mAtEs Of StAtEs...My only offer

After a long day in your school studying or at your job...you arrive home and listen to a song like this one, it's perfect to calm you down and make you think... Think of what?? This matter is up to you .


Enjoy it:

Qui est ce perssonage?

Il est un acteur

Très beau

Il a 46 ans

Il a joué en 30 films

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Another great lip dup video

Hey guys!
Do you know what the term "lip dub" means? I bet you've watched some lip dub video before, but you don't even know it was a lip dub! Well, according to Wikipedia, "a lip dub is a type of video that combines lip synching and audio dubbing to make a music video. It is made by filming individuals or a group of people lip synching while listening to a song or any recorded audio then dubbing over it in post editing with the original audio of the song. (...) The most popular lip dubs are done in a single unedited shot that often travels through different rooms and situations in, say, an office building. They have become popular with the advent of mass participatory video content sites like YouTube"
(complete article: here)

Some months ago, a lip dub of "I gotta a feeling", made by québécois students from a canadian university, was released on the web. Everybody loved it, it was fun and looked like a pro thing. Remember it?



Now, students from another canadian university, the Université de Montréal, released on the web another great lip dub video! This time, they were singing "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" from the punk-rock band The Offspring.
The video clip style is very similar to the one from Quebec: one single shot passing from room to room and a lot of students singing. Very pro, and the song is awesome!
Watch it:



Hope you like it!

xxx,
teacher Bel

Cirque du Soleil

Para reír y aprender

A cantar...

Miren cómo actúan bien esos estudiantes de la lengua española. Su maestro, Fábio, les había pedido que interpretaran unas canciones españolas y... vean qué fantástico.

Felicitaciones a todos ellos, no?

SIMPLE PAST - INTER 2

Here there's a video to help you with simple past!



Enjoy it!

See you!

=)

Zeitgeist: a must-see movie

Zeitgeist is "the spirit of the times" and/or "the spirit of the age." Zeitgeist is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and/or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambience, morals, and sociocultural direction or mood of an era (similar to the English word mainstream or trend).

The Zeitgeist Movement is a grass roots campaign to unify the world through a common ideology based on the fundamentals of life and nature. This movement ignores politics, religion and the like, and instead attempts to communicate how all humans are the same at the fundamental level and how it is time we start to work together on a global scale to end the seemingly perpetual conflict and suffering in our current world society.

Therefore, in this great documentary you shall understand why and how your life, culture, information and even your thoughts and opinions are manipulated by social scripts strongly inserted in your life, such as religion, politics, economics and the media.

I dare you to watch it. You'll never see "the system" the same way you did before. And even if you don't believe in this conspiracy theories stuff, I bet you'll have food for thought at least for the rest of your life.

They explain why and how religion works defining social behaviors, the real part played by the government in the war against the "terrorists", the real explanation for Vietnan War and many other interesting things that I never imagined. A real must-see movie.

There are 12 parts with portuguese subtitles at youtube. Here's the link for Part 1, there you'll find the links for Part 2, 3, 4 etc. The subtitles are a little messed up some parts, so it's a great opportunity to practice your listening (:



Have a nice week!

xxx,
teacher Bel