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george bush answer

2008-05-07T20:40:00.001+02:00

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A question to George Bush

2008-05-07T20:37:00.000+02:00

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Geroge Bush and George Bush

2008-05-07T20:15:00.002+02:00

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George W.Bush

2008-05-07T19:56:00.000+02:00

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Ecoogler - every time you do a search, help save a tree

2008-04-29T08:50:00.002+02:00

This is an ecologic searcher that works with Google, the only difference is that with every search you donate a symbolic leaf to plant trees in the Amazon and the rest of the trees in the world. It works just as Google and gives you exactly the same results. Donating a leaf is something symbolic, because each 1.000.000 of leaves represent a donation of trees to the Aquaverde association. These trees will be used to repopulate the Amazons and the forests worldwide. Ecoogler uses Google Custom Search technology.

Ecoogler shows the same results that google.com, so while looking for what you need you will be helping to repopulate the forests.

A Beautiful Lie

2008-04-23T20:09:00.005+02:00

The video of this song was shot in the North Pole I think. This reveal that the band is worried about the changes of the world climate. Although the lyrics of the song don´t say it, I think that the message is that the time to act is now and if we don´t do nothing the world will changed more and more until to destroy our planet.

Coldplay-The Scientist

2008-04-23T17:24:00.002+02:00

I chose this video because I think its incredible that he had to learn all the words in the wrong way to do it. As I see, this reflects perfectly his hardworking personality.

Referring to the song, its about a car accident he has and how he feels about it.

Lyrics

Amy Winehouse´s video

2008-04-22T19:54:00.008+02:00

The song's lyrics
In this song she talks about an ended relationship and she says that she doesn´t understand why she cares about men that some day will go. I think that this song represents perfectly the kind of lyrics that she writes. I really love this song and the video is very simple and it shows that she is alone thinking about the last relationship. It´s not difficult to understand her letters but sometimes she uses some colloquial words that are complicate to not english people and some rude words.

Oasis

2008-04-21T18:38:00.019+02:00

Since the first time Oasis played together they promised they were going to be the best. And then they set about proving it. They resisted doing things the way they were supposed to. They never sent a demo to a record company, knew that the supreme self-confidence and some classic songs would be enough to become big stars, and this is why I have always had great admiration for them.

When Alan McGee saw them at a club in Glasgow they had no manger, no agent and no money. Just greatness. That day they signed his first recording contract and began for them a great musical career.

They entered in the book of records thanks to their music. Their record Definitely Maybe was the fastest selling debut in British history until 2002 when Arctic Monkeys, a group that I also love, removed the record. Their second album, (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, went straight in to number one and became the fastest selling album since Michael Jackson, and also managed to sell 20 million copies worldwide. They have won many prizes that very few groups have been able to achieve and above all a prize that says all about them, the BRIT AWARD: Outstanding Contribution to Music.

It is true they have always been very controversial. They have been dotted with numerous criticisms and they have said things which were later repented. I can say that on many occasions their behaviour has not been adequate but the truth is that as a band they are an example to follow for their confidence, for their popularity, for their songs, for their records and for their prizes.

SUPERSONIC

I chose this song because it is the song that launched them to fame. Noel Gallagher wrote this song the day before they submissised as his first single to the record. The song is basically a collection of nonsense lyrics written in a matter of minutes, just before the band entered the recording studios to record the track. I don't know if this song reveals something about their personality. I can only say that they are very mad and although they were beginners in the music, they seemed to be very confident in the video as if they were veterans.

Letras Canciones.

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Chris Martin

2008-04-16T19:56:00.008+02:00

Chris Martin, Who has a baritenor voice,is the lead singer,the pianist and sometimes the guitarist of the popular band Coldplay.He has worked with lot of artists such as Jay-Z,who helped Chris to show her fascination with hip hop,or Nelly Furtado and he has written songs for lots of different singers.
Chris says that the band has influenced him most is the pop-band A-ha.There was a song of them that Chris can´t get out of his mind and he describes Morten Harket, the vocalist of the group, as the most disarming and beautiful man you will ever meet.The second band he consider as an influenced is U2. He told that their song "A Sort of Homecoming" is one of the first song he played for his unborn baby.Among others there are Oasis,Keane,The Police and Bob Dylan.

Apart from music, he has collaborated with charity doing a great deal of campaigning for Oxfam or travelling to poor countries. It seems that he is interested in politics too due to the fact that he was a vocal critic of President George W. Bush.

And about his personal life, his married to the actress Gwyneth Paltrow and they have a daughter,Apple,and a son,Moses.

So, as we can see, is a person who is really concentrate and happy with his work.

System Of A Down

2008-04-16T19:55:00.012+02:00

I'm going to talk about Serj Tankian, the singer of System Of A Down, a well-known rock and alternative metal band. This band was formed in Glendale, in California, but all the members have Armenian origins. Their grandparents survived the Armenian genocide that was commited by Turkey. They always like to express in their songs opinions about social problems and their consequences in the society. Indeed, they are a very respected group all over the world.

In this song, LONELY DAY, the singer is very sad and he's always repeating "it's the most lonely day in my life". Maybe the singer has broken up with his girlfriend so he's sad because he's alone.
This song may have been written when one of the members of the group had problems in his real life.

On the whole, I think the singer is a little bit depressed because of his situation.

lyrics:
Here's the video

30 Seconds to Mars

2008-04-16T19:45:00.016+02:00

They´re an alternative rock band. I like them very much because of the vocalist´s voice (Jared Leto) and the sounds of the guitars in their songs.
Jared Leto, the vocalist of the band, is an American actor too. Jared acted in TV shows and in several films. He´s a vegetarian and a songwriter too. All the members of the band want to change the way of the world, they want to stop the world climate change. The song "A Beautifull Lie" demonstrates it.
Although they´re not very popular they´ve been playing since 1998. This band began as an small project and they had several problems too. In the first year the two guitarists left the band but Jared Leto didn´t give up. He give the opportunity to Tomo and Solon who are the formers of the group nowadays.
From there Jared Leto´s mind changed and world climate became one of the objectives of the band. All the awards they received didn´t change the way of the group and in 2005 they did an album that contains this ideology. The title was "A Beautiful Lie". They didn´t want to do a normal CD, for this reason the videos that they made for the singles were original and new. One of them was shot in China.
To sum up, 30 seconds to Mars is the band which combine playing very good songs and trying to save the world: this is their best quality.

LauReL AiTkeN: The GoDfaTheR Of Ska

2008-04-16T19:43:00.012+02:00

Laurel Aitken was born in Cuba in 1927 of mixed Cuban and Jamaican descent. He and his family settled in Kingston,Jamaica,in 1938.
His first job consisted in singing calypso music for visitors arriving to the island. He became a night club entertainer too.
In 1955 Aitken recorded his first singles,and they were very successful.
In 1963, Aitken moved to London, and here all mods,skinheads and another ska fans enjoyed his music during the last 40 years of the life of Laurel.
He died in 2005, by a heart attack, in Leicester, his last living place.

In conclusion,we can say that Laurel Aitken has been the most important figure of ska music.Also, he was the first black skinhead that was recognised, because in the 60´s being a black skinhead was considered wrong.

Amy Winehouse

2008-04-16T19:43:00.009+02:00

I´m going to talk about a famous English singer-songwriter called Amy Jade Winehouse born 14 September of 1983 in Enfield, London. The first time I listened to her music was on the MTV channel and the song was "Rehab". The truth is that I liked it so much that I decided to buy her cd "Back to black". A good decision I think because I love jazz and blues and she has an incredible voice. However, I have to say that I don´t like her attitude (she is always having problems with drugs, alcohol, depression and eating disorders) and I think that she probably would be criticised less if she left those kind of things at home because the polemic is not always good for her(besides the press is destroying her life). In fact, many people know about her because of her life and her strange and distinctive style like a pin-up and not because of her music. Unfortunately, she probably will have a short career if she continues living like this.

Anyway, I find her music really good and her lyrics very sentimental as she always talks about love and she express different ways of living it. Her first CD, called "Frank", was more personal than the second one that is more commercial and famous too. Besides, Amy has won practically all the music awards, including MTV awards, BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist, six Grammy Award and Ivor Novello Award twice for example.

The truth is that she started really early to show that music was the reason of her life. In fact, only when she was ten years old, she had a short-lived rap group called Sweet 'n' Sour with childhood friend Juliette Ashby. After, she worked as a "showbiz journalist" for the World Entertainment News Network but her boyfriend sent a demo of her voice to Island/Universal getting the chance to show her talent. Amy entered at number seven on the Billboard 200 in the United States and by October, the album got 5 platinum CD in the UK, making it the best-selling album of 2007 and the top iTunes album in the UK in 2007.
Apart from her succesful career, I think that the most important things in her life are love (she got married at the age of 24 with Blake Fielder-Civil ), family (her father is always with her trying to protect her) and her music. Likewise, she has demonstrated that she doesn´t care about what others say about her, but the bad side of this is that she is always offering a self-destructive behaviour and this is not good for her or her family. However she has stayed twice in a detox clinic and it seems that she tries to stop having drugs.

It´s clear that she is different from the rest of singers and she has triumphed,at least with her music. Nowadays, her husband is in jail but she has a lot of projects like singing with Pete Doherty (Kate Moss´s ex-boyfriend), making her next CD or a duet with George Michael.

Task: The life and music of ...

2008-04-16T09:00:00.001+02:00

Choose a singer or member of a music group
Check out if s/he is on myspace
See what information is available on him/her on wikipedia
Use the information you’ve found to write about what you consider is important in his/her life and helps to make up his/her sense of identity
Look for a video of one of his/her songs on youtube
Copy the code you will see displayed in the Embed box (to the right of the video on the youtube page) and then create a new post on the class blog
Give your post a title, click on the Edit HTML tab and paste the code you copied from youtube into your post
Click on the Compose tab and now write about what you think the song and the video reveal about your chosen singer/musician’s personality
Do a Google search for the lyrics of the song
Make a link to the lyrics in your post by clicking on the link symbol in the toolbar of your post and pasting there the URL (address) of the web page you found
Revise carefully what you’ve written before publishing your post and run a spell-check on it
Next, write a comment on your classmates’ postings: say what you find interesting about the lives and music of the singers/musicians they chose.
If you found any of the lyrics difficult to follow, say where you had problems

Jungle

2008-03-12T20:27:00.001+01:00

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JaZzMaN

2008-03-12T20:26:00.001+01:00

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Sleepy Jack

2008-03-12T20:24:00.001+01:00

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Lazy and GB

2008-03-12T20:13:00.002+01:00

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George Bush

2008-03-12T17:58:00.002+01:00

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George Bush

2008-03-12T17:56:00.000+01:00

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Lazy

2008-03-05T20:45:00.000+01:00

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Create a voki!

2008-03-05T07:45:00.001+01:00

Go to www.voki.com and sign in.
Click on My Voki and then on create a Create a New Voki
Click on Create New Scene
Choose a character
Customize your character
Give it a voice using the model:

"My name is ... (think of a name).
They call me .... because ... (think of a reason).
I love ... (think of something your character loves doing).
I hate ... (think of something your character hates doing)."

Make sure you save your recording
Choose a background and a player
Click on save
Choose embed in: Blogger and size: small
Click on Get Code and copy the code
Now create a new posting on the blog
Paste the code in the Edit Html window to embed your Voki character in the posting

The positive and negative impact of new technology on my life

2008-02-27T17:03:00.006+01:00

New technologies are very present in our diary lives. We use them many times in a day, so we really need these gadgets to do a lot of different things . But what are their impact on people's lives?

On the one hand, they're very useful in a lot of situations. For example, we can hear MP3's in the underground or in the bus when we're bored. Indeed, we can take them everywhere because they are not very big and we can keep them in the pocket. Moreover, new computers have permitted the development of programs which are used in lots of experiments. In fact, these experiments are important for the creation of new medicines which could save a lot of people. In addition, new computers help people to do work quickly. We can also use computers to buy things at home by the internet.

On the other hand, new technologies have many negative effects. Firstly, new technologies can destroy a few jobs because now companies prefer to use computers instead of human work. In some cases, new computers are more productive than people. Secondly, young people could become addict to new video-games (Play Station, Wii, XBox...) and pass everyday playing instead of going out to the park with other boys.

In conclusion, new technologies are very important for everyone because they have a lot of positive effects on human advance. However, there are still some negative effects but on the whole they are less important than positive effects.

Game time for fast finishers

2008-02-27T10:55:00.002+01:00

Those of you who have finished the assessed writing task have won some bonus time for yourself. Try out these games and resources:

A word game where, if you win, you donate rice to the United Nations World Food program
A very addictive and crazy, impossible quiz. It takes time to load but it's worth it.
On the BC Learn English site, choose Spelloween a fun game that will improve your spelling

Write a comment on this post saying which you enjoyed the most and why.

The positive and negative impact of new technology on my life

2008-02-23T10:00:00.003+01:00

Nowadays the new technology is growing extremelly fast and the influence that have in our lives is getting bigger and bigger. Most of the times we use the technology because this has some positive things although sometimes not.

On the one hand, the new technology help us in our everydays life. It´s useful and fast. For example, 20 years ago some people only had a computer in their hauses; now, in comparison, all the people have at least one commputer (in some cases 2 or3). This is the clearest example in the growth of the technology.

On the other hand, there are some negative points. Firstly, Internet, Chats and Messenger although there are a way of communication in some cases you don´t really know who are you talking with. Secondly, it´s a place where someones can steal your money. You have to be very careful and "click on" in the right place. If you don´t you will have a problem. Thirdly, if you connet all the times to this new technology you can have health problems. Your eyes won´t be grateful.

To sump up, the technology can help us to have a better life improving our communications and society life. However if we abuse to it we will became addicted to this technology. Take care, it´s an advice.

Technology

2008-02-20T18:48:00.005+01:00

Technology is wherever you look and our question is how people lived without it . The answer could be that they didn´t know nothing about it.

But nowadays can we stay a day separate from technology? The fact that the answer is no for everybody is one of the problems it cause, we feel the need of technology in our lifes.

Staying a lot of time watching TV for example, can make us having headache and problems in the sight. Besides, for some people can became an addiction.

On the other hand, what about good facts? The technology is the responsible of many human advances. If we talk about medicine, it saves lives everyday.
Moreover, it help us doing tasks much easier and having fun, between other things.

So, you know, put technology in your live.

The positive and negative impact of technology in my life.

2008-02-20T18:47:00.010+01:00

Unlike a few years ago it can be said that our life is based on the technology. I am surprised when I see a child of 8 0 9 years with a mobile phone. When I was 9 I had no mobile phone, and if I asked my parents, they told me to stop dreaming, that I did not need one. But nowadays all children I see on the street has one and I give an account of how increasingly technology influences our lives. But is the technology as positive as we believe?

On the one hand I think the technology is positive because it is a new way to take advantage of our free time. I also believe that technology makes us work with less effort and also helps us to improve the performance of our work. In fact, thanks to technology, we have made progress in areas such as health, production, information, communication, which makes life much easier. Although I believe that above all mentioned earlier, the most positive feature of the tecnology is how in such a small period of time we have achieved what has not been able to secure in millions of years.

On the other hand technology is a complex matter that not everyone could understand. There is a great difficulty in adapting to technology by society. For our generation, technology is something that is part of our lives since we were a child, yet for our parents is something new to what they should get used to.

To sum up I believe that the technology is still in a process of development, but one thing is clear, that technology will continue to be the base of our lives in the future.

The positive and negative impact of technology in my life

2008-02-19T17:56:00.007+01:00

Nowadays, our lives are completely directed and influenced by technology which has changed people´s lifestyles. We can see it everyday in the streets where it´s almost impossible to find someone without a mobile phone. The truth is that we need technology for everything because we are used to living with the advantages that technology offers and for example,it´s not easy to go a day without the television or the computer. Because of this, I think that this would be a negative point (it´s no good to depend from a machine, at least not as I do). However, this kind of technology (I mean, computer, television, robots...) is practically new as it started its development in last century.

On the one hand, technology lets me do other things and avoid wasting my time. Besides, it is really important to the progress in medicine where technology has promoted different research of diseases like cancer or AIDS. Likewise, it also have helped to develop other techniques like lasers which have helped a less invasive medicine or robots which operate more accurately.

On the other hand, it´s important to say that although technologies help societies to advance, in the same way they increase the differences between countries and even between classes. In addition, sometimes it can be the reason of a clash because of the power that it implies (no country wants to depend on another one). Bearing this in mind, we should consider technology a help only for a minority and this is no just because technology should be for all human beings. Technology can be used in a bad way too, I mean, in wars also it is used but only to invent other ways to destroy more and more, including people (new weapons, atomic bombs like in the case of USA or Iran, ...). In fact, technology in itself isn´t good or bad, its use is the thing that makes it bad or good. Another drawback is that things go out of fashion really fast and we must renew everything all time and this continuous exchange affects nature as it´s very complicated to recycle this kind of object so it makes pollution grow.

As a conclusion I think that technology has made things a lot easier but, at the same time it also makes people a bit lazy. Then, I wonder, does technology progress too fast or not, and what kind of future should we expect for?

Work on your pronunciation

2008-02-19T15:39:00.006+01:00

It's a good idea to work on your pronunciation whenever you have time. Here are some resources that can help you:

the Sky Pronunciation suite which is installed on BC computers both in the CALL Room and the SAC (library)
a phonetics site where you can see and hear how the different vowel and consonant sounds are produced (click on American English)
mouseovermusic.com where you can move your mouse over the lyrics and hear a song
shiporsheep.com where you can practise minimal pairs (similar words where just the vowel sound is different)
stress monsters a game where you can test your knowledge of which syllable is stressed in a word

The positive and negative impact of new technology on my life

2008-02-12T12:23:00.001+01:00

You are going to write a posting about the positive and negative impact of new technology on your life.

This will be an asessed piece of writing so try to make it as interesting as possible and ensure that it reflects your experience and views.

You can include photos, videos and web links as you see fit.

If you want to read or watch material on the subject before you start writing, here are some possibilities: the BBC's technology news and the BBC TV programme, Click.

Dinosaurs supremacy

2008-01-30T20:19:00.000+01:00

Dinosaurs have been probably the most powerful animal of the history. In this video we can see some species of dinosaurs. All of them were strong and had a lot of abilities. I recommend this video to everyone who wants to discover new information about dinosaurs.

Very strange bird

2008-01-30T20:07:00.000+01:00

This video shows us a very strange bird "singing" all the things he hears. Not only other birds sounds but alarms and cameras too.
I recommend it to everyone because it´s very curious and funny.

A joke in the train

2008-01-30T20:04:00.000+01:00

Africa, a dangerous and exciting place

2008-01-30T19:59:00.000+01:00

This video is set in Africa. It shows a group of tourists who are very scared because there are a lot of naturals dangers like animals or trees. Africa would be a very exciting place to go because it really intrigues me. I think everyone who is interested in dangerous but at the same time exciting travel has to visit Africa to know more about its landscape and culture.

Is it necesary to drink two litres of water each day?

2008-01-30T19:53:00.000+01:00

This video tell us the truth about drinking two litres water a day. It explains that is not necesary to drink so much water because it is in the food we eat.

Interview at the Brit Awards with Noel Gallagher

2008-01-30T19:48:00.000+01:00

This is an interview with Noel Gallagher, the leader of the band Oasis. He talked about the respect they have got in America although they haven't had so many record sales as in England. They also talked about the legacy they have left in the United States. Noel said that he has seen shows of The Killers, an American band which has been influenced by Brit Pop, so he thinks that the legacy is less than in England, but it's still there

I recommend this video because I think that it's a very interesting interview

Hiroshima

2008-01-23T20:38:00.000+01:00

video

A spectacularly dramatic video about the dropping of the nuclear bomb in Hiroshima, a little village situated in the north of Japan.
I recommend everyone to see this video and discover the agonising moments people experienced as they saw the bomb dropping.

Football vs Basketball (spirit or imagination)

2008-01-23T20:15:00.000+01:00

west ham vs chelsea

2008-01-23T20:11:00.001+01:00

The best players in the world

2008-01-23T20:09:00.000+01:00

The things that make a team special

2008-01-23T19:50:00.001+01:00

BBC online at youtube

2008-01-23T09:11:00.000+01:00

Choose a couple of videos from the BBC on youtube to watch
Write a posting saying what they were about and whether you would recommend them to a friend
Embed the video in your posting
Comment on other people's choice of video

Rome,a very beautiful city

2008-01-16T20:46:00.000+01:00

Two lives

2008-01-16T20:36:00.000+01:00

My film: How we were arrested

2007-12-19T20:40:00.000+01:00

You can see the film here

New York and a village

2007-12-19T20:23:00.000+01:00

THE DAY OF THE CONCERT

2007-12-19T20:11:00.001+01:00

you can see the movie here

A mystery present

2007-12-19T20:11:00.000+01:00

Watch the film here: http://www.zimmertwins.ca/node/597469?designated=new

Talking about photos

2007-12-16T13:13:00.001+01:00

Here's a fun way to practise your speaking skills and get you ready for the speaking part of the Advanced exam.

Go to FlickrStorm
Choose a subject and write it in the box provided
Click on advanced and select the Creative Commons option
Click on search
Create a folder with your name in the LovingBilbao folder
Select and download 2 of the photos to your folder
Go to VoiceThread
Log in with the login I'll give you
Click on Create
Click on Upload and upload the photos you chose
Give each photo a title and a description
Click on Comment and record yourself talking about why you chose the photos and what you think about them
Click on To Go
Click on Share and choose the option Public no comments
Copy the code from Put a small version on your site or blog
Create a new post on the blog and paste the code (in the Edit Html tab) - don't forget to give your posting a title!

Eva sings

2007-12-12T20:36:00.001+01:00

Watch the film here

Eva sings

2007-12-12T20:36:00.000+01:00

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A VERY CLEAN PERSON

2007-12-12T19:47:00.000+01:00

The pollution in our cities is increasing day after day. They are a lot of reassons that cause this
damage in the atmosphere, and we have to try to avoid doing things that put in danger our ozone layer.
Personally I am not a very polluting person. My contribution to climate change is 0,76 tonnes, so I can say that I am a very clean person who respects the nature. If we compare my contribution with the polluting average that has a british inhabitant (5 tonnes), we can see that it is a big difference between them.

The transport I use most is the undreground. I don´t drive a car or a motorbike yet, a big advantage that is very helpful for the enviroment.

What can we do to limite the climate change?

2007-12-12T19:43:00.000+01:00

My personal contribution to climate change is 1,11 tonnes per year,so it's less damaging than that of British people whose contribution is 5 tonnes. I think we shouldn't waste so much petrol. A solution could be walking or taking public transport instead of using the car. In my case, I haven't got a car so I don't waste a lot of petrol

A new world

2007-12-12T19:41:00.001+01:00

Have you ever thought how much carbon dioxide we emitted during a year?
My personal contribution to climate change is 7.05 tonnes which is an enormous quantity if I comparate with the British contribution.
The pollution of the atmosphere is not only a problem of the develop countries; however it is a global problem.
Some countries like China and India which have developed their industries are starting to polute more and more. Maybe in twenty years the world that we know will be covered by water and this is something that nobody wants.
If we want to avoid this problem, every single person should put something of his/her part to improve the situation of the world.
I compromite my self to pollute less using more public transport and using renewable energies.

Have fun!

2007-12-12T13:35:00.000+01:00

Go to the Zimmer twins' site and use the login I'l give you.

Make a movie and create a new post and create a link to your movie.

Get another student to write a review of it while you write a review of their movie.

Could do better

2007-12-05T20:34:00.000+01:00

My personal contribution to climate change is 1.35 tonnes which is not a big quantity in comparison with British people whose contribution is 5 tonnes on average. I really worry about this topic and my result was quite good. The action with I contribute most is using the car because everyday I have to go to the university which is in Leioa and my car uses petrol. However I take 4 people with me too.

What's your carbon footprint?

2007-12-05T12:52:00.000+01:00

Go to the BBC news page to calculate yours. Then go to Conservation International and see what you can do to improve your negative impact on the planet.

Finally, make a posting about your carbon foot print result and your ideas on what to do about it.

Basketball video

2007-12-03T20:13:00.001+01:00

An interview with the video maker

snowboarding for life!

2007-12-03T20:09:00.000+01:00

An interview with the video maker

Beautiful images

2007-12-03T20:07:00.000+01:00

An interview with the video maker

Hollywood stars

2007-12-03T20:00:00.005+01:00

An interview with the video maker

Animoto Video - Irune + Ander

annlanguagepod's podcast

Our nature

2007-12-03T19:55:00.000+01:00

incredible waves

2007-11-21T20:35:00.001+01:00

just enjoy it

An interview with the video maker

Wonderful cars

2007-11-21T20:05:00.000+01:00

An interview with the video maker

Check out the news

2007-11-06T20:47:00.000+01:00

Go to the BBC's Video and Audio news and check out one or 2 of the stories that interest you then make an oral posting here about what you've found out.

MEDITATE AT SCHOOL

2007-10-31T20:18:00.002+01:00

First question - In my opinion all schools should have a moment for meditating every day. This activity would be very helpful for stressed students, and in the exam days, would be useful for relaxing.
Apart from that, it is a moment to have a rest after 2 or 3 hours in class, and you will be able to stay other 2 or 3 hours more in class.

second question -

Time to meditate

2007-10-31T19:51:00.000+01:00

First of all I have to say that I have never heared about this method before. However I think that having time to meditate is a good way of dealing with our stress and like this we could study more peacefully and better.
Maybethe Foundation wants to stop all these children from taking drugs, but I am not sure because I don´t know much about it.
I think that his videos are a little bit strange and I don´t like them much.

Meditate at school?

2007-10-31T10:12:00.000+01:00

Watch this video which reports on a school where students are given time to mediate.

Would you like to be given time to meditate in class? If you would, how do you think it would help you? If you wouldn't, why not?
Look at 1 or 2 of the other sections of the David Lynch Foundation web site, what do you think are its aims?
What do you know about the film maker David Lynch? If you don't know anything do a search on him. Have you seen any of his films or TV programmes? Did you like them?

Write a comment or a posting answering the questions.

Arrasate-Mondragon,my small city

2007-10-24T20:15:00.000+02:00

Arrasate is a small city(I discovered that it was a city some months ago). It has got 25,000 inhabitants, more or less. It´s a industrial city, Eroski and Fagor are from there.

Maybe you ask:why should I visit it?The answered is very simple, it´s a beautiful city surrounded by mountains.It is located in the valley of the Deba river, so whichever way you look you will see mountains.
If you like snow you have other reason to visit it, because in winter every year snows.

The name of Mondragon comes from a legend, it is said that a dragon lived in the mountains and sometimes he went down to the city to catch the most beautiful girl there.

Bilbao

2007-10-24T20:07:00.001+02:00

I have lived here since I was a child. Bilbao used to be known as an important industrial city, but nowadays my city has changed a lot. Bilbao is becoming a beautiful city. The factories have been destroyed and at the moment in place of the old factories there are great buildings such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Euskalduna Palace, the Sheraton Hotel, the Isosaki's Towers... The Abandoibarra's new area, where the Iberdrola Tower, offices and flats are being constructed, is going to be finished in two years. This area will join the Guggenheim Museum and the Euskalduna Palace. The Miribilla's area will also be finished. Construction of the Zorrozaurre's new island is going to begin in few years, an impressive restructuring of this area of Bilbao.

Bilbao has developed very much in what to public transport it refers. We have enjoyed the comfort of the underground and the tram. Apart from these two public transport we also have buses.

In Bilbao you have some interesting places to visit. Apart from the museums, you can also visit the old town (The Seven Streets). There you can see the cathedral, the “Plaza Nueva”, the Town Hall and the Arriaga Theatre. You can also visit San Mamés the oldest stadium in Spain and the cathedral of Spanish Football. In summer we have a pop/rock festival and the Aste Nagusia.

I think that Bilbao is lucky not to be a very big city, yet to have all the advantages of a big city. I want to live here all my life.

Bilbao, a new city

2007-10-24T20:06:00.000+02:00

Bilbao is the city in which I was born. It's in the north of Spain, near France and it's also the largest city in the Basque Country and the capital of the province of Vizcaya.

Since it was founded, it has changed a lot. Before, it was an industrial city but in the 90's it became a tourist resort because of the Guggenheim museum(1997), which is the symbol of Bilbao around the world.

Bilbao has the advantage that you can combine the beach (the Atlantic Ocean) and the mountains (Gorbea, Urkiola...) because it's not far away from them.

As a consecuence of the development of the city, Bilbao has an airport called Sondika, so if you want to visit Bilbao, you can perfectly arrive by plane.

In my opinion, Bilbao is an interesting place to visit for a few days. Firstly, you can go to the old part of the city to visit the Arriaga theatre and the "siete calles" and also take something to drink in the various bars. Secondly, you can walk across the Gran Via, the biggest avenue, to see well-known shops as Zara, Armani, Quiksilver... but you also can choose to take the trainway to go to the Guggenheim museum. Furthermore, if you walk a little bit more, you arrive to the Euskalduna Palace and to the biggest park of the city near the Nervion river. Another important place is San Mames, the city's football team stadium. This team, the Athletic was founded in 1898 by some english people who come there to make trade. It's one of the best teams in Spain but at the moment the results are not as good as we wish.

I propose to visit Bilbao in summer (July-August) because of the weather. There's always a good temperature, aproximately 20ºC, which is perfect to go surfing to Mundaka, Sopelana... In addition, for music fans there's a music festival called "Bilbao live" and in August there are Bilbao's party, the "Aste Nagusia".

BILBAO,BECOMING A GREAT CITY

2007-10-24T19:58:00.002+02:00

Bilbao has been my home town since I was born. My parents are from villages in the country,but also near Bilbao. They bought our house when they married 17 years ago and since that year they have not changed it. We live next to the town hall of the city and I think that this place is a very beautiful and privileged area. The estuary called Nervion is situated in front of our building and this goes across the city.

Bilbao has plenty of gardens and green areas. The biggest one is situated near Begoña and is called Etxebarria park. In the middle of it there is a big tower that reminds an old factory that was there.
Apart from this park,you will find a lot of gardens wherever you go.

The biggest attraction that Bilbao has it is probably the Guggenheim museum.
Itis built of steel and white stone and people says that it has the form of a big boat.

the area around the museum is very privileged,near the estuary and with beautiful gardens around it. We can not forget about Puppy, the giant dog made of colorful flowers that are changed depending the seasons of the year.

Apart from that,you can enjoy other museums too, like the Basque museum or the Fine Arts Museum.

Do you like going shopping and eating well? In that case you should visit the Old Part and the Gran Via (the great avenue) of the city. You will find all kind of shops and brilliant restaurants with good food.
Bilbao is famous too because of his eleven bridges. You can find old ones,like the Town Hall´s bridge or Deusto bridge; and the most innovative bridges, like Zubizuri bridge or Pedro Arrupe bridge.

If you are a football supporter, you should visit San Mamés stadium. It is the stadium of Athletic Club, a historic team in the spanish first division. Here you can visit the museum with all Athletic´s cups and old equipment of the mythical players of this team.

Although football is the king of the sports, Bilbao has a good basketball team called iurbentia Bilbao Basket. It plays in the ACB, the first league in the spanish basketball league.

This is a description of my home town. I hope you like it and that you know a bit more about this interesting city.

Bilbao, the new cosmopolitan city

2007-10-24T19:54:00.000+02:00

My city, Bilbao, has changed a lot. Where there was industry, now we have modern spectacular and expensive buildings that have made Bilbao well-known in the whole world. In fact, it´s well known that only one thing(in our case the Guggenheim museum) can put a city in the map. However, in my opinion the most important part of any city is its soul, i mean, what is special in it. For example, in Bilbao, apart from visiting The Guggenheim museum, Fine arts museum or Euskalduna palace, you can enjoy the old part of the city, the essence, where you can go to have a drink of wine or as we say "potear" and eat delicious "pintxos". Besides, Bilbao is a really clean city with a lot of services like transport (underground is a good way to travel). I would recommend to visit the townhall because it´s a typical place where tourists don´t go, but it is a beautiful building.

Likewise, the people are as dynamic as the city is and very proud of themselves. One of the best things we have here is our football team, although Athletic de Bilbao is not getting good results. Moreover, there is an important theatre in Bilbao called Arriaga Theatre by the same architect who designed the town hall. Not only we have the beach near to the city but also it´s surrounded by a lot of mountains, so we can say that Bilbao is a city for every types of people.

In summery, Bilbao is a city which has lived a miracle thanks to its economic progress. Visting this city is a good way to have a good time.

Leicester

2007-10-24T19:50:00.000+02:00

It's a long time since I have lived in Leicester, I moved away when I was seventeen. Then I thought it a very boring place, not particularly big or small, just boring. However, now I think differently. There is a great cultural mix in the city with many people second, third and fourth generation immigrants.

You can eat the best Indian food anywhere in Leicester. There are shops where you can buy material for saris, ingredients for Jamaican dishes and whole streets where Kenyan jewellers display their wares.

The university is also an important place where students and teachers are engaged in research about space.

And if you are in search of history, you will find some of the most important Roman remains in the whole of Europe.

Incubus-Drive

2007-10-10T20:41:00.000+02:00

Drive Lyrics

Arctic Monkeys - I bet you look good on the dance floor

2007-10-10T20:37:00.000+02:00

I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor Lyrics

I like Arctic Monkeys and I think that this band is one of the best at the moment. I´ve chosen this song because I think that is the best song of Arctic Monkeys

offspring

2007-10-10T20:35:00.000+02:00

this is the first song I used as the soundtrack for a snowboarding video.I like it so much!

Here are the lyrics

maroon 5 (makes me wonder)

2007-10-10T20:33:00.000+02:00

I have chose this video and specifically this song because i like the rhythm and the lyrics of the song

Maroon 5 Lyrics
Makes Me Wonder Lyrics

Cold Play

2007-10-10T20:27:00.001+02:00

Marina chose the song because it makes her feel good.

Coldplay Lyrics

Korn Coming Undone

2007-10-10T20:27:00.000+02:00

I choose this song because is one of my favourites. Enjoy it!!!!

Coming Undone Lyrics

SEX PISTOLS-God saves the queen

2007-10-10T20:26:00.001+02:00

i have chosen this brilliant song because I love sex pistols and I think it is the most popular and the best punk group that englad have got.

Here are the lyrics

2007-10-10T20:26:00.000+02:00

Hold on

2007-10-10T20:15:00.000+02:00

This world, this world is cold.
But you don\'t, you don\'t have to go.
You\'re feeling sad, you\'re feeling lonely
And no one seems to care.
Your mother\'s gone, your father hates you, this pain cannot bare.
But we all bleed the same way as you do.
And we all have the same things to go through.

Hold on... if you feel like letting go.
Hold on... it gets better than you know.

Your days you say they're way too long
And your nights you can't sleep at all
And you're not sure waht you're looking for
But you don't want to no more
And you're not sure what you're waitting for
But you don't want to no more

But we all bleed the same was you do
And we all have the same things to go through

Hold on... if you feel like letting go
Hold on... it gets better than you know

Don't stop looking you're one step closer
Don't stop searching it's not over...

Hold on

What are you looking for?
what are you waiting for?
Do you now what you're doing me?
Go ahead... what are you waiting for?

Hold on... if you feel like letting go
Hold on... it gets better than you know

Don't stop looking you're one step closer
Don't stop searching it's not over... hold on

a new long year starts again...unfortunately

2007-10-10T20:14:00.000+02:00

hello to everybody!!
I hope you´ll enjoy with our enjoyable blog and seee you

read it!

2007-10-10T20:10:00.000+02:00

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HeLLo EVERY BODY!!

2007-10-10T20:08:00.001+02:00

I hope you will enjoy there!!

another year at the British council

2007-10-10T20:08:00.000+02:00

Hello to everyone.
I hope we are going to have a great time and we are going to know each other well.

Welcome to our blog

2007-10-10T20:06:00.000+02:00

We start today this blog. I think that is a an interesting activity and we are going to spend a good time doing this.

welcome

2007-10-10T20:04:00.000+02:00

Hi!Today is the first day with our blog so I only going to say hello!

Welcome everyone

2007-10-10T19:58:00.000+02:00

I'm javier and I wish you'll have a great experience in this blog.

Welcome

2007-10-10T19:41:00.000+02:00

It all starts here!