Across the universe

ACROSS THE UNIVERSE QUIZ

1. What type of film is “Across the universe” and who are the main characters?



2. Where are they from?



3. What was Jude’s job before leaving Britain?



4. Where is Jude’s father from? How did he meet Jude’s mother?



5. What happened to Lucy’s boyfriend? When did the famous Vietnam war start and when did it end?



6. Who is Max and what happened to him?



7. Who was Martin Luther King and how did he die? When?



8. Why did Jude and Lucy start having arguments?



9. Write down the first three Beatles songs that come to your mind. Do you like them? Have you got a favourite?



10. Write a short review for a newspaper and give your opinion about the film.

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WONDERFUL PRIZES!
(for the first three students with the correct answers)

Shopping, shopping, shopping!

Here we are again! Christmas has just arrived at “El corte Inglés” once more! And we are ready to spend our money on things we don’t really need.
Presents, objects,clothes and perfumes, bags and jewellery, electronic devices, new mobiles and computers... We need them!

But when you grow older you realize that, sometimes, things and objects can become a real burden... At the moment I’m in the process of getting rid of things I don’t really use... Too many CDs, too many books, too many clothes...


I love Japanese classical home decoration... I need emptiness... I need a place with no images, a white wall... an empty space in my living room, to dance, to rest, to get some refreshing air for my soul...


Xmas is here again! What can we do?


“If you understand, things are just as they are
If you don’t understand, things are just as they are”

This is my inspirational quote at this stage of my life.



When I was a teenager I wanted to train my body (sports, martials arts and so on). I loved Aikido and Taichi (I learnt to be really fast and flexible with the former, and to be calm and relaxed when facing a problem with the latter )

















In my youth years I started training my emotions. Difficult task! We are full of contradictions: love and hate, joy and fear, activity and laziness. Sometimes it seems that the opposite forces can make your boat sink... I gave up martial arts and I started dancing...to express my emotions... we are like waves... going up and down, up and down restlessly...


And then it came a time when I started training my mind. And I was lucky to see a beautiful lighthouse in the distance and ... I followed the light...



I am a really curious person and I want to understand things at a deeper level, life and death, purpose of life, and so on...
And one day I realized I couldn’t understand everthing using just my mind.



“If you understand, things are just as they are
If you don’t understand, things are just as they are”

You cannot measure the water of the ocean using a tiny bucket (our individual minds). So why are we wasting our time instead of enjoying the beauty of the sea??








WRITING 3

I would like you to go shopping in a very special way: I don’t want you to spend money on things we don’t really need.
I’d like you to share 3 presents with your classmates. The first one is for your mind, the second for your emotions and the third one is for your body.

1.Tell us about your favourite inspirational quote at the moment. Explain.

2. Your favourite song. A song with a special meaning... Share the you tube video and the lyrics.

3. A place where you would like to be right now. Post the image and explain. (Save the image because you will need it in the future, for writing 5 in April, a description of a place)

Next to the image I ‘d like you to write a poem called “the five senses poem”
Start the lines with

I can see..........................
I can hear........................
I can smell..........................
I can taste.........................
I can feel................................


Merry Christmas and a happy new 2010!

JOBS(by Susana Chen)

My parents were both born in China.My father has been living in Spain for 21 years,my mother has been living Spain since 1990.Now,my parents have a restaurant in Magalluf,my father is a chef and my mother is a waitress.My father doesn't work,he only cooks when the restaurant is very busy.

My granfather on my mum's side was a Maths teacher in a primary school. I don't know what is the job of my granmother,because I almost never see her and my mum doesn't tell me about things like this. I don't know where I liked to work when I was little,because nobody asked me about where I'd like to work in the future. I think eighty per cent of girls,wanted to be teachers,actresses or singers when they were little and eighty per cent of boys wanted to be policemen or firefighters.

I think,I am really hard-working. I almost always do the homework for all the subjects,but sometimes I am lazy,I don't want to do my homework and study for the exams,but I will still do it...
I am very calm,if I have some urgent problem,I am always calm.In my opinion,it is good,because when you are nervous,you can't solve the problem.The negative side of my personality is that I am a careless person and I am very shy. At maths tests,I never get 10 points,because I am very careless,I always get 8,9points for small failures. I am a strong-minded person.I think it is a good thing, I want to do things and I don't mind about people's opinion.

My dream is to help people design their hair,clothes....I would like to work in China or New York,I would like to work in New York,because it is a fashionable city.
10 years later,I think I will have just finished my degree in architecture.I will be looking for work in Spain,I don't care about high wages or low wages,because I think I don't need a lot of money.The only thing I need is experience.