I had heard some scattered pieces of news here and there about Dubai being some kind of architectural wonderland but after watching some videos about this emirate I can only wonder : “well, what’s next?.
I’ve prepared this video for my intermediate students.If you want to test your listening you might want to click here and answer some questions about this video
I’ve been using my Ipad for a year and I couldn’t be happier with it. There are lots of apps that I use for fun and there are some more that I use 
to help me in my daily teaching. One of them is SlideShark, created by the same people who created MyBrainShark(post here). SlideShark is a free app for converting and viewing PPT files on your iPad. SlideShark converts your PowerPoint files without losing any of your original formatting, transitions, or animations.
To use SlideShark you need to register but don’t worry it’s free . Then , just upload your PPT files and SlideShark will convert the files for you. Instal the free SlideShark app and you can access your converted files on your iPad at anytime and display your presentation in the classroom.
Happy New Year to everyone and good luck with your New Year Resolutions. I have a dozen resolutions myself but I no longer believe I am going to keep them. The title of this post is not what one might think it means though it’s true that I have had the same New Year Resolutions for quite a number of years. But I want to be positive, start off on the right foot and mentally prepare myself for, this time, keeping them. Time will tell!
Why the title, then? There is a very funny lesson that I prepared two years ago called Bridget Jones’s Diary that has to do with Resolutions. A few days I got a comment to a post in this blog where I introduced this lesson (here) and so I thought I might show it again .
This is a funny video my students from the second year and I have created to wish you a very Happy Christmas and a very Happy 2012.
We hope you like it! We have certainly enjoyed creating it, haven’t we?
I always get in a bad mood whenever I have to mark exams. The happiness I get from marking an exam with a 10/10 doesn’t compensate the utter desolation when I see that many students can’t be bothered. Well, maybe utter desolation is a bit too strong, but I’m sure you get my mood. Anger, frustration, demotivation …etc. What can I do to get to them? Is there anything else I can do?
Well, excuse my mood and let’s change gears completely. Today I want to show you a Christmas tree you can do with next to nothing. Well, maybe I got a bit carried away when I said next to nothing ‘casue you need books but …only books. I wanted to show you my own Christmas Tree, but after taking several pictures from different angles and discarding all of them and starting the process all over again I realized that the picture I got the idea from has a better quality than any of my pictures , though I want to point out that my “Booktreee ” looks just as good” if not more ha, ha, ha 😉 . The other picture is a nice idea for a photograph and again it doesn’t cost much.
