HELLO, I LOVE YOU

Last 1st May I was listening to some of my favourite songs. Have a look at the video and give us your opinion. Do you like it?

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=x34wa2jehek

International Worker's Day

You don't have to work today, do you? Take advantatge of this holiday and listen to your favourite songs. You can practise karaoke. Here you've got one of my favourite ones both in English and Spanish:

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=kOGR9D6qyhM

WATER, AMARAL AND BOB DYLAN?

Water is one of the most natural necessary elements for the human being, and it seems we don't take care about it until there's an important lack of it. Next summer the ExpoZaragoza is taking place http://www.expozaragoza2008.es/. An international event in which water is the protagonist. The band Amaral has covered the song A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall by Bob Dylan for the occasion as the hymn of the event. Have you heard it?You can download it from the expo web.

CUÉNTAME UN CUENTO, Celtas Cortos

Do you remeber this song played by CELTAS CORTOS? (If you want to listen to it click on their official site CELTAS CORTOS) It talks about the tales we are told before going to bed. Sharing books is a great way to help our children learn to read and write and to make them become future readers as well. Sharing stories is a bridge between speaking and reading that begins in infancy and continues throughout childhood. Together, sharing books and sharing stories are powerful ways to encourage children’s emerging literacy. Would you like to read some stories together with your children? Visit the webpage The storyteller and the webquest CUENTAME UN CUENTO, you will find different stories to explain. Children will enjoy them for sure!!

SPRINGTIME & APRIL SONGS

Be creative. Imagine the music for these songs and sing them to your friends.

Springtime

A small green frog
On a big brown log;
A black and yellow bee
In a little green tree;
A red and yellow snake
By a blue-green lake,
All sat and listened
To red bird sing,
"Wake up, everybody,

It's spring! It's spring!"

April

The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.

Yet the backyards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree--
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me.

by Sare Teasdale

LISTEN TO THE BIRDS SINGING!

Springtime has just arrived. Relax, enjoy the weather and the landscapes and lay on the grass listening to the birds singing...

HAPPY EASTER!

EASTER TIME, COOKING TIME

Happy Easter everybody!
Are you relaxing these days?? You can use your time for reading, visiting relatives, dedicate time to the ones you live with, cooking... I heard... Cooking!!? OK! Show us how good you are in the kitchen. We offer you some ideas to make these days a bit sweeter.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipes/Holidays-and-Events/Easter/Main.aspx

http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Easter/EasterRecipes.html

I'M MUZZY!

Do you remember the monster who taught us English for the first time on TV??
I'm Muzzy! Big muzzy!
It was so funny! If you have kids or little brothers or sisters it would be a good idea for them to know this sweet character and all his friends.
You can practice with the BBC course. If you are interested in it pay a visit to:

www.dmpbbc.com/

Muzzy

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THE CHIKICHIKI GETS TO GREAT BRITAIN

If you thought Eurovision couldn't get any weirder, think again. Over 100,000 voters chose Rodolfo Chikilicuatre to represent Spain in the Eurovision contest. The singer, who is a character played by David Fernandez on the late night comedy show Buenafuente, sings very controversial lyrics that will likely be axed. The staging reminds us a low budget B movie. Have a look at the video and be prepared for the next summer song. It's worth listening to it!!!

Lyrics in Spanish, French and English

http://www.eurovision2008.rtve.es/letra.php

LEARN ENGLISH BY SINGING SONGS

You can watch the video while reading the songs lyrics. There are plenty to choose from. Here you've got a sample: Eternal flame by The Bangles, one of our favourite ones.

ETERNAL FLAME by Atomic Kitten / The Bangles
Close your eyes, give me your hand, darling.
Do you feel my heart beating? Do you understand?
Do you feel the same?
Am I only dreaming? Or is this burning An eternal flame?
I believe it's meant to be, darling.
I watch you when you are sleeping.
You belong to me. Do you feel the same?
Am I only dreaming? Or is this burning An eternal flame?
Say my name.
Sun shines through the rain Of all life, so lonely And come and ease the pain. I don't wanna lose this feeling.
Oh... Say my name.
Sun shines through the rain Of all life, so lonely And come and ease the pain.
I don't wanna lose this feeling.
Oh... Repeat first verse.

www.saberingles.com.ar/songs/index.html

ST PATRICK'S DAY

Today is Saint Patrick's Day

Let the Irish spirit come into your ears. Just relax and listen for five minutes!

FOGGY DEW

As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I
There Armed lines of marching men in squadrons passed me by
No pipes did hum nor battle drum did sound its loud tatoo
But the Angelus bell o'er the Liffey swell rang out in the foggy dew

Right proudly high over Dublin Town they hung out the flag of war
'Twas better to die 'neath an Irish sky than at Sulva or Sud El Bar
And from the plains of Royal Meath strong men came hurrying through
While Britannia's Huns, with their long range guns sailed in through the foggy dew

'Twas Britannia bade our Wild Geese go that small nations might be free
But their lonely graves are by Sulva's waves or the shore of the Great North Sea
Oh, had they died by Pearse's side or fought with Cathal Brugha
Their names we will keep where the fenians sleep 'neath the shroud of the foggy dew

But the bravest fell, and the requiem bell rang mournfully and clear
For those who died that Eastertide in the springing of the year
And the world did gaze, in deep amaze, at those fearless men, but few
Who bore the fight that freedom's light might shine through the foggy dew

Ah, back through the glen I rode again and my heart with grief was sore
For I parted then with valiant men whom I never shall see more
But to and fro in my dreams I go and I'd kneel and pray for you,
For slavery fled, O glorious dead, When you fell in the foggy dew.

SPECIAL SAINT PATRICK'S DAY

If you want to know more things about Saint Patrick's Day Songs, rhymes and activities visit this web.

http://www.songs4teachers.com/stpatsday.htm

Learn the songs before it's too late. Celebrate tomorrow Saint Patrick's Day singing along with your friends.

AN IRISH FESTIVITY

SAINT PATRICK'S DAY

Tomorrow is Saint Patrick's day. A great festivity in Ireland and around the world, because Irish have also travelled a lot . Lots of music and fun everywhere.
The Chicago River is dyed green each year for the St. Patrick's Day celebration! So cool!!
If you are Irish make a comment and let us know more things about your feelings on this day.

PAINT IN ENGLISH
Have a nice time telling your youngest students to draw different things. Give the instructions in English and let them paint!!

MÓNICA

BILINGUAL SONGS

Surfing the internet I've found a funny web in which you can listen to some samples of different songs a woman sings at the same time in English and Spanish. Useful material for both Spanish learning kids or English learning ones.
Have a look or better... open your ears!!

http://www.singyourwaytospanish.com/music.htm

EXPRESS YOURSELF

Would you like to write an opinion about a new band you have heard? About a new song you love?
THIS IS THE PLACE. Make a comment on any aspect related to music in English. Let us know about other blogs or interesting webs related to this topic. We are all ears!!
Have you ever heard about the seahorses?? great band in our opinion!

LYRICS

¿Quieres encontrar la letra en inglés de alguna de tus canciones favoritas? No dudes en visitar la página que te recomendamos. En ella podrás realizar la búsqueda por el nombre de la canción, del grupo o cantante o introduciendo alguna palabra que se encuentre en la letra de tu canción. ¡¡¡Anímate y aprende inglés cantando!!!
http://www.elyrics.net/

EL SONIDO DE MIS VIAJES

¿Qué lugar has visitado por última vez? ¿A qué sonaba?

A mucha gente le gusta pensar en los lugares que va a visitar cuando prepara sus viajes, en los exóticos platos que podrá degustar o en los paisajes que va a contemplar. Pero, y en la música que escuchará? El turismo musical no está demasiado extendido todavía.

Yo comencé a interesarme por él después de hacer una visita a la ciudad de Dublín. Por casualidad entramos en un pub donde, en una esquina, un hombre tocaba una guitarra acompañado de un violinista. Me quedé durante más de una hora escuchando sin moverme de una silla. Fue estupendo. A partir de entonces, cada vez que viajo a un lugar nuevo, intento acudir a una cita musical.

¿Por qué no nos explicas tus experiencias musicales en otros países? Seguro que hay muchísimas personas que están deseosas de escucharlas.

KARAOKE EN EL AULA

Es una suerte esto de internet, la verdad... ¿Cuántas canciones para niños podemos encontrar navegando de un lado para otro?
Si cada día contamos cuentos a nuestros pequeños en las aulas por qué no terminar también con una canción? ¡Los niños adoran las canciones!
Como os decimos, el otro día, navegando navegando nos encontramos con esta página web que es realmente interesante y divertida. ¿Queréis montar un karaoke en el aula y utilizar las nuevas tecnologías a la vez? Sólo necesitáis un ordenador, conexión a internet y... dejad que vuestros alumnos hagan el resto!

http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs.htm

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: THE BOSS

BRUCE TE ENSEÑA INGLÉS
CON TODA SU ALMA

Hace unos días nos levantamos con una grata noticia: el Papa está encantado con el poeta del alma estadounidense, Bruce Springsteen.
Nadie duda que Springsteen es una leyenda viva, pero obtener el beneplácito del Vaticano son palabras mayores. Aunque la figura de Bruce Springsteen dista de ser un prototipo del catolicismo, si tenemos en cuenta su trayectoria personal, parece ser que sus canciones tienen un trasfondo espiritual que ha llegado a encandilar a las figuras más influyentes de la Santa Sede.
Compruébalo tú mismo y practica tu inglés.
http://springsteenlyrics.com