Don't you see eye-to-eye with me?

My students may not see eye-to-eye with me about how I make them work and the decisions I take regarding the teaching-learning process now, but perhaps in the near or far future they will understand me and they will find out what I meant to do, hopefully!

 

 

Some activities for you to do: 

• Learn how to speak English naturally: How to make polite invitations  (BBC Learning English)
  

• English in a Minute: Common ways to use 'present'  (BBC Learning English) 

• The English We Speak: Call it a day!  (BBC Learning English)

• News Review:  USA & Canada government TikTok bans  (BBC Learning English) 

• A listening exercise for you to do:  When you forget your first language (mother tongue) (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

 

By the way, did you like the play in English (Pandora's box) we attended last Thursday? Will you, please, write a comment making a summary of the plot or just giving the opinion of the experience? Will you repeat it next year?

 

 

 

Kirk Douglas doesn't see eye-to-eye with John Wayne  - The Dick Cavett Show 

 

 

And here are both of them working together in The War Wagon!!!

 

If two people see eye to eye, they agree with each other: My sisters don't see eye to eye with me about the arrangements.  to have the same opinion as someone else.

English idiom: see eye-to-eye

 

 

Inglés con serie: Poldark Lesson 3  

 

   

Here's my musical hint for today by Eagle-Eye Cherry: Save Tonight . Here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along!!

 

 

 

And our students at school at work... 

Project on A Christmas Carol by Oliver Lozano (4º ESO A)

 

 

 I think I'll call it a day! What do you think? Do you remember what this expression meant?

A slave, a cowboy, a Viking, a gangster... he was Kirk Douglas!!!

Kirk Douglas, one of last Hollywood icons of all times has just passed away at the age of 103. He played the roles of a slave (Spartacus), a painter (Vincent Van Gogh), a cowboy, a Viking, a boxer, a gangster and so many others.

 

Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas dies at 103 (ABC News)

Tribute to Kirk Douglas (CBS) 

Some movie clips  >>>>

I'm Spartacus

Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for Life - Trailerç

 

 

The Vikings - 1958 - Einar and Eric last fight scene

 

Last Train From Gun Hill (1959) Trailer

 

The Street is cleaned up by Harry and Archie

 

 

... and so many others!!!

 

Kirk Douglas obituary (The Guardian)

 

 

English with Lucy   >>>   DO NOT SAY 'I'm sorry...' - say THIS instead - 17 more advanced alternative phrases (STORY LESSON)

 

 

 

 

Listening exercise for you to do: Is it healthy to disagree? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) Can you remember the difference between these two verbs: 'to discuss' & 'to argue'?

Tennis >>>  The Self-Appointed Commissioner of Tennis (McEnroe): The Tennis Legends On The Davis Cup

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 200205 / 05 February 2020    >>>  Are you scared of spiders? (Beating your fear of spiders)  -    Language related to 'fear'.  Need-to-know language: the heebie-jeebies, phobia, getting over, bother & crippling fear.