Thanksgiving: A Native American View

Songs: You’ve Got a Friend, by Carole King

This is one of the most popular songs ever in the history of music! Listen to it (without reading its lyrics) a few times, and then check out the lyrics to sing along! Note: click on the link in the video, it does work!

Learning to park

For Avanzado 2 students: when you wish to park, you pull up to the curb and then park. Here are some tips for parallel parking! Can you learn how to explain it and come to class and do so?! Enjoy!

It’s Oh So Quiet, Björk and Spike Jonze

Mesmerizing…

What is Hawai’i?

Trinidad & Tobago

An EOI student prepared an amazing Project: she decided to invite a friend from Trinidad and Tobago to give a talk in class on his country. The format she chose to do this was pretend it was an interview in a TV show!
We broke down the video in 8 bits, and here is bit number 1.  Watch them all (you don’t have to do anything, really, just let the videos go on) and learn about a very special country!http://www.youtube.com/englisheoigetafe#p/c/7712606501E04FF0/1/BpyWn9UxDbk

Reconsider Columbus Day (from the USA)

Blue Identity – a Spanish band that sings in English!

Blue Identity is the band that plays for a Free Culture (Cultura Libre) project called La Taberna del Escocés. Make sure you check it out. It’s an amazing interdisciplinary project!

La Taberna del Escocés (Free Culture – Cultura Libre)

Still I Rise, by Maya Angelou

Listen to Maya Angelou saying one of her most famous poems! You’ll get goosebumps!!!

Read the poem in our first comment.

Unemployment

By the OECD – Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development – 30 countries included