* TOPICS {♥}
Some other Pages are devoted to specific Topics, like the Music Page for people and works (obras) from the World of Music!
For whoever is interested:
- Teacher’s News
- Smashwords
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- lkdjfad
- ñaldkfja
- Language Misperceptions in Spain: the language problem in monolingual communities
- Article on the Occupy Wall Street Movement + 15M et al
- The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (movie 2011)
- Terraferma (movie 2011, learn Italian)
- Cruelty to Animals
- Wild Geese (poem) (to cheer you up)
- March 21: Celebrating Poetry Day & Fighting Racism Day
- Language is powerful. Metaphors we live by: Argument is war (with audio)
- How art made the world
- An Optimist’s Tour of the Future, with a feminist comment
- On Social Activism and Achievement
- On Love and what is not love and on what we turn it into!
- Some “crappy” modern art Maruja Mallo, Miquel Barceló…
- Why do people feel moder art is crap?
- George Eliot – 3 quotes!
- Parkour
- Beer from Belgium is Awesome! (British “awesome”)
- Two pacifist activists analyze Freedom Flotilla a Gaza
- So who needs feminism?
- The sequester’s defense cuts are not that scary !!!
- The Arc Gets Longer (excerpts)
- Donations to Talking Dictionaries
- What can people do to solve the crisis?
- International Women’s Day
- Who needs Feminism?
- A little respect!
- Stop the war on women!
- The Art of Asking – don’t MAKE people do things! Just ask!
- Ada Colau – we love you! (Evictions)
- Quvenzhane Wallis
- Are you reliable? Are you good at teamwork?
- Two cows (on Politics)
- 2013 Spirit Awards (independent movie awards and how to pronounce 2013)
- Feb 21: Motherlanguage Day
- Feb 23: People will flood the streets (Spanish “color tides”)
- Thanks for Reading!
- How to think about Rape
- Talent and hard work
- Principles and ideals (dedicated to Laura)
- Noah tells us a powerful story… about his mums!
- Mi’kmac Indian version of Cinderella
- Nonviolent Resistance / Struggle
- Cyberactivism: some figures from Causes
- At last! A little present: CO Women / Objetoras
- Native American women Campaigning
- Flying Seeds (videos)
- The Lottery in Spain
- Protect Trees!
- Handmade books of trees
- A man walks to me and asks, Why are women so angry?
- Interesting: stories selected by Angela Carter
- Turrón, marzipan, the 12 grapes, Sol
- Meals during the winter holidays
- Dear Walt Disney (or Up yours! or more kindly, We’re into recycling)
- A bit of Herstory to improve our awareness and education
- Multilingual Menstrual Calendar
- On rape
- Would you send a postcard to a prisoner for peace?
- Don DeLillo and June Jordan
- Indian (Hindu) Stan Up Comedy in the USA
- Use your English to learn other languages!
- When crowds become mobs – tips for trying to prevent this
- Delusions of Gender, by Cordelia Fine
- Defend the Healthcare System
- Love Matters
- Good Old Patriarchy (If life gives you lemons make lemonade. On colors)
- June Jordan – a quote and a poem
- This Is My Body
- Life out of the box – where are the limits to what you can actually do?! (+ videos)
- November 25: International Day Against Violence Against Women (in Spanish, Contra la violencia de género)
- Learn English in Canada
- Love letters to strangers! (video)
- Vulnerability (video)
- Obama wins (Phew!) + This is how terrifying it is!
- Iceland (video)
- On the Day of the Dead (Halloween)
- The Prince of Asturias Awards (videos, too)
- GM Food
- African cinema
For Avanzado 2 students:
- On “learned” (adj) and in defence of texting
- More on American Indians and related issues
- Relationships: Breaking Up (with subtitles)
- Scenes of Smoke Signals
- Clotida’s amazing work and other stories
- News from Spain in English – practice re-telling!
- Childhood Memories (videos for Avanzado 2) + here is a story I wrote on the topic “Childhood Memories”, in case you want to have a laugh
- Multitasking (audio)
- On the Language Situation in Spain, Dictatorships & Revitalization Language Policies
- Extended Families (audio)
- Listening experiences (video)
- Greenham Common
- Interviews: Listen to an interview with a linguist (National Geographic) and to an interview with an actress (BBC Women’s Hour) here.
For Intermedio 2 students:
- Practice/Practise speaking about clothes and footwear
- Stereotypes
- Stereotypes – some ideas for your monologs
- British people in Spain (4-minute video)
- Spanish stereotypes (article)
- Spanish stereotypes (another article)
- Food for Thought on Stereotypes – reading, listening
- stereotypes (videos)
- British vs French stereotypes (3 minutes, harder to follow)
- Health: videos
- First Aid
- Speaking about a friend
- Making an appointment – Formal & informal dialog(ue)s (18 minutes)
- Illnesses and treatment (3’30)
- Illnesses: Voc + simple sentences (2′)
- Interviews: What’s it/that like? (¿Cómo es? – asking for descriptions of people, objects, places): What’s London (really) like? (9 minutes)
MINI SAGAS (mini story-telling) – For Unit 2 Intermedio 2
The textbook we’re using in 2012-13 for Intermedio 2 includes mini-sagas as a Writing activity. Here are some examples
Michelle Ford's Projects for English Learners (EEOOII Madrid, state-run language education, 2010-2013) 
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