The Fool on The Hill

Another song by the unforgettable Beatles. Click here to see/ print activity from the lyrics of the song.

After you've done it, click HERE to check the answer key to the activity........................................................

SPIRITUALITY & MEDITATION

How do we get Cosmic Energy?
The importance of connecting ourselves
with the Universe. Overcoming stress, getting a more relaxed, healthier and happier LIFE.

Click HERE to watch, listen and read... a very interesting video.
If you liked it and feel like listening to more of it click here (You tube)
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Quotes of the day

- A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband. (Balzac)
- Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. (Ghandi)

- A poem is never finished, only abandoned. (Paul Valery)

- Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. (G.B Shaw)
- Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.(A. Gide)

VOCABULARY (Idioms) II

Four more idioms related to our HEAD!
All levels

From me to You

It was high time!
Here comes my first
by The Beatles,
with lyrics.
.
LOOK UP these verbs
in the dictionaries
on the right:
CALL ON,
SEND ALONG,
LONG

Once upon a time...

A STORY (dictation)

Listen to a story called
"Good Luck, Bad Luck?".
As you listen practice your comprehension skill in the form of a dictation. Play it as many times as necessary!

.................................................Intermediate - advanced

VOCABULARY (Idioms)

Hi!
What's up?
Here is the first of a series of videos I'll be posting in the blog for students to improve their English: Vocabulary, Expressions, idioms...
But, What's an idiom ?
WATCH and FIND OUT!

Are you sure you can't?

Today I was hurrying to my car in Las Canteras when I came across a disabled girl in a wheelchair, who could hardly speak or move any parts of her body... And she asked me to go with her and help her open the front door to her house in a block of flats. So I had to go back on my steps and go behind her speedy chair...For a moment I had thousands of thoughts.The strangest being that it could be a trap to kidnap me!?
After I followed all her instructions she managed to go to the lift and... I left with the feeling I had done something good- again- for someone who really needs it; as I've helped those of my family who have had to be in hospital and.......
But this was like a kind of message for my day- today-, I can't explain.. And then a special acquaintance of mine sends me a video via e-mail about a man with no arms no legs, being able to manage and do lots of things in front of an audience of weeping teenagers. And so It makes me wonder again... why should I complain? Why should any of us?

Dulce 02/04/09

WRITING - Formal Letters (Applying for a job)

This is a WRITING STRATEGY:

How do we write a covering letter?
Applying for a job...
Click here to see...

LEVEL: Intermediate

WRITING Letters of Complaint NA1

Here we have a very good link which gives us the clues we need to write a complaint letter, with a step-by-step- guidance and examples too

1-Click to study tips
2-Click here for further practice!