This website is very useful if you are planning to travel.
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/travelenglish/index.html
AIRPORTS/AIRPLANES:
AT THE AIRPORT 1: Looking for the check-in
desk
AT THE AIRPORT 2: At the
check-in desk
AT THE AIRPORT 3: At
the check-in desk
AT THE
AIRPORT: What's wrong?
AT THE
AIRPORT: Questions and answers
ON
THE PLANE: Speaking with flight attendants/passengers 1
ON THE PLANE: Speaking with flight
attendants/passengers 2
ON
THE PLANE: What's wrong?
CUSTOMS/IMMIGRATION: Entering a country
CUSTOMS/IMMIGRATION: Questions and
answers
HOTELS/ACCOMMODATIONS:
AT THE HOTEL: General vocabulary
1
AT THE HOTEL: General
vocabulary 2
AT THE HOTEL 1:
Checking in
AT THE HOTEL 2: Checking
in
AT THE HOTEL 3: Getting from the
hotel into the city
AT THE HOTEL 4:
Talking to someone at the reception desk
AT THE HOTEL 5: Making a
reservation
AT THE HOTEL 6:
Asking directions
AT THE HOTEL:
Talking about what you like/don't like
AT THE HOTEL: Questions and
answers
RESTAURANTS/BARS/EATING
OUT:
AT THE RESTAURANT 1: Getting
seated
AT THE RESTAURANT 2:
Ordering
AT THE RESTAURANT 3:
Ordering
AT THE RESTAURANT 4:
Ordering
AT THE RESTAURANT 5: Eating a
meal
AT THE RESTAURANT 6: Eating/bad
service
AT THE RESTAURANT 7: Finishing
a meal/paying
AT THE RESTAURANT:
Talking about what you like/don't like
AT THE BAR: Ordering drinks 1
EATING OUT: Fast food
vocabulary
SHOPPING/BUYING
THINGS:
SHOPPING 1:
General
SHOPPING 2:
General
SHOPPING 3: Postcards,
souvenirs
SHOPPING (Q
+ A) 1
SHOPPING (Q +
A) 2
SHOPPING VOCABULARY: ANTONYMS -
Describing items 1
SHOPPING/BUYING THINGS: Name the item in
the picture 1
SHOPPING/BUYING
THINGS: Name the item in the picture 2
SHOPPING/BUYING THINGS: Name the item in
the picture 3
SHOPPING/BUYING
THINGS: Name the item in the picture 4
TRANSPORTATION (TRAINS/CARS/ETC.):
Modes of transportation 1 - How are we getting
there?
BUYING TICKETS
(train/bus tickets): Questions and answers 1
BUYING TICKETS (train/bus
tickets): Questions and answers 2
BUYING TICKETS (plane, train, bus, etc.)
1
BUYING TICKETS (plane, train,
bus, etc.) 2
BUYING TICKETS
(plane, train, bus, etc.) 3
BUYING
TICKETS (ferry/boat)
TRAINS/TAKING
TRAINS: What's wrong?
DRIVING
1: At the gas station
DRIVING:
What's wrong?
SIGHTSEEING:
Sightseeing-related words/expressions -
Definitions 1
Sightseeing-related words/expressions -
Definitions 2
Sightseeing-related words/expressions -
Definitions 3
Sightseeing-related words/expressions -
Definitions 4
Sightseeing-related words/expressions -
Definitions 5
SIGHTSEEING:
Conversations while sightseeing 1
SIGHTSEEING: Conversations while sightseeing
2
SIGHTSEEING: Conversations while
sightseeing 3
SIGHTSEEING:
Questions and answers
SIGHTSEEING:
Common terms/expressions
MEETING AND TALKING
TO PEOPLE:
Meeting people
1
Meeting people 2
TALKING TO PEOPLE: Making small
talk
TALKING TO PEOPLE: Talking
about your age, family, etc.
TALKING TO PEOPLE: Saying goodbye
ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS:
Conversations 1
ASKING FOR
DIRECTIONS: Conversations 2
ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS: General
terms/phrases
INTERNET
CAFES/COMPUTERS 1
HEALTH/SAFETY:
HEALTH: Seeing a doctor
HEALTH: What's wrong?
SAFETY/CRIME: What's wrong?
Friday, October 12, 2012
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Decoupage
Decoupage for the descriptive paragraph
I.
Tutorial
It shows the technique.
II.
Instructions
1.
The descriptive paragraph must be in the center
of the tile.
2.
The decoupage Puerto Rican elements (places, food, arts, animals,and people) must be around
the descriptive paragraph(like a picture frame).
Diorama
How to make a diorama
I.
Tutorial
II.
Your diagram must:
1.
be about a Puerto Rican legend, myth, fairy tale,
or fable. It could the fable that you
wrote for the class or one discussed in class.
2.
have the characters and setting of your story
inside the shoe box.
3.
Have the story on the back of the shoe box.
Mobiles
How to make a mobile
A.
Tutorial Videos
*Your mobile doesn’t have to be exactly as the ones in these
videos. These videos are a resource to get
an idea on how to make the mobiles.
B.
Your mobile must have:
1.
20 bottle caps (10 for facts and 10 for opinions
about Puerto Rico)
2.
Figures about different things that represent
Puerto Rico (parrot, flag, flowers like flor de maga, amapola, etc., el morro,
leaves, coconut, coqui, etc.) Do them in materials that make sounds.
3.
Place the strings in different heights.
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Curricular Maps
Steps:
1. Find mapas curriculares.
2. Click ENGLISH.
3.Find the address that has your grade, and access it.
4. Find and click ANEJOS/ATTACHMENTS.
5. Click the unit that we are working on.
6. Print the handouts.
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This is another site where you could find the curricular maps.https://www.box.com/shared/e35673c269df9f298051
Monday, September 10, 2012
Half-a-chick/El medio pollito
FOLKTALE
J. Alden Mason and Aurelio M. Espinosa found three versions of the El Medio Pollito story that were being told in Puerto Rico in the beginning of this century. These versions were European and probably were brought to the island from Castile. R. S. Boggs in his article �The Halfchick Tale in Spain and France� summarizes the story as it was basically being told in Puerto Rico, but also found a literary version that was being used in schools in the United States. The story is retold in The Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang from Fernan Caballero. The version that I have translated seems to be closer to this version than to the original Castilian story. Apparently this version was introduced in Puerto Rico after the island became a possession of the United States in 1898. Marigloria Palma in her book Muestras del Folklore Puertorriqueno (in Spanish) tells the story as she heard it as a child. I have translated her version of the story and illustrated the story as I see it.Summary
Half-a-chick decides to travel to the capital to find a doctor to repair or add his missing half. He has one leg, one eye, and one wing but believes he is better than everyone in the chicken coop and cannot stand being there anymore. Before leaving, his mother gives him advice which he does not follow. On his way to the capital he refuses to help river, wind, and fire. When he finally arrives to the big city, he confuses the king and queen with the cooks of the palace. He is overcooked and thrown out of the kitchen window. The wind picks him and takes him high in the air and puts him on top of the cathedral where he becomes a weathercock at the mercy of the rain, the wind, and the hot sun.The story focuses on the punishment of arrogance and conceit. Half-a-chick pays dearly for his attitude and treatment of those in need. The full translation of this tale is found in the following pages. El medio pollito �Half-a-chick� Once upon a time and two more makes three, a beautiful hen hatched many chicks but among them there was one that was different from the others, with only one eye, one leg, and one wing. Mother Hen loved him just a little more because she felt sorry for him. So it happened that with all this extra attention Half-a-chick became very arrogant and conceited; he would look down upon his brothers and sisters with dislike. If the others made fun of him, he thought it was because they were jealous of him. If the pretty chicks looked at him with disgust or anger, he thought it was because lie did not pay attention to any of them.
�My son,� she said, �where did you get such a silly idea?� Your father has never left this chicken coop and we have been very happy here. Where are you going to find more love than here with us?� Half-a-chick answered, �I sent to go where the king and queen live, I want to meet them! Everyone here is very stupid and inferior to me.� Mother Hen could not stand to hear him any longer and said,� Son, haven�t you seen your reflection in the pond? You have only one wing, one leg, and one eye! That is your disgrace because your father was very handsome.� �Don�t talk to me about my father�s good looks!� grumbled Half-a-chick, �It�s your fault that I look like this! It was your egg . . .� Mother Hen sadly lowered her head until her until her beak touched the ground. She felt helpless; she couldn�t give Half-a-chick his missing half. She whispered, �Forgive me, my son, even though it is not my fault. Yours was the last egg I laid, maybe that�s the reason . . .� Half-a-chick interrupted her and said coldly, �In the big city I will find a doctor who will operate on me and add the parts that I�m missing. I�m leaving as soon as I can!� Since it was useless to change Half-a-chick�s mind, Mother Hen decided to give him some advice. �Listen to me, my dear son, never walk in front of a church: Saint Peter and the saint there do not like roosters. Stay away from cooks: those are your worst enemies, they are experts at wringing chicken�s necks.� She then gave him her blessing and prayed to Saint Raphael to protect him. Finally she told him to get his father�s blessing even if they did not get along very well. Half-a-chick went to see his father, kissed his foot, and asked for his blessing. His father, who also loved him out of pity, was very kind in his farewell. Mother Hen hid and cried. She did not want her son to see her crying. Half-a-chick flapped his only wing, crowed three times, and hopped out of the chicken coop to conquer the world. After following the road for a while he came upon a river that was almost dry. Down the center he could see a thin trickle of water. The trickle of water said faintly to Half-a-chick, �Friend, I feel so weak that I cannot push those branches out of my way, and I�m too tired to go around them. Can you move them out of the way for me? You can use your beak. I beg you! Help Me!�
The trickle screamed, �You will need me someday, you fool!� Further down the road, he found a dying breeze lying on the ground. �Oh good Half-a-chick, � said the weak breeze, �I am lying here and cannot get up. I, that am really a powerful, strong wind. I would like to go and push some waves and get tangled in the high branches of the trees. Can you lift me up with your beak? If you gave me a little shove with your wing, I could get going. The heat is killing me down here! �Look, you dumb wind, you are getting what you deserve. You�re staying right where you are! You have bothered me enough already. You have spread my feathers apart and since I only have one leg, you have pushed me against the wall. I have gotten a lot of bumps and bruises because of you, mean bad wind.� Half-a-chick yelled furiously and turned to go on his way. The wind that could not get up off the ground screamed, �Every chicken gets cooked! You are a fool!�
The spark gathered together its last energy and yelled, �I�ll remember you! Someday you might need me, you fool!� Half-a-chick got so angry at the spark that he stomped on it with his only leg until it became ashes. When Half-a-chick finally arrived at the big city, the first thing he did was to disobey his mother�s advice. He went straight to the cathedral door and started to crow loudly so that Saint Peter would get angry. He then set out for the palace. In front of the palace, where the king and queen lived, the guards told him to stop. For the first time in his life, he was afraid. The guards had guns! Instead of stopping, he turned around and sneaked in through a side door. Once inside the palace, Half-a-chick kept hopping and walked into a huge kitchen where the men were wearing tall white hats. He thought that they were the king and queen. He walked straight up to them. One of the cooks grabbed him and wrung his neck. The cook yelled at his helper, �Get me some hot water to feather this sneak!� �Oh Water, dear friend, don�t scald me too much, have pity on me! begged Half-a-chick. �Did you have pity on me when I asked you to push the branches that were in my way? Do you remember me?� Water asked. After the cook had feathered Half-a-chick, he put him in the oven. Half-a-chick screamed at the fire, �Fire, dear friend, you are so powerful and destructive, have pity on me. Don�t burn me, please!� �You fool! Now you come with that. Don�t you remember me? I was that little spark that begged you for help and to not let me die,� said the fire and roasted Half-a-chick until it burned him to a crisp. Now when the cook saw the burned chick, he cursed and threw it out the window. Then the Wind swept it up. �Dear Wind, I want to lie down on the earth, drop me anywhere, under a tree, don�t take me up high, don�t drop me . . . I have already suffered so much,� Half-a-chick sobbed. �What are you saying?� roared the furious Wind, while rolling Half a-chick around and around. You have a terrible memory . . . Don�t you remember when I pleaded with you to give me just a little shove, to lift me off the ground? Did you help me? No! You insulted me!� Then the Wind started to go higher and higher in the sky, over the houses, over the buildings, until it got up to the top of the cathedral. Saint Peter grabbed Half-a-chick and put him on top of the steeple and changed him into a weathercock. And now, for the rest of his days, Half-a-chick will pay for his conceit and meanness at the mercy of the wind, the sun, and the rain; going around, and around, and around . . .
The Arrogant Princess
TALE OF ENCHANTMENT/FAIRY TALE
Stokes of ghosts and the devil abound in Puerto Rican folktales. In the southern part of the island, it is said that most of these stories or events have happened, because many people say they are true. The following is one such story.The Arrogant Princess
Once upon a time, there was a young lady who was very pretty but very conceited. She was as proud as a peacock. She put on heavy make-up, wore expensive dresses, and turned down all the suitors that came her way because none of them was rich or handsome enough. In just a few years, she had broken the hearts of many an honest man who wanted to marry her. She insisted that she deserved no less than a prince.The years passed by and her beauty was fading when a very handsome suitor swept her off her feet. She knew her prince had finally come. She fell madly in love with him. The man asked her parents for her hand in marriage and they were engaged. Rosamada, that was her name, was the happiest woman in the world. They were married in a fabulous wedding, the groom was more handsome than ever in his high hat and tuxedo. A reception followed with plenty to eat and drink. She looked beautiful in her lace wedding gown, her veil, and flower crown. After the reception, the newlyweds went on their honeymoon. When they arrived at a castle in the forest that the groom had chosen, she embraced and smiled at her husband lovingly. lie returned the smile and she noticed that his teeth were very long, sharp, and shone like gold. Rosamada was quite surprised; she had not noticed that his teeth were like this before. Her husband then took off his coat and then she saw that he had a two-pointed tail. She started to tremble with horror. What was happening? She had married a very handsome young man, who was this person? Her husband very abruptly took off Ids hat and the new wife almost fainted. The man had two horns and two very big and pointed ears. He then took off his shirt and she saw that his chest was covered with long black hairs. When he started taking off his gloves, Rosamada tried to escape from his sight but he caught her with his hairy arms and very long claws. He held her while he took off his shoes and she was able to see that his feet were hoofs. She started to scream for help but no one could hear her. She understood at once that she had married the devil himself, and that she was being punished for her arrogance. They say that the devil and the castle disappeared all at once. By pure luck, a hunter found Rosamada lying on the ground and took her back to the city. She ems sick six months with hot and cold chills and then she died, which always happens.
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