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Reasons to learn English

Video

Try to guess the name of this beautiful city...

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Wiki

Forget your boring afternoons in front of the TV. With our cultural guide you have no excuse to stay at home. You want to know more??

Then go to our wiki: http://onthego-pilarypunto.wikispaces.com/

Podcast

You are going to listen to a short story: "The Boy Who Bit His Nails", written by aidanthomas86. Listen to the podcast and answer the following questions:



- The boy's father was a famous...
- When we consume, what are we consuming?
- Did the boy understand his father?
- What did the mother say to the boy?
- What happened at the end?

Treasure hunt

Festivals

As you know, these days is held the Barcelona Jewish Film Festival.

But do you know much about it and about other festivals in your city? Answer the following questions using the links provided:

- Why did this festival born?
- Do you only see films or are there parallel activities aside from the event?
- Which are the aims of the festival?
- When did the feast day of St Emeterius (Sant Medir) first take place?
- In which festival are we if we can buy handicrafts, visit food stalls and see performances?
- Are there other jewish festivals around the world?
- Film festivals are an alternative to... See this video:

Spot SF INDIE Film Festival 2009 from alamraja on Vimeo.

Web resources

http://www.festivalfocus.org/festival_view.php?uid=975
http://www.fcjbarcelona.org/index.php?lang=en
http://www.timeout.com/barcelona/features/128/festivals-events-in-barcelona
http://www.jewishfilm.com/jewfests.html


Task

Now imagine you have to announce a festival that you know well. To do this create a post in your blog. Take into account that the description has to include these items:

- location and dates
- type of festival and genres included
- history or background
- brief description of the program
- You can follow the layout included in: http://www.festivales.com/


Assessment criteria

- Task completeness
- Spelling
- Accuracy in the answers
- Originality

My alter ego

Innovator and creative!

You could use this video to work on speaking.

Related to being creative in the way of teaching: look at this presentation and discover some paradoxes of the English language.

English is Funny!

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