BBT2 OP

The Big Bang Theory TV Series – an OP by Avanzado 2 students

This is part of the Tuesday’s BBT2 OP. It’s an audio file with some typed comments by the teacher – feedback.

The Three Little Pigs, a Project by NB1 students

At the Students’ Corner you will find this lovely end-of-course project by NB1 students in course 2009-10. We hope it’s inspiring! They wrote the play and then they performed in class. They’re on video, so check this link out!: The Three Little Pigs Enjoy!

On Salinger’s “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”

TV Series

Students in the Avanzado 2 courses have spent the last two months working on a project which entailed watching the same episode of a TV series several times, to gather some Useful Language. We’re starting this thread in case any of the students wishes to comment on the experience, and we will also post here the links to the Oral Presentations they prepared on this experience. Post freely and enjoy! 🙂
Here is where we are publishing their work: materials from the OP and links to videos of their work: Speaking & Listening – Students’ Contributions – Students’ Cornet, at the EOI Getafe website.



EOI Getafe student reading Sherman Alexie

Charo kindly volunteered to read out one of her favorite chapters in Alexie’s novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”. She improvised this reading!http://www.youtube.com/englisheoigetafe#p/c/7712606501E04FF0/0/QmXxPzHHurg

World Book and Copyright Day

By establishing April 25th as the international day to celebrate reading and writing, UNESCO is trying to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property. “The idea for this celebration originated in Catalonia where on 23 April, Saint George’s Day, a rose is traditionally given as a gift for each book sold.”
Check out their website to find out more about this!

Another interesting project promoting reading (and involving not spending much money!) is Book Crossing. Read and release! Check out their website to find out more about them!

Finally, support bookshops in Getafe! Don’t buy your books in great department stores! 🙂

Please, if you read this or have anything to say, post a little comment so we know this thread was interesting or useful for you! 🙂

Save small bookshops!

This year I learned that all the independent bookshops I knew in London had disappeared! All that world wiped out… In Sister Write I discovered women cartoonists, matriarchal tarots (with round cards!) and that some women used natural sponges instead of tampons! In Silver Moon I stashed my rucksack with books written by women, back in 1989, when in Spain the only woman writer most people knew was Agatha Christie and they hadn’t even noticed it was the only woman they had ever read. I got books like “In Search of our Mother’s Gardens” by Alice Walker, Lorde’s “Sister Outsider”,  B. Head’s “Tales of Tenderness and Power” or the amazing anthology “Daughters of Africa”. Books by black women. I will always keep the sweetest memory of those little bookshops, full of worlds that I could not find back home.
In a little bookshop in Petticoat Lane Street Market I found what could not ever be found! – A book by Virgnia Woolf, “Three Guineas”, published by… the Hogarth Press!!! — which means, actually made by her! (That was the publishing house she set up with her partner Leonard Woolf!)
 And guess what: the bookseller sold it to me for 10 quid! Why would he do that? I’ve always wondered. Sweetest bookseller!
Then I remembered how a bookseller in Catalonia who had had the hardest time keeping his bookshop during the dictatorship because although that was one of the very few places where you could buy books that were banned, people kept stealing there! The bookseller was risking his life to bring those books to us, for democracy, and people stole them! 😦

So here goes my proposal: Let’s help small bookshops! Otherwise we’ll end up not having any!!! Near Getafe Central: Vídeo-Librería Odysea, c/ General Castaño 11. It opens from 10.30 to 14.00 and from 17.30 to 20.30.  Let’s save small bookshops!

What Shall We Read? (A1)

We are looking for a book to read this semester for our A1 group. If you are in this class, share your ideas and recommend one book we can read in class.

If you are in any other class, feel free to post your suggestions!

Hello world!

This blog was designed and is managed by the teachers at the English Departament of the state-run language school EOI Getafe (Madrid, Spain).
Our aim is to offer students and lifelong learners of the English language a space to practise/practice their English while communicating and using ICTs!
Enjoy!