One day in Dubai

Watch the following video and then discuss the main issues with your mate. Make a summary and  give your opinion.  Upload an audio file onto sound cloud

Blind spot

Cooking in the danger zone

Watch the following video and then discuss the main issues with your mate. Focus specially on the food mentioned. Upload a summary and your opinion onto your blog. You can choose to write about 4-5 lines or upload an audio file onto sound cloud

A facebook fairy tale

WINNER SPECIAL JURY PRIZE - STATUS UPDATE - a facebook fairytale from Director DANIEL REISINGER on Vimeo.

Food art

Watch the video and talk to your partner about it. What do you think of food art? Should taking photos in restaurants be forbidden? Have you ever been to a restaurant where they serve this kind of dishes? Have you ever cooked anything that decorated?

Happy Valentine's

Love me and the world is mine.  David Reed

There is no remedy for love but to love more. Thoreau

You don't marry someone you can live with - you marry the person who you cannot live without.

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. Rose Franken

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.Henry Ward Beecher

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. La Rochefoucauld

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. St. Augustine

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Dr. Karl Menninger

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. William M. Thackeray

If you love someone, let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't, their love was never yours to begin with...

Some love lasts a lifetime. True love lasts forever.

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.

Within you, I lose myself. Without you, I find myself wanting to be lost again.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.  Helen Rowland

Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.  Charles Dickens

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. Mark Twain

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.  Friedrich Nietzshe

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. Victor Hugo

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.  Emily Brontë

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. Lynda Barry

When love is not madness, it is not love. Pedro Calderon de la Barca

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. Portuguese Proverb

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.  Erich Segal

Love is being stupid together.  Paul Valery

Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.  Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. Robert Browning

Reporter for a day: Interviewing foreigners.

Deadline: March 3^rd

Make a video of no more than 4-5 minutes. Those of you taking part in the German exchange must interview your German mate. Tell her or him that the video will be uploaded onto you tube. The rest of the students can go to Sol or surroundings of the Prado Museum where you can find many foreigners queuing for the museum and try to find someone nice to help you.

Some advice

• Work in pairs: One of you video records, the other one interviews the foreigner.
• Don’t read your questions.
• Don’t ask closed or vague questions. Give people the chance to explain themselves.
• Speak clearly and loud. Practise your questions before you start and make sure your intonation and pronunciation are the right ones.
• Introduce yourselves.

How to introduce yourself

• Option 1: Good morning, my name is .... and this is my classmate ....... We study English and we'd like to practise our English by asking you some questions. Could you please spare a few moments of your time?
• Option 2: Hi, could we ask you a few questions? We are English students at IES Las Musas School and we are doing a survey to practise our English. Can we ask you a few questions? It will only take five to ten minutes.
• Option 3: Hello, we have to interview foreigners for our English school assignment. Could you please help us by answering some questions? Nobody wants to talk to us because our English isn't perfect. Thank you so much for saving our lives.

Possible questions

• Where do you come from?
• What did you think of Spain before your visit? (Have you been deceived or not?)
• How long have you been in Spain?/ How long have you planned to stay here?
• Why are you here in Spain? Why did you choose Spain? What things did you know about Spanish life, culture, sports… before coming?
• Who are you here with?
• What places have you already been to?/ What place do you already know about?
• What do you like most of Spain (from your experience or from your previous data)?
• What is the food that you enjoyed most (or you would like to try)?
• Are Spaniards too different to the people in your country? Which way?
• What do you think about bullfighting?
• What do you miss from your country? (food, people, landscape…)
• Are you planning to stay, would you visit Spain again? Why?
• What do people think in your country about Spain?
• Would you live here? Why? 

Finish the interview thanking your interviewees for taking part in the survey.