TASKS

1. Find 3 interesting  websites about animals. Copy the addresses on your blog.

2. Find a video showing an interesting story in which animals are the protagonist/s

 Animals who adopt other animals

3. Find a written real story in which animals are the main protagonists.

4. Go to the following website: http://www.worldoftales.com/ Familiarise with it and find stories about animals. Pay special attention to the fables. Read a few and select three that you understand reasonably well and like.

VIDEO TASK (17/01/2014)

Instructions:   Please, watch the video to learn about the work this institution does through the volunteers:

http://youtu.be/u4bbSh-wnzk

CHRISTMAS STORY 4

Mario, a young drug addict, desperately needs money to pay fo his daily fix. He`s determined to rob a supermarket. When he goes into the shop a Christmas carol is playing on the loudspeakers. It`s a carol his mother used to sing to him when he was a child. He stops for a while and suddenly he can`t help starting to sob and feeling really bitter when the memories filled his mind. Rosa, one of the supermarket girls sees Mario and asks him if he is all

righ. Mario looks at Rosa. His right hand is in his pocket and he is still holding a knife.

Rosa like Mario and Mario like Rosa.

They two were one day and fell the love.

After a while they got married and they had had two children, one named George and another called Nick.

He left the drugs and all of his time is for his family

16 DECEMBER 2013 TASK

16 DECEMBER 2013 TASK

16/12/13

TASK 1

Below you'll find 4 stories that may well have happened during Christmas, any Christmas. They need to be finished. Please, read them and choose the one you like best. Finish it. Do it in English most preferably.
Write your part on your notebook. Later on you will upload it on your blog. Make sure that you stick to the following deadline: 12 January 2014 evening.

CHRISTMAS STORY 1

It`s the morning of Christmas Day. Mr. Bull, a lonely, rich, old man is looking at the big Christmas

tree in one of the corners of his huge dining room. There are no presents under the tree that one of the house servants has decorated. The old man sits down and dozes off: he dreams of other Christmas Days during his childhood, when he was poor but happy. He wakes up and begins to accept that once again he will spend Christmas Day all alone. The door bell rings: it`s a totally unexpected visit that cheers up his spirit and somehow changes him forever.

(Dialogue between Mr Bull and The Visitor)

CHRISTMAS STORY 2

Ana and David are a middle­aged couple with two grown up children. They are sitting in their kitchen on Christmas Eve. They have just had another bitter argument. David has just told Ana that maybe they should separate since their relationship seems to be deteriorating so badly. Ana starts crying.

After a while she opens an envelope sent by her doctor. It says she is pregnant. Ana looks at David.

…... She doesnt know what to say.

(Dialogue between Ana and David)

CHRISTMAS STORY 3

Martín, an unemployed father of three children has been looking for a job for over a year with little

success. His situation is really desperate: he has no money to pay for his rent, or his children`s school books and clothes. If they don`t go hungry it`s thanks to some help from relatives.

One day, Martín goes to the toilet at the railway station. He then notices a briefcase propping against the wall. He picks it up and opens it. He can`t believe his eyes: the briefcase contains a lot of money. At first he thinks he is a lucky man. He thinks that all that money will solve his problems but after a few minutes he is not so sure about it all. There`s a big doubt in his head. Should he keep it?

(Dialogue between Martín and Martin´s wife)

CHRISTMAS STORY 4

Mario, a young drug addict, desperately needs money to pay fo his daily fix. He`s determined to rob a supermarket. When he goes into the shop a Christmas carol is playing on the loudspeakers. It`s a carol his mother used to sing to him when he was a child. He stops for a while and suddenly he can`t help starting to sob and feeling really bitter when the memories filled his mind. Rosa, one of the supermarket girls sees Mario and asks him if he is all

righ. Mario looks at Rosa. His right hand is in his pocket and he is still holding a knife.

(Dialogue between Mario and Rosa)

 TASK 2

Read the summary of 'A Christmas Carol' and be prepared to watch the film tomorrow:

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

A mean old man named Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his office on a freezing Christmas Eve. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, shivers in the next room because Scrooge refuses to spend money on heating. 

Scrooge's nephew, Fred, pays his uncle a visit and invites him to his annual Christmas party. Two gentlemen also drop by and ask Scrooge for a contribution to their charity. Scrooge reacts to the holiday visitors with bitterness and venom, spitting out an angry "Bah! Humbug!" in response to his nephew's "Merry Christmas!" 

Later that evening, after returning to his dark, cold apartment, Scrooge receives a chilling visitation from the ghost of his dead partner, Jacob Marley. Marley relates his unfortunate story. As punishment for his greedy  life his spirit has been condemned to wander the Earth loaded with heavy chains. Marley hopes to save Scrooge from sharing the same fate. Marley informs Scrooge that three spirits will visit him during each of the next three nights. 

After the ghost disappears, Scrooge collapses into a deep sleep. He wakes moments before the arrival of the Ghost of Christmas Past, a strange childlike phantom with a brightly glowing head. The spirit takes Scrooge on a journey into the past to previous Christmases from his earlier years. Invisible to those he watches, Scrooge revisits his childhood school days, his apprenticeship with a jolly merchant named Fezziwig, and his engagement to Belle, a woman who leaves Scrooge because his lust for money eclipses his ability to love another. Scrooge, deeply moved, sheds tears of regret before the phantom returns him to his bed. 

The Ghost of Christmas Present, a majestic giant wearing a  green fur robe, takes Scrooge through London to unveil Christmas as it will happen that year. Scrooge watches the large Cratchit family prepare a miniature feast in its poor  home. He discovers Bob Cratchit's crippled son, Tiny Tim, a courageous boy whose kindness and humility warms Scrooge's heart. The specter then takes Scrooge to his nephew's to witness the Christmas party. Scrooge finds the happy gathering delightful and asks the spirit to stay until the very end of the festivities. 

 As the day passes, the spirit ages, becoming much older. Toward the end of the day, he shows Scrooge two starved children, Ignorance and Want, living under his coat. 

He vanishes instantly as Scrooge notices a dark, hooded figure coming toward him. The Ghost of Christmas Future leads Scrooge through a sequence of mysterious scenes relating to an unnamed man's recent death. Scrooge sees businessmen discussing the dead man's riches, some vagabonds trading his personal effects for cash, and a poor couple expressing relief at the death of their creditor. Scrooge, anxious to learn the lesson of his latest visitor, begs to know the name of the dead man. After asking the ghost, Scrooge finds himself in a cemetery, the spirit pointing to a grave. Scrooge looks at the headstone and is shocked to read his own name. He desperately implores the spirit to alter his fate, promising to renounce his insensitive, avaricious ways and to honor Christmas with all his heart. 

Whoosh! He suddenly finds himself safely tucked in his bed. Scrooge is really happy to have the chance to redeem himself and grateful that he has been returned to Christmas Day. He runs onto the street hoping to share his new Christmas spirit. He sends a giant Christmas turkey to the Cratchit house and attends Fred's party, to the surprise of the other guests. As the years go by, he holds true to his promise and honors Christmas with all his heart: he treats Tiny Tim as if he were his own child, provides gifts for the poor, and treats his fellow human beings with kindness, generosity, and warmth.