“There’s a Hole in My Bucket” and “Incy Wincy Spider” for NA2 – Mon-Wed group!!!!!!!

ENJOY AND SING ALONG!!!!!

The Little Things Give You Away – Linkin’ Park

THESE ARE THE LYRICS TO THE SONG – FILL IN THE GAPS

Water crept through the __________
Up the __________
__________ rain
Like an__________
Everywhere 

Don’t want to __________for me do you?
I mean nothing to you
The Little Things Give You Away
And now there will be no __________
The levees are __________
All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly __________ you
And six feet __________water
I do

__________ decays
Generations disappear
__________ away
As a __________ simply stares

Don’t want to__________for me do you?
I mean nothing to you
The Little Things Give You Away
But now there will be no __________
The levees are__________
All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly__________ you
And six feet__________water
I do
All you’ve ever wanted
Was someone to truly__________you
And six feet __________ now I
Now I do

 

THIS IS A PARAPHRASE OF THE SONG:

The freezing water came in through the windows and flooded the house, creating an ocean everywhere. There’s no hope left, as whole families disappear and the country just stands and stares and does nothing.
You don’t want to help me, do you? I mean nothing at all to you, do I? These are the things that give you away. The fact is that the there’s no mistake – nothing can stop the water now. The only thing you ever wanted was for people to look up to you, and now we’re under water, I tell you, we do. Those who are buried do too.

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TONIGHT AND THIS WEEKEND…

NOT TO BE MISSED AT 10pm TONIGHT ON

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a play by Tennessee Williams. One of Williams’s best-known works and his personal favorite[1], the play won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1955. Set in “the bed-sitting room of a plantation home in the Mississippi Delta”[2] of Big Daddy Pollitt, a wealthy cotton tycoon, the play examines the relationships among members of Big Daddy’s family, primarily between his son Brick and Brick’s wife Maggie the “Cat”.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof features several recurring motifs, such as social mores, greed, superficiality, decay, sexual desire, and death. Dialogue throughout is often rendered phonetically to represent accents of the American South.

The play was adapted as a motion picture by the same name in 1958, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman as Maggie and Brick, respectively. Williams made substantial excisions and alterations to the play for a revival in 1974. This has been the version used for most subsequent revivals, which have been numerous.

…AND FOR THIS WEEKEND, at LYS CINEMA… a recommendation by one of your classmates (thank you, Alicia). She says that not only is it a wonderful film, but it is also EASY TO UNDERSTAND!!!

Ig Nobel Awards – for the QUIRKIEST INVENTIONS!!!!

Annual Ig Nobel awards honor quirky

inventions

See here for more.……. and here, too.

Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, demonstrates sword swallowing after he and radiologist Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, Britain, were awarded a 2007 Ig Nobel prize.

Scientists who discovered that Viagra helps hamsters overcome jet lag and a Japanese researcher who extracted vanilla flavoring from cow dung won top honors at the latest Ig Nobel Awards ceremony.

The awards, a tongue-in-cheek homage to their Scandinavian counterparts, were announced at a raucous ceremony at Harvard University in Massachusetts that shone a bright light on obscure and often bizarre research and inventions.

The Igs, as they are known, are chosen by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine to highlight scientific achievements that, in the words of editor Marc Abrahams, “first make people laugh and then make them think.”

Among the winners were a British-US duo for a penetrating report on the effects of sword swallowing and a Spain-based team who answered the question of whether rats can discriminate between Japanese and Dutch spoken backwards.

The awards “bring out the freak inside most scientists,” said Nuria Sebastian-Galles, one of the Barcelona team of scientists.

Seven of the 10 winners this year paid their own way to accept the awards, which were handed out by six real Nobel Prize winners.

Although pelted by paper airplanes, as per tradition, each winner expressed delight at receiving the small trophies affixed with a chicken and an egg.

Some scientists have complained that the satirical awards unfairly tarnish legitimate research. Others say a sense of fun humanizes scientists.

“I don’t take it as an insult at all,” said Brian Witcome, a British radiologist who won the medicine prize for his sword-swallowing research.”Humor adds to research.”

His co-author, US scientist Dan Meyer even gulped down a short sword before thanking the whooping crowd with the hilt between his teeth.

Research highlighted by this year’s awards ranged from a study of how sheets wrinkle and how the word “the” causes headaches for indexes, to why humans cannot stop eating when presented with an apparently endless bowl of soup.

Some winners tried to explain their research, but if they talked for more than 60 seconds they were interrupted by an eight-year-old girl who repeatedly intoned: “Please stop, I’m bored.”

Diego Golombek, the Argentine who found the cure for hamster jet lag, thanked his assistants “for going to the store to get the Viagra for us.”

Also honored was Hsieh Kuo-cheng, a Taiwanese who patented a device to net bank robbers, but who could not attend the ceremony because he has apparently vanished.

“Somebody suggested to us the possibility that maybe the poor man was trapped inside his own machine,” Abrahams said.

CHECK OUT THESE CRAZY INVENTIONS – CHOOSE YOUR FAVOURITE ONE AND EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS FOR!

Crazy inventions picture gallery choose your weirdest invention now

Inventions are always good because you do not know what will make it to the market and what will not, well below are many pictures of crazy and weird inventions.

AVE – HIGH SPEED TRAIN: VALENCIA-MADRID

Spain has become the European leader

in high-speed rail network

Madrid-Valencia-AVE

Spain now hurtles past France as Europe’s high-speed rail leader today as it opens a €6.6-billion line from Madrid (Atocha Station) to Valencia (Joaquín Sorolla Station) , banking on a boost to the economy.

The 438-km route has slashed travel time between the Spanish capital and the Mediterranean port of Valencia, Spain’s third-biggest city, from four hours to just 90 minutes.

The project, built at a cost of €6.6 billion, brings Spain’s high-speed rail network to 2,056 km.

It places Spain ahead of the 1,896 km of high speed rail in France and 1,285 km in Germany, home to Siemens, the world’s largest manufacturer of high-speed trains.

Spain’s high-speed train service, known as Alta Velocidad Espanola (AVE), boasts trains with noses shaped like a duck-billed platypus moving at speeds of up to 300 kph, and it is set to grow further.

Taking into account routes planned or under construction, Spain would be in second place globally with 5,525 km of high speed rail tracks, behind China – the world leader with 13,134 km – but ahead of pioneer Japan with 3,625 km.

“The AVE is very expensive. But it is an investment that generates many jobs and constributes to stimulate the economy, which is good at a time of crisis,” said the director general for travellers at state-owned rail network Renfe.

The new Madrid-Valencia line will create 136,000 jobs directly and indirectly, according to consulting firm Accenture.

But with a population of 47 million people, Spain has fewer potential passengers than France or Germany for its high-speed trains.

Estación Joaquín Sorolla, starting point for the High Speed Train (AVE), between Valencia and Madrid

Map - situation of Joaquín Sorolla Station (AVE Valencia-Madrid)

PHRASAL VERBS

HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF A DVOLVER MOVIE USING RELATIONSHIP PHRASAL VERBS. GO TO THE DVOLVER PAGE AND MAKE YOUR OWN MOVIE – PAIRWORK

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The movie is called “The Split Up”.*******

HERE ARE THE PHRASAL VERBS USED (CREATED ON WORDLE)

ENGLISH THEATRE – “UNDERGROUND”

“UNDERGROUND” by Forum Theatre

English Culture at EOI VLC

EOI LECTURE HALL TUESDAY 23rd NOVEMBER. SESSIONS: 12H/19H.

Don’t miss it, ask your teacher for tickets!  Only 2€

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFO…

El Flamenco, La Sibilia and Los Castells: UNESCO Declares Three Global Treasures In Spain

This afternoon UNESCO declared three Spanish traditions as Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity: the flamenco music and dance of Andalusia; the Mallorcan musical liturgy, El Canto de La Sibilia; and Los Castells, the human castles of Catalonia. At today’s UNESCO meeting in Nariobi, Kenya, 47 proposals from various countries were considered, including two others that Spain submitted jointly with others: the Mediterranean diet, together with Greece, Italy and Morocco; and falconry, along with Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Korea, Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the United Arab Emirates.

El Canto de La Sibilia (Song of the Sybil) , is a musical liturgical drama which is performed every Christmas Eve in churches throughout the Mediterranean island of Mallorca. This piece, which is sung in Catalan, first appeared in Europe during the Middle Ages and came to Mallorca with the Christian re-conquest of 1229. The chant was originally sung in Latin under the name of Judicii Signum, but from the 13th century on it has been performed in Catalan. While the staging and music have had slight changes over time, it has maintained its medieval essence.

Los Castells (The Castles) are human towers traditionally built in public squares during holidays and festivals in the northeastern region of Catalonia. Dating back over 200 years, this athletic feat consists of the assembly and disassembly of human towers, formed by individuals climbing on the shoulders of others, and reaching from 6 to 10 levels. The castles are erected by groups of men and women of all ages, called colla. Castellers sport traditional dress and each colla is distinguished by the color of the shirt worn by its members. Crowds marvel at the rise and fall of one castle after another, accompanied by characteristic music played on a wind instrument called a gralla, which sets the pace of each tower’s construction and collapse.

However, it is the declaration of flamenco music and dance, with roots dating back to the 15th century, which has generated the most attention and excitement around the world — especially in the cradle of the art-form, the southern region of Spain known as Andalusia. The committee’s decision caused rejoicing in Spain’s artistic and political world. Singer José Mercé welcomed the decision with an “abundance of great satisfaction,” adding, “I think we deserved it and we finally made it. Viva flamenco and a giant hug to the whole world!”

For her part, dancer Sara Baras assured that “los flamincos” have every reason to celebrate. Baras opined that flamenco deserved this acknowledgment “long ago” and said that although it is a respected art form today, it went through a period where it was “very neglected” and looked down upon as something for the lower classes. “Even with some incredibly great artists, there were many people who did not consider it as art, and I think it has always been,” she lamented. She added that she had been convinced that flamenco would be declared a global treasure due to “the quality of it as an art, and also to the quality of UNESCO.”

From Nairobi, the Andalusian regional government’s Minister of Culture, Paulino Plata, emphasized the joy at the “unanimous” approval of flamenco and the “thunderous applause” of representatives of all the countries present. Speaking by telephone, Plata pointed out that representatives of countries like Mexico, Paraguay, France, Portugal and Japan approached her delegation to express their support.

Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister, and former President of the Region of Andalusia, Manuel Chaves, welcomed the declaration, stating that while flamenco is the heritage of all of Spain, in Andalusia it is “a sign of identity.”

The current President of Andalusia, José Antonio Griñán, expressed his congratulation through Facebook and Twitter underscoring that “flamenco is now the heritage all mankind.”

Sources: El País, Diario de Sevilla, the Associated Press and Wikipedia.

NA2 – Blue Footed Boobie…

I thought you might to see the mating dance of the Blue Footed Boobie/Booby, natural of the Galapagos Islands…enjoy!

WHAT “NOT TO DO” IN YOUR PPT PRESENTATIONS