COMICS

31 oct 2010

Thanks for your comments!

Hi everyone and Lucy in particular!.
I feel extremely happy today since I´ver just read your comment. It brightened up my day!
When you teach  a subject at school you always dream of making your students an active part in it. What I mean is that you crave for communicating, for making language an important thing in their lives!.
You just wrote a comment that I did not expect, in fact, since I´m no longer your teacher.
However, I can tell you that both you and your classmates play an oustanding role in my memories as a teacher since you were one of the groups I taught in my first year at school.
I remember the Easter cards you made...do you know that I found yours last year? I still keep some of them.


By the way (I love boasting around about this...) I was lucky enough to sleep at Portora Royal, Oscar Wilde´s school in Enniskillen (Northern Ireland). It was great. You enter that school and there is a huge hall, with his portrait on the wall! I remember I was quite shocked since it was the same portrait I saw in one of the compulsory novels I had to read at the uni!!!.


I also like "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and I remember the film in the 1940s. I bought it a couple of years ago with a special edition of the novel.


Thanks so much for taking part in this!!!!.
See you around.

24 oct 2010

SOME "GHOST STUFF" FOR MY STUDENTS IN 6º (now that you are all thinking about Halloween...)

Since Halloween is just around the corner (even though you know I don´t celebrate it when I´m in Spain, just when I lived in Northern Ireland), I thought of letting you know about one of the classics:
"The Canterville Ghost", a short story by Oscar Wilde.
 My English teacher chose it as compulsory reading when I was a couple of years older than you.
See you tomorrow.

You can find this sculpture next to the American Institute, his former residence. It´s quite funny.
I remember I was chatting to some friends and then we came across it, just by chance.

See you around
THE LEPRECHAUN IN CHARGE

Para escuchar en compañía de hermanos/as en la ESO  y padre/madres(s), titos y titas....adultos de la familia, en definitiva. Mil disculpas por la calidad del sonido.
I made my best.

3 oct 2010

Autumn...Fall... Francés: automne Italiano: autunno Alemán: Herbst Holandés: herfst , najaar Portugués: outono Japonés: 秋 (あき, aki):



Well...Autumn came at last. It always was and will be my
favourite season.

Some people will get grumpy and complain about rain, wind

and cold. Cold is maybe the worst of them three.

However, there are loads of nice memories in my brain

concerning autumn and rain...

The best of them...me in my tiny wellies, jumping into every

single pond I would come across in my way to school...
and jumping so high as to get stained
and share those stains with whom dared to get in my way!...

And a few years ago...the smell of the soil, "soaked to the bone" 

by the rain drops of the emerald island...

...flavours and smells of nature, wo
od, factories

and the sight of ravens 
scratching their wings with their beaks,
waiting patiently on the traffic lights...
not eager at all to keep flying their way out...

What does Autumn mean to you?
To me autumn is this: este es mi otoño. ¿Cuál es el tuyo?. Espero vuestros comentarios.
                         High Street. Omagh. County Tyrone
                                     Northern Ireland.

2 oct 2010

To those parents who feel like improving their listening skills. A aquellos padres y madres que quieran practicar el "listening"...

One of the funniest videos ever.
Fuente: "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". "Psychic Spoon Bender" Youtube.
Enjoy!


Hoy...