Apr 29, 2016

April´s almost over!!!!!!


Good News to watch!!!!


Google Express is here!!!!




New Virgin America Logo




Famous Big Ben




Australia: The Kid´s Class



It’s time to honour that other April fool tradition!!!!

The first jokes for you to watch are here waiting for you!!!

Are they real jokes, fantasy  or just reality?

It´s up to you to decide!

Apr 24, 2016

The Fanky, the ONE and Only Prince is gone!



PRINCE is gone!!!! 

It was last Thursday that PRINCE the musical icon died unexpectedly .  It was PRINCE , the Fanky, the ONE and Only!

We are not aware of how important and great some people in our everyday life are, until they dissapear for good!

Prince was a great musician, a great person and a great showman!

We are lucky we can still enjoy some of his work and music!!!



He was a pioneer ! A visionary!  He knew what was important and fought for it!

There are many legendary moments from the singer-songwriter's career worth watching and remembering in tribute after his passing. And one of them is NFL-related, with Prince absolutely tearing down the house at Super Bowl XLI in what may be the greatest halftime performance ever.




A more serious Prince can be watched in this 2013 insparing interview.


Apr 23, 2016

Shakespeare's legacy! 400 years of Shakespeare!!! Let's Celebrate it!!!


A 400 year legacy of a life’s work in the arts!


Today, the 23rd of April 2016, we commemorate 400 years since the death of the great playwright William Shakespeare. From comedy to history, tragedy to sonnet, there is no doubting the influence Shakespeare has had on the literary world.




There’s no need to head for The Globe this weekend, we can have the very best of Shakespeare, classic and contemporary, his life and works just a click away!!!

But we, at Sagasta, are certainly celebrating it our own way!!! Our 1st IB students have done a superb job and prepared a handmade book for everybody to read. They have paid special attention to the following points:

  • 1. Shakespeare
  • 2. Elizabethan Theatre
  • 3. Romeo and Juliet
  • 4. The Tempest
  • 5. Richard III
  • 6. A Midsummer Night's Dream

Please, have a look!















We have even tried to speak as Shakespeare did!






The Globe and Shakespeare´s pronounciation, David Crystal gives a more sophisticated explanation of how Shakespeare spoke and explains how the OP, Original Pronounciation works, and how much we are loosing of Shakespeare texts if we listen to them in Modern English pronounciation.





We have a little bit of everything here!  
What about some insults by Shakespeare???

From Fishmonger to Bite your thumb!




Let´s finish with some very famous Shakespeare´s quotes:






Romeo and Juliet
1. What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
(2.2.45-6), Juliet

2. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me!
(3.1.95-6), Mercutio
By any other word would smell as sweet.
(2.2.45-6), Juliet

2. A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me!
(3.1.95-6), Mercutio

Richard III
1. A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
(5.4.8), Richard

 
2. Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
(1.1.1-2), Richard

The Tempest


1. "I have done nothing but in care of thee,
thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
art ignorant of what thou art, naught knowing
of whence I am, or that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father."
thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, 
whoart ignorant of what thou art, naught knowing
of whence I am, or that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father."
Act 1, Sc. 1, Lines 19-24


2. "You taught me language, and my profit on 't
Is I know how to curse"
Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 437-438
Caliban says when speaking of Prospero's teaching
Is I know how to curse"
Act 1, Scene 2, Lines 437-438
Caliban says when speaking of Prospero's teaching
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

A Midsummer Night's dream
1. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

2. “Though she be but little, she is fierce!”