Playing … Hamlet

Preparing an Impressive Performance of 

Hamlet

These links might be of some help 

Presenting the play 

Notes on Hamlet

The Ghost

Ophelia

A project that went astray

Indiana Jones Staying Alive

It Belongs in a museum!

1^st scene

Answer these Questions:

1.   Where have the men in the cave been doing?

2.   What has young Indiana decided to do?

3.   What has happened with the whip?

4.   What has his father told him to do?

Who has said these sentences? 

And put them in order too

1.   Oh, look at it?

2.   What is it?

3.   I don’t think it is such a good idea!

4.   Run back and find the others

5.   That cross … belongs in a museum

6.   It’s only a snake

7.   Have him bring the sheriff

8.   Everybody is lost but me!

9.   Dig with your hands, not with your mouth

10. No way out of this

11. This should be in a museum

12. Give it back!

13. Ok kid! Out of the box, now!

14. Coronado is dead and so are all his grandchildren!

Tapestries!

2^nd Scene

Answer these questions:

1.   Why has he spoken with that accent?

2.   Why has he hit the butler?

3.   Why has his father started a fire?

4.   How have they got into that room?

Who has said these sentences? 

And put them in order too

1.   The man is deaf

2.   How dare he!

3.   I am Mickey Mouse!

4.   And we have many tapestries.

5.   There are tapestries!

6.   Are you expected?

7.   Our situation has not improved

8.   I’m almost free

9.   And the chair

10. The floor is on fire

11. They got us

12. More or less

13. Son I’m sorry

14. Are we hit?

15. Should try reading books instead of burning them!

16. What are you hiding?

17. Search him

State of Alabama

What do we know about Alabama?

Next Monday we’ll talk about this State’s history;

• who lived there  before the Europeans arrived;
• what Spanish explorer was the first to get there and when; also what was the negative effect on the inhabitants; 
• when it became a State and what side it took in the Civil War;
• why figures like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, or George Washington Carver, are important in the State of Alabama;
• what motto, flag, flower, bird and tree represent this State;
• why rockets are part of Alabama.

    Big wheels keep on turning, carry me home to see my kin ...

Singing songs about the Southland

I miss Alabama once again

And I think it's a sin, 

yea ...

Sweet Home Alabama

This a very famous song that also has become a symbol of this State
The song has an interesting story of its own
Find out who wrote it, and why there was a controversy about the song
Please make a comment on the singers' looks

Let's have a Christmas carol because ... Christmas is round the corner

 Jingle Bell Rock

Maybe to start we should ... 

use a slower time 

Marco Carta sings Jingle Bells real slow

Have a very nice time

Accidentally in Love, or … Tense Practice!

Lyrics

I.   Sing the song! Sing it several times at home. If you practice you’ll sound wonderfully.

II. These verbs are used in the song. Write down senteces where they appear.

say  , know , think  , take , cure,  make , 

turn around , face, follow, be after, run , 

come , melt, surrender, mean , move, hear , 

whisper, settle down, jump, feel .

III.  Write down all the comparative adjectives

IV.  Write down all the verbs in the imperative

V.     Go to our Aula XXI site and find the task you’ve got to do with some of those verbs.

Let's listen, talk and... sing

Academy Award for Best Original Song

Group work

Once upon a time ..., What was the problem with Elsa in “Frozen”?

Now listen to Demi Lovato's version

Compare both versions. What voice do you like best? What rhythm?

Listen to the song without looking at the lyrics, what version do you understand better?

Pair work:

Find synonyms for these words: glow, howl, swirl, conceal, hold back, slam, rage, bother

Put these sentences in order:

1.          Don’t let them see

2.        Heaven knows I’ve tried

3.        It looks like I’m the queen

4.        The wind is howling

5.        I don’ care

6.        Not a footprint

7.        The snow glows white

8.        Conceal, don’t feel

9.        Turn away and slam the door

   10.      Let the storm rage on

What do you know about the USA [2]

After Reviewing

Four year old geography genious

Pair Work

The 50 States of the Union

Choose a State and find out

     

1.         When it got into the Union

2.        The capital

3.        The population

4.        The climate

5.        The main economic resources

6.        Two o three interesting places to visit

7.       Why that name