Billy Elliot

Directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Lee Hall this film was made in 2000 and set in Everington in UK Billy who left boxing for ballet, but he had to do it secretly because his father forbidden him to do it.

The film is set when the miners were in strike in from 1984 till 1985 which has been a very important struggle for his father and brother.

I really like the movie because Billy without his mother, which would be an important support for him, could made his dream come true and also considering the difficult times that he was living. However his father, at the end, supports him and that scene was I like the most.

On the other hand, the music that the director selected was very cheerful and I immediately started to download them… It was so funny.

There were some features when I

watched the film such as: when the director filmed the beginning of the movie, Billy was youngest from the first scenes and the changes of his body were notorious.

This film is a very good film, well made and the obviously the message of perseverance that Billy had to reach his goal is the most important.

Main characters:

• Jamie Bell as Billy Elliot
• Julie Walters as Mrs. Georgia Wilkinson
• Gary Lewis as Jackie Elliot
• Jamie Draven as Tony Elliot
• Jean Heywood as Grandma

Adolescent pregnancy… Daniela Wilson.

Daniela mentioned some important aspect that are much related to the lack of information, but mainly is the socio cultural factor, the early initiation sexuality, the economic family problem and lack of information about protection conceptive.

As a teacher, we have to guide student and realize them that being parents is not easier than being students, but if they are alone we have to support them as soon as possible.

The presentation was well structured and she also made a good use of visual aids showing very good images about the topic.

Subcultures… By Juan Pablo Solorzano.

Juan Pablo talked about urban tribes which are very related and closer to us because we are going to teach to adolescents and we have to know which of these tribes they belong.

Another important aspect to know is what are the things that these tribes make to be part of them.

The urban tribes are commonly well known in our society, because they are the movements that young people follow like hippies were in 60´s.

This presentation was quiet good in terms of the use of visual aids and he also was very comfortable about he was explaining us.

Friendship… By Maria Teresa Buch

The presentation that Maria Teresa prepared was brief and precise, she was very nervous, but she could make a good performance.

First of all, she gave a definition about what a friend is and specified that we have to be friends of our students even if we are head teachers.

I think that friendship is a big word, personally I have not too much friends because I consider just a few people as a good friends; however you can be very friendly with everybody, but does not mean that all of them are.

I really like this presentation because she also showed a very cute video which represented the real sense of friendship.

Diversity… By Mauricio Lillo

This micro lesson was very good presented and he also gave us advices to considerer as a person such us: be respectful each other and obviously with our students, tolerate the sexual orientation, share cultures etc.

Mauricio did not use much speech, but he made us talk about definitions of diversity which was a very good performance because we, as teachers have to overtake any cultural, thoughts or sexual diversity, we applied in every aspect when we are inside the classroom respecting us each other. This is the key to be a good teacher.

Stress… By Yhincy Contreras

Yhincy made a good micro lesson, it was well structured and the use of the classroom was appropriate to develop the topic.

Yhincy mentioned the symptoms or signs that stress involves which were physical, behavior and psychological. In my opinion I have to say that stress is a very common word used in these times because we are living in a very stressful society, but the thing is how we can live with this, the answer is in each one of us, it can have some aspect that we have to considering as a part from us I mean acquired with us because we cannot stop stress but we have to overtake it.

Sports in education… Juan Gonzalez

Juan started his presentation with a debate in which one group was against the topic and the other was for, the opinions were, in the case of “against group”, that football players do not know how to express their comments or opinion when they are interviewed and the “for group” said that sports are healthy habits which prevent illness and help the concentration.

Personally, I think that sports have be included in the scholar curricular program and if we, as a English teacher can added it as a tool to the students knowledge, why not? I also think that improve the physical state if it is applied correctly in the curricular program.

The presentation that Juan made was interesting for me because I like do exercise so, I support his idea; however the debate was too much longer and did not help him to make it right.