Index

The main purpose of this blog is showing the tremendous pedagogical potential of movies and transcripts particularly for foreign language teaching. 

Save your students the cost of a reader for one term and ask them to read any of these scripts, Friend's pilot episode The One Where it All Began which includes a set of individual and group activities with answers key;  
Beowulf, also with the Spanish translation; 
Babel; 
Sinbad.
Sex and the City - Pilot Episode
The Young Ones - Pilot Episode
Inside Job movie transcripts 

as well as those transcripts students have included in their own magazine-assignment project:


PS: I love You
Up by Walt Disney
Grease - first scene and lyrics
The Aristocats by Walt Disney
The Fast and the Furious
Pulp Fiction
Family Guy - first episode
Charlie's Angels
Wild Child
American Pie
Never Back Down
Full Metal Jacket
Titanic
Friday 13th
Mula by Walt Disney
Die Hard
White Chicks
Gran Torino
Dances with Wolves
Cat Woman
Pirates of the Caribean
Men in Black 2
Jurasic Park
Spiderman 2
The Fast and the Furious 5
The Transporter
Paranormal Activity
Back to the Future


Try also these short transcripts for a funny lesson,

My Blackberry is not Working
Rowan Atkinson as the Devil


If you are teaching Spanish as a Foreign or Second language, do consider the following movie scripts or fragments from scripts:


Los Protegidos - temporada 2 - cap. 14
Beastly
Las Cronicas de Narnia
Los Simpson
Aida - cap. 94
Matrix
Escenas de Matrimonio - Los Protegidos - Los Simpson


This PowerPoint presentation: Using ICT to recreate a Private Tuition Environment in a Multifunctional Classroom together with Language and Identity could be another term's reader to download for free. Some fragments of which could yield an interesting guided debate on FLT methodologies.


Cognate Bilingual Dictionaries is a short quantitative research, a good complement for the previous reading.


Once more, save your students the cost of a term's reader and ask them to download for free this article published by the Ontario International Journal on Sustained Development in Canada, Unconscious Dynamics of Gender Inequality.


This article was later expanded and included in Lady Liberty – Constructing the Jungian Self in Gender Parity and Linguistic Diversity published recently by Lambert Academic Publishing. If you need a publisher for your investigations or thesis, take a look at my experience working with this German publisher.

This publication includes a guided debate on gender parity; it could also yield others on Altered States of Consciousness, Female Iconography and Prostitution.


Furthermore, if you need an example of guided debate, a template to follow and create your own guided debates, you can also take a look at this one on Life After Death, posted as well in some other social networks, and favourably upraised by their coordinators.


This Free on-line English Language Course on Style  and syntactic structures of The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown was implemented as a class activity with students of advanced level in EOI Manresa this course of 2011-12.


Another on-line Free English Language Course on Comparative semantics.


Bodily Kinesthetic Dynamics




Ladder Workouts has been presented in several international conferences and published by Educaweb.com.


Newaza - Ground Techniques was presented at the First Ibero-American Conference on Sports Education in La Habana -Cuba- and its implementation of with my teenage students of last year has been a wonderful experience.


The relaxation and massage session that followed was also very soothing.

These Singing performances, theatre plays and parties were also very exciting.


This School year we have put into practice some bodily kinesthetics dynamics:


Human Castles in the English Class
Haka
Why a Pub in Classroom,
Poker Dice
Cooking in the Classroom,


Urban and School Orchards was accepted for presentation at one of the last editions of the International Conference on Sports Education organized by Universitat de Barcelona.

Other activities



A Web-Quest on Paleolithic and Neolithic venus was definitely a great and amusing experience and my most visited post. you are encouraged to try it for yourselves with your students. Here you have more venuses.


Oral Presentations given by my students of this school year in an extremely interesting variety of topics:

• Oral Presentation - Caving
• Oral Presentation - Wood Solutions for Constructio...
• Oral Presentation - Pueblo Ingles
• Oral Presentation - Personal
• Oral Presentation - Verdi
• Oral Presentation - Xtec/gmail services
• Oral Presentation - Live Cooking Show

• Oral Presentation - Genetics
• Oral Presentation - Asperger Syndrom
• Oral Presentation - LipDub
• Cape Town - South Africa - Oral Presentation
• First Democratic Institutions - op
• Abadal Winery Bages County - op
• Auroville India - op
• Cardona - op
• Schizophrenia - op
• Social Worker - op
• My Profession . op
• Working as a Primary Teacher - op
• Clean the Salt - op
• Mandalas - op
• Learning Camp of Bages - op
• Full Moon rising from the window of my class
• Vallparadis Park - Terrassa - Barcelona
• Peru - Machu Pichu and Nazca - op
• Living without Hearing - op
• Chocolate - op
• Armagedon - op
• Yosemite Park - USA - op
• Torpeza Ritmika Street Performance
• LiveScripts - Guiones: Torpeza Ritmika Street Perf...
• A Walk along Ramblas in almost Spring Equinox
• Inside Job movie transcripts
• Trans-Pyrenees Cycling Tour - op
• A Case Study on Crime - op
• Ponts - op
• IT Program with Wixaritari, Mexico - op
• Emotional Pain - op
• Istanbul - op
• MTTU - My Trip to Uruguay - op
• My Huge Caravan and Going Camping - op
• Come Join my Sports Club - op
• Rubbish or Gold - Bling Bling - op
• Welcoming Class - op
• Should only teachers be evaluated - New York City ...
• Bages prison - op
• Water Slides - op
• The DJ's World - op
• Coeliac Desease - op
• Fishing at the Delta de l'Ebre - op
• English Summer Course at California - op

Setting up a Non-profit association like ours can be a very educational resource, here we provide one example of mission statement in two languages -Spanish and Catalan- as a template for students to write down their own mission statement according to their interests, it could be a sports and entertaining association, cultural or political, etc...

Finally, Archetypes is another proposal to show the potential of Jungian psychology.




More feedback and suggestions welcome.

Programa ReIniciat - Presentació

Interessant per una vegada sentir parlar del fracas com a cami cap a l'exit

Coral Ies Sentmenat i l'Escola de la Parroquia d'Encamp d'Andorra

Massage - giving each other a rub.

 

Second part of Newaza experience was meant to be a relaxation session in which students would provide the soft music and burning sticks to create a nize atmosphere, then, a pair of expert students would come out infront of everybody and perform a massage session for everybody to follow.

Meanwhile, I would keep time of the sequence of body parts to work on. We had agreed to start with someone's feet, legs, back, arms and hands with the students receiving the massage lying on the floor on his/her tommy; then, he-she would sit down to have his/her head, scalp and face rubbed; and finally changing turns.

But we didn't have time to complete both activities in the same session, so we had to put off the massage part; however, these girls from one of the groups just couldn't wait and improvised this never-seen-before rubbing train.  I hope to complete this entry with the massage session from everybody, that is, if they finish their class assignments and homework.

Newaza - a real experience

Unit 6 of Voices deals with Extreme Sports, we had all agreed that trying out parachuting in Costa Brava would've been great but, it was a little bit over our budget, so we had to make do with a session of Newaza, which properly played forces everybody to an extreme all-out effort and you can take my word for it because i personally confronted some of my students in a ground randori, and can asure you they were fit!!

this is my suggestion to other teachers willing to enjoy the thrill of fighting their own kids in a safe way, without getting hurt, also enjoying the view of your own students fighting each other with the satisfaction that they shouldn't hit each other; that is, channalizing their aggressivity in a positive manner.

I first asked them to connect to my blog and answer these questions:

http://livescripts.blogspot.com/2008/06/revolcones-newaza-randoris-en-el-suelo.html

1. what is the purpose of the activity?
2. what is a randori?
3. what is the sequence of activities we will follow?
4. translate this activity. Use the automatic translator if you need it but, format the document like this: one line in Spanish, another line in English making sure the translation makes sense.
5. send your documents to my e.mail.

Afterwards we went to the gym and these are some pictures taken from the activity, hope you enjoy them and motivates you to try the experience with your own class, if you do, let me know how it went. thank you.

Campionat Infantil de Judo - Escola Dominiques de Sarria.

El Respeto - Sant Jordi - Pautas para escribir un ensayo.

Premi Sant Jordi 2011                                               Ensayo - El Respeto

El respeto es aceptar y comprender cómo son los demás y su forma de pensar aunque no sea igual que la nuestra y creamos que están equivocados. El respeto mutuo significa entender que a pesar de nuestras diferencias, todos somos iguales, tenemos las mismas necesidades y si no tenemos un defecto o virtud, tendremos otros. El respeto es la piedra angular de nuestras relaciones familiares y sociales que en las escuelas tenemos obligación de fomentar, estudiar y debatir.

Una falta de respeto, un insulto por ejemplo o una risa irónica, supone asumir que alguien está por debajo de nosotros y, por tanto, que somos superiores; lo cual es fuente de numerosos conflictos escolares. Entonces, pensar que en el fondo todos somos iguales y necesarios debería ayudarnos a responder ante una ofensa de forma proporcional; de otra manera, la escalada de insultos puede llevar a amenazas físicas y peleas que, en cualquier caso, generan inseguridad alrededor. En estos casos, conviene saber no sólo quién empezó la discusión sino también las amenazas físicas y/o las agresiones, de forma que puedan valorarse las responsabilidades con equidad. En otras palabras, a un insulto no es proporcional una amenaza física, ni tampoco a una amenaza le resultaría proporcional una agresión.

Cada uno establece la gravedad de una ofensa así como la manera de reaccionar ante ella de forma proporcional según el contexto en que se produzca. A veces reaccionamos de forma más distante, visceral o permisiva por razones que desconocemos. Tampoco parece adecuado tomarse a mal cualquier tipo de comentario porque sin duda daría lugar a una falta de sociabilidad al no ser capaces de reconocer nuestras propias limitaciones.

La falta de respeto es una consecuencia de la crisis de valores de nuestra sociedad: La religión ha perdido la autoridad de antaño, la poca afluencia de votantes a las urnas refleja el desprestigio de la clase política, la ciencia se encuentra al servicio de intereses económicos, la TV y los medios de comunicación ensalzan a los caraduras y los sinvergüenzas como los modelos a imitar, etc... En este contexto, la escuela representa el último bastión de respeto mutuo que, junto a la justicia, forman las bases de una sociedad democrática como la nuestra y, tal como señalamos, en las escuelas tenemos la obligación de fomentarlo, estudiarlo y debatirlo.

Mingo, Marzo de 2011

Actividades recomendadas:

Lectura y audición de estas dos canciones,

http://nanothoughts.blogspot.com/2007/09/lyrics-to-show-respect-to-michael.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DZ3_obMXwU

http://www.lyrics007.com/Aretha%20Franklin%20Lyrics/Respect%20Lyrics.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUWYVJmW-cs&feature=fvwrel

¿Cómo escribir un ensayo?

1. Selecciona un tema que te guste o te interese,
2. Busca información sobre ese tema, por ejemplo, la definición, diferentes acepciones o significados, la etimología de la palabra...
3. Busca canciones, películas, comics, libros o autores que estén relacionados,
4. Trata de recordar experiencias personales que también guarden alguna relación.
5. Haz una lista de los puntos que más te gustaría resaltar o explicar.
6. Ponlos en orden de forma que sigan esta estructura:

Primer párrafo: la introducción y definición del tema así como tu opinión sobre el mismo.

Segundo párrafo: argumentos que den credibilidad a tu punto de vista.

Tercer párrafo: alguna opinión contraria a tu punto de vista y como rebatirla.

Cuarto párrafo: las conclusiones de tu investigación junto a alguna frase del primer párrafo.