FILM DISCUSSION: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

FILM DISCUSSION: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

1. Task: write a new entry on your blog: choose one topic of discussion (question) and write a comment using the tags and the quotes from the film (see the grid below and the questions as prompts). 

2. Tweet a sentence to summarise your comment and include the link to your blog's entry. Add hashtag #misssunshinebastida

Little Miss Sunshine 
 

Topics for Class Discussion

1. There is a saying in English that “Beauty is only skin deep.” How does this expression apply to Little Miss Sunshine?

2. How do the relationships among members of the Hoover family change from the beginning to the end of the movie?

3. Are people divided into winners and losers in Catalonia? If so, how?

4. The two children in the family are named Olive and Dwayne. These names are very unfashionable in America; they are “loser” names. Why do you think they were given loser names in the movie?

5. In America, older people like grandpa in the movie often go into retirement homes where they live with other retired people and apart from their families. How does this compare with the way older people are treated in Catalonia? What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of putting elderly people in retirement homes?

6. Dwayne says that life is just one beauty contest after another, “you know, school, then college, then work”, they are all just kinds of beauty contests. What do you think?

7. Frank quotes Proust when he said that the best years of his life were the years he suffered because they made him who he was.

What do you think? Can suffering be a good thing?

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BRAINSTORMING PROMPTS:

QUESTION NUMBER + TOPIC	TAGS	QUOTES
1 and 6 (beauty)	diet pills, ice cream, beauty contest/pageant	«Am I pretty?»; «You're beautiful inside and outside»;  «Everyone is gonna laugh at her»; «We've got to let Olive be Olive»
2 (family relationships)	Fucking chicken, vow of silence.	«I'll be driving the van!»; «I'm proud of you», «thank you, Dad»;  «No, no! We're going to California»;  «Everybody, just pretend to be normal».
3 and 4 (winner-losers)	Losers, winners, 9-steps program (refuse-to-lose program)	«Olive, uncle Frank gave up»;  «I don't want to be a loser. Dad hates losers»;  «Do you think you can win?»;  «Don't apologise, it's a sign of weakness»
5 (elderly people)	Sunset manor, paradise
7 (life suffering)	Proust, uncle, Dwayne, vow of silence	«High-school? You don't get better suffering than that!»;  «Proust says: if you save all the suffering in life, you don't learn a thing»

ORAL COMPETENCE PROJECT: LA BASTIDA GOES GREEN

INS LA BASTIDA

Departament de Llengües Estrangeres

LA BASTIDA goes green

INTRODUCTION

How can La Bastida be more eco-friendly? A possible contribution could be getting a greener school by making realistic changes in the community and in students’ daily life and habits. How can you help?

PRE-TASK

In groups of three students, think about a problem or something in the school that can be improved related to sustainability.

Take action by designing a feasible and realistic project to be carried out in order to have a more environmentally-friendly school and solve the previously identified problem.

Think about the following fields and choose one:

- Buildings

- Transport

- Green spaces

- Waste management

- Renewable energies

etc

TASK

Design a green project for the school including the following aspects:

- SLOGAN

- PROBLEM / ASPECT TO BE IMPROVED

- POSSIBLE STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED

- ADVANTAGES / POSITIVE EFFECTS FOR SCHOOL AND STUDENTS

- RESOURCES NEEDED

ORAL PRESENTATION

From 7 to 10-minute oral presentation, in which there’s a balanced contribution of each student.

ASSESSMENT

- Slogan suitability and originality

- Feasibility of the project

- Design and content of the Powerpoint/Impress or online presentation (Prezi, Emaze, etc)

- Speaking (vocabulary, structures, pronunciation, fluency, communication)

IMPORTANT: THE PRESENTATION FILE MUST BE POSTED OR LINKED ON THE BLOGS BEFORE THURSDAY 6th April

SEE SAMPLE PROJECTS FROM OTHER STUDENTS: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3At3E1N8gNAanFVbUpyRlB2TTQ?usp=sharing

SESSION THU 16 MARCH

1. TWITTER. Create a twitter account. Find and follow @bastidaenglish and @InstitutBastida

2. Find and follow your classmates for interaction.

3. Tweet telling about an interesting festival or tradition. Add hashtags #mytraditionbastida and #bastidaenglish1617 (include a link with extra info - from wikipedia or any other website)

4. Embed your tweet on your blog. Follow the instructions:

            a) Click the arrow at the top right of your tweet.
            b) Click INSERTAR TWEET.
            c) Copy (Ctrl+C) the html code.
            d) Go to ENTRADA NOVA in your blog editor.
            e) Click HTML
             f) Paste (Ctrl + V)
            g) Click PUBLICA and then check if everything's alright.

5. Retweet some of your classmates' tweets (the ones you like most).

6. Find and follow relevant accounts on twitter connected to English learning.


PREVIOUS TASKS:

1. Make sure you created your BLOG and sent the URL to your teacher by mail.

2. Make sure you created an infographic about a renewable energy and you posted it on your blog.