Achieving your childhood dreams (with subtitles in English)

http://www.thelastlecture.com/index.htm

On September 18, 2007, computer science professor Randy Pausch stepped in front of an audience of 400 people at Carnegie Mellon University to deliver a last lecture called “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams.” With slides of his CT scans beaming out to the audience, Randy told his audience about the cancer that is devouring his pancreas and that will claim his life in a matter of months. On the stage that day, Randy was youthful, energetic, handsome, often cheerfully, darkly funny. He seemed invincible. But this was a brief moment, as he himself acknowledged.

Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, as has the book he wrote based on the same principles, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. Sadly, Randy lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on July 25th, 2008, but his legacy will continue to inspire us all, for generations to come.

Museums in London: Write your own Review

Here you have a list of links to some of the most important museums in London. Have a look at them, surf, choose one and write a review about it including your personal opinion. You have this help guide to write your comment.

The National Gallery

British Museum

Madame Tussauds London

Tate Modern Museum

Tate Britain

Natural History and Science Museum

Museum of London

Victoria and Albert Museum

The London Dungeon

Lissie: Everywhere I go

Lissie is from along the banks of the Mississippi, Rock Island, Illinois.

Recorded in Nashville late last year with Jacquire King (Kings of Leon), Lissie’s debut album which will follow this summer is packed full of surprises. For starters there is a voice that crackles with the influence of the blues as much as it does with say folk music, and a range and delivery that could put most rock singers to shame. Then more importantly there are the songs; where wonderfully brooding & emotionally charged stories mix with a magical warmth that feels as at home blasting out of a radio today as it does driving across the desert with the wind in your hair.

Lissie lives by herself, with her dog, in a farmhouse in Ojai, California, away from the beaten & obvious track of LA’s music scene. (Taken from Lissie´s Myspace website)

Lissie, 'Everywhere I Go' -- Free MP3 of the Day - Spinner

LEARN HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE IRREGULAR VERBS

Dear Students,

Here you have a very useful video with the irregular verbs and their pronunciation (American accent). Watch it as many times as you need until the spelling and the sounds stick in your head!! Please, feel free to comment and let me know if you found it useful.

Good luck to all! :-D

Elena, your teacher of English.