Good afternoon, I keep to my promises ....so here you are the pictures which show what we did to celebrate 23 April (International Book Day) and the pictures displaying our trip to Madrid on 28 April to watch a theatre play in English ("The Taming of the Shrew") and our strolling around The Madrid de los Austrias main monuments and buildings.
Concerning 23 April we placed a box for the students to vote on their favourite piece of book in English.
There were five posters with fragments from each of the books:
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The Unameable by Samuel Beckett
Crabbed Age and Youth (Sonnet) by William Shakespeare
The Looking Glass War by John Le Carré
Gravity´s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
And the winner was...The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, I think this was due to Laurence´s fine sense of humour (and indeed, it is also my favourite book of all, though I like all of them, for sure :) )
The second place was for Crabbed Age and Youth
The third place was for The Unameable
And the fourth place was for both Gravity´s Rainbow and The Looking Glass War
Well , all of them should have been winners, but our favourite was the first one.
Thanks to all the students who voted and we hope to carry out this activity next year.
And now the pictures...
Bye for now.