MEETING

WEDNESDAY, 28TH

18,00

ABATE MOLINA HIGH

Please remember the meeting:

1. We are going to share some copies of our book to be validated in our classrooms
2. Also, we are going to share some info about ALTE Courses and Dialogues and Debates Competitions (La competencia de diálogos se realizará el día 7 de julio en el Liceo Amelia Courbis)
3. We need to create our "Reglamento Interno"

Next Wednesday 28th, 6pm, Liceo Abate Molina, Talca.

Leo Valladares

ps. The ticket money from the journey to Linares, last june 1 and 2 has to be asked for in the DEPROE!!!( Javier, Patty; Sonia and Maria Eugenia!) Should talk with Pablo Yañez...

COLLEAGUES!!!

NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE ALTE COURSES:

el Instituto Boston Av. 1 Oriente 1426 dará los cursos ALTE este año 2006

Los contactos son Roxana Godoy y Ana Trujillo. Tel: 222233, Talca

Tienen que confirmar el horario de atención de la semana que viene y lo publicaremos en la página del Mineduc.

Las clases estarían comenzando el 8 de julio

Otras consultas dirigirse a:

Christine Jeppesen

Coordinadora Depto. Capacitación Docente

Instituto Chileno Británico de Cultura

Teléfono 4132023Fax 6326637

Stgo.

Oficial Dialogue: Up and Down

A: Hey, let me ask you something.
B: What?
A: Can you tell me…? Let’s see.
B: What?
A: I need to think a moment.
B: Go on.
A: Can you tell me two things that are red and go up and down.
B: Red and go up and down?
A: Yes.
B: Red, as in … red?
A: Yes, as in red. You know, red.
B: Red. Go up and down?
A: That’s right.
B: Let’s see. A yo-yo?
A: Could be, I suppose, but I wasn’t thinking of that.
B: Why not?
A: Because a yo-yo doesn’t have to be red.
B: What then?
A: Well, one of them is a tomato in a lift.
B: A tomato?
A: Yes, tomatoes are red.
B: What’s a lift?
A: A lift. You know, those things they have in big buildings.
B: Things they have in big buildings?
A: Yes. Sliding doors. You get in, press a button, and go up or down.
B: Oh. You mean an elevator?
A: Lift. Elevator, what’s the difference?
B: In the US they’re called elevators.
A: Well, in Britain, they’re called lifts, so I call it a lift.
B: Please yourself.
A: Thank you.
B: What’s the other?
A: A newspaper in a hot air balloon.
B: Newspapers aren’t red. They’re black and white.
A: NO!! Read, R-E-A-D. They’re read because people read them.
B: Ohh!! I see, but who takes a newspaper up in a hot air balloon?
A: That’s not the point, silly. It’s a riddle. (Exit)
B: (To the audience) I never did understand riddles.


(225 words)


Oficial Dialogue: Friends

A: What are you reading?
B: Oh, nothing.
A: What do you mean, ‘nothing’?
B: Well, nothing of importance.
A: If it’s not important, why are you reading it?
B: Because it’s – well – personal.
A: That’s contradictory.
B: Why?
A: Well, how can something be ‘personal’ and ‘not important’?
B: Look, what belongs to me is personal, private, my own, for me, belonging to me.
A: Therefore, important.
B: To me, yes, but not to you. So keep out, go away, mind your own business.
A: I thought we were friends.
B: We are.
A: Well then?
B: Well then what?
A: Well then, shouldn’t we share things?
B: Up to a point, yes.
A: Oh, so we are friends ‘up to a point’?
B: No! We are friends, friends, full stop. That’s it. Friends.
A: But don’t friends share things?
B: Some things.
A: What things don’t they share?
B: Well, private things.
A: What sort of things?
B: I don’t know. Things they don’t want others to know.
A: Secrets, you mean?
B: All right, secrets.
A: Like what you’re reading?
B: Yes, like what I’m reading.
A: What is it?
B: I’ve told you, it’s personal!!
A: There’s no need to shout.
B: Well, I’ve already told you, it’s personal, private.
A: So you did. Sorry. I’d still like to know.
B: Why?
A: Well, I’m curious.
B: Oh, all right. If you must know, it’s a list of things I might get you for your birthday.
A: Oh, I wish you hadn’t told me!



(219 words)



Oficial Dialogue: Cats and Dogs

A: Do you know?
B: Do I know what?
A: Do you know why cats go miaow and dogs go woof?
B: Because cats are cats and dogs are dogs.
A: That´s not a reason.
B: Yes, it is. If dogs were cats, they’d mew.
A: And if cats were dogs?
B: They’d bark.
A: Why?
B: Because cats mew and dogs bark.
A: I can bark. Listen, “woof!”
B: So what?
A: Does that make me a dog?
B: No, of course not.
A: Why ‘of course not’?
B: Because you’re pretending. You don’t do it…
A: How?
B: Well, … naturally.
A: I bet you I could if I practised.
B: Don’t be ridiculous.
A: What’s ridiculous about it?
B: Well look at you. You don’t walk on four legs.
A: I can do, look. (Walks on four legs)
B: Don’t be silly, you don’t have a tail.
A: Ah. Good point, but I’m sure there are dogs which don’t have tails.
B: Only if they’ve been cut off.
A: O.K., then I could be a dog with its tail cut off.
B: But why do you want to be a dog in the first place?
A: Because I don’t fancy being a cat.
B: Look, you aren’t either a dog or a cat, for heaven’s sake. You’re a person.
A: Oh, that’s boring.
B: Boring?! Why’s it boring.
A: Well, if you’re a dog, you get to bite people, and cats climb trees.
B: Some people do both.
A: O.K. I’ll just … be a person.


(219 words)

THE OFFICIAL TEXT FOR THE DIALOGUES COMPETITION

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LEO VALLADARES

HELLO COLLAEGUES!

DID YOU GO TO THE CORDELIA LEAR INSTITUTE FOR THE QPT?

WAS IT RIGHT TO YOU?

MAYBE YOU HAD SOME PROBLEMS THE SAME AS I HAD, SO ANY COMPLAINT, PLEASE CARRY IT TO OUR NEXT MEETING ON JUNE THE 28TH AT LICEO ABATE MOLINA , 6 PM.

NOW I AM POSTING SOME INFORMATION FROM THE MINEDUC, THE OFFICIAL DIALOGUES FOR THE NEXT COMPETITION ON JULY THE 7th,

I SEE YA SOON....

Leo Valladares