FOCUS ON FILM

a)Why did people run out of the cinema during the first Lumiere brothers film?
b)Why did the Americans do so well in film production?
c)Why did the film The Ten Commandments cost so much to make?
d)Did Mary Pickford look older or younger than her real age?
e)Rudolf Valentino didn`t make any "talkies". Why not?

WHICH TYPE ARE YOU?

ROCK ´n´ROLL - You like nice, loud music - everything from the Rolling Stones to today´s heavy metal (like Guns N´Roses or Metallica). You have long hair and a leather jacket.

RAP - You like mostly black bands - with a heavy beat and lot of words. You wear dark glasses and athletics shoes.

Indie - You like very new British bands - different, modern, interesting. You buy your clothes at street markets.

POP - You like the pretty songs on the radio 24 hours a day - and in supermarkets! Rihanna and Lady Gaga are your favourites these days. You look...well, normail!!

DANCE - You like a non-stop beat. The music is more important than words!!!

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/genre/0,,,00.html

A MUSICAL NOTE

http://www.lastfm.es/music/Jimi+Hendrix

The history of rock ´n ´roll

Rock ´n´roll started in the United States with black musicians, the great rhythm ´n´blues players: Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker and Chuck Berry.
Forty years ago black music were two completely separate things. Chuck Berry was the first black musician to cross the barrier and sell records to both black and white young people. His songs were about lives of teenagers - all teenagers. In 1958 he had a big hit with Sweet Little Sixteen.
In the 1960s the style of the musicians changed a lot. Before this time singers used to dress smartly and have short hair. Now there were groups, not solo singers. And they started to wear crazy clothes and their hair got longer and longer.
By 1968 groups were all in ´hippie´gear. The guitar became as important as the voice: Jimmi Hendrix and Eric Clapton were guitarists more than singers.
In the 1970s rock went in two different directions. On the soft side,Elton John, Rod Stewart and the Swedish group Abba became very popular with people of all ages. On the hard side, The Sex Pistols, The Stranglers, Siouxie and the Banshees, and a few other bands started to play loud, violent music called `punk`. Punk was also important as a fashion in clothes. The punk `look`is still around today.
Something new and different arrived in 1975. It came from Jamaica in the Caribbean. It had a heavy dance beat, but was not too fast. It was called `reggae, and its superstar was Bob Marley. Reggae was a mix of rock, African and South American music. It had a message of peace and optimism. Marley sang:

`Don`t you worry about a thing
`Cos every little thing
Gonna be all right.`

Today there are a number of different popular music styles - pop, heavy metal, rap, dance, indie. But they all originate from good old rock `n`roll.

http://web.bobmarley.com/index.jsp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGgbT_VasI

35th FAAPI CONFERENCE

The Conference aims to create a space of reflection and discussion about how the different forms of artistic expression can enrich TEFL to make the learning of English a pleasurable and memorable experience. Linking the arts to TEFL implies the implementation of multi-sensory paths to acquisition: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, etc. as well as a contribution to language and cultural awareness.

Oscar Wilde

What kind of writer was Oscar Wilde?



Influenced by the aesthetic teachings of Walter Pater and John Ruskin , Wilde became the center of a group glorifying beauty for itself alone, and he was famously satirized (with other exponents of "art for art's sake" ) in Punch and in Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta Patience.

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