B2.2 Friday Class

Hi Group

I hope you enjoyed your first class.  We did 2 "ice-breaker" activities to get to know each other, talked a bit about cities,

Our book is Advanced Outcomes, which you can buy in the bookstores of "Fliología A" and "Geografia y Historía."

We did p.8 and activities A and B of the Listening on p.9. Homework is to do the right column of p.9. Also, please print and complete the Learning Questionnaire Click here to give to me next Friday.

Mónica has promised to write a summary with more details in "Comments." Have a good week!  Kate

More Material for 1st days for Conv. B2

1st doc. Learning Questionnaire Click here

2nd doc. Sun sign and Personality

3rd doc. Reacting to and Telling an anecdote Click here

4th doc. Nature or Nurture

More 1st day material for ALL CLASSES : Conversation B2 and B2.2

Welcoming letter from CSIM: for ALL classes

This is a letter the directors of the CSIM write to students every year. I've made a few copies to talk about 1st day of class but I'm putting on my blog for my students to read and download and print if they want.  Kate

Click here

Wonderful interview with wonderful young woman: Malala

Exclusive - Malala Yousafzai Extended Interview Pt. 1

 Malala, as you probably know, is a young Pakistani girl, who 2 years ago was shot and almost killed for challenging the Taliban about girls' rights to education. She has recovered and is continuing to speak out. She was nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize even though she is only 16 years old.

 Listen to all 3 parts of her interview and understand as much as can , repeating as many times as needed. She speaks with a Pakistani accent but that makes her speak more slowly and I think she speaks quite clearly. The  man who is interviewing her is named Jon Stewart and he has a nightly news  parody program, more or less the American version of Gran Wyoming and "El Intermedio". He's very funny and witty, but I think is also a nice person, as you can see in this interview. 

A related topic to speak or write about is a person you find especially courageous or admirable and why. 

Short social video clip

Short video clip to make you feel very indignant about the greed of some phone companies.  IT's not only here in Spain and it's worse for the poor with limited options! I think it's quite clear.

You should know and recognize these words:
- jail
- to profit (as a verb)
- "sky-high" rates
- commute (n./ v.) = daily car trip ( usually to work)
- to rig the system = to fix the system in your favor
- a ripoff = un timo
- hostage
- a support network
- to cap = to set a top limit


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMViAYvFZVghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMViAYvFZVg

Really old home-made film of life on the streets of San Francisco over 100 years ago

Hi all. Now that classes are beginning pretty soon, I'm going to put a few interesting - or I HOPE  they are interesting - things on my blog.  This historical film shows how incredibly life has changed in 107 years. And at that time San Francisco was definitely one of the richest and most advanced cities in the world.

Please feel free to write whatever occurs to you and post under COMMENTS (in English of course!) for practice and I'll commment and correct.

xxx Kate

Great historical film!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k

This film, originally thought to be from 1905 until David Kiehn with the
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum figured out exactly when it was shot. >From
New York trade papers announcing the film showing to the wet streets from
recent heavy rainfall & shadows indicating time of year & actual weather and
conditions on historical record, even when the cars were registered (he even
knows who owned them and when the plates were issued!)..

 It was filmed only
four days before the Great California Earthquake of April 18th 1906 and
shipped by train to NY for processing. Amazing, but true!

No wonder there had to be laws created to regulate driving habits. This is
insane. Good thing they couldn't go very fast.(driving hasn't changed any in CA)

Look at the hats the ladies were wearing and the long dresses.Most of the people appear to be male however.

 Some of the
cars had the steering wheels on the right side,and the horse drawn carts were driven from the right side  too. I wonder when they
standardized on the left?

Sure was still a lot of horse drawn vehicles in
use. Mass transit looked like the way to get around.. Looks like everybody
had the right of way.

Perhaps the oldest home movie you'll ever see!