ENGLISH CLUB SECOND MEETING

We'd like to welcome a pair of new members!
We must recognize that we had a very good time, instead our troubles with the electronic devices... That happens all the time! But, do not worried. We always have a 'B' plan.

We had a lot of fun watching an episode of this Sitcom. Unforgettable the 'tiny little cheesus'... : )

WE'LL MEET EVERY MONTH'S THIRD FRIDAY

SO, REMEMBER: NEXT MEETING WILL BE ON FEBRUARY 17TH
6:00 p.m. (Room 14)

We expect to have as good moments as we have had at our first meeting.

Feel free to join us!

First Meeting of the English Club

Some students and ex-students of the EOI Embajadores will meet on Friday 20 at 18 h. in classroom 14 to create an English Club and develop activities that will improve our English so that we don’t forget it.

First, we will introduce ourselves and then we will show an episode of the BBC sitcom The Black Adder, Season 3, Ink and Incapability, only 30 minutes long. When the film ends, the meeting will begin.

You are welcome!!

INK AND INCAPABILITY

Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) seeks Prince George's patronage for his new book, A Dictionary of the English Language. The Prince seeking to amend his reputation as an "utter turnip-head" is interested, but Blackadder tries to turn him against the idea, condemning the dictionary as "the most pointless book since How to Learn French was translated into French". It soon emerges that Blackadder resents Johnson for apparently ignoring his novel Edmund: A Butler's Tale which, under the pseudonym of "Gertrude Perkins", he had secretly sent to Johnson in the hope that he would get it published.

Baldrick burns the only copy of Samuel Johnson's dictionary, and Blackadder has only one weekend to rewrite it.

Director: Mandie Fletcher

Stars: Rowan Atkinson, as Black Adder, Tony Robinson, as Baldrick and Hugh Laurie as Prince Georges

Friday 21 meeting

I'd like to tell you that our monthly meeting is going to take place this Friday at 18h rather than 17:30. There is a teachers' meeting before.

I thought you may like to listen to the author talking about his first novel with the BBC Book Club.
Hanif Kureishi The Buddha of Suburbia
Listen to Hanif Kureishi
First broadcast January 2003

See you at the school!
M.ª José

Time for the next meeting

Since nobody said anything about having our next meeting on Friday 30 April, I take it that you're fine with that date. We can meet at 17:30 in Room 15, as usual.

Hope to see you all there!

Cristina

Today's session

I'm sorry but today's session has to be postponed because of a School meeting. Most of you have been told so by phone, but I'd like to make sure that everybody knows.

My suggestion is to have the session on Oscar Wao on 30 April. If everybody's fine with this date, we'll arrange the time and place in another post.

This hopefully gives you more time to reflect upon the book, finish it if you hadn't had enough time, or even read it and join us if you hadn't started ;-)

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Cristina

April and May

Hi there!

For our next meeting on Friday, April 16th we'll read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. We'll meet at 19:30

Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fukú-the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.

After April, our next meeting will take place on May 21st at 17:30. The discussion will be on The Buddha of Suburbia (1990), written by the British writer Hanif Kureishi.