6th Day: Travel and Tourism: Vocabulary and Debate QUestions. video on English Pronunciation

1. I'll write the summary for Friday since it is quite easy. 

We watched the film "Gran Budapest Hotel" the first 2 hours and after the break, we answered the questions on the worksheet. We decided that the 18 questions about the film were not too difficult and students could answer them even though they could not take notes during the film.
As for the discussion questions, we decided Gran Budapest Hotel was not really surrealistic and more like "magical realism" or comic adventure films with 2 sidekicks,  such as The Sting  (El Golpe) with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. We discussed the second question about dealing with rude or difficult people and the 3rd about customer service in Spain and other countries (and if the question was a little condescending towards Spain.)

Please remember to do the assessable writing task at the end of the worksheet after Question #18. This is obligatory for the course - 5% of your grade. You can make it 150 words if you are busy but don't copy from the internet!

For Monday we will talk about Traveling and Tourism before the break, since it relates to the film.

There is a listening/ speaking activity with simple questions you don't need to download, but you'll need these 2 documents
1. Vocabulary for Tourism and Travel: CLICK HERE

2. Questions for Debate CLICK HERE

There's a reading about the Spanish paradores that is not obligatory homework but is related to debate questions and perhaps the "customer service" question in the film sheet.CLICK HERE

Finally, this short and fantastic video clip is very funny and an introduction to pronunciation. CLICK HERE. We might do this after the break or we might not have time to do it till Tuesday.

Later I'm going to post some documents related to English pronunciation.