Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2022!!!

Christmas is the time of year to share the blessings of life with the people we love and with those who are most in need. I just wanted to remind you how special you are to me. Merry Christmas!

Let's sing jingle bells! 

•  Nursing home residents tell us about their memories of Christmas.  
• Let's watch this video, dogs conforting old residents!
• Let's make a Christmas Cracker with old residents.
• Some English traditions

Christmas Carols:

• We wish you a Merry Christmas (lyrics and video)
• Jingle bells
• Jingle bell rock

Christmas Recipes:

• How to make eggnog
• How to make Christmas pudding       Exercise

The Christmas gift experiment

Is it better to receive a gift or to give one?

What gift would you like to receive?

What gift would you like to give to somebody else?

Domestic Violence 25th November

  

 

A rapist in your way, Chilean song

Tracy Chapman:  Behind the Wall       Lyrics

Savage Garden: Two beds and a coffee machine     Lyrics

Sting: Every breath you take

The Cramberries: All over now  Lyrics 

Let's go to the movies!

You are going to see a short film (about 15 minutes) called Validation. It is a story about a parking attendant who gives his customers REAL validation -- giving both free parking and free compliments. It's an amazing and inspiring short film about the importance of acknowledging and validating people. It shows the magic of looking for the best in people. 

Validation the short movie has played at 34 film festivals worldwide and won 17 awards.

You'll have to do some activities about the video. Ready to validate yourself?

Anwer the following questions in your notebook:

1. Where does Hugh Newman work?
2. Write at least three or four accomplishments he makes to clients.
3. What is the name of the girl he falls in love with?
4. Where does she work?
5. What happens to her at work?
6. Why doesn't she smile at first? What happens that makes her smile again?

You can see it with subtitles here:

English

Spanish

Domestic Violence 25th November

Vocabulary:

Elderly life  -  uncared for -  pills   -  sexual harassment  -

abuse -  marriage life -  unwanted pregnancy  -  pregnant  - alone 

childhood life -  teenage life  -  relationship  -  lifetime

• What is domestic violence?
• Where does domestic violence occur?
• Why does it happen?
• Look for three signs of domestic violence and translate them into Spanish.
• What are the statistics of domestic violence? How many women suffer from it?

21st September: World Alzheimer's Day

World Alzheimer's Month is the international campaign every September to raise awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds dementia. September 2020 will mark the 9th World Alzheimer's Month. The campaign was launched in 2012. World Alzheimer's Day is on 21 September each year.

Hat’s story: living with Alzheimer’s disease