Martin Luther King, 1st D/E, 3rd B

Friday, 20th January, 2012

Previous questions:

1. When was he born?

2. Where was he born?

3. When did he make his famous speech?

4. What is the title of that famous speech?

5. What was his dream?

March, 11, 2004, Madrid train bombing

It was Thursday.

I was working in Getafe.

I passed by Atocha ten minutes before the bombing.

That day I was earlier than usual.

A colleague at work was travelling on the same wagon where one of the bombs failed to explode.

That day changed my life in different ways.

The next day at school we were singing this song at school.

IWD

Have a look at the following data.

Can you guess what they are about?

IWD

100

19 March 1911

100-140

26%

14

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KEY

IWD = INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY.

100 years ago, the first international women´s day was observed.

19 March 1911 was the date of that celebration in Europe.

100-140 million girls in the world suffer from FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION.

Women EARN 26% LESS THAN MEN doing the same work in SPAIN.

14 is the number of WOMEN KILLED IN SPAIN IN 2011 so far.

(The victim number 14 happened to be YESTERDAY in FUENTE EL SAAD DEL JARAMA, about 20 kms. from ALCALÁ DE HENARES, MADRID)

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More information on IWD: wikipedia

(Notice how the words "Women´s Day" have been replaced by "Make a sandwich Day";

Is this a mistake or a joke or none of them ¿?)

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Terry´s selection of webpages here

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Progress Check Unit 6

GRAMMAR

Exercise 1

1. d; 2. b; 3. h; 4. g; 5. f; 6. a; 7. e; 8. c

exercise 4

1 racism, 2 hate, 3 sexism, 4 nutrition, 5 dignity, 6 harm, 7 medicine, 8 war, 9 education, 10 rights, 11 respect, 12 care, 13 family, 14 prejudice and 15 violence

Exercise 5
2. hate
3. education
4. nutrition
5. sexism
6. war

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

The life of Anne Sullivan and Helen Keller is fascinating.

Both are an example of courage

and

a model to the idea of teaching and learning in spite of our own limits.

You can visit links I´ve found interesting about them here.

Enjoy them!

What? Me? A Racist?

This is the link to an interesting comic in English.

It´s got different stories, all of them related to Human Rights.

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Suggested activity for my students:

Read some and choose one of them.

Do a powerpoint presentation including:

1. Interesting vocabulary.

2. Grammar you can learn or revise.

3. Main topic (racism, women discrimination, no tolerance...)

4. Human Right/s it deals with.

5. Connection with your real life:

"I´ve chosen this chapter becuase ...";

"I know someone who... ";

"I´ve experienced something similar when...";

"I know this is happening in my family/neighbourhood/school/city/country..."

Workbook Unit 5

Lesson 1

VOCABULARY

Exercise 1

2. Yes, probably; 3. What about you?;

4.What are you going to do?; 5. One day, I want to open my own restauorant.

Exercise 2

1. beautician; 2. chef; 3. musician; 4. actor; 5. reporter; 6. nurse/ doctor; 7. taxi-driver; 8. waiter; 9. teacher; 10. scientist.

Exercise 3

Susanne: farmer, farm in the country, farm, parrot, sell eggs and milk.

Megan: taxi driver, flat in the city, in a city, dog, drive car around the city.

Paul: nurse, house in a small town, hospital, cat, look after people.

GRAMMAR

Exercise 1

1. Julie is going to buy the food for the party.

2. Michael's going to buy the drinks for the party.

3.They're going to have the party at Louise's house.

4.Because Ian is moving to another city.

5.Michael and Julie are going to take Ian to Louise's house.

Exercise 2

1. She will take them to her room.

2. She will show them her new PC.

3. They will take him to the basement.

4. They will turn on the lights and say "Surprise!"

5. They will give him some presents.

Exercise 3

(Your own answers)

Exercise 4

2. meeting Jamie Donaldson;3.giving a lecture;4.going to the dentist;5.visiting Mum and Dad;6.having dinner;7.visiting uncle Ben and getting tickets for a rock concert.