tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28712163472406823162024-02-20T11:28:47.236+01:00Active Language Winter 2011This is our class blog. It has lesson summaries and useful links to things we do in class - and out. We hope you enjoy it!Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-50914821390132560732011-03-17T00:01:00.000+01:002011-03-17T00:01:13.514+01:00CarnivalHi everybody! It's been a long time. How are you all? What have you been up to? Has this been filling your thoughts and your time? Or do you like to get away from the crowds? <br />
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The weather wasn't too good this year - again ;) Did it spoil it for you? We were amazed watching the hail fall on the Avenida about an hour before the parade was about to start. (Our living room window looks out over the street) There were so many carnival- goers hiding in doorways and trying to keep dry. And not looking at all happy. But then it cleared up almost immediately, with blue skies and floods of crowds lining the streets. The kids loved it, throwing confetti (the little bits of paper) and trying to catch streamers (the long, thin spirals of paper). But the highlight, the best part, for me is the chirigotas (how would you explain that in English?!). Even after five years of following carnival in Cádiz I still find it really, really difficult to understand what they're saying. I love to follow them and listen to them two or three times, understanding a little bit more each time. <br />
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Anyway, that's my take on Carnaval. What's yours? Have you got any stories to share? Or any photos? I'd love to see your side of carnaval.<br />
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And to finish off, here's a message from Paco (thanks for sharing!) :<br />
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I suppose you know that this Saturday is the biggest tide in Cádiz for many years. You can see from La Caleta The Roman Ruins. These are always below the water or you can go to Sancti-Petri beach and see the Roman road. Low tide is at 8:45. <br />
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Really looking forward to hearing from you all again soon! <br />
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Here's our first post for February. And once again, a big thank you to Mercedes for writing the last post in January.<br />
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Over the last couple of days I've been involved in a couple of conversations about food. We've been talking about favourite food and memorable meals. I always have the same problem when someone asks me what my favourite is. It doesn't matter if it's my favourite book, my favourite colour, my favourite film, my favourite song, I can never think of an answer. It's as if the fact of having to choose one out of so many possibilities just makes my mind go blank! So, when one of the kids asked me what my favourite food was I couldn't think of any one kind of food, but I did start to remember so many memorable meals. Memorable often because of where I ate them as much as the food itself.<br />
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This is one of the meals I remember. I don't have a photo of the food, but I do have a photo of the place. You'll recognise it no doubt if you're a local. If you're a visitor, please read on to find out more.<br />
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We were there last weekend. It was such a beautiful day, and everything looked so green and fresh. In case you don't recognise it, it's Bolonia, and the photo is taken from the car park outside the visitor's centre at the Roman ruins. But the meal I remember eating at Bolonia was much longer ago.<br />
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If you look very carefully at the left hand side of the photo, more or less at the same height as the beach, you'll see a collection of low buildings. These are beach restaurants. They were closed when we were there last weekend, but during the summer they're usually full, and they're a great place to sit and watch the sun go down. And that's what we were doing one evening a couple of summers ago. We'd been on the beach most of the afternoon and the sun was going down. We had the choice of driving home or eating at the beach. It was such a beautiful time of day that we decided to stay. Just in front of one of the restaurants there's a little garden, and in front of the garden a green, grassy bank that leads down to the beach. We, the adults, sat at a table in the garden, and the kids played on the grass. It was beautifully quiet and peaceful. We could see the lights coming on in Morocco across the straits. There was a cool breeze blowing (as there always is in Bolonia).<br />
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We ordered grilled cuttlefish. Very plain, very simple, served with a bit of salad and bread. I don't know if it was just the magic of the moment, but that cuttlefish tasted like the best thing I'd ever eaten. It was so fresh, done just right and it melted in our mouths. I can taste it now as I type, and feel the warmth of the sun from the day on the beach, and the cool breeze on my skin. What a great place. What a great meal. What a great memory. <br />
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So, over to you. Do you have any memorable meals to share with us? I'd love to hear your stories. And if you haven't got time to write a story, no problem, but I'd love it if you could leave a short comment. :-) <br />
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Thank you!<br />
Speak soon,<br />
Ceri Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-11816494850251876812011-01-30T23:45:00.011+01:002011-01-31T00:33:28.415+01:00What leads to success?Everyone wants to be successful. But, have you ever wondered what it is the leads to success?<br />Watch this enthusiastic and funny speech.<br /><br /><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/RichardSt.John_2005-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/RichardSt.John-2005.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=334&vh=220&ap=0&ti=70&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success;year=2005;theme=how_we_learn;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=presentation_innovation;event=TED2005;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="334" height="220" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/RichardSt.John_2005-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/RichardSt.John-2005.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=320&vh=240&ap=0&ti=70&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success;year=2005;theme=how_we_learn;theme=not_business_as_usual;theme=presentation_innovation;event=TED2005;"></embed><br /><br />Are you agree with the speaker?<br />Do you think his 8 points are the way to get successful?<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6V01X5ZC6hY/TUXsaXHt9hI/AAAAAAAAAGo/b7mCeubge4I/s1600/8ToBeGreat_Poster_White.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6V01X5ZC6hY/TUXsaXHt9hI/AAAAAAAAAGo/b7mCeubge4I/s320/8ToBeGreat_Poster_White.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568116451940627986" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This video raises some doubts:<br />-Are people born with some innate talent or can they be developed by practising?<br />-The speaker thinks that passion is an important factor for success. But is there a method to help people find their greatest passion?<br />-And what if you are not good enough no matter how hard you try?<br />-He doesn’t mention luck. But is luck, one thing that you can't really control, important to success?<br />-He spent ten years researching success and asking over 500 successful people in many fields what helped them succeed. But won't be interesting to ask other 500 unsuccessful people about their failure?<br /><br />Any way, great talk. I hope the speaker's enthusiasm will inspire you.<br /><br />If you want to carry on listening and reading about this topic go to:<br /><a href="http://www.betteratenglish.com/real-english-conversations-what-leads-to-success/">Better at English</a>Mercedeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04227214035269277387noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-63163290818729258382011-01-23T19:49:00.000+01:002011-01-23T19:49:01.125+01:00The Fun TheoryHi, here's the blog task for this week. It's another youtube clip (I'm glad you enjoyed last week's by the way). This time I got the link from a colleague in Japan (thank you Barbara Sakamoto). It's about an experiment that took place in Stockholm. <br />
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Watch the clip and answer these questions.<br />
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1 What exactly did the experiment consist of? <br />
2 What did they want to do?<br />
3 Did they succeed? <br />
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I'd love to hear what you think of the experiment. Would you have taken the stairs that day? Do you think when the stairs returned to normal people just went back to using the escalator? Please write and let me know! <br />
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I'd like you to think about this question too if you've got time: <br />
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Can you think of any boring jobs or activities that could be made more interesting and motivating using the Fun Theory approach? I'm going to think about it - and I'll write my answer in the comments this time next week. You might want time to think about it too. If you do, why not leave me a quick comment now and then come back later with any extra ideas? <br />
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Thanks for calling by again (welcome if it's your first visit). Please leave a comment, no matter how short or long, we're looking forward to reading what you've got to say! <br />
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Bye for now, <br />
CeriCerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-15659392831162547802011-01-18T00:26:00.000+01:002011-01-18T00:26:47.573+01:00A touch of nostalgiaHi everybody, here's a quick writing task to start the week - sorry I missed the Monday deadline. It starts with a short youtube clip my kids were watching with their dad this weekend. We loved it and the kids did too - they thought it was hilarious and were quoting if afterwards for hours, though I don't really know why it appealed to them - it's definitely aimed more at my age group!<br />
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Anyway, here it is. I hope you like it. Please let me know which definition - or definitions - you like best and why, and how many of the objects you have seen or used in the past. Once you've had a chance to see it I'll let you know my favourite, but I don't want to spoil the surprise so I'll say nothing for the moment. Ah yes, the clip's actually in French with English subtitles, so you get two languages for the price of one ;) (the task is in writing the responses more than in reading the subtitles ). I don't know why, but I love the clip all the more because it's in French.<br />
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Looking forward to reading your responses!<br />
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CeriCerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-81312647242333574572011-01-10T00:17:00.000+01:002011-01-10T00:17:00.543+01:00A holiday photo diaryHi everybody! How are you? I hope you had a great holiday. <br />
We got back from ours on Jan 5 - just in time to see the Kings' Procession driving past our flat. The kids were SO pleased we made it back in time! <br />
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I've just been downloading our photos from the holiday and I wanted to share a couple with you and find out what you've been up to over the last couple of weeks. It seems like such a long time! <br />
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We stayed in Cádiz for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day for the first time. And it was great. We had lunch with friends on the 25th and then we went to the ice-skating rink in Plaza San Antonio. Such a great idea (though I'm not so sure about the environmental impact). This is me and the kids hugging the rails at the side of the rink (none of us are expert skaters!)<br />
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We flew to the UK on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day">Boxing Day</a> (Dec 26). It had been REALLY cold in the few weeks leading up to Christmas. Friends and family had been telling us stories of temperatures of -12º in the middle of the day in West Wales! But luckily when we arrived it had started to get warmer. It was 0º when we landed in Leeds and there was still snow on the ground. Not much, but enough to look pretty. On our first day in snowed all morning, we had snowball fights and we walked through snowy woods to a pub on the other side of the valley. When we walked back it was dark - and just a little bit spooky.<br />
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We spent four days in Yorkshire and then we drove to my mother's house in Wales. She lives on the coast and we always go for a walk on the beach with my brother and his family. He told us stories of the snow covering the beach and the river at the end of his garden freezing over. I've only ever seen that once in my life, in 1981, when the harbour frooze and I watched the waves washing the snow away on the beach. There was no snow when we were there, but it was still very, very cold. Anna whispered sadly into my coat "I want to go home" "To your grandma's house?" I said. "No, to Cádiz!"<br />
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So, what did you get up to? I'd love to hear your holiday stories, or see your photos. Fernando, did you organise another zambombá? Paco, did you go surfing? Isabel, how's your new home in Cuidad Real? Mercedes, I know you've been blogging, but what else have you been up to? Montse, how's your new job? and the online masters course? Have you got time for it all?? Jaime, are you still following us? What's it like to be back? I'd love to hear more of your stories about Philadelphia. <br />
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Use the comments, or add a new post, whatever suits you best. I'll be back again next week with another class blog, and in the meantime I'll be keeping a close eye on my email inbox!<br />
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And if you're following us from somewhere else, please drop us a line and let us know what the holidays meant for you. <br />
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Speak soon and a happy new year to all of you! Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-49498714736442001412010-12-31T21:02:00.007+01:002010-12-31T21:30:41.306+01:00New Year's Resolutions<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lesterpubliclibrary/4248168179/" title="Get More Exercise por Lester Public Library, en Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4248168179_a55a8abf1a.jpg" alt="Get More Exercise" height="382" width="500" /></a><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" >With a New Year on the horizon, many English and American people make resolutions or promises to improve their lives.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here you are a list of the most common New Year's Resolutions:</span></strong></span></p> <h4 style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-Lose weight</span></span></strong></span></h4> <h4 style="margin-top: 0cm; 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margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;"><span style=";font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-Learn something new </span></span></strong></span> </h4> <h4 style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;"><span style=";font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-Help others</span></span></strong></span></h4> <h4 style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-Save money</span></span></strong></span></h4> <h4 style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">-Get more organised</span></span></strong></span></h4> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" >English and American people are crazy about New Year's Resolutions, there are many websites, videos, songs,... related to them and at the end of the year the newspapers publish reports about people's resolutions, advice about how to keep them and so on.<br />But </span><span style="font-family:arial;">how many really follow their resolutions?</span></p><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LKt-JcZHChQ?fs=1&hl=es_ES"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LKt-JcZHChQ?fs=1&hl=es_ES" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"></embed></object><br /><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style=";font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Have you made any </span><strong><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">New Year's resolutions yet?<br />Good luck with your year's resolutions!<span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />More vocabulary about this topic on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/general/sixminute/2010/01/100107_6min_resolution_page.shtml">BBC 6 Minute English</a><br /></span></span></span></strong></span></p>Mercedeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04227214035269277387noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-6373812565133786982010-12-22T02:48:00.000+01:002010-12-22T02:48:50.195+01:00a special Christmas postHi everybody, <br />
Here's a quick and easy Christmas lesson. It was suggested to me by a teacher in London, Mike Harrison. It's a short poem looking at Christmas from a new angle - that of Turkeys. Here's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/zephaniah_turkeys.shtml">a link</a> to the poem on the BBC website. The poem is called Talking Turkeys. (By the way, did you know that it's traditional to eat turkeys for lunch at Christmas in the UK?) You can read the poem there and hear the poet, Ben Zephariah, reading his poem too. <br />
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Or you can click on the link below and watch him perform it live. <br />
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Or here's another version that Mike showed me, which is great fun as well. You can hear the poem and read it, line by line at the same time. Let me know which you like best!<br />
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OK, so that's the last class for this year. Hope you enjoy it! Please let me know what you think of it in the comments. <br />
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I hope you all have a great holiday, a very merry Christmas and a wonderful new year. See you back on the blog in 2011!Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-84185771546845963272010-12-10T00:07:00.001+01:002010-12-10T00:09:47.597+01:00New blog task December 9Hi everybody, <br />
Here's our "class" for this week. I'm going to write half of it and record half of it. Let's see how it goes! <br />
OK, here's <b>part one</b>: <br />
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Do you remember we were talking about early memories recently in class? Can you remember any of your very early memories? I'm going to ask you to write a short text describing that memory, but I don't want you to describe it as as adult looking back, I'd like you to try and take yourslef back in time. Try and get into the head of that small child and describe what happened from the point of view of you as a child. Give it a go! And when you've finished, listen to the instructions on the voki below for <b>part two</b>! <br />
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I hope you got that! When you've finished, add your story here, in a comment box, in a new post, or send it to me by email. Thank you! <br />
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See you all next Wednesday at 10 o'clock. Remember, it's a longer lesson - three hours to make up for the class we lost this week.Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-22040582617116154602010-12-09T22:36:00.001+01:002010-12-09T23:13:38.864+01:00Paco J.'s Fotobabble<object width="500" height="520"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.fotobabble.com/mediafiles/templates/basicslideshow/fb.swf"></param><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="autoPlay=false&remoteXML=true&appURL=http://www.fotobabble.com&id=UHcySHZsUUNRaUk9&increment=true&layout=theme&size=large"/><PARAM NAME=BASE VALUE="http://0ztevmk3kfy73v4y4m82-fb-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/content/UHcySHZsUUNRaUk9"/><embed src="http://www.fotobabble.com/mediafiles/templates/basicslideshow/fb.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" FlashVars="autoPlay=false&remoteXML=true&appURL=http://www.fotobabble.com&id=UHcySHZsUUNRaUk9&increment=true&layout=theme&size=large" BASE="http://0ztevmk3kfy73v4y4m82-fb-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/content/UHcySHZsUUNRaUk9" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="500" height="520"></embed></object>Paco J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07202935649365907283noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-48896641458407860482010-12-09T16:15:00.004+01:002010-12-09T17:39:17.264+01:00Passion for animals<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qxXBQDtH3o-3f96bndZfRscfa97ZoXyyvJSc7a4lvUj2Sd2ZQmb2PdgrqHoe4v4u4h3Z1f0IsFuGnjzVruBt2g10zYqptIBrgi-hvnub_SQpUotICM_4hhx6ZfRbYX2C-MN1Dnon4wrL/s1600/DSCN0966.JPG"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548718593297161362" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7qxXBQDtH3o-3f96bndZfRscfa97ZoXyyvJSc7a4lvUj2Sd2ZQmb2PdgrqHoe4v4u4h3Z1f0IsFuGnjzVruBt2g10zYqptIBrgi-hvnub_SQpUotICM_4hhx6ZfRbYX2C-MN1Dnon4wrL/s320/DSCN0966.JPG" /></a><br /><div>Hi, this is my daugther, Cristina, She loves animals, but she is very frightened. Well, this is the farm school "Buenavista"- Junta de los Rios, Arcos de la Frontera-. There is accommodation, many activities for kids and for me is a fantastic place to spend a weekend</div><div>Bye bloggers</div>Paco J.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07202935649365907283noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-36495804079796478962010-12-09T09:57:00.005+01:002010-12-09T10:20:37.127+01:00A different point of view of a grey day!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikkbiitChV_ErsRvouE8pt0A-VUlPjEE2w9istRke5Kr1KJzwzmpeSu-S4lwXgEYOjk4yphmIx_X261geqskI8a9H9BMiKjHj0zlA5YsYCT6XoFgrjN1u-BD9biEfJUBW28hI6337YNv4/s1600/P1050764.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548605955217108562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikkbiitChV_ErsRvouE8pt0A-VUlPjEE2w9istRke5Kr1KJzwzmpeSu-S4lwXgEYOjk4yphmIx_X261geqskI8a9H9BMiKjHj0zlA5YsYCT6XoFgrjN1u-BD9biEfJUBW28hI6337YNv4/s320/P1050764.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 240px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: navy; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">The photo was taken in Hyde Park (<st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>). They are my friends</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> during the days they came</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> to see me when I used to live in Bristol. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span">We spent two days in London and the weather was....totally English!! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
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(There's another grey day photo <a href="http://ourblogatactive.blogspot.com/2010/11/lesson-12-have-you-got-rainy-day-photo.html">here.)</a>Montsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01847244877960265388noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-6733805405915465662010-12-03T13:05:00.000+01:002010-12-03T13:05:03.435+01:00a little something for the weekend ....Hi everybody., <br />
Here's a quick exercise to follow up from the last lesson. It's the dictation I promised you :) <br />
Just click on play and you'll hear four questions. Write them down and then play again and repeat with me! It should be fun (I hope!). <br />
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Then choose one, or two or more of the questions and write answers to them to send each other by email, or post here on the blog. <br />
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Oh yes, and if you were there on Wednesday, remember the instructions task with the rods! <br />
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I hope you have a great weekend. I'm going away until Wednesday (I'll tell you all about it when I get back!). I'll be back on the blog then with an online lesson to make up for the one we're missing next week! <br />
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See you then.<br />
Have fun,<br />
CeriCerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-42811736377386293452010-11-29T23:43:00.000+01:002010-11-29T23:49:56.207+01:00Mercedes' Fotobabble<object height="350" width="420"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.fotobabble.com/mediafiles/templates/basicslideshow/fb.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="FlashVars" value="autoPlay=false&connectString=rtmp://75.101.171.174/videorecording&remoteXML=true&appURL=http://www.fotobabble.com&id=TXczL0Q1ZWtRV3M9&increment=true"><param name="BASE" value="http://0ztevmk3kfy73v4y4m82-fb-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/content/TXczL0Q1ZWtRV3M9"><embed src="http://www.fotobabble.com/mediafiles/templates/basicslideshow/fb.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="autoPlay=false&connectString=rtmp://75.101.171.174/videorecording&remoteXML=true&appURL=http://www.fotobabble.com&id=TXczL0Q1ZWtRV3M9&increment=true" base="http://0ztevmk3kfy73v4y4m82-fb-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/content/TXczL0Q1ZWtRV3M9" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="350" width="420"></embed></object>Mercedeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04227214035269277387noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-1664385960673960402010-11-27T14:29:00.000+01:002010-11-27T14:29:53.943+01:00Playing around with fotobabbleHi, here's my first attempt at using fotobabble. I had to use a picture from the webcam as all my other photos are too big. I hope you can hear it!<br />
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Here's a tip - if you want to add a fotobabble too - just paste in the code from "embed your fotobabble" - you can adjust the size by changing the numbers after width and height in the code - at the beginning and at the end of the code - like this - width="420" height="350". <br />
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Good luck!Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-33177471002410228232010-11-24T22:23:00.000+01:002010-11-24T22:32:07.626+01:00Lesson follow up November 24Hi everybody!<br />
Just a quick message, to check that the email alerts are working - and to suggest a couple of tasks for the next week.<br />
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But first of all, thank you Montse for last lesson's summary. I've added it to the lesson summaries for November, and thank you Mercedes for offering to write the summary for today!<br />
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Ok, back to the tasks. <br />
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Do you remember we visited another <a href="http://lodelaingli.posterous.com/">class blog</a> in Seville and we saw that they had posted some photos with their own commentary? Well one of the tasks could be to visit the fotobabble website and see if you can add a speaking photo to our blog. I'm going to try it out too! Another task could be to visit lodelaingli and add a comment to their <a href="http://lodelaingli.posterous.com/33705006">adverb poem</a>. Do you remember it? It made me smile.<br />
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I'm going to send you notes and exercises on using "the" with the names of places in an email, it's easier than posting it here, but maybe you'd like to write about somewhere you've visited recently, remembering to be careful with how and when you use <i>the</i>. If you could add a photo of where you've been as well, that would be great.<br />
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And finally, here's a photo to remind you of the exercise we did to finish the lesson.<br />
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Can you remember the eight idiomatic expressions we looked at using as ... as... ? Don't use your notes! Just look at the rods and see if they come back to you :)<br />
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Here are a few more I like:<br />
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<i>as quiet as a mouse</i><br />
<i>not as young as I used to be</i><br />
<i>as happy as a pig in muck </i><br />
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Try searching for some more on Google and let us know what you find!<br />
Ok, that's all from me. Over to you! <br />
Please add lots of comments and if you're having any problems blogging, just let me know and I'll try to help!Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-59508833028280411252010-11-20T22:50:00.001+01:002010-12-09T09:57:18.569+01:00Lesson 12: Have you got a rainy day photo to share?<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Hello<span style="font-size:100%;"> everyone!</span></span><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">I like taking photos on cloudy days. I love those days plenty of clouds, with the sunshine breaking through the gaps. I usually take my camera and my dog and go for a walk to the beach or any of paths in the salt marsh in the bay of Cadiz.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">When I saw your photo, I remembered the most beautiful rainbow I've ever seen. It was on La Gomera island, my husband and I spent Christmas there in 2004.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">We love going hiking and La Gomera is a great place to hike, since it has a network of paths crossing all over the island, through a wide variety of landscapes. We left early in the morning, walked for about 6 hours and came back to the house in the evening, we were exhausted but very happy.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">We saw this double rainbow almost at the end of our ramble. After walking some hours under a light drizzle, the sky suddenly lit up and the rainbow unexpectedly appeared. It was absolutely breathtaking.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6V01X5ZC6hY/TOhE_S0m8oI/AAAAAAAAAFc/qoXhj-5KwrY/s1600/La%2BGomera.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 258px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6V01X5ZC6hY/TOhE_S0m8oI/AAAAAAAAAFc/qoXhj-5KwrY/s320/La%2BGomera.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5541755195654337154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Bye for now,</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Mercedes</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6V01X5ZC6hY/TOhEjvUTaCI/AAAAAAAAAFU/pk0dtGJ6a54/s1600/La%2BGomera.JPG"><span><span></span></span></a> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>Mercedeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04227214035269277387noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-74413364577071340712010-11-18T23:49:00.000+01:002010-11-18T23:49:51.809+01:00Lesson 12 November 17Hi everybody! <br />
Thanks for a great lesson again today - despite the grey skies ;)<br />
Here's a photo I found from another grey day in Cádiz. It's the view from our flat. It was amazing to see the rainbow with the storm on one side and the blue skies starting to show on the other. In fact, if you look really closely you may be able to see a double rainbow. I love days like these, especially when there are storms coming in from the sea. I think they're really energising - and they remind me of home ;) Mind you I think I only like them because they're few and far between, and I do prefer beautiful blue skies like the ones we had today! <br />
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Have you got a rainy day photo to share? You can add it in here, or send it to me by email and I'll add it in. Remember to tell us something about it, where you took it, when and why.<br />
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Other possible tasks from today's class:<br />
<ul><li>write the story of the private investigator and the woman he was following - what happened after she turned the corner? </li>
<li>tell us how you feel about grey days, where you like to be and what you like to do</li>
<li>take a look at the aerial shots on this website <a href="http://earthfromtheair.co.uk//content/view/13/28/">Earth from the Air</a> (I'm sure you know the photographer, Yann Arthus.Bertrand, his photos are everywhere!) - choose one you like and tell us why you like it - we'll look at them together in the next class. </li>
</ul>You can add your texts here in this post, add a new post, or write them in a comment. If you're having any problems, send me an email and I'll try to help! Or if you prefer, send them to me by email, just as we always do, and when you think your post is ready, we can add it to the blog.<br />
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Right, that's all from me.<br />
Hope you have a great weekend!<br />
Ceri Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-6614146096659255252010-11-17T12:44:00.000+01:002010-11-18T13:47:29.799+01:00from our classroom!I´m Isabel,I´m an unemployed economist and I wanna learn to speak English as well as Ceri and find a good job only in the mornings.<br />
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I'm Montse and I'm from Cadiz. English is very necessary for me and this tool is one, that I'm really sure, will be useful for all of us to improve our English.<br />
That's all thanks of Ceri.<br />
Let's go to take part!!<br />
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I'm Fernando, like Isabel I'm an unemployed economist and I want to learn lots of English. I join in a new way to learn English with an interactive board and new technologies. This blog is an interesting tool in learning English, enjoy it!<br />
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I'm Mercedes, I love Ceri's classes. I hope you enjoy our classes as well.<br />
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I´m Paco, I´m from San Fernando (Cádiz). I studied nursing and I´m self-employed and work for private companies. Now I am studing English language (for hobbie, for travel for the (my) future) and Anthropology too. I work as a volunteer for the Spanish Red Cross but sometimes I´m also employee.Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-63707255723185103952010-11-09T22:28:00.000+01:002010-11-09T23:34:45.452+01:00Lesson 11 - November 3Hi!<br /><br />Thanks again, Mercedes, for a great lesson summary. I'm going to copy all the past lesson summaries onto our blog so we have them all in one place.<br /><br />In the meantime, here are a couple of images to remind you of what we talked about last week.<br /><br />This is a view from the rooftop terrace at Torre Tavira. We talked about the camera obscura and all the watch towers - 126 I think we said there were - where merchants (or more likely their servants) stood and watched their ships come in.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeTtK8uTQyL9QUfyiqhHmaRc5sj9GiwNCqjE96PdgAFTnA2MzZWYEPhocC23VXrRsOTpmLrS7sYdYGH2VfDQfpye9ERC4NVHYsjyyQaOPgyyYmWD2B5shREtFjJ8SB-pnVBaTEePNLzsU/s1600/torre+tavira.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeTtK8uTQyL9QUfyiqhHmaRc5sj9GiwNCqjE96PdgAFTnA2MzZWYEPhocC23VXrRsOTpmLrS7sYdYGH2VfDQfpye9ERC4NVHYsjyyQaOPgyyYmWD2B5shREtFjJ8SB-pnVBaTEePNLzsU/s320/torre+tavira.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537668485219942610" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />And here's a link to the trailer we failed to watch for the new Danny Boyle film, 127 hours. I emailed the link last week. Maybe you've already watched it. If not, why not watch it now?<br />I loved his last film, Slumdog Millionaire, but I'm not sure about this one.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/l0GycqTaXwQ?fs=1&hl=en_GB"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/l0GycqTaXwQ?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="285"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />So, do you think you'd you like to see the film? I'm not convinced I would. A bit too dramatic for my tastes, but it's a great story!Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2871216347240682316.post-51079827804762548822010-11-09T20:03:00.000+01:002010-11-09T20:06:46.821+01:00Hi everybody!This is our new blog. I hope you like it!<br /><br />It's a space for all of us to write, comment, add links and share whatever we want to share. I'll set our first blogging task in the email after today's lesson.Cerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11397640810524246916noreply@blogger.com0