Yo ♥ Pocoyo
Given my love of Pocoyo and the imminent festivities, I just had to share this clip with you.
Classroom Displays – the Last Online School
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Saturday, 19 December 2009
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Learn Spanish hand gestures.
Just picked up the following from Twitter via @josepicardo who was alerted to it by @luciax.
Published by The Guardian in its Language Resources - Spanish area, 'Learn Spanish gestures' is a guide to some typically Spanish gesticulating that you could employ to look truly authentic as you complain of being fed up or tell your friend how busy the bar was at lunchtime.
Gesticulating is something that I can't help doing when speaking, especially in Spanish so this is just up my street. And I can see that this would be a useful resource for intercultural understanding activities, comparing typical gestures. I recall discovering the hard way that gestures that are innocuous in one country can cause offence to other nationalities - not my fault that Greece lost 5-0 in the football and noone had told me that holding up five fingers with my palm facing a Greek was rude!
Sunday, 3 May 2009
¡Adiós Señorita Ovejita Rosita! ¡Hola Pablito Pingüino!
Many of you who are regular visitors may have been puzzled at one time or another by a odd munching noise that started a few seconds after the page opened and went on sporadically whilst you read, Some worked out what it was, others remained puzzled, whilst still more asked me what it was.
For those who are still none the wiser, the noise was Señorita Ovejita Rosita, my virtual pet pink pig, who was a bit of a greedy guts and was constantly munching grass. There was an 'off' switch for her noise and as I had set it to 'off' I was unaware of how noisy she was.
However, after she freaked out attendees at a recent Flashmeeting and provoked comment in the chat, I felt enough was enough, and Señorita Ovejita Rosita has been moved on to greater things.
Her replacement is the altogether more placid (and silent!) Pablito Pingüino. Feel free to toss him a fish every so often - he'd very much like that.
Monday, 23 March 2009
There's only one....
I'm a great one for writing songs and little ditties to help children (and those slightly older!) learn languages. We've had Diez animales to the tune of Ten green bottles, Hace sol y hace calor to Half a pound of Tuppeny Rice and ¿Quieres un helado? to a random (very annoying!) tune I composed myself.
It seems that some of my songwriting (dis)ability has been passed on in the genes as my eldest was inspired to song by Tottenham beating Chelsea on Saturday. Odd, as he is a Man Utd. fan , but his Dad and little brother are Spurs fans so I guess it is explicable. Very catchy, I have to say.
Strange that you weren't inspired to song by last week's match against Liverpool - now what was the score, Isaac? Oh yes - Man Utd 1 - Liverpool 4 :o)
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Mike is back!
For those of you who read my post a while back about the One Semester of Spanish Love song, you'll be pleased to know that Mike hasn't given up on wooing his 'chica'. Now, with another semester (term) of Spanish behind him, and with a little help from a friend, he's back with the Second Semester of Spanish Love Song.
Enjoy!
Saturday, 20 December 2008
You're noone if you're not on Twitter!
A rather amusing song about the progress of social networking! Rather tongue in cheek I feel!
You can check out the French translation and the lyrics by going to Ben Walker's site.
NB I know it's been around since August, but I've only just found it and it amused me in my bunged up state so indulge me ;-)
Friday, 19 December 2008
Stephen Fry on Catalan Christmas traditions :o)
Now I've broken up for Christmas holidays, I'm ill - isn't it always the way with teachers? So, to get myself in the Christmas spirit, and because it is very funny - and true! - here's the inimitable Stephen Fry explaining a couple of rather particular Catalan traditions. Perhaps not the clip to use to explain it in class though!!
Warning - these clips contain coarse language that may offend.
And here's a clip of children attacking their Caga Tio!
Friday, 21 November 2008
Typealyzer - what type is your blog?
Via my FriendFeed, I was asked by John Johnston (via Twitter!) what type of blog I had, linking to Typealyzer. Being a nosey, inquisitive soul, I decided to find out! And what I found was rather interesting.
I'm forever doing quizzes and surveys on Facebook like Which Sesame Street puppet are you? (Zoey) Which Heroes power do you have? (Peter Petrelli) and Which Scrubs character are you? (Elliot) and frankly, whilst amusing, they interest me for about 10 seconds before I move on to poking someone or finding out if I remember the 80s.
However, this captured my attention for much longer. I put in my URL as requested and was given the following analysis.
And apart from the bit about being impulsive (have to work at that!) and following things through (which I do!), I'd say it was rather accurate! especially the bit about sitting still and remaining inactive!
But even more interesting was the next bit which analysed my brain activity. 
Made me think - why am I so low on feeling, intuition and imagination? I'd say I was that way inclined but my blog doesn't. Perhaps it's the way it's analysed - not sure if it's on the last post or on the whole thing. Perhaps I'll have another go in a week or so and see if it tells me anything different.
If you've got a blog, I'd be interested to know what it says about you. I did check a few and discovered that Chris Fuller is a Doer like me, Joe Dale and Oscar Stringer are Guardians, Tim Rylands is a Mechanic, Tom Barrett is a Scientist and Jo Rhys Jones is a Duty Fulfiller.
Monday, 17 November 2008
La historia de Lego
Acabo de leer un artículo que me chifló sobre la Historia del Lego. Como madre de dos niños de seis y nueve años, no puedo escapar del Lego - han pedido de Papá Noel el Lego de la Guerra en las Galaxias.
Noticias Locas hoy habla de The Lego MiniFig Timeline que muestra los muñequitos de acción Lego desde 1978 hasta hoy.
Ahora estoy lista hablar con mis hijos sobre el Lego con más autoridad ;o)
Friday, 31 October 2008
Thursday, 30 October 2008
'This weekend I will mainly be wearing red.'
Having accosted him at the bus stop, I had the pleasure of travelling from Cowes to Newport with Adam Sutcliffe last Friday. Not quite sure why or how the subject arose, but I do know that at some point during the journey I said 'This weekend I will mainly be wearing red' as Adam reminded me of it on Saturday evening when I was in my fourth red outfit of the weekend saying 'you weren't joking, were you?!'
So, it amused me to read the following article on BBC Mundo:
Basically, it suggests that if a woman wears red, she is seen as more attractive and more worth spending money on by men (but not by women!)Más sexy si se viste de rojo.
¿Quiere volver a un hombre loco de amor? Vístase de rojo. O al menos eso fue lo que encontró un estudio científico.
I'd just decided I would stick to one colour to save problems of deciding what to wear jewellery and accessory-wise and I'd just bought some lovely clothes in Barcelona. But it makes you wonder, doesn't it?? ;o)
Friday, 26 September 2008
SOS - Save our Silbo Gomero!
On European Day of Languages, I thought I'd join with busuu.com and do my bit for the language of a small Spanish island called Gomera which is danger or extinction. Perhaps you'd like to do your bit too? Watch the video below, then look at Silbo Gomero units on Busuu.com. Then you too will be able to communicate in this unique ancient language that can be heard from 8km away.
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Com sobreviure un atac zombie.
Estigiu preparats!
The not
es accompanying the video say:
"Hi, I was looking for something interesting at archive.org and I found your (lonebanana)short film 'What to do in a zombie attack'. I have to say that I found it terrific, i was laughing out loud the first time i was watching it! I'm a high school teacher in Barcelona (Spain) and I was thinking to translate it into catalan (a language we talk in Catalunya, in the north of Spain and south of France) to show it to my pupils. Also I was thinking about giving a translated copy to a couple of friends who work in horror festivals to see if they can be interested in showing your short film. Great film!!"
Fun idea - you never know when you'll be be attacked by zombies ;o)
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
I love my MacBook!
Both my boys wanted to play on the computer this morning at the same time on different things - 9 year old is a fan of Fizzy.com and was playing Swords and Sandals 3 (about Roman gladiators apparently) whilst 6 year old was eager to visit Cbeebies and BABW. Eldest had grabbed the house PC and youngest looked at me with his big brown bush baby eyes...
So I did something I haven't done for weeks - I got out my laptop! And I could not believe how SLOOOOOOOOOOW it was! I'm so used to the speed of my MacBook that the slowness of my laptop was even more marked than it used to be. After nearly eight minutes of waiting and clicking, it finally got working - only to immediately crash! Started it up again - and although it looked promising, it's just crashed again. Consequently, boys are now exercising cooperation and playing on house PC together - and whatever they're doing is obviously tickling them as I can hear belly laughs as I type!
So - my advice? Get a Mac!
And if you can't, perhaps investigate these products -
There are lots more adverts on the Apple site - always worth a look if you need a giggle!
Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Mi mascota virtual.
Thought it was about time I adopted a pet for my blog.
There were no cows available at the Virtual Pet Shop unfortunately - anyhow, Angus would get jealous, wouldn't he @mrmackenzie?
So, in honour of my friend, The Countess of Devon, here's my new pet who will henceforth live in my sidebar.
Feel free to feed my sheep with hay or lettuce - just offer it to her and click for her to eat. Apologies that she's a noisy eater.
Noticias Locas.
One of my Google Reader / Feedly subscriptions is to a site called Noticias Locas which offers 'Noticias curiosas, insólitas, raras .... pero rigurosamente ciertas', a bit like a site that catalogues 'And finally...' news items in Spanish.
I thought I'd share with you one that tickled me!
You can search here by title - find such gems as the Japanese biscuit with a special ingredient, the unfortunate Austrian girl with the tractor driving boyfriend, or Rory the horse who thinks it's a dog.
A warning - you couldn't use the site directly for pupils due to some dodgy adverts at the bottom, and some of the stories are of an 'adult' nature e.g this one about an interesting side effect of beer. However, if you pick your article and take a screen shot, or print it out, I think you could use some of the stories for gist reading - certainly in a secondary context, but also as an example of using all the clues you can to decipher meaning without understanding every word.
And, for amusement value, it can be quite amusing :oD
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