World War I

Some visual aids to help us with the subject:

Older posts on the subject: War Poets and the relation with the War (audio of poems)

UK, Great Britain et all: Easily confused terms

This Venn diagramme explains the differences as well.Click on the image to enlarge

And last but not least, a video explaining the differences...

And to be updated, another view on the monarchy and  the Royal Family, here. If you have any comments on this, you`re welcome!!!!

http://blog.cgpgrey.com/

High and Low

Watch this video on differences between High and Low Culture and in view of what you have read, make a comment.

Presentation Skills

Material for our classes: assignments in our subject will be written and oral.

When you are giving a presentation, you usually talk in front of a group of people in a clear, structured way (about a certain topic). Presentations are a very useful tool for teachers to make students develop different skills and study strategies.

How to succeed in giving presentations?

Must-remember tips:

• Before the presentation, be sure you have all your materials ready.
• Introduce yourself and the topic of your presentation. The audience needs to know who is talking and what is he/she talking about.
• Be ready not to read all the time, people will get bored!
• Keep the presentation simple, giving new and significant content. Remember that your audience can read the full paper later, and look for information on the net.
• Show your knowledge of the topic: be ready to answer any question that may arise!
• Always remember that the end of the presentation is as important as the beginning!

Tips, useful language and tons of ideas:

http://www.waylink-english.co.uk/?page=28040
http://www.tefl.net/esl-articles/speaking-practice-presentations.htm
http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/presentations.htm
http://www.englishclub.com/speaking/presentations-lang.htm
http://www.learn-english-today.com/business-english/presentations-phrases.htm

Time / Image

This is a fascinating collection of films from the British Council archives, which have been digitised and made available on-line for the first time. Starting from the 1930s, they are beautifully shot, and include themes such as cricket and the history of the English language.

This is just an example , London in1942, in the middle of the Second World War:

London 1942 (1943) from British Council Film Archive on Vimeo.

TIME/IMAGE engages the public in the past, the present and the future by inviting them to explore and discuss the films of the British Council. A number of films are already available to watch through our Vimeo or YouTube channels.

From the early nineteen thirties, for a period of about twenty years, the British Council was an enthusiastic commissioner and distributor of documentaries, designed to showcase Britain to the outside world at a time when fascism was becoming evermore prevalent across Europe. Made by some of the finest filmmakers of the time - such as cinematographer Jack Cardiff (of Powell and Pressburger fame) and director Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge) - these films are today held in the BFI archives, almost entirely unused.

The aim of TIME/IMAGE is to catalogue and digitise as many films as possible, and to provide the general public ACCESS to this valuable resource through the TIME/IMAGE website. We want to invite the public to EXPLORE these films and to actively ENGAGE with them through the collection oral histories and artistic responses. In so doing, we want to encourage social debate geared towards how we perceive the present – and hopefully the future – through the interpretation of our own historical narratives.

Working closely with Counterpoint, the British Council and the BFI, the TIME/IMAGE project will contribute to the digitisation and narrativisation of the UK’s cultural heritage; a flagship of New Deal of the Mind’s Digital Domesday.

Happy Christmas!!!

"Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a song written by John Lennon, released as a single in 1971 by John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and the Plastic Ono Band. Although ostensibly a protest song about the Vietnam War, it has become a Christmas standard and has appeared on several Christmas albums.







Remeber the message...War is over if you want it!!

Rock 80-90s and Solidarity

Word done by Pagnotta and Maldonado