Sunday, 1 December 2013

A VERY SAD END...

"FAST AND FURIOUS" STAR PAUL WALKER KILLED IN CAR CRASH




RIP

SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW

Belgian born Wally De Backer is an Indie Rock singer-songwriter who records under the name of Gotye. He moved with his family to Australia at the age of 2 and has been releasing music there since 2001. De Backer achieved a breakthrough with his second album Like Drawing Blood, which was voted # in the Triple J listeners poll of the Best Album of 2006. This is the second single from De Backer's third album, Making Mirrors. The LP was released in the summer of 2011 and went to #1 in Australia.
The song features New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra, who won her country's Critics' Choice awards in 2011; the award is intended to recognize and nurture up-coming talent. Gotye didn't begin writing this song as a duet, but after he finished the first verse, he realized he had nowhere to go with the character he was writing about, and needed to introduce another voice.
"Somebody" was both produced and written by Gotye in his parents' barn on the Mornington Peninsula, south-east of Melbourne. It finds Gotye addressing a past lover, reminiscing about their relationship and break-up. The song draws from the aftermath and memory of several relationships, but he told Rolling Stone Australia that one does resound louder than the others. "There is an ex-girlfriend I know." he admitted. "It was five-six years ago. It wasn't a nasty breakup, but it was messy in the sense that we hurt each other more than we needed to because it wasn't a clean break. I guess it's closest to what the chorus is about. We both realized we had to move on and we haven't seen each other since."
 - When and where did he write this song? what is the song about? 

Saturday, 30 November 2013

KEEP TRYING...

Have you ever stopped doing something because you were afraid of failing? The easiest way of failing is not trying

Have you ever had this feeling? What happened? Did you learn something from that experience?

BLACK FRIDAY



Spanish shops and department stores are importing the traditional post-Thanksgiving Day 'sales madness' seen in the US every year as a way of getting Spanish shoppers to splash out in the lead up to Christmas. 

Bargain hunters in Spain are in for more than a treat this year, and they won’t even have to wait until the early January sales to find what they were looking for.
As a way of bringing forward the Christmas campaign and encouraging shoppers to spend big before December 25th, shops in Spain of the likes of El Corte Inglés, FNAC, Zara and Media Markt have imported what Americans call Black Friday.
This Friday, prices for electronics, clothes, cosmetics and many more products will drop or halve in most high streets across Spain.
Black Friday, a name originally coined by US policemen to refer to the massive traffic jams they would have to deal with on the day after Thanksgiving, has now come to represent "shopping chaos" more than any other sales day in the US.
The quest to find a good bargain has often resulted in fully-fledged punch-ups between rival shoppers in the States in recent years.
In some extreme cases people have been pepper-sprayed or even shot.

Do you know what Black Friday is? answer the following questions! 

- What is a bargain hunter? 
- Why are shops importing this Black Friday tradition from the US?
- What is the origin of the name Black Friday?
- What may be the result of this quest to find the best bargain? 
- Have you been shopping this Black Friday in Spain? Tell us your experience! What were the prizes like? Were there many people?

DECEMBER

DECEMBER...It's a month of light, snow, and feasts..time to make amends and tie loose ends..finish off what you started and make your wishes come true

What are your wishes for this Christmas? And your plans? Have you planned something special for these holidays? 


SCIENCE WEEK: THE SOLAR SYSTEM

As it is Science Week in our school we are dealing with a very interesting topic: the Solar System. 
Let's see how much information you can get about each planet! 

HOW DO YOU DO? by Roxette

The members of Roxette became international superstars with the release of their second album Look Sharp! in 1988. In fact, it is said to be the first Swedish group to have international success since Abba. Do you want to know more about this group! Try this Roxette trivia! 
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Music/Roxette-12147.html

DO YOU WANNA DATE MY AVATAR?

AVATAR is a 2009 song created and performed by the cast of the web series THe Guild with lead vocals by singer-actress Felicia Day. Day wrote this song inspirated in dance-music style of the 1990s. The song includes a rap portion performed by Guild co-stars Jeff Lewis and Sandeep Parikh.

Which of these two versions do you prefer? WhY? Choose one of the avatars in each version and write a detailed physical description.

Sunday, 13 October 2013

AT THE RESTAURANT

This week we're practising how to order food at a restaurant... here you have an example! are you ready to order?

Thursday, 3 October 2013

THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING ENGLISH

10 reasons why we should learn English and two of the funniest commercials on the topic! I hope you enjoy them!!