Scotland's Hogmanay

Rachel talks about the Christmas celebrations in Scotland. You can do the quiz and check hoy much you understand. Remember the "text view" buttons can be ON or OFF: http://www.elllo.org/english/0400/Q431-NewYears.htm

How To Behave At The Office Christmas Party

Another amusing video from Videojug. Enjoy it!

Christmas:
How To Behave At The Office Christmas Party

Library blog

The school has a new blog to help students find out what material we have. Have a look at it and do pop in this Monday or Tuesday to get a DVD or a book for the holiday season: http://bibliotecaeoiab.blogspot.com/

Woman's obsession with walking

Be careful what you get obsessed with. Read this interesting story from The Independent newspaper: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/woman-developed-obsession-with-walking-after-surgery-1843625.html

Bill Gates

Listen to Bill Gates talking about aid to developing countries during the economic downturn: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/01/24/opinion/1231546145505/a-conversation-with-bill-gates.html

Podcasts in English

Now two interesting listenings from the PODCASTS IN ENGLISH website: A click away (about how the internet has changed our lives) and Liquid gold (that is, olive oil): http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/pages/level3.shtml

TAE - Conchita Martinez

"Talk about English" is a programme for people who to improve their English. Here's the link to the "Better Speaking" series. In class we listened to the one where Callum and Richard listen to an interview with a former Wimbledon champion, Conchita Martinez. They discuss ways that you can hesitate in English and the very important 'er' sound in pronunciation. Of course you can listen to the other episodes too! http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/webcast/tae_betterspeaking_archive.shtml

Darwin Centre

I'm off to London this weekend and one of the highlights of my visit will be the Darwin Centre, or Cocoon, a new wing of the Natural History Museum.

Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver is the most popular chef in Britain. He's got a TV programme, a fantastic website and he's also written a few books (we'll have one of those in the school library in the next few days!!!). You can watch this video in the meantime: http://www.jamieoliver.com/about/jamie-oliver-videos/ministry-of-food-parmesan-chicken