FAVOURITE WRITERS

  • ANA FRANK'S DIARY: Read this extraordinary book written by a young girl. You will be more tolerant!!!
  • HARUKI MURAKAMI: This Japanese writer has a very modern view of relationships.
  • HENNING MANKELL: Read his novels about Policeman Kurt Wallander. Besides, his social novels are excellent!
  • IAN MC. EWAN: I suggest you reading Saturday.
  • ISABEL ALLENDE. She is quite good when she writes about her own life
  • JONATHAN FRANZEN: Read his novel, Freedom. It's a long story about a Northamerican upper-class family.
  • JOSE SARAMAGO: Any novel by this Portuguese superb writer will make you think!
  • ORHAN PAMUK: A very interesting Turkish writer whose novels are always really worth reading
  • PAOLO GIORDANO: A young Italian writer who has written an impressive first novel entitled La solitudine dei numeri primi
  • PAUL AUSTER: Most of his novels are interesting. Read, for instance, Oracle Night or The book of illusions

03/12/2014

December's song

Watch the song "I feel fine" by the Beatles and translate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWTC5nFgwUQ

December's idiom

Steal a march on someone or something. Can you translate the following sentence?

Our competitor stole a march on us and got the big contract.

December's quote


December's joke

When I was young I didn't like going to weddings.
My grandmother would tell me, "You're next"
However, she stopped doing that after I started saying the same thing to her at funerals.

09/11/2014

November's song.

Click below and watch the song "Drive all night" by Bruce Springsteen.
What's your opinion of this song?

November's joke

TEACHER (to the class): Can anyone tell me the imperative of the verb “to go?” (No reply.) TEACHER: Go, class, go! CLASS: Thanks! See you tomorrow!

November's idiom

Can you translate the idiom Burst into laughter?

November's quote

15/10/2014

October's song

Translate the song I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU. If I should stay, I would only be in your way. So I'll go, but I know I'll think of you every step of the way. And I will always love you. I will always love you. You, my darling you. Mmm. Bittersweet memories, that is all I'm taking with me. So, goodbye. Please, don't cry. We both know I'm not what you need. And I will always love you. I will always love you. (Instrumental solo) I hope life treats you kind And I hope you'll have all you've dreamed of. And I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love. And I will always love you. I will always love you. I will always love you. I will always love you. I will always love you. I, I will always love you. You, darling, I love you. Ooh, I'll always, I'll always love you, Read more: Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You Lyrics

October's joke

TRANSLATE: What is the longest word in the English language? SMILES: there is a mile between the first and last letters!"

October's quote

Translate this quote: NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE, THE WORD ITSELF SAYS "I'M POSSIBLE"! AUDREY HEPBURN

October's idiom

Can you translate the following idiom? WORTH A DAMN

05/05/2014

May's idiom

IDIOMS: Draw a veil over something Example: He is one of the few who have refused to draw a veil over the moral breakdown induced by violence.

May's quote

Confucius By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

May's joke

One day a lawyer was riding in his limousine when he saw a guy eating grass He told the driver to stop. He got out and asked him, `Why are you eating grass`. The man replied, `I`m so poor, I can`t afford a thing to eat.` So the layer said, `Poor guy, come back to my house.` The guys then said, `But I have a wife and three kids.` The lawyer told him to bring them along. When they were all in the car, the poor man said, `Thanks for taking us back to your house, it is so kind of you.` The layer said, `You`re going to love it there, the grass is a foot tall.`

10/04/2014

April's quote

Aristotle Nature does nothing uselessly.

April's idiom

Can you translate the following: Not to lift a finger Example: The other man just watched and simply did not lift a finger to help.

April's joke

A teacher asks her students if they`re Yankees fans. All of the hands go up except for one student. `Okay, Bobby. What team are you a fan of?` `The Red Sox.` `Why`s that?` `Well, my parents are both Red Sox fans, so I`m a Red Sox fan too.` `That`s not a good answer, Bobby. If your parents were both morons, would you be a moron too?` `No, that would make me a Yankees fan!`

06/03/2014

March's joke

Three Doctors are dicussing which types of patients they prefer. Doctor Watson says, `I prefer librarians. All their organs are alphabetized.` Doctor Fitzpatrick says, `I prefer mathematicians. All their organs are numbered.` Doctor Ahn says, `I prefer lawyers. They are gutless, heartless, brainless, spineless, and their heads and rear ends are interchangeable.`

March's quote

March's idiom

Translate the following idiom: Be as fresh as a daisy

06/02/2014

February's idiom

Against time Example: I was running against time.

February's quote

I'm English. Our dentistry is not world famous. Christian Bale

February's joke

A guy found a sheep and showed him to a policeman. The policeman said, `Take that sheep to the zoo, now.` Next day the policeman sees the man with the sheep again. The policeman stops the guy and says, `What on earth are you doing with that sheep?` The guy says, `What is there to do? Yesterday I took him to the zoo and now I`m taking him to the movies.`

05/01/2014

January's joke

A guy burned both of his ears... so they were asking him at the hospital how it happened. He said, `I was ironing my clothing and the phone rang... So, instead of the phone I picked up the iron and burned my ear...` `But how the heck did you burn the other ear?` The doctor asked. `They called back.`

January's idiom

Translate: Alive and kicking. Example: He is alive and kicking.

January's quote

There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold. Author: Matt Damon