteen languages?
VOCABULARY. DESCRIBING A JOB
1. Copy in a list of adjectives you use to describe a job.
2. Read the text and copy de new words with the definition.
QUIZ. JOBS.
FROM: https://www.allthingstopics.com
FROM: https://www.allthingstopics.com
FROM: https://www.allthingstopics.com
EXTENSIVE READING.
1. Why nobody wants to be a trucker anymore?
2. Job vacancies that Spain struggles to fill.
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LISTENING: JOB INTERVIEW.
REVISION
1. TIME AND DATE
BUSINESS ENGLISH.
WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN.
1- What is a business plan? Write a definition.
Page 1
Think
of a product or service that you and your partner would like to sell or
provide. Work with a partner and write a business plan below.
Page 2
Students are given $ 5,000 each to 'invest' in their classmates businesses. Which plans can attract the most money?
SAYING THE NUMBERS
CARDINAL AND ORDINAL NUMBERS.
Say large numbers.
BIG NUMBERS
READING. THE CHINESE NEW YEAR.
EXTRA PRACTICE. REVISION
13. A FEW, A LITTLE, MUCH, MANY...
WRITING
Dear Sir/Madam,
I would like to book a double room for the month of August 2002.
I need an air-conditioned room with bath and shower which faces the sea.
I should be grateful if you would confirm my booking as soon as possible.
Please give me an indication of your rates per night including full board.
Should you have no vacancies please could you give me the address of a suitable hotel in your area?
Yours faithfully,
Jennifer O'Brian
Confirming a reservation.
Dear Mrs O'Brian,
Thank you for your letter of 5th April 20..
We are pleased to confirm the accommodation you describe for the month of August 20..
We enclose a short description of how you reach our hotel. We look forward to your stay with us.
Yours sincerely,
Nick Webster
Reservations Manager
WATCHING
Who is Joseph Stiglitz? Where is he from?
What are his ideas about the economy?
What does he think about inequality?
What do you think of this....
IF YOU WORK HARD , THEN YOU 'LL GET RICH.
Is he optimistic? Why?
What are the three myths mentioned?
EXERCISE.
Watch the following video and tell the story.
Sunday, December 12, 2021
WINTER'S COMING. Winter Solstice Celebrations. From Halloween to Carnival.
Read the following text about the origins of Christmas.
Before reading.
- What do you do on the following dates?
1st November
24th December
25th December
28th December
31st December
1st January
- Are you a religious person? What do you understand by pagan?
Read the first text and answer.
What are the Saturnalia?
Read the following text. What does it describe?
"On Christmas, believers attended church, then celebrated raucously in a drunken, carnival-like atmosphere similar to today’s Mardi Gras. Each year, a beggar or student would be crowned the “lord of misrule” and eager celebrants played the part of his subjects. The poor would go to the houses of the rich and demand their best food and drink. If owners failed to comply, their visitors would most likely terrorize them with mischief. Christmas became the time of year when the upper classes could repay their real or imagined “debt” to society by entertaining less fortunate citizens."
Read the second text.
Christmas traditions Worldwide.
What do all these countries have in common? Can you add more from what you have seen or heard of?
Where can you find references to the SUN / LIGHT? Can you add more from the ones you know or have heard of?
Why do you think food is so important?
Where can you find references to nature?
Solstice date
December 25 was the date of the winter solstice in the Roman calendar.[16][52] A late fourth-century sermon by Saint Augustine explains why this was a fitting day to celebrate Christ's nativity: "Hence it is that He was born on the day which is the shortest in our earthly reckoning and from which subsequent days begin to increase in length. He, therefore, who bent low and lifted us up chose the shortest day, yet the one whence light begins to increase."[53]
Linking Jesus to the Sun was supported by various Biblical passages. Jesus was considered to be the "Sun of righteousness" prophesied by Malachi: "Unto you shall the sun of righteousness arise, and healing is in his wings."[37]
About Carnival.
Watch and listen
True or False?
1. Carnival is celebrated in less than 50 countries around the world.____
2. It originated in Egypt.______
3. The name means welcome to meat and is related to the beginning of fasting during Lent._______
4. In 18th cdntury Italy people celebrated throwing fancy-dress parties.____
5. In 2016 Rio de Janeiro in Brazil received more than 1 milllion tourists for Carnival____
6. The origin of Carnival in Trinidad had to do with slaves who used to sing and dance mocking French colonists.____
7. In India Carnival is widely celebrated______
"From an anthropological point of view, carnival is a reversal ritual, in which social roles are reversed and norms about desired behavior are suspended.[19][20]
Winter was the reign of the winter spirits; these needed to be driven out in order for the summer to return. Carnival can be seen as a rite of passage from darkness to light, from winter to summer: a fertility celebration, the first spring festival of the new year.[21]
Traditionally, a Carnival feast was the last opportunity for common people to eat well . Until spring products were available, people were limited to the minimum necessary meals during this period. On what nowadays is called vastenavond (the days before fasting), all the remaining winter stores of lard, butter, and meat which were left would be eaten, for these would otherwise soon start to rot and decay. The selected livestock had already been slaughtered in November and the meat would no longer be preservable. All the food that had survived the winter had to be eaten to assure that everyone was fed enough to survive until the coming spring would provide new food sources.[22]
Several Germanic tribes celebrated the returning of the daylight. The winter would be driven out, to make sure that fertility could return in spring.[19] A central figure of this ritual was possibly the fertility goddess Nerthus. Also, there are some indications that the effigy of Nerthus[23] or Freyr was placed on a ship with wheels and accompanied by a procession of people in animal disguise and men in women's clothes.[22][24][25] Aboard the ship a marriage would be consummated as a fertility ritual.
WIKIPEDIA
Answer the following questions:
- What is a reversal ritual? What do people intend to do with reversal rituals? Are they only in Carnival (remember what we have commented in the classroom)? Can you give anly examples?
-What is the connection with Carnival and food?
Friday, December 10, 2021
THE CAKEMAKER
PRE-READING.
Vocabulary.
Find the meanig of the following words.
Reboot baker guilt grief
1. Complete the text with the words below.
THINGS AFFAIR WITHOUT VOICEMAIL BOTH FREQUENTLY LEARNS
Thomas, a young, solitary German baker, is having an affair with a married Israeli man named Oren, who _____________(1) visits Berlin on business. When Oren does not answer Thomas's calls one day, Thomas discovers that he died in an accident in Israel, and he goes to Jerusalem and visits the cafe of Oren's widow, Anat. __________________ (2) revealing his identity, he gets a job in the cafe's kitchen and rents an apartment in the city. At first he cannot make food, because it puts the cafe at risk of losing its kosher certification, but finally Anat allows him to make food.
Thomas___________ (3) more about Anat's life and her family, including her brother-in-law, Motti, who is initially suspicious of him. He also gets closer to Anat, who is still grieving her husband's death despite she knows of his infidelity. Anat is continuously tempted to look through Oren's personal _____________ (4), which include notes from his lover and a second phone. Eventually, the two have a short ___________ (5). The affair makes Thomas think on his time with Oren.
Anat finds a shopping list written in German among Oren's personal things, including the name of the Berlin cafe where Thomas works. Anat tells Thomas that Oren told her he was having an affair, and planned on leaving her and their son in Jerusalem to start a new life in Berlin. Anat forced him to leave the house, and he died in a car accident on his way to a hotel. __________ (6) Anat and Thomas are overwhelmed with guilt and grief. Later, she discovers a note in Oren's things with Thomas's handwriting. After rebooting Oren's second phone, she discovers more than a dozen ____________(7) messages from Thomas, and realizes that he was her husband's lover. Motti forces Thomas to leave Jerusalem immediately, saying they don't want him here and he must never return to Israel.
2. Read about the last scene. How do you interpret it?
Three months later, Anat's cafe is successful, despite lacking kosher certification. Anat travels to Berlin, where she spots Thomas coming out of his cafe from a distance. After watching him depart, she looks up at the sky and smiles.
3. Find about kosher food.
- What is it?
- What makes a food kosher?
- What foods are not kosher?
4. Find more about israeli food? Is there an element that defines it? Find out about the history of Israel and link it with the food.
Would you include Palestinian food ? What do you know about the conflicting cohexistence of palestinians and jews in Israel?
5. Write about festivities and food.
6. Copy an Israeli recipy. Explain it in class.
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