Broadcast:President Obama Speaks About The Late Michael Jackson -

Michael revolutioned the music, the videos and his wild dances were just a proof of the very sensitive  heart that was inside of him. As Paul Mack Cartney would say, he has a soft soul. Check what the president Mr.Barack Obama has to say about Michael Jackson.

Broadcast: Elizabeth Taylor talks about Michael Jackson on Larry King

No wonder his soon departure provoqued  a moment to reflect on Michae Jackson's legacy. Here we have two interviews to remember one of the greatest entertainners. Michael Jackson!!!!!!!!!!!

AUDIOBOOKS- ANGELS AND DEMONS

Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mistery- thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by  Pocket books The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the protagonist of Brown's subsequent 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code, and 2009 novel,The lost Symbol It also shares many stylistic Literary elements with its sequel, such as conspiracies of secret societies, a single-day time frame, and the Catholic Church. Ancient stories, architecture, and symbolism are also heavily referenced throughout the book. A film adaptation was released on May 15, 2009.

AUDIOBOOKS- THE VIRGIN SUICIDES BY JEFFREY EUGENIDES

The novel is atypical in that it was written in first persona plural from the perspective of an anonymous group of teenage boys who became infatuated with the girls, a style mirroring a Greek chorus The narrator(s) rely on relics and interviews gathered in the two decades after the suicide to construct the tale. The novel is rich in descriptive detail, using observations about the state of the Lisbon house and the contents of the girls’ rooms to advance the plot. The effect is that the reader glimpses the novel’s main characters as if she or he were one of the neighborhood onlookers.

Real English - Microsoft

We like to share this video about Microsoft with you.  Notice that there are many people of different nationality working in this company and all of them speak English to reach the same goal. Enjoy it.

What Am I to You - Norah Jones

Norah Jones(born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar on March 30, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and ocasionally actress.

In 2002, she launched her solo music career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album Come Away With Me, which was certified a diamond album in 2002, selling over 20 million copies. The record earned Jones five Grammy Awards, including the Album of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist. Her subsequent studio albums, Feels Like Home, released in 2004, Not Too Late, released in 2007, the same year she made her film debut in My Blueberry Nights, and her 2009 release The Fall, all gained Platinum status after selling over a million copies and were generally well received by critics.

Jones has won nine Grammy Awards and was Billboard magazine's 60th-best-selling music artist of the 2000–2009 decade.Throughout her career, Jones has won numerous awards and has sold over 37 million albums worldwide. Billboard magazine named her the top Jazz artist of the 2000–2009 decade, establishing herself as one of the best-selling artists of her time.

Here you have one of her most significant songs!

Irish Accent is here!

Hello everybody!! This week's accent is the Irish one! The first video will show you the most important features in this accent and how to emphasize each of them. The next video is just a parody of an irish accent tutorial that will definitely test your comprenhension and finally the last videos featuring three of the most famous irish actors Collin Farrell, Liam Neeson and Pierce Brosnan! Can you still hear an accent on them or has it already vanish? Good Listening to Everybody!

The interview

Want to have fun? this interview is so hilarious that you won't stop laughing.

AUDIOBOOK (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)

Snow White is a fictional character and the main protagonist from Walt Disney`s first animated feature film Snow white and the seven Dwarfs, (1937). She is also considered the first member of the disney Princess group of characters.

AUDIOBOOKS - THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

today you will listen a book which like to many people. 

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

Victor Hugo began writing The Hunchback of Notre-Dame in 1829. The agreement with his original publisher, Gosselin, was that the book would be finished that same year, but Hugo was constantly delayed due to the demands of other projects. By the summer of 1830, Gosselin demanded Victor Hugo to complete the book by February 1831. Beginning in September 1830, Hugo worked nonstop on the project thereafter. The book was finished six months later.

The story begins on Epiphany (6 January), 1482, the day of the"FEAST OF FOOD" in Paris, France. Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback bell-ringer of Notre Dame, is introduced by his crowning as King of Fools.

Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including that of a Captain Phoebus, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame. Frollo is torn between his obsessive love and the rules of the church. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but the hunchback is suddenly captured by Phoebus and his guards who save Esmeralda. Quasimodo is sentenced to be whipped and tied down in the heat. Esmeralda, seeing his thirst, offers him water. It saves him, and she captures his heart.

Esmeralda is later charged with the attempted murder of Phoebus, whom Frollo actually attempted to kill in jealousy, after seing him about to have sex with Esmerelda, and is sentenced to death by hanging. As she is being led to the gallows, Quasimodo swings down by the bell rope of Notre Dame and carries her off to the cathedral under the law of sanctuary Clopin, a street performer, rallies the Truands (criminals of Paris) to charge the cathedral and rescue Esmeralda. The King, seeing the chaos, vetoes the law of sanctuary and commands his troops to take Esmeralda out and kill her. When Quasimodo sees the Truands, he assumes they are there to hurt Esmeralda, so he drives them off. Likewise, he thinks the King's men want to rescue her, and tries to help them find her. Fortunately, she is rescued by Frollo and her phony husband, Gringoire. But after yet another failed attempt to win her love, Frollo betrays Esmeralda by handing her to the troops and watches while she is hanged. Quasimodo pushes him from the heights of Notre Dame to his death. Quasimodo then goes to the mass grave and lies next to Esmeralda's corpse. He then crawls off with the corpse to Esmeralda's tomb, where he cradles her in his arms and eventually dies of starvation. About eighteen months later, the tomb is opened, and the skeletons are found. As someone tries to separate them, Quasimodo's bones turn to dust.

Real English - Healthy Breakfast

Now we are presenting a meaningful information of your interest. There are many advices you can take into account when to have your breakfast.

The Beattles - All you need is LOVE

One of the most representative english bands of all times, The Beattles!

The Beatles were an English rock band, active throughout the 1960s and one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. Formed in Liverpool, by 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). Rooted in skiffle and 1950s rock and roll, the group later worked in many genres ranging from pop ballads to psychedelic rock, often incorporating classical and other elements in innovative ways. The nature of their enormous popularity, which first emerged as "Beatlemania", transformed as their songwriting grew in sophistication. They came to be perceived as the embodiment of ideals of the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

Adele - Chasing Pavements

Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born 5 May 1988), known professionally as Adele, is a British singer-songwriter. She was the first recipient of the Brit Awards Critics' Choice and was named the number-one predicted breakthrough act of 2008 in an annual BBC poll of music critics, Sound of 2008. Since her debut album 19, Adele has received much recognition both commercially and critically. The album debuted at number one, and has been certified 4x platinum in the UK.  Her career in the US was boosted by a viewer record–breaking Saturday Night Live episode in late 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards, Adele won the awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

The latest album contains the track "Rolling in the Deep" which has become already a major hit.

Indian Accent!

This week's accent is the Indian one!! Rememeber the goal of this section is to conquer and master all the english accents as possible through listening to improve our comprnhension. Throughout life you will encounter with many accents of English, so let's start practicing!

The first two videos are from The Big Bang Theory;s character Raj, the first one is actually a part of an episode and the second one is an interview in The Late Late Show, in which he shows his accent even though he already master his american accent.

3rd and 4th video is an indian girl teaching us how to get the Indian accent! She makes it a fun experience and as she states in her videos, is not meant to make fun or harm, in fact to release the tension and learn from each other.

And the last video is an actual Indian teacher teaching English, you will notice the T's, P's and how they exchange the W sound to a V sound. It'll be fun rite yaar? Nice listening to everyone!

MORE ABOUT GHOSTS

The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a region of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean in which a number of aircraft and surface vessels have disappeared. Some people have claimed that these disappearances fall beyond the boundaries of human error or acts of nature. Some of these disappearances have been attributed to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings by popular culture. Though a substantial documentation exists showing numerous incidents to have been inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerous official agencies have gone on record as stating the number and nature of disappearances to be similar to any other area of ocean, many have remained unexplained despite considerable investigation.

ghost stories

 

Listen to excerpts from this just released new audiobook. A riveting collection of ghost stories from Sin City itself. Complete with eerie background music, sound effects and guest actors. Giving you the feeling of being there as the story unfolds.
Enjoy nearly an hour of ghostly tales. From stories of the famous to never before heard local Las Vegas ghost stories. Professionally mastered and produced for your listening pleasure.

SCARY AUDIOBOOKS

If you like reading mistery or scary books, today we offer the most popular stories you have heard. In addition we present the story to read when you read.

Once there was a young woman named Maria. She lived in a small village down by the river. She loved poetry, romantic novels and beautiful flowers. She dreamed of a beautiful life with a wonderful man. But her father would refuse to let her go out to look for one. Many years passed this way until 

She began to sneak out to meet this man, whom she fell in love with. This went on for a few months until she told her father that she wanted to marry the love of her life. Her father became angry but reluctantly accepted. 

So she married the man and a few years later had two children. One was a girl, whom she proudly named Maria. The other child was a boy named Mario, named after his father.Mario, her husband, worked long hours down by the cemetery. He was usually gone all day and all night, so she felt very lonely. 

One ill-fated evening she decided to walk to the local store to buy milk for the childrento her great horror she saw her husband with another woman. He was holding her hand and kissing her gently on her lips. Anger overcame her and her heart filled with rage! She ran home crying with tears streaming down her cheeks. Blinded by her terrible anger and madness she blamed her young children for her husbands infidelity. So later that evening, she took her children, down to the river to drown them. When she realized what she had done, she went after her children, but she did not know how to swim. She flailed her arms vigorously in vain. As she gasped for one last breath, she cursed her husband for his misdeeds and vowed to return. She slowly drowned along with her children. 

From that day on, at midnight, a woman with a white dress appeared in the small village searching for her lost children wailing "¿donde estan mis hijos?" Everyone in the small village got scared and eventually moved away. 

She now roams all across Mexico, Central and South America looking to snatch up little children. No child should ever be alone at night because "La Llorona" is searching for her next victim, wailing those four dreadful words ""¿donde estan mis hijos?"
 

Real English - Consumer Rights

We think this video contains great settings to practice your listening and also you can get some valuable advices when to buy shoes and clothing!!!

Céline Dion - That's the way it is

Céline Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record. In 1990, she released the English-language album "Unison", establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America.

 

I can read your mind and I know your story
I see what you're going through
It's an uphill climb, and I'm feeling sorry
But I know it will come to you

Don't surrender 'cause you can win
In this thing called love

When you want it the most there's no easy way out
When you're ready to go and your heart's left in doubt
Don't give up on your faith
Love comes to those who believe it
And that's the way it is

When you question me for a simple answer
I don't know what to say, no
But it's plain to see, if you stick together
You're gonna find a way, yeah

So don't surrender 'cause you can win
In this thing called love

When you want it the most there's no easy way out
When you're ready to go and your heart's left in doubt
Don't give up on your faith
Love comes to those who believe it
And that's the way it is

When life is empty with no tomorrow
And loneliness starts to call
Baby, don't worry, forget your sorrow
'Cause love's gonna conquer it all, all

When you want it the most there's no easy way out
When you're ready to go and your heart's left in doubt
Don't give up on your faith
Love comes to those who believe it
And that's the way it is

When you want it the most there's no easy way out
When you're ready to go and your heart's left in doubt
Don't give up on your faith
Love comes to those who believe it
And that's the way it is

That's the way it is
That's the way it is, babe
Don't give up on your faith
Love comes to those who believe it
And that's the way it is.

How to speak AUSSIE!

It's the time to study the Australian accent by listening to these funny and educational documentaries of how to create this awesome yet strange accent.  Can you speak aussie??
---> At the end you will find a presentation with common aussie slangs that will blow your mind!! The idea is to know what they meant if you ever hear them, you will crtainly know that they are not meant to offend you. Go ahead and familiarize with these terms and learn how to speak aussie---> Cheers MATE! n_n!
 to familiarize

RADIO Interview - Glen Campbell

Have you ever heard from Glen Campbell? Well, he is a great guitarrist and a singer who will talk about his last record before losing his memory. Listen to him  and let us learn from his words what the Alzheimer means for him and how his family is supporting him in this difficult moment.
Go to http://www.npr.org/2011/09/03/140149733/glen-campbell-forget-me-not   for the audio.

Go to   http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=140149733    for the script

AUDIOBOOKS - VENUS AND ADONIS

    

Venus and Adonis (shakespear poem)

This is a poem written in 1592-1593, with a plot based on passages from Ovid`s Metamorphoses. here the author uses constantlu shifting tone ans perspective to present contrasting views of the nature of love.

As Adonis is preparing to go hunting, venus appears, she seduces him, and they begin a passionate affair, which adonis is not very interested in, thinking he is too young, and cares only for hunting, but Adonis is soon killed in a hunting accident.

AUDIOBOOKS - ROMEO AND JULIET

Hey hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! today it is presented an audiobook that you will like a lot, this is Romeo and Juliet.

This is a tragedy written early in the career of the famous playwright William Shakespeare about two young "star-cross`d lovers" whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families.


Keep on practicing your listening and enrichen your culture with this adventurous and romantic audiobook.

A LITTLE MORE REAL ENGLISH FOR ALL OF YOU

We have found this video and we think you will love to hear this american girl's pronunciation. Do you agree with her?? Enjoy it!!!

Hi, this is Kim Purcell at RealESL.com. Remember if you want to get a transcript or vocabulary explanation. Go to my website. I have everything there. I think it’s much more useful than writing the transcript on the actual video itself. Because I can explain much better in writing. You can focus on what I’m saying while you’re watching the video rather than reading below.

Okay so right now we’re going to talk about yoga. Yes, I’m going to yoga. And I wanted to tell you that if you are in America and you are having trouble meeting Americans, go to yoga! Now, you get a great workout (to exercise your body), but also afterwards….make sure you pick a place that has sort of a common talking area (a place where everyone can talk together).

I did this when I lived in Korea. I went to their kind of yoga which is called Dahn Hak. And afterwards you have tea and you talk to everyone. It really improved my Korean and it does the same thing in America (improves your English!).

Now one of my favorite places is called Golden Bridge Yoga. It’s amazing. It’s in Hollywood. I highly recommend it (I think you should go). They have this huge table where everyone sits and you can all chat (talk) and it’s really wonderful. Now, when you sit down to talk to everyone (and you feel like) “Nobody’s talking to me!” Well, you have to talk to them. You have to ask questions. That’s what you need to become really good at.

So if you come to yoga, you can ask, “What class did you do?” Because here there are sometimes a couple different classes going at the same time. And then you say, “Oh do you like that teacher? What do you think about her? Or him?” And then they explain. (You say…) “How long have you been doing yoga?” And then they talk,talk,talk. They think you’re amazing (and your English too!) because you’re asking all these questions and you’re interested in them. That’s what people want. They just want someone who cares. And then you become friends with them. You go to more classes. You hang out (you spend time together). You go for coffe. And the friendship develops from there. Now, go for it. You can do it. I believe in you (I think you can do it). I'm Kim Purcell at RealESL.com.

Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

in this section we will take into account all types of music taste. To begin with we have chosen the 90's! Do not miss pur next week's recommendation!

Our song of the week is I'd do Anything for love by Meat Loaf. Michael Lee Aday, better known as his stage name,Meat loaf,  is an american rock musician and actor You will find in this video resemblances with the beauty and the beast story! Enjoy it!

How to speak kiwi!

New Zelanders are called "kiwis" and Australians are called "aussies". There is slight difference in their accent but some can get upset if you by any chance call a kiwi, an aussie. Personally I find the New Zeland's accent more nasal than Australian or Brittish. Here you will find some videos for you to practice on identifying this particular accent.
 The first is a cute add of 2 kiwi kids and one aussie. I recommend to watch it first and try to understand it by yourself, watch it the times it takes! I have posted the trascription below!

Transcription:

Boy1: What are you doing this weekend? Boy2: I'm putting up a retaining wall. Boy1: Doing it yourself? Boy2:Nah, I'm gonna get some bloke in. Boy1: Come on mate, do it urself! Boy2: She's a pretty big job.Boy1: Oh, you'll be right. Boy2: Ya reckon? Boy1: We can knock it over in half a day. Boy2: Yeah?Boy1: Get a couple mates round! Boy1:Hey Jonesy! Boy3: Huh? Boy1:Give us a hand with a job Saturday! Boy3: Mate! Ya dreaming! Boy2: Aussies...Boy1: No suprises there!

These two amazing girls of Just Happened Productions will gave you a few tips on how to adopt the kiwi's accent...bro! Check the voice of the people at the end!