CLASS: TUESDAY 27TH

We rounded off unit 2 by correcting some of the sentences from your writing about Larry Dunman's wife's account of the restaurant incident.

Carolina told us about her piece of news "Many health foods saltier than Big Macs" that you can listen to and work with in http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0708/070801-healthy_eating.html



Then we started the new unit, which will deal with the idea of dwellings. Including HOUSES, CITIES AND THE WORLD. Some vocabulary to describe worn out furniture and parts of the house that need to be refurbished. As for grammar, I handed out a xcopy with some structures such as HAVE SBDY DO STHG / HAVE SBDY DOING STHG/HAVE STHG DONE/ STHG NEEDS DOING OR TO BE DONE. The attached document was handed out in class and it includes part of your homework
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dgb2k5np_9f8wrth&hl=en
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dgb2k5np_11cbtjb3&hl=en CLOZE TEST


There's plenty of homework to do, mostly dictionary work. Jessica is coming to class next Thursday and we'll be talking about "Houses in the States and in Spain", we'll watch the IKEA advertisement again, so that we can learn some more vocabulary. I love it!! We will go through the vocabulary of different types of houses to compare American English and British English... I don't know what else can we do in just one hour??



I think this is all!!

A MAN AT HOME ON HIS OWN

The new unit deals with the idea of HOME, CITY AND HOUSES. This is a great video to describe what can go wrong in a house. As you watch it try to think about the vocabulary you would be needing to describe it.

KABUL BEAUTY SCHOOL

This is a beautiful story about some women helping different women. Both videos are related to Afghanistan.

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The quality of the following video may not be excellent, but it's very moving.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiEZY1jOvks

SOMETHING A BIT MORE TRIVIAL

This is how the SHUT UP sentence from King Juan Carlos was seen abroad. Don't you miss the ringtone either.
I hope you enjoy it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7080000/newsid_7089100/7089186.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm&asb=1&news=1&ms3=60

THE KITE RUNNER: A PROJECT WORK

The following are some interesting sites to learn a bit more about the novel we're reading, its author and Afghanistan and its people. Now, don't you panic! The idea would be for you to get divided into small groups and start to work and research on one of the topics below, or any others you may consider interesting.

* Films about Afghanistan. I was trying to get them in amazon.com but the DVD is zone 1 so it cannot be seen in Europe. I haven't been successful with emule yet. I'll keep on trying. If any of you were lucky enough...
http://www.makhmalbaf.com/movies.php?m=59
http://www.beautyacademyofkabul.com/
* Listenings. Apart from the audiobook of The Kite Runner, you have the chance of listening to the author talking on a radio program in the following sites.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4795618
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1358775
*Videos. Apart from listening to him, remember you can also watch him in the following sites, I'm afraid it's a bit too long but you can always choose what you want to listen to.
http://fora.tv/2006/06/17/BGE_Opening_Salon_with_Khaled_Hosseini
* Afghanistan in Photos
http://www.canajun.com/rmcguire/travel/asia/afghanistan/
Get a look at traditional life in Afghanistan in the early ‘70s thanks to the photographs on
this website.
* Read tales from Afghanistan and explore the similarities of these tales to others you have already read.
www.afghan-web.com/culture
* A bit of history about the talebans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_144000/144382.stm
* Afghani Recipes. Try making a traditional Afghanistan dish with one of the recipes that can be
found at this website. Also includes information about the culture of
Afghanistan, parables, superstitions, and general information about the food
of the county.
http://asiarecipe.com/afghanistan.html
* Exploring the Islamic Religions.
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/fyi/lesson.plans/09/28/islamic.explainer/