A world without music

From the BBC:

"6 December 2012 Last updated at 17:18 GMT

A ban on all music is just one of a number of strict social codes rebel groups in northern Mali have imposed on citizens.
Dozens of musicians have headed south where singing is not a crime after Islamists in the north jammed radio airwaves and confiscated mobile phones, replacing ringtones with Koranic verses."

Watch this video for the full story.

Emotions and the Oscars

Watch this BBC video to learn how to react when you find out you've won an Oscar, in case it ever happens to you, you never know,  and how to prepare the perfect Oscars speech.

Gerunds and infinitives

Would you like to have some more practice?

You can try these:

Set 1

Set 2 : two quizzes and an interactive list for your reference

MARCH EXAMS DATES

Just below you'll find the dates for your March 2015 exams, for both 4ºB and 4ºC (at our usual class time and room):

4 March:  Writing. 
9 March:  Listening and Reading (Starting with the listening test. Please don't be late because you won't be allowed to go into the room until it finishes).
11 and 16 March: Speaking. Please contact me for the exact day and time.
18 March: Results.

Good luck to everyone!

Survivors

I've reconstructed the story of the four young men who went to the Amazon in search of an Indian village. As the videos don't last very long, you can watch them 'one bite at a time'.

How the backpackers meet:

 

Shattered dreams: they can't find the Indian village and Marcus begins to have real problems with his festering feet.




So they forget their initial idea of the Indian village and decide to build a raft:






After these awful rows, Yossi and Kevin separate and continue on their raft down the river. But they have an accident

 

After the accident everything becomes much worse, now they're on their own

 

The weather also gets worse

  

Yossi keeps walking in circles.  Kevin's situation is not much better, but he has a stroke of luck



Kevin starts Yossi's rescue




He tries it another way: