Happy Xmas

Hi
I wish you a Merry Xmas. Peace and love to everybody in everywhere!

tribute to john lennon

This is the day the music died.

This is my tribute to you, John.

Halloween

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I know I'm writing this post a little late but I was a little afraid because I was no sure how to explain it.

Denise, our teacher, told us about the Halloween tradition in the States, we did some exercises and worked about the topic.
On Wednesday we joined together (both groups) and Jane told us about the Halloween tradition in Scotland, Ireland and Great Britain in general and I noticed that it was a very old festival from Celtic tradition.
Denise told us about Halloween in America ("Trick or truck", very known, you know),

In the link below you can find information about this festival.

Here

At the end of the class we listened a very famous song in Halloween: Michael Jackson's Thriller

Michael Jackson - Thriller (Official Music Video). Watch more top selected videos about: Michael Jackson, Thriller

But my favourite is "Billie Jean"

Pale Course In Hoyos,Life Stories 2

On Friday 22nd November, our second speaker was John McLeisdeir.

He told us he's Scottish but he's lived in many countries around the Atlantic Ocean and now he's living in Gata. He is retired now.

John mc leisdeir' thin places

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He has a strong accent (Scottish) but I liked it because it reminded me Edinburgh.

SONG: John told about San Sebastian.San Sebastan is Piornal's patron Saint (and Acebo's too, I must say!) so I decided to show U a song about this saint from a tradicional group from Extremadura called Acetre. In this song they told us about Jarramplas

Pale Course In Hoyos,Life Stories 1

We have course some Fridays.
We met some people who live in Sierra de Gata but they are foreigner, from an English speaking country (except Mansour,of course) and they've told us about their life and why they are now here,in Sierra de Gata. The talks are called "Life Stories"

On Friday, 15th November Mansour Zaeni was our speaker. He's from Iran and so he told us about Iranian traditions, geography (Iran is like a cat shape) and some of their traditional food. He told us when the Iranian revolution came, he went to Great Britain (he's a exiliated man), his family decided to send there because he spoke English (He told us Iranian education was one of the hardest in the world). He was living there for many years and at last he decided go to Spain; in Andalusia a friend invited him to move to Ibiza. He lived there, played guitar and gave massages to earn his life. One day a friend told him about Sierra de Gata. He decided visit Sierra de Gata, and now he's living here.
He lives in Hoyos and gives a kind of therapeutic massage (I'm sorry but I don't remember the name, I'll ask Elo next day!).
It was very interesting. He said it was the first time he told in a Pale course but he did it very well. His English is very well and (I think) for Spanish ears is very easy to understand.

I'll show U an Iranian recipe that Mansour show us

Mansour's recipe

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I decided to show you a Mansur song called "Mani" that was so popular many years ago.

Pale Course In Hoyos

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We are studying with Denise different skills about language, vocabulary & pronunciation, and also we have conversations and do exercises in our class (and homework, of course). I think it's a good idea because we need to do all this kind of things to improve our English level.

But, also, we listen to music. We did a very funny exercise: Denise gave us a lyric: Don't be cruel, a very famous Elvis Presley song, and we tried to complete the blanks with the words we'd listened.

Dont be cruel

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Don't Be Cruel

The second one is one of my Elvis favourite songs: Suspicious Mind

Pale Course In Hoyos

Hi.
In our second class Jane told us about our groups: advanced group, upstairs and intermediate group, downstairs.

Then we played games together.

WARM UP

The first one was about how can we greeting in different situations:

• You meet a person very close to you but you don't see him long time ago.
• You meet a person you love but the other one doesn't love you.
• You meet a person who owe you money.

When we finished Jane put on our backs a piece of paper with a Scottish people,Irish people or Spanish people wrote in the paper (about literature, art, music and so on) in order to become this person. You couldn't see your name so you must ask for clues about you, like:
-Am I a man or a woman?
-Am I dead or alive?
-Am I from Scotland, Ireland or Spain?
-And so on
And last you might discover the person who you was.
E.g. :Bono (from U2), Robert Louis Stevenson, ....

It was very interesting!!!

SONG: Today is Saturday: time for "fiesta" so I've decided to show you two songs of the disco music years (seventy s)

The first one is Thelma Houston and her song "Don't leave me this way"





The second one is a Bee Gees song. Their hit "Stayin' Alive", from Saturday Night Fever film





Dance!!!!!