The video you are about to watch is part of an activity I will be doing with my students one of these days. The videos of Mali and Dubai and all the exercises from the videos have been provided by my colleague MªJosé (visit her blog here). My only contribution has been to arrange what she so generously provided into a Lesson Plan which you will find here: Lesson Plan
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Music has played quite an important role in my life and I ‘m glad it also plays an important role in the rebuilding of Haiti and in giving some relief to its people. It gives me hope for the future to see so many people doing their best to help alleviate the pain and suffering of those who desperately need help .
♥ A remake of REM’s “Everybody Hurts” with Leona Lewis, Mariah Carey, Bon Jovi, Robbie Williams, Kylie, Rod Stewart, , Miley Cyrus, Take That,Mika, Michael Bublé, James Blunt, James Morrison, Susan Boyle and Westlife among others. Lyrics
♥ A remake of the 1985 “We Are The World”. The new version is titled “We Are the World – 25 for Haiti”;Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie have recruited 81 singers among which we can see the Enrique Iglesias, Celine Dion, Carlos Santana, Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges; Akon, Usher, Pink , The Jonas Brothers…etc.. The video will be broadcast during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Kindly sent by Jose Manuel Hidalgo Menéndez, a student at pre-intermediate level.
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The problem with English names is that you can never be sure how to pronounce them unless you have heard them before.
The thing is that I always find myself under great pressure when I have to figure out how to pronounce an English name. People assume that just because you have some knowledge of English you are supposed to know how to pronounce every single name they come across. What they don’t seem to know is that ,in English,there are no pronunciation rules you can rely on and that there are lots of English personal and place names whose pronunciation is counter-intuitive to their spelling.
How are you supposed to guess that a name such as Happisburgh, is pronounced /heizbr∂/, for God’s sake! I would have never guessed it!
I remember some years ago I took a course in a place called Hastings (like the battle) in South West England . Before leaving for England I carefully checked how to pronounce the name /heistinz/ but when I took a taxi to take me to this vilage, to my dismay , the taxi driver pronounced the name as /hi:stinz/ and then after some time in the village I realised that the name could be pronounced in several different ways.
Anyway, here is a list of film stars whose names are frequently mispronounced: no more James Dean /james dean/, if avoidable.
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Fred Astaire
Richard Attenborough
Dan Aykroyd
Lauren Bacall
Sean Bean
Warren Beatty
Kenneth Branagh
Richard Burton
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Sean Connery
Russell Crowe
Tom Cruise
Jamie Lee Curtis
Tonny Curtis
Matt Damon
Bette Davis
Daniel Day-Lewis
Johnny Depp
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Kirk Douglas
Faye Dunnaway
Kirsten Dunst
Mia Farrow
Ralph Fiennes
Lawrence Fishburn
Clark Gable
Ava Gardner
Richard Gere
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James Mason
Walter Matthau
Victor Mature
Ian Mckellen
Marilyn Monroe
Eddie Murphy
Bill Murray
Clive Owen
Gwyneth Paltrow
Adapted from Think magazine
This site from the BBC is great if you don’t have much time and want to know what’s happening in the world.
You only need one minute and it will certainly help you improve your listening skills. Go to this website http://news.bbc.co.uk/ and then click on the small text which says Watch ONE-MINUTE WORLD NEWS, as shown in the image.
Hope you like it!!
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