PASSWORD: Choose a quote

“It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” 
― Mother Teresa

“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.” 
― Margaret Sanger

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.” 
― Ronald Reagan

“[I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

B&B:

• Choose an option to write about:

1. Jig writes a letter to her mother describing her situation and feelings.
2. Jig writes a page in her diary the day after the conversation with the American.
3. The American sends several text messages to his best friend while he is at the train station with Jig.

• Bring a present for the game: "White Elephant Exchange Gift"

VOCABULARY Focus:

• White elephant: something that has cost a lot of money but has no usefulpurpose
• Elephant gift exchange: It is a holiday party game found primarily inNorth America. They have been known to result in playful rivalries between players trying to get sought-after items. The goal is usually to entertain rather than to gain.
• Elephantine: /ˌel.ɪˈfæn.taɪn/ formal very large
• There’s an elephant in the room: If you say this expression, you mean that there is an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about.
• Have a memory like an elephant:  to be able to remember things easily and for a long period of time
• Valley: an area of low land between hills or mountains, often with a river running through it:
• Liquorice: the dried root of a Mediterranean plant, used in medicines and to give flavour to food, especially sweets› a black sweet made from liquorice
• Absinthe:  /ˈæbsɪnθ/ a strong alcoholic drink that is green and has a bitter taste
• Bamboo beads: a small, coloured, often round piece of a tall tropical grass  with a hole through it. It is usually put on a string with a lot of others to make jewellery
• Junction a place where things, especially roads or railways, come together:
•  operation an occasion when a doctor cuts a body for medical reasons inorder to repair, remove, or replace an unhealthy or damaged  part
• Anis del Toro: is Spanish for 'Bull's Anisette'. It refers to anisette liqueur, a colorless alcoholic beverage that tastes somewhat like licorice.

How to Make an Origami Elephant:

Hills Like White Elephants

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beatles

PASSWORD:

" Any man's life, told truly,is a novel " 

Ernest Hemingway

B&B:

• Finish reading the short story " Hills like White Elephants"
• Underline key expressions that depict the issue in the couple's conversation.
• Write 5 words about : The setting, Character 1 and Character 2.
• OPTIONAL: Read info about the author and the title of the story in the Power Point sent via mail.

PRE- READING activity: Blind crayon drawing

THE SETTING      CHARACTER 1     CHARACTER 2

VOCABULARY Focus:

stoat (animal)

ermine (fur)

rapport + with

empathy

sympathy

Ebro watershed

licorice or liquorice

absinthe /ˈæbsɪnθ/

"a white elephant"

"to have an elephant in the room"

"white elephant gift exchange or Evil Santa"

The Elephant Song - Children's Music

Password:

"Life is like a cup of coffee. Youth is............................................."

B&B:

• Guess what the short story Hills Like White Elephants is about.
• Investigate about the Ebro River.

VOCABULARY Focus

Seasons of Life:

Childhood: infancy  pester power, Disney films, picture books, innocence, tree climbing, fairy tales, den building, school age, junior

Teenage Years: puberty, adolescent, inexperienced, puerile, immature, green, raw, undeveloped, blossoming, flowering, naïve, unaware, freshman, fresh meat

Youth: minor, juvenile, salad days, fresh-faced, legal age ( the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs)

Adulthood: grown up, of age, prime of life, manhood, parentage, maturity, ripened, full bloom, completion, ripe, fertile.

Old Age: aged, long-lived, old, oldish, full-bloom, golden age, over-the-hill, senile, barren, retired, seasoned.

Re-Birth: reanissance, awakening, reincarnation, comeback, outset, reborn, regeneration, renewal, resurrection, reinvention,reactivation. 

New words:

• alumnus/ alumni ( plural)

 - Alumnus and alumna stem from Latin alere, "to nourish or be nourished," now by a university; originally alumnus was a pupil and now it is a male graduate. Alumni refers to either sex. Farlex Trivia Dictionary

• mythomania (ˌmɪθəʊˈmeɪnɪə) - Collins English Dictionary  

 (Psychiatry) psychiatry the tendency to lie, exaggerate, or relate incredible imaginary adventures as if they had really happened, occurring in some mental disorders.

mythomaniac n, adj

Life is Like a Cup of Coffee

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