Love is in the air!!!

The task is easy... you have to post a love message or a love story in your blog.

It can be ANYTHING as long as it is in English and you try to be original!

What does ANYTHING mean???

1. Regarding the content...
   a) It can be a declaration of love (anonymous, please!!!)
   b)  It can be a love message for some of your friends
       * Telling memories
       * Telling what you like about them
    c) It can be a love story (sad endings are also allowed!)

AS USUAL - It can be real... or invented :)
 
2. Regarding the format...
    a) It can be a video (with fotos, "draw my life" style, with you and your friends...)
    b) It can be a letter
    c) It can be a virtual postcard
    d) It can be some kind of presentation
    e) It can be a virtual poem
    f) It can be a "short play" (acting, with puppets...)
    g) It can be a virtual comic
    h) It can be something I am unable to imagine!!!!

For useful tools... click here

For those boring people who don't like the idea... this is your even-more-boring-than-you task ;) CLICK HERE

My example!!

 

Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake competition

Think of a sport you really like or some strange sportive tradition and look for information about it. Then, make a presentation in order to show it in your blog.

The presentation must include:

-        Name of the sport and features: o      Number of players o      What does it consist of? (How do you play?) o      Is there any important competition in the world? -        A brief history o      Is it a traditional or a modern sport? o      When did it start?  Has it suffered any changes? o Is there any famous Spanish/Catalan sportsman or sportswoman now? -        Main rules -> remember to use modals!!! -        Other places where it is also played

My Christmas video

For Christmas I was in my mother's village and I made this video...

Enjoy it!

X-mas Homework... ho ho ho!

Christmas time!!!
  
But you'll still have to work!

Make a X-mas video, upload it on youtube and embed it to your blog before January, the 13th !



 Ideas

•  1 day in my Christmas life 
• My holidays for Christmas 
• The presents I got for Christmas
• Why do I like Christmas? (Or Why do I hate Christmas!)
• The story of Xmas (quite boring... don't you think?) 
• Or anything you want!!!! 

Only 5 norms!

1. The video has to be in English
2. It has to be related to Christmas in some strange and original way
3. It has to last MINIMUM 1:30 minutes
4. You MUST have fun doing it...
5. and you MUST have a purrrrrrrfect Christmas too!!

 

Writing a review

Do you remember Paperman?

Paperman is a short produced by Walt Disney animation studios and directed by John Karts. It won an Annie and an Oscar Award in 2012.

The action takes place in New York, in the 1940s, and the main character is a man who works in an office.

This man (we don't know the name) is very sad with his monotonous life. One day, he meets a woman at the train station and he feels love at first sight. Later that day, while he is working, he sees that the woman is being interviewd in the opposite building. He tries to send her paper-planes so that she notices him, but he fails. When the woman finishes the interview, he leaves his job to try to meet her, but he fails again. Then, the magic begins...

I was impressed by this movie because I really like the animation. It is a very romantic and interesting short. What I liked the most is the magical point you can see at the end of the movie, this was very surprising for me.

Now watch these videos. When you finish, chose one and write a review and post it in your blog, together with the inserted video.

The review must include:

• Introduction
• Setting and summary
• Personal opinion  

Useful link:

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/writing-film-book-review.php#.Ujvzqnca2MY

This is Halloween!!!

We have many festivities in our country, and one of them is becoming more and more famous as years go by... Halloween! But what do you know about it?


Make a report, a powerpoint or a prezi presentation for your blog, including information you already know and information you discover now.

The report or presentation must include: 

1. Origins 
2. Main traditions in the United Kingdom and the USA
3. Halloween superstitions

Useful links:

• The history of Halloween
• Halloween traditions around the world 
• Halloween facts, traditions and superstitions (links)
• Bilingual dictionary  
• slideshare (to upload your Powerpoint)
• prezi (to make a prezi presentation. To watch an example click here)

Are you ready? Then... go!

My favourite photo

 

This photo was taken by me this summer. It shows the landscapes of a mountain near Sapa, in Vietnam.

I took the photo while me and my partner were doing a 12 kilometer trekking, because we wanted to see the astonishing landscapes and the rice paddies, that is, the typical “rice terraces” you can see on movies. We also visited a Black-H’mong village, an ethnic minority who live in the mountains.

Before getting there, we were walking on a very narrow road surrounded by bamboos for about half an hour. Then, we were climbing a mountain for another hour and a half. After that, we came to the place where I took the photo.

In the picture you can see very different details: on the lower left corner, and on the other side of the river, you can see rice paddies and trees. In the centre of the picture, there is a river.  And in the background, on the mountain, you can see a yellow building, which is the school of the village.

I chose this photo because I really love it. I like the intensity of the colours, and the contrast caused by the sky, the river and the green nature. It is also a great memory of my holidays and a experience I might not live again!

  
Now you have to chose a photo or picture you like to:

• Explain where you took it.
• Describe it a little bit.
• Tell why you chose that photo.

Describing a photo help!

Useful links:

• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/describing_pictures.htm
• http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-91082.php

Describing a photo from Laura Bitrián