Photos and Stories

Week 16^th – 18^th February

We started the week reading and talking about teenage children and problems with them.

The Serrano’s family had problems with their children aged 18 & 20 because they took everything for granted (they thought they could have or do anything they wanted without giving anything else in exchange) without collaborating at home or looking for a job. So, their parents decided to teach them a lesson and take them to court (place where trials take place).The judge (the boss of the court) sentenced them to leave their parents’ home!

In our debate, Violeta and Mónica said they would tell their kids to leave home if they didn’t collaborate. Sometimes it’s good to teach your kids they can’t take everything for granted and they have to respect their parents, keep the rules and try to collaborate at home. Either doing housework or helping to the household (home) economy. On the contrary, Dani seemed reluctant to take such drastic measures! Maybe because he is the only one who has children!

This week we talked about famous photos.

We described and commented three photos by Harry Benson.

There was a photo of The Beatles when they were in a hotel room in Paris. Nothing much was happening, but suddenly they found the inspiration for the song “I feel fine.

 In another photo we can see a lot of people attacking (they were attacking) the wall with stones. It was the knocking down of Berlin Wall in 1989.

The third photo was taken in 1974. President Nixon was saying goodbye to his cabinet after the “Watergate” scandal.

 Then, you told me about your favourite photos.

Dani’s favourite photo was the one that shows the two Gasol Brothers, the popular Spanish basketball players, diving (jumping) in the air so as to hit the ball. That was the starting off the NBA basketball tournament. Dani likes it because it’s part of the history of sports.

Violeta and Mónica, on the other hand, prefer more personal photos. Violeta likes a photo where she is with her boyfriend enjoying the snow in the mountains. As for Mónica, she likes a photo on the beach. She is with her dog. She likes this photo because it feels calming and relaxing. A walk on the sand near the sea with her dog.

As for me, I like the photo above.

 Africa through the view of a photographer. Listening

And we finished with a story.

The story of a girl that went out with her friends one Saturday. They went to a disco. The DJ fell in love with the girl in the yellow dress and they started going out together.

They met in a café every evening when she finished work. One evening she was driving very fast because she was in a hurry. She didn’t see a man in a dark coat that was crossing the road. She ran the man over but she didn’t realize.She waited for her boyfriend in the café but he didn’t turned up (appeared) so, she went home.

While she was watching TV the doorbell rang. It was a police officer. She told her that her boyfriend had an accident and was in hospital. A woman driving a white car ran over him but she didn’t stop to help.

Who do you think ran over the boy?

Remember the use of so, because and but.

Reason: because. It answers the question ‘Why?’

Result: so. The consequence of something.

·         She was driving very fast because she was in a hurry. (Why was she driving fast?)

·         She was in a hurry, so she was driving fast.

And that was all!