Article of the week by Lídia Pardo

Hi guys !!!   I'm sure we have all heard about energy drinks such as Monster, Amp, Rockstar and Red Bull. In fact, most of us have probably tried one of these drinks. Most of the drinks have ingredients such as caffeine, taurine and glucuronolactone. They also contain high levels of sugar and caffeine. What do you think about these kind of drinks? Do you think that they can cause health problems?

http://www.thetimesinplainenglish.com/wp/early-warnings-about-energy-drinks/

Demonstration of teachers on the 14th November

Hi!

I wrote this article for Occupy Education and they published it.

It is about a demonstration that substitute teachers made on the 14th November in front of Department of Education.

I just wanted to share it with you :-)

Dani Margarit

http://occupyedu.tumblr.com/post/35871506473/on-14th-november-there-has-been-a-general-striks

Video of the week: A trip to Barcelona

Hi everyone! I saw this video few days ago and I thought it would be nice for this blog. I hardly recommend you to try to listen the video without reading the translation. I think it's quite easy. Isn't it? After listening the video, what do you think about this man and what he says? Do you agree with him about next 25 of November? I hope you enjoy it. See you!!
A trip to Barcelona from Sharif on Vimeo.

Someday We'll All Be Free from Sharif on Vimeo.

Learn through mime

Hey guys.

Here you have two videos with the performance of David Armand. He calls his performs "Interpretative Dance" because he illustrates the lyrics through mime (in the second video the introducer said through the media/medium of ????, please leave a comment if you understand it) and two people have to guess the name of the song.

The first one is a classic Queen's song (I miss you, Freddy!) and I like how David "says":
feel alive,  don't stop me now, burning through the sky, way of Mars, real (he illustrates with reel) good time…
Note that he doesn't know how to illustrate "Mr. Fahrenheit" and he turns to the audience like saying "What it is supposed that I have to do know?", brilliant.

The second video is a Britney Spears's song. I like how he illustrates "Oh, baby" (life is simple!), to "bee"  and the "give a sign" part.
Note the accent of Lora when she said "I think I've got it"  oh I wish I could have it.

That's all, see you tomorrow. Enjoy the videos!

And now, Britney's song

Sandy has gone down the tall ship Bounty

The hurricane Sandy has gone down the tall ship Bounty and it has died Claudene Christian, the great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Christian Fletcher:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/156986-bounty-victim-was-mutineer-s-relative

Posted by David Mira.

 

Article of the week


Last week I saw " To Rome with Love" and I really enjoyed. It's a good film, funny, silly, a typical Woody Allen's film.



http://sonyclassics.com/toromewithlove/


Here you can read some rewiews:

  -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"TO ROME WITH LOVE has pleasures galore."

 -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"It's hard not fall under the movie's spell and indulge in some picturesque escapism."

 -Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
"Funny and silly and packed with crisscrossing story lines about love and desire played out by a terrific cast. Like a gracious host, Woody Allen sends us out of the theater with the sense that we've been to a really good party with people we'd like to see again and again."

 -Karen Durbin, ELLE
"So assured and Allen's plotting so intricate it's hard not to marvel at it. I marveled."



HAVE YOU SEEN THIS FILM? DID YOU LIKE IT?  COULD YOU ADD YOUR REVIEW?

Article of the week 29-10-12

A day such as the 16th of october but 44 years ago, something happened that changed the history of the Olympic Games, and has been observed also, like the clearest demonstration of condemnation about the United States  civil right politics. In the article, we can also find  how this fact is described  in the  history curriculum in the U.S schools. Nowadays it is useful to remember that little actions like these can change  things, althought Tommie Smith, Peter Norman and John Carlos had  to wait a few years to obtain their acknowledgement.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/169069/fists-freedom-olympic-story-not-taught-school#