WRITING CLASS

How good are you at the Writing paper? Do you have difficulty thinking of what to say? Do you pay enough attention to organisation? Do you often make silly grammar or spelling mistakes? Or do you think your writing is of a pretty high standard? 

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EXTRAORDINARY TALES by Edgar Allan Poe

Abycine Albacete has been so kind to project three sessions of short films at our Assembly Rom (ground floor). The tales will be:

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (narrated by Christopher Lee)

THE TELL-TALE HEART (narrated by Bela Lugosi)

THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR VALDEMAR (narrated by Julian Sands)

THE MASK OF THE RED DEATH (narrated by Roger Corman)

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (narrated by to be confirmed)

Each session will last only 50-60 minutes

MOTHERING SUNDAY

When is Mother’s Day 2017? The date changes in Britain every year. This year Mother’s Day will be on Sunday March 26.

At its most basic, Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day is an Americanisation) is a day to give thanks to your mother.

Why is it celebrated?  While many might think the day was invented by commercial entities, it is actually a Christian celebration dating back to the 16th century.Back then, Mothering Sunday was a chance for those who worked in servitude to go back home to see their families and attend the church in their home town – or ‘mother church’.

Those who did so were said to have gone ‘a mothering’ and the servants would pick flowers to display at this mother church 

The day gradually disappeared until a vicar’s daughter, from Coddington, Nottinghamshire, read an article about American activist Anna Jarvis who was trying to reinstate the day in 1913.

Constance Smith went on to push for a revival of Mothering Sunday and by 1938 it was being celebrated all around the country. 

COUNTRYSIDE IS GREAT

majestic   picturesque      pleasant   lovely    appealing         stunning
Watch this video about one of the most beautiful places in Britain

THE LAKE DISTRICT (North-West England)  and SNOWDONIA (Wales)

Useful language for oral tests: Speaking

Explain what your topic is about at the beginning:
I’m going to talk about ...
I’d like to talk about ...

Introduction 
First of all,…
First,…
To start with ,…

Use these expressions to order your ideas:
First of all, ... Firstly, ... Then, ... Secondly, ... Next, ...

Use connectors
Also, In addition, moreover, besides, however, on the other hand…

Use these expressions to end up:
Finally, ...        To sum up, ...
Lastly, ...         To recap…                   In conclusion, ...

Meryl Streep powerful speech at the Golden Globes (2017)