Happy New Year!!!

Hiya all,
Well, this is the end of the year. I hope it has been a good one and I wish you a much happier, better 2010.

In England, everybody sings this song at 12.00. It's a goodbye song to the old year. It was written by Robert Burns (1759-1796), a well-known Scottish poet and people hold hands while singing it.


see ya next yeeeear!!

Copenhagen 2009

This is a great song recorded by many artists. Have a look. You'll like it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBTZOg6l6cA

The genius

Hiya all,
If you have some time you might like to play a guessing game in English. You need to think of a character(personaje). It might be dead, alive, real or fantastic. It might also be somebody from your family. Answer the questions and the genious will show you a picture of the person. He is always right!!!. Here is the link.Enjoy.

http://en.akinator.com/#

Why you shouldn't translate from Spanish

hiya all!!
I hope you had a GREAT long weekend and now you are relaxed and calm. Watch this video to see why it is so dangerous to translate from Spanish. It's very funny so I hope you enjoy it.



and ... the second one:
this has to do with phonetics and tells you why it is so important to have a good pronunciation. you need to know these words.
piece (with long i:) and piss (with short I)
fork (with long o:) and fuck (with v)
sheet (with long i:) and shit (with short I)

Grupo de Teatro

Hiya all!!
This is important!!. Claire is directing a group of theatre in English. We need actors and actresses!! Claire will help you with pronunciation and acting and we'll present the plays in spring. I recommend you to take part in it.
Meetings will take place on Tuesdays at 6.00 or 6.30pm at the Library (Tardixt building) and the first meeting is Tuesday 1st December at 6.30 in the same place. If you are interested, please, go!
See ya

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dgrdd9k_5gf3j2xhq

Thanksgiving

I didn't really want to give you any information about Thanksgiving Day which Americans celebrated last Thursday but... here you have a very easy to understand video on the origins of the celebration and a really good web page to play around.




http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/mythpg.html

The Future

Hiya all, this might be of help to understand the future. It was created by a colleague. You can have a look at his page

http://rafamoreno.com/




and some more help here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/flatmates/episode73/languagepoint.shtml

And... a song on the topic

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Yesterday, 25th November we celebrated the International Day against Domestic Violence. This day has been celebrated since 1960 and the date was chosen to honour the Mirabal sisters who had been killed on that day many years before in the Dominican Republic for their involvement in the fight against the fascist government. You can have a look at these interesting commercials:

test

hiya!!
I strongly recomend you to do the test in the side bar (below the BBC link)

Films in O.V.

As you may know Multicines Jerez (Carrefour Sur) shows some films in O.V. every week. This is the film in English for this week:

Domingo 22: 16:40 - 19:15 - 21:45
Lunes 23: 19:15 - 21:45
Martes 24: 19:15 - 21:45
Miércoles 25: 19:15 - 21:45
Jueves 26: 19:15 - 21:45

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. The film follows the leader of a travelling theatre troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations.
Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, and Heath Ledger star in the film, though Ledger's death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily suspended. Ledger's role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Ledger's character Tony as he travels through a dream world.
The film's world premiere was during the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, out of competition. The UK release of the film was scheduled for 6 June 2009 but pushed back to 16 October 2009 due to its successful premiere at Cannes

Queen

And...



I hope you enjoy both videos and that you sing along... remember to write the little summaries about last class with Claire.See ya

Queen

Look what I found...

With or without you

And something I sort of promised... enjoy it and sing along!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8SPeR60lRI

200 hundred years with Darwin

I was thinking about how to make a good start and this is what I found. Since we are celebrating Darwing this year, why not have a look at some of the exhibitions, history and events organized? Here are some good links to enjoy.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/whats-on/darwin/

http://www.darwinendlessforms.org/