Bloc Party - Hunting for Witches

Do you know this group? It's one of my current favourites. They obviously didn't spend much money on this video, but I hope you like the song. (Style: Indie/Britpop)




Lyrics:

Bloc Party - Hunting for Witches

I am sitting
On the roof of my house
With a shotgun
And a six pack of beer, six pack of beer, six pack of beer.

The newscaster says the enemy's among us
As bombs explode on the 30 bus,
Kill your middle class indecision,
Now is not the time for liberal thought,

So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
I go hunting for...

90's, optimistic as a teen.
Now it's terror
Aeroplanes crash into towers, into towers, crash into towers.

The Daily Mail says the enemy's among us,
Taking our women and taking our jobs,
All reasonable thought is being drowned out
By the non-stop baying, baying, baying for blood

So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
I go hunting for...

I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
I watched TV; it informed me
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desire
There must be accountibility

Disparate and misinformed
Fear will keep us all in place

So I go hunting for witches
I go hunting for witches
Heads are going to roll
I go hunting for...

I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires
I watched TV and it formed me
I was an ordinary man with ordinary desires
There must be accountibility

Disparate and misinformed
Fear will keep us all in place.

Fire station burns in Japan after cooking mishap

Ooooops!

The story

Scrap workers find 100,000 euros in German safe

What would you have done?

Read the story (it's very short).

Sentence transformations - Answer key

In some classes we didn't get to correct the sentence transformations, or some of you may have missed class that day, so here's the key for those of you who want/need it.

Boys With Unpopular Names More Likely to Break Law

Boys in the United States with common names like Michael and David are less likely to commit crimes than those named Ernest or Ivan, according to a recent study.

Read more about it here: www.yahoo.com/blablabla

Stetson hats

This came up in a 3rd year class, and as I wasn't completely sure, I googled it.



This what the Wikipedia says about Stetson hats:

Stetson hats or Stetsons also refers to the brand of hat itself manufactered by the John B. Stetson Company of St. Joseph, Missouri. The Stetson sometimes used as a genericized term for a cowboy hat, though the company makes other styles...(read more here)

Now sing along everybody: "I wanna..."

Mónica from 4ºS has sent me this classic advert. Just another reason for learning English, in case you needed one.

Curiosity killed the cat

"Curiosity killed the cat" is an expression in English to mean that being too curious is not always recommendable.

But hey, we're not cats!

This is a good page for those of you out there who are curious about how things work:

How stuff works

Choose from the categories (animals, people, science, technology, history, etc, etc, etc), or just type in a word in the searchbox.

Joke

This joke was one of the winning jokes submitted to the Laughlab experiment.

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson were going camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes woke Watson up and said: “Watson, look up at the stars, and tell me what you see.”

Watson replied: “I see millions and millions of stars.”

Holmes said: “and what do you deduce from that?”

Watson replied: “Well, if there are millions of stars, and if even a few of those have planets, it’s quite likely there are some planets like Earth out there. And if there are a few planets like Earth out there, there might also be life.”

And Holmes said: “Watson, you idiot, it means that somebody stole our tent.”


More jokes on the Laughlab page.

Careful with coffee

Have you been hearing voices lately? Hallucinating? Maybe you're drinking too much coffee. Read all about it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7827761.stm

Wuthering heights

For those of you willing to do the dance (4th year), here you have the model/inspiration. Have fun rehearsing at home! :D

My new year resolutions

Happy New Year everybody and welcome back to EOI-reality.

Personally I am physically back at work but mentally still a little bit on holiday.

How about you? How does the new year look to you? Are things going to be good/better/best this year? Are you going to be different: what are YOU going to change?

Just to give you a shining example, here are (some of) my New Year's Resolutions:

1. I will try to stop swearing as much, especially in class.

2. I will try to correct my students' compositions quickly and not let them accumulate in a big horrible scary pile.

3. Ditto ditto ditto students' reading book activities.

4. I will try to respect speed limits when I'm driving, at least within reason, and bearing in mind that what the speedometre says is probably 10-15km/h above your REAL speed.

5. I will try to lose 6 kilos before the Spring.

6. I will try to phone my mother at least once a week month.

7. I will try to keep up to date with current affairs via internet, since I've stopped watching the news and reading newspapers.

8. I will not use the class computer for silly things while my students are doing a test.


See? It's easy once you start! Now it's your turn. The "comments" section is all yours, and remember that reading and commenting in your teacher's blog counts as Attitude, Motivation, Interest, Self-Study, etc. points.