InterRail

After watching the play answer these questions:

1. Name the characters in the play. Who is your favourite? Why?

2. Did you like the play? Why? Why not?

3. Continue Brad and Jennifer's story (write 100 words).

EXTRA EXERCISE: Look for information in these links and write about the routes you can do. Which one is the most interesting for you? Why? How much is the ticket?

http://www.interrailnet.com/?gclid=CLm8hqfW1ZECFQdIMAodvBIrZg

http://www.interrail.net/index2.php?language=en

SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY

14th February again! Find out more about this festivity

Read the text and answer the questions here

Now try this word game You have to be very quick!

HAMLET

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and, by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action. Soft you now!
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember’d.

¡Ser, o no ser, es la cuestión! -¿Qué debe
más dignamente optar el alma noble
entre sufrir de la fortuna impía
el porfiador rigor, o rebelarse
contra un mar de desdichas, y afrontándolo
desaparecer con ellas?
Morir, dormir, no despertar más nunca,
poder decir todo acabó; en un sueño
sepultar para siempre los dolores
del corazón, los mil y mil quebrantos
que heredó nuestra carne, ¡quién no ansiara
concluir así!
¡Morir... quedar dormidos...
Dormir... tal vez soñar! -¡Ay! allí hay algo
que detiene al mejor. Cuando del mundo
no percibamos ni un rumor, ¡qué sueños
vendrán en ese sueño de la muerte!
Eso es, eso es lo que hace el infortunio
planta de larga vida. ¿Quién querría
sufrir del tiempo el implacable azote,
del fuerte la injusticia, del soberbio
el áspero desdén, las amarguras
del amor despreciado, las demoras
de la ley, del empleado la insolencia,
la hostilidad que los mezquinos juran
al mérito pacífico, pudiendo
de tanto mal librarse él mismo, alzando
una punta de acero? ¿quién querría
seguir cargando en la cansada vida
su fardo abrumador?...
Pero hay espanto
¡allá del otro lado de la tumba!
La muerte, aquel país que todavía
está por descubrirse,
país de cuya lóbrega frontera
ningún viajero regresó, perturba
la voluntad, y a todos nos decide
a soportar los males que sabemos
más bien que ir a buscar lo que ignoramos.
Así, ¡oh conciencia!, de nosotros todos
haces unos cobardes, y la ardiente
resolución original decae
al pálido mirar del pensamiento.
Así también enérgicas empresas,
de trascendencia inmensa, a esa mirada
torcieron rumbo, y sin acción murieron.

SPORTS!

BASKETBALL
Have a look at the NBA site www.nba.com, don't forget the girls site: www.wnba.com

European basketball is great! Have a look at the Euroleague site, which is your favourite team and player? Look for information: www.euroleague.net

FOOTBALL
Bored with the Spanish league? Have look at the Premier League site and learn from the country that invented football! www.premierleague.com

OTHER SPORTS
There are many sports which are very popular in the English speaking countries. Learn more about them and choose your favourire:

Hockey
American Football
Rugby and Australian rugby
Cricket
Netball
Baseball
Wrestling (probably the boy's favourite site!)

If you don't know the rules and want to know the basics go to this site and enter the name of the sport in the search box.

NOW HAVE FUN WITH THIS VOCABULARY GAME

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This book is a story about a nine year old boy trying to understand what is happening around him in (Out-With) Auschwitz during World War II.
The main character, a nine year-old boy called Bruno, is the son of a strict commander of a Nazi concentration camp. He has a strong headed sister, Gretel (the Hopeless Case). They live in a five story mansion, but are one day suddenly moved to a place called Out-With (Auschwitz). Bruno, outraged by his father's decision to move to Out-With, and desperate to go home, spends his time in his room with no friends...

A wonderful book, easy to read. Good for 12 year-olds onwards.

Mejora tu inglés divirtiéndote

Prueba el ahorcado de la BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flash/wordmaster/

Revisa tu vocabulario sobre los ordenadores
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-games-hangman-computers.htm

Prueba la sopa de letras (sólo para valientes)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/quizzes/crosswords/crosswords_archive.shtml