Thursday, April 10, 2025
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Oral Mediation Task: Three TV Series to Learn Spanish
Complete the oral mediation task below, rehearse your performance, (record it, please) and be ready to present it in class.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Causative Verbs Practice
Here you have some practice to test yourselves on the use of causative structures. In case you have any doubts, do not hesitate to let me know in class.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Talking about Art: A Breathtaking Speech
Back in 2011, Leonard Cohen received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature for "a body of literary work that has influenced three generations of people worldwide through his creation of emotional imagery in which poetry and music are fused in an oeuvre of immutable merit". When he came to Oviedo to collect his literary prize, he delivered one of the most beautiful speeches I've ever heard in this kind of setting.
His voice is so soft and delightful, his pronunciation so clear and precise, and his tempo so fine-tuned, that I recommend you sit back and just enjoy this gift to your senses.
Monday, March 17, 2025
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Celeste Headlee: 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation
Celeste Headlee is a bit worried about our flaws when engaging in a conversation (a real face-to-face one, I mean). I do believe that what she has to say comes in very handy when you have to interact with other fellow English students. Plus, we can all feel identified in one way or another, can't we? Watch her talk (11 minutes only!), we will be discussing about this in class.
Monday, January 27, 2025
Shadowing: Let's Start with a Loving Revolution!
Yesterday in class, as we were discussing the different goals and strategies for this year, some of your classmates suggested shadowing as a nice way to start working effectively on listening, speaking, and pronunciation, all at once! I thought that was an awesome idea, so... here's my proposal: listen to Patch Adams, an American physician, social activist, clown, and author who has some really interesting ideas to share with us about living in a healthy world. Just listen to him talking, and repeat his very own words immediately (so that you become his shadow). You should do this as you stand up or even walk around, trying to put the same energy as he does in your speech. Please, don't do this for more than 1-2 minutes, we should start doing this little by little to avoid frustration, ok? Ah! Thanks a lot, David and Marisa, for explaining this technique to all of us!
"I want a world where no one alive can remember what the word war means..."
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Input - Output Processing: Smart Phones versus Smart Kids
Click on the link below to watch the talk by Dr. Jonathan Haidt up to minute 40, and gather ideas on your notebook to participate in our next class debate (beginning of February): So what is your take on this pressing issue?
Smart Phones vs. Smart Kids, by Jonathan Haidt
Now find some time to read this follow-up article on The New Yorker:
Jonathan Haidt Wants You to Take Away Your Kid's Phone - The New Yorker
And finally, to round off this input-output process, please write an opinion essay on the following quote (200 words):
"The use of smart phones has made young people more vulnerable to mental health issues".
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
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