martes, 9 de septiembre de 2008
lunes, 8 de septiembre de 2008
viernes, 9 de noviembre de 2007
Poema de Tirania a el ponche de los deseos
que con tus poderes
has cambiado mi suerte
cumpleme otro deseo y te lo agradecere por siempre
Poema de Jacobo a su amor "El Ponche de los Deseos"
que por fin te he encontrado
con tu pelaje dorado
he quedado enamorado
viernes, 2 de noviembre de 2007
lunes, 1 de octubre de 2007
My winter holidays.
by Brian Casabe
MY LAST WINTER HOLIDAY
viernes, 7 de septiembre de 2007
jueves, 6 de septiembre de 2007
My last winter holidays
In my winter holidays I went to
I walked in many places, that were very nice: Times Quare,
I went to see two shows, Mary Poppins and Mamma Mia, that were excellent!
I new some places there and I bought some things.
I went to the Momma museum and to the
When I came back to
I had an excellent winter holidays
MELU
jueves, 30 de agosto de 2007
My last winter holidays.
miércoles, 29 de agosto de 2007
MY LAST WINTER HOLIDAYS
ANDREW
jueves, 23 de agosto de 2007
Johnny Depp`s films
Be ready!! Watch these trails of different films starred By Johhny Depp.
Now the challenge is........
Do you the names of the films shown in this video? By the way... You must list the names of the films in ENGLISH, dudes!!!
miércoles, 22 de agosto de 2007
MY WINTER HOLIDAYS
THE MOST I ENJOYED IN DISNEY WAS MAGIC KINGDOM, SPLASH MOUNTAIN.I WAS VERY SCARED.THE HOTEL WAS FANTASTIC.HAD TWO SWIMMING-POOLs AND VIEW OF MAGICK KINGDOM.
IN MIAMI I LIKED THE SEA AND SUN.I WENT TO THE ORANGE BOWL TO SEE BOCA JUNIORS.IT WAS FANTASTIC TOO.
martes, 21 de agosto de 2007
viernes, 17 de agosto de 2007
A good laugh in time.....
jueves, 9 de agosto de 2007
Roald Dahl: Childhood
YES, IT IS TRUE!!! READ AND YOU WILL FIND OUT!!!! This is the reason why he was so fond of chocolates
Roald Dahl was born September 13, 1916, in Llandaff, South Wales. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in southwest England and went on to attend Repton, a prestigious boarding school near Derby. One of his most vivid memories of his Repton years concerns the testing of chocolate bars. Cadbury, a famous chocolate manufacturer, would occasionally give the students some new types of chocolate bars and ask the students to rate them. While he was performing this pleasant task, Dahl would fantasize about working in the lab where these chocolates were invented. He had no idea, though, that he would one day base a book on these daydreams
miércoles, 8 de agosto de 2007
Charlie and the chocolate factory- Original song
Now be ready to listen to Willy Wonka`s catchy song. Have you ever listened to it? Bet you have dudes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka, the __________ chocolatier.
Billy Wonka, Willy Wonka, _________ give a cheer!
He's _______, clever, and so _______, he barely can restrain it
With so much ____________, there is no way to contain it
To contain it, to contain, to contain, to contain
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka, he's the _______ that you're about to meet
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka, he's a genius who just can't be beat
The magician and the chocolate wiz
He's the best darn guy who ever lived
Willy Wonka here he is!
domingo, 5 de agosto de 2007
FRIENDSHIP IS GOOD NEWS!!!
I want to share with you some beautiful things to say to your friends.
" Gee, it's always bright and sunny whenever you're around!"
"Life has lots of ups and downs and I'm glad there's you to help smooth them out!"
"The cure that really works for me is having you around!"
"You are more fun than a barrel of monkeys!"
"But you know all the right moves when it comes to being nice!"
"Gee, I'm sure glad you are not allergic to me!"
"Yes, there's all kinds of news items- large ones and small, but a good friend like you is the best news of all!"
Can you think of any other ? Come on, don' t be shy and share them with us!!!
jueves, 26 de julio de 2007
Here I am at last! Now we can start working together! Nice couple, isn't it!
I'm sure we'll have fun with our kids!
Alejandra
How nice having you finally here. My students and I want to give a heartfelt welcome to yours.
Hope you enjoy our activities. Let`s see who can contribute the coolest things to our shared blog.
WELCOME ABOARD!!!
Claudia
viernes, 20 de julio de 2007
Happy winter holidays
Enjoy this holiday and pluck up courage to face the rest of the school year.
What a challenge, isn`t it???
See you back in two weeks. Make the most of it and come back with renewed enthusiasm.
Your English teacher.
Note: By the way, I am fairly satisfied with your last test. If you try harder, imagine what you will be able to write by the end of the year!
Anyway... Do write to me to tell me about what your adventures during your winter holidays. I`ll be looking forward to it.....
sábado, 14 de julio de 2007
Roald Dahl : Quizz answers.
In 1939, it became clear to Dahl that something big was coming. It was World War II. Soon all the Englishmen in the territory were rounded up and transformed into temporary soldiers, responsible for containing the German population. This experience prompted Dahl to formally join the RAF (Royal Air Force) and learn to fly warplanes. Thus in November 1939 he drove cross–country to Nairobi to enlist and was awarded with the rank of Leading Aircraftman (LAC). After eight weeks of basic training and six months of advanced flying instruction, the RAF deemed him ready for battle.
Unfortunately Dahl's very first venture into combat territory resulted in his famous 1940 crash in the Libyan desert. He was flying an unfamiliar airplane (a Gladiator) and was supposed to join 80 Squadron in the Western Desert. Unfortunately the co–ordinates he was given were incorrect, and he suddenly found himself losing both daylight and fuel in the middle of nowhere. He was forced to attempt a crash landing, praying for luck that he didn't get. His undercarriage hit a boulder and the nose of the Gladiator slammed into the sand at over 75 miles an hour. Dahl's head struck the reflector–sight and fractured his skull, pushing his nose in and blinding him for days. He managed to pull himself from the burning wreckage, though, and was later rescued by three brave soldiers from the Suffolk regiment. After convalescing for months in various army hospitals, Dahl was finally deemed fit to resume flying duties again in the spring of 1941.
80 Squadron was now engaged in the tragic RAF campaign in Greece, and after rejoining them Dahl was soon thrust into the desperate routine of trying to stay alive. On his first trip up, he encountered six Ju 88's (enemy planes) and managed to shoot one of them down. The next day he shot down another over Khalkis Bay. His victory was short–lived, though, as the German Messerschmitt fighters swarmed down upon him and he barely made it back to the base alive. Over the next four days he went up twelve more times, fighting against incredible odds and miraculously making it back to base each time. On the 20th of April the Germans discovered the camp and ground–strafed it, but luckily they didn't hit any of the seven remaining aircraft. Dahl and the other man in 80 Squadron fought bravely for many more months, and their battles are described at length in Going Solo. Dahl was not fated to remain with them for long though, and when he began to get blinding headaches (from his earlier accident) he was invalided back home to Britain. His career in the RAF was over.
Thus, in 1941, Roald Dahl went home to England. He wasn't there for long, though. Through his friendship with artist Matthew Smith, he became acquainted with some very important men in the British government. Dahl was a cultivated, forceful young injured pilot who seemed able to talk about anything. It wasn't long before he was shipped off to the United States to help with the British War Effort as "assistant air attache." [see note]
One of Dahl's first duties in America was to get close to as many well–placed people as possible. Newspaper–owner Charles Marsh was one of these, and he and Dahl struck up an immediate friendship. Another duty was to help create a kind of British propaganda to keep America interested in the war and sympathetic to Britain's effort. Famous English author C.S. Forester asked Dahl to tell him his own story, so that he could write it up. Dahl thought it easier to put something on paper himself, and the result was so good that Forester decided not to change a thing. The finished story appeared anonymously in The Saturday Evening Post in August 1942 under the title "Shot Down Over Libya."
The story was introduced as a "factual report on Libyan air fighting" by an unnamed RAF pilot "at present in this country for medical reasons." Of course, the "factual" part might have been a little bit of a stretch. As mentioned previously, Dahl's crash was actually caused by lack of fuel and wrong directions, not from any enemy shooting. Much later, when this discrepancy was pointed out to him, Dahl claimed that the story had been edited and misleadingly captioned by magazine editors looking for a more dramatic tale.
As time passed and Dahl became more popular among Washington's rich and famous, he became known for the wild yarns he would spin about his RAF adventures. He even wrote a story called "Gremlin Lore" about the mythical creatures that supposedly sabotaged RAF planes. Since he was a serving officer, Dahl was required to submit everything he wrote for approval by British Information Services. The officer who read it, Sidney Bernstein, decided to pass it along to his good friend Walt Disney, who was looking for War–related features for his fledgling film company. Disney decided to turn Dahl's story into an animated feature called The Gremlins.
Problems immediately began to surface with the project. What did Gremlins look like? How could Disney copyright a name already known (and invented) by countless RAF pilots? Should the film be satirical or purely fantastic? Beyond these concerns, audience enthusiasm for the film began to wane as the War dragged on. Ultimately the project was scrapped, though Disney did put together a picture book in 1943 entitled Walt Disney: The Gremlins (A Royal Air Force Story by Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl). This book, published by Random House in the United States and by Collins in Australia and Great Britain, is extremely rare and is considered a prize by any serious Dahl collector. It was his first book.
Dahl's wife:
Patricia Neal was born in Packard, Kentucky on January 20, 1926. Her father was a manager for the Southern Coal and Coke Company, and though the family was not sophisticated, they were comfortably well off. Neal's theatrical ambitions were evident early in her school career, and she later enjoyed a measure of success at Northwestern University. After her father's early death, Neal left to pursue life as an actress in New York. "Before she was twenty–one, she had been taken to lunch by Richard Rodgers, pursued by David O. Selznick, had turned down one Broadway role in favor of another, and had made the cover of Life" (Treglown, 111).
Patricia Neal's most scandalous claim to fame, however, was her long affair with Gary Cooper, her co–star from The Fountainhead (King Vidor, 1949). The affair with Cooper began two years earlier, in 1947, and by 1950 Cooper's wife had found out and joined the battle. On one occasion, Treglown reports, Neal received the following telegram: "I HAVE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH OF YOU. YOU HAD BETTER STOP NOW OR YOU WILL BE SORRY. MRS. GARY COOPER." Eventually Mrs. Cooper got her way, but not before her husband had made Pat pregnant and persuaded her to have an abortion. Guilty and scared, Neal called off the relationship.
After this trying period, Neal won a part in The Children's Hour, a new play by Lillian Hellman. It was at one of Hellman's dinner parties in 1951 that she first met the newly relocated author Roald Dahl. He had become quite a favorite amongst the New York elite, and he loved to shock and scorn unsuspecting newcomers with his wit and sarcasm. When he found himself seated next to the beautiful (and ten years his junior) rising star Patricia Neal, his tactic was to ignore her all evening. It wasn't long, though, before the two of them were going out together on a regular basis.
Dahl was also enjoying a measure of commercial success now as well. The sixty–year–old publisher Alfred Knopf had recently discovered some of Dahl's short stories and was eager to sign him to a deal. The collection Dahl later delivered in 1953 included such tales as "Taste," "My Lady Love, My Dove," "Skin," and "Dip in the Pool." Also included were four country stories gathered under the sub–title "Claud's Dog." The resulting book was entitled Someone Like You and received some very good reviews: "At disconcertingly long intervals, the compleat short–story writer comes along... Tension is his business; give him a surprise denouement, he'll give you a story leading up to it. His name in this instance is Roald Dahl" (James Kelly, quoted in Treglown, 119).
The publicity department at Knopf soon had even more to work with: Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal were married on July 2, 1953 at Trinity Church in New York.
jueves, 12 de julio de 2007
Rohal dahl
रोअल DAHL
Looking for a good book? A good friend of mine has written a book for children called Mama Cat: A Cat Tale. It's a great story about a kitty named Eames with lots of pictures. You can order it at Amazon.com. I recommend it!
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martes, 12 de junio de 2007
Congrats!
Congratulations on your blog. It's interesting and fun, and it includes useful information.
I hope you start feeling better soon!
Love,
Vanesa
martes, 5 de junio de 2007
lunes, 14 de mayo de 2007
THE GIVE-IT-A-THOUGHT CORNER
martes, 8 de mayo de 2007
Roald Dahl`s life through photographs
lunes, 7 de mayo de 2007
Roal Dahl: the greatest children`s writer ever
http://www.roalddahlfans.com
Find out about Roald Dahl's early life, and all the mischief he got up to as a young boy.
Find out how he managed to get his nose sliced off, and how testing chocolate bars for Cadbury's inspired him to write Charlie and the Chocolate Factory many years later.
Find out how he became a war hero, flying with the RAF, narrowly escaping death when his plane crashed.
domingo, 6 de mayo de 2007
sábado, 5 de mayo de 2007
My profile
I`m really very excited to be your teacher in this your first year at ORT. Hope we`ll have a most fruitful experience. I have been teaching English for many years. When I was your age, I already used to fancy myself as a teacher. I love speaking foreign languages for they have allowed me to meet different people and learn the most incredible things while studying abroad.I speak English as a first language and Italian as well, though it is not as good as my English. As you see, I know how it feels to learn another language from scratch.
I have many interests, mainly artistic. I have sung in a choir for more than ten years. We have to sing in many different languages.
Speaking English helps a lot!!!
I love going to rock concerts. You know, my eldest son is a musician. And my daughter loves painting. As you see the artistic streak runs in the family....
What groups do you like best?? From Argentina or any other country?
I am very keen on Pink Floyd, U2, Sting, Joan Armatrading among many others.I also like Bersuit, La Renga and Divididos. Now it is your turn!! Come on!!! I`ll be looking for you comments!!!!
Feel free to send any questions if you please.
Having a good time while learning!
Do you like the picture?? It's me on my trip to New York.This is a picture of Times Square. I went there last year and I really had a good time. I visited many interesting places and I spoke English all the time.
I travelled by underground , I went to the theatre and enjoyed watching excellent plays such as "The Phantom of the Opera"·
What about you? Have you ever been abroad? What's the most interesting place you've been to?
Where would you like to go? Why?