sábado, 25 de diciembre de 2010

Happy Xmas


Hi
I wish you a Merry Xmas. Peace and love to everybody in everywhere!

miércoles, 8 de diciembre de 2010

tribute to john lennon

This is the day the music died.

This is my tribute to you, John.


jueves, 2 de diciembre de 2010

Halloween

Hi
I know I'm writing this post a little late but I was a little afraid because I was no sure how to explain it.

Denise, our teacher, told us about the Halloween tradition in the States, we did some exercises and worked about the topic.
On Wednesday we joined together (both groups) and Jane told us about the Halloween tradition in Scotland, Ireland and Great Britain in general and I noticed that it was a very old festival from Celtic tradition.
Denise told us about Halloween in America ("Trick or truck", very known, you know),

In the link below you can find information about this festival.

Here

At the end of the class we listened a very famous song in Halloween: Michael Jackson's Thriller






But my favourite is "Billie Jean"



sábado, 13 de noviembre de 2010

Pale Course In Hoyos,Life Stories 2

On Friday 22nd November, our second speaker was John McLeisdeir.

He told us he's Scottish but he's lived in many countries around the Atlantic Ocean and now he's living in Gata. He is retired now.




He has a strong accent (Scottish) but I liked it because it reminded me Edinburgh.

SONG: John told about San Sebastian.San Sebastan is Piornal's patron Saint (and Acebo's too, I must say!) so I decided to show U a song about this saint from a tradicional group from Extremadura called Acetre. In this song they told us about Jarramplas

Pale Course In Hoyos,Life Stories 1

We have course some Fridays.
We met some people who live in Sierra de Gata but they are foreigner, from an English speaking country (except Mansour,of course) and they've told us about their life and why they are now here,in Sierra de Gata. The talks are called "Life Stories"

On Friday, 15th November Mansour Zaeni was our speaker. He's from Iran and so he told us about Iranian traditions, geography (Iran is like a cat shape) and some of their traditional food. He told us when the Iranian revolution came, he went to Great Britain (he's a exiliated man), his family decided to send there because he spoke English (He told us Iranian education was one of the hardest in the world). He was living there for many years and at last he decided go to Spain; in Andalusia a friend invited him to move to Ibiza. He lived there, played guitar and gave massages to earn his life. One day a friend told him about Sierra de Gata. He decided visit Sierra de Gata, and now he's living here.
He lives in Hoyos and gives a kind of therapeutic massage (I'm sorry but I don't remember the name, I'll ask Elo next day!).
It was very interesting. He said it was the first time he told in a Pale course but he did it very well. His English is very well and (I think) for Spanish ears is very easy to understand.

I'll show U an Iranian recipe that Mansour show us



I decided to show you a Mansur song called "Mani" that was so popular many years ago.



sábado, 6 de noviembre de 2010

Pale Course In Hoyos

Hi
We are studying with Denise different skills about language, vocabulary & pronunciation, and also we have conversations and do exercises in our class (and homework, of course). I think it's a good idea because we need to do all this kind of things to improve our English level.

But, also, we listen to music. We did a very funny exercise: Denise gave us a lyric: Don't be cruel, a very famous Elvis Presley song, and we tried to complete the blanks with the words we'd listened.






If you want to correct it, click the link below

Don't Be Cruel

The second one is one of my Elvis favourite songs: Suspicious Mind



sábado, 23 de octubre de 2010

Pale Course In Hoyos

Hi.
In our second class Jane told us about our groups: advanced group, upstairs and intermediate group, downstairs.

Then we played games together.

WARM UP

The first one was about how can we greeting in different situations:
  • You meet a person very close to you but you don't see him long time ago.
  • You meet a person you love but the other one doesn't love you.
  • You meet a person who owe you money.
When we finished Jane put on our backs a piece of paper with a Scottish people,Irish people or Spanish people wrote in the paper (about literature, art, music and so on) in order to become this person. You couldn't see your name so you must ask for clues about you, like:
-Am I a man or a woman?
-Am I dead or alive?
-Am I from Scotland, Ireland or Spain?
-And so on
And last you might discover the person who you was.
E.g. :Bono (from U2), Robert Louis Stevenson, ....

It was very interesting!!!

SONG: Today is Saturday: time for "fiesta" so I've decided to show you two songs of the disco music years (seventy s)

The first one is Thelma Houston and her song "Don't leave me this way"





The second one is a Bee Gees song. Their hit "Stayin' Alive", from Saturday Night Fever film





Dance!!!!!

martes, 19 de octubre de 2010

Pale course in Hoyos

Hi
I've started a new PALE course in CPR Hoyos two weeks ago.
We passed a little test to know about our English level and then we met our teachers: Jane Marshall (advanced level) and Denise Elekes -my teacher- (intermediate level) . I'm very happy I'll try to improve my English level and learn new things.
I'm so happy because I met Virginia & Raúl again.

SONGS: Today, Jimmy Hendrix. one of the most popular guitar player of ever. He followed one of the slogans of sixties :" live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse".

The first one is "Hey Joe!"



Jimi hendrix | Hey Joe
Cargado por 123Rock. - Ver los videos de música recién destacados.



The second one is "All Along the Watchtower", a Dylan cover



martes, 12 de octubre de 2010

Tour 4

Hi again

Our last step!.
When we finished our visit to Stirling Castle we caught our van back to Edinburgh but we stopped to see one of the most Scottish famous bridges : Forth Bridge ; it was amazing!
It was a fantastic Sunday because we knew a little of the north of Scotland. Maybe we could see the rest in the future, (who knows!!!!)





SONGS: Today, Murray Head. He's a British singer and actor. I think he is not so popular like another singers but he sings one of my favourites songs of ever : "Say It Aint's So, Joe"





And now a cover in Spanish.



But I think the most famous Murray Head song was this one: "One Night in Bangkok"



domingo, 10 de octubre de 2010

domingo, 26 de septiembre de 2010

Tour 3

Hi everybody! Summer is gone and autumn is here with us!

After lunch went to Stirling on our bus and there we could see Stirling Castle. Before we went in we could see a view of Wallace Monument from the esplanade. It was very interesting but I think Edinburgh Castle liked me more that this one; why? Edinburgh Castle was bigger and, for me, Stirling Castle looked so naked (no furniture, pictures ...) but it's only my opinion! It's a good idea to visit it? Yes, If you've got time enough.

Bus driver told us histories about William Wallace and the differences between "Braveheart" and the real Wallace (for example, he was a very tall man, about 2 metres)



SONGS: Today Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan

The first one is "Who built the Road". It remember me Nick Cave & Kyle Minogue's song "Where the wild roses grow"



Lyric

The second one is "You won't let me down again" from their last cd

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan from DUKOFF on Vimeo.

Lyrics

lunes, 28 de junio de 2010

Tour 2

Hi
When we finished our cruise we took our bus and went to an area called "The Trossachs", on the southern edge of the Highlands: a wonderful place, with marvellous views : we saw a lot of different flowers, bushes and so on. We made a lot of photos and then we went to visit a castle: Doune Castle.
So I'll show you some photographs and I hope you'll enjoy them.



SONGS:Today Manu Chao, the king of the "pachanga", a mixture of reggae,rock, rumba,ska ... He usually sings in French, Spanish, English ...

The first one is "Me gustas tú"



The second one is "Rumba de Barcelona & Mr Bobby"

miércoles, 16 de junio de 2010

English exams

I FINISHED MY ENGLISH EXAMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,like a friend always says: 'sta los cojoooooonis...... (no tralation!)

SONGS: When I returned back home I was listening to an American singer: Chirs Isaak, so I decided to show you two Chris Isaak songs.
The first one is "Wicked Game", from a David Lynch film.






The second one is "Blue Hotel"






Enjoy it!!!!!

sábado, 5 de junio de 2010

Tour 1

Hi.
Here I'm trying to remember last summer in Edinburgh.
In our last weekend we went to a trip: from Edinburgh to Glasgow, then to the Loch Lomond and finally to Stirling.
That Sunday we got up early to catch a van: our driver was our tourist guide too. It was a way to know a bit of Scotland.
We went to the esplanade to wait our bus. When we were there we saw the Scottish guard: all soldiers dressed the Scottish uniform; it was very nice.
At 8.30 we begun our trip. One hour later we visit Glasgow by bus. Only a view from the bus, we took some photos of the city and then ten minutes later we went to the Loch.
Later we could saw the lake and we did a cruise around the lake.It's was very interesting and the views were wonderful. It was cold there but we enjoyed the lake.



SONGS: Now, Dido, a British songwriter.
The first one is "White Flag"


Dido - White Flag (Official Music Video) - Watch more top selected videos about: Dido




And the last one is "Take My Hands"





lunes, 31 de mayo de 2010

No link!!!!

I'm sorry but there are not link. Javier send me a message by facebook telling me that the link doesn't work, so I can't put it in the blog. I'm very sorry but it was an interesting work about the renewable energies.

Well, don't mind because we have...

SONGS: Today, Sarah McLachlan, a Canadian songwriter.
The first song is "Angel"





Lyrics | Sarah McLachlan Lyrics | Angel Lyrics

The second one is "Fallen"





Lyrics | Sarah McLachlan Lyrics | Fallen Lyrics

And the last one is a remix of a Sarah McLachlan song, called "Vox". I love driving and listening to this song!!!!!





Lyrics | Sarah McLachlan Lyrics | Vox Lyrics

sábado, 29 de mayo de 2010

Waiting


Waiting? Yes, I'm just waiting for Javier's link about environment.

Please, Javier, send me the link to put it in the blog, please

The best way to wait something is listening music, so...

SONGS: Nick Cave, the Australian songwriter with two songs:
The first one is "Henry Lee" sung with JP Harvey





Lyrics | Nick Cave & The Bad Seed Lyrics | Henry Lee Lyrics

The second one is Nature Boy





Lyrics | Nick Cave & The Bad Seed Lyrics | Nature Boy Lyrics

sábado, 22 de mayo de 2010

Didactic Unit : Dublin

Hi friends:
Here you are another didactic unit. This is about Dublin and it was made by Inma, Mercedes & Salomé. It's very interesting and I think you can find a lot of ideas to work with your children in schools.
Thank U so much girls!!!




SONG: Today, Robbie Williams.The British Bad Boy. The first one is "Feel"





Lyrics | Robbie Williams Lyrics | Feel Lyrics

The second one is "Angel", I think the most successful Robbie Williams' song





Lyrics | Robbie Williams Lyrics | Angels Lyrics

domingo, 2 de mayo de 2010

Sunny days!!!

Hi.
We can say, now, that springtime has come: birds singing, flowers and sun!. We need sun; it was like Scottish weather : all day raining;I was sick and tired of rain, but that have just finished and now we've got the Sun!!




SONGS: Today Lou Reed.Singing alone or with his group The Velvet Underground. He is one of the most important influential person of popular music.
The first one is "Beautiful Day"






Lyrics | Lou Reed Lyrics | Perfect Day Lyrics

The second one is "Sweet Jane"





Lyrics | Lou Reed Lyrics | Sweet Jane Lyrics

viernes, 16 de abril de 2010

Didactic Unit : Extremadura

Hi.
This is another Didactic Unit from my colleagues of the Adult Education.Thank U girls!. I hope you like it!






Reading
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warm up



SONGS: Now one of the most important bands of electronic music: Depeche Mode.
The first song is "Personal Jesus"







Mode Depeche Lyrics


The second one is a song from their singer Dave Gahan, called "Kingdom"


Dave Gahan - Kingdom CLIP
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Dave Gahan - Kingdom Lyrics @ LyricsTime.com

martes, 30 de marzo de 2010

Edinburgh's Friends

Hi.
This is a presentation about some friends I found in Edinburgh.






SONGS : Today an American singer called Eels.
The first one is "Novocaine for the Soul".





Lyrics | Eels Lyrics | Novacaine For The Soul Lyrics

The second one is "Last Stop this Town





Lyrics | Eels Lyrics | Last Stop : This Town Lyrics

viernes, 19 de marzo de 2010

Leith

Hi again.
Today I'm going to talk about Leith.
Leith is an Edinburgh district; it's the Edinburgh port and it's situated in the North of the city.
The Royal Yacht Britannia is permanently moored. I was disappointed about the Yacht because I thinked that it was bigger.
There are a big shop centre (shops, restaurants, etc) . There are, too, a gift-shop of Britannia objects.

Today it's Father's Day, my congratulations to fathers!!!!!!!



SONGS: Today, Oasis: one of the most popular British bands formed by Gallagher Brothers (Noel & Liam). Oasis formed part of the Britpop movement.
The first one is "Go Let It Out"






Lyrics | Oasis Lyrics | Go Let It Out Lyrics

The second one is its famous songs : "Wonderwall"





Lyrics | Oasis Lyrics | Wanderwall Lyrics

Enjoy Father's Day!!!!!!

domingo, 14 de marzo de 2010

Didactic Unit : Honey

And now another Didactic Unit from my colleages, but friends, Gaspar & Cristina : Honey. If you want to enjoy it you must put The Archies's song, Honey








SONGS : Today a New Romantic group called "Spandau Ballet" from 80s. Now they are back

The first one is "Through the Barricades", my favourite.





Lyrics | Spandau Ballet Lyrics | Through The Barricades Lyrics

The second one is "True". This is one of their successful hits.





Lyrics | Spandau Ballet Lyrics | True Lyrics

martes, 9 de febrero de 2010

Didactic Unit: Travelling is fun

Hi, again:
This time I wish publish the Didactic Unit: "Travelling is fun". I hope you like and you can work with it with your children in schools.






SONGS: Today an American rock band of 70s, Boston. I heard these songs when I was a teenager (long time ago, I'm afraid so)

The first one is "Long Time"





Letras de canciones | Letras de canciones de Boston | Letra de Cancion Foreplay Long Time

The second one is it hit "More than a feeling". Both songs from their first album "Boston"





Lyrics | Boston Lyrics | More Than A Feeling Lyrics

Oops: today's Valentine's Day, I send all my love to everybody!!!!!!!!!

miércoles, 13 de enero de 2010

Rosslyn Chapel

Rosslyn Chapel is a church very famous because it appears in "The Da Vinci Code" (Dan Brown's best seller).
When We visited it the the ceiling of the chapel is obscured by scaffolding and not visible.
Unfortunately, now, you can take no photos or videos.




I found this video on the net




And here you are some photos.


SONGS: One of the most important British bands: The Kinks
The first one is "You Really Got Me"





Lyrics | Kinks Lyrics | You Really Got Me Lyrics

The second is "Lola", I think the most famous Kinks' song





Lyrics | Kinks Lyrics | Lola Lyrics

Let it snow...!

Last weekend we can see the snow in our town; it was like a Christmas Card!!!! We played like children!!!



SONGS: Today, David Bowie, the Chameleon of Rock
The first one is "Absolute Beginners"





Lyrics | David Bowie Lyrics | Absolute Beginners Lyrics

The second one is "Modern Love"





Lyrics | David Bowie Lyrics | Modern Love (Single Version) Lyrics

miércoles, 6 de enero de 2010

Edinburgh Cementeries

One thing that surprised me was, in Edinburgh, people go to cementeries whenever they want, just to take a walk or sit down. There's a lot of graveyards, for example near my residence there is one.
I've just visited three: Old Calton Cementery, Cannongate Kirkyard and Greyfriars Churchyard. Each cementery has its own history and legends about ghosts, witches, etc; remember, Edinburgh is the city of the ghosts!!!!!



SONGS: Mercury Rev, an American band formed in Buffalo (New York) in late 1,980's.
The first one is Goddess on a Hiway






Lyrics | Mercury Rev Lyrics | Goddess On A Hiway Lyrics

The second one is Opus 40. Both singles from their cd "Desert's Songs"





Lyrics | Mercury Rev Lyrics | Opus 40 Lyrics

lunes, 4 de enero de 2010

Royal Botanic Garden

First of all: Happy New Year everybody!!!!!!!!


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One morning we went to the Royal Botanic Garden to see it and to practice some orientation exercises. We went to the Chinese Garden and put on a scarf to become blind fold; we did it in pairs, we made a route followed the orders :go straight on, turn right (or left), turn slightly to the left (or right), take one (or two) steps etc ; we had to lead our partners through parts of the garden and describe what we saw,and when we finished our route then we changed our role.
It was strange because I felt helpless and a quite scared too.
After we did it we realized another exercise: we must ask people in the Garden three questions to practice usual English:
-Where are you from?
-Is it the first time you have visited the Botanic?
-Do you like it?
We asked an Indian child, a couple from USA and a Scottish family.



SONGS: For me, the New Year's Eve hit was "I goota feeling" from Black Eyed Peas' last cd "the E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies), we sang and danced all night (and day).








Lyrics | Black Eyed Peas Lyrics | I Gotta Feeling Lyrics

The second one is from Oprah Show's and It is amazing!!!




The last one is a Black Eyed Peas cover and I think that's incredible