We went to the ICT Lab and did an interactive lesson on books. If you missed it or didn’t have time to finish you can find it in Bloggin’ Time, the author’s blog.
In About Writing, another blog by the same author, you can find some guidelines to write your book review.
Oh! send your reviews here, not to Bloggin’ Time!
Archive for January, 2010
28th January
The Men who didn’t Love Women / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist working for a Swedish magazine that gets involved in a hard investigation.
A girl is missing and his family is trying to find out why. She disappears on an island where almost everybody is member of her own family. Was the girl murdered? Was she kidnapped? Did she escape from someone or something?
Mikael Blomkvist, collaborating with Lisbeth Salander, a young, qualified private investigator moves to the isolated island and begins to make the residents uncomfortable.
This is not only the chronicle of the Vanger family´s conflicts, the other ingredients are sexual perversion, financial speculation and crime.
The characters are very well-drawn and the descriptions of the places are very convincing and it is easy to imagine what they look like. It´s a gripping novel and full of intrigue.
I´ve really enjoyed this book and I recommend it to everybody wanting to have a good time reading. I would absolutely describe it as a page-turner.
Hope for Haiti
It’s not as if we needied persuading to help the cause of Haiti but the album is worth it on its own, it’s actually a must-have:
Alicia Keys, Coldplay, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Shakira, John Legend, Mary J. Blige, Taylor Swift, Christina Aguilera, Sting, Beyoncé, Sheryl Crow, Kid Rock, Keith Urban, Madonna, Justin Timberlake, Jennifer Hudson, Emeline Michel, Jay-Z, Bono, the Edge, Rihanna, Dave Matthews, Neil Young and Wyclef Jean along with a bonus track from Jay-Z, Bono, the Edge and Rihanna …
- You can buy the whole album for €6.99 or individual songs for €0.99 and all the proceedings go to Haiti
Well done, Charlie!!
Like everyone else I’m following on the news the tragedy in Haiti, marveling at the almost daily miracles of people being rescued alive after so many days under the rubble, feeling horrified when I hear that doctors are having to amputate limbs just because they don’t have enough antibiotics to combat infections. That many people are miraculously surviving the quake just to die in hospital from lack of medical supplies. That however much we give is not enough, such is the magnitude of the catastrophe … but you can also feel the waves of unprecedented solidarity coming from every corner of this globalized world. The news of the tragedy reached 7-year-old Charlie Simpson from Fullham, he saw the suffering of the kids in Haiti, and felt he had to do something about it. Helped by his parents, he decided to cycle 5 miles to raise funds for Unicef’s earthquake appeal. He was aiming to raise ₤500 … he has already raised over ₤72,000!
Thursday 21st January
As I told you on Tuesday we won’t have lessons today but this does not mean you can’t do some work, fortunately we have this other classroom which doesn’t depend on timetables.
- Have you heard the one about …?
- Watch this interview with Rowan Atkinson and answer the questions:
This is the final scene of the last episode they talk so much about. Here you can also see British actor and comedian Hugh Laurie, best known now for his leading role as Dr Gregory House in the American TV show House MD:
Then you can do these interactive exercises
See you on Monday!
12th January
The snow has started to melt down and here we are again!
Today we did “A Good Read” page 37 from students’ book
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