Happy Xmas from your teacher !! I'll see you all next year!!

A talk about Australia

Very soon we'll be so lucky as to have Benjamin Speed at our school to talk about Australia, his work, his life. This is a short Bio: Benjamin Speed is an Australian musician and film composer. He spent his formative years as a vocalist and extreme stunts live performer in Australian band 'The New Pollutants', a fun loving, experimental and darkly zany hip-hop/electro duo influenced by 8-bit computer games and 1950's pop that performed at popular music festivals around Australia. In 2005, Benjamin devised and performed a highly successful live score to the 1927 silent film Metropolis, which had highlighted performances at large events such as the Commonwealth Games, The Sydney Opera House and MONA FOMA Festivals. The Metropolis Rescore was also updated to include the new footage found in Argentina in 2010. Since then, Benjamin has scored the multiple award winning film 'The Cat Piano', narrated by the famous Australian musician Nick Cave; the Australian Documentary Prize winning 'The Snowman', The Australian Film Institute Award winning ‘A Northern Town' and recently, '52 Tuesdays' which has just been selected for competition in the prestigious Sundance Film Festival. Benjamin has won one and been nominated for three Australian Screen Music Awards, won Best Score at the prized St Kilda Shorts Festival and was nominated for an American MPSE Golden Reel Award. Benjamin also holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Australia from The Elder School of Music and the highly respected Australian Television and Radio School. He is a serving board member of the Australian Guild of Screen Composers and has had the films he has composed for play all over the world, including in Spain. Personally, he enjoys playing and watching football (soccer), seeing many films and laughing as regularly as possible. For more http://www.benjaminspeed.com/

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving Day (Jour de l'Action de grâce in Canadian French) is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.

Film Review

Yesterday I went to the movies. I watched "Blue Jasmine". That's Woody Allen's last film. It's awesome, a masterpiece, you can't miss it. ( if you want to read a review go to:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/19/blue-jasmine-review

This is a short synopsis:

After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

As promised:

Listening Exercise

Good morning!! Thank God it's Friday!! A new weekend with lots of free time and nothing to do hehehe. That's why I'm going to post a listening exercise, if you are up to it.
I hope you enjoy it!!!

"When British Prime Minister Adam Lang's ghost writer, Michael McAra, dies in mysterious circumstances, a new writer is brought in to write Lang's autobiography. But it soon becomes clear that Lang and his wife Ruth are a much more complicated couple than they first appear. The Ghost is a powerful commentary on the policies employed by the British government in the 'War on Terror'."

Original work by Robert Harris

http://www.macmillanreaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/The_Ghost_01.mp3

A new book review

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is the first of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, set in Gaborone, Botswana, and featuring the Motswana protagonist Precious Ramotswe. Part of the novel's plot is based on the murder of Segametsi Mogomotsi in 1994, a ritual killing in Mochudi.




Great Book for Advanced 1 level that you can find in the library.

Guy Fawkes Night

Guy Fawkes is a very British celebration. It celebrates a failed attempt to blow up the Houses of parliament (that's where Big Ben is) in London. This was probably one of the first examples of terrorism, only it didn't work.

If you want to know more go to

Michael Jackson - Thriller. Happy Halloween!!!

http://www.youtube.com/v/sOnqjkJTMaA?version=3&autohide=1&autohide=1&feature=share&showinfo=1&attribution_tag=prRLaHdaDwZDfgCHqPXmsA&autoplay=1

BBC One - Comic Relief - Daniel Craig & Catherine Tate

Book Review

Good morning!!

It's friday and it's raining. I want to recommend a nice book to read this weekend! And lucky you! you can borrow it from our library!!.

Today's podcast

Good morning everyone!!!
Today I have selected an interesting podcast to listen to.

For those who are thinking about going abroad to study and work.

bbc_6min_spare_global_migrants_for_web_130822_6min_global_migration_audio_au_bb.mp3

And if you want to work with it, this is the text:

130822121021_130822_6min_global_migration.pdf

Good Luck!!!

And remember 

Guys you need to visit our library. We have lots of books, films, newspapers.
Today I want to rewcommend the TV series "Sherlock" It's a masterpiece.