Jay-Jay Johanson

On 18th October Jay-Jay Johanson was at Portalegre. The concert was amazing and he sang a lot of beautiful love songs with his special voice.

He is from Sweden, so his English isn't difficult to understand. He began with an old song: "Far away". These are the lyrics:

Far away, once so close

But now you're far away

You're still here with me

But not like yesterday, so far

Far away, I hear you breathe

But you're so far away

Once so colourful

But now all turns to grey, so far

It's oh so strange

When centimetres feels like miles

Seconds like hours

Now it's true love has died

No more roads left to try, far away

Far away, long ago

When love was here to stay

Now it's gone

It doesn't matter what we say, so far

Every word is like a knife

But the silence cuts you twice.

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9IsPkHA5E&feature=related

http://www.caeportalegre.blogspot.com/

Have a nice weekend and see you next Monday.

Hi from Ayaz.

In class we looked at expressions with parts of the body. FOr homework, I asked students to use their dictionaries to look at he differences between fall OFF, fall DOWN, fall OVER and fall OUT. Next Monday we´ll talk about blogging and how you can use it. Have a good weekend!

PUBLICAR EN EL BLOG

Os recuerdo que es recomendable, justo y hasta necesario que publiquemos en el Blog, con el objetivo de afianzarnos en el uso de las Tics que, como sabéis también es uno de los objetivos del curso.
Tanto Russell como Ayaz comenzarán a pedir tareas a través del blog.
Para publicar en el blog se siguen estos pasos:
1º.- Ve a tu correo gmail y allí tendrás una invitación para participar.
2º.- Haz click en el enlace que te conducirá al blog.
3.- Una vez en el blog, haz click en el ACCEDER (arriba a la derecha)
4º.- Te piden el nombre y contraseña (pues mételos)
5º.- Ya estás dentro del blog; haz click en CREACIÓN DE ENTRADAS
6º.- Ponle un título y escribe.
7º.- Cuando termines, haz click en PUBLICAR.
8º.- Haz click en VER BLOG
9º.- ¿Estás conforme con lo que has escrito?
Haz click en SALIR (arriba a la derecha)
10º.- ¿No estás conforme con lo que has escrito?
Haz click en EDITAR ENTRADAS (Borra, reescribe etc; vuelve al
paso 6º)

Si no ha quedado claro, dedicaremos alguna minipráctica para ACLARAR algunos conceptos. RECUERDA: el uso y la utilización del blog es una herramienta muy poderosa y motivadora para el aprendizaje y la enseñanza de las lenguas.

Message from Ayaz

Hi, students! This is a message to remind you to bring your dictionaries next Monday (if you didn´t come to class, Pepe will give you your new Oxford dictionary next week). For homework, please look up parts of the body (leg, cheek etc) in the English part of your dictionary and look for any special expressions using those parts of the body (like you say in Spanish "es un caradura", "tomarle el pelo a alguien").Have a good weekend!

INMERSIÓN LINGÜÍSTICA

Día: Sábado 22 de noviembre de 2008
Hora de comienzo de las actividades: 9:30 horas del día 22
Hora de finalización de las actividades: 9:30 del día 23
Lugar: Hotel Los Templarios de Jerez de los Caballeros.

Hint, hint!

¿Lo pillas?

Message for Pepe

Sorry to bother you, but I will need some big sheets of paper for Wednesday´s class with group C at 6:40 and a room with tables for the students to work on in groups - possibly four.It´s very late and I know there are problems with classrooms, but could it be arranged? If not, don´t worry! Thanks. Ayaz.

Hi, everybody! I forgot to give you some homework, so if you really would like to do something at home, you could practise writing one or two dialogues similar to the ones we saw in class or choose some different situations - it´s up to you. Have a nice long weekend! See you next Thursday. Ayaz.