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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen, a great singer, songwriter and poet that died on November 7th. This is our little homage to him.




          

Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
There's a shoulder where Death comes to  cry
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
There's a tree where the doves go to die
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
On a chair with a dead magazine
In the cave at the tip of the lily
In some hallways where love's never been
On a bed where the moon
has been sweating
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take its broken waist in your hand
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With it's very own breath of brandy and Death
Dragging its tail in the sea
There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
With a garland of freshly cut tears?
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz it's been dying for years
There's an attic where children are playing
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With it's 'I'll never forget you, you know!'
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz …
And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
With the photographs there, and the moss
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
My cheap violin and my cross
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
Oh my love, Oh my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It's yours now. It's all that there is

What can you tell me about this song?What can you tell me about Leonard Cohen?

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A piece of good news

Our collaborative blog Enredando en el Instituto has been given the second prize by the Ministry of Education through the Institute of Educational Tecnology, whose awards are considered to be some of the most prestigious ones in Spain regarding education and the use of ICT in the classroom.


It's for me a pleasure and an honour to share these awards with such good professionals and such great works. This prize makes me feel eager to go on working in the same way and get involved in similar projects, actually we are carrying out another one, this time on the nineteenth century, Seguimos enredando. Un paseo por el siglo XIX.

I would like to congratulate the other winners and take this opportunity to say thanks to my students for their great effort and my colleagues and friends José Luis and Rosa for sharing their experiences and ideas with me. I love working with them, we learn a lot and have fun together, and although it is much time consuming, we also know that is rewarding and really worthwhile.

Life is great! :))

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We got it!


Yes, third prize for Enredando en el instituto at the Espiral Edublogs Awards 2010. Quite excited about it and very proud of our students who have made a great effort throughout the course. They have worked hard and they deserved it.



Rosa, José Luis and I went to Madrid to pick up the bronze spinning top and it was a fantastic experience:
. An opening interesting talk by Alfonso Alcántara and a very emotional ceremony on being given the awards.
. Marcos Cadenato from "Tres tizas" (blog I love and follow) was there, I didn't know him personally and I met him at last!
. Víctor Cuevas was over there as well! another blogger I have been following for a long time.
. I made new friends, lovely people and great teachers who are making a difference in their classes: Massimo Pennesi, Estrella López, Diego Sobrino, José Hernández, Ana Mariño, Juan Ignacio Castro and Manuel Alonso Rosa.

After this event and experience, there's absolutely no doubt about the right track to follow. Education is changing and fortunately, there's no turning back, it's unstoppable.

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They are worthwhile










I have received this award from three different blogs, Cerro de las lombardas, Valme's English Corner and Colonial Nuggets.

Thank you very much for two reasons:
The first one, for thinking that my blog is worth visiting.
The second one for giving me the opportunitty to meet other teachers and their interesting blogs!
And, last but not the least, let me congratulate you on your blogs, you are doing a great job!.

Well, it's my turn. I have to choose ten blogs, uf, quite difficult. Well, this is my list:

1. Blog en curso
2. Anna's blog
3. English for you, Rosa's blog
4. Enjoy learning English
5. English in Guía-Básico
6. Eoio's advanced students
7. Talk to learn: EOI Almeria conversation club.
8. Our Advanced English blog9. Inglés_turismo_09_10
10. Learning English in Brunete

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Finalists!


The Blog that José Luis and I have with our students from Bachillerato on Spanish and English literature has been nominated for the Edublogs awards. So happy about it! We've been working hard throughout the course and just being finalists is already a prize, never mind if we don't win.

Congratulations to the other blogs and good luck!

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¡Bien por El Tinglado!

Este blog está dedicado a las actividades que solemos hacer en clase y a los pequeños proyectos que realizamos entre todos.Sin embargo, tenemos que hacer un alto en el camino para comentar que El tinglado ha quedado como finalista en los Edublog Awards 2007 en la categoría de "Best educational tech support blog".Habría escrito antes este post pero por diversos problemas técnicos no he tenido acceso a Internet(a raíz de ello me he dado cuenta de que ¡soy una verdadera adicta al blog y a la red!,aunque eso sí, reconocida).
Le he estado echando un vistazo a los otros blogs nominados,y algunos son muy interesantes, pero os aseguro que como El tinglado, ninguno.Y no es que sea el único de habla española, sino que es que se lo merecen.Un premio para ellos sería un premio a la colaboración, a la profesionalidad y al trabajo bien hecho, además de ser un interante repositorio de actividades de las cuales nos nutrimos todos.Así que,¡a votar!

VOTA AL TINGLADO

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