Sexy Xmas

Next Monday, if u come, we'll see Xmas in a different light... (not only the one below)

SANTA BABY.

Listen to the song and underline the presents they name:

A dress, a duplex, a plane, a husband, a yatch, a pet, a '54 convertible, jewels, a platinum record, a laptop, a sable, a new phone.

Do you think it’s a proper Christmas Carol? Why?

What do you think the video is like? Do you recognise the artist?

What changes do you think are necessary so that the song ca be sung by a man?

Santa baby, just slip a sable under the tree, for me
Been an awful good girl
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa baby, a '54 convertible too, light blue
I'll wait up for you dear Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Think of all the fun I've missed
Think of all the fellas that I haven't kissed
Next year I could be just as good
If you'd check off my Christmas list
Boo doo bee doo

Santa baby, I wanna yacht and really that's
Not a lot
Been an angel all year
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa honey, one thing I really do need, the deed
To a platinum mine
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight

Santa cutie and fill my stocking with a duplex, and checks
Sign your 'X' on the line
Santa cutie, and hurry down the chimney tonight

Come and trim my Christmas tree
With some decorations bought at Tiffany
I really do believe in you
Let's see if you believe in me
Boo doo bee doo

Santa baby, forgot to mention one little thing, a ring
I don't mean on a phone
Santa baby, so hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry down the chimney tonight
Hurry ... tonight

Sports: Vocabulary

Getting to now many different sports is a hard task, but some of them, due to their popularity, are part of the other culture and a minimum knowledge of the related vocabulary implies getting to know a bit more about this culture, so here you are a list of sports and some related vocabulary:
Track and field athletics:
hurdle race
track
sprints/middle distance/long distance
discus/javelin/hammer throw
long/high jump - pole vault
marathon/pentathlon/heptathlon/decathlon
Basketball
foul/violations/double dribbling
point/ a shot/ a slum dunk/ free throws
guard, small/power foward, center
Baseball
defense/offense player
4 bases= a diamond
home plate
pitcher/catcher
American football
end zone /posts
kick off
interception
tackled
offensive line/quarterback/running backs/receivers/tight end
Tennis
singles/doubles
clay/hard/grass court
lines/net
love=zero/deuce/advantage/tiebreak
game/set points
Hockey
disk=puck
sticks
rink
Swimming
butterfly/backstroke/breakstroke/front crawl (freestyle)/individual medley
Golf
club(driver/putter/iron) 18 holes
par=reach the screen in two strokes
Soccer
penalty area/spot
direct/indirect free kick
goal lines
foul - yellow/red card
goalkeerper/striker/midfielder/defender
offside

The top ten of everything

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Key of units 1 to 4

Click on the pictures (sorry if the quality is improvable)

Christmas shopping weekends (Can u afford 'em?)

New York

Why go?
With flurries of snow and a Father Christmas on every corner, New York knows how to exploit its movie star looks to the hilt. And despite the pound's slump against the dollar over the past month, there are still bargains to be had, particularly on those American brands which are so overpriced by the time they reach our high streets. Away from the shops, Manhattan's multi-sensory experience takes in a sing-a-long Messiah at the Lincoln Centre and the smaltzy Rockettes formation dancing at Radio City Hall as well as moonlit ice-skating sessions at the Wollman Rink in Central Park, chestnut sellers and alcoholic glasses of eggnog. The Rockefeller Centre, site of another of the city's skating rinks, also houses the city's largest Christmas tree.

What to buy
New York's shops are still bending over backwards to ensure that tourists keep shopping and most items, iPods apart, are still cheaper in the US. There's no sales tax on clothing and shoes that cost under $110 and moreover, at the moment, Bloomingdale's is offering visitors from the EU 11 per cent off all purchases. Macy's is also liberal with its discounts while Century 21, just off Wall Street, specialises in designer fashion at deeply discounted prices. The racks are full of European designers, with Alberta Ferretti coats currently reduced from $1,485 to $499. Calypso is a highly desirable New York fashion label. At 407 Broome there's an outlet branch, selling everything at between 30-70 per cent off. Currently, gold and brown velvet jackets cost $199, down from $450. The best New York shopping, however, manages to be both cheap and unique to the city. The stalls in SoHo are worth a trawl. Selling T-shirts, hand-knitted hats and jewellery, items usually hover around the $10 mark. For the culturally inclined, the Museum of Modern Art (moma.org) has a particularly fine shop attached to it; buy racing cars powered by balloons for $6.50. For the mini-naturalist, the Evolution Store in Spring Street, SoHo, is a treasure trove of animal skeletons and insects; a scorpion caught in resin costs $9.

How to do it
A quick search on expedia.co.uk turns up fares for mid-November for £275 with Air France, from Heathrow to JFK. Hotel rooms in New York are often scarce at this time of year but this autumn has seen some new hotels open, with steeply discounted soft-opening rates. Thompson Lower East Side (60thompson.com) is the newly opened sibling of the glamorous SoHo hotel 60 Thompson. With stellar views and a sleek modernist design, doubles until the end of November start at $229, rising to $399 in December (compared with $499 for 60 Thompson in November). The Cooper Square Hotel in the East Village, (thecoopersquarehotel.com), another striking glass'n'steel edifice should be open at the end of November and rooms should start at $300 a night.

OBAMA

Creating a comic

The Watchmen is a comic included by Time magazine among the best 100 novels of this century. The film is coming soon. To learn more about it click here

http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/

I'm moving to Cartagena!!!!

Here's a nice comic about rings and particles and physics to say goodbye.

June 15: Father's Day

Interesting publicity campaign by unicef: Notice the structure

Last keys for the year

Here are the rest of the keys you were longing for. If there's something missing mail me

Mother's Day (Second Sunday in May)