Learning english with the BBC

Well, I have never seen a webpage like this. It has a lot of applications that you can use to learn and to get better your english level.

With the section "words in the news" you can read at time you are listening to the report, the most important vocabulary appears in a bold type, and below you can find the defenition of all words in english too.

Another interesting thing is the "flatmates". They are four characters who have conversations about different topics, so that, after you listen to them, you can do some quizzes related to the episode's topic. Other thing they show you is grammar, you can learn some words and the sentence's structure.

For example I saw the first episode who was about the arrival of Tim's cousin. He and his friend Helen went to the airport to pick up Michal, and the topic here was "describing people". Tim and Helen said some phrases and questions to describe Michal. After listening to that episode, I did the quizz, about six questions with four alternatives, I had to choose only one for each question and then see if it was correct or not.

Finally, BBC webpage is good to learn, well done!

*/One of my favorites ]

Well, to find only one favorite movie is so hard for me. I don't use to watch a lot of films, my friends criticize it to me all time. They say: Vale! you have to watch more films! they give you new small worlds and you can open your mind watching them!. I think they have all the reason.

I need to make my own time to watch more films. But, anyhow I can recommend to you this one: 500 hundred days of Summer...

I was wanting to watch it with my friend Beatriz at holidays (on January, I remember), but the problem was that we didn't know if the film had released here in Chile. With the doubt, we downloaded it and went to my house to watch it one night. Another problem: We could only watch the first half, because the recording was damaged.

We tryed in other opportunity at the next week, and we did it! At least I can say that is a very good movie, it is not the typical love comedy, it is a little bite more than this. It makes you laugh and think about love, pairs and things of life...

This film is by the director Marc Webb (release date: 2009, country: USA) and the starrings are Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel. Also I remember, we went to the cinema to watch it, because after the earthquake it released. Into the cinema happened two strong aftershocks while we was watching the film, I think I have said it in a post before.

On the other hand the soundtrack is excellent, I downloaded it too. With songs by The Smiths, Regina Spektor, Feist, Carla Bruni and other artists including a cover of Zooey Deschanel.

About the Earthquake ¬¬

Sometimes I think I have never been more afraid than that night. To listen to that horrible sound only a few seconds before the movement would scary to anyone.

I was into my bed, but I couln't sleep. Then the sound and the movement came and my mother started to say "Earthquake!", "Earthquake!". I don't know how, but in only few seconds my mother, my brother and me were out of the house, at the garden. There the moon was so bright above in the sky. The night was especially cold. The trees moved a lot, we listened to the sound of their leaves.

The movement was eternal, it was like it never finished. Almost two or three minutes later, it finished. My legs couldn't stop shaking...For me it was awful.

Fortunatly, my house didn't suffer any damage. We didn't sleep that night, neither the next because the aftershocks. The house was whitout electricity and water the next three days.

I hate earth tremors and earthquakes, this one was my first.

I remember, at thursday when three strong aftershocks ocurred, I came to the movies with a friend to watch 500 days of Summer. We were inside watching the movie and two aftershocks ocurred, we all stayed quiet, nobody moved. But, it was a very unusual situation, the film was very good, I liked it a lot. I enjoyed it. I donwloaded the soundtrack ^.^