This Third quarter research project consisted of talking about Spain, as we did with The USA and Great Britain in the previous quarters.
As usual there were four topics:
1. Spanish National Life
2. Spanish Daily Life
3. Spanish Celebrations
4. Spanish Food
You could choose one of them, investigate and make a short videos with your information.
As you have to make a short movie for your project this term, here is an overview on how to use Windows Live Movie Maker -the editing program you have on your computer by default, otherwise you can download it for free from Windows Movie Maker official site.
You also have a very interesting summing up of all the resources you can use to make short movies here at Digital Storytelling (both for Windows and Mac users).
This is just one of the thousands of tutorials you can find on YouTube in any language, so you won't have any trouble to solve any issue you can come across when doing your project.
Revising conditional sentences, how can I not share with you this song by Jamie Cullum: If I ruled the World?
I didn't know this artist but it seems to me that he is very talented.
Let's keep on revising present perfect tense versus past simple with Michael Bublé's song: "Haven't met you yet", with lyrics on screen. By the way, as a fun fact, the blonde girl on the video is Bublé's actual wife, Luisana Lopilato.
"How Long" is a 1974 song by the British group Ace from their album Five-A-Side. Lead singer Paul Carrack composed the song upon discovering that bassist Terry Comer had been secretly working with other bands.
May be this song sounds familiar to you, here are the actual authors: Creedence Clearwater Revival: "Have You Ever Seen The Rain" with English and Spanish subtitles so that you can revise the present perfect tense and "ever".
As we have been working on Simple past tense and "used to", here is a song by Gotye with Kimbra: "Somebody that I Used to Know" with English subtitles to practise.
As you must know, David Bowie passed away last Sunday, so as a tribute to this unique artist let me introduce you one of his best songs, The Man Who Sold The World. This song is the title track of his third album (1970) and it has been covered by other artists ( Lulu in 1974, and Nirvana in 1993), although I prefer the original writer/singer.
We passed upon the stair, we spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there, he said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone, a long long time ago
Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face
With The Man Who Sold The World
I laughed and shook his hand, and made my way back home
I searched for form and land, for years and years I roamed
I gazed a gazely stare at all the millions here
We must have died alone, a long long time ago
Who knows? not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the Man who Sold the World
If you want to play the Kahoot made with the facts of the different presentations of the class, go to UK Facts and if you want to learn how to make some British dishes, here are the three short videos created by your classmates, Andrea L., Andrea M., Marta M., Lorena M. Paula S. and Sara L., for their presentation on UK food. Great work. Congratulations.
How to make a ham sandwich,
How to make fish and chips,
How to make marshmallows cookies,
and last, a short revision on how to say email adresses.
As next week you have to show your projects on British culture, here are some tips for your presentations.
The first video is about "How to Create Profesional Powerpoint Presentation slides".
The second one is about the "Dos and Donts" giving a presentation.
Listen to these people talking about their job and what they do. Pay attention to the vocabulary and the Present simple tense they use.
If you want the subtitled version, you can find it here.
To start our new school year, let's watch this video about the Top 30 Common mistakes in English non native people make especially when they start speaking English.
