THE OSCARS 2009 -- Activity for NA1

Britain has struck gold at the Oscars - with Slumdog Millionaire scooping eight awards and Kate Winslet winning her first Oscar for Best Actress....
As you may know the final listening test will consist of two or three different tasks, from real material. Here you have an example . Watch the video and do the exercise.

Nothing Really Matters...

Where were you when I needed you?
You did not exist.
Once You were there, but you weren't.
How typical...
Once I believed I was perfectly BOHEMIAN
and could not realize my happiness
revolved around you.
Silly me.
Expecting to be the owner
of someone else's life.
Pretending I could deal with a refusal.
Brainless me!
Now...I own my own and inner self
an apology and explanation.
For I was wrongly mistaken
I was confused and deceived
by your Charm.
Vain Charm!
Worthless!
Deceitful!
Broken Heart
for unfulfilled
desires, so common!
-Just chronic.
If only....
Always if only...
But that's no longer the disguised excuse...
How unwise.
It only takes a second, a minute, an hour
and never more than a week
to make up with one's misery
Understanding as though in a RHAPSODY, though
Once you've reached the bottom
of the deepest disappointment
It goes up inevitably by itself:
And the relief comes back again...
...For there's nothing keener to be done.
...For anyway the wind blows.
God Save the Queen in Me, let's have fun.

© by Dulce Rosales


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Listening Activity for NI1 students

Listen and do an activity about RENTING A HOUSE.
This is related to the topic we will be studying in unit 4B.
Click here.
If you go down the page you'll find more extra activities on Vocabulary and grammar to practise...

MASSIVE ATTACK (Click)

New type of music?
OK!
Listen to some typical different English slang.
Great British band Massive Attack

Song: Five Man Army

Supertramp Instrumental (3)

Devastating Video...

SONG: Child of Vision

How can we even dare and complain about an economic crisis...?
all that damage, all those deaths, all that unforgettable suffering...
We must never take it for granted, for all that is still there.
Part of our most recent , cluellest History.

*Print and do activity on lyrics: HERE

TIME (poem)

You and your Time

Time waits for nobody...

You say you never have enough Time

You have Time for nothing

Time is NOW

And It has already vanished…

Time is all we have

And as soon as you think of it

It has flown- forever

Time is us

And Time doesn’t exist

Time is there and nowhere

It’s time you grasped It

For I'm afraid it’ll be too late

When you want to enjoy It

It’s high time you stopped saying,

'It’s too late, I have to go'

And instead, say,

'It’s so early, I might stay'

See you soon ???

(To all my stressed people)..................................................................

© by Dulce Rosales

Supertramp Instrumental (2)

Another Man's Woman
Click to listen
and print here to see lyrics and easy activity...

Album CRISIS WHAT CRISIS? 1975

Dedicated to another woman´s man.

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Supertramp Instrumental (1)

THIS is a series of songs by Supertramp I'll be giving you in the next few weeks. They are highly and beautifully instrumental; but with very deep sweet lyrics too!!!!


SCHOOL
When I was little and I listened to this song I always felt scared because of the cry by a child you hear.. I had been told (by my Brother) that it meant this was about a little girl being raped after leaving school... Fortunately, he was wrong. What I understand now is that An Adult is just trying to give advice to a child of how hard this life can be.
.........................What do you understand??...

Click to listen

Click to print lyrics and do activity.

To my best , dearest, sweetest friend: BEGO-(la profe).

Hoping you enjoy it! (DUL)

YORK FESTIVAL

This week, from 18th to 22nd February, they celebrate the Jorvik Viking Festival which commerates the foundation of the city by the Vikings. Click to read.

ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS

Watch about the Jorvik Viking Centre , York England.
Click here to print and do the listening activity about Jorvik Viking Centre.
Click here to do a reading activity about Viking York.
Click here to see the answers to the activities.



Click to find out more about the Jorvik Festival and the city of YORK.

York, nov. 1995