martes, 21 de marzo de 2017

 








Lionel Logue: Please don't smoke. I believe sucking cigarette smoke into your lungs will kill you.
King George VI: I need to relax. My physicians say it relaxes the throat.
Lionel Logue: They're idiots.
King George VI: They've all been knighted.
Lionel Logue: Makes it official then.


After the screening of The King’s Speech, go over King George VI’s profile on biography.com – there are some videos in this site too that you may find interesting.

Keeping the movie and your reading in mind, you are expected to hand in an assignment on King George VI. You should use your own words as much as possible and it should take no more than a piece of paper – both sides.

We aren’t looking for bios with headings and we won’t read them/ grade them. By that, we mean we don’t want something similar to the one posted on this site. Instead of using a title like “Early Life” and then writing all the info below, please structure your thoughts into clearly defined paragraphs to make your assignment visually attractive and use transitional sentences and discourse makers. For example, you could start saying something like As far as George VI’s childhood is concerned …


martes, 17 de enero de 2017

UNIT 4 HAVE/GET PASSIVES

Click here to practise get and have passives

martes, 10 de enero de 2017

The American Revolution 

(1754–1781)

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”


1. After watching The Patriot, please read carefully the following sections - look for them and read only these sections.

-          Salutary neglect

-          Grenville and the Sugar Act

-          The Currency and Quartering Acts

-          The Stamp Act

-          Taxation without representation


-          The First Continental Congress

-          Common Sense

-          Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence

-          Signing of the Declaration

-          The Battle of Saratoga

-          The Peace of Paris

2. Following the model we’ll show you in class, please come up with a PERSONAL timeline. DO NOT COPY FROM THE WEBSITE. USE YOUR OWN WORDS. It should take no more than one side of a sheet of paper.

P.S. You may also like the following video either as a first contact or intro or - the other way around - as a really good summary. In any case, it’s pretty funny. Enjoy!