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Flip_flops 
FLIP____ FLOP
FLIP ____ FLOP
Look I at the watch
Oh! Flip!
FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP
One flops. Flip!
I flip, person flipped
On floor. I keep on FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP
Get on bus
I´m a flip
Flippant
FLIP FLOP FLIP FLOP
Time for Holidays… Great!
Anyway, I already miss the class. It´s been a fantastic experience, I hope to improve it next year.
The blog will be open the whole summer, so that next year, if possible, we build on it. Now, it´s also open to comments…No more writing for the time being, I´m also on holidays!!
In pairs. Go to http://www.supagift.co.uk/christmas_for_teenagers.htm
Discuss and choose two gifts for another friend in the classroom.
You have 100$ each.
Give your reasons!!
Useful Language
This is the perfect gift for….because
I think this would be perfect for…
Are you sure? …doesn´t like…much!
Ok, I agree on that
I´m not too sure…but it´s the cheapest
Go to: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/drag_n_drop_games/christmas-jokes/christmas-jokes.html
Order the jokes! Have fun! Tell your friends and film it!
Help
Both rhyme with BOOTS!
Soot
noun [U]
a black powder made mainly of carbon which is produced when coal, wood, etc. is burnt:
Suit
suit (BE CONVENIENT)
verb [T]
to be convenient and cause the least difficulty for someone.
Continue alone! Use the Dictionary!
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=79692&dict=CALD
Read and listen to this article:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-magazine-christmas-1.htm
Then, do the comprehension excercise.
Discuss Orally
Send your comments to be posted.
1- Do you celebrate Christmas?If you do, what do you usually have for dinner at Christmas Eve?
Where do people eat turkey for Christmas?
1.1 Do you go to mass at Christmas?
noun [C]
1 a mass (= Christian religious ceremony) at which people honour and pray for a dead person
1.2 Listen and watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4AgPSjzXkw
“Don´t……….this Christmas”
2. Read the first STANZA.
What´s the idea?
3. STANZA 2.
4. What is mass?
A synonym for “A lot of money”….
5. Stanza 4
6. According to the poem…
what do turkeys want to do?
what do turkeys fear?
what do human´s do?
what should we do next Christmas? Why? Underline reasons.
7. Do you notice something in the spelling?
http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/content/rhyming.php
STANZA 1
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
Cos’ turkeys just wanna hav fun
Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked
An every turkey has a Mum.
STANZA 2
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,
Don’t eat it, keep it alive,
It could be yu mate, an not on your plate
Say, Yo! Turkey I’m on your side.
I got lots of friends who are turkeys
An all of dem fear christmas time,
Dey wanna enjoy it, dey say humans destroyed it
An humans are out of dere mind,
Yeah, I got lots of friends who are turkeys
Dey all hav a right to a life,
Not to be caged up an genetically made up
By any farmer an his wife. Turkeys just wanna play reggae
Turkeys just wanna hip-hop
Can yu imagine a nice young turkey saying,
‘I cannot wait for de chop’,
Turkeys like getting presents, dey wanna watch christmas TV,
Turkeys hav brains an turkeys feel pain
In many ways like yu an me.
Stanza 3
I once knew a turkey called…Turkey
He said “Benji explain to me please,
Who put de turkey in christmas
An what happens to christmas trees?”,
I said “I am not too sure turkey
But it�s nothing to do wid Christ Mass
Humans get greedy an waste more dan need be
An business men mek loadsa cash’.
Stanza 4
Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
Invite dem indoors fe sum greens
Let dem eat cake an let dem partake
In a plate of organic grown beans,
Be nice to yu turkey dis christmas
An spare dem de cut of de knife,
Join Turkeys United an dey’ll be delighted
An yu will mek new friends ‘FOR LIFE’.
(The poem has been divided in stanzas for pedagogic purposes)
Especial thanks to Sandra Aliotti for introducing me to Benjamin Zephaniah.
partake (EAT/DRINK)
verb [I] partook, partaken OLD-FASHIONED OR HUMOROUS
to eat or drink:
Would you care to partake of a little wine with us?
wicked (EXCELLENT)
adjective INFORMAL
excellent:
He’s got some wicked trainers.
wicked (BAD), adjective OLD-FASHIONED
1 morally wrong and bad:
It was a wicked thing to do.
Of course, in the end, the wicked witch gets killed.
Compare evil; naughty (BADLY BEHAVED).
2 slightly immoral or bad for you, but in an attractive way:
a wicked grin
a wicked sense of humourwicked (BAD), adjective OLD-FASHIONED
1 morally wrong and bad:
It was a wicked thing to do.
Of course, in the end, the wicked witch gets killed.
Compare evil; naughty (BADLY BEHAVED).
2 slightly immoral or bad for you, but in an attractive way:
a wicked grin
a wicked sense of humour
mate (FRIEND)
noun [C] UK INFORMAL
1 a friend:
We’ve been mates since our school days.
I usually play football with some of my mates from the office on Saturdays.
She’s my best mate.
greedy adjective
wanting a lot more food, money, etc. than you need:
greedy, selfish people
He’s greedy for power/success.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?dict=CALD&key=57737&ph=on
Poem: “Used to”
REad http://www.benjaminzephaniah.com/content/biography.php
For next Class
Make a log book using all the images you see in the course of just ONE Friday.
Take the quizz…
at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/quiz.pl?QUIZDATA=question_46.dat&WEBSITE=bbcfour
Key words and expressions:
Raw life: everyday life, ordinary life
Art for Networks
Give-away bags
Aesthetics: “estética”
It is often related to the place it is exhibited
Sometimes it´s useful…
Marcel Du Champ: First conceptualist artist. Sculpture: “The Fountain”, urine
Ephimeral: something that changes or finishes in a short period of time
Human contacts
Installation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/art-safari1.shtml
1. Name three artistic movements.
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*
*
2. How do these words end? Think about the suffix…
3. Watch the presentation
* What does the question “Relational Art: another ism?” imply?
*When and where did the movement begin?
4. Do you agree?
*A new “ism” must develop from an older “ism”
*A new ism is invented by an art critic
5. What does “relational art” need?
6. Can you give examples of relational art from the clip? What do they have in common?
7. What problems did the documentary director find?
8. What is the British name for relational art?
9. What is the purpose of this type of art?
