Rock Around the Clock

This is a message for B1 students!

Here you are the video of the famous Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley.



The lyrics:

One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rock,
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock,
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, rock,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight.

Put your glad rags on and join me, hon,
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the clock strikes two, three and four,
If the band slows down we'll yell for more,
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the chimes ring five, six and seven,
We'll be right in seventh heaven.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven too,
I'll be goin' strong and so will you.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.

When the clock strikes twelve, we'll cool off then,
Start a rockin' round the clock again.
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight.
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight

Internet Dating

Dear Students,

Here you are the video we worked with last Tuesday about 'How to Find Love by Internet Dating'


Find Love In A Month:
How To Find Love By Internet Dating

This is the webpage it belongs to:

www.videojug.com

You can find a menu on the left with the following categories: beauty, culture, family and education, food and drink, health, home and lifestyle, love, money and careers, sports and technology and cars.

And remember you can read what you listen if you click on the option "TEXT VERSION"

Give it a try! You'll find something of your interest for sure!

Have a nice weekend

Listening on Friday

Dear B2 students,

Here you are the link to the listening we did last Friday:

http://www.elllo.org/english/Points/PT06-Cities.html

You can get the worksheet tomorrow in class.

See you and have a nice week!

No class today!

Dear B1 and That's English students,

Just in case you don't know, there's no class today because of the snow.

But you can practice some English anyway!

Go to the link below to watch a video from BBC News about this Snowfall in Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/video_and_audio/default.stm

(You'll see it just in the centre of your screen, its title is SNOWFALL CAUSES CHAOS AROUND THE WORLD)

Try to think about the following comprehension questions:

- What happened to drivers in Germany?
- How many people have died in Poland?
- How many centimetres of snow have been predicted in Eastern and Southern parts of Britain?
- What has Gordon Brown said about gas supplies and salt?
- Which country is mentioned next?
- Can you mention some of the problems in China?

Now this piece of news is really kind of... negative. What's your own experience with snow? I love it! Just walking and looking at the landscape, having some snowball fights... maybe you like skiing or doing snowmen...

Have a nice day and enjoy!

How to pronounce 2010?

Hi everyone out there!

How are you doing this year so far? before you can answer this question maybe you need to know how to pronounce the year itself!

There's been a lot of debate as to how to say it: twenty-ten or two thousand ten.

One of the most important English Linguists -David Crystal- thinks that the rhythm or "flow" of "two thousand (and) ten", beats that of "twenty ten" (here you are the full wikipedia article about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010s)

And if you go to the link below (please copy the link and paste it in a new window) , you will hear (and read) some other opinions on this topic.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120470656

What's your personal feeling?

Mine is definitely twenty-ten!

See you soon!

Happy New Year!

Hi everyone!

How was your New Year's Eve?

Have a look at how people in N.Y. celebrate the coming of the New Year. It's called the BALL DROP because a ball is lowered or dropped from a building in Times Square.

All the best for 2010!!