Christmas carols

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!! Here you can find some well-known Christmas Carols with lyrics: Jingle Bell Rock A little bird told me you are doing this one in the school choir: Silent Night Twelve Days of Christmas: This one will sound familiar to those of you who´ve been to the pantomime this year. Deck the Halls: We wish you a Merry Christmas This one is sung in Scotland on New Year´s Eve and it is a celebration of friendship. It was written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne And this one is a bit naughty: A fairytale of New York by Irish band The Pogues. Lyrics in different colours: man in red, woman in pink and both in blue.

Identity theft

This is the video you need to watch to do the listening exercise about identity theft:

Fill-in-the-gaps exercise about Steve Jobs

Dear all,

Let me share with you this interesting text with gaps about Steve Jobs. It will give you practice in this type of exercise.You can do it as homework and check your answers by going to the original article.

It´s taken from the New York Times Learning Network Fill in Category, where you can find more of these exercises.

I hope you find this link useful.

Presentation on Conditional Sentences

I found this very complete presentation on Conditional Sentences in English.

You can use it to revise the conditional sentences or to prepare the exercise on Steve Jobs' speech below.

Conditionals from Maria Markaki School of Foreign Languages

Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Watch Steve Jobs' address at Stanford university where he summarizes his life in three stories.



If you are short of time, here is a link to an edited version and a quiz.

After watching, complete these sentences using the third conditional:
- If he hadn´t been adopted by his parents......
- If he handn´t dropped out of college,...
- If he handn´t taken calligraphy lessons..
- If he hadn´t met Wozniak...
- If he hadn´t founded Pixar...
- If he hadn´t been fired from Apple,..

Now, make four similar sentences about your life and send them to the blog as a comment to this message.

Complicated

Dear all,

Do you feel like singing along to this song???

The lyrics are in your textbook on page 114.

Enjoy it!

Is eating healthily expensive?

Listen and find out.

Dear all,

This is the video about Halloween we've seen in class.



I hope you enjoy watching it again and get the missing words in the fill in the gaps listening exercise we did. Write your answers to number 2 as a comment to this entry. Let´s see who gets it right!!

You could also write a comment on the following:

What´s your opinion of Halloween??
Are you doing anything special this long weekend??

Enjoy All Hallows´ Eve.

Eva

A swishing party

You are going to watch a video about an original way of recycling clothes. Before you watch, talk to your partner about the following: How often do you go shopping for clothes? Do you ever buy second-hand clothes? What do you think the advantages/disadvantages of getting second-hand clothes could be? After you watch the video, discuss in pairs: - What is a swish party? - How do you organise one?

Tips about giving a presentation

Watch the video on how to give a presentation in English and answer the questions below:

Before you watch the video, list three things that are essential when you have to give an oral presentation.


-Watch the video and think about those aspects that could be useful in your situation.


- Think about any aspects of the presentation that were surprising or that were new for you.


- How can AFFECTION affect your presentation? Can you think of any way in which you could use this concept?

I will survive

Here is the video for the activity you have to prepare:

Enjoy it!!!

Space tourism