~I love English_*

SUCCESS STORY. WWF

2008-04-21T22:56:00.002+02:00

The world Wide Fund for Nature
Everybody knows the panda that is the symbol of WWF, the World Wide Fund for Nature. WWF is the biggest conservation organization in the world.

LOOK! Cheerleaders in the USA

2008-04-21T13:22:00.003+02:00

There are 3.3 million cheerleaders in the USA. Nearly all American sports teams have professional or amateur cheerleaders.

Cheerleading is a glamorous sport!!

It's fun, but it's also a very competitive sport!!

The first cheer was invented in 1880 at Princeton University American Football game.

Ray, ray, ray!

Tiger, tiger, tiger!

Sis, sis,sis!

Boom boom boom!

AAAAAAAAh!

Princeton, princeton, PRincetoon!

REPORT.Britain's young photographers

2008-04-21T13:02:00.008+02:00

Every year, RSPCA organizes a competition for young people to take photos of animals. Here are four winners.

Megan McCubbin
(12 years old)

Megan was in a bot in Scotland when she took this photo of hungry gannets.

Alex Worthington (10 years old)

Alex took a few pictures of this chamaleon at an animal park in England. The chamaleon is looking at him.

Isabella Williams (13 years old)

Can you see the cat in this plant pot? It is Baby Kitty, the cat at Isabella's grandmother's house in Californa, USA.

Sophie Livsey (11 years old)

Sophie was taking photos of flowers in her garden when this frog jumped out.

CRAZY. Fun paper shredders

2008-04-21T12:44:00.005+02:00

Do you have letters that you don't want your parents to read? Well, here's the perfect gtadget-a paper shredder. You put the paper in the frog or the cow's mouth, and wind...

PEOPLE. Eva Longoria

2008-04-15T12:19:00.004+02:00

Name: Eva Jcqueline Longoria Parker

Date of birth: 15 March, 1975

Age: 23

Srtar sign: Pisces

Place of birth: Texas, USA

Eva Longoria, The Mexican-American actress, plays the beautiful ex-model Gabrielle Solis in Desesperate Housewife.

She grew up on a ranchin Texas. She has a university degree in kinesiology. After winnig a talent contest, she went to Los Angeles, California, to became an actress.

MUSIC.Dido

2008-04-15T12:10:00.004+02:00

After 20 million albums sold, the British pop singer is back with a new album. She made the album in Los Angeles, California. "I'm inspired by the great songwriting tradition in America. I love getting in my car and going on long drives and writing songs," she says.

Her real name is Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong!!

CINEMA.Nim's Island

2008-04-15T12:02:00.002+02:00

A girl called Nim lives on an Australian island with her father. She is friends with three animals: a sea lion, a turtle and a lizard. But her father disappears at sea, so Nim asks for help from her hero: adventurer Alex Rover. But in fact Alex Rover is a fictional character, invented by a timid writer also named Alex Rover. Will Alex leave New York to help Nim?

MY WORLD. Chocolate fuel

2008-04-15T11:49:00.004+02:00

Chocolate isn't just delicious... it can produce fuel too. Two British adventures travelled from England to Mali, West Africa, in vehicles that use biodiesel made from chocolate. They say the saved 15 tonnes of carbon emissions. But did they eat some chocolate too?

SUCCESS STORY. The Coca-Cola story

2008-03-26T20:48:00.004+01:00

Every day, people drink one billion Coca-Colas. But most people probably don't know that it was originally a medicinal syrup!

Coca-Cola was invented by Doctor Jhon Pemberton in Atlanta, USA, in 1886.

In 1895, people all over America were drinking Coca-Cola!

Was transported to Europa jor the first time in 1928, for the Olympic games in Amsterdam.

Today, there are 27 varieties of Coke, and Coca-Cola owns 400 brands(including Fanta and Sprite) that are sold in 200 countries.

But the formula is still a secret...kept in a vault in Atlanta, USA!

LOOK! The Taj Mahal, India

2008-03-26T20:42:00.005+01:00

The Taj Mahal is not only the most famous monument in India, it is a symbol of eternal love.

A beautiful love story
Emperor Shah Jahan was inconsolable when his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died. His hair turned grey and he had to wear glasses because of his constant crying. Shah Jahan decided to commemorate the memory of Mumtaz with a beautiful mausoleum: The Taj Mahal.

REPORT. Happy Valentine's Day!

2008-03-26T20:20:00.006+01:00

Saint Valentine is the patron of lovers. And St. Valentine's Day, on 14 February, is celebrated all over the world.

Here are five most successful romantic films:

1. Gone with the wind

2. Titanic

3. Grease

4. Sleeping beauty

5. Love Story

Valentine's symbols

Hearts, roses and cupids are the most popular symbols of Valentine's Day. Cupid was the son of Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Red is the colour of Valentine's Day because it is the colour of a heart.

CRAZY. Bubble record

2008-03-26T20:13:00.003+01:00

There was a very bubbly atmosphere at the London Science Museum last November!

"Bubbleologist" Sam Heath created an enormous soap bubble around 50 schoolchildren. Sam used a metal hoop with a cirumference of 12 metres. It's a new world record.

Strange but true

PEOPLE. Alicia Keys

2008-03-26T20:07:00.002+01:00

The princess of soul.

After two-year absence the American singer is back with a new positive attitud, new look and a new soul album As I Am.

She is beautiful :)

CINEMA. P.S: I love you

2008-03-26T19:52:00.010+01:00

Holly Kennedy(Hilary Swank) loves her husband Gerry. When Gerry dies, Holly is devastated. But Gerry had plans for the future. After he dies, Holly recives a series of letters telling her to go out. All the letters have the same ending: "P.S, I love you". With the help of her best friends, Holly starts a touching and funny voyage of self-discovery. This is a film about love and friendship. It's a perfect film to see on Valentine's Day!!

I read the book of this film and I cried. It's a very nice book. I recomend it to people who likes reading and people who is romantic. :)

One scene of a film.

MY WORLD. Valentine's day present

2008-03-26T19:44:00.003+01:00

Perfume is a favourite present for Valentine's Day, and now there's a variety especially for dogs! A London comany created the perfume, which costs 38pounds(53€). So there will be a lot more smelly dogs in the streets!!

If you have a dog, you'll must buy it!! ;)

NEW BLOG

2007-12-10T12:14:00.000+01:00

Elisabet's English class blog

~Stars want to save the world

2007-12-03T19:27:00.000+01:00

Today, lots of actors, singers and celebrities do charity work, like Angelina Jolie, George Clooney...

Angelina Jolie became a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) in 2001. She first saw humanitarian crises when she was filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia in 2000.
When Jolie is on a mission, she has the same living conditionsas other UNHCR employees... not very comfortable for a Hollybood star!
Jolie says that stars earn too much money. "I had a crazy income for what I do" she says. She gives a third of her income to charity. She has also founded the Jolie-Pitt Foundation with Brad Pitt.

They do a nice couple*
Do you think the same?

~LOOK! Natural catastrophes in the USA

2007-12-03T19:05:00.000+01:00

Natural catastrophes like Hurricane Katarina are common in the USA, and so are tornados, floodings, volcanoes and earthquakes!

~REPORT. My life in Scotland

2007-12-03T18:45:00.000+01:00

Shinty is a tardicional Scottish sport. Legend says that the game, which is similar to the Irish game of Hurling, was brougth to Scotland from Ireland by Saint Columna in the year 563AD. It's especially popular in the north and the west of Scotland.

Do you like play this sport?

~CRAZY. Christmas cookies

2007-12-03T16:47:00.000+01:00

Here's an original idea for a Christmas card-send a virtual gingerbread cookie to your friends. Choose a gingerbread man or woman and decorate it with icing.
You can add a personalized too.

Christmas cookies

~PEOPLE. Mika

2007-12-03T16:33:00.000+01:00

Mika's music is often compared to music of the 1970s and 80s. The cover of his album Life in Cartoon Motion was inspirated by singers like David Bowie.

He said: I make psychobabble, schizophrenic, hyper-pop music!

This is one off my favourite songs of Mika: Lollipop

cheers^^

~CINEMA. Stardust

2007-12-03T16:21:00.000+01:00

This film begins in an English village and ends in a magical world. Tristan loves a girl called Victoria. To win her love, he goes on an adventure to find falling star. But when he finds the star, it is not a meteoric rock, but a girl called Yvaine. And Tristan is not the only person who wants the falling star. Princes, ghosts and witches want it too...

It's a romantic and science-fiction film. I like it.

~MY WORLD. A witch in the family

2007-12-03T12:23:00.000+01:00

Tom Felton plays Draco Malfoy, Harry's enemy, in the Harry Potter films.

Tom is related to John Proctor who was hanged in 1692 for being...a witch!

John Proctor always said that he was innocent.

He has now got his revenge..his descendant is a famus witch-on film, of course!

Do you belive in witches?

~Junior High School

2007-11-11T19:12:00.000+01:00

American teenagers have a busy school week. They have a different teacher for each subject, and different lessons in differents rooms. They have typical subjects like math, English, biology, physics and chemistry. They also do computer studies, art, music, gym, and languanges, generally French or Spanish.

There are two photos

The cheerleaders
Many middle school heve cheerleaders. These girls learn chants and complicated acrobatics. They "cheer" the school's sport teams during games.

Graduation Day
When you finish middle school, there's a big graduation ceremony, with speeches. The school Principal gives you your diploma. All students wear a cap and grown. At the end of the ceremony, everybody throws their caps up in the air!!

Cu*

=)

~Justin Timberlake

2007-11-11T18:41:00.000+01:00

A great singer, dancer and performer, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE is one of the world's hottest stars today.

He said: I get more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on a stage in front of 20.000 people.

He's beautiful!!

One song:

~His master's voice

2007-10-30T21:02:00.001+01:00

Do you know this painting of the dog, Nipper, listening to an old gramophone? The painting is called "His master's voice". It was the logo of record companies in Britain, the USA and Japan. And then HMV, the world's biggest chain of records shops, adopted it. But now Nipper has been replacep by Gromit. "It's a great honour," says Nick Park, Gromit's creator.

Wallace&Gromit

This video is of Wallace and Gromit. It's funny!! I hope you like it!

See you!!
cheers guys^^

=)

~The T-shirt

2007-10-20T15:14:00.000+02:00

Hi*

This is one video of Light-emitting shirts!

Are funny but I suppouse that are very expensive... jeje

Well, in the beginning I put one photo of cool T-shirts.

See you guys!!

~Chocolate diet

2007-10-18T20:02:00.000+02:00

Hello*

This article of chocolate is interesting for chocolate lovers.

Not all chocolate is bad for you.

Kuna Indians in Central America drink about 40 cups of cocoa every week... and they are very healthy!

Compounds in cocoa protect them from disease. But, bad news for chocolate lovers... these compunds are removed from the chocolate that we eat!! Oooooh!

I'm a chocolate lover^^

mm... =P

cheers chocolate lovers*

see U

~Cinema. Grease

2007-10-17T23:22:00.000+02:00

Hi!!

Ooooh!!! Grease is a romantic film...

Do you like it?

I like very much this film, and the musical in Barcelona was... VERY NICE!!!

Of couse, the video of people from 4th ESO last year in end of stage was so funny!

Did you see it? They do it very well, and we laughed so much.

This is one picture of the film*

~Bye, see you

~A crazy world record

2007-10-17T19:02:00.000+02:00

Hello*

Do you remember the crazy world record which was in the magazine??
I didn't find any videos of this record, but I found this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRbIC2FGOO0

I recoment that you watch it. This boy is brilliant!!

Bye bye*
cheers^^

=P

~Famous birthdays

2007-10-15T16:28:00.000+02:00

Hi!
In the magazine, last week I read the famous birthdays.
In 27th September Avril Lavigne celebrated her birthday, Gwen Stefani in 3rd October, Matt Demon in 8th October and Ellen Pompeo in 10th October.

In the photo you can see Avril Lavigne, who celebrated her 23 birthday last month.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AVRIL!!! 23*