EXPORTING PHYSALIS

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Poem; "My little tree"

Poem; "My little tree"

I would like to tell you something, because I know you can listen to me.

Do you know how important your vitamin is for me?

You have allowed me to better see, because of your high level of vitamin C.

Did you know this?

I am going to tell you a story, and then you are going to believe me.

When I was three, I could see anything, but in my garden I had a tree.

This was you, yes, you my little tree, like an angel to help me to better see.

Did you know this?

One day I took a physalis from you, I ate it and I loved it.

After that, I started to go to my garden every day to eat it.

Three years later when I bit a physalis, suddenly I could see.

I do not know how, but I could see, and you were there, my little tree.

I cannot believe the miracle you have done to me.

But I am sure it was because your high level of vitamin C.

For that reason I invite all who cannot see.

To  eat physalis as much as possible just like me.

By; ORTIZ leney

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

Once upon a time a tall and thin skeleton known as Jack Skellington, was tired and bored in Halloween land, he needed something different of just yelling, ‘Boo’ one night, Jack came upon an amazing sight, where he was transfixed by one special door. Jack didn’t know it, but he fallen down In the middle of a place called Christmas Town. There, he took candies and toys and a picture of Santa with all of his elves. He picked up everything that produced small flashes of light and took it all back to Halloween where a group of Jack’s peers stared in amazement at his Christmas souvenirs. He decided to be Santa that year, he liked to say; “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!” He visited some children’s houses and gave them terrible toys, everybody there were screamed of terror, but Jack didn’t notice it because he was much too involved with his own Christmas spirit! Suddenly Jack fell on the cemetery where he was confused and filled with great grief. He heard Santa to say “My dear Jack, I applaud your intent but taking over Christmas was not a good idea”. Also Santa said Jack; “I hope you realize Halloween is the right place for you”. After that, Santa left Jack at the cemetery by saying him “Merry Christmas,” and goodbye. Jack was sad, but then, like a dream, Santa brought Christmas to the land of Halloween.

By: Leney Ortiz

SUMMARY «Bill»

                        SUMMARY «Bill» by leney Ortiz

This tale was really catching for me, it shows the sad situation of a man who at the age of 30 lost his wife, with whom he had a baby named Minna, a little girl who was only 4 years old when that terrible situation occurred. Bill was a carpenter, he spent a lot of time on his carpenter shop located in the yard of his house, and he worked all the day sitting on his bench while Minna played in the yard with her doll and her kitten. Every night the girl prayed, kneeling in the middle of the floor with her hands folded. Two years after the Bill’ wife’s death he fell ill on a May afternoon and because of that, he had to let his little Minna go with another family in order to protect her. There are a lot of situations like this in the real life, in which a father or mother has to overcome terrible situations alone, because of different circumstances such as; money, health, time and so on. Nowadays, millions of children are abandoned for different reasons, sometimes they have good luck and are adopted by excellent families that offer them all the necessary for living happy. On the contrary, some of those children are adopted by terrible families that offend, hit, and abuse of them physically and psychologically.

The Knight's tale: Alternative ending – “A big surprise”

The Knight's tale: Alternative ending – “A big surprise”

Theseus listened to those women’s testimonies, and decided to go with them to Thebes, in order to help them to find the corpses or bones of their husbands for the funeral rites, when they all arrived in Thebes, Theseus said Creon that two women wanted to talk with him about their husbands’ situation. Women were decided to fight against Creon and demand their rights as warriors’ wives.

  Suddenly a group of men appeared in the middle of the battleground and the two women that were suffering, noticed how their husbands were alive and using  the uniform that identify the Thebes’ army commanded by Creon. Theseus without knowing what to do left Thebes and returned Athens. The warriors could not talk with their wives because of a law imposed by Creon. The two women stayed in Thebes by working as Creon’s housewives. One day Leonora and Lady decided to create a plan to kill the Thebes’ king and recover their husbands.

One night the women entered into Creon’s bedroom killed him and recuperated their husbands, the warriors and their wives decided to go to Athens where they got married and lived happy for the rest of their lifes.

Cinderella's script ENGLISH VERSION

Scene 1

Characters:

Cinderella: Marcela

Prince: Edwin

Fairy of the prince: Sandra

Fairy of the princess: Darcy

Maid: Leney

Prince’s friend: Enrique

The maid is tidying up the house while Cinderella is texting on her cellphone.

Cinderella: Heey, I am hungry!

                    Bring me the breakfast, move on! I don’t have all day.

Maid: I´m so sorry!

           Hold on a second, I am going to bring you the most delicious breakfast you have never eaten before! Oh God!  I forgot turning the stove off. (The maid runs desperately to turn the stove off)

Cinderella: What the hell is going on? Are you going to turn this into an ashtray?

Maid: I´m really sorry! The scrambled eggs I have prepared for you, have just burned...May I prepare you something else?

Cinderella: Oh man, you´re good for nothing!

                   Did you understand what I meant?

                   I… just…want... my breakfast.

                  Ok, just prepare a sandwich!

                 

Maid: Ok my darling, as you prefer, don’t worry I am going to solve this incident. (Cinderella´s phone rings)

          -Who´s calling?

Cinderella: Hey, mind your own business!

                   Bring my sandwich!

Maid: Ok my dear Cinderella, your wish is my command (sarcastic tone). (The maid goes for the sandwich).

Cinderella: (Cinderella listens to a voice record on WhatsApp)

Prince’s voice recording: Hello honey!

                                         -What’s going on?

                                           - What do you think about going out tonight?

Cinderella: Ohhh honey!

                   I’d travel to Timbuktu for being with you! You know.

                   Just tell me when and where and I´ll be there.

Prince: Ok, I’ll wait for you at 10.

                Be ready love!

The maid: Here you are I hope you liked, because sincerely, I prepared it for you with much love ! (She brings the sandwich)

                  Don’t talk to strangers.

Cinderella: Shut up!

                 - Mind your business!

                 - What a sty, get on with cleaning!

(Cinderella is sitting on her bed calling her fairy. The fairy's phone is ringing)

Fairy of the princess:  Hello my darling, what happens?

Cinderella: I have to tell you something really important, could you come to my home right now?

(The Fairy of the princess is talking alone)

Fairy of the princess: She is going to talk to me about my prince once again, she doesn't get that he is mine only mine.

At Cinderella bedroom

Cinderella: I am.... so excited, It is incredible! I can't believe it.

Fairy of the princess: What's the matter my dear?  Is it about him?

Cinderella: Imagine that, he invited me to a party tonight.

Fairy of the princess: Really? You got what you wanted, to meet him. Poor naive!

Cinderella: Imagine that, he invited me to a party tonight. But... I don't know what to wear.

Fairy of the princess: It's not the problem. I will figure it out!

                         -I'm going to give you everything you need

Cinderella: Yes! It is so nice. You're the best in the world. I love you so much, thanks for helping me.

(Cinderella hugs her fairy and a dress appears magically on her bed)

Fairy of the princess: This is for you, wear it.

Cinderella: It seems awful to me!

Fairy of the princess: (The fairy is sad) Awful? I spent my time looking for the best dress for you and you are telling me that is it awful?

Cinderella: It is just a little but not too much. Don't worry.

Fairy of the princess: Besides, It’s magic! You know, the prince will fall in love when he stares at you.

                He’ll be madly in love with you. (Cinderella changes cloths and she shows the fairy how she looks like)

Cinderella: How do I look like?

Fairy of the princess: You’re looking like you’re, the most beautiful princess on earth.

-Ah wait!  I have something else for you! Close your eyes 1, 2, 3, now open your eyes. Do you like it?

             

Cinderella: What’s that?

Fairy of the princess: I know for you it is just a bike, but looks can be deceiving Cinderella.

Cinderella: But, it is just a ramshackle bike.

Fairy of the princess: No, no, no! For you, it looks like a bike, but the others see a magnificent chariot. You know, it is the power of the magic.

Cinderella: Is that true? I think you’re lying to me.

Fairy of the princess: No, no, no I would never do something like that, Get out! And check it out for yourself.

Cinderella: Ok! See you later

The prince and his fiend talking at the party.

Prince: I don't feel well these days.
Prince`s friend: What's the matter?

Prince: I think I`m cheating on Cinderella

Prince`s friend: What makes you think that, man?

Prince: It`s the princess` fairy. I like the way she moves her hips

                Those big butts, oh god! she thrills me but...

Prince`s friend: But ...?

I know I can resist this temptation even though she looks like a small devil burning everything on her path.

Prince`s friend: You know that`s superficial

Prince: The devil take it! Cinderella is so beautiful, no woman in this room can outshine her.

Both: CHEERS!.

(Cinderella rides the bike and goes to the party)

At the party

Cinderella: My love, my love, (She shouts in the event hall) I’m here, sorry for arriving late (she hugs the prince saying) I have waited months for you!

(Prince’s friend is looking at askance Cinderella)

Prince’s friend: You must be kidding man, this must be a joke. Is this the person you told me you were interested in introducing to me? I thought you were going to introduce to me someone better. Do you really think I deserve a princess like her? This is not my kind of woman, I prefer to stay alone. I have no words; what is happening to you? This woman is so awful, I cannot be with someone like her.

Prince: She looked different before, but now yes! She looks like a monster. I think she’s not the person I am looking for you.

(Cinderella gets out of the party crying,)

HOW MUCH IMPORTANT COULD BE  LITERATURE ON LEARNING-TEACHING PROCESS.

It is possible to use literature to teach English? What activities would you like to do in your future as a teacher? Why? What population? What materials?

Literature is one of the most important aspects when teaching English, it allows students and teachers have a preconception about tales, plays, stories and poems, especially those that are considered to have value as art and not just entertainment, those that allow us to develop as much as possible the target language during the teaching–learning process. As a future teacher, I would like to implement several activities with my students, but especially “Drama” because it allows students to acquire linguistic and non-linguistic competences not only for their teaching-learning process but also for their future professional field.

Drama is a prose or verse composition that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action favoring learners’ grammar and pronunciation. It should not be regarded as merely a fun activity or role play for filling the last ten minutes of a class, but it should be regarded as a language learning approach itself. The use of “Drama” is unusual at school or at the universities, not all teachers feel ease with employing it in the classroom because of the time and space, besides, because teachers do not feel sure by using  the methods they have not been trained before for the student’s language acquisition or improvement.

Similarly “Drama” allows to find a systematic approach to education where students use their creativity at the same time that they linguistic competences such as; lexicon, grammar, phonetics, semantics, as well as voice management, body language and non-linguistic skills that help them to increase the development of the oral competence when performing, as well as writing skill when creating the script.

By: Leney Xiomara Ortiz Calderon