Sting: "Stop the war!"

 All of us love our children. Stop the war.

Sting_Russians

Speak like a leader

 Listen to Simon Lancaster speak about rhetoric and get some good ideas about speaking in public.

Addiction to gambling

 

A motivating speech

Watch this interesting video and then get some ideas of your own about motivation. We'll share them in class.

Celtic Song

Listen to this song before you drink a beer. You'll enjoy it twice!

How to face fear, with Will Smith

In this interesting and funny interview, Will Smith talks about the way he faces live and leaves us some interesting quotes such as ...
"The way to improve life is improve yourself"
"The point of maximum danger is the point of minimum fear"
"God placed the best things in life on the other side of terror"
"Forget securit, live for experience"
"Keep remembering to laugh and spend time with people who make you laugh"

The second part of the interview is dedicated to Nicolás. You'll know why when you watch it!
Make sure you find some time to watch it all. It's really woth it.

Do apostrophes matter?

Meet the 'Grammar Vigilante' of Bristol

For years, it has been rumoured that somebody has been going out late at night, correcting bad punctuation on Bristol shop fronts.
The self-proclaimed "grammar vigilante" goes out undercover in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place.
Jon Kay meets grammar's answer to Banksy and reveals the extent of his one man mission to improve standards.

 Look at what this 'vigilante' does: 

What do you think about it?

 

10 ways to have a conversation - Celeste Headlee

Watch this interesting video, take notes and answer the questions below, please.

Click here to get the questions:
Questions: Celeste Headlee

The power of nature

Please, find some time to watch this interesting video again.

A gentleman has died

In memoriam

Watch Leonard Cohen's Prince of Asturias' speech.
Then you will have to answer some questions. Click here to get them:
Leonar Cohen questions

Malala Yousafzai

And talking about women ...

Listen to her and come to the next class with her 3 main ideas.

Talk about yourself

And here is the next task for you.

Watch this video by Jennifer Clyde to help you talk about yoursef, either in your normal life or in a job interview, and take notes on everything you find interesting or new.

In the next class you'll have to put it into practice with a new partner. Make sure you manage to have an "advanced" conversation, using more sophisticated expressions and trying to sound natural at the same time.

If you hear some uncomprehensible speech along the recording, don't panic! As I told you, she speaks sometimes in Korean, as the video is intended for Korean people. But it won't interfere with your general understanding.

Tina Turner's Simply the best

Here you have 2 videos. The fist one without lyrics, so you can do the gap filling exercise, and another one with lyrics, so you can check and SING along!!!!

Without lyrics

With lyrics

Enjoy it!!

The Brexit

Interesting speech ... before he ran away!

J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter

 

And here you have another video about J.K. Rowing and her famous Harry Potter books.
Watch it first non-stop and then watch it again to answer the questions provided in the attached document.
I'm sure that even if you're adults, you'll feel like reading her books afterwards. I read all of them and I really enjoyed each one.

Click here to get the questions:

Questions Harry Potter

And talking about feminism ...

It's Thursday so it's a good moment to have a good laugh.

Apart from homework, it's a must!

Dear students, this is part of your homework for next week.
You have a link to J.K. Rowling commencement speech at Harvard University.
First listen to her. it's really worth it! then you listen again and answer the questions provided in the other document. We'll make corrections in the next class.
You're also welcome if you feel like sereaching a bit about her life before and after she wrote the Harry Potter successful books. I'm sure you'll like her even more.

To get the questions, click here:
Questions to J.K. Rowing speech

Enjoy it!

And now, as promised, you can get the whole speech here:   JK Rowing speech

Time's Person of the Year 2013: Pope Francis

 

As promised, here you have the interesting video we watched in the class about the Time's Person of the Year. Now you have the chance to watch it as many times as you want, with or without subtitles.

Click here:

Person of the Year 2013

A "simple" pronunciation exercise

Would you like to improve your English pronunciation?
Come on! Give it a try!

Here you have the whole poem ready for you to be read line by line.I tried and I'm not really proud of myself.
The Chaos (pronunciation poem)

Tell how it goes, please!