Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet | Video on TED.com

Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet | Video on TED.com:
"Don't eat the marshmallow yet"

here's the key to success! this is the video we watched in our last class today! enjoy!

have a good summer.... this is your blog (at least until October) use it!

james

ps...
and here are some other Ted talk videos that are nice!

• http://www.ted.com/talks/saul_griffith_on_kites_as_the_future_of_renewable_energy.html
  
• http://www.ted.com/talks/alisa_miller_shares_the_news_about_the_news.html
  
• http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_st_john_s_8_secrets_of_success.html
  
• http://www.ted.com/talks/jay_walker_on_the_world_s_english_mania.html

technology in the future

this is a video about technology in the future. It shows their effects on our lives.
This is the link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_technology_will_transform_us.html

How To Be Lazy In The Office And Get Away With It (Money & Careers: Office Humour)

How To Be Lazy In The Office And Get Away With It (Money & Careers: Office Humour):

I site with lots of useful advice... here is some!




"How To Be Lazy In The Office And Get Away With It"


(We also looked at "How to Air Kiss"...)

Synchronization

A 20min TED video about synchronization. You really should watch the whole video.

English subtitles on the website : http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/steven_strogatz_on_sync.html

YouTube - The Mom Song With Lyrics

YouTube - The Mom Song With Lyrics:
"The Mom Song With Lyrics"


A little Mother's Day present!

see you Monday

Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories | Video on TED.com

Jonathan Harris: the Web's secret stories | Video on TED.com:

and it's subtitled in English! Live a comment on the blog... have a nice weekend!

"Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the emotional world of the Web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the Internet to find out what we're all feeling and looking for."

TED Blog: TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40 languages to TED.com

TED Blog: TED's Open Translation Project brings subtitles in 40 languages to TED.com:

cool!

"'TED’s mission is to spread good thinking globally, and so it’s high time we began reaching out to the 4.5 billion people on the planet who don't speak English,' says TED Curator Chris Anderson. “We’re excited to be using a bottom-up, open-source approach that will in time allow all our talks to be translated into all the world’s languages. A web-empowered revolution in global education is under way. We’re not far from the day when anyone on Earth can directly access the world’s great teachers speaking to them in their own language. How cool is that?'"

listening comprehension

listening comprehension: "Improve your listening comprehension and spelling by doing our exercises using videos from YouTube!"

some of these songs are no longer on YouTube but you can click on the song's title to do the gap exercise anyway!

Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing - 1 Translation(s) | dotSUB

Matthew Childs' 9 life lessons from rock climbing - 1 Translation(s) | dotSUB


A philosophical tedtalk! All about rock climbing (and life!)
see you Monday!

YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

This is an amazing video, a message of peace and love to all the humanity. I think a lot of you have already seen it.
For me, it's a sort of "Catch me if you can... find me" :p
YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

This one is a bonus, and contains more English :). I think only few people have seen it before.
YouTube - Matt Confesses: Where the Hell is Matt? Video an 'Elaborate Hoax'

Hope you'll enjoy.

Final Short-list - The Best Job In The World

Final Short-list - The Best Job In The World

Winner to be announce on Wednesday! Have a look at the finalists' videos! There's even a Frenchman!

How about a comment! (hint, hint...)

james

Everyone at Tourism Queensland is very excited to announce that these Final 16 Applicants will be coming to Hamilton Island from May 3 to 6 for The Best Job in the World’s final selection process. You can get to know our final applicants by viewing their profiles.

The Road Not Taken - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

The Road Not Taken - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More:

here you have the audio of Frost reading this as an old man!

Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

1. The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,	10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.	15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.	20

YouTube - Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009 (With Lyrics)

YouTube - Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009 (With Lyrics)

here is the video that we watched this morning.... and here's the link to the NY Times article....

Is this instant celebrity a passing fad?

What do you think? How about leaving a comment?

Sorry that some of you had to miss the session....

AnglaisPod

AnglaisPod is a huge number of English lessons (audio + text notes).

AnglaisPod on the web

To download those podcasts on your iPod, iPhone, iSomething... :

AnglaisPod on iTunes

Susan Boyle, an Unlikely Singer, Is a YouTube Sensation - NYTimes.com

Susan Boyle, an Unlikely Singer, Is a YouTube Sensation - NYTimes.com:

"Susan Boyle, the middle-aged church volunteer whose soaring performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” on a British talent show last week turned her into the world’s newest instant celebrity, at youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY, is trying to catch her breath."

Here are the lyrics (she begins with the second stanza).

I dreamed a dream (Les Miserables)

There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.