SONG: FOREVER YOUNG _ALPHAVILLE AND ONE DIRECTION

Alphaville is a German synthpop group which gained popularity in the 1980s. The founding members were Marian Gold (real name "Hartwig Schierbaum", born 26 May 1954 in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia), Bernhard Lloyd (real name "Bernhard Gößling", born 6 June 1960 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia), and Frank Mertens (real name "Frank Sorgatz", born 26 October 1961 in Enger, North Rhine-Westphalia). The band was at first named "Forever Young" before changing to "Alphaville". They are best known for their three biggest hits, "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody" and "Forever Young".Wikipedia


 

And now a classic from the 80s performed by the band One Direction

  Which one do you prefer?

 


Liam: 
Let's dance in style, 
Let's dance for a while, 
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies, 
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst, 
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not? 

Harry: 
Let us die young or let us live forever, 
We don't have the power but we never say never, 
Sitting in a sandpit, 
Life is a short trip, 
The music's for the sad man. 

Todos: 
Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young, 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Forever young. 

Nial: 
Some are like water, some are like the heat, 
Some are like the melody of some other beat, 
But sooner or later they all will be gone, 
Why don't they stay young? 

Harry: 
It's hard to get old without a cause, 
I don't want to perish like a fading horse, 
It's like diamonds in the sun, 
And diamonds are forever. 

Todos: 
Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young, 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young (forever), 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Liam: 
So many adventures couldn't happen today, 
So many songs we forgot to play, 
So many dreams are swinging out of the blue, 
We let 'em come true. 

Harry, Louis y Liam: 
Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young, 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Todos: 
Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young (forever), 
Do you really want to live forever, 
Forever, 
Or never? 

Forever young, 
I wanna be, 
Forever young (forever), 
Do you really want to live forever (forever), 
Forever (forever), 
Forever young... 

FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER DIES

London, Apr 8 (EFE).- Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died from a stroke, her spokesman, Lord Bell, said Monday. She was 87.

"It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning," Lord Bell said.

Thatcher, known as the "Iron Lady" because of her tough leadership style, was the United Kingdom's first female prime minister.

The conservative former prime minister, who was in office from 1979 to 1990, introduced free-market reforms in Britain, privatizing state-owned companies and dismantling the socialist system implemented after World War II by the Labor Party.

Thatcher led Britain to victory over Argentina in the 1982 Falklands War.

The former prime minister, who entered politics in 1959 with her election to Parliament from Finchley, in London, had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and had a series of strokes in recent years.

Thatcher, born Margaret Hilda Roberts, had a meteoric rise in politics after being elected to Parliament, taking the leadership of the Conservative Party in 1975 from Prime Minister Edward Heath, who was in office from 1970 to 1974.

She led the Tories to victory in the 1979 general elections and again in 1983 and 1987.

Thatcher, who was born on Oct. 13, 1925, in the northern English city of Grantham, came from a middle class family.

 

DICTATIONS - WRITING PRACTICE FOR BEGGINING LEVEL LEARNERS

Each of the following dictations focuses on a specific learning point. The dictations are for beginning level learners and include five sentences in each dictation. Each sentence is read twice with time to write down the sentence.

Click on the dictation link to listen to the dictation and write or type the sentence down. Click on the answer link for the answers to each dictation.

I hope you enjoy the activity. Click on the image below to start:

TOO, ENOUGH, SO, SUCH

Too and Enough are used with adjectives and indicate degree. Here we have provide you the different usages of Too and Enough, So and Such.

This is too big for me!

A. Too means ‘more is necessary or desirable.’

1. To + adjective / adverb

Ex: This jumper’s too big. Can I try a smaller size?

2. Too much / Too many (+ noun)

Ex: I can’t eat this. There is too much salt in it.

Ex: There are too many people here. Let’s go outside.

3. Too + adverb / adjective (+ for + object) + infinitive

Ex: It’s too cold to play tennis today.

Ex: He spoke too quickly for me to understand him.

B. Enough means ‘as much as is necessary’

1. Adjective / Adverb + enough

Ex: Are you warm enough or shall I turn the heating on?

2. Enough + noun

Ex: We’ll have to stand because there aren’t enough chairs.

3. Enough (+ for + object) + infinitive with to

Ex: I haven’t got enough time to see you today.


EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4

So and such

These ‘intensifiers’ are used to give emphasis.

A. So is used before:

1. adjectives and adverbs without nouns.

Ex: I’m so tired. I’ll have to go to bed.

2. much, many, little, few

Ex: You shouldn’t eat so much, Jack.

B. Such is used with or without an adjective before:

1. singular countable nouns ( the indefinite article a/an is also needed).

Ex: She’s got such a wonderful voice.

2. uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns (the article is not needed).

Ex: Our neighbors are such friendly people.

C. So and such can both be used with a that clause to talk about the results or consequences.

Ex: It was such a boring place that we decided to leave.

Ex: It was raining so hard we had to stop the car.

EXERCISE 1
EXERCISE 2
EXERCISE 3
EXERCISE 4

PRACTICE MORE:

GRAMMAR AND EXERCISES

EXERCISE 5

EXERCISE 6

EXERCISE 7

CONDITIONALS - ZERO & FIRST CONDITIONALS

“If I eat two hamburgers, I will be full.” Conditionals in English grammar are very confusing!
 Learn what ‘First Conditionals’ and ‘Zero Conditionals’ are, when we use them, and how we use them correctly! I’ll also teach you the differences between them, so you’ll never confuse them again. 
When you watch it, you can do the quiz. Click on the image below. 

Did you understand it? 

yes, you did!

Now you can do the following exercises

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

And some games...

Game 1

Game 2

and ... Practice

To finish listen to the song Time after time by Cindy Lauper, one of my favourite singers.

I hope you enjoy it!

EASTER IN MALAGA

Easter in Malaga

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EIFFEL TOWER - 31st MARCH

Eiffel Tower  - 31 March 1889

The Eiffel Tower is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was completed on 31 March 1889 and took two years, two months, and five days to build Who designed the Eiffel Tower? Named after its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, Why was the Eiffel Tower built? The Eiffel Tower was built for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. How tall is the Eiffel Tower? The tower stands at 324 m (1,063 ft) tall, about the same height as an 81-story building. It was the tallest structure in the world from its completion until 1930, when it was eclipsed by the Chrysler Building in New York City. What is the Eiffel Tower made from? The Eiffel Tower is built of pure iron.

Holy Week Traditions (Easter) around the World

ANTONIO BANDERAS IS NAMED LEGIONARY KNIGHT OF HONOUR

The actor, Antonio Banderas, devotee of the Holy Week has been  named Legionary Knight of Honour after the Legion landing on the port of Malaga and the transfer of the Christ of the Good Death. 

LA LEGIÓN_ TRANSFER OF MENA 2013

WORLD THEATRE DAY - 27th MARCH

Created in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI), World Theatre Day is celebrated annually on March 27 by ITI Centers and the international theatre community. Various national and international theatre events are organized to mark this occasion, such as the creation and circulation of the World Theatre Day International Message through which, at the invitation of ITI, a figure of world stature shares his or her reflections on the theme of Theatre and a Culture of Peace. The author of this year's International Message will be Dario Fo.

Dario Fo, Italian satirist, playwright, theatre director, actor, composer and recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Read the message

WORLD WATER DAY - 22nd MARCH

World Water Day - 22 March

World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day.
Each year, World Water Day highlights a specific aspect of freshwater. In 2013, in reflection of the International Year of Water Cooperation, World Water Day is also dedicated to the theme of cooperation around water and is coordinated by UNESCO in collaboration with UNECE and UNDESA on behalf of UN-Water.

Read more on past World Water Day celebrations

SPRING EQUINOX - 20TH MARCH

As the Earth travels around the Sun in its orbit, the north to south position of the Sun changes over the course of the year due to the changing orientation of the Earth's tilted rotation axes. The dates of zero tilt of the Earth's equator correspond to the Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox.

What are Equinoxes?

Equinoxes occur when the axis of rotation of the earth (i.e. the line form the N to S poles) is exactly parallel to the direction of motion of the earth around the sun. This happens on just two days of the year, the spring and autumn equinoxes. This means that day length is exactly the same (12 hours) at all points on the earth's surface on these days (except right at each pole, where it will be about to change from permanent light to dark, or vice versa).

Where does the name Equinox come from?

The name is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because at the equinox the night and day are nearly equally long.

How many times a year does a Equinox occur?

Equinoxes occur twice a year.

The Spring Equinox

The Spring Equinox is the first day of spring season and occurs when the sun passes the equator moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The North Pole begins to lean toward the sun again.

Day and night have approximately the same length.

Spring Equinox is near 20 March.

The posh name for Spring Equinox is Vernal Equinox.

Did you know?

Equinoxes do not always occur on the same day each year, and generally will occur about 6 hours later each year, with a jump of a day (backwards) on leap years.

Why do the equinoxes not always occur on the same day each year?

The reason is due to the time the Earth takes to go around the Sun and our calendar.

The Earth takes approximately 365.25 days to go around the Sun, yet our year is 365 days. Every 4 years, we have a leap year where another day is added to our calendar to make up for the 4 missing quarters. It is important to do this so that there is not a gradual drift of date through the seasons.

For the same reason the precise time of the equinoxes are not the same each year.

POPE FRANCIS INAUGURATION MASS _ 19th March

Pope Francis has inaugurated his papacy at a Mass in Rome, calling on global leaders and all the people of the world to defend the poor and the weak.

The pope delighted the crowd when he arrived in an open-top popemobile and drove through the crowd, at one point getting out to kiss an ill or disabled man.

Up to 200,000 people attended the Mass in St Peter's Square in the Vatican.

His homily focused on protection - of the environment, children, the elderly and those in need, who he said were "often the last we think about".

Pope Francis, formerly Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio and now the first pontiff from the Americas, has since his election called for a "Church for the poor" and has struck an informal and spontaneous tone.

His chosen name, Francis, honours St Francis of Assisi, the 13th-Century son of an aristocrat who spurned a life of luxury to live with and for the poor.

Pope Francis' homily at the Mass began by focusing on Joseph and his role as protector - of Mary, Jesus and the Church.

Francis, 76, expanded the image, referring to Francis of Assisi and saying that the role of protector was not just a Christian one.