A song, Pantomime and Quiz Shows ! I Enjoy my Leisure Time!

Wednesday 12^th November,2014

Hello! It was nice to see Jorge and Rodrigo again!

I hope they got good marks in their Spanish and chemistry exams. That’s the reason why they couldn’t come to class last week.

We finished the song by John Lennon; ‘Imagine’

Can you define these words in English?

Dreamer, sky, heaven, hell, peace, hunger, brotherhood and share.

You did the questions for the answers given related to Lennon’s biopic. (Short biography)

Questions	Answers
When was John Lennon born?	In 1940
Which group broke up in 1970?	The Beatles.
Who was John Lennon shot by? Who shot John Lennon?	By a fan. A fan.
When did John Lennon die? When was he killed?	8th December, 1980
How many countries was ‘Imagine’ played simultaneously in?	In 130 countries.
When did Yoko Ono buy an area of Central Park?	After John’s death.

We read and listen to a short interview about Pantomime.

What is special about this sort of 'theatre play'?

We explained what Pantomime is. We have the opportunity to see a pantomime performance in Madrid. We gave you a piece of paper with the information about dates and prices, in case you would like to go to the show.

Pantomime

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Pantomime (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with mime.

The Christmas Pantomime colourlithograph bookcover, 1890, showing the harlequinade characters

Pantomime (informally panto), is a type of musical comedy stage production, designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is generally performed during the Christmas and New Year season. Modern pantomime includes songs, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors, and combines topical humour with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale.^[1] It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.

Pantomime has a long theatrical history in Western culture dating back to classical theatre, and it developed partly from the 16th-centurycommedia dell'arte tradition of Italy, as well as other European and British stage traditions, such as 17th-century masques.^[1] An important part of the pantomime, until the late 19th century, was the harlequinade. The pantomime is performed today throughout Britain and, to a lesser extent, in other English-speaking countries.

Then we talked about our project. It seems that in the end you aren’t going to have a reality show. What you are going to do is a quiz show.

So, this is what you decided. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Compare a quiz show with a reality show by watching these videos.

There will be 35 questions. 5 questions written by each one of you.

Laura is going to write questions (and find the answer, too. Of course!) about music. Noelia, about films and cinema. Rodrigo about food. Almudena, about history. Jorge about sports. Paula about geography. And Natalia will be in charge of ‘Especially difficult questions’ that you can choose if you want to get extra points.

I wonder what you mean by ‘difficult questions’. I asked what country Edinburgh was the capital of and none of you knew! Is it so difficult for secondary students to know the capitals of European countries? Is that a “very difficult question”?

We’ll have a presenter for the quiz. This is going to be Paula.

We are going to have two judges that choose the questions and check that the answers are right. They’re going to be Almudena and Noelia. And our contestants will be Jorge, Rodrigo, Natalia and Laura.

This is your homework. Write five questions and answers about your topic.

After that we started preparing an activity that we’ll continue doing next class. It is called ‘English Abroad’

Extra homework that you have to do:

Make sentences using these words. You can use more than word in one sentence. Write the sentences on the blog. I need to check that it works! Thank you. You’ll get two points for this + 2 more for posting it on the blog.

Accommodation, to book, booking form, camp site, excursions, homestay, and weekend trips, whale-watching, dive.

Remember to continue the story that Noelia started!!! Also on the blog, please.

The Forest of the Horrors

Some years ago there was a forest in the USA called Moiytura, there was agirl called Gregoria, she was very beautiful. One night she went to the forest by bike. The bike had a light. She wasn’t scared but she saw something strange in  the forest.Now, she is very scared, she went to a house and…strange things started to happen there …

(Points for doing homework, participating in class and speaking English in class)

GAME 7                     

Player 1	5
Player 2	7
Player 3	6
Player 4	5
Player 5	5
Player 6	5
Player 7	5

See you on Wednesday!

Have a nice weekend!