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Answer the questions

1. When did Greta hear about climate change or global warming for the first time?
2. What were people expected to do to face the problem of climate change?
3. What happened when Greta was eleven?
4. What does she tell us about people being diagnosed the Asperger syndrome?
5. What should  Sweden reduce every year?
6. What will  we have anyway when we stop burning fossil fuels ?
7. What about mass extinction?
8. What does she mean when she says that climate change affects poorer countries?
9. Is the problem of climate change so popular in headlines and breaking news?
10. What  did she do when in Sweden school started in August 2018 and why?
11. What could we do all together?

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An Interview to William Wordsworth

An Interview to William Wordsworth

After having seen a video on Wordsworth's  biography and having read a text related to his life and his works, students are asked to close their books and figure out a possible interview to him.

This is the situation- one of the students plays the role of  Wordsworth. He is introducing his new collection of poems Lyrical Ballads to a group of people.

His purpose is to give information about the book, while answering the questions asked by the other students.

That speaking activity has proved to be useful to memorize the main points of an author's biography and to improve speaking skills while asking questions. 

Speaking activity in the first year

Speaking activity in the first year

Each student is given a card with an adjective (an easy one-small-big,new-old,beautiful-ugly...) Another student is given the opposite adjective.

Students move around the class as each of them  must find the student having the opposite adjective.

After having found him or her they sit at the same desk and interview each other-ten questions to get to know the new deskmate.

They are asked to practise the conversation as after ten minutes some of them will act it out

A conversation to practise new words

Thinking over and over an activity that students in a fourth class could do at the beginning of the school year,  both to revise some of the grammar structures studied in the previous years and to learn new words and expressions while improving their speaking skill, I've had an idea that has proved to be successful.
Students have been asked to make a conversation in groups of four, using modal verbs and the words that they have learnt, while watching a video on the plot of Romeo and Juliet.

The conversation was about the following situation: the character of the Nurse tries to persuade Juliet to marry Count Paris and she replies saying that she can't and giving her reasons.

Daffodils by William Wordsworth,read by Jeremy Irons

While “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” matches Wordsworth’s description of poetic process in the preface to Lyrical Ballads, he actually composed the poem some years after the success of that anthology.

In 1802 he spent some time in the English Lake District. On April 15 he  and his sister Dorothy went for a walk near Ullswater lake. In her journal, Dorothy recounts the experience of seeing the daffodils:

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side, we fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore & that the little colony had so sprung up—But as we went along there were more & yet more & at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing. This wind blew directly over the Lake to them. There was here & there a little knot & a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity & unity & life of that one busy highway—We rested again & again. (85)

Weird stories

These are the stories created by students (level A 1/2) in a group activity. After each group, made of four students, was given two flashcards representing objects or people  having no clear, logical connection, it was asked to make a very short, funny story.

These are the weird, unreal, fantastic, dreamlike stories created by them!

Of course,while reading them, they couldn't stop laughing!

One day a beautiful princess Julia     was walking along a river. Her dream was falling in love with a handsome, fantastic, good boy. That day the princess wanted to get her feet wet into the river. Suddenly, a witch took a frog to make an experiment, but the witch’s son killed the frog and for revenge the witch transformed her son into a frog.The only way to be human again was to get a magical kiss.

The princess was so depressed that she kissed the frog, which changed into a prince, and they lived happily ever after……

In the afternoon, Federica comes back home, she goes in her bedroom, switches on her lamp, opens her bedside table and finds a pair of socks, which were a present from her grandmother for her birthday and starts to remember all the best moments with her!!!

The mouse birthday

Once upon a time there was a family who had a mouse as a pet. Today it’s his birthday and  his family is making a cake for him, actually a cheese cake. After the celebrations, the mouse, called Tommy, tries to drink some tea but the tea is  too hot       

and he falls off inside. After that, the family realizes he is dead!!!

One morning in spring, Tom wakes up and gets up. His mum calls him for breakfast. Tom enters the kitchen and sits at the table. Tom takes a  cup of tea and under it he finds a mouse and he starts screaming…he’s really scared.

One day  I bought a  bus ticket, but after that  I realized  I had run out of money, so I decided to get some money from the bank. While  I was coming back to the bus station a stranger in a black coat hit me and our bags fell off the ground, then we picked them up.

Only ten minutes later,  I realized that we had exchanged our bags and mine was full of money!

Beyoncé - I Was Here (United Nations World Humanitarian Day Performance ...

I Was Here

Beyoncé

I want to leave my footprints on the sand of time
Know there was something that, something that I left behind
When I leave this world, I'll leave no regrets
Leave something to remember, so they won't forget

I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here
I did, I've done, everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be
I will leave my mark, soul, everyone will know, I was here

I wanna say I lived each day, until I died
You know that I, been something in, somebody's life
The hearts I have touched
Will be the proof that I leave
That I made a difference
And this world will see

I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here
I did, I've done, everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be
I will leave my mark so everyone will know

I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here
I did, I've done, everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be
I will leave my mark so everyone will know, I was here

I just want them to know
That I gave my all, did my best
Brought someone some happiness
Left this world a little better just because, I was here

I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here
I did, I've done, everything that I wanted
And it was more than I thought it would be
I wanna leave my mark so everyone will know

I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here
I did, I've done
I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here
I did, I've done, I was here