Who was St. Patrick and why does he have a special day?

Saint Patrick's Day, also known as St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates St. Patrick, one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17th. The day is the national holiday of Ireland. In other parts of the world, where there are many Irish immigrants, such as parts of Canada, the UK, Australia, the United States and New Zealand, it is also widely celebrated but is not an official ho

A: I'm in a big trouble!
B: Why is that?
A: I saw a mouse in my house!
B: Oh, well, all you need to do is use a trap.
A: I don't have one.
B: Well then, buy one.
A: Can't afford one.
B: I can give you mine if you want.
A: That sounds good.
B: All you need to do is just use some cheese in order to make the mouse come to the trap.
A: I don't have any cheese.
B: Okay then, take a piece of bread and put a bit of oil in it and put it in the trap.
A: I don't have oil.
B: Well, then put only a small piece of bread.
A: I don't have bread.
B: Then what is the mouse doing at your house?!

Teacher: Tell me a sentence that starts with an "I".
Student: I is the...
Teacher:

1. STUDY EVERY DAY! A foreign

Click on this link and you'll find four games to play.

http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/fun_and_games/game_gallery.html

  This new school year, 2008, will be, I'm sure, a year of pure positivism, with plenty of good resolutions and lots of achievements which will make you feel proud of yourselves in the future. All your teachers are looking forward to seeing you all again! Especially me.

I am spending a few days in Mendoza, having a relaxing time. The weather has been really lovely, there has been rain every day, which is most unusual for this time of year. This means that it has been wonderful to walk all over the city without melting. I hope everyone is having a good holiday too. See you soon!

Due to technical problems accessing my blog at home, I have not been able to keep up with my blog work.  I hope to have things solved as soon as possible. Meanwhile, enjoy your holidays and I look forward to seeing everyone in March!

To all of you who did the TOEIC (Corfo) exam, the results are on the Corfo website. (http://www.corfo.cl/) Use your ID and your password. If you have forgotten your password, click on the link offered, and they will send it to your mail. I hope you all did well. Write me and let me know!

Love,

Miss Christine

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas, a Happy New Year, and looking forward to seeing you again in March!

A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Cuadrados de Chocolate (Miss Christine’s Brownies)

Base:

125 gr. mantequilla o m

Remember that good luck comes to people who also work hard! So do your best and the rest should come easily!

Do you remember having heard this when you were a child? I hope you enjoy this as much as I did!

Thanks to Isabella,who gave me the tip of this site! He puts into speech what I wrote about a few days ago. English is vital for your future! Take note, listen and internalise: YOU are responsible for what you learn, not your teacher, or your family. ONLY YOU can make the difference!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os3pCCpdlWE

The Woman with the Unicorn   painted by Raphael (1505)

Congratulations on your victory!

LOVE,

Miss Christine

Congratulations to both teams, Lions and Unicorns, for all the work, effort and enthusiasm put into the activities of our School Week. I hope it has been  a satisfaction to all of you, and I hope that next week I can have you all, body and soul in my classes.  I love you all, red or yellow!

Here is an excellent article I came across, which I think is  important for you all to read. It reflects exactly what I think about the importance of <

Have you ever read 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' ? If you did, did you feel shocked about the conditions most slaves lived in? To enslave a fellow human being so that his or her life depends on you is outrageous.  But this horrendous practice has persisted throughout history. If you follow the link, you will have the opportunity to learn more about it, be able to witness a slave auction, and use your imagination to place yourself in the shoes of those who had to go through life in these conditions.

http://schoo

http://www.theinsite.org/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/

http://edition.cnn.com/

http://www.time.com/time/

An interesting link for people who are interested in Ancient Rome.

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/

Check it out!

HAPPY 18TH HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE.

      Collect lots of .....

Have a good holiday and come back re

Love to everyone!

To all my Level A people, I wish you the best time of your life! Enjoy yourselves, collect things and experiences, bring back wonderful memories of this very special trip. Take care of yourselves, stay away from trouble and dangerous places and activities. We all miss you here at school already! We're looking forward to your return. We imagine there will be a moment of your trip when you will look like this...

 or like this...

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http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/global_warming_version2.html

A kangaroo kept getting out of his enclosure at the zoo. Knowing that he could hop high, the zoo officials put up a ten-foot fence. He was out the next morning, just roaming around the zoo. A twenty-foot fence was put up. Again he got out. When the fence was forty feet high, a camel in the next enclosure asked the kangaroo, "How high do you think they'll go?"

The kangaroo said, "About a thousand feet, unless somebody locks the gate at night!"

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An unemployed guy got a new job at the zoo. They offered him to dress up in a gorilla's skin and pretend to be a gorilla so people would keep coming to the zoo.

On his first day on the j

Even if we can't travel, either because of lack of time or money, there are other ways to visit places in foreign countries, and get a taste of what places we would like to visit look like. The following link offers a lot of virtual tours to different places. Choose your destination and click.

http://www.travelape.com/tape/360.html

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/tours.html

Investigate this link, and experience the sensation of being present at one of Shakespeare's plays. The instructions are on the left of the page.

http://www.classbrain.com/artteensb/publish/interactive_globe_theater.shtml

Have a look at the new Google feature, Google Sky. Feel like you're looking at the Universe with a telescope.

I hope you enjoy these...from Randy Glasbergen, a great cartoonist.

A web camera is a real-time camera, usually a video camera, whose images can be accessed using the internet. The first webcam was started in 1991 in the computer science department of Cambridge University. Today there are millions of webcams that provide views into offices, buildings, parks, streets, and can also give us panoramic views of cities and the countryside. Webcams are used to monitor traffic, to keep track of volcanic activity, to keep an eye on the weather conditions, and also to provide us with an inside view of places we may never have the opportunity to see personally. They can also be used for security reasons.

Here there are some links to webcams that may interest you.

San Diego Zoo

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If you stare at the following picture long enough, you should see a giraffe. Have patience.

Were you beginning to think it was impossible?

Really, I am only pulling your leg! That was NOT an optical illusion. The following pictures are optical illusions.

What do you read in the black letters? What do you read in the white ones?

And now?

What two words can you read in t

Have a look at the following sites, which will link you to interesting reading and some checking of comprehension.

http://www.londontourist.org/

http://www.totaltravel.co.uk/

http://www.castles-of-britain.com/

You'll find lots of interesting information here. Good luck!

TOWER OF LONDON

http://www.toweroflondontour.com/

http://www.toweroflondontour.com/kids/

VIRTUAL TOUR OF LONDON AND ITS LANDMARKS

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/virtual_tour_of_london.htm

PHOTO TOUR OF LONDON

http://www.explore-london.co.uk/

VIRTUAL TOURS OF NEW YORK

http://www.nycpov.com/

HAUNTED PLACES

http://www.hauntedamericatours.com/buildings/

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I once won a newspaper competition with an easy dessert like this.

You'll need some plain ice cream (chocolate, vanilla, strawberrry, or a combination of any kind), some biscuits, which can be chocolate, vanilla,etc, and if you wish, chocolate for melting over it.

Soften the ice cream at room temperature for a while. Meanwhile, put some plastic wrap or aluminium foil into a long cake tin, leaving some of the foil or wrap hanging over the sides (to cover the dessert when the tin is full). Spoon some softened ice cream into the cake tin, then sprinkle some crushed biscuits on it. Afte

http://www.natural7wonders.com/

If you click on the following link, you'll be directed to the new competition page of New Seven Wonders, but  this time of the New Natural Seven Wonders. The competition is in the process of receiving nominations for a future voting process. You can suggest possible natural wonders to be included in the voting. Read the instructions and send your nominations! For example, you could include our Torres del Paine, or the Atacama Desert, or Fray Jorge Park... Use your knowledge of our country to suggest possibilities. You can also include other places i

Tomorrow is July 7th (the seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh year) and we shall finally know the final results of the competition which has taken place over several months. I hope our Easter Island statues earn a well-deserved place in the voting. At the moment I am writing this, there is only one hour left. Good luck to us!

Only three days left for the opportunity to vote...What are you waiting for?

Click on http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=351&L=0 and then submit your selection. You will receive an e mail link to confirm your vote. Do it NOW!

Thank you! Your 'favourite' teacher...

This group probably doesn't exist nowadays, but this song has always been one of my favourites.

Joni Mitchell is one of my favourite folk  singers . I have always liked her style.

I hope you enjoy it too.

I have so busy lately that I haven't had time to keep up to date. REMEMBER TO VOTE FOR EASTER ISLAND (NINE days left)  http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php?id=409

Why learn English

Learning to speak English well may be the best thing you can do to improve your life. That's right. Do you think it would be fun to have access to information

This has nothing to do with English, but I found it so good that I couldn't resist putting it on my blog! I've already watched it several times and enjoyed it more each one. I hope you enjoy it too.

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Look at all the things a friend is to you. Friends are forever, so care for them and cherish them. Real friends don't come easily.

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If you have already voted for the new seven wonders of the world, good for you! If you haven't, there is still time to do it. Just go to the following link, http://www.new7wonders.com/index.php, and click on VOTE ONLINE, which will direct you to another page where you'll have to register your e mail and following that, you will receive via e mail a site to vote for seven of the twenty-one options. Please consider voting for our national option, the Easter Island moais. Remember, a chance like this will not be given for the next 2,000 years.

Statues of Easter

What a wonderful photo! But... are you helping your planet to save energy? Do you remember to turn off lights when you're not using them? Who knows what the future holds for you and your descendents. Let's try to do our bit in the conservation of energy and energetic resources.

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Happy Easter to everyone!

With love from

ME

If you haven't done so yet, please take a few minutes to vote. Follow the link http://new7wonders.com  and vote online. You will be sent a mail with the link to where you can vote.It's free, and you will be doing your country a service, promoting tourism to Easter Island. You won't be alive for the next opportunity to vote, which will be in 2,000 years in the future. So it's now or never!

I'm sure that this advice will be useful for many people. These are rules which can be applied anywhere and anytime in your life.

Last Sunday 18th of March, there was a very interesting article in the Sunday supplement of the 'El Mercurio' of Valparaiso, about the cost of being unpunctual in Chile. According to this article, the economic cost of being late for 7 minutes every day in one whole year amounts to US $104,677,397. This sounds incredible. But it is based on a survey carried out in the year 2006 by  the Libertad Institute in Santiago. The cost includes what the employer loses, the employee's cost, domestic service, armed forces, police force and that involved by labourers and workers. It ends

Take a few minutes to vote for Easter Island and its moais as one of the seven wonders of the modern world! According to the latest surveys, our option is NOT among the first seven any more.

http://new7wonders.com

See blog entry for February 26th for more details...

St. Patrick's Day is celebrated March 17th. St. Patrick of Ireland, along with St. Nicholas and St. Valentine, is one of the world's most popular saints.  He is celebrated on this day by Irish followers all round the world. He was born around the year 385 A.C. in  Scotland, of Roman parents. Around the age of 14, he was captured during a raid and taken to Ireland as a slave to take care of and herd sheep. Ireland was a pagan land at this time,

Remember that you can vote for the new seven wonders of the modern (the last 2,000 years) world. Just click on the following link and it will take you to the site. Complete the information required and wait for the link in an e mail which will permit you to vote for your seven favourites. There are twenty-one options to vote for. You should be patriotic and vote for Easter Island among your seven. Become a global citizen .

http://www.new7wonders.com/

250 gr. good quality margarine or butter

1/2 cup bitter chocolate powder

6 eggs, lightly beaten with 1 teaspoon vanilla

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Relax while you watch sand art developing before your eyes! Very relaxing.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work"  Thomas A. Edison

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never, never, never, never give up"   Winston Churchill

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar"  Helen Keller

"A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds"    Anonymous

"Knock the t off the can't"   George Reeves

A well-spent d

English is not the most widely spoken language in the world in terms of the number of native speakers-there are more Chinese speakers than native English speakers-but Chinese is spoken little outside Chinese communities, so in reality English is the most widespread language in the world. Although it isn't easy to estimate the number of English speakers in the world, experts believe that there are more than 350,000,000 native English speakers and more than 400,000,000 speakers of English as a second language, people who use English as an everyday language, although they are not native speakers and those who use it as a second language, although not for everyday purposes.

Although less than 15% of the world's population uses English, its