Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
English recipes
ENGLISH RECIPES VIDEOS
APPLE NUT CAKE
EASY SUGAR COOKIES
BROWNIES
CARROT CAKE
CHEESECAKE
TRIFLE
FRESH STRAWBERRY PIE
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Monday, November 20, 2023
Some English Poetry
Some romantic poems of the 19th century.
Willian Wordsworth:
Coleridge:
Shelley:
Beat culture 20th century:
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
How to calm and angry person. Mediation and listening
Mediation.
Read the following article and summarise it in about 120 words. Then turn it in in class or email it to the teacher.
Cómo calmar a una persona furiosa.
Listening.
Just listen, learn and ... enjoy!
https://dougnoll.com/de-escalate/
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Monday, October 30, 2023
Irish Halloween Ghost Stories
Halloween ghost stories which our conversarion assistant Jade Translated for us in 2018-19.
Official School of Languages' Padlet link
https://padlet.com/eoimariamoliner/revista-digital-n-9-gflslo7yi6csmd2t
Monday, October 23, 2023
Monday, March 27, 2023
Last weekend's song- Jennifer Lopez's!
Whether we like mainstream music or not, you can get the chance to practice first and second conditionals- it won't do us any harm!
Feeling overwhelmed? How to tap into your power and feel calmer
You can read the words as she says them by tapping in settings- English subtitles.
Pincha en configuración; subtítulos en inglés para leerlos.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Monday, March 20, 2023
Goodreads- Groucho Marx's quotes
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43244.Groucho_Marx
Groucho Marx's quotes
“If a black cat crosses your path, it signifies that the animal is going somewhere.”
“I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.”
Monday, March 13, 2023
Vintage Japanese song
7 samurai soundtrack (Akira Kurosawa)
Hata no youni samurai wa
Arashi no naka hirugaeru Tefuryou furyou Hyoufuryou Hiyaruroarayo hyoufuryou Kurushii toki mo sawayaka ni Kanashii toki mo utsukushiku Na nomi oshimu ware naredo Aware wa dare mo kawari nashi Kaze no youni samurai wa Daichi no ue wo fuki sugiru Tefuryou furyou Hyoufuryou Hiyaruroarayo hyoufuryou Kinou mishi hito kyou wa nashi Kyou miru hito mo asu araji Ashita tomo shiranu ware naredo Kyou wa hito koso kanashikereToday's song
Japanese 'haiku' poem
Japanese 'haiku' Poem translated and explained.
“When I look carefully,
I see the nazunia blooming
By the hedge!”
Now, there seems to be nothing of great poetry in it. But let us go into it
with more sympathy, because Basho is being translated into English; in his own
language it has a totally different texture and flavor.
The nazunia is a very common flower—grows by itself by the side of the road, a
grass flower. It is so common that nobody ever looks at it. It is not a
precious rose, it is not a rare lotus.
It is easy to see the beauty of a rare lotus floating on a lake, a blue
lotus—how can you avoid seeing it? For a moment you are bound to be caught by
its beauty. Or a beautiful rose dancing in the wind, in the sun… for a split
second it possesses you. It is stunning. But a nazunia is a very ordinary,
common flower; it needs no gardening, no gardener, it grows by itself anywhere.
To see a nazunia carefully a meditator is needed, a very delicate consciousness
is needed; otherwise you will bypass it. It has no apparent beauty, its beauty
is deep. Its beauty is that of the very ordinary, but the very ordinary
contains the extraordinary in it, because all is full of God—even the nazunia
flower. Unless you penetrate it with a sympathetic heart you will miss it.
When for the first time you read Basho you start thinking, ‘What is there so
tremendously important to say about a nazunia blooming by the hedge?’
In Basho’s poem the last syllable—KANA in Japanese—is translated by an
exclamation point because we don’t have any other way to translate it. But kana
means, ‘I am amazed!’
Now, from where is the beauty coming? Is it coming from the nazunia?—because
thousands of people may have passed by the side of the hedge and nobody may
have even looked at this small flower. And Basho is possessed by its beauty, is
transported into another world. What has happened? It is not really the
nazunia, otherwise it would have caught everybody’s eye. It is Basho’s insight,
his open heart, his sympathetic vision, his meditativeness. Meditation is
alchemy: it can transform the base metal into gold, it can transform a nazunia
flower into a lotus.
‘When I look carefully…’ And the word ‘carefully’ means attentively, with
awareness, mindfully, meditatively, with love, with caring. One can just look
without caring at all, then one will miss the whole point. That word
‘carefully’ has to be remembered in all its meanings, but the root meaning is
meditatively. And what does it mean when you see something meditatively? It
means without mind, looking without the mind, no clouds of thought in the sky
of your consciousness, no memories passing by, no desires… nothing at all,
utter emptiness. When in such a state of no-mind you look, even a nazunia
flower is transported into another world. It becomes a lotus of the paradise,
it is no longer part of the earth; the extraordinary has been found in the
ordinary.
And this is the way of Buddha: to find the extraordinary in the ordinary, to
find all in the now, to find the whole in this—Buddha calls it TATHATA.
Basho’s haiku is a haiku of tathata: THIS nazunia, looked at lovingly, caringly
through the heart, unclouded consciousness, in a state of no-mind… and one is
amazed, one is in awe. A great wonder arises, how is it possible? This
nazunia—and if a nazunia is possible then everything is possible. If a nazunia
can be so beautiful, Basho can be a buddha. If a nazunia can contain such
poetry, then each stone can become a sermon.
‘When I look carefully, I see the nazunia blooming by the hedge!’ KANA… I am amazed. I am dumb. I cannot say anything about its beauty—I can only hint at it.”
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Yeah. And now some inspirational quotes.
Life Lessons for a Better Life
The more silent you are, the more you are able to hear.
Thanks for watching.
That's All Folks
Friday, February 10, 2023
Take my Breath Away
Terri Nunn- Take my Breath Away
Watching Every Motion
In My Foolish Lover's Game
On This Endless Ocean
Finally Lovers Know No Shame
Turning And Returning
To Some Secret Place Inside
Watching In Slow Motion
As You Turn Around And Say
Take My Breath Away
Take My Breath Away
Watching I Keep Waiting
Still Anticipating Love
Never Hesitating
To Become The Fated Ones
Turning And Returning
To Some Secret Place To Hide
Watching In Slow Motion
As You Turn To Me And Say
Take My Breath Away
Through The Hourglass I Saw You
In Time You Slipped Away
When The Mirror Crashed I Called You
And Turned To Hear You Say
If Only For Today
I Am Unafraid
Take My Breath Away
Watching Every Motion
In This Foolish Lover's Game
Haunted By The Notion
Somewhere There's A Love In Flames
Turning And Returning
To Some Secret Place Inside
Watching In Slow Motion
As You Turn My Way And Say
Take My Breath Away
The Eagles- Try and Love Again
The Eagles- Try and Love Again
Where your memories can find you
Like a circle goes around
You were lost until you found out
What it all comes down to
Day by day, they slowly fade away
You never know what might be found there
She was dancing right in time
And the moves she made so fine
Like the music that surrounds her
I really wanna know
Would I lose or win?
If I try and love again
Oh, oh, oh, oh, I'm gonna try and love again
Oh, oh, oh, oh, gonna try and love
It's only moments that you borrow
But the thoughts will linger on of the lady and her song
When the sun comes up tomorrow
Don't let go, when you find it you will know
Oh, oh, oh, oh, gonna try and love again
Oh, oh, oh, oh, gonna try and love again (oh, oh, oh, oh)
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Sometimes lose, sometimes win
Sometimes you need a friend
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Gonna try
Gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try
Gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try
Gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try
Gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try
Gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try
Gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try
Ooh, ooh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Joan Baez- "Diamonds and Rust"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ST9TZBb9v8
Tip. Song for Saint Valentine's day
Joan Baez- "Diamonds and Rust"
Here comes your ghost again
But that's not unusual
It's just that the moon is full
And you happened to call
And here I sit
Hand on the telephone
Hearing a voice I'd known
A couple of light years ago
Heading straight for a fall
Were bluer than robin's eggs
My poetry was lousy you said
Where are you calling from?
A booth in the midwest
Ten years ago
I bought you some cufflinks
You brought me something
We both know what memories can bring
They bring diamonds and rust
Already a legend
The unwashed phenomenon
The original vagabond
You strayed into my arms
And there you stayed
Temporarily lost at sea
The Madonna was yours for free
Yes, the girl on the half-shell
Could keep you unharmed
With brown leaves falling all around
And snow in your hair
Now you're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel
Over Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there
You're not nostalgic
Then give me another word for it
You who are so good with words
And at keeping things vague
'Cause I need some of that vagueness now
It's all come back too clearly
Yes, I loved you dearly
And if you're offering me diamonds and rust
I've already paid
Now I see you standing
With brown leaves falling all around
And snow in your hairNow you're smiling out the window
Of that crummy hotel
Over Washington Square
Our breath comes out white clouds
Mingles and hangs in the air
Speaking strictly for me
We both could have died then and there