Don Quixote's Carnival

This is how we have celebrated my beloved Spanish Carnival this year at Redwood Middle School. We have put these two big ideas together Don Quijote and El Carnaval.
I believe the children will always remember how big this story is and how powerful the figure of Don Quixote is in our present day society.
The seed has been put, now the hope is that it grows!!!

PICTURE GALLERY

* Don Quijote soy, y mi profesión la de andante caballería. Son mis leyes, el deshacer entuertos, prodigar el bien y evitar el mal. Huyo de la vida regalada, de la ambición y la hipocresía, y busco para mi propia gloria la senda más angosta y difícil. ¿Es eso, de tonto y mentecato?

“I AM DON QUIXOTE, MY JOB IS TO BE AN ERRANT KNIGHT. MY LAW IS TO MEND THINGS, SPREAD THE GOOD, AND AVOID THE EVIL. I RUN AWAY FROM EASY LIFE, FROM AMBITION OR HYPOCRISY, AND I LOOK FOR MY OWN GLORY THE MOST DIFFICULT AND NARROW PATH.CAN I BE CONSIDERED AS A FOOL OR A MORON FOR THIS?

Celebration

This thursday our meeting has three objectives:

To improve our pronunciation in Spanish and English, support Paco in further developing his already excellent English ready for his meeting in Croatia and celebrate the success of Adan, Sarah and Maria J in their exams. This week is the last week with Adam here so we need to decide who will be organizate the meetings to.

Preparing our exams

This week will be focus in Maria Jose and Sara B2 exams so this thursday our meeting will be in two parts. The first part will have exercises in English 'figures of speech' expressions that say one thing but mean another. The second part will be the last practice of their topics for Maria J and Sarah focussing on pronunciation and answering questions about the topics.


See you all Thursday!

Topics

Last week was a combination of fun, a little bit of stress and very good learning. The English members of the group learned a lot more Spanish in a not too painful and rapid way. 

Thank you Francisco and Carmen for being our teachers. This week we will concentrate of the topics Sarah, Maria J and Adan have to do for there exams as well as undertaking another interesting exercise designed to improve English people's Spanish. So if you are English out there think about joining us and developing your Spanish which might in the future become a necessity if you want to stay living in Spain'

This week, spanish tongue-twisters!

Last week we had a really funny meeting with  the english tongue-twisters, this week it´s the time for english people to show us their skills

                                                                      Our winners

So this week, start by having some spanish tongue-twisters to help the English and to give some amusement to Spanish friends. Then we will help Adan, Maria J and Sara learn and rehearse their topics.

Then spend some time working on the spontaneous conversations that they have to conduct as part of their exams. So be prepared, the themes for the conversations will be relevant , challenging and funny. Come along, join in the fun and of course be prepared to learn!

COMEBACK THIS THURSDAY 12

First of all, thanks to all for coming to our Christmas Party and happy new year to. It was very nice and fun, i will let some pics here.

Great food

 Great people

An old family recipe

 And ours "Pass the parcel" winners  

                             

Thanks for this fantastic party!

On the other hand we comeback this thursday with a new quest, this month is important for Sara, Maria J and Adan because all three have their B1 and B2 examinations on the 2nd and 3rd of February. Therefore the next three meetings are dedicated to helping them pass their exams and of course helping everyone who wants to improve their English both written and spoken or talk about their exam topics.

This Thursday the focus is on two aspects of spoken English, pronunciation and how to say the same thing using different vocabularies. Don't worry it will not be boring, there will be fun exercises and a grand team competition with of course a big prize for the winning team.


So if you want to really improve your English come along and be amazed at how much you can learn in a short time. See you this thursday!