Summer is here!

Summer Love- by Justin Timberlake

British Food

Learn about the Happy Meal Project

Fast Food Facts!

Special skills!

Aesthetics: talking about beauty

Natural Disasters- The Impossible (movie)

Natural Disasters: Katrina Hurricane

Explore the case study of Katrina Hurricane

Exploring humour- sitcoms!!

Mr. Bean: Getting up late for the dentist

Fresh Prince of Bel Air!

Friends! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYHjfyMl54k

Rock and Pop Stars!

Watch Michael Jackson's Thriller video and describe their clothes and style!

Exploring music styles this week!

And many more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju8Hr50Ckwk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm7muPjevik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0UENaS-Fuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLnKImsBAZk

Humour- Stand up comedy!

Sports Reports

 Read online sports reports and prepare your own sports reports!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport

Overseas Holidays: Visit Australia!

Plan your holidays and explore Australia!

Give the weather forecast!

UK Weather forecast


Watch the weather forecast for the UK online on the BBC and learn about specific weather conditions.

Zines!!

Learn what is a zine and what types of zines are in the collection of Baltimore County Public Library.

Reading Activity.

Here you can find various examples of online zines.

How To Make A Zine

Community artist and editor-in-chief of "Eyeball Burp Publications" Ann Matsushima demonstrates how to make your own self-published zine with very simple material, and speaks about the importance of creative self-expression.

Van Gogh.

Describe the paintings and make reference to the way Van Gogh used colours to depict reality. 

Profile of Steve Jobs

A personal profile is a description highlighting individual interests, achievements, and relevant information about a person.

How have you changed?

Watch this timelapse of a girl growing up. How would your timelapse video look like? Have you changed much since you were a baby?

New York, New York

How to get around in New York City by subway:


NYC Subway Trip Planner

NYC Subway Map

New York City Subway Etiquette by The Resident



New York City - 10 Things you need to know

Don't be evil

Google's motto is "Don't be evil". Are they or aren't they?


Motto: A short sentence or phrase chosen as encapsulating the beliefs or ideals guiding an individual, family, or institution.

Hair-volution

Humans evolve, and so does their hair. Excuse the terrible pun in the title and check out this riveting timeline of Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber's hair.

Click here to see the original image.

What's in a Name?

Recently, a couple in New Zealand were forbidden from naming their baby son “4Real”. Even though New Zealand has quite liberal rules about naming children, names beginning with a number are not allowed. They decided to call him Superman instead.

In many countries around the world, unusual names for children are becoming more popular, especially since the increasing trend for celebrities to give their children wacky names. In Britain, you can call a child almost anything you like - the only restrictions on parents relate to offensive words such as swear words.

Some parents choose names which come from popular culture. For example, there have been six boys named Gandalf after the character in the Lord of the Rings novels and films. Equally, names relating to sport are fairly common - since 1984, 36 children have been called Arsenal after the football team.

Other parents like to make up names, or combine names to make their own unique version, a method demonstrated by Jordan, the British model, who recently invented the name Tiáamii for her daughter by combining the names Thea and Amy (the two grandmothers). She was quoted as saying that the accent and double letters were added to make the name 'more exotic'.

Other countries have much stricter rules when it comes to naming children. Countries including Japan, Denmark, Spain, Germany and Argentina have an approved list of names from which parents must choose. In China, there are some rules about what you may call a child - no foreign letters or symbols are allowed. As a result a couple were recently banned from calling their baby @.

In Britain, some names which were previously thought of as old-fashioned have become more popular again, such as Maisie or Ella for a girl, or Alfie or Noah for a boy. But the most popular names are not the wacky ones. The top names are fairly traditional - Jack, Charlie and Thomas for boys and Grace, Ruby and Jessica for girls.

Vocabulary

Liberal: believing in and/or allowing more personal freedom.

Trend: a new development, fashion.

Wacky: unusual in a positive, exciting or silly way.

Restrictions: limits (especially established by laws or rules).

Offensive: causing upset or hurt feelings.

Swear words: rude, offensive words.

After: if you name someone after someone or something, you give them the same name as another person or thing.

To make up: to invent.

Unique: the only one of the kind, very unusual.

Accent: a mark written or printed over a letter to show you how to pronounce it.

Exotic: unusual and often exciting.

Stricter: limiting further (someone's freedom to do as they wish).

When it comes to: as far as ... is concerned.

Banned: not allowed, not permitted.

Old-fashioned: not modern, belonging to the past.

Top: here, most popular.

Traditional: here, common, widely used.

The British Monarchy

The official website of the British Monarchy 
View the latest Royal images, including photographs of The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visiting the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Do you love the Royals?
If the answer is yes, what are you waiting for? Check this out! 

British Royal news
Why are we so enthralled by the British royal family? Does the Monarchy still matter? .

Who's Who in the British Royal Family?

Map of Sevilla

Map of Sevilla

Map of Madrid

click to enlarge the map
 

Table 7 - Argument Video

Table 7 - short film from Marko Slavnic 
 A couple on the brink of a breakup has an intimate conversation in a restaurant, unaware that their every word is being closely monitored. However, not all is as it seems. 


Table 7 - short film from Marko Slavnic on Vimeo.

Writer/Director: Marko Slavnic Co-Director: Andrew McDonald Producers: Andrew Lee, Marko Slavnic, Andrew McDonald Cinematography: David Blue Garcia Music: Ed Dunne Cast: Man - Ray Rosales Woman - Stephanie Lozos Recordist - Isaac Kim Camera: Red One

Argument video 1 - Sid Caesar & Nannette Fabry

Have a Great Day!

Live For Greatness

When is greatness achieved?

Is it when you win your first tournament,

Or when you go toe-to-toe with a legend,

When you achieve a lifetime’s ambition,

Or when you inspire others.

Maybe it’s when you’re always asking yourself; what’s next?

Hermès Exceptional Collection

What would you buy? Make your selections here at this link.

Trans European Express

Find out more about the Trans European Express here.

The Terminal

"The Terminal" tells the story of Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks), a visitor to New York from Eastern Europe, whose homeland erupts in a fiery coup while he is in the air en route to America. Stranded at Kennedy Airport with a passport from nowhere, he is unauthorized to actually enter the United States and must improvise his days and nights in the terminal’s international transit lounge until the war at home is over. As the weeks and months stretch on, Viktor finds the compressed universe of the terminal to be a richly complex world of absurdity, generosity, ambition, amusement, status, serendipity and even romance with a beautiful flight attendant named Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). But Viktor has long worn out his welcome with airport official Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci), who considers him a bureaucratic glitch, a problem he cannot control but wants desperately to erase.

Airport!

Are you familiar with any of these situations?

Imagine

Where would you most like to go on
holiday right now?

Close your eyes. Imagine you are
already there. 

What can you see? 

Try and picture the scene as clearly as you can. 

Are there many people there? 

Where are you? 

Can you hear anything?

What can you smell? 

Try and imagine the scene as clearly as you can. 

When you're ready, open your eyes.
Tell your partner about your scene.

Design an airport!

Design an airport you could be happy in!
Think about: 

• facilities for passengers, families and crew;

• security;

• shops;

• entertainment.

Do you wear any of these brands?

What is a kilt?

Fashion!!!

AUDIO, click heree

One of the biggest shocks when you arrive in a new country can be the clothes people are wearing. You may look fashionable at home, but you suddenly find you are behind the times or simply someone to laugh at when you arrive abroad. With this in mind, let's take a look at teenage fashion in the UK for girls.

The End of the World

Many people have been preparing for months for the end of the world. There have been stories on the Internet for the past decade that the world will end on December 21. This is the day of the "Mayan Apocalypse," when a Mayan calendar predicts the end of us all. However, many other people do not believe the world will end in a day or two. The Chinese government has recently arrested 93 people for spreading doomsday rumours on the Internet. Meanwhile, in Russia, Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov sensibly advised people not to buy Armageddon candles. He wrote on his website: "Does no one realise that once the end of the world comes, candles won't help them?"

So what might happen on Friday? The Internet is full of stories about giant tsunamis and asteroids that will finish us. More common stories are that the black hole at the centre of the galaxy will swallow the Earth, or that a planet called "Nibiru" will hit us. NASA says Nibiru was meant to destroy us in May 2003, but when nothing happened, "the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012". NASA adds: "If Nibiru was real…astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye." English teachers worldwide have told their students they cannot use the apocalypse as an excuse not to do homework.

Collage - Do you recognise any of these places?

Protecting Antarctica from tourism

A solution may be at hand for holidaymakers who are finding it harder to get off the beaten track. For those who really want to get away from it all, a new holiday destination has sprung up – Antarctica. However, this new hotspot, or freezing zone, might only be for those with the deepest pockets if a new policy gets under way. Tourism on Antarctica has been increasing dramatically in the past twenty years, from a few thousand people in 1985 to more than 40,000. The growing numbers are having a negative effect on the pristine environment of the South Pole. To combat this, researchers from Holland’s Maastricht University have come up with a possible solution: limit the number of tourists allowed to visit and auction the vacations to the highest bidders.

Many environmental protection agencies agree that there is a need to protect the frozen wilderness from the damage created by modern tourism. Antarctica is the last unspoiled place on Earth. It has a very delicate ecosystem that could be easily upset by hordes of tourists landing in airplanes and using skimobiles. A difficulty exists because Antarctica is not a country and therefore has no government to pass laws or guidelines to control the number of visitors. The Maastricht University team’s proposal to auction off a fixed number of tourist places seems a workable solution. It would limit the number of visitors and therefore contain the amount of environmental damage, and the money would be used to protect Antarctica’s future. For further details, consult your local South Pole travel agent.

Queensland

LINKS

Video

Wikipedia, more info.

MAP

http://blog.queensland.com/

Adventure Sports

Definition here

Notes: Follow Intro/1/2/3 etc. for further information

Types of adventure sports: here

UK Extreme sports.

Describe yourself

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Turn Dreams Into Ideas

"We all have an idea we've been meaning to execute on, but how can we really make it happen? In this highly original, all-ages talk, illustrator Rilla Alexander walks us through this classic creative struggle by sharing the story of Sozi - an adorable character who walks us through the arc of an idea. She daydreams, she procrastinates, she sets deadlines, she gets tempted by new ideas, she buckles down and works hard - and finally - she realizes "Her Idea.""