Drama Activities

Congratulations to all our actors on a job well done!
We acted out "tension" and did a short expressive dialogue.

Vocabulary:

organ donor
tackle a problem
stand someone up (plantar)
keep a straight face
hush

Homework:  Read a bit of your new book!

Printing a human kidney

Kidneys, livers, bladders all can be printed out!!!!
Amazing!!!

Teach every child about food

We do really have to keep up our Mediterranean diet:

We Need More Airports!

Well, today our conversation ranged from web page design to airports in small Spanish towns, English proverbs (don't cry over spilt milk), to English mania, to giving compliments.  Next class we'll perform our skits, do an activity on English proverbs, and talk some more about compliments.
Have a great Easter!

Homework: Watch and summarize a TED video (or other video).

TED videos: Don't Insist on English, English Mania

Vocabulary:
Don't cry over spilt milk  no llores por leche derrumada
honor roll
toll booth
bumper sticker
money laundering lavado de dinero
blatant evidente
remedial recuperación
forelimbs extremidades anteriores
hindlimbs extremidades posteriores
hindsight visión retrospectiva
hindsight is always 20/20 visión retrospectiva siempre es 20/20
foresight previsión
20/20 vision Una visión de 20/20
goose bumps la piel de gallina
goose ganso
brainwashing lavado de cerebro
put a lot of effort into something puesto mucho esfuerzo en algo
compliment   complido
complement  complemento

Country Bumpkin Synonyms

Homework: Watch a TED video and be prepared to act out your "Tension" skit.

Visual Thesaurus:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

huge enorme
settlement asentamiento
humans los seres humanos
improvement mejora
determined determinada
be forced to se ven obligados a
infuriating exasperante
unexpectedly inesperadamente
let dejar
angry enojado
watch ver
a standstill un punto muerto
standoff punto muerto
stalemate estancamiento
deadlock punto muerto
urban urbana
child niño
minor menor de edad
country folk paisanada
country bumpkin patán
friend amigo

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I hope you all have a great weekend!