Torn by Johan Lippowitz with Natalie Imbruglia

Gracias a Paqui por el video ;)

I thought I saw a man brought to life
he was warm he came around like he was dignified
he showed me what it was to cry
Well you couldn't be that man I adored
you don't seem to know - or seem to care what your heart s for
I don't know him anymore
there's nothing where he used to lie
my conversation has run dry
that's what's goin' on
nothing's fine
I'm torn

I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed
lying naked on the floor
illusion never changed
into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see the perfect sky is torn
you're a little late
I'm already torn

so I guess the fortune teller's right
I should have seen just what was there and not some holy light
but you `crawled beneath my veins and now I don't care, I have
no luck
I don't miss it all that much
there's just so many things
that I can't touch
I'm torn
there's nothing where he used to lie
my inspiration has run dry
that's what's goin' on
nothing's right I'm torn...
[chorus]

Martin Luther King Speech: I Have a Dream - Addressed at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.

Yo tengo un sueño

"Yo tengo un sueño" ("I Have a Dream") es el nombre popular del discurso más famoso de Martin Luther King Jr., cuando habló poderosa y elocuentemente de su deseo de un futuro en el cual la gente de raza negra y blanca pudiesen coexistir armoniosamente y como iguales. Este discurso, pronunciado el 28 de agosto de 1963 desde las escalinatas del Monumento a Lincoln durante la Marcha en Washington por el trabajo y la libertad, fue un momento definitorio en el Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles en Estados Unidos. Está considerado frecuentemente como uno de los mejores discursos de la historia, y quedó en el primer puesto entre los discursos del siglo XX según los estudiosos de la retórica.

Ampliamente aclamado como una pieza maestra de la retórica, el discurso de King se asemeja al estilo del sermón de un ministro bautista negro. Apela a fuentes icónicas y ampliamente respetadas como la Biblia, e invoca la Declaración de Independencia de los Estados Unidos, la Proclama de Emancipación, y la Constitución de los Estados Unidos. A través del instrumento retórico de la alusión (definido por Campbell y Huxman (2003) como "referencia indirecta a nuestro acervo cultural compartido, como la Biblia, la mitología griega y romana, o nuestra historia"), King hace uso de frases y lenguaje de importantes textos culturales para sus propios propósitos retóricos. Cerca del comienzo King alude al Discurso de Gettysburg de Lincoln diciendo: "Five score years ago..." una particular forma de decir "cien años" en inglés (pues score son 20 años y 20 x 5 = 100).

Las alusiones bíblicas también son comunes. Por ejemplo, King alude al Salmo 30:5 en la segunda estrofa de su discurso. Dice en referencia a la abolición de la esclavitud articulada por la Proclama de Emancipación, "llegó como un precioso amanecer para terminar una larga noche de cautiverio." Otra alusión bíblica es encontrada en la décima estrofa: "No, no; no estamos satisfechos y no quedaremos satisfechos hasta que "la justicia ruede como el agua y la rectitud como una poderosa corriente." Esta es una alusión a Amós 5:24. King también cita de Isaías 40:4 -"Sueño que algún día los valles serán cumbres..."




....knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

¿Por qué es tan importante pronunciar bien en Inglés? - ¿Why is so important to pronounce correctly in English?

Como siempre les digo a mis alumn@s en las clases de Inglés, la pronunciación de la lengua inglesa es lo más difícil de aprender para un hispano parlante; un ejemplo????? ver este video jeje y recordad, no tiréis la toalla!! de los errores se aprende....practice makes perfect!!

Britain's got talent

Britain's got talent es lo que en España conocemos como Tú sí vales o Tienes talento. ¿Alguna diferencia entre el programa en España y en Inglaterra? Pues mientras en España el programa parece más bien un programa de los morancos y del profe de OT, en Inglaterra se puede disfrutar mejor de la calidad artística de los participantes. Por eso, mientras nosotros hemos escuchado a los hermanos andaluces (a veces me parto con ellos), en Inglaterra han podido encontrar a 'patitos feos' que encima de un escenario se convierten en 'maravillosos cisnes'...pasen, vean y juzguen...

PAUL POTT (vendedor de celulares en Gales)



SUSAN BOYLE (en paro)

Susan Boyle Sings on Britain's Got Talent 2009 Episode 1 @ Yahoo! Video

It's stunning, isn't it?

Aquí os dejo la letra de la segunda canción, I dreamed a dream (from Les Miserables)

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

Walt Whitman - I Sit and Look Out

Walt Whitman (West Hills, condado de Suffolk, Nueva York, 31 de mayo de 1819 – Camden, Nueva Jersey, 26 de marzo de 1892), fue un poeta, ensayista, periodista y humanista estadounidense. Su trabajo se inscribe en la transición entre el Trascendentalismo y el Realismo, incorporando ambos movimientos a su obra. Whitman está entre los más influyentes escritores del canon norteamericano (del que ha sido considerado su centro) y ha sido llamado el padre del verso libre. Su trabajo fue muy controvertido en su tiempo, particularmente por su libro Hojas de hierba, descrita como obscena por su abierta sexualidad. Su influencia ha sido amplia, siendo tenido como el padre de la moderna poesía americana. Entre los escritores que se han visto marcados por su obra figuran: Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, John Ashbery, entre otros.

Nacido en Long Island, trabajó como periodista, profesor, empleado de gobierno y enfermero voluntario durante la Guerra civil estadounidense. Al inicio de su carrera, también produjo una novela, Franklin Evans (1842). Su obra maestra, Hojas de hierba, fue publicada en 1855, costeada por él mismo. El libro fue una tentativa de tender los brazos hacia el ciudadano común con una épica americana. La obra fue siendo revisada y expandida durante el resto de su vida, siendo publicada la edición definitiva en 1892. Luego de un derrame al final de su vida, se movió a Camden, Nueva Jersey, donde su salud declinó. Murió a los 72 años y su funeral se convirtió en un espectáculo público.

La sexualidad de Whitman ha sido tan discutida como su obra. Si bien comúnmente se le ha considerado como homosexual o bisexual, no está claro el que Whitman tuviese alguna relación sexual con otro hombre, por lo que los biógrafos continúan debatiéndola. Para más información sobre este autor pulsa aquí

I Sit and Look Out

I SIT and look out upon all the sorrows of the world, and upon all oppression and shame;
I hear secret convulsive sobs from young men, at anguish with themselves, remorseful after deeds done;
I see, in low life, the mother misused by her children, dying, neglected, gaunt, desperate;
I see the wife misused by her husband—I see the treacherous seducer of young women;
I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love, attempted to be hid—I see these sights on the earth;
I see the workings of battle, pestilence, tyranny—I see martyrs and prisoners;
I observe a famine at sea—I observe the sailors casting lots who shall be kill’d, to preserve the lives of the rest;
I observe the slights and degradations cast by arrogant persons upon laborers, the poor, and upon negroes, and the like;
All these—All the meanness and agony without end, I sitting, look out upon,
See, hear, and am silent.

Braveheart - Freedom Speech (Scottish accent)

Braveheart

Braveheart es una película ganadora de cinco Premios de la Academia, incluyendo el Oscar a la Mejor película, estrenada en 1995. Es una película épica basada en la vida de William Wallace, un héroe nacional escocés. Mel Gibson dirigió, produjo y protagonizó la película. Para más información pulse aquí

First, we will read part of Braveheart's script, particularly William Wallace's Freedom Speech:

                             **STEPHEN**
               The Almighty says this must be a
               fashionable fight, it's drawn the
               finest people.

                           **LOCHLAN**
               Where is thy salute?

                           **WALLACE**
               For presenting yourselves on this
               battlefield, I give you thanks.

                           **LOCHLAN**
               This is our army. To join it, you
               give homage.

                           **WALLACE**
               I give homage to Scotland. And if
               this is your army, why does it go?


                           **SCOTTISH VETERAN**
               We didn't come to fight for them!

                           **SHOUTS FROM MOB**
               Home! The English are too many!


                           **WALLACE**
               Sons of Scotland!... I am William
               Wallace!

                           **SOLDIER**
               William Wallace is seven feet tall!

                           **WALLACE**
               Yes, I have heard! He kills men by
               the hundreds! And if he were here,
               he would consume the English with
               fireballs from his eyes, and bolts
               of lightning from his ass!

     Many laugh -- all get the point.

                           **WALLACE**
               I am William Wallace. And my enemies
               do not go away. I saw our good nobles
               hanged. My wife... I am William
               Wallace. And I see a whole army of
               my countrymen, here in defiance of
               tyranny. You have come to fight as
               free men. And free men you are! What
               will you do without freedom? Will you
               fight?

                           **VETERAN**
               Two thousand, against ten? We will
               run -- and live!

                           **WALLACE**
               Yes. Fight and you may die. Run and
               you will live, at least awhile. And
               dying in your bed many years from
               now, would you be willing to trade
               all the days from this day to that,
               for one chance to come back here as
               young men, and tell our enemies that
               they make take our lives, but they
               will never take our freedom!!!

Then, we will watch a fragment of the film which coincides with that of the previous script (William Wallace's Freedom Speech):

Finally, watch the video as many times as you can in order to get every single word said. This is a way of improving your listening as well as having fun while watching a movie ;)

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