My Play Outline

This would be my play outline for the final assignment of the course. I would like to write and publish a script based on this outline:

THIS IS HOW EVERYTHING SHOULD BE
Recommended age group: Intermediate Two and Advanced Levels
Characters: Cinderella and the Prince, a cheesy couple, living happily ever after.
George: A writer, narrator in other stories, but character here, procrastinator and mean.
Dexter: An attractive, fit and most intelligent serial killer and police consultant.
Patricia: Narrator, and an addict to reading. A good person. She teaches for a living.

SYNOPSIS
Cinderella and the Prince are living happily ever after until one day they are having a picnic in a park and George is sitting next to them. Since he has supernatural powers, he starts to manipulate Cinderella and the Prince’s minds, who start to argue, clearly hating each other and desiring other people. Patricia, also at the park, and very omniscient and intuitive, finds out what he is doing and talks to George for him to stop controlling the couple’s minds, but this is useless. She wishes George stopped making everyone around him suffer, and remembers a character in a series she had watched, Dexter Morgan, who chased and killed murderers who had got away with murder, even those who were clearly guilty at court. Patricia is then shocked to see Dexter, coming towards her out of nowhere, reading her mind, winking at her. He grabs George and takes him away. Dexter takes George to an abandoned bar near the park, everything wrapped in cling paper, got George naked and stuck to a table, and threatens him with killing him if he doesn’t stop killing people. A couple of months later, in that same park, Patricia sees the couple again, and Dexter, who explains why everything is back to normal, and gives her a final piece of very good news: George has finished his last book, where not everyone dies!

CHARACTER OBJECTIVES
Cinderella and the Prince: A married and very happy couple, who love each other dearly. Very young, attractive and both rich, (but most cloying, though). They just want to be together.
George: An old, overweight and huge man, who writes novels and likes to kill his own characters. However, he’s a sadist and also likes to make other writers’ characters suffer.
Dexter: He’s very attractive, super fit, most intelligent and dexterous, though he’s just a character on a TV series. He likes to make things right around him and kill those who have killed innocent people. He wants to help Patricia, a girl at a park.
Patricia: The narrator for this story, who reads a lot and watches a lot of TV. She knows who the rest are and what happens to them and what they think. She wants to help the couple, and get a date with Dexter (if possible).



SCENES
Scene One: The couple are at the park, holding hands and kissing, most cheesy. They are eating the afternoon picnic food out of each other’s fork. Equally disgusting and nice to watch. George is then seen, next to the couple.
Scene Two: At the park too. George starts to manipulate them mentally. Patricia appears and sees what he’s trying to do. The couple argues, shouts, and they’re seen looking at other attractive people in the park. Patricia and George talk, but he doesn’t listen to her.
Scene Three: At the park, almost sunset. George is clearly enjoying himself, the couple continue arguing, and Patricia recalls Dexter and how he liked to put things right. He suddenly appears and takes George with him.
Scene Four: At a bar, dusk outside. George comes round and Dexter threatens him to kill him if he keeps killing his own and other writers’ characters. There is a most interesting conversation between them. George agrees to do everything Dexter says. Dexter sets George free.
Scene Five: At Intertextuality, the park, at noon, two months later. Patricia is having lunch and reading. Rising her head, she can see Cinderella and the Prince, happy again and making out. She then recalls Dexter, who, out of the blue, appears again. He explains to her what happened that day and how everything is OK now, with the couple and George too. Patricia asks Dexter out.

MERRY XMAS

Hi all,
I want to say WELCOME to the blog to my students this year, and sorry for not writing in a loooong time, too many things to do :-(

I want to wish you a wonderful Christmas, and wonderful 2013.

Check this video out, I loved it when I watched it yesterday :-D




See you next year!!!

HOMEWORK (;-))

Watch BREAKING BAD

Watch BIG BANG THEORY

NB2 End of Course Grammar

This is a post for BASICO 2 students. We are in our last weeks, having our last sessions and I would like you to look at these pages, where you will find practice for the last two topics in our course: PASSIVE VOICE and the modal verb USED TO which is used to talk about past habits. Please revise a lot when we finish classes, and keep studying until we have the exam in June. USED TO USED TO: EXPLANATION AND EXERCISE EXERCISE 2: USED TO EXERCISE 3 PASSIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE PRESENT AND PAST PASSIVE Hope you like it! Patricia

Our Performance at the Sansenissima ;-)

Here is something I had to post, it is our "sublime" performance at the end of the wonderful festival "Sansenissima" held on March 23rd, I hope you enjoy it!!! Patricia

Annyversary :-)

Please check this video out!!!

ADVANCED: UNIT 7

Hi everyone,
The following post is also for ADVANCED students, we are going to start a very interesting unit, where we will see vocabulary and other aspects related to science and technology. UNIT 7 in OUTCOMES
Well, one of the speaking points in this unit will be practicing the expression of surprise and disbelief. We will see some structures and sentences in English to transmit these two notions, but here in the links I post below, you will find some more structures and some interesting idioms. Please have a look. I hope you like it.

DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS

IDIOMS

Patricia

PERFECT TENSES

Hi all,
This is a post for my NA1 Students. We have already finished the unit on sports, entertainment and hobbies. The last grammar point in the copies I gave you from Outcomes (Upper Intermediate) is the difference between present perfect simple and continuous. The differences between them are very subtle, and often it depends on what you want to emphasise to decide what tense you are choosing...

Well I propose that you take a look at the link below...please read the information and do one or two exercises...;-)Enjoy!

PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE AND CONTINUOUS

Patricia

For those who love Cooking

Hi everyone,
Recently I decided that I want to learn how to cook properly, and to that end, I constantly use the Internet to find recipes and new methods. Thanks to that, I discovered this wonderful woman's website:

TITLIS BUSY KITCHEN

Take a look if you want, and also check her site in You Tube, she has lots of great recipes from all over the world. She makes cooking seem incredibly simple, and she is terrific, soooo so funny, and incredibly good at explaining how to cook things :-)

Here is a sample video on how to cook Chicken Dhansak. Enjoy!



Titli, thanks a lot!!!!!!!!

CONDITIONALS: ADVANCED

This is for advanced students,

We've almost finished UNIT 4 on Politics. The main grammar point is conditional structures. Here is a great website with a very good explanation:

ENGLISH PAGE
Please read the introduction, but also the different topics covered that you will find on the left sidebar, including the section on mixed conditionals Here's also this page with related points: alternative connectors, I wish and If only, etc.
Don't forget to have a look at the section OMMITING IF
Enjoy!

ENTERTAINMENT

FOR ALL MY STUDENTS:

I want you to have a look at the following document, where you wil find a huge amount of online reading materials. I hope you enjoy these links as much as I do.

READING BOOKS ONLINE


FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS



Please check what Morpheus says from minute 2.50 onwards...
Do you believe that my being stronger, or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place?

FOR BASICO STUDENTS
These are some links to comics published on the web. Thank you Dani!

QUESTIONABLE CONTENT


DRESDEN CODAC

THE ABOMINABLE CHARLES CHRISTOPHER

SIN TÍTULO

BASICO 2: UNIT TWO

This is a post for Básico 2 students.
We have already finished unit 2, and have started the third, the unit about work and professions. If you want, in this post you can find some links with extra work to revise some of the things we have learnt in UNIT 2, titled BEGINNINGS...

We have decided to read some short stories during Christmas and in January, so here is a link where you can find lots of short stories. But let me tell you I am preparing a list with plenty of links where you can find lots of online literature to continue reading at home...

EAST OF THE WEB

We have seen in class the verb tenses needed to narrate things that happened in the past (remember the nice crime stories you have written), so here is a link where you can practice with some of the most useful and common verb tenses, from Isabel pérez's website

THE HAPPY VERB GANG

Here is a link to a wonderful chart with connectors to link sentences (but this year we won't need all these, only a few ;-) )

LIST OF CONNECTORS

And another with the explanations to use them correctly:

ENGLISH AT HOME

And finally, I want to talk to you about a wonderful website where you can practice your listening, called ELLLO.ORG

In this website, it is possible to find listenings and videos where people talk about any topic you can imagine, and the good thing is that it is possible to look at the tapescript (read and listen to what they say at the same time.And you can also download the recordings as MP3s to your PCs!!! I LOVE THIS WEBSITE!
Some examples:

BECOMING A CHEF

DREAM JOB

HALLOWEEN: WHAT IS TRICK OR TREATING?

FIRST JOB (UNIT 3;-))

Hope you enjoy!!!
Patricia

Your Crime Stories

Hi all,
This is a post for my NB2 students. I have seen your posts with the crime stories you have written and I have to say that I am really proud of you guys :-)

The stories are REALLY GOOD and very very well written!!!
Please continue like that, writing and doing that good work

WELL DONE!!!:-D
Patricia

THANKSGIVING 2011

Hi everyone,
I haven't been able to post in a long time...sorry about that :-(
Here you are some websites with information on a very important day for Americans, Thanksgiving, which is celebrated every year on the third Thursday of November...

SOME MYTHS AND FACTS

WHAT IS IT EXACTLY?

Recommended Movie: HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, directed by Jodie Foster, with Holly Hunter

CRIME STORIES

In this post I want to ask you again to write the narrations of crime stories you have written in class...Choose a member of your group, and s/he will be in charge of posting the story in a comment here...

note: It is possible to send comments without password, so please remember to write your name and the group you are in.;-)

VIDEOS

This one below is not one of the videos I told you I would post, but I hope you enjoy it...




And now...

The Pastafarian Commandments (please notice the use of IRREAL PAST in all of them: I'd rather you didn't..., used to express preference)

Videos for Básico 2

Rats at KFC


Supersize me in 7 Minutes:

UNIT ONE REVISION

Hi all,
This post is for BASICO 2 students.
Now we are in the last sections of unit one, so I would like you to have some links to practice some of the things we have learnt throughout October...I hope you like it...

SO AND NEITHER : Read the tutorial to remember how SO/NEITHER work and finally in the last section, page 5, do the exercises!

Some LISTENINGS (You can answer to the questions and when you finish listening, click to see if your answers were right :-D )

DAILY ROUTINES

FAMILY
RELATIONSHIPS and

FIRST DATE

And also the link to the chart of ENGLISH SOUNDS : If you click on any symbol, you will hear how to pronounce it correctly!

VOCABULARY: Family and Relatives (5 WEBPAGES)

Finally, a text where you can find a lot of information and knowledge about a celebration adopted in Spain too: HALLOWEEN

Enjoy!!!

Easy to understand

Hi all
Here's a nice video...easy for all levels.
Enjoy!

NB2

Hi everyone!!!

This post is for Básico 2. Today we saw some vocabulary related to occupations and different professions.
These are the websites you can check if you want to learn some words for some jobs...

LEARNENGLISH

THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

Hope you like them!

See you in class!!
Patricia

VIDEO FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

Advanced students,

This is the video I referred to in class, related to our first topic, cities...
As you can see, there is a lot of the vocabulary we have worked on in our lessons...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/video/2011/oct/19/health-lottery-beacon-estate-falmouth-cornwall-video

Enjoy!

PS. this video was kindly forwarded by one of the teachers at our school, thank you Bea