Sports
1) Look at this pictures and try to describe them.
2) Have you ever done anything like this?
3) What sport would you like to take up?
4) Do you remember the last time you had an adrenalin rush?
2) Have you ever done anything like this?
3) What sport would you like to take up?
4) Do you remember the last time you had an adrenalin rush?
Slowing down in a world built for speed
Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of live.
Remembrance Day
You can read the most famous poem of the Great War if you click here: Wilfred Owen
You can listen to an interpretation of the poem here:
Dulce et Decorum Est
If you are interested you can find other poems by Wilfred Owen with a photo of the manuscript if you click here: Poems
Here you have The Last laugh
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
You can listen to an interpretation of the poem here:
Dulce et Decorum Est
If you are interested you can find other poems by Wilfred Owen with a photo of the manuscript if you click here: Poems
Here you have The Last laugh
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Barack Obama Speeches
Democratic Convention Speech
You can watch the video and read the script if you click here: SPEECH
Victory Speech
You can watch the video and read the script if you click here: SPEECH
Victory Speech
Topics
Curriculum
EOI
Topics
1. Personal
identification, experiences.
2. Home,
city, nature.
3. Daily
life. Routines, Jobs.
4. Free
time. Hobbies, TV, cinema, music,…
5. Travel.
6.
Relations with other people. Family, friends. Crime and punishment.
7. Health.
8.
Education
9.
Shopping. Clothing, restaurants,…
10. Food
and drink.
11.
Services. Transport, hospitals, post office.
12.
Language and communication.
13. The
weather. Global warming
14 Science and technology
Air travel
Vocabulary
Overhead compartment
In-flight announcement
Listening activity
click on this link to do this exercise: LISTENING
And now an airport announcement
Overhead compartment
In-flight announcement
Listening activity
click on this link to do this exercise: LISTENING
And now an airport announcement
Can't we all disagree more constructively?"
Jonathan Haidt studies how -- and why -- we evolved to be moral. By understanding more about our moral roots, his hope is that we can learn to be civil and understanding of those whose morals don't match ours, but who are equally good and moral people on their own terms. I hope you enjoy it! You can click on the link bellow to learn more about the talk:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jonathan_haidt_on_the_moral_mind.html
Time management
Here you have a very interesting lecture by Randy Pausch who died on 25 July 2008. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. I particularly liked the quotation: "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted".
Welcome
Another academic year begins and I am starting a new blog to help you with the English language and culture. We are going to have fun!
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