The multilingual fish

You see, it is always useful to learn another language, it can help you to save your onw life!
Learn a language while you sing a song

How healthy is your diet?

“Your child will live a life ten years younger than you because of the landscape of food that we’ve built around them.”
 — Jamie Oliver

 

Watch the video as many times as you want and when you know what it is about, you are ready to
Follow the link to  the interactive transcript (so if you did not understand a part of the speech, you can choose the point from which you want to listen from).

Jamie Oliver is a British chef involved in the fight against obesity and for healthier diets. He is well-known in Britain and the States,but he is not so famous here in Spain, where the level of obesity is so high among children and young adults, above all.

Click here if you feel like to explore some more talks.

Obesity statistics: Can you find Spain?

How healthy ar you? follow the link and do the quiz, if you want to know.

And what will you get with a healthy diet? A healthier skin without pimples or ugly spots and a longer and happier life.

And another quote for you:
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper."
Adelle Davis

As easy as a cake: Speaking test

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Watch the way in which a king gets ready for his speech. How do you prepare your speaking test? I am sure that you listen to your favourite songs in English and read the lyrics at the same time, you also surf the web looking for listening activities and of course, you listen again the audio material in your coursebook.
By all those reasons I'm sure that your speaking test will be easy as a cake for you.
But if you want to check some listening webs, try the followings:
 English Central There is a free registration, but you don't need to do it to surf the videos and practise.
BBC Learn English: Lots of resourcesto choose.
ELLLO: many of you know this web, exercises, songs, videos, listening games and more. Cambridge.org: Phonetics.
Enjoy!

Your Doodle Video

This doodle video was made by students in 1º ESO A. I think it is awesome, just click and see, what do you think? click and sing along, it is great fun.
A doodle video is a collection of different and simple drawings (doodles) that illustrate the lyrics of a song.
All students in 1º ESO A  helped, so to all of you thanks again.

Your video

This great video has been made by all students in 2º ESO D. Enjoy and sing along "Yellow"

Thanks, you've done a great job.

Subtitle your movie

Follow the link and subtitle your own film.

The football team of Koh Panyee

Video from KarmaTube

This is a true story about a junior football team from Thailand, you will see that playing football is not always easy.

Surfing YouTube

Click on the Logo to go to the website

There are lots of great videos in YouTube, and not only musical videos, you can surf and find videos on different topics, although I know,  it can be sometimes difficult to find them.

Today I bring you some channels for you to explore, I hope you enjoy and have a great surfing.

American Museum of Natural History, if you are crazy about space, dinosaurs and natural science.

British Film Institute National Archive, a large collection of free films.

Oscars official channel: Everything you have always wanted to know about the Oscars:trailers, interviews, history...

Mr.Bean has got a great channel.

Learn English with the BBC

Riverdance: Enjoy the traditional dance from Ireland.

Save the children, for thsoe of you worried about life in poor countries.

Fun of stats

The Joy of Stats is a film made by Prof. Hans Rosling for the BBC not only showing the facts we can learn from statistics but also visualizing the data with the help of new techniques.
The film above is a short clip of the full movie, Prof. Rosling shows the relation between life expectancy and wealth in 200 countries and during 200 years.

Follow the link and explore the map.

Or explore some more maps here.

Bridge

Because sometimes it can be really difficult to cross a bridge.

A video without words

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A different way to look at the world around us.

A story without words: the little match girl

The little match girl is a Christmas story by Hans Christian Andersen. It is about a little girl who sells matches during New Year's Eve, it is really cold in the street, so she decides to strike one match after another to get warm. Then she gets some visions of the things that she does not have (a Christmas tree,a holiday feast, her grandmother...).She finds a shooting star in the sky and remembers her grandmother who loved her a lot.

I know it is a sad story for Christmas, I hope you have a great time this season and enjoy a lot but I would like you remember those people who are not so happy as you are.

Download the story from libriVox if you want.

Click if you want to read the story. 

London tube

Let us buy a ticket and take a ride on the London tube.
Remember: You shouild stand on the right side and leave some free space for people in a hurry , if you are in a hurry you should walk on the left side!

Theatre in the age of Shakespeare

See above a facsimile of the baptism of William Shakespeare. 

The entry is in Latin and reads "Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakspere" or, if you prefer it in English, "William son of John Shakspere".
And a quote from one of his plays:

"The course of true love never did run smooth"

From A Midsummer Night's Dream (Act 1, Scene 1)
And the second part is here

Watch the video and tell me if theatre is the same now as it used to be in Shakespeare's time.



Do you find any difference?
Remember:
People used to go to theatres in the afternoon (no artificial lighting at the time).
Gentlemen could have their chair put right up on the stage (a great privilege!)for an extra fee.
You could enjoy a different play every afternoon, perhaps 4-6 plays in a repertory season.
There were no playhouses until 1576, so that performances usually took place in an inn yard.
Ladies could attend, but they used to be veiled or in masks.
A woman was not allowed to work as an actress on stage.

Food art

Do you recognize the food?




Enjoy next long weekend!

See you on Wednesday.

The shadow of Peter Pan

Do you remember that Peter Pan has lost his shadow?
And more videos here, if you liked it.

Can I have a napkin please?

Charlie&Lola

Read along and relax with Charlie and Lola.

Just in case it's cold

Watch and listen:
Watch the video as many times as you need, as you can see you can sing along, so this is an easy exercise.
Make some suggestions to persuade the girl to stay longer.

The World Oldest Barber

Meet Antonio Mancinelli, the oldest barber in the world,
You can read along if you want (a transcript is provided).
And he is not the only one, watch and listen to the oldest graduate in college in the world:

Now that you have watched and listened to both golden agers, answer the questions about Nola Ochs (no transcript this time).