Eid al-Fitr

In Pakistan on the day of Eid al-Fitr, people wear new clothes to get ready for Eid prayer. People are supposed to give obligatory charity on behalf of each of their family member to the needy or poor before Eid day or at least before Eid prayer. This will allow everybody to share the joy of Eid and won’t feel depressed. There is three days national holiday for Eid celebration, while festivities and greetings tradition usually continues for the whole month. There is also a tradition that has developed in the recent past of people sending Eid greeting cards to distant family members, relatives and friends.

For Eid prayer, people gather at large open areas like sports grounds, parks or large open area. After Eid Salat people meet and greet each other with traditional hug of friendship. Before going home people give charity to needy and the poor, to further make it possible to have everybody be able to enjoy the day. On their way home, people buy sweets, gas balloons for kids, and gifts for the family. At home family members enjoy special Eid breakfast with various types of sweets and desserts, including traditional dessert sheer khurma, which is made of vermicelli, milk, butter, dry fruits and dates, etc.
Eid is mainly enjoyed by the kids, as they mostly receive money in cash called "Eidi" as gift by every elder in the family and relatives when they visit their places. On Eid day kids are allowed to spend their gift money (Eidi) as they want. Media also covers Eid festivities all day and airs various special programs on TV for all age groups.

Thanksgiving Day

When they see 17-year-old Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) shivering on the streets, Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) and husband Sean (Tim McGraw) offer him a place to spend the night. And while that invitation turns into something a bit more long-term, the gentle giant is never sure of his place in this family — until he decides to “join” them for a Thanksgiving dinner.

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This is Halloween

my favorite song

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My favorite song

My favourite song

My Favourite Song

This is my favourite song. Stevie Wonder - SUPERSTATITON

This is my favourite song. Kraftwerk - Music non stop

This is my favourite song. SKRILLEX - Bangarang

This is my favourite song. Pendulum 'Witchcraft'

This is my favourite song. Alan Parsons Live Project - Sirius and Eye in the Sky

This is my favourite song. GENESIS I Can't Dance

This is my favourite song. YES Owner Of A Lonely Heart

MY FAVOURITE SONG!

My Favoutrite Song is Rihanna-Diamonds (Diamands)

This is my favourite song. KRAFTWER the robots show 3D

this is my favourite song. KRAFTWERK expo 2000

This is my favourite song. YES teh rhythmof love

This is my favourite song. Carly Rae Jepsen sings this song.

Flying Lesson, Monty Python

Mr Bean and his girlfriend at the cinema

Les Miserables: How the film was made

My Portfolio

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My Portfolio

Quiz

Quiz One Direction

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English Quiz

English quiz from teresateacher

Quiz: General Culture

Quiz (1) from teresateacher

Quiz about the Black Eyed Peas

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Final task 2: English language and culture portfolio

Choose the best tasks you have done during the year. Put them in a portfolio and explain why you have chosen them.
Presentation: Name, class, course, credit, table of contents.

You have to include:
- Something you have learnt
- Something you have enjoyed
- Something you didn't know before
- Something you have shared with a partner
- You opinion of the credit

Final task 1: English language adn culture quiz

Try this test.
Your task: In pairs, prepare a multiple choice quiz about one aspect of the English language and culture. Publish it in the blog or prepare a PowerPoint with the questions.

The People you Meet at McDonald's

MCDONALD’S RESTAURANTS IN THE U.S.:14,000

NUMBER VISITED BY NOLAN CONWAY: Nearly 150 in 22 States

PATRONS PHOTOGRAPHED: about 180

Vance Evans, a 66-year-old retiree from Bakersfield, Calif., has been eating double cheeseburgers at McDonald’s since he flipped them himself as a teenager. “I have a kindred spirit in them,” he says. “It’s the familiarity.” They don’t make the burgers as hot as they used to, he says, but he still visits once or twice a month with his wife, Nancy, who favours a fish sandwich and an iced coffee. The Evanses were among the hundreds of people photographed by Nolan Conway in a project that has taken him to dozens of McDonald’s restaurants around the country. But while the places were usually much the same, the variety of customers was a surprise. “Especially when you go to more of the rural areas, you’ll get the poor, the wealthy and everyone in between,” Conway says. “There’s nowhere else to go.”

(From the New York Times)

Choose a picture and invent a description of the person's life. 

The Reading List

Love Reading List 

- Facebook
- Wires Girls (Las Chicas de Alambre)
- Romeo and Juliet
- Aloma
- The Twilight Saga
- The Catcher in the Rye
- Song lyrics online
- Heat magazine
- The Selfish Giant and Others Stories
- Science magazine

Hate Reading List

- Homework
- The Harry Potter Series
- Film scripts
- Financial times
- The books I am made to read by school (sometines)
- Science Fiction books
- The Games of Thrones
- La Filla del Mar
- Terra de Dracs series
- La visita del inspector (An inspector Calls)

Madame Tussauds

Madame Tussauds is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities. It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. Madame Tussauds is a major tourist attraction in London, displaying waxworks of historical and royal figures, film stars, sports stars and infamous murderers.

Marie Tussaud was born Anna Maria Grosholtz in 1761 in Strasbourg, France. Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modelling. Curtius taught Tussaud the art of wax modelling.

Tussaud created her first wax figure, of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous people she modelled at that time include Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin. During the French Revolution she modelled many prominent victims. She searched through corpses to find the decapitated heads of executed citizens, from which she would make death masks. Her death masks were held up as revolutionary flags and paraded through the streets of Paris. Following the doctor's death in 1794, she inherited his vast collection of wax models and spent the next 33 years travelling around Europe. Her marriage to François Tussaud in 1795 lent a new name to the show: Madame Tussaud's. In 1802 she went to London to exhibit her work alongside his show at the Lyceum Theatre, London. She travelled throughout Great Britain and Ireland exhibiting her collection.

By 1835 Marie had settled down in Baker Street, London, and opened a museum.

Madame Tussauds indoor on Baker St

One of the main attractions of her museum was the Chamber of Horrors. This part of the exhibition included victims of the French Revolution and newly created figures of murderers and other criminals. 
(from Wikipedia)

Do you like reading?

Let's compare your favourite and less favourite readings with those of British teenagers.

Make you own Love reading list and Hate reading list with 10 items each.
Don't forget the title and the labels: your name, reading.

Saint George

Saint George (c. 275/281 – 23 April 303 AD) was a Greek who became an officer in the Roman army. His father was the Greek Gerondios from Cappadocia Asia Minor and his mother was from the city Lydda. Lydda was a Greek city in Palestine from the times of the conquest of Alexander the Great (333 BC). Saint George became an officer in the Roman army in the Guard of Diocletian. He is venerated as a Christian martyr. In hagiography, Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic (Western and Eastern Rites), Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox churches. He is immortalized in the tale of Saint George and the Dragon .
Many Patronages of Saint George exist around the world, including: Georgia, England, Egypt, Bulgaria, Aragon, Catalonia, Romania, Ethiopia, Greece, India, Iraq, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Ukraine and Russia, as well as the cities of Genoa, Amersfoort, Beirut, Botoşani, Drobeta Turnu-Severin, Timişoara, Fakiha, Bteghrine, Cáceres, Ferrara, Freiburg im Breisgau, Kragujevac, Kumanovo, Lebanon, Ljubljana, Pérouges, Pomorie, Preston, Qormi, Rio de Janeiro, Lod, Lviv, Barcelona, Moscow and Victoria, as well as of the Scout Movement and a wide range of professions, organizations and disease sufferers.
(from wikipedia)

New York Facts

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What do they all have in common?

Look at the pictures. Do any of them seem familiar? Can you identify any of the people or things? If you can, then you can probably answer the question: What do they all have in common?

How much do you know about Wales?

Activity: St. David's Day
To coincide with the National Day of Wales on Friday 1st of March, complete a fact file about the country.

Liverpool

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London

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Hollywood

  

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New York

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Australia

New York: Grand Central Station