Thursday, 30 December 2010

Happy New Year!!

The new year brings with it lots of memories about what happened the year before and a lot of ideas about what we'll be able to achieve in the new one. It's a time of decisions and resolutions.
As a New Year's present, I want to share this beautiful poem with all of you. The poem is called "The road not taken" and it was written by Robert Frost

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;



Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,



And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


To listen to an online version of the poem, click onto:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnWU29o2xwA&feature=related

TAKE THE ROAD THAT MAKES YOU HAPPY! HAVE A WONDERFUL 2011!!

Saturday, 25 December 2010

Christmas 2.0

May you have a blessed Christmas Day!!

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Getting ready for Christmas


How much vocabulary connected with this season do you know?

Click onto: http://www.learningchocolate.com/node/328?st_lang=en and find out.

1) Read the words and click on the sound button to learn how to pronounce them
2) Do the exercises at the top

Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Christmas shopping

Already? Yes, it is time to think of the gift we'll buy our loved ones for Christmas. In the States, people do this well in advance. There shopping starts soon, on the day known as Black Friday. Now, in the era of technology, they can also shop on Cyber Monday, an option that is becoming quite popular.
Watch this video to learn more about this:

Multisource political news, world news, and entertainment news analysis by Newsy.com



If you want to read the script, click on:
http://www.newsy.com/videos/cyber-monday-big-as-black-friday/

Friday, 12 November 2010




American people celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November. That day, families get together to celebrate. Even though we don't have this celebration in Argentina, I think we can also take some time to recall all those things we can be thankful for. Many times we are so involved in our everyday activities that we don't take the time to enjoy things we may take for granted.

What are you thankful for?

To learn more about the history of Thanksgiving:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

Take a language quiz about this holiday:

http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/vocabulary/holidays_thanksgiving1.html

Monday, 20 September 2010

Spring


Spring is here!! And here's a positive message for this very special time:
"No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow." ~Proverb
Hope you have a nice beginning of this beautiful season.

Sunday, 5 September 2010

Anne Frank

We're reading Anne Frank and wonder how the other characters might describe Anne as they see her. Here's how Natali thinks Peter would do so:


Today is my birthday and I have a game and a cigarette lighter for presents.Everything is getting worse,but we are safe and now that is the most important thing.I feel terrible because there are a lot of people in the streets and the families are separated.I like living here with other families but sometimes it's difficult.

Well,let's talk about Anne,she is very pretty and I like her company because she is funny and she has a good sense of humour all the time,and it's good to have a person like that,because if you are sad,nervous or worried she can make you happy.I like her very much,but in these time I can't think about love because the most important thing is to be alive and survive.If Anne likes me, she could be my girlfriend, but I don't think that, because she ''loves'' me like a brother or a friend.Well,I'm too tired and I've to go to sleep, because it's too late.

Here's what Facundo thinks Alfred would write:

I am Alfred Dussel 10 November

Dear diary , I think that I am lucky because this big family chose me to live in their house , now the Germans are taking the Jews in the concentration camps to kill them ,our secret annexe is really secret because when I entered the buiding had no idea where I was going and then I entered the secret annex I forgot all about Germans and the concentration camps. I was puzzled they received me with a drink then they showed me my bedroom and I forgot to say something , I knew a girl called Anee Frank she is a beautiful she talked to me for an hour. She thinks that she is selfish and I said that she had not any reason to feel like that because you can not protect more people because we are 8 now .

This is Agostina's contribution


Hello kitty: I ,Margot was born in Frankfurt in Germany in 1926.When we went to the Annex I felt scared because I had a letter to say that I was going to the camp but i didn`t go.I lived with other people and it is horrible because we have no trust and the Annex is very small.When we have a shower we have 3 places.I sleep with my sister anne but then other person live with us and I go to sleep to my parents bedroom.I ´m not very happy I like sleeping with my sister it is more fun.I like living with these people,they are good but Mrs Van Dan isn`t a good person because she tells me off all the time.We can`t make noise because the people work in the factory,we have a bookcase that covers the doors this is safer because they don`t see the door.We have a friend called Miep and father´s friend,they help us,they bring us food and clothes.I love them.

Here's what Kendra thinks Peter would say:


Hi kitty! I'm Peter, living here is strange. I don't feel well, We don't know them a lot.
Mom & Dad don't feel well either. This situation is very strange. Anne is a good friend and
Margot is beutiful! I love her...

I think i fell in love.I'm very afraid of the Germans, they can kill us!
Sometimes i ask myself: why me? why am I living this horrible situation?
I think i didn't do anything bad! But things are like that. I'll tell you tomorrow how I feel.