New Year’s Eve & Auld Lang Syne

Do you know “Auld Lang Syne”? It’s a Scottish folk song, which is traditionally sung in English-speaking countries at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, to welcome the New Year. It features in such classical films as It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) and When Harry Met Sally (Rob Reiner 1989), among others:

Despite its popularity, however, apparently only 3% of British people actually know the full lyrics to it, according to a recent survey. You can read more about this here, or listen to the news report below:

You can listen to a rendition of the song by Rod Stewart and other stars like Kylie Minogue (with lyrics) below:

Happy New Year 2018 to everyone! 

literary classics year 1: step 2- infographics about books

The next step in our project is to get to know the basic elements of the book in hand (genre, themes, plot summary, characters), and to be able to summarise them in an infographic. These are two of the examples made by students (click on the picture for full size):

 

#WomeninSTEM- Amy Farrah Fowler

This is the result of your hard work for our #WomeninSTEM project. Watch these videos to find out about Mayim Bialik, the actress playing Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory, as well as about the character she plays:

#WomeninSTEM- Hedy Lamarr

This is the result of your hard work for our #WomeninSTEM project. Watch these videos to find out about Hedy Lamarr’s life, career and achievements:

Hidden Figures-this month’s pick

After the success of our get-together to watch and discuss Fantastic Beasts (and Where to Find Them), we invite you to meet again to watch another film together. This time, we’re going to watch Hidden Figures, a biopic about three talented female African-American NASA engineers who saved the Apollo rocket program.

TIME AND MEETING POINT: http://iesparquegoya.es/index.php/proyparquegoyalab/2874-2017-01-19-11-30-35

You may watch the trailer here:

 

 

Energy drinks

If you’d like to know a bit more about the risks of the so-called ‘energy drinks’, you may watch these videos:

 

• Who is the doctor giving advice to?
• A can / bottle contains … g. of caffeine
• What are the consequences of so-called energy drinks, according to the doctor? Which are related to caffeine, and which to sugar?
• What drinks does the doctor recommend?

Video assignment (1E only)

Go to this website. Watch the video there (or below), and answer the questions on the form.

Remember it’s a compulsory (=obligatory) activity. The deadline is Friday 7th October.