Tuesday 31 March 2009

April fool's day.

The first of April is April Fool's Day or All Fools' Day. It is a day when people play practical jokes to embarrass the gullible ( goofy).

Click on the image and you'll listen to the dialogue.









* Remember: pull your leg has a second meaning: prendre el pèl.

Click here to find out famous riddles ( jokes).
Click here to find out more riddles.

Trick your friends on April Fools' Day.

Sunday 29 March 2009

Readings 2008-9

Third term Readings.

Don't forget to read your book; remember you've got a reading comprehension test after Easter!

Enjoy your reading!


ESO 2: Ken Harris' The Abandoned House ISBN 978-9963-47-828-6

ESO 3: Ken Harris' The Hacker ISBN 978-9963-47-110-2

BATX 1: Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White ISBN 978-9963-46-141-7

Monday 23 March 2009

Create your own talking character.

Click on the image to start and enter your text. A character will say it aloud.
He or she can also kiss, whistle, laugh, smile, hiccup, sneeze,...
and they can even say mmm, oh, aha,...

Sunday 22 March 2009

Cartoons

Learn an English joke through a cartoon. Listen and laugh!




Thursday 12 March 2009

Wednesday 4 March 2009

William Shakespeare.



Ausias March, "the Valencian Shakespeare".


It is Ausias March's 55oth anniversary after his death. The Valencian poet died on 3th March 1459.

Ausiàs March (c. 1397 – March 3, 1459) was a Valencian poet who was born in Gandia (València) towards the end of the 14th century.

Little is known of his career. From a very young age he took part in the expeditions that Alfons El Magnànim carried out in the Mediterranean. After the age of twenty-seven, however, he would never leave the region where he was born. He was twice married—first to N'Isabel Martorell , and second to Na Joana Escorna.

Inheriting an easy fortune from his father Pere March, March was able to devote himself to poetical composition.

March was one of the first poets to use the everyday language Catalan, instead of the troubadour language,Occitan . His verses were transmitted in manuscript tradition until its first print edition in Catalan in 1543, but they had already become known through the Spanish translation in 1539.

We can listen to Raimon singing one of the most famous Ausias March's poems, Veles e vents: