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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"Last Christmas" By Wham

LEARN ENGLISH WITH CHRISTMAS SONGS

This gap fill writing activity will help you to practise your English listening skills.
Click here to practise more songs.

Send A "Chatty Santa"

Type what you´d like Santa to say to a particular person, and Chatty Santa will say it.

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Last Christmas! Song

A music video by Wham! performimg Last Christmas

 A song chosen by students to sing along

Happy New Year 2011

Another year is over and a new one has just begun. I hope you had fun.

Look at what you have done and think what you want to do in the new one.

You can write a list of things you would like to improve, change or just do : New Year´s Resolutions.

Have a look at the list above in order to help you . BE HONEST!

The Digital Story Of The Nativity

Here is the digital story found in twitter. It shows the importance and speed of IT
(Information-Technology).So fun!

Christmas Songs

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE

Here are some lyrics for you to sing along .It is a good way to improve your pronunciation.

John Lennon: Happy Christmas (War is over).A song written by J.Lennon,released as a single in 1971.Although a protest song about the Vietnam War, it has become a Xmas standard and has appeared on several Christmas albums.


Mariah Carey: All I want for Christmas is You.It was released on November 1,1994.Its lyrics describe a woman´s declaration that she doesn´t care about Christmas presents or lights;all she desires is to spend time with her lover.

Shakin´Stevens: Merry Christmas Everyone.It is a popular festive song by the Welsh singer-songwriter Shakin´Stevens. It was a Christmas number one in 1985