mY sUGGESTION
A SIMPLE Song for St Valentine's day Little butterfly
Suggested Tasks: A. Find: 1" to find" = Para encontrar 2.Error : cantan "Your" , subtitulos "my" B. you singalong (=karaokea) C check Vocabulary:
adjectives shy= ,Strong =
All across=
still
the woods
the hills
(nb)upon = on
to need=
someone =
to regret=
To keep =
net= cf(internet)
the sky=
NOTES search for = LOOK FOR = BUSCAR.
TIEMPO PEFECT (PARA MAYO) I've been = he estado ...
DSingalong again
E El que tenga tiempo y ganas: Listen, repeat, and copy the song
TIP: Use "Easter" to talk about this part of the Year especially holidays: Example :" We're going skiing in the Alps at Easter." But use "Holy Week" to talk about Spain: "English people only think of Holy Week PROCESSIONS in Seville."
PANCAKE
a /to FAST = AYUNAR, HENCE: BREAKFAST
THAT'S ALL!
JUST ENJOY THE REST :
+++Carnival in England? No.
"SHROVE*** TUESDAY"
2015.TUE 17 th FEB AKAPANCAKE DAY* the day before
FEB 18, 2015
***Do NOT accept Protestant or American explanations of: shrove, BECAUSE WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK is ASH Wednesday :Lentstarts (What'sLENT? 40 days preparation forEASTER)
:On pancake day,
everybody makes pancakes at home , ALSO PANCAKE RACES And that's all!
How do you cook the other side?: see videos : in the air!
OR
OR
2013.TUE 12 FEB "SHROVE TUESDAY" AKA PANCAKE DAY*
Simple instructions with NO WORDS:
*Everyone makes pancakes: pancakes are fun:
:Pancake Races,
pancake races, traditional ,popular.
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a "historical" view " Robin Hood":
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Note: in the " Historical " video here the ingredient: "a little flour" (un poco de harina) is misunderstood as " a little flower" (una flor pequeña). races you must toss your pancake while you run. Another Example: Spitalfields, London:
here, You STOP to toss your pancake.
British Pancake racingis many centuries old .(The Olneypancake race started 1445. About 40 videos of the Olney races are on youtube).
OPTIONAL NOTES
FYI =FOR YOUR INFORMATION
days and dates:
"SHROVE TUESDAY" AKA PANCAKE DAY
ASH Wednesday: Lentstarts (What'sLENT?The 40 days of preparation forEASTER) Lent : a time of PENANCE, ALMS-GIVING, FASTING and"Giving UP"= ABSTINENCE Mothering Sunday aka Mother's Day on midlent sunday
April Fool's Day: always 1st April, independantly of lent and Easter Palm Sunday-the last Sunday of lent is followed by Holy Week: Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday, etc But Maundy Thursday Good Friday EASTER: HOLY SATURDAY*** midnight EASTER**** offically startsEASTER SUNDAY,EASTER MONDAY ( a bank holiday) Holy saturday night plus EASTER SUNDAY plus EASTER MONDAY
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Traditionally "Easter eggs" on Easter Sunday were: painted (boiled) normal eggs,( as in Asturias).
In Some British places,
at Easter,
People race eggs
down hills
and see videos below
In the USA:
At Easter
children are invited to the White house to roll eggs .
Today, Easter eggs are usually chocolate !
Perhaps , with the economic crisis.........................
+++The word "Carnival" is a "false friend"
because it describes:
exuberant public festivities at all dates For example Notting Hill Carnival in London: In summer!
Statistics: Probably 95% of the British celebrate pancake day with pancakes.
70% SAY they are Christian
about 30% (10% catholic, 20% protestant) observe ash Wednesday, and lent
teneis A FINAL EL LIBRO, VOCABULAY BANK
Como aprender.
1. los ejercicios del blog
2. repite todo
3. confecciona tu propio "family tree" , con los nombres de tus parientes, y repitatelo.(Personalizar vocabulario funciona a menudo.)
FAMILY
Introduction: Cinderella(=cenicienta)
Here is Cindrella's family problem : Her Mother?RIP (= requiescat in pacem =DE.P.). Her father: new marriage. His new wife , his second wife: Cindrella's ........????..-mother.(check below) This" good woman" already (=ya)has two daughters: Cinderella's ............?????-sisters.(check below)
ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUR RELATIONS ORRELATIVES(=familiares, parientes)
FAMILIAR is a FALSE FRIEND
The first nine + words are the most important/las mas importantes las nueve palabras primeras
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Male
female
generic
Spanish
father
mother
parent
padre
son
daughter
child *
or Kid
hijo/a/os/as
brother
sister
sibling**
hermano/a etc
-
-
cousin
primo/a etc
uncle
aunt
- say" uncle and aunt," "uncles and aunts", etc
nephew
niece
- similar to above
sobrino/a
Notes:child = kid = child
* 1 child, plural children
*2 remember also:
male : boy o sea que"Kid/kids " child/children es la forma generica tanto de "niños "como de "hijos"
female girl
"child" or "kid"
niño/nene, etc
** sibling, palabra generica antigua que cayo en desuso pero que vuelve ahora
Difficulty: your brain looks for an individual equivalent for yerno, suegro, padrino, etc/el cerebro busca palabras equivalentes uno por uno BUT ENGLISH DOES IT ALL WITH AFFIXES/Ingles hace todo con prefijos y sufijos Exercise :Repeat those first nine etc words with the following affixes
Prefixes:
Gran(d)- for 3 lineal generations:
los abuelos: grandparents, a grandparent, grandmother, grandfather, grandfathers, , etc etc
los nietos: grandchild, grandchildren, grandson, grandsons grandaughter, grandaughters, etcetc
Step- for relationships deriving from remarriage.= the Spanish suffix-astro/a Think of cinderella! so: Stepfather, stepmother, stepchildren, stepson,stepdaughter,stepbrother, stepsister,etc
God-for relationships deriving from baptism. Think of Al Pacino!
Say Godparent, Godparents, Godfather, Godmother, godchild, Godchildren, Godson, Godaughter, Godsons, etc Half- same as in Spanish : half brother, etc
Foster-for relationships via fostering(=acojida).(Centuries old in England, relatively new in Spain(=acojida)) Say: Foster parents, fosterfather, foster- etc etc
Suffix -inlawmother inlaw, brotherinlaw, soninlaw etc etc for relationships from marriage/, como el Spanish adjective "politico" Calcula primero el equivalente de yerno, suegro, etc Prefix Great- for extra generations Great -granparents, great grand children :4 generations =vis-
Great -great - grandaparents: 5 generations, = tartar , and so on
NB :Dificultad para la vida real, mas alla de NB1: sugerencia del profe no aprender hasta que las circumstancias te obligan Prefijos y sufijos tambien se aplican a diminutivos : father , = Paw,Pa, Dad, Daddy, Pop etc mother =Ma, Mum, Mummy, Mom Ejemplos. Mi madrina = my godmother= my Godmama , Grandpa = abuelito, y asi Relationships Relationships Relationships Stages of standard Relationships between a man and a woman
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Stage
Male
female
generic
Group ( very rarely , pair =couple)
Married
Husband
Wife
Spouse, "better half"= 1/2 naranja
A married couple
For many centuries, couples just “living together”
Common-law husband
Common-law wife
A ( commonlaw) married couple
Wedding-day and honeymoon only
Groom or bridegroom
bride
A Newly-wed couple, a just married couple, “newly-weds” “just-marrieds”
Formally engaged , but single
Fiancé
Fiancé or fiancée
?fiance?
An engaged couple. Cf to be engaged
Dating or? (officially, SINGLE( = soltero/a/os/as))
boy-friend
girl-friend
My?
A (?) couple
(Once: a courting couple)
NB "boy and girl " talk in relationships now covers people 90 or 100 years old.
First( ‘) date(s), between single people
My/etc date
A couple on a date (?) cf a blind date,
double-dating(2 couples) etc
Other words :
Picking-up, chatting up
A pick-up * be careful= casual tabu, offensive
Cf to pick up, to chat up, many other more tabu synonyms
Irregular and extramarital liasons
Toyboy , gigolo
Very old fashioned:
Mistress, kept woman
Lover
At any moment or condition, as in Spanish “amante”, the relationship will be physical or not depending on the context
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Politically correct :
Anything modern &/or , indefinite and /or indescribable
Partner
This covers, say 5 men+ 3 women+ + 3 indefinables+ a gorilla .They’re all partners! And a man and his car?
Lamentablemente, pero asi es como se habla, casi identico al castellano: Prefijo :"ex-" p.ej: His exgirlfriend is a nurse. Tambien ajectivos y participios pasados: divorced, separated
NOW pARA El alumno mas atrevido, no es tarea fail para nb1
Hay muchas estructuras etc que no conoceis aun , mas querria que usaiass la cancion para practicar este vocabulario con sufijos y afijos.
Trama : se dice que esto si paso en el s.xix en the "Wild West" de las yankilandias : varon de 23 se casa con vuida bella de 30y pocos. La nueva esposa tenia hija de 16+ , y el Padre de 40 años del primer hombre, viudo el, se enamora de esta ultima y se casa con ella, Los dos matrimonios tenien prole, ¿que relacion de parentesco tiene cada cual? ( el primero en casarse es su propio abuelo.Calcula.)
Exercise: fill in then click above link
Put in:Grandpa widow father uncle Dad son daughter husband wife mother' grandmother grandchild, stepmother brother-in-law brother son-in-law
I 'm My Own …….. It sounds funny, I know, But it really is so, Oh, I'm my own …………….I'm my own ....... (x2)
Now many, many years ago, when I was twenty-three, I was married to a ……………….who was pretty as could be.
This ………………..had a grown-up …………………who had hair of red.
My……………….. fell in love with her, and soon they, too, were wed.
This made my …………….my ………………….and changed my very life,
My ………………..was my………………., cause she was my ………………s wife.
To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy, I soon became the …………………….of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became a …………………….to…………..,
And so became my……………….., though it made me very sad.
For if he was my………………., then that also made him ………………
Of the …………………….s grown-up…………………., who, of course, was my. …………………..
………………..'s wife then had a …………….who kept him on the run, And he became my……………………, for he was my ………………..'s son.
My………………. is now my……………….. s…………….., and it makes me blue,
Because, although she is my…………….., she's my………………………., too.
Now if my …………is my………………., then I'm her …………………………..
And everytime I think of it, it nearly drives me wild,
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw As ………………….of my………………….., I am my own……………………!
I'm my own…………(x2)It sounds funny, I know, but it really is so, Oh, I'm my own ………………………
You also need this vocab: widow, = viuda; to wed, wed/wedded, wed/wedded = to marry=to get married, cf a wedding=una boda; wild=savage, not domesticated, in a natural state; idiom: a bouncing baby boy, to bounce = rebotar, like a ball; idiom to keep s.o. on the run, = to keep them very busy, leave them no time; Note Dad=Father=Pa=Paw
Recognize all the family words, repeat them to yourself
NOW Follow along karoke style withis one, watch the relationship diagram!
another version, you may enjoy the images
**para cuando tocahay= There is/are There are four people in my family
In my boyfriend's family there are seven people
Now there are only two of us at home
I think there are three of you who can help me.
There are four people in my family/
there are four of us
We are four people in my family/
we are four
In English numbers like this go THERE TO BE.....+ or- of...
Correct the following: (answers after the first video: there are four people in my family)
EASTER: HOLY SATURDAY*** midnight EASTER**** offically startsEASTER SUNDAY, EASTER MONDAY ( a bank holiday)
so: Stepfather, stepmother, stepchildren, stepson,stepdaughter,stepbrother, stepsister,etc
