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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

The Spanish Residence and Spanglish (two films about multilinguism)



We have concluded the unit, a multilingual world, so we had time to watch some parts of the films: The Spanish Residence (an interesting film about students’ mobility within Europe) and Spanglish (a film which deals with the integration of a Mexican family in the American lifestyle).
This school term is about to end. I have been correcting students’ last tests and evaluating their oral skills and attitudes. They have recently presented the debate about the topic: should we defend the existence of a global language or should all languages be considered equal? I had students who prepared themselves very well for this activity, while others didn´t invest enough time and work to overcome their difficulties.
I wish some would work harder. There are so many temptations everwhere that many have difficulty in sorting out their piorities.
Nevertheless, it was a worthwhile school term. I had students who told me they liked their English lessons a lot.

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