Yes, the Three Wise Men won this year in class and most students received their presents on January 6th, or so they told us last Wednesday. This is a cartoon we worked on in this class, from "Cartoons for the Classroom":
When we analysed the items, iPods, Macs and their creators came up, and I promised to upload a link to an interesting speech by Steve Jobs, one of the founders of Apple. It comes in two parts, both subtitled in Spanish:
Part 1 (time 8:44):
Part 2 (time 5:48):
Then we talked about new year's resolutions and I asked you to send comments to the post on "Christmas diet and new year's resolutions" (24/12/08), writing about your own resolutions. We have received some interesting ones. Someone sent this (I corrected a little mistake):
"I´ll go to the gym everyday to get fit and to lose weight until I look like a model, after that I´ll look for a young and handsome English boyfriend, for speaking and improving my English"
And that reminded me of an advert I saw during Christmas, which I photographed and attach now:
Is English sexy? What do you think?
At the end of the lesson, we talked about "manners" but we could not watch a video about how good table manners may help you lose weight, so here it is:
Sunday, January 11, 2009
First lesson after Christmas: presents, resolutions and manners.
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