Famous Photos

Week 28^th – 30^th April

Hello! How’s everybody?

I expect you’ll be enjoying your long weekend. And I hope there isn’t a lot of traffic when we drive back home!

After a weekend full of events, it’s time to get back to Madrid.

International Labour Day was 1^st May

2^nd May is an important date for the Community (this is used to name some administrative division of the Spanish territory) of Madrid. People from Madrid and surroundings fought to keep independent from the French.

And the first Sunday in May is Mother’s Day in Spain. (That is today)

What did we do last week?

We read and talk about three famous photos taken by the photograph Harry Benson. They were historical moments.

The photo taken on August 9^th, 1974, was the photo in which Nixon was saying goodbye to his cabinet and the White House staff after the ‘Watergate’ scandal. This led us to talk about the famous film ‘All  the president’s men’ and also to talk about another film ‘Wag the dog’ and the series ‘Scandal’. They’re fiction but you can’t stop wondering how much of it is true…

In the second photo we could see ‘The Beatles’ in a luxurious hotel room. It was a creative moment and they were making the song ‘I feel fine’. That photo was taken in Paris in 1964.

And the third photo caught the moment when people were attacking the Wall in Berlin, in 1989. Important moments in history, without doubt.

Remember how to use prepositions.

On Thursday we talked about our plans for the weekend. And the subjects of fishing, hunting, canoeing and reservoirs were brought about (were introduced).

They may look disconnected but they were linked (connected)!

Finally, we started talking about the use of past simple and past continuous tenses, but we’ll continue talking about this next week.

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday. See you on Tuesday!