Three stories, one story

We read two stories by Edgar Allan Poe; but we didn't read the real stories, they were simplified versions. You had also read them in Spanish, that time they were complete versions, but not the real ones.
You can read the real The Black Cat and the real The Tell-Tale Heart. The ones that Poe wrote.

I don't want you to read all the stories, just read some parts of them. Find an interesting word, a word that you don't understand and look it up in the dictionary (in English). Find another interesting word, don't look it up; guess its meaning.
Now that you have an idea of three different versions of the same stories, can you compare them?


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Heavens

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30-08-07 I should have said I first got to now about this in Cool Cat Teacher's blog. Well, I didn't. I'm thanking her now.

Students are writing

Some of my students are writing their own posts. Go visit them! Write comments!

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Eating Habits

Students from two different groups decided to make their childhood eating habits public.

Believe it or not.

MA assured us she once ate a dragonfly and admitted that she can still eat all kinds of bugs.

Not only MZ but all her brothers and sisters would eat the ants they found around the pool. She assured us they were tasteless.

FS would eat those bugs that roll themselves into a ball. I don't remember whether he claimed they were tasty or not.

LF and his friends chewed tar when they were out of chewing gum. He regarded tar as tasty and tried to convince us to try some.

LM loved eating paper. Surprisingly, everybody agreed that paper-eating was a common habit.

And last, but not least, LM (just mentioned above) used to eat…the wall. Yes, no typing mistake here. He ate the wall.His classmates even discussed what the better way to eat a wall was; the nose seemed to be a problem. My experienced student gave us some advice on how to eat walls comfortably.

Did you use to eat special food when you were a child? And what about now?

Dragonfly on top of Shuttle Originally uploaded by Irish Typepad
Ants eating pollen Originally uploaded by Bill Hails
Cochinillas comiendo Originally uploaded by ogal
Paper airplane Uploaded by davekellam

Holidays are over...

I'm really sorry, but we still have to work for almost four months.I know the second part of the year is difficult. We are more tired than we were in March.
I hope we all have a good restart and a great end.

News:
Some of my students are going to start blogging. I'll let you know as soon as it comes true.

Free Time!

Holidays are coming. I guess we are all eagerly waiting for the last minute of the last class.

I haven’t made many plans yet. I already know I’m not going away, perhaps a couple of days to visit my mother in San Nicolas. I’m going to meet some friends I haven’t seen for a long time, I’ve already arranged to meet for lunch with of them. And I know I will have to tidy up the mess which is around me right now, as well as the mess in my computer (the one in my hard disk and even the virtual mess).

I’m aware some of you are not having holidays at work, but a couple of hours off a week will make some kind of difference.

Tell me, what are your plans?