Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) drives Professor Higgins (Rex Harrison) mad with her cockney accent...and then makes him do foolish things when she finally proounces the sentences in perfect British English.
Additional material for your classes, funny and cool videos as well as stuff in English from other subjects. For students of IES Jacarandá, TO BRENES, INFINITY AND BEYOND.
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
I WOULD LIKE TO BUY A HAMBURGER / ˈhæmbɜːrɡər /
Don't understimate the importance of a good pronounciation. Please, please, please, don't say "i gulai to bay a jamburguer". Remember that English vowels are completely different from ours.
Monday, 15 October 2012
SOME WARMING UP FOR THE WIZARD OF OZ
Very difficult not to feel moved by Judy Garland. Here you have further information about the novel.
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM
Junk food and junk mail. You can never get rid of them.
Monty Python's famous sketch that gave name to unwanted electronic mail.
What do you think the owners of "spam" (spiced ham) felt about the sketch and the new use of the word?
Saturday, 6 October 2012
MEAN WHAT YOU SAY AND SAY WHAT YOU MEAN
The Italian man who went to Malta.
“Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
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