HOW TO BE SPANISH: AN ARTICLE AND A REPLY

You may have heard of the article recently published by The Sunday Times titled How to be Spanish. (To see and download full article, click here) Different media in Spain have echoed the article, incensed by the collection of clichés it features.

A British contributor to El País, Simon Hunter, has replied to the Sunday Times'  chief travel writer  by giving his own view of the matter. READ IT HERE.

What's your stand? Are you outraged, offended, disgusted, or on the contrary, have you been amused by it all? Are the clichés true (or partially true)? Is the tone of the article derisive or simply taunting/frank/amusing/you-name-it?  

I wanna hear your thoughts about the issue!!

PS. Here's Murcia Today's article commenting on the matter.

PERSONALITY TRAITS: When were you born?

Check your personality traits here.

LISTENING: Psycho-tree

Listen again to the recording you heard in class and complete your notes. Then analyse the tree that you drew. What can you say about your intelligence and imagination?

MORE ABOUT PHYSICAL AND CHARACTER DESCRIPTION

In TOPIC 1 you have to describe people from two points of view: what they look like (BODY) and what they are like (CHARACTER).
This is an excellent site that compiles resources about different topics, amongst them description:

RESSOURCES POUR LE COLLEGE

Check some of the links, for example: 
people: age and build - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab) with :

• - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
  - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
  - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.

• personalities - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab) with :
  - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
  - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
  - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.