It would be great if we could get exhited and enjoy simple things in life as if they were something unusual, new, special. I invite you to see this little girl enjoying rain for the first time. I think her joy is "contagious "... … [Read more...]
Because I’m a Man…
A pupil of mine, Carlos, showed it to me today and I liked it so much that I thought it was worth sharing it with you. … [Read more...]
Across the Universe
"I was lying next to my first wife in bed, you know, and I was irritated. and I was thinking. She must have been going on and on about something and she'd gone to sleep and I kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream. I went downstairs and it turned into a sort of cosmic song rather than an irritated song, rather than a … [Read more...]
Multiple Intelligences
I would like to invite you to watch this video of Howard Gardner,an American developmental psychologist and Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University, speaking about his theory of Multiple Intelligences. Some years ago, intelligence was considered to be a single general ability we were born with, and which apparently didn't … [Read more...]
Another way of singing the alphabet
Who has never sung the alphabet song? All of us have, but probably you don't know the version I offer you, which is marvellously interpreted by Patti Labelle and a group of very special friend.... I got to know it and sang it, of course, last year when I did a course on pronunciation and our teacher showed us this wonderful song. Since then, I've … [Read more...]
What a Wonderful World…
I would like to share with you a new version of this marvellous song, "What a Wonderful World". In fact, it is not a song any more but a poem told by David Attenborough for the programme he has on the BBC. I thought it was so beautiful that I shared it with my pupils. I think they loved it... … [Read more...]