If music be the food of love, play on...

Shakespeare was right!! Can any of you imagine life without music?

One student of 1ºB, Mª José Gallardo, has been kind enough to tell me about a website where you can listen to some of your favourite songs by watching the video and reading the lyrics at the same time. It's musica.com

Under the heading VIDEOS DE MÚSICA you'll see the alphabet. Click on any letter, and you'll get a list of videos with their corresponding lyrics. Look for songs in English, of course!

Enjoy it!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, Mª JOSÉ!!

A2- Diference between trip/travel/journey/voyage and related words

In 2º de nivel básico we have been talking about photographs, and most of you have included a photo of a trip in your writing assignments. So I thought, maybe you have problems (perfectly understandable, I'd say) when using words as "trip", "travel" or "journey". If you click on the suitcase, you might find the answer to your question...

And the oscar goes to...

Best motion picture of the year: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE











Achievement in directing: DANNY BOYLE (Slumdog Millionaire)


Best performance by an actress in a leading role: KATE WINSLET (The Reader)










Best Performance by an actor in a leading role: SEAN PENN (Milk)


Best performance by an actress in a supporting role: PENÉLOPE CRUZ (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)










Best performance by an actor in a supporting role: HEATH LEDGER (The Dark Knight)




Best Original Screenplay: MILK











Best Adapted Screenplay: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Best Foreign Language Film: DEPARTURES (Japan)

And this is the trailer of the winner of the night: SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE.

For more info, and for the full winner list, click on oscar.com

To those of you how who participated, thank you so much!

Get ready for the biggest movie event of the year!!

Next February 22, at 5PT (Pacific time) /8ET (Eastern Time) - for more info about time zones in the US, click here - the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles will host the 81st Academy Award Ceremony. If you want to participate actively in this important event, you have come to the right place.

MAKE YOUR BET!

81st Academy Award Nominees. Watch the director of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sid Ganis, and Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, announce the nominees for this year:

To make your own bet, you will need a ballot. Maybe your teacher will reward the student who guesses more categories!!! Give it a try!!!

Oscarprintableballot 81st

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Although if you need some help, and want to learn about the nominees or watch the trailers of the nominated films, you can click here.

For more info, click on the following links:

The Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...

Fancy going to the cinema next week?

Next week, on Feb 11 & 12, we are going to the Cines Avenida to watch THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. As you may know, it tops the oscar nominations, with 13 of them, including Best Picture, Best Performance in a Leading Role (Brad Pitt), Best Direction (David Fincher) and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Taraji P. Henson). Please join us!!

Here's the Official Trailer:


Would you like something more about the special effects in this film? Watch this (no subtitles, sorry! Just don't panic for not understanding everything!!)

And if you want to read the story online, click here.

(...)He dragged himself after her. At the end of a long hall they reached aroom from which proceeded a variety of howls--indeed, a room which, inlater parlance, would have been known as the "crying-room." They entered.

"Well," gasped Mr. Button, "which is mine?"

"There!" said the nurse.

Mr. Button's eyes followed her pointing finger, and this is what hesaw. Wrapped in a voluminous white blanket, and partly crammed intoone of the cribs, there sat an old man apparently about seventy yearsof age. His sparse hair was almost white, and from his chin dripped along smoke-colored beard, which waved absurdly back and forth, fannedby the breeze coming in at the window. He looked up at Mr. Button withdim, faded eyes in which lurked a puzzled question.

"Am I mad?" thundered Mr. Button, his terror resolving into rage. "Isthis some ghastly hospital joke?

"It doesn't seem like a joke to us," replied the nurse severely. "AndI don't know whether you're mad or not--but that is most certainly your child."
(Source:www.fscottfitzgeraldsociety.org)