The Oscars!

The Oscar Night is long over, the winners are happy and part of movie history, the nominees disappointed and soon forgotten. You can visit the official page of the Annual Academy Awards, or read about it at Wikipedia.

What I am interested in, is your opinion about the following Oscar speech delivered by Halle Barry some years ago. Is she for real or is she faking it? What would you say, how would you react if you won such an important award?

So, here is your task:
a) give your opinion on Barry's speech
b) tell us your words and reactions in a similar situation.

Minimum two sentences please!

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Which one is closer to the truth? This one:


Or this one:

I listen to...

The holidays are coming and you'll hopefully have even more time for our blog. Therefore, your next assignment will require some more work.

1. First, I want you to read the text "A (very short) history of ROCK MUSIC" in your books (p.52).
   
2. Then, I'm asking you to follow this link and do some more reading about the different music styles of our world. You don't have to read everything, just the parts that interest you or are important for what's coming next.
3. Choose a singer or a band you like listening to, write a presentation, together with some links for your friends (youtube, wikipedia, the homepage of the singer/band...). Use whatever information you can find on the net but do not copy/paste!
4. Read your friends' presentations and respond to them.

I'm really looking forward to your work!

Just to give you a taste, here is one of my favourite singers,




and (still) one of my favourite bands:

The voting is over!

As far as I can tell, you more or less like the way our blog looks. If I'm mistaken, I expect your suggestions in the comments. Use your imagination! And just to show you how popular our blog is, check out the following pictures by our fans! Do you like them?

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Guitar!

Valentine's Day

Ah, Valentine's Day! I couldn't resist writing a post about this very special celebration (you know me...). This time I don't want you to look up any information about it . Oh no! I want you to comment on the following proverbs about love:

"Love is blind"

"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"

"All's fair in love and war"

Do you agree or disagree? If you don't want to commnet on them that's fine! Instead, add other proverbs that you find on the internet, tell us about your favourite love songs, romantic comedies, famous love stories you've heard about, or, if you want to, leave a message for someone you like or even love (no names, please!).
In short, our today's topic is love!

Here we go!

As you all (hopefully) know, the subjects of our new theme are music & film. My first assignment for you connected with music is as follows: I want you to look up what a "grammy" is, and post whatever you find in your comments! There's a lot of information "lying around" waiting for you to notice it. One last thing: since I want you all to post something, only one piece of information per student, please, but you can comment on the winners as much as you like! Ups...

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You can do it!

Dear students!

This blog is for you to post your comments, reactions or thoughts on whatever subject your English teacher (that would be me) "throws" at you! Be patient! This is something new for all of us, so for once, we are all learners.
Rules? Only three so far:
1) English only, please!
2) No Ctrl+C - your work is what I'm interested in!
3) Grammar is not so important! (this one is for me...) Why? Because the main aim is to COMMUNICATE!

I hope we'll all have tons of fun with this new activity!
Blog on!