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Perfect holidays

2009-05-27T19:59:00.010+02:00

In my perfect holidays I would like to rent a rural house with my friends to stay there for four days. On the first day, in morning we would do paint-ball and in afternoon we may go out into pubs and bars.

On the second day, we might climb some mountains and have a lunch and a dinner in the top of the mountain.

On the third day, in morning we would climb a mountain and have lunch in the top of it. At nigh we may listen to Siniestro Total's concert.

And on the fourth day we might go to the museum of the car and be there in moorning. At afternoon we may stay at rural house sleeping or having fun.

Talking about holidays

2009-05-27T19:47:00.021+02:00

Write a post saying what you would like to do for your holidays.
- tell us about the place you'd like to visit
- what you'd like to do and see there
- include photos to illustrate the things you describe in your post

For my holidays I would like to go to U.S.A and to Greece.

At first I would go to the United States which is situated in central North America, and make a visit to all the country, a guided tour.

Once I was there, the first city I would visit it is Washington because is the capital of U.S.A and because I would like to visit the White House, then New York because of the skyscrapers and in the end I would visit Orlando because of the Warner Bros.

White House

New York city

Although, I would visit all the country so I think I will spend one month in United States.

Another country that I would like to visit on holidays is Greece where I would go by cruise. When I was there I would visit the most important islands like Hermoupolis, Andros, Icaria ... and after that I would go to Athens and visit the Parthenon and the Olympic Stadium.

After visit all those places I think I would have a relaxing week in an hotel in Macedon and go back to Spain.

San Francisco

2009-05-27T19:43:00.008+02:00

This summer I would like to go to San Francisco. Since I'm young, I'd like to go to there because I always see this city in films. I love the parks , the people, the food .... I would like to stay with a family in their house to learn more about their culture and about the city.If I stayed there, I would improve my English and meet some new people .

There I would like to visit all the famous places like the Golden Gate bridge, the modern art museum,the Golden Gate park.... If I went there, I would a lot of photos to shaw them to all my friends and to my family.

I would like to eat some typical San Francisco food to try it .Moreover I would to go shopping to Union Square because is a well-known shopping district. In San Francisco the baseball is one of the most important sports so I would like to go to a match and also practise it.

In conclusion, these would be my perfect holidays.I would spent all my time there enjoying my jobies , learning English and meeting people.

My perfect holidays

2009-05-27T19:41:00.039+02:00

If I have to prepare perfect holidays I would like to go to "Las Vegas" and to Hawaii.

Las Vegas is the most popular city in the United State of Nevada. Las Vegas, is famous for the number of casinos and associated entertainment.

I would like to go to Las Vegas with my friends without parents when I am eighteen. There I want to visit all the casinos it has and also visit and a really amazing ride. Here I have included a video, so you can see how the attraction is like .

In my opinion this attraction it´s too frightening if you aren´t brave. Because, you have to know that you are situated on the top of a one hundred four floor. Then you sit down in a type os car (more or less) and you go down a slope but always in the same height.

This attraction would be interesting to go on at night because you could see incredible views.

I think it is the best attraction on the world, however I am not sure that I would be brave enough to go on it.

I would also like to go to Hawaii.

I love the beaches and I´m my opinion in Hawaii there are the best beaches on the world. The beaches are very beautiful as you can see in the picture.
< The picture is one of the many beaches you can find in Hawaii.
As well, in Hawaii you have all you need to live well. You have shops, supermarkets, places to have fun...

Going to these two places would be really good and I am sure that I´m going to go.

My perfect holidays.

2009-05-27T19:41:00.021+02:00

This summer I would like to go to Malta. It's an island to the south of Italy. It's a nice place where the temperature is high and it's always sunny. There are a lot of beaches and the sea is beautiful. It's blue like the sky.

The people who live there are very friendly and nice.
The food there is better than in Spain, in my opinion and there are tasty pizzas there.
What I want to see there are the islands of Comino and Gozo. And in the north of the island I want to see The Valleta that is a place where there are a lot of beaches and cliffs. I would visit the Hilton hotel that is great and enormous.

At night there's many parties there and I would go to the discos and meet other people. There are a lot of monuments too that I want to visit. I'd like to visit the most important cities historically where there are ruins and strange caves

This photo on the left is Paceville, the party zone.

I'd like stay with a family and go with them to places that they would show me.
Those would be my perfect holidays.

Talking about holidays - Venice

2009-05-27T19:38:00.067+02:00

For my holidays I would like to go to Venice that is a city in northern Italy. It's an interesting place where all the canals are flooded so you can't walk through the street. The classical Venetian boat is the gondola, although it is now mostly used for tourists. Most Venetians now travel by motorised waterbuses (vaporetti).

In Venice, I would like to get on a gondola and to see the canals and the many bridges like the Bridge of Sighs, called Ponte dei Sospiri in Italian. I also want to see the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, the Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna and the Palazzo Fortuny, which are wonderful places with an important part of the Venecian culture.

The Carnival of Venice was first recorded in 1268 and it's recognized all over the world. That's why I want to see it. People wear beautiful masks and you can really have fun. It would be so enjoyable and unforgettable.

The holidays of my dreams

2009-05-27T19:38:00.065+02:00

For my next holidays I would like to visit many estranges and interesting places and cities like Africa or India.

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First of all, I would like to visit Africa's deserts and stay there for a long time to learn the culture and customs of people who had lived there all their life.

There, I would enjoy going along the deserts riding a camel. There I would be able to cope with the heat or I wish that! On the one hand I would have to survive eating disgusting animals like scorpions and sleeping in uncomfortable tents. It would be really unpleasant! But on the other hand I think that I wouldn't forget it in my hole life and I think that I would learn many interesting things and it would be really fascinating.

Then I would like to visit India and wear the spectacular clothes that they wear everyday. I would like to help poor children who live there too because I think that they don't deserve to have an indecent childhood. I would taste the extrange foods of there too, as in Africa. But I think that the most interestintg part of my trip to India would be to visit beautiful palaces like Taj Mahal.
Other beautiful places would be the markets. There they sell all kind of things that you need in your everyday life. They are very beautiful because they sell especially colorful clothes and carpets.

Holidays!!

2009-05-27T19:38:00.035+02:00

In my opinion, the holidays are the best time of the year. I think that summer holidays are better than winter ones because there are more things to do and the weather is much better.
This summer I'm going to England for four weeks. I think that´s an interesting place to visit and I hope I will have a great time there. But if I had to choose, I would like to go to USA, especially New York or Chicago. Although I like little villages, I also like big cities and in the future, I would like to live in one of them. I have only seen New York and Chicago in photos, but I think they are incredible.
New York is one of the biggest cities in the world, and it´s almost more important than Washington. It is a great place to go sightseeing, because you can visit the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Central Park or the Midtown Manhattan skyline, and you can go shopping because there are lots of shops.
In Chicago, there are less things to visit, but it´s incredible to see really high buildings like the Sears Towers.

In conclusion, the places I would like to visit the most are Chicago and New York, and if it was possible, I would like to visit them with friends.

Great way to improve your vocabulary

2009-05-25T16:43:00.005+02:00

Find an article, song or any piece of text that you're interested and go to WordSift.

Paste the text in the box provided and you will get incredible results - all you need to extend and make your use of vocabulary more accurate. Great fun too!

Talking about holidays

2009-05-20T11:45:00.002+02:00

Write a post saying what you would like to do for your holidays.

tell us about the place you'd like to visit
what you'd like to do and see there
include photos to illustrate the things you describe in your post

In our name

2009-05-06T19:54:00.004+02:00

In our name we would help poor people by going to Africa as missionaries. We would live there for six months. We could give them some food, clothes and build houses. If we were rich, we would give part of our money for building and conserving a new school with books, notebooks, pencils and so on.
And an other part of our money would be for medicin because in The Third World there are a lot of illnesses like AIDS, malaria, typhus...
Also, we will accept people who would come to be part of this project.

Laura & Alba

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2009-05-06T19:48:00.000+02:00

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2009-05-06T09:29:00.002+02:00

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in our name

2009-04-22T20:26:00.003+02:00

In our names we would help poor people to have a better life. For example, we would suggest to the Government to create associations to help these people by giving them work to earn money or offering them food and clothes. When foreign people are sick they could provide doctors for them and when they are ilegal help them to become citizen. When they can't have a good education
we could help them with that problem offering them a free school.

Night life

2009-04-22T20:26:00.000+02:00

poverty Maria and Laura

2009-04-22T20:23:00.005+02:00

In our opinion it's a good idea that people do this for poverty in the world.
In our name we would go to poor countries to be with them and help with medicines because they haven't got anything when they are ill, so most of them die.We would help them by teaching, we could teach them to count or to read because that is the most essential point of teaching.We could help them with food because they always eat the same and this is very unhealthy for everyone, they have to eat more different types of food.But often they don't have anything to eat, and we could help them with this by bringing from our country different types of food like potatos, spaghetti, bread, whatever.
We would like to collaborate too with other people who are colaborating.

Sports in summer in Bilbao

2009-03-30T20:38:00.000+02:00

Festivals in Bilbao

2009-03-30T20:12:00.001+02:00

Our world

2009-03-25T20:28:00.002+01:00

We have beeen looking to the page for some minutes and we have discovered lots of facts.
For example:
There is more people who have been born than people who have died.

Breathing earth

2009-03-18T10:11:00.000+01:00

Look at the Breathing Earth web site.

Write a post saying what you make of it. (what you understand it to be about).

In my name

2009-03-04T09:39:00.001+01:00

Go to the youtube video channel inmyname

Read what the 8 goals are and watch some of the videos.

Now write a post saying what you would like to be done in your name.

How to use Windows Movie Maker to edit your video

2009-02-17T16:45:00.001+01:00

This video gives you step by step instructions:

Video tasks

2009-02-11T14:55:00.001+01:00

Convert your audio files to MP3 format in Audacity
Familiarise yourself with the video camera
Familiarise yourself with the video editing program Movie Maker
Record your interviews/presentations with the video camera or the MP3 recorder
Decide what material you need to import into Movie Maker
Discuss in your group how you are going to order and edit your material

Supplementary activities

2009-02-11T10:49:00.001+01:00

If you are at a loose end while you're waiting for other members of your group to finish their tasks, work through the following activities:

Read this article on Breaking News and then do the exercises below it
Practise your spelling with this fun game
Practise your pronunciation and improve your best score with karaoke party

Barack Obama's inauguration speech

2009-01-21T11:42:00.001+01:00

What does he promise and pledge to do?
What do you think about his promises?

Bilbao

2009-01-14T19:38:00.003+01:00

Bilbao, in Spain, is the largest city in the Basque Country. The most important river there is the Nervión River.

It has about 360,000 inhabitants. Bilbao is also considered to be around the towns Erandio, Sondika, Derio, Zamudio,

Etxebarri, Basauri and Barakaldo.

Bilbao was founded by Diego Lopez de Haro on 15 June 1300.

The older part of Bilbao is the Old Town or "Casco Viejo" where there are many monuments, shops and tavems.

The most important museum of Bilbao is the Guggenheim. It's a modern and contemporary art museum.

It was designed by a Canadian man and the museum was opened in 1997. There is another Guggenheim in

the world that it's in United States of America. The exhibitions in the museum itself change often. It's centered

in Chinesse and Russian art. There is an important sculture called "Puppy" by Jeff Koons in front of the museum.

There is also another important museum that is the Maritime museum.

Athletic Club Bilbao is the football team of Bilbao.

The club plays in "primera división" since it's started en 1928.

They have won the league in eight ocassions.

They are famous as the "rojiblancos" because of their red and white

striped shirts. Their stadium is called San Mamés. Athletic only

signs to native proffesionals players.

The San Mamés stadium is hence nicknamed "the footlball

cathedral"

The university of Deusto is important too. It was founded in 1886. It is one of the most important institutions of Spain. The university has another campus in San Sebastian.

The cod pil pil is very typical in Bilbao. When the people came here

they usually try it and like it. The "pintxos" are also popular here and

the place where we eat them is in the "Casco Viejo".

In my opinion Bilbao is very beautiful and it has a lot of things to do here. The people who came

here always or usually like it, and the museum is the part most visited.

This week's tasks

2009-01-14T12:21:00.001+01:00

Check carefully through your hometown post make sure:

that it's organised into clear paragraphs and that each paragraph presents one clear idea
make sure there are no spelling or grammar mistakes

Then work through the following websites and think about what you've learned and liked about each:

Planet green game make a note of your score when you finish
A Norwegian game, Throw a shoe at Bush
A crossword
Mock election game
Some documentaries on science and history

My home town.

2009-01-07T20:26:00.014+01:00

My home town is Bilbao because I have lived there since I was born. It´s a small city in the north of Spain. When I was younger I wanted to go to live in a big city like Madrid or Barcelona but now I have changed my opinion because I think that Bilbao is great. I think that it isn´t very dangerous and you can feel safe because it´s very small and there isn´t much people. There are very many pubs too, in the `casco viejo´and there´s a very important museum called Guggenheim.

There´s a very important and prestigious university called `Deusto´s university´ where you can study many degrees. There centre of the city is Gran Via street where you can find the most famous and beautiful shops for clothes. This is part of the city that I like most.

If you go to Bilbao you should eat "bacalao al pil pil" which is very delicious!

My home town

2009-01-07T20:23:00.008+01:00

The city where I live is Bilbao. It´s not very big but it´s very beautiful and interesting because you can do lots of thing,like visit very interesting places .Bilbao is in the north of Spain,in the Basque Country. Bilbao has 354.145 habitants.The mayor of Bilbao is Iñaki Azkuna.

Themountains which are next to Bilbao is Gorbea, which the half of the mountain is in Alava and the other half is in Bizkaia and it´s high is 1481 metres.Pagasarri is 673 metres and the Ganekogorta which is next to Pagasarri and it´s 998 metres high.Bilbao´s nickname is the hole.

The climate of Bilbao isn´t very pleasant ,because it rains a lot . In winter the are more or less from 3 degrees to 10 , and in summer the weather is better but the summers aren´t very hot.

The most beautiful places of Bilbao are the Guggenheim museum, the Nervion River which is very important.And the oldest part of the city. Most of the people who come to Bilbao visit those places.

Bilbao's football team it's Athletic club.They have been playing in the firts divition since 1928.And they have won the liga eigth times.The stadium of this team is San Mames and it's nickname is "the football cathredal".Athletic it's the only team who has all the players from the Basque Country.Their t-shirt is striped red and white and their manager is Joaquin Caparros.My favourite player is Yeste, because he is a very good player and he aports a lot to the team.

Inmy opinion,the people who live there are very nice.Lots of people come to visit this city and they say that they like it very much,and that the food is one of the best of the world.

Bilbao by Mikel

2009-01-07T20:16:00.008+01:00

I´m going to write about Bilbao, the city where I live. Bilbao is the capital of the province of Biscay and one of the most important city in Spain. Bilbao has 354,145 inhabitants and all the villages around Bilbao compose Great Bilbao, with 950,155inhabitants. Some years ago, Bilbao was really important because of industry and port, the fourth port in Spain.
I live in a small area in the north of Bilbao called Begoña. Begoña is important because of its basilica and the Etxebarria park. The Basilica of Begoña is a beautiful Gothic church built in the 17th century. The Virgin of Begoña is the most important Virgin for the people of Biscay. Etxebarria Park is the biggest park in Bilbao and some years ago there were some factories and now there is a big fireplace in memory of these factories.
Gran Via is the most important street in Bilbao and one of the widest. In Gran Via there are the most fashion shops and business buildings. If you like going shopping this is the best place . Here there is the highest building of all Bilbao: the BBVA building.
If you like sports there is a good basketball team in Bilbao called Iurbentia Bilbao Basket. This team plays in the ACB league and it has become a really good team. Iurbentia plays in La Casilla court, a small court but a beautiful place to see all the matches.

My home town, Bilbao.

2009-01-07T20:11:00.007+01:00

My home town is Bilbao.It is in the north of Spain,in the Basque Country.It isn't as big as Donosti or Vitoria, the other cities of the Basque Country. There are 354,145 inhabitants in Bilbao. The city hall of Bilbao is on the old part of the city. The mayor is Iñaki Azkuna.

In the old part of the city there is the Arriaga theatre and the "Plaza Nueva". There are also some comercial streets.In the old part of the city there are some bars of "Pintxos".It is a little snack that people eat at the same time that they drink. Many Pintxos are very tasty.

The rest of the centre of Bilbao are the areas of Abando, Moyua and Indautxu.The "Paseo de Uribitarte" goes from Abando to Moyua along side to Nervion river. People go there to ride a bicycle, to rolling or simply for a walk. It is a beautiful paseo. If you go along, you arrive to the Guggenheim museum which is an art gallery.

Around of Bilbao there are many mountains like Gorbea (1482 metres high), Anboto (1331 metres high), Pagasarri (673 metres high). In my opinion you can see very beautiful sceneries from the top of these mountains.

The climate of Bilbao is very wet.

Many people of Bilbao are fanatic of the football team Athletic Club. This team is playing in the liga since 1928. They t-shirts are striped red and white.Athletic only sings professional players who were born in one of the seven provinces of the Baque Country.Their stadium is called San Mamés and it is nicknamed " the football cathedral".

If you came to the Baque Country come to visit Bilbao. It's very beautiful city!

Bilbao

2009-01-07T19:59:00.013+01:00

My home town is Bilbao.
I live in Bilbao since I born.
The most important building in Bilbao is the Guggenheim museum.
Guggenheim museum is a modern and contemporary art museum designed by Canadian.

Another building important in Bilbao is the Arriaga Theatre. Is an opera house in Bilbao, Spain. It was built in Neoclassical style by architect Joaquín Rucoba in 1890.

An other site to visit is Old part of the city.

The tipical food in Bilbao is the bacalao.

Bilbao has a football team in the Spanish First Division men.

His name is Athletic Club and it was founded in 1898 and it won 8 leagues.

Bilbao was too a basketball team called Iurbentia Bilbao Basket.

Bermeo

2009-01-07T19:49:00.013+01:00

Bermeo

My home town is Bermeo. But it's a long time since I have lived in there, I moved away when I was four. I left Bermeo because I had to study in Deusto. However, now I like Deusto more than Bermeo.

In Bermeo they sell a lot of fishes. You can eat the best "marmitako" anywhere in Bermeo. There are also shops where you can buy fishing products .

Bermeos high school is one the most difficult ones. One of the most important student of the high school is Nestor Barrenetxea, he is a sculptor and there is a place in the park of Bermeo where yo can see his sculptures.

In Bermeo there is a shipyard where the ships made of wood, not with metal. There is the museum of the fishing and a Church and Convent of San Francisco that it's 652 years old.

If you go to Bermeo you can visit the Kaixio bar, and the batun-batun pub, they are one of the best bars of Bermeo. And in the port you can find an Italian ice-cream parlour.

Bilbo by Aritz

2009-01-07T19:42:00.011+01:00

Bilbo is an interesting city in the north of Spain ( in the northwest of the Basque Country ) It is the capital of Bizkaia and the most important city in the Basque Country because of its industry and population ( 354,145 inhabitants (2006).

The most important building in Bilbo is the Guggenheim museum that is located near the Nervion River, the river that crosses all the city. This museum is designed by Frank Gehry. The museum has the shape of a modern ship, and it has a lot of curves. I suggest you walk along the river, because you can see the most important buildings of Bilbo ( Zubizuri, The Council, University of Deusto, Euskalduna...).

Bilbo also has a very modern underground, built in 1995. It is the cleanest underground in the world and one of the most beautiful. It has got two lines but they are building a third line.

Finally there is a famous soccer team in Bilbo, Athletic Club de Bilbao. It is a historic team of the national first division and I suggest you to see a match of this club at San Mames, the cathedral of the Spanish soccer. It is a special club, there are only basque people playing in it.

Bilbo is a very beautiful city and I suggest you to visit it with your family or any of your friends.

Bilbao

2009-01-07T19:42:00.010+01:00

The city where I live is Bilbao.This city it's in the the north of Spain in the basque country.It's a little city which contains 354,145 habitants.Bilbao it's also named "The botxo", it was founded the 15 of June in 1300.The mayor of Bilbao is Iñaki Azkuna.Bilbao is surrounded by mountais for example Artxanda or Pagasarri and by little cities like Erandio, Sondika and Derio.Bilbao has an oceanic climate.

In Bilbao there are some museums like the Guggenheim Museum, Fine arts Museum,Maritime Museum...but the most important is the first one.The Guggeenheim Museum of Bilbao is a tcontemporary art museum designed by Canadian:Frank Gehry.Is near the Nervion river.Is one of the places the most beautifual of Bilbao and a lot of tourist came to sea it.I like it very much because is a very original museum and there is also a park.

The tipical food of Bibao is the "bacalao".I think that is very tasty and makes a good meal.I often eat it but is not very easy to make. We can do "bacalao al pil-pil,bacalao a la vizcaina..."

The football team of Bilbao is the Atletic Club and the basketball coach is the Iurbentia Bilbao Basket.I often go to sea them to the San mames, the stadium.

BILBAO

2009-01-07T19:40:00.060+01:00

My home town is Bilbao which is a city of Spain. Bilbao is the largest city in the Basque Country and it has long streets for walking in. I would like to mention special buildings like the Guggenheim Museum, Euskaldun Theatre or the old part of the city.

The Basque Country has a very varied food which we can emphasize the fish like "Bacalao al Pilpil" or "Cocochas". Other kinds of foods are nice but the fresh fish is better because Bilbao is close to the sea and they had a fishing industry.

Bilbao has great universities like University of Deusto which is one of the most important institutions of Spain and the Bilbao campus offers different studies. University of Bilbao was created in 1968 and it is a public university

In addition people do many sports like soccer, basketball but specially they go surfing which is practiced in the beaches. Bilbao has a football team which is called Athletic Club of Bilbao.

Why don't you come to Bilbao?

BILBAO!

2009-01-07T19:40:00.055+01:00

My home town is Bilbao. I've lived here since I was born. There are different languages, apart from Spanish people speaks Basque. I think it's very interesting place to visit because it has a lot of places to see like the Guggenheim Museum or the Arriaga Theatre.

It's easy to find fresh fish because Bilbao is in the North of Spain and the sea is nearby. Also you can find good meat and other kinds of food. But one of the most typical dishes is "Chipirones en su tinta". They are black and they haven´t got a beautiful appearance, however in my opinion they are delicious.

Bilbao was founded by Don Diego López de Haro on 15 June 1300. The Old Part of the city is called "Old Bilbao", Bilbao La Vieja or Bilbo Zarra and there you can walk and eat in many bars.

Bilbao has got a football team with a lot of fans and a big stadium, San Mamés.

So, if you are in the north of Spain, why don't you come to Bilbao?

My home town

2009-01-07T19:38:00.004+01:00

My home town is Bilbao.

Bilbao is the largest city in the Basque Country. I have been living here since I was born so when I am older I would like to continue living here with my friends and my family. Bilbao is not big or small but you have all you need to live well.

In my opinion Bilbao´s weather is cold and specially in the winter. In summer the weather is hotter but not enough for me. In July I go to the south of Spain there the weather is really hot.

If you go to Bilbao and you love shopping like me you should visit some zones like Moyua Abando or Indautxu. There you will find lots of shops to buy clothes, shoes, earrings...

Apart from the shops you can find gardens and places to rest. This is my favourite zone in Bilbao.

And if one of your hobbies is football you should see team football matche´s. It is the one which represents our city and I love going to San Mames to see them. W hen they lose I don´t like but if they the win it is really good!

Finally I wuold encourage you to visit Bilbao and specially the zones I have meant.

Your home town

2009-01-07T12:40:00.000+01:00

Look at my post on my home town, Leicester.

Now write a post on your home town. Make it as interesting as you can so that anybody reading your post would like to visit it. Try to avoid cliches such as: Bilbao is very beautiful or Athletic is the best football club in the world!

Do a Google search or look up your town in Wikepedia to find information that perhaps you didn't know about and can improve your post.

But remember: no copying and pasting! Everything you write should be in your own words. And don't forget do do a spellcheck before you publish your post.

Leicester

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My home town is Leicester which, for some reason, you pronounce as "Lesta". But it's a long time since I have lived in there, I moved away when I was seventeen. Then I thought it a very boring place, not particularly big or small, and wanted to live somewhere more exciting. However, now I think differently. There is a great cultural mix in the city with many people second, third and fourth generation immigrants.

You can eat the best Indian food anywhere in Leicester. It's particularly good for vegetarian recipes that originate from the south of India. There are also shops where you can buy material for saris, ingredients for Jamaican dishes and whole streets where Kenyan jewellers display their wares.

Leicester University has an international reputation based on the fact that both students and teachers are engaged in research about space. Leicester Physicists (led by Professor Ken Pounds) played an important role in proving Einstein's General Theory of Relativity - that black holes exist and are common in the universe.

And if you are in search of history, you will find some of the most important Roman remains in the whole of Europe dating from around AD 50 when the city was used as a military settlement.

So if you are thinking of a trip to England, you can see that it's well worth planning a stop there.

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An interview with a the video maker.

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An interview with the video maker.

Funny Christmas Video

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Funny Christmas video

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Cats

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An inteview with the video maker

Beaches

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An interview with the video maker.

Patricia on Christmas

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An interview with the video maker

Sum41

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An interview with the video maker

Animals

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Music!!

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An interview with the video maker

Teddy bears

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An interview with the video maker

Gonzalo on mountains

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I put an interview about mountains.

Christmas fun

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Can you find any strange, funny or interesting facts about Christmas? Or give some advice about how to have fun during the holidays? If you want some suggestions, check out these websites:

Now write your post!

ice-creams by Alba

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teddy bears

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children

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Mountains

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Music!! -- Mikel

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people

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Sum 41 - Laso

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cats

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Christmas

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Animals

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An interview with the video maker

Dogs by Enetz

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Beach by Leire

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Love

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Make an Animoto video

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Go to FlickrStorm
Think of a topic that interests you and write it in the search box
Click on advanced and the option Search creative commons photos
Download the photos you like (you need 12 - 15) to the class folder on the computer
When you save your photos, give them a name you'll be able to recognise them by
Now go to Animoto
Click on Sign up to create a new account - quick and easy to do
Now click on Create video
Select Animoto short
Click on Upload
Find the folder where you downloaded the photos you saved earlier and select them
Once your photos have uploaded, think of some text to add and click on add text
Drag and drop your text to where you want it in the video then click on Continue
In Get your music, choose Select from our collection and select something you like
Give your video a title and click on Create video
When your movie is complete (which takes a time), view it
Now click on the option Enbed/Post online (the pin icon) and then on Blogger
When prompted, fill in the email address you use for signing into Blogger and your password - the title of this blog should appear in the pop up menu
For Title of post put the title of your video.
Click on OK and Animoto should advise you that your video has been posted on the blog

Enetz Wet Wet Wet

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podcast

Gonzalo Green Day

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podcast

Alba

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podcast

Laura B.

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podcast

laura

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podcast

Maria

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podcast

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podcast

Laso_Coldplay

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Podcast

Mikel - Green Day

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Podcast

Paula - Pussycat dolls

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podcast

PATRICIA-AVRIL LAVIGNE

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podcast

On Rihanna

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Podcast

Read, listen and record a podcast

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Read your classmates' posting on their favourite groups and singers.
Chose one that you think you have the most to say about (it could be because you like them too or because you think they are really bad). Pay particular attention to what your classmate has said about why the group/singer has been successful.
Go to Podomatic
Log in with the login I've given you
Click on My Podcast
Click on Post New Episode
Click on Record with your webcam or microphone
Click on Record and talk about what you think is interesting about the group or singer and say whether you think they deserve the success they have had.
Preview what you have recorded and click on Next step
Give the episode a title e.g. Ann on Rihanna
Click on Next step
Skip the next page by clicking on Next step
Skip the next page by clicking on Next step
Click on Post Episode
Click on My Podcast Page
Click on the title of your episode
Copy its URL (address) from the browser
Create a New Post on the blog
Give it a title e.g. Ann on the Rihanna
Write the word "podcast" and create a link (clicking on the chain icon) to your podcast episode.

Biography of Ronan Keating.

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Ronan Patrick Jonh Keating was born on March of 1977.His mother died on February, because of she had cancer.He married an irish model Yvonne Connolly and they had three children,Jack,Mary and Ali.
In October, Ronan entered in the Guinness book of records for beeing the only artist ever to have 30 top singles.On the third may he went to Eurovision.
On September 7, 2006 he met his idol Cristiano Ronaldo and now the are friends.On 2007 Ronan became the first international number one.
Ronan ran in the London Marathon on 13 April 2008 for raising money for cancer.He ran a best time 3 hours and 59 minutes.
In February 2009 Ronan Keating will raise money for comic Relief.
Ronan has became successful because he has sold lot of his disk and his songs have became very popular and people like them.

Kate Perry

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Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson is an American singer-songwriter. She was born in Santa Barbara, California, the 25 of October of 1984. She is the middle child of two pastors, so she grew up listening to Christian music and singing in church, but then she said that she wasn't a typical Christian because she had done "lots of bad things" during her adolescence. She went to the High School of Dos Pueblos in Goleta, California, and she moved to Los Angeles at the age of eighteen.

She released her first CD (Katy Hudson) in 2001, a Christian gospel album. Then she changed her surname to Perry because "Katy Hudson" was too close to Kate Hudson. Perry is her mother's maiden name. Perry's biggest influences are pop rockers Cher, Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, and Shirley Manson.

In 2004, Perry worked for the record production team The Matrix, who had previously worked with Avril Lavigne, Liz Phair, Hilary Duff, Skye Sweetnam, Korn and Britney Spears. One of the tracks she recorded with Ballard, "Simple", was released on the soundtrack of the 2005 film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

In 2006, Perry appeared on P.O.D.'s single, "Goodbye for Now".

I think that she became successful because her songs are very nice with strong beat and everybody likes them. She is responsible and hard working, so she is famous now.

Avril lavigne:

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Avril Lavigne´s birth name is Avril Ramona Lavigne. This singer was born on September 27th, 1984 in Canada. Now She is twenty-four years old.
The genres of this singer are modern rock, pop punk,pop rock, power pop, and alternative rock.
She plays some instruments for example the electric guitar the piano and the drums.
Avril Lavigne´s debut album was released in 2002. She sold more than seventeen million copies around the world and it was certified six times platinum in the United States.
Later she did another disk called "The Best Damn Thing". This album was her third one.The album was produced by Dr. Luke.
In this album you can find many popular songs like "When you are gonne" or "hot".
The album shows high pop-punk influences.
Lavigne has been doing a small tour to promote The Best Damn Thing, with tickets available only to members of her fan club and her fans were very greatfull. The album has sold a total of 5.4 million copies worldwide in October 2008.
Avril Lavigne has worked in more things apart from her albums.

Lavigne has been involved in a number of charities. Lavigne also covered 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' for War Child's Peace Songs compilation.

To finish I would say that this singer is one of the best of the world and I have choosen her because I like her a lot.
I think he is successful because she works a lot to be and when you want to be something and you try it in the end you achieve it.

-- Coldplay --

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Coldplay is an English alternative rock band formed in 1998. The group leader is Chris Martin. He is the vocalist, the guitarist and the pianist of the band. The other components of Coldplay are Jonny Buckland, the lead guitarist; Guy Berryman, the bassist; and Will Champion, the drummer.

The components of the band met at the University College London, in 1996. The first members
of the group were Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland. The first name of the group was Pectoralz. Later Guy Berryman, a classmate, joined to the group in 1997. They started to play in small clubs and then Will Champion joined them. They changed the name of the group to Coldplay.

They became famous with their first single "Yellow" from their first album "Parachutes" and they were nominated to the Mercury Prize. Their second album was "A Rush of Blood to the Head "(2002). Their next album "X&Y" (2005) was very well received . Coldplay's last album "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends" (2008) has been really successful and I think it´s a great album.

I think that Coldplay has been very successful because their songs are really beautiful and I have chosen this group because I like their type of music and I like their songs, specially their last song: Viva La Vida

the biography of good charlotte

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Good charlotte is a popular pop rock group from Maryland. The members of the group are Joel, Billy, Paul, Benji and Dean. Joel and Benji are twins. Joel is the vocalist, Benji is the guitarrist, Billy the guitars keyboards, Paul the bass guitar and Dean is the drummer.

They started playing in small venues. They became popular very quickly. In 2000 they published their first album. " The Young and the Hoppeless" is their most popular disk, they sold three million copies.During their succesfully disk they appeared on TV on CNN.They also became popular on MTV, where their music videos were played. During their disk career they have published "The Chronicles of Life and Death ", and "Good Morning Revival ". They became succesfull when they published this disk that people liked very much. Now they are a famous group because many people like their music.They have played many concerts and many people go to watch them.

I think they have become succesfull because they play very beautiful songs.

Pussycat Dolls !

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Pussycat dolls is an American pop group. They are girls and they are from Los Angeles, California. In 1994 they presented a burlesque group and in 2004 they became a pop
group. They are five members : Ashley Roberts, Nicole Scherzinger, Jessica Sutta,
Melody Thornton and Kimberly Wyatt.
They released their first single in 2004 and it was very successful. It was called "Don't Cha".
They recently released their new album.
They started to appear on tv series like "Girlicious" and "Charlie's angels".
Nicole Scherzinger became the lead singer in 2003. In 2005 she appeared on recordings
with Will Smith.
The most popular songs that they have are "Don't Cha", "When I grow up" and "I don't need
a man".
I think that they are succesful because their songs have got a good beat and in the discos you can dance them.

Biography of Wet Wet Wet

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Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish band that formed in 1980.
The group is composed by Marti Pellow (vocals) , Tommy Cunningham ( drums vocals ) , Graeme Clark ( bass, vocals ) and Neil Mitchell ( keyboards, vocals ).
In September 2006 they composed two Cd's with ten songs in each volume.

Volume one included songs like "Sweet Little Mystery", "Goodnight Girl", "All I Want", "Love Is All Around", "Somewhere Somehow", "Wishing I Was Lucky", "I Don't Wanna Fight Anymore", "Sweet Surrender", "Angel Eyes " and "East of the River".

Volume two included songs of "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Julia Says", "Hold Back the River, "(Feels Like I'm) Walking on Water", "Lip Service", "Don't Want to Forgive Me Now", "Gypsy Girl", "Temptation", "I Can Give You Everything" and "Learn From Each Mistake". Graeme Duffin played the guitar, while Paul Spong (trumpet), Neil Sidwell (trombone) and Jamie Talboy (saxophone).
I chose this group because is a very good group and they composed a lot of sings.
They have been successful because they composed a lot of songs.

Jonas Brothers

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Jonas brothers is a band from New Jersey. The band consists on three brothers: Kevin, 21 years old; Joe, 19 years old; and Nick, 16 years old. The band was good, it will be better when Disney Channel publicises the group.
They made three records: It's about me, Jonas Brothers and A little bit longer. They have another brother, Franklin, and the four brothers are Evangelical Christians, they are not going to have premarital sex.
They made a film with Disney channel "Camp Rock", and in the future they are going to do the series Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream.
In my opinion it is a good band. Because they started like a family band and now they are the best band for many people. And the play very well.

good charlotte

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It´s a beautiful song.Listen to it.http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2paQgPKlc4Y&feature=related

Green Day

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Green Day is a very famous American punk rock band formed in 1987 . The trio consists of Billy Joe Amstrong, he is the singer of the band and also the guitarrist; Mike Dirnt, he plays the bass guitar and he is the second vocalist too; there is another boy in the group, Tre Cool , the drummer of this fantastic Californian band.
Green day has seven studio albums: 39/smooth, Kerplunk, Dookie ( it was their first famous album, they sold over 10 million albums in the U.S.A and 15 million copies around the world ) Insomniac, Nimrod, Warning, these last three albums didn´t have a big success, and the last and the most important studio album is American Idiot it sold over 5 million copies and this one has
attracted young people.
The band has won a lot of awards since they formed: Three Grammys, Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot, and Record of the Year for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"

Green Day is a successful band because for me is a very good American band, and they did a very good songs since they formed, bolulevard of broken dreams, american idiot...So for me and for a lot of people Green Day is the best american band at the moment.

Biography of Simple Plan

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Simple Plan is composed of five Canadians friends and began in 1993.But the band has been active since 1999.We don't now very well why they gave this name to his band because when a man asked them why they said that they never had thought of anything better, and that the name is derived from a movie. Simple plan has released three albums. The first one was " No pads, no helmets...Just Balls" in 2002, the second one was "Still Not Getting Any..." in 2004( which showed a dramatic change in Simple Plan's style as well) and that last album was "Simple Plan" in 2006.
The band created a Simple Plan foundation in 2004 to help children or families who are ill, experiencing difficulties, handicaps....
Their successful life started in The United States with their first single "Perfect" , it was a record.
After it, they were famous in all the world. I think that they are successful because their music is very beautiful and everybody likes it. They have created all types of music and I find that very interesting.
This is the biography of Simple Plan a very good pop punk band.

Pussycat Dolls - When I grow up

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I've chosen this song because I really like it and I think that it got a very good beat.

Here are the lyrics

RIHANNA! :)

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Rihanna was born on February 20th, 1998. She is a singer, model and a fashion designer.
She is from Barbados. She has sold 11 million albums. Rihanna´s first debut was the album:Music of the sun. She has got two brothers called,Rorrey and Rajad Fenty.
She studied at Charles F. Broome Memorial School. When she was 15 years old one of her friends introduced her to record producer Evan Rogers.
Rihanna has created a charity to help terminally ill children and she performed some concerts to raise money for that charity.
In 2007, she made her third studio album, Good Girl Gone Bad.
She has done a single with a Spanish singer called David Bisbal. This single is called `I hate that I love you´ and it´s very nice. The song is sung in both Spanish and English.
Finally I am going to tell you that this singer had become successful because she sings very well and her songs are very beautiful.

Love song

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Here are the lyrics

I've chosen this song because I like it and I feel happy when I hear it.

Sing and investigate task

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Go to this karaoke page. See if you can find the song you chose. Get a set of headphones with a mike and sing along to it. (If your song's not there, choose another.)
Check out if the singer or group you chose is on myspace and also if there's an entry on wikipedia
Create a new post. Using the information you've found, write about what you think is interesting about the history of your singer/group. Say why you think they have been successful. Put it in your own words - no copying and pasting! Don't forget to give your post a title.
Write a comment on your classmates' posting: say what you think is interesting about the lives and music of the singers/groups they chose.

Kate Perry

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I've chosen this song because I think that it is very beautiful and strong beat.

Here are the lyrics