Universidad Europea de Madrid

Autumn Colors- Are you looking at them?

-Wendy Frankel

It's autumn! It's fall! It's "otoño"! Where are all the children? Why aren't they out here kicking up the leaves? And where are the other people? They should be out taking a walk or sitting on that empty bench.

Get out and look at the leaves, before they all turn brown.
Who's locked behind these shades and bars?

-wendy frankel

VOCABULARY:

kicking: dando patadas

empty bench: banco vacio

taking a walk: tomando un paseo

shades and bars: persianas y rejas

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GREASE: You can dance! You can sing!

http://comunidad.uem.es/blogfiles/shakespeare/PosterforGREASE.doc

Alberto Aparicio and Antonio Garcia, who are doing double majors in Sports Science and Physiotherapy, truly are the "best entertainers at the UEM LAB". They put on quite a show yesterday, actually 2 shows. And they got everyone up and moving. This was definitely a kinetic, total physical response activity, and it was in ENGLISH! We handed out song sheets and quickly discussed the vocabulary and grammar or lack of it. We sang and danced and laughed. And we made a lot of noise!

Last spring after attending our complementary class "Mamma Mía", Alberto and Antonio told me that they wanted to do "Grease". They were entertainers in hotels in Mallorca during the summers and they could pull it off easily. Well.....well...sure. Why not? Let's do it. Here's the result. Sorry you missed it. More photos?

Vocabulary:

major: carrera universitario
truly: (really): de verdad
handed out: repartieron
sheets: hojas de papel (sabanas)
lack of: falta de
pull it off: realizarlo, conseguirlo
missed it: lo perdiste

Wendy

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A 3-day weekend! and then Thanksgiving, a 4-day weekend !

We have a 3-day weekend! There's a holiday this Monday. All holidays should be on Mondays. In fact, in the U.S. most holidays are celebrated on Mondays so that everyone who can, gets a 3-day weekend. We should do that in Spain!

And then there's Thanksgiving. That's a 4-day weekend! Yep, it's always a 4-day weekend, because Thanksgiving is the 4th Thursday in November so that everyone who wants to can get home for the weekend. The airports, train stations, bus depots and highways are crowded because Americans are all "going home" to see the family and have a Thanksgiving Feast.

All of you at the UEM campus are invited to our THANKSGIVING PIE TASTING FEAST. We can't put on a whole Thanksgiving dinner, but everyone is encouraged to try our APPLE PIE and PUMPKIN PIE and to contribute a home-made dessert. You could be the winner of the "Best Cook at the UEM" Award ! We'll cut all the desserts up into little pieces so that you can try a lot of them. If you don't contribute a dessert, you can try them anyway for 1 Euro.

All the money collected will go to the NGO: FUNDACIÓN RAIS, an "ONG" which helps the homeless in Madrid.

Hope to see you here in Building A on November 26th 13:30-15:30.

Wendy

Some of the dessert contributed in 2008

Grammar: 3-day weekend, 4-day weekend.

Notice that "day" is singular: There's no "s". This is because it is used as an adjective and adjectives in English are NEVER PLURAL.

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