Kenn Nesbitt´s "I´ll Never" (E2ºC)

Listen and do the activities in the worksheet.

FCE venue (May 10)

The venue for the FCE exam on May 10 (Saturday) will be the IES PRINCIPE FELIPE in calle Finisterre 60, 28029 (Madrid). Plan here. The exam will start at 9.00 and finish at 13.00.

Poetry! (E2ºC)

Identify the figures of speech used in these examples:
1."The ocean danced in the moonlight". 
2."The sun is my brain in an exam".
3."He was alone in a crowd".
4."The Moon is like a huge tipp-ex correction".
5."It was a deafening silence".
6."He's not the brightest bulb in the lamp" .
7."Living dead".
8. Fables use ..................... because the characters are symbols of abstract concepts. 
9."The Sun is an everlasting bulb".
10."We are not amused". (Queen Victoria)
11."Sweet sorrow". 
12."I am so hungry I could eat a horse".
13."The door protested as it opened slowly".
14."The Moon is the Earth´s pet"
15.    "I´ll love you, dear, I´ll love you till China and Africa meet,
          And the river jumps over the mountain
          And the salmon sing in the street
          I´ll love you till the ocean
          is folded and hung up to dry
          And the seven stars go squawking
          Like geese about the sky". (W.H.Auden)

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, 'I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15551#sthash.EJ9fNl5s.dpuf

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, 'I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15551#sthash.EJ9fNl5s.dpuf

16."The thunder grumbled like an old man".


What type of poem or stanza are these examples?
17.  "Someone can break me
        Not with a pair of scissors
        It can be with words" (Inés Arenas)

18.  "Good nature and good sense must ever join;
        To err is human, to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope)

19.   "Let me not to the marriage of true minds
         Admit impediments. Love is not love
         Which alters when it alteration finds,
         Or bends with the remover to remove.
         O no, it is an ever-fixèd mark
         That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
          It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
          Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
          Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
          Within his bending sickle's compass come;
          Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
         But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
          If this be error and upon me proved,
          I never writ, nor no man ever loved" (William Shakespeare) 
         
            -What is the rhyme pattern in this poem?

20.    "Winter is tonight
          lots of birds migrating north, 
          how pretty the sky!". (Sofía Bozzo)

21. "'Hope' is the thing with feathers
        That perches in the soul
        And sings the tune without the words
        And never stops at all". (Emiliy Dickinson)


22.    "You say today is...Saturday?
         G'bye, I'm going out to play!" (Shel Silverstein)

Good work. Now try this hangman.

Instructions (E1ºB)

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The Bermuda Triangle (E2ºC)

Following the text we read in class, watch the video and answer the questions below.

1.When did the myth of the Bermuda Triangle start?
2.How many planes disappeared?
3.What was the Flight 19?
4.What was the name of those planes? What kind of missions were they used for?
5.How is the plane described in the video?
6.What time did their last mission start?
7.When exactly did they disappear?
8.What happened later that same day at 7.47?
9.Could they find any remains of the lost planes?
10.How big is the Bermuda Triangle?
11. Why is Columbus mentioned in the video?
12. What does Richard Winer say about this phenomenon?
13.What bizarre explanations have been suggested for the Triangle disappearances?
14.What is the name of one of the boats in the video? Why do you think it is called like that?