My Students' poems

Last week I encouraged my students to write some lines in order to practice pronunciation and to learn by heart some English. I'm very proud of the results, here you are:

A painter painted a rose

A he also painted a woman 's toes

but the never could draw

A women's love

by Juan

Life is a waterfall

we're on in the river

and one again after

the fall

Because we are the ones that

want to play

always want to go

but you never want to stay

And we are the ones that want to choose

always want to play

but you never want to lose.

By: antonio

when i only rolled

down

my empty life

in brany aguny with a pinch of love

you came to light as dailylight

to my poor soul which died of love

BY: NELSON

I heard in the new twice

that you don't love me

even the dog in my house

looked at me doubtens

by: kiko

Continuation to Dicken's David Copperfield

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by
anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record
that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It
was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.

In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some
sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months
before there was any possibility of our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was
destined to be unlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts and spirits; both
these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, to all unlucky infants of either gender, born
towards the small hours on a Friday night.

Gloomy beginning. Twenty-four hours were at my mum's choice, twenty-four hours, each of them inevitably better than the following one, but no, doomed from the start, from the very beginning to a life full of mysteries. Had I been born to a different time, maybe I would have had a more promising future. I was not expected too much, nor was I condemned to get too much. Just born to attend the riveting mysteries of the common. The sketches of human sculpture. I was born to a world fed by human relations, of whatever kind, but human relations. Maybe it was not the time to leave the womb, too early, too fast, too cruel to be there. Born to a human world, our world? The one they had modeled for me. Welcome.

Fancy a Blood Mary?

I’ll tell you something interesting that I’ve just read. Do you know the origin of the Bloody Mary, the drink?
As you know the Bloody Mary is nowadays one of the drunkest cocktail all over the world. It is prepared by mixing vodka, tomato juice, pepper, lemon and Tabasco sauce. It is said to have its origins in Harry’s bar, in Paris, originally prepared just with tomato and vodka. The name of the cocktail was taken from Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII, broadly known as Mary the Tudor. She condemned all the religious reforms introduced by her father and re-submitted England to the Catholic Roman Church. She persecuted all the protestants and condemned 300 of them to death, that is why she was called “Bloody Mary.”

Nelson Mandela, an admirable example

I have to admit that I love this book. I’ve learnt so many useful things from this “singular” person that it will be probably very difficult to put into practice these 15 lessons in my own reality. However, I’m sure that some of them are going to be very useful to me.

I already knew that Mandela was special when I saw the performance of his character in the film Invictus, already at that time I admired that courageous man who never threw in the towel and always fought to get his core objectives.
One of the lesson that I admire the most is the second one called Be measured, in fact I remember the quotation “control is the measure of a leader”. IT is pretty unimaginable to me but at the same time riveting how a human being’s mind can perfectly control feelings under extreme pressure, as for example the moment when a plane is about to crash. Probably because I’m a person who usually shows her feelings spontaneously that I admire that quality in Mandela. Other lessons as learning to say no or see good things in others and not to judge them just at first glance are absolutely are also very worthy.

Despite all his great lessons on life, I would criticize something that I dislike about him, and it is the coldly manner with which he treats his family. It seems that Mandela is warm and affectionate with everyone but his wife and sons. I understand than in his youth he wanted to protect them and it was necessary to separate from them. However, after leaving prison it seems that the relationship between them weren’t much better, we could say that he loved more Richard’s child than his own. Maybe I haven’t understood his reasons or I haven’t been able to see them.

In my view this book is fairly acceptable and even enjoyable; and I would recommend it to everyone who wants to learn about real examples of admirable qualities in a human being.

Summary on Chomsky's speech

The uprising of democracy in the Arab world has burst in the Global design of US and its allies and has unleashed democracy revolts in other countries, as in Wisconsin. Popular forces around the world fight established power nowadays to strengthen elementary rights for the population.
However, the position of US is clear -all those countries implied in the oil world trade must accept its unquestioned power given to it by reward during the IIWW. The Grand Area has no option but to accomplish its enforced directions. This dominance is reinforced thanks to the US Army, which is entitled to act at will in the Grand Area to protect US security and livelihood at any time.
In recent years, this control is being questioned and even put in others’ hands. The capacity of US and its allies to implement their doctrine is declining as economy and industry take the economic power. Fund managers concentrate and manipulate political power and whereas they enrich themselves, most of the population suffers the market crisis.
As long as the population be in the hands of the powerful and lack democracy without any active reaction to global design, we could just contemplate the outcome.

send it on....Love&Peace

Hello everyone!

I've been thinking of some songs related to global issues and in fact many came up to my mind. I was about to show you some lyrics written by the great Black Eye Peas... but then I remembered a song that my students showed me last year. That's a nice song about love and peace and it is pretty suitable to work with young people if you have a look to the video, you will guess what I mean. ENJOY!

A word's just a word'Til you mean what you sayAnd love isn't love'Til you give it away
We've all gotta giveYes, something to giveTo make a change
Send it on, on and onJust one hand can heal anotherBe a part, reach a heartJust one spark starts a fire
With one little actionThe chain reaction will never stopMake it strongShine a light, and send it on
Just smile, and the world(Just smile, and the world)Will smile along with youThat small act of loveIs meant for one who will become two
If we take the chancesTo change circumstancesImagine all we can do
If we send it on, on and onJust one hand can heal anotherBe a part, reach a heartJust one spark starts a fire
With one little actionThe chain reaction will never stopMake it strongShine a light, and send it onSend it on, ooh, send it on
There's power in allOf the choices we makeSo I'm starting nowThere's not a moment to waste
A word's just word'Til you mean what you sayAnd love isn't love'Til you give it away
Send it on, on and onJust one hand can heal anotherBe a part, reach a heartJust one spark starts a fire
With one little actionThe chain reaction will never stopMake it strongShine a light, and send it on
Send it on, on and onJust one hand can heal anotherBe a part, reach a heartJust one spark starts a fire
With one little actionThe chain reaction will help things startMake it strongShine the light, and give it onShine the light, and send it onShine the light, and send it on

Terrible reality

Nowadays it seems almost impossible to think of a place where million lives are lost each day due to significant famine. However, it occurs more often than we may reckon, especially, and as the "Global Issues" site states, in East Africa.

While million hamburgers are through away each day in developed countries, millions of children die because the lack of rain and the rise of food prices. In Somalia, some basic food has raised 270% in the last year, as a result, most families can just eat once or least in a day.

It's absolutely shameful the way "we" are managing our WORLD. How can we be at peace with ourselves knowing these facts? Just have a look to these pictures and judge ...