ED SHEERAN'S "AUTUMN LEAVES", A SONG FOR THE NEW SEASON

Here's a song by Ed Sheeran for the new season that starts... Melacholic as autumn is...

"AUTUMN LEAVES", Ed Sheeran

[Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer songwriter, and producer. Born in Halifax, before moving to Framlingham. He learned to play guitar and started writing songs at a young age. He began recording in 2005 and moved to London in 2008 to pursue a music career. In 2009, inspired by James Morrison, he played 312 gigs.]

Another day another life
Passes by just like mine
It's not complicated

Another mind
Another soul
Another body to grow old
It's not complicated

Do you ever wonder if the stars shine out for you?
Float down
Like autumn leaves
Hush now
Close your eyes before the sleep
And you're miles away
And yesterday you were here with me

Another tear
Another cry
Another place for us to die
Its not complicated

Another life that's gone to waste
Another light lost from your face
It's complicated

Is it only wonder or do birds still sing for you?
Float down
Like autumn leaves
Hush now
Close your eyes before the sleep
And you're miles away
And yesterday you were here with me

Ooh how I miss you
My symphony places the song that carries you out
Ooh how I miss you
I miss you and I wish you'd stay

Is it any wonder that the stars shine out for you?
Float down
Like autumn leaves
Hush now
Close your eyes before the sleep
And you're miles away
And yesterday you were here with me

Float down
Like autumn leaves
Hush now
Close your eyes before the sleep
And you're miles away
And yesterday you were here with me

Ooh oh, ooh oh
Ooh oh, ooh oh

Touch down
Like a seven four seven
Stay out and we'll live forever now...

Audio "AUTUMN LEAVES", Ed Sheeran:



Lyrics | Ed Sheeran lyrics - Autumn Leaves lyrics

MALALA

 

 

On a previous post, we talked about the 1st International Day of the Girl Child promoted by the United Nations. Last Tuesday, October 9th, a 14-year-old Pakistani activist, Malala Yousafzai was shot by Taliban militants, in Mingora, the Swat valley area, North of the country, precisely for defending female education and when she was coming back home on the school bus.

Malala came to public attention three years ago with a blog-diary for BBC Urdu. During months, she detailed the abuses by Taliban's prohibition of girl's education under the sharia law in the areas they control.

She's now slowly recovering from her serious injuries at a Peshawar hospital and she has been taken to the United Kingdom to continue her recovery in a hospital which treats children with severe injuries. We hope she recovers completely and that she won't become a martyr for girl's education. Our best wishe for, Malala!

Link: MALALA, PORTAIT OF THE GIRL BLOGGER (BBC).

 

Video of Malala (one year ago):

 

Galician version of this post @ Arquivos do Trasno.



FELIX BAUMGARTNER: HIS STRATOSPHERIC RECORD-BREAKING SKYDIVE

 

After several delays due to weather conditions, this evening, 43-year-old Austrian, Felix Baumgartner has broken the record for the highest ever skydive by jumping out of a balloon 128.000 feet / 24 miles / 39 kilometres above New Mexico. A record-breaking freefall jump to become the first man to break the speed of sound in freefall (an estimated 690 miles / 1,110 kilometers per hour), while also obtaining valuable data for medical and scientific advancement.

 Officials say that Felix Baumgartner has become the first skydiver to break the speed of sound. Brian Utley of the International Federation of Sports Aviation announced that Baumgartner reached a maximum speed of 833.9 mph during his jump Sunday over the New Mexico desert.

It took just under 10 minutes for him to reach the desert surface below. Baumgartner says that traveling faster than sound is "hard to describe because you don't feel it." With no reference points, "you don't know how fast you travel".

More on Felix's jump here BBC. 

 

Video Freefall from the Edge of Space - Felix Baumgartner:

Video press-conference after jump:



1st INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD

Girls celebrate today, October 11th, their first international day as was declared by the United Nations at the end of 2011 to make visible the millions of girl children who live in a situation of vulnerability without access to education, condemning them to lifetime poverty. These girls are victims of abuse, slavery, lack of access to basic services and difficulties to attend school, play, enjoy and, in the end, be girls.

To conmemorate this day, different events will be held, such as the reading of a manifesto to promote a quality education for all the girls in the world and the lightening which will turn into pink iconic buildings throughout the world in support of girls' rights.

On the video below and joining the first celebration of this International Day of the Girl Child, the UN Executive Director, Michelle Bachelet, speaks to all the girls in the world.

Video International Day of the Girl Child: Michelle Bachelet:

Galician version of this post @ Arquivos do Trasno.

ENGLISH ONOMATOPOEIAS

It's seems that 1ºBAC students have been studying onomatopeias in Spanish today. Their Spanish language teacher has told them that they are different from one language to another.

An onomatopoeia or onomatopœia (from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία) is a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. 

Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as "oink" or "meow" or "roar" or "chirp". Onomatopoeias are not the same across all languages; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of; so the sound of a clock may be tick tock in English, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese.

Here we're enclosing links to lists of English onomatopoeias:

1) An alphabetical list of English onomatopeias.

2) Written sound: a website devoted to onomatopeias under different categories/topics (human, animal, music, explosions...)

3) Animal onomatopeias: organized from Spanish with equivalents in other languages as English.

4) List of animal and the sounds they make in English only.

5) Examples of onomatopeia words used in context.

6) A short dictionary of onomatopeias with definitions of each.

And to end a video with a song with some of the English onomatopeias...

Video ONOMATOPEIA:



Video 2:

VIDEO QUIZ: PINK PANTHER, "PINKNIC"

Once again, we're going to learn English with the help of the Pink Panther. Here's another video-quiz with her. Watch the video and later answer the questions that follow. Check how many you get right.



THE BEATLES 50 YEARS AGO TODAY, WHEN IT ALL BEGAN

 

 

It all started 50 years ago today. The Beatles' first single "LOVE ME DO" was released 50 years ago, nobody knew then it would be the group that would change music and culture.

On the 5th of October of 1962, the Beatles released their first single on the Parlaphone label. It wasn't even a hit, it only reached nº17 on the charts. They never really even liked the song much. McCartney wrote it when he was only 16, but it's the song which started the legend... Since then nothing has been the same...

 

Video "LOVE ME DO", The Beatles(+Spanish subtitles):

 Galician version of this post @ Arquivos do Trasno.



WORLD TEACHER'S DAY 2012

VOCABULARY TO DESCRIBE PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE & PERSONALITY

We've been learning and practicing vocabulary to describe people in class. Adjectives to describe appearance & personality-character and also clothes. Here are the pictures and texts used on the screen in class if you want to revise.

1) Above the pictures of people. Read below the descriptions and match each with the correct person.

a) He's in his 20s. He's tall and well-built with curly brown hair. He's got a beard and a moustache.

b) He looks about 50. He's short and a bit overweight. He's bald.

c) She's a teenager. She's slim and medium-height. She's got shoulder-length hair and a fringe.

d) She's in her 40s. She's quite tall and thin. She's got grey hair and it's short and straight. She wears glasses.

Link to more on DESCRIBING IN ENGLISH.

2) The exercises with the adjectives that describe personality.



Images taken from "English File", OUP.

How to order adjectives if there are several:

Here a video with vocabulary:





POLL: WHAT DO YOU LIKE ABOUT GOING BACK TO SCHOOL?

We start with a first poll about your opinion on starting school again. Vote!

What do you like about going back to school?
	Meeting my friends again
	Meeting new friends
	Learning new things
	Meeting the teachers again
	Meeting new teachers
	The new books
	I don't like going back to school
pollcode.com free polls

BACK TO SCHOOL (FROM DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW)

To start off our second week, here's a picture that shows, very expressively, how going back to school can been seen from different points of view...

- a girl from Primary schools seems to go very happily laughing and jumping.

- a toddler doesn't seem to like his first day at nursery school very much and cries.

- a Secondary school student isn't happy at all and grumbles about it.

- a College student seems to be tired before he even starts because of all the work he has to do.

- and finally a mum goes wild because she doesn't have to cope with her children at home.

A CHINESE PROVERB

Here's a Chinese proverb so you can reflect about before you begin school...

HUMOUR: BACK TO SCHOOL WILL NEVER BE THE SAME WITH TWITTER

WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL & TO THIS BLOG. 2012-2013

 

Today's the first day of the 2012-2013 school year. Once again we open up this blog to give students opportunities to keep in touch with English in context.

This course, I'll be teaching 2nd ESO and 1st BAC, so many entries will have focus on them, but you know that the blog is open to everybody.

So welcome back to school and to this blog, hope eveything goes well for you all.

9/11, ELEVEN YEARS AGO

Today's the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attack on NY Twin Towers.

ACADEMIC COURSE 2012-2013

SCHOOL'S OUT FOR THE SUMMER. (End of 2011-2012 school year)

Once again another school year has finished and we're about to start our summer holidays. It's the third time we end a school year from clickonenglish. We're closing down during summer, too. But we'll be back in September to bring English to you, but you can continue visiting us during the holidays if you want to keep on practicing. There's plenty of things here and links to other sites.

Enjoy your holidays!

THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II DIAMOND JUBILEE

Throughout this weekend and until nest Tuesday, the United Kingdom has been celebrating the Diamond Jubilee: Elizabeth II's 60 years as Queen of the United Kingdom. To commemorate we're enclosing a link to an interactive timeline of her reign from 1952 to 2012 and videoS of her biography as Queen and the Jubilee celebrations along the river Thames in London this afternoon.

Video "THE QUEEN'S DIAMOND JUBILEE: 60 YEARS IN VIDEO":

MORE ABOUT THE ANCIENT & THE LONDON OLYMPIC GAMES...

As the 2012 Olympic Games are approaching, today there's another post with lots of Olympic information and trivia. To begin with, a video with the London Olympic Games in numbers...

Video "THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN NUMBERS" by the BBC:

To continue, click, and you can learn more about the Ancient Olympic Games.

Practice vocabulary related with all time Olympic Games sports.

All the information about it at the London Olympic Games official website.

Play games with the 2012 London Olympic Games mascots: Wenlock & Mandeville.

THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE'S 75 YEARS

The well-known Golden Gate Bridge in the San Francisco Bay is 75 years old. Here's some information about it:

Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, the structure links the city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County. It is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the modern Wonders of the World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The Frommers travel guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world". [Wikipedia]

Video "THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE TURNS 75":