Archive for March 2011

She walks in Beauty

Another brilliant contribution to our project by some students from the Vocational training course in Sign Language.
I read the poem and they performed it in American Sign Language.




She walks in beauty, like the night
   Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
   Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
   Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
   Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
   Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
   How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
   So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
   But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
   A heart whose love is innocent!

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About hotels


For your next assignment, you have to choose one of the following options:
  • Imagine you are designing your own new two-or three-star hotel.

    Decide:
    1. Its location: beach, citycenter...
    2. The guests you are expecting: business people, families ...
    3. Facilities: 24-hour room service, air conditioning, minibar... tennis court, children's playground, restaurants, sauna, fitness center...

    By the way, what will it be called?
  • Use the internet to find information about places to stay.
    Get information about :

    * The smallest hotel you can find
    * The most expensive hotel
    * The most unusual hotel

    Don't forget to include pictures so that we can have a look at them!
Finally, share your descriptions and findings with us and post them on your blog!

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A widow bird sate mourning for her love

In this poem Percy Bysshe Shelley tells us about deep feelings through descriptions of the world of nature. The cold, the bare trees, the lack of motion, communicate feelings of waste because a love has died.

A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above,
The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No flower upon the ground,
And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel's sound.


( by Vaninna)
(Background music by George Higgins and José Vera)


The video below is the poem being performed in American Sign Language by some students from a Higher Vocational Training Course in Sign Language. Enjoy it!.




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