DR NO - IAN FLEMING

THE BOOK I HAVE JUST READ: THE FILMS TRAILER:

I HAVE JUST READ THIS BOOK. I THINK IT IS INTERESTING. IT HAS GOT 16 CHAPTERS AND THERE ARE SOME CHAPTERS DIVIDED IN PARTS IF THE CHAPTER IS A BIT LONGER THAN OTHERS. SO YOU CAN READ IT EASILY. ITS LEVEL IS NUMBER 5: INTERMEDIATE. AND IF YOU WANT TO BUY ITS ISBN IS :1-4050-3009-7. IT CAN BE THE BEST CHOICE FOR THE THREE WISE MEN.
THE BOOK HAS GOT THREE AUDIO CDS AND EXTRA EXERCISES TO CHECK IF YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD IT PROPERLY.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS BOOK WAS ONE OF THE FIRSTS ABOUT JAMES BOND AND I DIDN'T LIKE JAMES BOND'S FILMS ALTHOUGHT I SAW HOW THEY FILM "THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGHT" IN BILBAO.
I LIKED SPECIAL MACHINES, SPECIAL GATCHES THAT AN INVENTOR MADE FOR JAMES BOND, DEADLY WEAPONS, TIME BOMBS, CIGARETTE LIGHTER WITH A LASER RAY, EXPLOSIVE CHEWING GUM... MAYBE, THE PROBLEM IS THAT I HAVE WATCHED MANY A-TEAM AND MC-GYVER EPISODES BUT THAT IS ANOTHER SUBJECT.
I'M WATCHING THE FILM BEFORE RETURNING TO JOB, SO I HAVE ALREADY 10 DAYS TO WATCH IT BUT FIRST I WANT TO LISTEN TO THE THREE AUDIO CDS. I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING.
THE AUTHOR, IAN FLEMING, BORN IN MAYFAIR, IN LONDON IN 1908. HE WORKED FOR THE SECRET SERVICE DURING THE WAR AND THAT IS WHY JAMES BOND ADVENTURES ARE SO REAL. HIS COUSIN CHRISTOPHER LEE (SARUMAN - LORD OF THE RING) WORKED IN THE FILM AS DR NO.
BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW THAT IAN FLEMING WROTE CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG" TOO, A VERY CURIOUS CHILD NOVEL?
IM GOING TO WRITE A SHORT TEXT ABOUT MODAL VERBS THAT APPEARED IN THE BOOK IN THE BRANCH: "SOME MODAL VERBS".

MY NATIVITY SCENE:

After working for two days, here you have the video of my Nativity Scene. It has got some new vocabulary and two carols of Sinatra. If you click on the four square arrows, the screen gets bigger and you can watch it properly. Enjoy it.

A REAL CHRISTMAS TALE:

WE ARE IN 1914. THE FIRST WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN. ALL OF THE WORLD'S GREAT POWERS ARE INVOLVED.
ON THE ONE HAND, WE HAVE THE ALLIES OR TRIPLE ENTENTE: ENGLAND, FRANCE AND RUSSIA. ON THE OTHER HAND, WE HAVE GERMANY, AUSTRA-HUNGARY AND ITALY.
THEY ARE FIGHTING SINCE JULY. IN FACT, ALL STARTED WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF THE ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA WHO WAS GOING TO BE THE NEW KING OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE; AND JUST A MONTH LATER THE WAR HAS STARTED WITH THE INVASION OF SERBIA.
DAY IN DAY OUT, DECEMBER HAS ARRIVED. GERMAN AND ENGLISH SOLDIERS ARE FIGHTING KILING EACH OTHERS IN THE COLD BATTLEFIELD. THEY DON'T REMEMBER WHY ARE THEY FIGHTING. SOME SHOOTING WAS HEARD AND A DEAD BODY FELT DOWN TO THE GROUND. NOBODY IS GOING TO BURY IT, JUST SNOW.
SUDDENLY SOME GERMAN SOLDIERS STARTED SINGING CAROLS, WE ARE IN CHRISTMAS EVE. HOME WAS FAR AWAY AND SOME SOLDIERS STARTED LEAVING TRENCHS. THEY HAD A SIGN:

JUST BY ONE DAY WAR IS OVER, TRUCE IS DONE.
SOLDIERS PLAYED FOOTBALL AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES.
THEY TOOK SOME PICTURES. YES, THERE ARE IN BLACK AND WHITE BUT REMEMBER WE ARE IN 1914.

I DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW BUT SANTA MANAGED TO ARRIVE TO THE TRENCHS.

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PHOTO!, TWO ENEMIES, TAKING A PHOTO.

THEY CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS EVE SINGING, TALKING, SHOWING THEIR RELATIVES PHOTOS, WRITTING BACK TO HOME AND EATTING A SPECIAL DINNER.

AND THEY COULD DO ANOTHER IMPORTATNT THING, THEY BURIED DEAD BODIES AND THEY COULD CURE INJURIED SOLDIERS.

UNFORTUNATELLY, THEY HAD TO CONTINUE WITH THE WAR, A WAR THAT WOULD ENDED IN NOVEMBER 1918, WITH 5.525.000 ALLIES SOLDIERS DEAD AND 4.386.000 GERMAN SOLDIERS DEAD.

THEN, IF CHRISTMAS IS SO POWERFULL THAT COULD STOP A WAR, LETS SING CAROLS INSTEAD SHOOTING.

DEMOLITION CALL, (THANKS ALBERTO)

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READING INSPIRES ADULTS TOO.

Reading Inspires Children

AMES ROOM - DR.VILAYANUR RAMACHANDRAN

WE HAD TO READ A READING ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF LAUGHTER. INSTEAD OF THIS, I HAVE FOUND A VIDEO OF THE SAME DOCTOR EXPLAINING AMES ROOM ILLUSION. I THINK IT IS THE SAME OPTICAL ILLUSION THAT WAS USED IN THE FILM "LORD OF THE RING".

Ramachandran - Ames room illusion explained

LEMURS AND PLUTO ( WHAT A MIX! )

SCIENTISTS HAVE RECENTLY IDENTIFIED A NEW SPECIES OF ANIMAL IN THE RAINFOREST OF BORNEO. THEY HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS CREATURE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AFTER REPORTS FROM LOCALVILLAGERS, AND SAY IT IS A TYPE OF LEMUR.
LEMURS STARTED DANCING WHEN SCIENTISTS ARRIVED.

SCIENTIST (AGAIN) USING THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE THINK THEY HAVE FOUND TWO NEW MOONS CIRCLING THE PLANET PLUTO. (I HAVE TO ADD THAT NOWADAYS PLUTO IS NOT A PLANET.
ASTRONOMERS HAVE BEEN LOOKING CLOSELY AT PLUTO SINCE 1978 WHEN THEY SPOTTED ITS FIRST MOON. tHE TELESCOPE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, AND HAS PRODUCED MORE THAN 700,000 IMAGES OF THE UNIVERSE.
BUT WHY PLUTO ISN'T A PLANET ANY MORE?
THIS VIDEO WILL ANSWER THE QUESTION:

MALLORY AND IRVINE. NEXT STATION: EVEREST

ON JUNE 8, 1924, GEORGE MALLORY AND ANDREW IRVINE BEGAN THE FINAL STAGE OF THEIR ATTEMPT TO BE THE FIRST TO CONQUER EVEREST. WHAT HAPPENED THIS DAY ONLY THEY KNOW.

AUSTRALIA (4) KANGAROOS AND KOALA BEARS

SPECIAL ANIMALS LIVING IN AUSTRALIA:
KANGAROOS:

KOALA BEARS:

AUSTRALIA (3) ULURU - AYERS ROCKS

A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE NEAR ULURU, CAMELS INCLUDED.

AUSTRALIA (2) AS A CONTINENT

AUSTRALIA (1) REEFS, SEA SNAKES, SHARKS...

BE CAREFULL, YOU ARE DOING EXPERIMENTS WITH SHARKS...

One Lucky Sea Snake
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GAME: ROUND THE BRITISH ISLES WITH A WASHING MACHINE:

WHEN YOU ARRIVE TO A CITY YOU HAVE TO ANSWER A QUESTION:

• CAMBRIDGE:

-Which word is wrong in this quote? When I think of Britain I think of the royal family, cricket, warm milk, cheese and cucumber sandwiches and wet weather. (ANSWER: MILK)

• ABERDEEN:

-What 8 letter word means that someone has muscles? (ANSWER: MUSCULAR)

• BELFAST:

-What is the missing word in this question: He doesn't look as .... he's very happy. (ANSWER: IF)

• EDINBURGH:

-Is a Scot the person, the language or the drink? (ANSWER: PERSON)

• GLASGOW:

-Where did Tony Hawks start his journey around Ireland with a fridge? (ANSWER: DUBLIN)

• LIVERPOOL:

-What is the most probable missing word in this question: Why ... she believe that? (ANSWER: DOES)

• YORK:

-Finish this proverb: You can't .... a book by its cover. (ANSWER: JUDGE)

• LONDON:

-Is "prefer" a stative or dynamic verb? (ANSWER: STATIVE)

• LAND'S END:

-What 9 letter word means "Moving your body nervously"? (ANSWER: FIDGETING)

• JOHN O'GROATS:

Finish this idiom: She's bitten off more than she can ... (ANSWER: CHEW)

• DUBLIN:

-What was the name of the TV show in Lesson 1A? (ANSWER: FAKING IT!)

• CARDIFF:

-Name all three main British political parties. (ANSWER: LABOUR, CONSERVATIVES, LIBERAL DEMOCRATS)

ALVARO NEIL: THE BICICLOWN

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, SO I DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE IT. AND IT IS AMAZING. A MAN CALLED ALVARO NEIL, A LAWYER, GIVES UP JOB TO CYCLE AROUND THE WORLD. FIRST HE WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA, AND THEN HE WENT ROUND AFRICA.
HERE YOU HAVE ALVARO HIMSELF SPEAKING ABOUT HIS JOURNEY AROUND AFRICA. AMAZING.

ROUND IRELAND WITH A FRIDGE

THIS IS A MOVIE TRAILER BUT TONY HAWKS DID IT. HE ACCEPTED A BET, HE HAD TO HITCHHIKE AROUND IRELAND WITH A FRIDGE. AND BY THE WAY, TONY'S REAL FRIDGE WAS BIGGER THAN THE FRIDGE YOU CAN SEE IN THE FILM.

BRITISH SEASIDE (2) BLACKPOOL-LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER

I WANT TO VISIT BLACKPOOL:

I REALLY WANT TO VISIT LIVERPOOL.I LIKE THE BEATLES TOO.

BUT I'M SORRY I REALLY LOVE MANCHESTER AND IF IT IS POSSIBLE, I WILL BE A MANCUNIAN AGAIN.

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LIVERPOOL AND BLACKPOOL ARE QUITE NEAR TO MANCHESTER, SO WE CAN VISIT THEM ALL.

BRITISH SEASIDE (1)

WHAT CAN WE DO IN THE SEASIDE?

• WE CAN COLLECT SHELLS.
• WE CAN BUILD SANDCASTLES.
• WE CAN RIDE A DONKEY.
• WE CAN WALK ALONG THE BEACH.
• WE CAN HAVE A PICNIC.
• WE CAN EAT SOME FISH AND CHIPS.
  

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

THE VIKINGS IN AMERICA:

TRAVEL WORDS

HALLOWEEN (2)

JACK O'LANTERN HISTORY:

HALLOWEEN (1)

DRESS UP AS A ...: DISFRAZARSE DE ...
COSTUME: DISFRAZ
TRICK OR TREAT: TRUCO O GOLOSINA
SPIDERWEB: TELA DE ARAÑAS
CELTS: CELTAS
TOMB: TUMBA
TURNIP: RÁBANO
GRIND: AFILAR
GROUND: AFILADO
PUMPKIN: CALABAZA
GHOUL: DEMONIO
POUNCE ON: ABALANZARSE
THE GRIM REAPER: LA MUERTE

PHRASAL VERBS

TRAVEL

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LONDON MARATHON 2010

WE ARE ALL ONE

I LIKE THOUSE SENTENCES:

• WHAT DOES THAT MEANS?
• PEOPLE HAVE TO THINK AND BECOME AWARE AND BECOME AWAKE.
• POWER IS ALWAYS IN THE PEOPLE'S HANDS.
• TO DO SOMETHING LIKE JUMPING OFF A CLIFF, WOULD YOU FOLLOW HIM?
• WE LOOK ABOUT FOR ALLIES, WE LOOK ABOUT FOR FRIENDS.

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

HASHIMA, CONCRETE ISLAND.

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JAPAN´S MYSTERIOUS PYRAMIDS

AUSTRALIA

How beautiful Australia is and how far it is.

I love Australia; it is like a big island in nowhere. I know that Australia was an English colony and when English jails were full they sent prisoners to Australian jails. By the other way, many people emigrated to Australia during the 20th century.

Australia has two big cities. Sydney is the biggest; it is the most famous too. But it is not country’s capital.

Australia is so big that there is a desert; there are some rainforests and the Great Barrier Reef.

There are some animals that only live in Australia, for example: kangaroos and koala bears. Kangaroos are mammals, they have powerful back legs and they were jumping everywhere. Koalas are little bears, are mammals too and they spent a lot of time of their lives climbing trees.
Besides, Australia has the world older cricket team and it has famous personalities too. Some writers, actors, actress and singers are from Australia.

Mel Gibson is a famous Australian actor. He plays “Lethal weapon”, “Brave heart”, “Signs”, “Christ Passion” and “The patriot”.

Hugh Jackman is another Australian actor, is well known because he is the main character of “X-men”.

Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett are Australian actress. Nicole Kidman is very famous because she has filmed many movies in Hollywood.

To finish with, we have to name Kylie Minogue. Kylie is one of the most famous pop singer in the world.

GUY FAWKES AND THE GUNPOWDER PLOT

1605, Catholics were not happy with King James I because he ordered to all catholic priest to leave England. So, they decided to kill the King and all people around him. The best place and the best moment to did it was when King James I inaugurate the Parliament session.

Guy Fawkes was one of the plotters; he managed to rent a house near the Houses of Parliament and to take sixteen barrels of gunpowder to Houses of Parliament cellars.

But there was a problem. Plotters felt bad about the fact that some of the people who will be in the Parliament were Catholics. So they decided to write an anonymous letter advising them to stay away from Parliament.

The letter was shown to the authorities and guards searched all the cellars and they captured Guy Fawkes.

Guy Fawkes was tortured and he revealed the names of others plotters. They were captured and executed.

After surviving to the plot, King James I ordered to all English people to burn a burn a bonfire on November 5th. And nowadays continue celebrating it.

On the 400th anniversary of the plot, some scientists make a simulation with the same amount of gunpowder. When they exploded it they noticed that the explosion was so powerful that everyone within one hundred metres of it would have been killed, including the King James I. So maybe a Catholic monarch would be put on the English Throne, as Catholics Plotters wanted.

Enjoy the video, it is funny.

DON'T PLAY THAT SONG!

This is the song of one exercise we have just done.
Adriano Celentano:
Don't play That Song (You Lied)
Don't play it no more.
don't play it no more.
Don't play it no more.


Don't play that song
for me it brings back the memories
of days that I once knew
the days that I spent with you
oh no
don't let it play
it fills my heart with pain
please stop it right away
I remember justa what it said.
It said (Darling
I love you)
you know that you lied
(Darling
I love you)
you know that you lied
(Darling
I love you) you know
that you lied

you lied lied lied lied.

Remember on our first date
you kissed me and you walked away
you were only seventeen
I never thought you'd act so mean
but baby (darling
I love you)
you told me you loved it
(Darling
I love you)
you told me you cared
(Darling
I love you)
You said
I'll go with you,
(you lied) Darling,
almost anywhere
(you lied lied lied lied)
but darling
you know that
you told me you loved it
you told me you cared
You said "I'll go with you
darling almost anywhere"
but darling you know that
(Darling I love you)
you know that you lied

Don't play that song for me
it brings back memories

It said you told me
you loved it
you told me you cared you said
I'll go with you,
darling,almost anywhere
but darling
you know that
(Darling I love you)
you know that you lied

ZURICH BECAUSE CHANGE HAPPENZ

MANX CAT

Manx Cat is a peculiar cat. It is from Isle of Man and it hasn’t got tail. But today all the tail-less cats are called Manx. They have got a genetic mutation very common on the Island.
“Folk beliefs claim the Manx cats came from the Spanish Armada; a ship foundered on the cliffs at Spanish Head on the coast of the Isle of Man. According to legend, the cats on the ship swam ashore and became an established breed. Legend has it that the cats originally went onboard the Spanish ship in the Far East.”
Nowadays, white Manx cats are very very rare. In some cases, white Manx cats may be worth well over $4,000.

BRITISH TOPICS (3) (SYMBOLS)

In the world there are many symbols. In Spain we have the Legion’s goat, in US Uncle Sam, but what about British?
The bulldog symbolises britishness. Sometimes bulldogs are associated to Winston Churchill, because he had one as pet.
Britannia is the female personification for Great Britain. Britannia is the name written in Latin.
John Bull is the person who symbolizes the typical conservative British personality. It is like Uncle Sam in the US. It is not a real man. It is a middle aged man, wearing the Union Jack as a waistcoat (chaleco).
Continuing with clothes, the costume that has been worn for more than five hundred years is the Morris dancing costume. By the way, if you look with attention you can find some movements like Vasque Countrys traditional dances.

BRITISH TOPICS (2)

Everyone knows that British like having tea at 5 o´clock in that afternoon, but we have to learn many others activities they like.
They like playing scrabble and cricket too, but I thing it is so boring...
They like eating fish and chips. By the way, the best “Fish and chips” in all London City is near the Tower of London. They think that the best and the most important meal of the day is the breakfast, so they have a complete dish of meat, eggs… They only take a break for lunch. But if you go to London you Hill see that there are people eating in Burger Kings and similar fast food restaurant in every moment.
They like moving by double decker bus (Mancunians travel by tram, there isn’t any underground in Manchester.)

BRITISH TOPICS (1)

I am going to talk about British topics and British lifestyle. I think the most famous topic is about doing queues for just everything, in the bus stations, in the supermarket. They like queueing and you can be in danger if you jump the queue. And be careful, in rush hours you have to move faster than ever if you want not to have any problems.
In the U.K. used to be cold, that was we thought, but we have know that nowadays a lot of people die because it is impossible to pay the VAT of the heating and the electrical bill.
I have always thought that London was a foggy city. It isn’t true. I ‘ve been there and it isn’t foggy. But unfortunately we can say that London is becoming a smoggy city. Many cities have air pollution or rivers contamination, and although London is a super big city it has to care its environment too.
By the other hand, they like animals, British still continue hunting fox. Many hunters, many dogs, just one fox. What a pity!
I know that in Spain we unfortunately have the bull fighting but maybe in the future it will be forbidden.
I prefer looking fox puppies to kill them.

CATS AND THE DEW ON THE SUNFLOWER

I am posting that becouse of the vocabulary we have learnt.
When old female cat starts singing she says: "Daylight, see the dew on the sunflower..."
But what means Dew? What means Dew Barrymore's name?
DEW: ROCÍO.
MIST: NEBLINA.
ESCARCHA: FROST.
FOG: NIEBLA
SMOG: TOXIC FOG PRODUCED BY FACTORIES, CARS...
We can say: - what a foggy day!

U.K. PRIME MINISTER

As I said, I have been looking for additional information to write this post. I think that the powerpoint explains easily and clearly, the political situation in the United Kingdom.

How to become uk prime minister

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THE UK PARLIAMENT:

It is one of the oldest European parliament. There are many diferent parliaments in the world that work like this.

All the building is known as: "Houses of the Parliament", and it has got two big towers. The tallest, with a clock is called: "Big Ben". But few people knows that this name was given becouse the man who directed the construction was Benjamin Hall, and that man put inside the tower a big bell. By the way, if you can see a light on the top of this tower in the night, that means that there is a night meeting in the parliament.
The name of the smaller tower is Victoria Tower, and they built it two years later, in 1860, so you can easily imagine that The Big Ben was built in 1858.

You can find more than thousand chambers in the Houses of the Parliament.

But the really important thing is that there are, House of the Commons and House of Lords inside it too.

MICHAEL PORTILLO

I want to know more information about this politicián becouse I like the idea of a famous person stepping into unknow's shoes. So I have gone to wikipedia web and here there is some information:
He is 57 years old. He is politician and journalist too and he admires Margaret Tatcher.
His father was an exiled Spanish republican, his name was Luis Gabriel Portillo.
When Michael was eight years old, he appeared in a TV spot of blackcurrant (grosella) drink.
Maybe this is the reason why he is broadcaster (presentador-locutor) too.
He joined the Conservative Party (partido) in 1976.
He is married with Carolyn Eadie but they haven't got children.
From 1984 to 1997 he has being working as a member of the Parliament and he has retained the Enfield Southgate seat (escaño) until he lost it in 1997.
In 1997 elections Tony Blair(Labourist) became Prime Minister,so John Mayor (The Prime Minister elected after Margaret Tatcher both of them Conservatives)lost his popular support(apoyo)and elections too. Then there have been two Prime Ministers more. Gordon Brown (Labourist as Tony Blair) and now David Cameron (Labourist).
Going back about what I was saying (volviendo a lo que decía) about Michael Portillo, I have to say that in November 1999, Michael returned to Parliament, but just in 2005 he retired from politic activities.
He has been appearing in BBC2 since 2003 making very diferent programs about railways, Spanish wildlife, social matters... He makes many charitable and voluntary activities too.
You can read all the information visiting this web: Michael Portillo in Wikipedia

IN THE REAL WORLD

Sometimes we forget the world around us and we act like a shy jellyfish, going everywhere using waves, floating, getting nowhere. Sometimes we forget people around us. Im not speaking about hunger in Nigeria or far away. I'm speaking about people close to you, in your neighborhood, in your community.
Years ago, Michael Portillo went to a BBC2 TV programe and step into Jenny Miner's shoes. Jenny Miner is a woman who has four children, two jobs and she is trying to turn over a new leaf with her family. The politician worked at a supermarket and as a educational assistant. Then he tried to manage looking after Jenny's children. I suppose this experience was a real eye-opener for Michael. We can't forget that if a politician wins an elections is becouse people wanted so. And if you want to do a good job as a politician, you have to know people's problems.

I would like to watch this programme here in Spain. I think it would be interesting.

STATIVE VS DINAMIC VERBS

Common stative verbs (not usually in the continuous form):
AGREE, APPEAR, BE BELIVE, BELONG, COST, DISLIKE, FORGET, HATE, HAVE, KNOW, LIKE, LOVE, MATTER, MEAN, NEED, OWN, PREFER, REALIZE, REMEMBER, SEEM, SPEND, THINK, UNDERSTAND AND WANT.

SHAKERS

I really didn´t know nothing about Shakers. But we read a text.
They are living in America, in The Sabbathda Lake Shaker Village in Maine, just in the north east of United States.
As you can wath in the video they still live like Jesuchrist did. They are like Amish, but this affirmation is not true. They are different. They are a community, a religious community. They live in a particular space, they have a village for themselves.
They live as Christ did, so they have a celibate life, where male and female members have diferent places to live, to work, to pray...
They live confessing their sins and being pacifists.
Shaker community has a communal life, so the most important thing for them is to remember that community steals your independence. There was a clearly example in the text. If you want to do something but the community needs you doing another thing, you have to give up (renunciar) and do community's requirements. Maybe that is the reason why today community has only four members.

THE VOWEL SONG - THE ALPHABET SONG

SOMETIMES, AS I HAVE A MEMORY LIKE A SIEVE, I MIX VOWEL'S SOUNDS, BECOUSE IN SPANISH WE HAVE DIFERENT SOUNDS.
SO:
A: EI
E: I
I: AI
O: OU
U: YU
BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU ARE SPELLING A WORD LIKE: "BOOK", WE HAVE TO SAY "DOUBLE OU".
HERE THERE IS ALPHABET SONG:

FEARS

-TO FEEL FEAR OF (+ NOUN): THE BOY IN THE VIDEO FEELS FEARS OF COSTUMES (DISFRACES).
-TO FEEL FEAR OF (VERB + ING): HE ALWAYS GOES BY TRAIN, HE FEELS FEAR OF FLYING.
-TO BE FRIGHTENED: BOY WAS FRIGHTENED WHEN HE SAW COSTUMES.
-TO BE SCARED: THE BOY WAS TOO SCARED TO SING.

BY THE WAY:
-SCARECROW: IT IS THE TOY THAT FARMERS PUT ON A FIELD TO SCARE BIRDS.

NEW EXPRESSIONS:

• TO BE AS STUBBORN AS A MULE: IT IS WHEN YOU ONLY DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO. Más testarudo que una mula. EX: My son is as stubborn as a mule, he doesn´t want to tidy his room.


• TO STEP INTO SOMEONE'S SHOES: IT IS WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND OTHER'S PROBLEMS, THINKING LIKE THEM, LIVING LIKE THEM... (Ponerse en su lugar). EX: I didn´t understand the poor problems until I step into their shoes, living with them for three weeks.


• TO BE A REAL EYE-OPENER: IT IS WHEN A SITUATION CHANGES THINGS LIKE YOU THOUGHT TO BE TRUE. (Abrir los ojos). EX: I thought drinking was funny, but my operation has been a real eye-opener.


• THE HIGH POINTS OF SOMETHING: IT IS TO BE THE BEST MOMENT. EX: The rescue of the Chilean miners has been the high points of all the week.


• TO BITE OFF MORE THAN (PERSON) CAN CHEW: IT IS WHEN YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHINGS BUT YOU CAN ALTHOUGH YOU TRY. Morder más de lo que se puede tragar. EX: I bought an expensive car although I was fired, I bite off more than I could chew, becouse I can pay it.


• YOU WILL GET NOWHERE: IT IS WHEN YOUR ACTIONS DOESN´T PRODUCE NOTHING. EX: Don´t try explaining dangers of smoking to a smoker. You will get nowhere.


• TO TURN OVER A NEW LEAF: IT IS WHEN YOU CHANGE YOUR NEGATIVE SITUATION IN A BETTER SITUATION. Comenzar una vida nueva, pasar de hoja. EX: After my divorce I decided to turn over a new leaf.

FIGS AND SNAILS

I have to write about something. Our teacher said we have free topic and that's the most awful things that can happens. I prefer when the topic is clearly-defined as: "Second World War" or "Economic crisis", "Life in others planets?"...
But "Free topic" means that you can choose the topic between thousands and thousands posibilities.
We have been without working, on holidays, and I have gone to a very little town in the country side. When I go for a walk, my camera ever comes with me. And I am going to try explaining the topic I have chose: "FIGS AND SNAILS".
Someone can think that it is not a suitable topic, but here I am.
Maybe the best thing to do would be writting about Dinosaurs, Teaching or Space; I have more experience doing that, but I'm going to try it.
Figs are fruit. But it is not true. Figs are fig trees flowers. You can see a pair of figs in the fig tree. Inside the fig, there are more than thousand seeds. It is very improbable to grown another fig tree from a fig so the inteligent nature puts many seeds inside it to improve the posibilities.
First, figs are green, we can't eat them yet. When you take it from the tree, a white sticky liquid will appear in your hand. So please, don't put the fig in your mouth, or your lips will be sticky too.
When figs are still in the fig tree, some birds eat them. You can see in the photo an eaten fig.

But don't worry, it is an strategy. When a bird eats a fig, it eats the food around the seed, and seeds too. When this bird shits, seeds are inside the shit and they will have a wonderful organic food to grow and to become in a fig tree.
Figs are very sweet fruit and I like them to much, so you can see my harvest. (cosecha)But I have a problem, I like snails too. There are diferent types of snails. Winkles (Bígaros)live in the seaside, on the rocks, in salty water. I like them too... But I want to write about snails, snails and slugs (babosa-limaco) are similar. Slugs haven't got shell, they are stikier than superglue and they are always in wild boars (jabalí) menu. Here you can see a slug having dinner.There are two diferent snails. On one hand, we have small snails. You can't eat them, but in the South of Spain can be added to a cold drink called Mosto. Its a bite disgusting, but I think that it's like drinking a Mexican licour with a lizard inside the bottle, or like a Chinese drink with snakes inside. You can like it or not. In the photo, you can see a mosto snail. They are always small.And at last, we have the king of snails. Brown one. There is a saying (dicho) that you can take snails in months with an "r" inside their names, but the best moment to do it is in
April. Now, snails are hiding in the ground, laying eggs, in a nest (nido). You can see it in the photo.I like too much this photo, it's my favorite. In April you would be able to take some snails, to clean them with vinegar and salt and cook them. You can cook them with some tomato sauce, peppers...
So snail be carefull, we will be watching you.

A FILM AND A SONG

The title of the song is LUKA. The singer is Suzanne Vega. It is supossed to be an easy understandable song, that is the reason of being the first song in the blog.

If you watch the song you can read lyrics and you can sing it too. I have just done when I insert in the blog, don´t worry about neighbours, they know I'm as crazy as a hatter. By the why, I didn't know what CLUMSY was, so I used Wordreference web (you can hear the pronuntiation too) to discover it. Clumsy person is a person who brokes everything just touching it, who fall down to the ground when he is going upstairs, who brreaks everything... In spanish means "torpe".

In my opinion, there is a verb "argue" that is quite difficult for me to pronounce. It is something like: "argui". "Don't argue with me." Means "No me discutas."

"Clash of the Titans" is the last film I have watched. The main character is the same of "Avatar". The film is about the trip of Perseus, who is a son of Zeus. He wants to stop the most powerfull devil titan, showing him the dead head of Medusa. I liked it. I like action films, adventure films and I like Greek Mitology too, so was perfect for me.

INTERESTING

To have goldfish memomy means that you memory is like a sieve, that you have bad memory. To say the opposite, to have a good memory, sometimes we use a elephant as example, but poor elephant...
When the elephant was joung, newborn, or just with some days of life, owner tied the elephant up to a stake in the ground. The elephant tried to go, but it couldn't. When the elephant is adult and it is very strong, it doesn't try to scape becouse it remembers that when it was joung it couldn't do.

EXPRESSIONS:

• AS MAD AS A MARCH HARE. IN MARCH FEMALE HARES TRY TO SCAPE FROM MALES HARES... NO MORE EXPLANATION PLEASE...
• AS MAD AS A HATTER: HATTERS (PERSONS THAT MADE HATS) HAD A PROBLEM IN THE MIDLE AGE. THE GLUE THEY USED TO STICK HATS HAD ANOTHER DIFERENT PROPERTIES, AS HALLUCINATIONS, ... IF YOU HAVE WATCHED ALICE IN WONDERLAND FILM YOU WILL UNDERSTAND. (UFF, A CONDITIONAL SENTENCE...)
• MY MIND GOES BLANK: I CAN´T REMEBER NOTHING, (QUEDARSE EN BLANCO) LIKE A WEB.
• TO SLIP MY MIND: I KNEW IT, BUT IT HAS JUST GONE, I CAN'T REMEMBER. (SE ME HA IDO).

VOCABULARY 1

• RAINY NOSE: WHEN YOUR NOSE DOESN'T STOP PRODUCING SNOT. BY THE WAY, WHEN YOU HAVE "THEM" CLIMBING AFTER SNEEZING (ESTORNUDAR) YOU HAVE A RUNNY NOSE.


• CAN/CAN'T STAND SOMETHING: IT IS WHEN YOU REALLY DONT LIKE THIS. I CAN'T STAND SMOKING, BECOUSE I'M A NOT SMOKER.


• CAN /CAN'T AFFORD SOMETHING: IT IS WHEN YOU CAN OR CAN'T PAY SOMETHING. I CAN'T AFFORD A HOUSE IN MANCHESTER. (WHAT A PITY...)

• WEALTHY VS HEALTHY. A VERY RICH PERSON IS WEALTHY. THERE ARE FEW WEALTHY PEOPLE IN RUANDA. IF YOU PRACTISE SOME SPORT, YOU DIDN'T DRINK ALCOHOL AND YOU DON'T SMOKE, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU ARE A HEALTHY PERSON.
  
• TO BELIEVE: IS TO HAVE A BELIEF (CREENCIA). I BELIEVE IN GOD, SHE BELIEVES TOO. BUT BE CAREFULL BELIEVES AND BELIEFS HAVEN'T GOT THE SAME MEANING. BY THE WAY SINS MEAN (PECADOS).


• TO GIVE UP: PLEASE GIVE UP SMOKING, IT'S SO DISGUSTING. DON'T SMOKE MORE.
  

LIARS: HOW TO SPOT THEM.

The text we have read is about liars, I remembered that there is a TV serie called "Lie to me" where the main character Tim Roth (modern "Apes Planet") spots liars just looking at their faces, their muscles movement... Here in Spain we are just waiting for the second season in Antena 3.

In the video, you can see a man that had written the book "What everybody is saying", giving us some advices. Now we have to be careful, maybe someone has to change the Curriculum Vitae. By the way, remenber the quotes: "The mouth may lie but the face tells the truth" or "Liars need to have a good memories".

I have a little problem, sometimes I get lie and lie down mixed. I know that first means to tell something that is not true, and second one means to put your body on the floor, on the bed... But I have a memory like a sieve, you know...