Engineer/producer Alan Parsons and his colleague, lawyer, songwriter and lyricist Eric Woolfson, formed the Alan Parsons Project in 1975. Throughout their career, the Alan Parsons Project recorded concept albums (including adaptations of Poe and Asimov books), with a revolving cast of session musicians. 1982'sEye in the Skywas their greatest success; the title track charted in the Top Ten on the pop charts and the album went platinum. Although they weren't able to repeat that success, the group maintained a devoted cult audience
Tuesday 30 November is the 175th anniversary of the birth of Mark Twain, one of the most important writers in American history. He tried unsuccessfully to write his autobiography on many occasions. Eventually, he dictated it.
■The First Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. That feast lasted three days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Indians and the menu featured turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie.
■U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving Day a national holiday in 1863. However in 1941 President Franklin Roosevelt established the current date for observance, the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day.
Trace and cut out the shape of your hand. Then draw a turkey face on the thumb and add some feathers or colours on the rest of the fingers (the waddle is optional ! :-)).
Finally find things that you are grateful for and write them down in this way:
"I am thankful for my wonderful and intelligent daughter" :-)
Listen to this Karaoke song and write a list with regular and irregular verbs, after that you can play a funny game to help you revise the past simple tense .
Enjoy!
Last Saturday I was delighted by listening to Sting in Madrid ending his symphonic tour throughout Spain . Having stopped in Bilbao and Barcelona too. Sting was accompanied by the London Philarmonic Orchestra to perform symphonic covers of his hits with Police and alone.
I must confess I was robbed of breath with some of the songs, however An Englishman in New York was one of the best hits I have ever heard by him in a long time!!! That ´s why I must thank both the singer and the orchestra because they gave us the most memorable moment in Madrid . Simply beautiful !
October 31st is Halloween. Where does Halloween come from? The Celts lived in Britain, Ireland and parts of France over 2,000 years ago, and October 31st was the end of their year. The Celts believed that ghosts came back to earth on this day. Today many people around the world celebrate this old festival - but today people usually have parties, dress up, and tell spooky stories about witches, skeletons, bats and ghosts.
If you needed more proof that mobiles are on the rise, here's a stat for you: the average teenager in USA sends over 3,000 texts per month!
According to a new study , our society has gone mad with texting, data usage and app downloads. Some American Technology Universities have analyzed the mobile data habits of over 60,000 mobile subscribers and surveyed over 3,000 teens during April, May and June of this year. and the numbers they came up with are astounding.
Columbus Day became an official United States federal holiday in 1970. "Since 1971, the holiday has been commemorated in the U.S. on the second Monday in October, the same day as Thanksgiving in neighboring Canada. Many states and cities with large Native American populations do not recognize Columbus Day or celebrate "Indigenous People's Day" or "Native American Day" instead. Many countries celebrate Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World under the names Día de la Raza (Day of the Race) or Day of the Cultures, Day of the Americas, Discovery Day, Spanish Day (Spain), or Día de la Resistencia Indígena (Day of Indigenous Resistance - Venezuela).
I want to show you a new resource to make your learning funnier and more effective. It is a video and grammar programme, its name is Real English.
How to use Real English?
1 - Watch the video without subtitles.
2 - Do all the Exercises.
3 - Come back to the previous page.
4 - Watch the video with English Subtitles. Use the Pause button. People speak fast!
Important: watch & listen to a video many times before reading, & before watching with subtitles. Your pronunciation will be much better!
I've paid my dues
Time after time
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime
And bad mistakes
I've made a few
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I've come through We are the champions, my friends And we'll keep on fighting - till the end We are the champions We are the champions No time for losers Cause we are the champions - of the world( 3)
I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it
I thank you all
But it's been no bed of roses
No pleasure cruise -
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
And I aint gonna lose - FOOTBALL VOCABULARY
Ya estamos en la línea de salida. El año que viene iniciamos nuestra andadura como centro bilingüe. Este curso, lo llaman Año 0 como si no contara, lo hemos dedicado a planificar, programar, organizar y coordinarnos los diferentes departamentos para que todo esté listo cuando suene el pistoletazo de salida en septiembre.
La planificación del trabajo del año ha estado dividida en tres frentes básicos:
1. Programación del curso
2. Formación del profesorado
3.Captación de alumnos/as.
Es con el tercer apartado con el que mas hemos disfrutado. Alumnos y alumnas de 6 de los dos colegios de la zona (Ricardo León y Antonio Machado) han participado en clases de conversación con nuestro lector, Ryan Gartner. Lo han pasado tan bien y han aprendido tanto que el último día le organizaron una fiesta sorpresa. Aquí os dejamos algunas fotos de esa despedida. Esperemos que su futuro en el IES Portada Alta sea tan exitosa como lo son sus intenciones.
Thanks to some awesome technology, the world will look very different in a few years.
Build your own custom video playlist at embedr.com
SEE THE VIDEOS AND COMMENT ON :
1.- The Future of Teaching.
2.- The Future of Shopping.
3.- Men and Women shopping in the Future.
4.- Can a robot play the violin?
5.- Intoducing NAO, an amazing robot.
6.- Future cars.
7.- The Computers of the Future.
8.- New Technology for the Future.
9.- The House of the Future.
10.- Digital Lifestyle. (A very funny story)
11.- The Healthcare of the Future.
12.- Future vision of retailing.
13.- The Future Supermarket.
Practice your spelling and pronuntiation with this song that English students used to learn at school:
Who can turn a can into a cane? Who can turn a pan into a pane? It's not too hard to see It's Silent E Who can turn a cub into a cube? Who can turn a tub into a tube? It's elementary For Silent E He took a pin and turned it into pine He took a twin and turned him into twine Who can turn a cap into a cape? Who can turn a tap into a tape? A little glob becomes a globe instantly If you just add Silent E He turned a dam - Alikazam! - into a dame But my friend Sam stayed just the same. Who can turn a man into a mane? Who can turn a van into a vane? A little hug becomes huge instantly Don't add W, don't add X, and don't add Y or Z, Just add Silent E.
On the 9th of May 1950, Robert Schuman presented his proposal on the creation of an organised Europe, indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations.
This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
Today, the 9th of May has become a European symbol (Europe Day) which, along with the flag, the anthem, the motto and the single currency (the euro), identifies the political entity of the European Union.
In Learn English with MISTERDUNCAN you can find many videos available on the internet that can help you to practice your English, whatever your level is.
I hope you find this site useful and help you to improve your learning of the language, in fact the teacher has a touch of humour which makes watching the lessons something very enjoyable.
Forty years after the first Earth Day, the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future...
Watch this great video celebrating how some students from South Caroline are doing their part to make sure there is a 41st Earth Day!
The answer is on St George’s Day, or Book Day, as people call it. Every year, on 23rd April, people give each other books and roses in honour of St George. The tradition of giving roses began in the 15th century. According to a legend, St George killed a dragon, and the dragon’s blood turned into a rose bush. St George gave a rose from the bush to a princess, and once a year, men still give roses to women.
So how did books become part of the festival? The 23rd April is the date of the death of the famous authors Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, so people began giving each other books on this day. The custom became so popular that countries all over the world have started celebrating Book Day as well.
( *Clica dos veces sobre el Programa para leer mejor )
Os invitamos a compartir con nosotros toda actividad que sea de tu interés durante estas semanas , en especial la Sesión Plenaria Inaugural y las diversas actividades a paritr de las 10.00 horas del viernes 23 de abril (nuestro día grande, no podía ser de otra manera).
10.00 APERTURA y SESIÓN PLENARIA.
Presentada por
SR. DELEGADO DE EDUCACIÓN
SR. DIRECTOR
(3º Y 4º ESO*, Bachilleratos y Ciclos)
* Alumnos/as seleccionados
10.30 PERIODISMO Y DEPORTE
a cargo de D. Manuel Castillo
(Bachillerato y Ciclos)
10.30 POEMAS AL VUELO
A cargo de María Eloy-García
(3º Y 4º ESO* Alumnos/as seleccionados en aula de PCPI2)
11.45 TURISMO DE INTERIOR
Cristian Alcaraz
nos presenta su obra poética.
(Bachilleratos y Ciclos)
12.45 TALLERES DE CREACIÓN
A cargo de
Victoria Castillo (con 1ºD) y
Javier Rueda (con 4ºA).
En sus aulas
13.45 DIAPORAMA
sobre la obra de Miguel Hernández
Introducido por M.C. Ruzafa y presentado por 1º de Bachillerato. María Vilches canta
is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
~By Mark Twain~
April 1st is April Fools Day. A day when people play practical jokes on each other.
Here are some of the most memorable ones in England:
In 1957 Panorama, a TV programme, fooled millions of Brits into believing that spaghetti grows on trees! The show announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop.
In 2002 Tesco published an advertisement announcing the successful development of a genetically modified whistling carrot with tapered air holes in their side. The extraordinary carrots would start to whistle once fully cooked!
In 2006 The Daily Mail reported that Tony Blair, in a "literally incredible break with decades of tradition," had decided to paint the door of 10 Downing Street red. ""After 270 years, Blair paints No 10 front door socialist red."
Finally , two years ago the Daily Express claimed that biscuits were being mixed into tarmac to help make roads safer. "Scientists yesterday revealed that broken biscuits are in fact the perfect material to help resurface roads... Years of experimental research revealed that crushed-up ginger nuts are the best biscuits for a road's sub-base, as they are more porous and allow water to drain away.
Easter is the springtime holiday marking the rebirth of Jesus and the renewal of the Christian faith.
It is a blessed time for the faithful to celebrate the life, death and resurrection of the Savior... and a magical time for children to enjoy chocolate bunnies, marshmallow chicks and jellybean-filled Easter eggs.
Here there are some craft projects, games, recipes and so much more for your entertaiment:
Here you can see different drawings about girls made by our students from 2º ESO with their teacher Mª José Barbero to celebrate WOMEN´S DAY.
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HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN´S DAY
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This event was originated in 1908 when women garment makers in New York demonstrated to demand better working conditions. They worked in appalling conditions, earned half of men's wages, died prematurely from poor health and didn't have the right to vote.
In 1910 an international conference of women resolved that each year a day should be set aside to press for women's demands. Since then International Women's Day (IWD) has been celebrated around the world each year on March 8. From its inception International Women's Day has stood for equality between women and men.
At the same time in England, women were meeting and marching to demand the right to vote. The Suffragettes adopted the colours of Green, White and Violet to stand for their slogan "Give Women the Vote". Since then these colours have been used to symbolise the struggle for women to obtain equal rights.
In Sydney, IWD was first celebrated in 1928 at a rally that called for equal pay for equal work, an eight hour day for shop workers, no piece-work, a base wage for the unemployed and paid annual holidays. Rallies and marches have been held throughout Australia every year since.
Of course, much has improved since then, but we still have some way to go to achieve equal opportunity for women, not only in Australia but throughout the world.
So IWD is about remembering the battles long fought to build a society that is just and fair to all its members a society in which diversity, tolerance, safety, social justice and equality between women and men is a given. And its about celebrating what women have done, are doing and can do.
For the first time ever, over a billion people are chronically hungry in the world! But, at the same time, over a billion people are active online and more able to help than ever before! Join the online billion helping the hungry billion.
Free rice es un sitio en el que, a la vez que practicas vocabulario inglés, cada vez que aciertas, donas 10 granos de arroz a un país del Tercer Mundo a través de Naciones Unidas.
Different types of words can be used to make your writing more interesting and easier to read. You need to know when to use them and how to spot them: full screen
Watching videos is a really enternaining way of learning a language. Yappr.com is a useful site where you can find lots of tools to help you better understand English: subtitles in English and Spanish, repetition of phrases that are hard to catch, notes explaining idioms and more...
BBC's 2010 calendar features photos of costumes and celebrations from around the world.
A long time ago the year was marked out with special days which marked the passing year. These were days of celebrations where people would do things, eat things or make things which they would not normally do.
Cheese rolling, Nettle Eating, Toe Wrestling, Bog Snorkelling are just a few of the strange, bizarre, wacky, eccentric and even mad festivals still taking place in Britain today.
