CLASSROOM 2013

The student with the quickest thumb gets the A!

GOOFY IS HUNGRY (intermediate video)

Can you make a list of all the food Goofy craves for?

Click on dotsub to see the video with subtitles.

EARTH DAY. April 22

The celebration of day is an attempt to raise awareness on the problems that Earth faces: pollution, deforestation, global warming, endangered species, and so many others. If no action is taken to protect our amazing  planet, its future (and ours) is destruction.

Watch this interesting video about the oceans. It is narrated by the actress Meryl Streep.

Listen to the appeal of the Prince of Wales for the protection of rainforests.

Visit this astonishing site and move your cursor over the map:

http://www.breathingearth.net/

Some music now: a song by Tom Lehrer, an American singer and song writer.

Don't miss this video by Greenpeace:  Click here.

SHAKESPEARE DAY (23rd April)

On this day, England honours the death of William Shakespeare, one of the world's greatest dramatists and poets. 

Click here to see the picture in a larger size.

On this site you can find more mind maps of Shakespeare's works.

[From As you like it]

Some really interesting links by the BBC on two of Shakespeare's plays:

1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/dramamerchantvenice/movplotact.shtml
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english_literature/dramaromeojuliet/romeocharact.shtml

SONNET 18

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

SONNET 18	PARAPHRASE
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?	Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:	You are more lovely and more constant:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,	Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:	And summer is far too short:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,	At times the sun is too hot,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;	Or often goes behind the clouds;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,	And everything beautiful sometime will lose its beauty,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;	By misfortune or by nature's planned out course.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade	But your youth shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;	Nor will you lose the beauty that you possess;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,	Nor will death claim you for his own,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:	Because in my eternal verse you will live forever.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,	So long as there are people on this earth,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.	So long will this poem live on, making you immortal. [Source: http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18.html]

Learn more about Shakespeare's life and works with this online exercise:

SHAKESPEARE, by olgapalomar

PERSONALITY (intermediate)

It's so difficult to choose sometimes... John or Mark? Let's see..

I don't know, what do you think? Who is nicer?

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