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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

I wish you all the best!

Interview to Frank McCourt

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt talks with Dialogue host Marcia Franklin in 2002 about the power of memory, storytelling, teaching and writing. The author of "Angela's Ashes" also reflects on what it was like to win the Pulitzer Prize and the events of 9/11. 

Enjoy it!

 Is he as you had imagined?

 Write now some quotations from the interview you specially liked and copy them as a comment here. Your classmates will be able to read them too.

THE HOBBIT: premiere

For all those of you who love Tolkien's book, you can see here the premiere of the film The Hobbit, obviously in Wellington, New Zealand!

THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL

Dear students,

In order to understand better the comment of Jung Chang about her idea of misery in the western countries, click the 'Andersen tale' tag that you can see on the top right side of the page and you'll be able to read the whole story. Enjoy it!
 

RESEARCH GROUP (Monday - Wednesday)

Dear Students,
These are the different groups we have at the moment. As some of your colleagues were not in the class last week, we'll see which group they'd like to join. Remember they must be more or less balanced.

RESEARCH GROUP – TEACHER MAN     (M – WD)

IRELAND IN THE 1930’s	-    Paz -    Manuel -    Almudena -    Arantxa -    Elena -    Carlos
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION IN THE 1950’s	-         Mariana -         Rocío -         Alfonso -         Maite -         Julio -         Engracia -         Miguel Ángel
FILMS RELATED TO IMMIGRATION IN THE USA	-         Luis Mariano -         Justo -         Pedro -         Alberto -         Beatriz -         Gonzalo -         Daniel
GLOSSARY	-         Carmona -         Juan Pérez -         Juan Ávila

Date for the presentation to the class: 14th January

Deadline for my previous checking: 9th January

RESEARCH GROUP (Tuesday-Thursday)

Dear Students,
These are the different groups we have at the moment. As some of your colleagues were not in the class last week, we'll see which group they'd like to join. Remember they must be more or less balanced.

IRELAND IN THE 1930’s	-    Elena -    Ricardo -    María -    Raquel -    Zaida -    Irene C-M
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION IN THE 1950’s	-         Marta -         Charo -         Jaime -         Mercedes -    Ana Barranco -    Sandra -    Sergio
FILMS RELATED TO IMMIGRATION IN THE USA	-         Alvaro -         Irene L. -         Adriana -         Óscar -         David -    Íñigo
GLOSSARY	-         Marián -         Ana Blanca -    Roberto

Date for the presentation to the class: 15th January
Deadline for my previous checking: 10th January

TEACHER MAN (Frank McCourt)

Activity 1 (groups of 4-6 people)

Each group does a different research:

• Search the Internet to find some background information about the social and economic situation of Ireland in the 1930s.
• Look for some more information about the situation of the Irish immigrants in America in the 1950's.
• Look for films that deal with the topic of immigration in America. E.g. The Immigrant (1917), West Side  Story (1961), The Godfather (1972), El Norte (1983),  Stand and Deliver (1988), My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), etc. 
• Compile a glossary with the new and most interesting vocabulary you'll find in the book. 

All the groups must be made Monday or Tuesday next week to make sure you have time to prepare your part and put it together.

Final task:  

Write a summary (max. 200 words) of each research and choose one speaker to present it to the rest of the class . They'll be published on the blog.

The glossary will also be published on the blog in 3 parts, according to the 3 parts of the book, to make sure everybody can use it. 

Deadline for the oral presentations:
- Last week of December (Monday or Tuesday, depending on the group)
All the material will be immediately published after the presentation.