Reading. A Christmas Carol

"Christmas is a humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself, a year older and not penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business and making money.
But on a Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past , present and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget"
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens,
OXFORD BOOKWORMS LIBRARY CLASSICS
ISBN 0-19-423000-7
This is the preface of the book you're going to read during the summer.
You can find it at your local book-shops "Garasa" or "Los Basilios" if you don't you should tell your teacher and maybe we'll change the book.
Enjoy your reading

TASK I a. Watching a film in English.

During the summer course we're going to see a film we have two main options, Camp Rock! (Disney Channel Original Movie ), this one is full of music and it talks about finding yourself and finding your voice. Here you can see the trailer.

The other option (have a look at TASK 1 b. Watching a film in English is Twilight, from the best-seller by Stephenie Meyer, it talks about a weird love between a shy girl and a misterious polite vampire.
The work is the same for both task, but depending of your choice we will see one film or the other.
We're going to see them in English with English subtitles.
Enjoy your work ;)

TASK I b. Watching a film in English.

After watching the film. You should do several things
i)Write a list of 20 new words you have learnt
ii)Write the plot of the film
iii) Write a description of your favourite character, then tell why

TASK II. Paparazzi in your town

Posadas, is a nice town placed in the south of Spain, your work will consist in doing a magazine with photos and small description about the most important sights in Posadas such as La Ermita de Jesús, el Arquito, La Iglesia Santa Maria de las Flores. You can also include information about Rivero and La Sierrezuela.
You could use Microsoft Office (word, excel, power point,) or Open Office, a free software version, when you finish your work, you must print it.

TASK III. Reading into writing

You've just arrived from Italy and you have visited Pisa tower when you went sightseeing.
Read the text which will give you important information and write a small composition (100-150 words) talking about who you went with, where did you stayed during your travel, when did you travel, why did you travel and what did you do. Use your own words as far as possible.

ANSWERS COPIED FROM THE TEXT WILL SCORE ZERO

"This is the monument that, among the others of the "Piazza dei Miracoli", stirs the imagination of everybody, from the old to the young. Firstly we like to give you some information and events regarding its long history.

The construction of this imposing mass was started in the year 1174 by Bonanno Pisano. When the tower had reached its third storey the works ceased because it had started sinking into the ground. The tower remained thus for 90 years. It was completed by Giovanni di Simone, Tommano Simone (son of Andreo Pisano), crowned the tower with the belfry at half of 14th century.

The top of the Leaning Tower can be reached by mounting the 294 steps which rise in the form of a spiral on the inner side of the tower walls.

This very famous work is of Romanesque style, and as already stated dates back to the year 1174. Cylindrical in shape it is supplied whit six open galleries. A cornice separates these galleries one from the other and each presents a series of small arches fitted on the capitals of the slender columns. In the base there is a series of big blind arcades with geometrical decorations. In the belfry there is the same design of arcades as that of the base, with the difference that here, there are, apart from the reduced proportions, the housings of the bells."

TASK IV. Analysing a text

Read the next text. After reading you should write a small composition ( 1oo - 150 words ) in which you have to talk about:
i)The author of the text
ii)The main idea
iii)Search in the web, or if you have read about, tell the plot of the book this piece of text is from.
You should complete the 3 task, and use your own words as far as possible, if you don't, and copy from the text you will score zero.
"I'd had more than my fair share of near death experiences, it wasn't something you ever really got used to.
It seemed oddly inevitable, though, facing death again. Like I really was marked for disaster. I'd escaped time and time again, but it kept coming back for me.
Still, this time was so different from the others.
You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers - the monsters, the enemies.
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?
If it was someone you truly loved?"
Breaking Down, Preface
Stephenie Meyer

(The text is from Breaking Down, Stephenie Meyer)