Amy Winehouse

From the BBC 

Tributes to the late singer Amy Winehouse are still being paid by artists, friends and family around the world. The Back To Black star was found dead at her north London home on Saturday.

 

• Download  a PDFcopy  from Breaking News English.
• Read and do the exercises.
• Now listen to the podcast.


• Back To Black, one of her best songs .Filling in the gaps exercise. Click here to listen  and I´ll give you the worksheets in the class.

      

Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week 2011 is the thirtieth annual celebration of the freedom to read.
They celebrate this week to draw attention  towards the problem of censorship

Since the inception of Banned Books Week in 1982, libraries and bookstores throughout the country have staged local read-outs as part of their activities. This year, for the first time, readers from around the world will be able to participate virtually in Banned Books Week, Sept. 24 – Oct.1. During this year’s celebration of Banned Books Week, readers will be able to proclaim the virtues of their favorite banned books by posting videos of themselves reading excerpts to a dedicated YouTube channel.

Since the beginning in 1982, the campaign against Banned Books has grown .

In the photo below Sally Wendkos Olds stands in front of the window on April 1, 1982 at Brentano's Book Store on Fifth Avenue across from Rockefeller Center in New York City. 

Click here in case you want to know more and to watch a video with Sally Shanon reading from The Kite Runner,which I recommend everydody.This book was challenged (attempt to ban it)
because a rape is described in detail and the language is vulgar.

Download a PDF copy for more information

Listen to a man reading from Alvin Schwartz´s Scary Stories.

 For further information click on this web

Reading Skills

SKIMMING         SCANNING        READING IN DETAIL

Scanning is a technique to search for key words or ideas. In most cases, you know what you're looking for, so you're concentrating on finding a particular answer. Scanning involves moving your eyes quickly down the page seeking specific words and phrases.

Skimming means to read something quickly so as to note only the important points. Get a general idea.

Reading in detail ? Answer the question by watching this video

E-Mail Writing

Emailing has become the main means of communication. Although it is not as formal as writing a letter, it is important to know the conventions of this style of writing

• Click here to download a PDF fomat with the dos and don´ts conventions
• More material here about how to write an e-mail and shows the right language to use.
  

Listen to this beautiful song: E-mail My Heart by Britney Spears and read the lyrics

It's been hours seems like days, since you went away,
And all I do is check the screen to see if you're ok.
You don't answer when I phone, guess you wanna be left alone.
So I'm sending my heart, my soul, and this is what I'll say:

[CHORUS]
I'm sorry, oh so sorry, can't you give me one more chance to make it all up to you.
E-mail my heart and say our love will never die
and that I know you're out there and I know that you still care.
Email me back and say our love will stay alive.
Forever, Email my heart.

Whoa
I can see you in my mind, coming on the line
And opening this letter that I've sent a hundred times.
Here's a picture of us two, I look so good on you
and can't you please forgive me for the hurt I put you through.

[Repeat CHORUS]

I'm sorry, oh so sorry, can't you give me one more chance to make it all up to (you).

E-mail my heart and say our love will never die
and that I know you're out there and I know that you still care
(I know that you still care...)
Email me back and say our love will stay alive
Forever (Won't ya say, Won't ya say)
Forever, Forever
Email my heart

Watch this video from the movie "You´ve Got Mail" 

5 Ways To Listen Better by Julian Treasure

Julian Treasure studies sound and advises businesses on how best to use it. He asks us to pay attention to the sounds that surrounds us .

 Listening is access to understanding . Conscious listening  always creates understanding.

• According to Julian Treasures, we are losing our listening. There are a lot of reasons for this.

• Listen to his talk and write the ones you understand.

• After that, he says he would like to share with us five simple exercises, tools we can take away with us,to improve our own conscious listening. So, he invites us to do so.

DO or MAKE

do make

 More PowerPoint presentations from dulce rosales

More practice in the following links:

• Exercise 1
• Exerscise 2
• Exercise 3 pdf      

 The Rubettes- Sugar Baby Love 

The Rubettes were an English pop band of the 1970s assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, the then head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts. The band duly emerged at the tail end of the glam rock movement, wearing white suits and cloth caps on stage.

Sugar baby love, sugar baby love
I didn't make to make you blue
Sugar baby love, sugar baby love
I didn't mean to hurt you.

All lovers make
Make the same mistakes
Yes they do
Yes, all lovers make

Make the same mistakes
As me and you
Sugar baby love, sugar baby love
I didn't make to make you blue

Sugar baby love, sugar baby love
I didn't mean to hurt you.
People take my advice
If you love somebody

Don't think twice.
Love you baby love, sugar baby love
Love her anyway, love her everyday

Cambridge Exams in December

• Those who are thinking of taking the FIRST or CAE in December can go to the school office.

• Remember to go as soon as possible, the last day is October 11th.

• And you will be informed of the dates later on.