Film:"The Lost Weekend"

THE LOST WEEKEND

It is a 1945 American drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman.
The film is about a writer who drinks heavily.The desperate life of a hopeless alcoholic.
His brother Wick and girlfriend Helen planned a weekend in the country for him but he evaded , so he started drinking again.
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QUESTIONS

1. How did he do at school?
2. Was he a good student?
3. Do you know whe he started writing?
4. When and how did he meet Helen?
5. How did he feel whe he overheard the conversation of Helen´s parents in The Hotel?
6. What was the Nat´s Bar for him?
7. How far did he walk on a Sunday morning to sell his typewriter?
8. What kind of hospital was he sent to?
9. Describe the people who really wanted to help him
10. What is your opinion of the end of the film? Did you like it or not?

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY

On January 27 each year, the United Nations (UN) remembers the Holocaust that affected many people of Jewish origin during World War II.
This day is called the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust.
The day also commemorates when the Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on January 27, 1945. It is hoped that through remembering these events, people will remember the Holocaust and prevent genocide.
Read more here

Watch these videos.
The first video from the BBC
"The millions of Jews and others killed during the Holocaust are to be remembered in services across the UK, as part of Holocaust Memorial Day".

English lesson plan on Holocaust Remembrance Day. 

• Reading
• Listening
• Phrase Match
• Multiple choice
  

Foter: A Great Tool To Add Photos

An Easy And FaST  Way To Add Photos

Foter.com allows you to search, manage and add free stock photos to blogs, forums, websites and other online media. We host over 190 million free Creative Commons images from many online sources and the entire system is also available as a WordPress plugin for seamless use within the WordPress platform.
Searching for photos and inserting them into blog posts or articles is designed to be very fast and convenient. Just search for images by keywords and grab the embed code to insert them into your blog. The embed code contains all necessary CC attribution, that are mandatory to include, so you don’t need to contribute authors manually.



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Multiple Choice Reading Exercise

Snow Melting on Mount Kilimanjaro   

By Cynthia Kirk

Broadcast: November 15, 2002

This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT.

A new study says ancient snow on top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone in about twenty years. Huge layers of ice formed on the African mountain during a wet period about eleven-thousand years ago. But scientists say the ice on top of the mountain is melting because of rising temperatures in recent years.

Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio led the study. It was published in Science magazine. The scientists used maps, modern navigational satellites and markers placed on the mountain to measure the ice. They found that the ice on Mount Kilimanjaro has shrunk from about twelve square kilometers in nineteen-twelve to about two square kilometers today. That is about an eighty percent reduction in the ice. Scientists say the ice will be gone by two-thousand-twenty if it continues to melt at its current rate.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa. It is almost five-thousand-nine-hundred meters high. The top part of the mountain is covered with snow. The mountain rises above flat land, called the savannah. The land is home to many different kinds of animals.

Many stories have been written about the famous mountain. The most famous is Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Some ancient beliefs in Africa consider the mountain to be a holy place.

About twenty-thousand people visit Mount Kilimanjaro every year to see the famous snow-topped mountain. It even has its own international airport. The government of Tanzania fears that the melting ice will affect tourism and weaken the economy. The decreasing ice already has reduced the amount of water flowing from the mountain to some Tanzanian rivers. Water from the mountain supplies many villages.

The scientists are working to save pieces of the shrinking ice for more study. The frozen layers tell about Africa's weather in ancient times. The ice also provides information about the world's climate. Experts say other ice glaciers around the world are melting because of climate change caused by human activities. But they say natural climate change could be the cause of Mount Kilimanjaro's problems.

This VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT was written by Cynthia Kirk.

 Multiple-choice exercise  http://www.englishcorner.vacau.com/reading/kilimanjaro.html
Click here to do a gap filling exercise

How To Focus In The age of Distraction

How To Focus In The Age of Distraction 
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• Distraction:a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. So.... 
•  What do you do when you have to study?

•  Do you find a cozy nook, cuddle up with a book or tablet, and concentrate?

•  What about checking your e-mail? Answering your phone? Talking to friends? 

•  It’s not easy to concentrate these days.

If.........2nd Conditional

If... 2nd conditional from David Mainwood

What would you do if you stumbled across a bag containing just over half a million dollars?

Go to this link  The EFL SMARTblog: The very honest Austrian bus driver .

Predictions For The future

Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years

bbc.com | Jan 2nd 2013 
 
As we begin a new year, BBC Future has compiled 40 intriguing predictions made by scientists, politicians, journalists, bloggers and other assorted pundits in recent years about the shape of the world from 2013 to 2150.
They range from the serious to the fanciful, from the exciting to the petrifying.
And to get a gauge on how likely they are to happen, we asked the special bets department at British betting firm Ladbrokes to give us their odds on each prediction coming true.
What have we missed? What else would you have liked to have seen in this graphic? Let us know on our Facebook page or message us on Twitter.

By using this image you can make your prections for the future.

Blogging Is For Everyone

TOP 10 DON´TS FOR WANNABE TEACHER BLOGGERS

www.guardia.co.uk/teacher-network

Blogger, head and physics teacher Tom Sherrington offers his tips and guidance for getting into blogging.

"Back in May I started writing a blog more or less at the same time as I began to engage with Twitter for professional purposes. My first steps were tentative, but quite quickly I found that writing bits and pieces about my school, my lessons and my views on education was hugely rewarding".Read more

Top 10 don´ts when starting your blog:

• Don´t worry too much about who will read it to begin with; .....
• Don´t be put off by the technical aspect; ........
• Don´t forget to tag each blog with keywords;.....

   Go on reading, I am sure you will agree with him.
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Happy New Year!- Read, Listen and Learn English

 

 Happy New Year !

"Around the world, people celebrate the new year in some strange ways. Read how they celebrate in Scotland, Denmark, South America and Italy".

How do you celebrate in your country?

Listen and do the takeaway test: Happy New Year.

If you click on the link below, you vwill see a video.

Holiday Celebrations: How to Make a New Year´s Resolution.

New Year´s Resolutions

It’s time to set goals for the coming year, and a psychologist has some hints for helping you to make those changes last.
John Norcross, a professor of psychology at the University of Scranton, is one of the world’s leading experts on how people change addictive behaviors. Over the past 30 years, he and his colleagues have studied people who successfully quit smoking, cut back or quit heavy drinking, lost weight or started exercising regularly — including those whose lasting change began with a resolution to start on Jan. 1. He outlined some of his strategies in his new book, Changeology, and discussed how to make resolutions work.

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/28/how-to-make-new-years-resolutions-stick-qa-with-expert-on-change/#ixzz2GqmSXkY2

 

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