NEVER-ENDING PROJECTS

PROJECTS ARE HERE TO STAY:

ME,MYSELF,I: MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY SO FAR YEAR BY YEAR, MY FAVOURITE THINGS: LIKES AND DISLIKES.SPORTS. LETTER TO SOMEONE YOU ADMIRE, WHAT I LIVE FOR...MY COLLECTIONS..WHAT HAPPENED ON THE DAY YOU WERE BORN.

MY FAMILY: FAMILY TREE, PHOTO ALBUM, MY PETS:FUR,FEATHERS AND FINS(fun)..

MY HOUSE: HOUSE PLAN, HOUSE DESCRIPTION,MY IDEAL HOUSE...

MY SCHOOL: CLASSROOM RULES, INTERVIEWING STUDENTS/ TEACHERS, CLASS DIARY, SCHOOL VIDEO, CLASS RADIO SHOW...

MY HABITS & HABITATS: FOOD & DRINK,RECIPES(FLOUR POWER), DAILY ROUTINE, EVERYDAY LIFE,THE WORLD IN THE FUTURE...BE ENERGY-WISE. THE STORY OF TEA,COFFEE,CHOCOLATE,TOMATO,POTATO..HOW WE USED TO LIVE..TOYS OF YESTERDAY

WHAT I DO AT WEEKENDS,RULES FOR A SAFE WEEKEND ...

MY HOMETOWN: FACTS AND FIGURES. A TOURIST GUIDE TO....NATURE IN YOUR TOWN DISCOVER THE AXARQUIA...GET TO KNOW ANIMALS IN THE COUNTRYSIDE.MAKE WHERE YOU LIVE MORE BEAUTIFUL

OUT AND ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE´S GUIDE TO....LIFE IN THE PAST V.LIFE NOW...STARTING AN ENGLISH-SPEAKING CLUB...RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS...

MY PROVINCE: DISCOVER MALAGA PROVINCE FACTS AND FIGURES. INTERVIEWING RELEVANT PEOPLE...

ANDALUCÍA:CROSSCURRICULAR FACES, PLACES AND SPACES.. ISLES, MILES AND SMILES.....YOUR REGION THROUGH THE AGES

FAMOUS FOREIGNERS IN ANDALUCÍA  FAMOUS ANDALUSIANS ABROAD..

SPAIN:NATIONAL STEREOTYPES.THE WAY THEY SEE US.BRITISH AND AMERICAN COMPANIES IN SPAIN..

GREAT BRITAIN: EXPO U.K., EDUCATIONAL VISITS & EXCHANGES..

EUROPE: EUROPEAN COUNTRIES COMPARED...

ASIA, AFRICA, AMERICA, AUSTRALIA...INEQUALITY & SOLIDARITY..

THE UNIVERSE: MULTICULTURAL FOOD, CROSS CULTURAL TOPICS..

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN FLLEARNING

IN ANY GIVEN SITUATION LEARN TO MAKE THE MOST OUT OF YOUR EMOTIONS:

SADNESS

NERVOUSNESS

ANXIETY

ELATION

INSECURITY

ANGER

CURIOSITY

EXCITEMENT

WORRY

PRIDE

DEPRESSION

STRESSED-OUT

JEALOUSY

FLATTERY

GOSSIP

SURPRISE

FASCINATION

BOREDOM

FEAR

EMBARRASSMENT

 

DIVIDE THE ABOVE MOODS INTO + POSITIVE AND - NEGATIVE

COGNATES: MY GOOD FRIENDS

Spanish learners of English receive hundreds of words as a bonus but mind the pronunciation and the slight spelling changes. They can be very different.

 

Actor, album, alcohol, altar, angel, animal, atlas,algebra...

Banana, Base, Bar, bestial, brutal...

Cereal, Criminal, celestial,cerebral, civil, colonial,cruel....

Debate, director, describe, doctor, detestable, diagnosis...

Error, editor, escape, exterior, elemental...

Factor, favor, familiar, final, flexible, formidable,fundamental..

Gas, general, gradual, grave, guerrilla, gorilla,...

Honor, horror, hospital, hotel, holocaust, hecatomb,..

Idea, inventor,indigestion, invasion, incurable, individual,invisi.

Laurel, labor, lava, liberal,lineal...

Material, melon, metal, mineral,moral, mortal , mediocre,mania...

Oral, oficial, original,ocasion,..

Plan, perfume,piano, plan, plural, perpendicular,propaganda...

Radio, restaurant, revolver, rifle, rigor, rival, rumor...

Salmon, sector, sermon, singular,saliva,sesion, semen...

Taxi, trio, total,...

Union

Violin, vigor, version,vagina, vision,...

Whisky

 

IMAGINATIVE NOUN PHRASES

STANDARD, LEXICALIZED NOUN PHRASES ARE VERY COMMON IN EVERYDAY SPEECH. ex: 

CAR KEYS, HAND BRAKE, GOLD MEDAL, CYCLE LANE, SCHOOL UNIFORM,SWAN SONG, SILKWORM, FROGMAN, CAR BOMB, FAREWELL PARTY, LIP STICK,ETC...

HOWEVER, IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO CREATE NEW ORIGINAL MEANINGLESS COMBINATIONS AS WE CAN CHALLENGE THE NEW COINAGES BY TRYING TO FIND A MEANING TO THEM. SEE THE EXAMPLES BELOW:

DIESEL MELON

UNLEADED WATERMELON

NUCLEAR PEPPER

MACHINE TREE

SHOE LETTER

DIGITAL RICE PUDDING

CUPBOARD SEA

ALUMINUM SUGAR

FUGITIVE LIGHTER

HEELED HAM

COTTON BELL

PLUM KISS

FEATHERED AUBERGINE

CORK OAK FROG

ATOMIC SWEET POTATO

GHOST FISH

RADIOACTIVE PASTA

MARBLE CHEWING GUM

RAIN BED

TRY TO INVENT YOUR OWN NOUN PHRASES.....

MORE FALSE THAN TRUE FRIENDS

NO, NEVER AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST

 

FALSE  FRIENDS

Actually, Appeal

Bachelor,Barb

Constipated ,Character, Conductor, Collar

Dado,Dam

Embarrassed, Eventually, Etiquette

Fabric

Gull, Goal

Horn, Hurt

Injury, Indication

Jest, Jubilee

Large, Library

Manners, Manage

Notice

Opposite

Paper, Pretend

Qualifications

Realise

Sensible,Supply

Table,Tact

Urbanisation

Water

Zap

 

 

 AVOID DICTIONARY MISUSE. TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE STUDENTS WERE TRYING TO SAY WHEN THEY WROTE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES:

NERJA PRODUCES SWEET POTATOES,AVOCADOS AND HANDLES..........
THE OLD HELMET OF FRIGILIANA IS QUITE ATTRACTIVE...
SHE WARMED HERSELF UP BY USING A FARMHAND....
THEY WERE DANCING FLAMINGO ALL NIGHT LONG...
HE WAS EXPLODED IN HIS JOB....
THEY WERE FLYING IN LEATHER....
ENGLISH IS A DIFFICULT IDIOM....
THE ARGUMENT OF THIS STORY IS SIMPLE....
MY SISTER IS AN APPLICATED STUDENT ...
I AM LIVING IN MADRID ACTUALLY......
WE WENT TO THE SAWS AND HAD A GOOD TIME.....

Count your blessings.....

MAY YOU ALWAYS HAVE 

LOVE TO SHARE

HEALTH TO SPARE

AND FRIENDS THAT CARE.

 

MAY YOUR DAYS BE TOUCHED

BY A BIT OF LUCK

BRIGHTENED BY A SONG IN YOUR HEART,

AND WARMED BY THE SMILES OF THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE.

 

WHEREVER YOU GO AND WHATEVER YOU DO

MAY THE LUCK OF THE IRISH BE THERE WITH YOU

 

MAY LOVE AND LAUGHTER LIGHT YOUR DAYS

AND WARM YOUR HEART AND HOME

MAY GOOD AND FAITHFUL FRIENDS BE YOURS

WHEREVER YOU MAY ROAM.

 

DO NOT STAND AT MY GRAVE AND WEEP

I AM NOT THERE-I DO NOT SLEEP

 

MAY YOUR NEIGHBOURS RESPECT YOU

TROUBLES NEGLECT YOU

THE ANGELS PROTECT YOU 

AND HEAVEN ACCEPT YOU

 

MAY THE BLESSING OF THE RAIN

BE ON YOU:THE SOFT SWEET RAIN

TRY TO MAKE UP YOUR OWN BLESSING . (DO NOT USE STANDARD RELIGIOUS TERMS)

                    

MALAPROPISM/Dogberryism

MALAPROPISM is the mistaken use of a word instead of a similar sounding word.R.Sheridan The rivals

Try to spot the wrong word and give the right alternative:

I AM A BLOOD DOUGHNUT

HE HAD TO USE A FIRE DISTINGUISHER

NO MAN IS IN IRELAND

THE MONSTER IS JUST A PIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION

HE´S A WOLF IN CHEAP CLOTHING

SHE WAS A CHILD PROGENY

MY SISTER HAS EXTRA CENTURY PERCEPTION

HE WAS A MAN OF GREAT STATUE

KEEP A STIFF UPPER CHIN

THE POLICE ARE HERE TO PRESERVE DISORDER

PROMISE TO FORGET,TO ILLITERATE FROM YOUR MEMORY

SHE MIGHT REPREHEND THE TRUE MEANING

RUSSIA USES ACRYLIC ALPHABET

THE OCEAN IS INFATUATED WITH SHARKS

WHAT ARE YOU INCINERATING?

THE POPE IS INFLAMMABLE.

EVEN NAPOLEON HAD HIS WATERGATE.

Some examples in Spanish:

Hacer la vista sorda
Entre la espalda y la pared
Tú eres la hormona de mis zapatos
Me es inverosímil.
Los toreros que están en el candelabro