Marta's Art Dossier

WATGHING GAMES OF THRONES We watch each monday the new chapter which we could watch, because my family and James was a fans of Game of Thrones. A la nostra família, cada membre té una opinió diferent sobre aquesta temporada. Pero el que penso es que tots esperavem més.

VISITING MONTSERRAT FOR LISTENING THE SPECIAL RECITAL OF  "ESCOLANIA DE MONTSERRAT" CHOUR'S. I went to Montserrat to visit the mountain and the cathedral of Montserrat on April 27 with my husband and James. April 27 is a special day because it is the day of the virgin. We were invited to the special concert in memory of Anselm Ferrer, my husband's uncle. Master Ferrer was an important member of the monastery of Montserrat and for several years he was the director of "Escolania". He was also an important composer of music to be sung by the choir. "L'escolania" is a choir of white voices that has international prestige and that on that day they sang songs created by Anselm Ferrer. Being the Mother of God day, we could hear a concert of all the bells of the monastery, whose sound filled the whole space, which was a striking experience. I had to explain many things from Montserrat to James and, in my opinion, he...

VISITING PLACES AND MUSEUMS As lovers of our small country and our culture, my husband and I wanted to show James a beautiful place that could also have an artistic interest for him. That was a reason, for which we began to visit Sitges and we continue to show Tossa de Mar, a small area of ​​the Costa Brava, Olot and its volcano region, also visited Castell Follit de la Roca, Besalú, Girona , Figueres, Cadaqués, etc. SITGES.- Mar i Cel & Cau Ferrat. Like a lover's own little contry, we wanted to show it to James beautiful places whit also it have a artistic interes from him. In the Mar i Cel museum, James and I started a fun game, I read aloud all the description in the museum in Englis, of course, and then he read aloud in catalan. This innocent game made me realize that both, a Catalan learn English or a British, learn Catalan, we have had the same difficulties. I thought that was a clever mean to learn and feel that we were sharing our knowledg...

Februay  / April  2019. STRONG MEDICINE. I started reading this book on several occasions. It is a story about the death of a scientist. To be honest, I have to admit that the book I did not like. Finally, I read this book with James, at the end of April, which corrected me to my pronunciation.

HALLO JAMES I like to introduce you to my guest James, he is a painter, really an important portraitist, but the most important thing for me has been the relationship we have created. James arrived at Easter and we began to visit different places and museums because I had several days of rest of my work. First of all, we talked with James to discovered  which he would prefer knew. At this moment we began to discover the interesting person that is James. We discovered a James, who had many interests, that's why it was easiest to showed our little country. We have visited different places such as Sitges, Barcelona, ​​Tossa de Mar, Figueres, Girona, Olot, Castellfollit de la Roca, Besalú and others. When we visited these places, in one of them, we visited museums, in others, we only enjoyed the landscape, the nature, the lights, especially James enjoys watching the lights of the sky and making different drawings from his ipad. He was surprised, because he had a great e...

CONCERT OF ROCK AND ROLL DIRECT One of the best friends, Monica sings a rock and roll band, but I have no chance to listen to her because they usually don't sing in Barcelona. However, in April they sang in the Sala Monasterio, near the Olympic Port of Barcelona, ​​and I went with my husband and three more couples. In this concert, everyone could sing aloud, because the band asked that we share the repertoire, that is why we sang, Rot Steward, Queen, Rollins Stones, Tina Turner and others.

SPEAKING WITH OLIVIA. Often I went to the Olivia's class to practice speaking, because the "exam is coming!!!" and I need to practice to try to improve my fluency, speak accuracy and know more vocabulary.

SPEAK CORNER. I'm a member of student associations and I can always go to the conversation corner to speak for an hour with other classmates under the guide of Joan, our teacher . This is an interesting activity, but sometimes I can not go because I think we have few classes in a work-compatible schedule.

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM. The Eoi School , made a suggestion to students: the library offer to provide many films to students members of the Student Association . I chose Bend it Like Beckham , this film was directed by Gurinder Ghandha, who is British of Indian origin. The film was very popular in the United Kingdom. The plot talks about the social conventions on women, and the family relationships.

AN AMAZING AND GREAT EXPERIENCE. MY GUEST JAMES. I had tolk whit Eoi about I like to have a teacher like a guest in my house. This oportunity I will feel as a good oportunity to speak English and impove in my learning. The teacher of School said me on March,  that my guest teacher come from Barcelona in the Easter, and they ask me if I can accept in my house in the Easter week, of course I accepted. James arrived on 10th of April and this is started a beautiful friendhip.

LITERARY CORNER. I participated with classmates the other courses to the literary corner to speak about the Film The Talented Mr. Ripley. We were speaking betwin as around two hours of differents scenes about that Joan asked questions as.

I chose to live in my free time in English, because I changed the language to my mobile, iPad, laptop and my television, of course. I try to write whatsapp with my children in English, but I do not always understand it, my son tells me "mam you are very heavy," but my daughter is more empathetic and has patience with me. I follow some pages like Pinterest and other similar ones and, sometimes, I find interesting things. Two months ago I discovered Word Reference "word of the day" and every day they sent me two words to my mailbox, one at the basic level and one at the intermediate level. . It is interesting, because the word is illustrated in an image and it remembers well. I intend to look at it to see if I remember them.

In my house, it is tradition that we all meet to make the secret of Santa, and the grandchildren strike the "tió", it is a piece of a tree, while the children sing and then the "tió" gives a gift for kids. After dinner, when the kids were sleep, the rest is playing a table of games, and this year as a game in English.

I congratulated Christmas classmates for the whatapp group with a Christmas remembering Queen.

I participated in the game day with classmates in the fourth and five course. The games were directed and dynamized by Julia and David. Great experience, it was organisate by Estudents Association.