Don't stop the music!

Hi!

I suppose you all know Rihanna!!!:) After Umbrella, she has released her last single "Please, don't stop the music". I know you will love the song because you have heard it plenty of times in discos and on TV, Now, it's time to show that you can learn the lyric and understand what she is saying...

First, listen and enjoy the music video, then go to the activities, and remember! you can watch it as many times as you need!:) Have fun!

EXERCISES:

1) FIND THE MISSING WORD: “BABY I MUST SAY YOUR AURA IS...”

2) WHAT ARE THE PARTS OF THE BODY THAT APPEAR IN THE SONG?

3) WRONG ORDER. WATCH THE VIDEOCLIP AND REORDER THE SENTENCE: (PARTY / JUST / TO / I / HERE / CAME)

4) WHERE DOES RIHANNA WANT TO GO?

5) TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES:
- I wasn’t looking for nobody when you looked my way....
- Do you know what you started?...
- I wanna take you away...

6) FIND TWO EXAMPLES OF PHRASAL VERBS THAT APPEAR IN THE SONG.

House

Hello!

I suppose many of you know Doctor House because at least once we have met him on TV, Channel 4.

This sarcastic doctor is going to be the centre of our lesson today. First of all, we are going to watch the video and just try to understand the general meaning.

Then you have some short questions you will have to answer, please pay attention to highlighted vocabulary (use the links to see the meaning) and don't copy from the script. Just give your opinion and don't worry about the spelling!!! (We're just here to learn!) Hope you enjoy it!

Activities

1.Once you have listened to the video, now you can go through it again and have a look at the transcript. There are some words which you should pay attention on.

[Cue to House's Office area.]
House: God talks to him.
Chase: It's not psychosis, he's just religious. The only medical issue that showed up on the blood work is low sodium.
House: No - you talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you - you're psychotic.
Chase: A lot of people experience their religion as something more than symbolic. That doesn't mean that---
House: God ever talk to you when you were in the seminary?
Chase: [laughs]
House: [gives him a smug look]
Chase: No.
House: God's loss, our gain. He's either psychotic, or a scam artist.
Foreman: He was actually , uh, really impressive.
House: Well yeah, with the burning bush and all it's quite the show.
Cameron: He's intelligent, polite, dignified, he's not a typical 15 year old.
Foreman: And he told Cameron God wants her to stop being pissed at me over the article.
House: God knows you stole Cameron's article?
Foreman: He knows she's harboring vengeful thoughts.
Cameron: I'm over it.
House: Yeah. I can tell that from the Berlin wall of body language between you. I'm shocked that he picked up on it. Low sodium - check for Addison's?
Chase: No pigmentation and potassium levels were nominal.
House: Cirrhosis?
{Foreman: Liver feels fine. Trans and minasous were normal.}
House: [sighs] We should monitor his saline intake to correct the low sodium. No more than one MEQ per liter per hour. Let's push the patient history to see if there's any evidence of drugs or other delusions.
Chase: You're going to talk to a patient?
House: God talks to him. It would be arrogant of me to assume that I'm better than God.
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[Cue to Patient's room. House slides the door open.]
House: So. You're a faith healer. Or is that a pejorative? Do you prefer something like "divine health management"? I thought God might have mentioned I was coming.
Boyd: I'm OK with 'Faith Healer', Doctor House.
House: Oh... That's a nice one. You didn't even go with 'I see an H in a medical coat'.
Boyd: The nurses talk about you a lot.
House: Ah, don't believe them - I keep a sock in my pants. Faith - that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something they have no proof of at all. Like that's an achievement.
Boyd: God's asking for our trust. You can't love somebody and not trust them.
House: Trust has to be earned. You can't trust someone hiding in a closet.
Boyd: You don't trust anyone.

2. Now, leave us a comment answering these questions.

• Does House think that the boy has any kind of mental disease? If your answer is affirmative, say why you believe so.


• Which adjectives say that the boy is really mature?


• What's a faith healer? Do you think House is making fun of the boy?

Climate Change

Hello everybody!

Have you seen the poll in the main page of our blog? Yeah! We are speaking about Climate Change, this awful problem appearing on TV everyday that seems to be quite important. But, do you think we could do something to avoid it? In the poll, you find 4 different answers, so, please, do VOTE on it and then leave a comment in which you explain why you chose one or another.
Perhaps, many of you do not have a clear idea of the whole issue of "Climate Change" so here, you have a short text that explains all you need to know about it.

What is Climate Change?

The climate of the Earth is always changing. In the past it has altered as a result of natural causes. Nowadays, however, the term climate change is generally used when referring to changes in our climate which have been identified since the early part of the 1900's. The changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted over the next 80 years are thought to be mainly as a result of human behaviour rather than due to natural changes in the atmosphere.

The greenhouse effect is very important when we talk about climate change as it relates to the gases which keep the Earth warm. It is the extra greenhouse gases which humans have released which are thought to pose the strongest threat.