Here you are some interactive websites to revise writing. Try them because they are pretty useful. We have to thank the teachers Ana Enriquez, Gloria Ferreira y Yolanda Marín (TIC: Expresión Escrita en inglés) from EOI El Fuero Logroño for creating this useful material. Click on each picture to see the different websites.
Certificate exams and final exams are round the corner and this blog is full of recommendations for you. Let’s talk about all the possibilities we offer here once again. Don’t say you don’t know where to start from!!!
All levels:
Básico:
Intermedio:
Avanzado 1 and 2:
Remember that the Consejería de Educación del Gobierno de Canarias has published some examples which contain the certificate exams used last year. You can see them here, and if you want to practise even more, please visit these links, which contain examples from all over Spain.
As said in class today, in this space you have to talk about your favourite film ever. These are the questions you have to answer:
- Where is the film set?
- Who are the main characters and who are they played by?
- What is it about?
- What is the most memorable scene?
- What makes it so powerful / moving / dramatic, etc.?
With the answers, you have to write a small text and post it in the comments section. Here you are mine:
One of my favourite films is “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof“, with Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. The plot is based on a play by Tennessee Williams, an important American playwright. These actors play the role of a married couple who are undergoing a deep crisis because of his problems with alcohol.
The action takes place inside a bedroom of his parents’ house, where they are spending some days to celebrate his father’s birthday.
What makes the film so memorable is not one single scene, as it is very intense since the very beginning. All the action is supported by their conversation and all the other characters of the film play appear just for a couple of minutes.
The quality of the lines and the performance of these two geniuses is what makes the film unforgettable.
Just take a look at this scene and see what I’m talking about.
This is a quick post just to share with you the presentation we saw in class today. I hope it’s useful for you.
If you want to download it, you can sign up with your facebook account very quickly. Once you download it you can work with it adding any information you find important.
Avanzado 2 students had the opportunity to read a text about different ways to get your own back when somebody breaks up with you. They are all real stories and can be found on our textbook, New English File Advanced. These are the stories:
French artist Sophie Calle received a saddening email from her partner breaking up with her. As a revenge, she decided to send the email to 100 professional women who analysed the message. With all the answers, she prepared an exhibition presented at the Venice Biennale.
Here’s an interview published in The Guardian where this story is explained.
The famous actress Jane Slavin fell in love with a very very famous composer (read the article below to find out his name). Their relationship seemed to be perfect, after one day it seemed he had disappeared from the surface of earth.
That’s when her revenge started. She invented a new personality and started sending messages to him. After exchaning hundreds of emails they set up a date. When she showed up, he turned pale. She showed him the messages of his fake date and left.
You can read this story in this article published by the Daily Mail. Unbelievable.
This Lady decided to throw white paint on her ex-husband’s blue car as part of her revenge. She also spoiled his clothes, cigars and wine among other possessions. You can read about this case and others in this article published by The Independent.
Please write a break-up SMS. It mustn’t include more than 140 characters, spaces included. Leave it in our comments section. In class we will decide which comment was the best one. Please use your real name to sign the comment.
If you still haven’t found enough inspiration, just try to listen to Paul Simon singing 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. Or you can visit this site, The Why We Broke Up Project, a site created by a writer, Daniel Handler, and it’s based on his novel Why We Broke Up. On his stie he invites his readers to write why they bumped their partners, it’s worth your time, promised.
