This week is the premiere of TWILIGHT in our country. That's a good reason to know something about that phenomenon in all the world. (thanks God, Harry Potter has a substitute)
Above all, I reccomend you reading the book, before seeing the movie.

Plot summary
Isabella "Bella" Swan moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona, to rainy Forks, Washington, to live with her father, Charlie. She chooses to do this so that her mother, Renée, can travel with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, who is a minor league baseball player. In Phoenix she was a bit of an outcast, so it surprises her that she attracts much attention at her new school, and is quickly befriended by several students. Much to her dismay, several boys in the school compete for shy Bella's attention.
When Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in class on her first day of school, Edward seems utterly repulsed by her. He even attempts to change his schedule to avoid her, leaving Bella completely puzzled about his attitude towards her. After tricking a family friend, Jacob Black, into telling her the local tribal legends, Bella concludes that Edward and his family are vampires. Although she was inexplicably attracted to him even when she thought Edward drank human blood, she is much relieved to learn that the Cullens choose to abstain from drinking human blood, and drink animal blood instead. Edward reveals that he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was so desirable. Over time, Edward and Bella fall in love.
The seemingly perfect state of their relationship is thrown into chaos when another vampire coven sweeps into Forks, and James, a tracker vampire, decides that he wants to hunt Bella for sport. The Cullens plan to distract the tracker by splitting up Bella and Edward, and Bella is sent to hide in a hotel in Phoenix. Bella then gets a phone call from James in which he says that he has her mother, and Bella must give herself up to James at her old dance studio, to save her. She does so, and while at the dance studio, James attacks her. Edward, along with the rest of the Cullen family, rescue Bella before James can kill her. Once they realize that James has bitten Bella's hand, Edward sucks the venom out of her system before it can spread and change her into a vampire. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their prom and Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses to let happen.

Now invent 4 questions about this Plot Summary to test your classmates.

Use these key words:

1. Surprised
2.Phoenix
3. Renee
5. Outcast
6. shy
7. a lot of boys
8. repulsed
9. tricking a family friend
10 animal blood
11.a tracker vampire
12. her old dance studio
13 sucks the blood out of her hand
14. he refuses


Post them on your blog.

MORE VAMPIRES

Today, read the comments on your vampire stories. Then go to the "corrections page" and edit your blog the incorportate the corrections.

Now try making a voice-recording of your vampire story. Tell it in an appropriate voice.

Next, investigate the movie "TWILIGHT" on the internet.
tell me 1. Where exactly did the idea for the movie come from?
2. Who are the principal charaters in the film?
3. Where is the film set?
4. Copy one interesting dialogue from the trailor. (4 lines)
5. How do you think the story ends?

TWILIGHT and YOUR FRIEND THE VAMPIRE

Go to the link for the new TWILIGHT movie.

Watch the movie at least twice and then answer the questions on the online quiz page.

Now invent a story...part in catalan and part in english...where you discover that one of your friends is a vampire.

The setting should be Argentona (both the village and the surrounding countryside, the time TWILIGHT and you and your friends are the characters.

Use the google image search to help set the backdrop and illustrate your story.

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=794

ARGENTONA "ROCKSTAR"

Your video is ready....now you have to write in the "subtitles" !! (next class).

But first:
FOR NEXT WEDNESDAY:
1. copy the code for this video at YouTube and Post the video on your site.
2. write in YOUR BLOG the sentance (verse, or line) immediately before your re-mixed line,
then your line, then the line afterwards. (three lines from memory).
Try to do it without looking at the words, then look at the lyrics and see how much was correct.

3. On your blog write the sentance..."If I were a rock star..........." and finish it with the correct form of
the part you play in the video using the conditional or "hypothetical" tense like in this example:
If I were a rockstar, I would have a big black jet with a bedroom in it.

ROCKSTAR - " REMIX"

CHOOSE TWO SCENES FROM THE VIDEO-CLIP THAT YOU THINK YOU CAN IMITATE BETTER.

IN GROUPS OF 4 TAKE TURNS ACTING-OUT AND SHOOTING THESE SCENES.

INSERT-EDIT YOUR NEW SCENES INTO THE ORIGINAL VIDEO ( WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES FOR THE PARTS YOU CHANGE) AND POST THE RESULT ON YOUR BLOG.

OBAMA: Reactions around the world

Use the internet search to find an international message (not from the u.s) related to Obama's being elected President of the U.S.A. and post it here. Translate it to Catalan.

FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17th QUESTIONS + ANSWERS

Use the LINKS on the side column to enter your classmates blogs and look at their projects.

Make at least one CHALLENGING QUESTION to each of them about their project in the COMMENT link at the end of their last blog.

ANSWER all of your classmates' questions in your final presentation.

For example: Albert, did you eat on the ave? How was the food?

ORAL PRESENTATION, POLLS AND QUESTIONS FOR FRIDAY.

FOR FRIDAY:

ON YOUR BLOG:
Prepare a POLL to see if how many students know an important fact about your project. (i.e. mine, about the length of the Nile River).

ORAL PRESENTATION IN CLASS:
Introduce your subject to the class. Show us at least 2 photographs and tell us something about them. (post these on your blogger with brief description)

Ask the class two questions about the subject of your project to see how much they already know. (post these questions on your blogger)

Show us at least 2 websites and tell us something you have learned about your projects on each of them.


Prepare one question for each of the other projects. (use the "classmate links" on your page to see their projects.

PUBLISH POSSIBLE RESOURCES

To help FOCUS the subject of your project, (make it more specific) look for resources on the internet that might be useful in completing your project. Be sure they are in english and that you can understand them well enough to use them in your project. Examples may include: pictures, YouTube videos, websites, other blogger sites, facebook etc.

POST these resources on your webpage. For example use the "link list" to reference possible websites.

POST a mimimum of 5 links to resources about your project.

Also edit your BLOGGER page to include the subject of your project in the "interest" window.

My project is going to be about:
BIKING THE NILE RIVER

STUDENT PROJECTS

FIRST: GIVE YOUR PROJECT A NAME

THEN: Go to GOOGLE IMAGES (or any other image bank) and publish a picture that you think best represents the project you are going to research for class

BLOGWORK FOR WEDNESDAY APRIL 9

POST AN AD, COMERCIAL, OR PUBLIC SERVICE ANOUNCEMENT THAT YOU REALLY LIKE, AND TELL ME WHY. ALSO START BRAINSTORMING IDEAS FOR YOUR OWN AD. IT CAN BE ABOUT ANYTHING. YOU MUST PROMOTE AN IDEA, A PRODUCT, OR ANYTHING YOU FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT IN NO MORE THAN 20 SECONDS. YOU CAN USE YOUR OWN IMAGES OR COPY THEM FROM CYBERSPACE.

BLOGWORK, Friday, March 28th

After posting a YouTube version of your favorite English song and the lyrics in the side column, navigate and investigate the net to find out about her/his biography. Post an article entitle "WHO IS your artist's name"

BE SURE to include:

where he or she is from, how they got started in the music world, their first and famous songs, and some interesting or curious anecdotal information.

DO NOT LIMIT YOUR SELF TO THE COPY/PASTE TECHNICQUE. READ THE INFORMATION YOU FIND AND PUT IT IN YOUR OWN WORDS.

FOUNDATIONS

EASTER BREAK BLOGWORK

CHOOSE one day of your EASTER HOLIDAY and WRITE a diary of that day. Be sure to include a DIALOGUE ...either between you and someone else, or two or more people whose conversation you've listened to on that day. HAVE FUN with this. BE DIFFERENT AND CREATIVE. I don't want a boring report of the day's activities. Make it interesting and introspective. Or funny, or sarcastic, imaginatively narrated, or . . . .

my classmates' blogs

BLOGWORK FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5

1. FINISH YOUR "SAD STORY WITH A HAPPY ENDING" BLOG
2. GO TO THE CORRECTIONS PAGE AND VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE 3 BLOGS
3. ADD A COMMENT TO ONE OF THESE BLOGS (COMPLEMENT OR CRITISIZE IT)
4. PUT A LINK TO HIS/HER BLOG ON YOUR BLOG (FAVORITE CLASSMATE BLOG)
5. USE YOUR "PROFILE" TO FIND SOMEONE WHO SHARES AN INTEREST WITH YOU AND PUT A LINK TO THEIR BLOG ON YOUR BLOG
   

WHAT IS POETRY ??

Grasping at the Indefinable

There are as many definitions of poetry as there are poets. Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings;" Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry;" and Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing."

Poetry is the chiseled marble of language; it's a paint-spattered canvas - but the poet uses words instead of paint, and the canvas is you.

Poetry is evocative. It typically evokes in the reader an intense emotion: joy, sorrow, anger, catharsis, love

One of the most definable characteristics of the poetic form is economy of language, considering a word's emotive qualities, its musical value, its spacing, and yes, even its spacial relationship to the page.

There's your definition of poetry. Because defining poetry is like grasping at the wind - once you catch it, it's no longer wind.

Steal away

Slipping out the iron black gate

Croissant rolls of reaching light

Spying ducks under black bridge

And dew upon last night’s

Chinese Wedding feast

Warm with walk to gardened niches

Of colors stained with

wander-ring …..wonder-ing

LOOK AT THESE PHOTOS AND POST A PHOTO-ESSAY ON YOUR BLOG

www.flickr.com More of mike in argentona's photos tagged with CONSUME

GO HERE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS ON THE SAME THEME

THE GREEN WAY TO GET AROUND

TAKE THIS QUIZ ABOUT DESTOYING THE EARTH !!!

global warming

WHERE IS THE LOVE ?

TRY LISTENING TO THE SONG AND READING THE LYRICS IN THE SUBTITLES?
How much do you understand?....What do you think about it....leave comments.

What's wrong with the world, mama
People livin' like they ain't got no mamas
I think the whole world addicted to the drama
Only attracted to things that'll bring you trauma
Overseas, yeah, we try to stop terrorism
But we still got terrorists here livin'
In the USA, the big CIA
The Bloods and The Crips and the KKK
But if you only have love for your own race
Then you only leave space to discriminate
And to discriminate only generates hate
And when you hate then you're bound to get irate, yeah
Madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love, y'all, y'all

People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt and you hear them cryin'
Can you practice what you preach
And would you turn the other cheek

Father, Father, Father help us
Send some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love (Love)

settting sun at the end of bikepath leading to Barcelona

Posta de sol al final de les vies
Originally uploaded by _nur

An amazing time of the day to bike into Barcelona from Mataro. Almost lapped by the waves this smooth sandpacked and boardwalked path leads all the way into the heart of Barcelona, sometime solitary, others jam packed with every imaginable seaside soul.

WHAT'S HAPPENING?? WHO DID WHAT? WHERE? WHY? WITH WHOM?

Look at the picture mosaic under the Irish songs over on the right sidebar.
Invent a story using as many of these pictures as you wish.
Publish it here using the "comments" link.

DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN.....?

What is the BEST WAY to learn ENGLISH ?

What do you think is the BEST WAY to LEARN ENGLISH?

Please answer with your opinion in the "comments" box.

Then answer the LANGUAGE LEARNING poll
posted on the right side of this blog.

Katie Melua

"Spider's Web"

If a black man is racist, is it okay?
When it's the white man's racism that made him that way,
Because the bully's the victim they say,
By some sense they're all the same.

Because the line between,
Wrong and right,
Is the width of a thread,
From a spider's web.
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind.

I could tell you to go to war,
Or I could march for peace and fighting no more,
How do I know which is right,
And I hope he does when he sends you to fight.

Because the line between wrong and right,
Is the width of a thread from a spider's web,
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind.

Should we act on a blame?
Or should we chase the moments away?
Should we live?
Should we give?
Remember forever the guns and the feathers in time.
Because the line between wrong and right,
Is the width of a thread from a spider's web,
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind.
The piano keys are black and white,
But they sound like a million colours in your mind,

IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY.....PLAY SCRABBLE ONLINE !!

CLICK ON THE SCRABBLE BOARD AND SIGN UP

CLICK HERE TO CHECK YOUR SPELLING, OR FIND A WORD WITH THE LETTERS YOU HAVE

THREE WITCHES

THREE SWEEDISH SWITCHED WITCHES WATCH THREE SWISS SWATCH WATCH SWITCHES.

...ok, now the questions is "Which Sweedish switched witch watches which swiss swatch watch switch?

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