Let it snow

Hi everyone,

did you see it was also snowing on youtube? Here's the proof with a little cover from glee of Sinatra's song: Let it Snow

Enjoy!

Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow: Dublin pt.1

I'm sure you have some time to kill !
So take your time and see this one first part and all the other parts coming afterwards

Terrible Christmas Present

That's maybe one the most hilarious Christmas video ever about sadistic parents offering terrible preview gifts to their children. The reactions of the children are fantastic.

Jeff Dunham Achmed's "Jingle Bombs"

Epic Rap Battle Of History

Here's funny videos about famous celebrities or historical persons involved in rap battles. The clips are very well designed and thought. The authors are very creative and many expressions and words may be interesting to comment.

CORPORA: 45-425 million words each: free online access

CORPORA: 45-425 million words each: free online access:

There's also access to the Google Books Corpus of 155 billion words! As mentioned in class.... for example we could compare "native American" with "American Indian" to see which is used more today....

Have a nice weekend
james

"These corpora were created by Mark Davies, Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University. They have many different uses, including: finding out how native speakers actually speak and write; looking at language variation and change; finding the frequency of words, phrases, and collocates; and designing authentic language teaching materials and resources."

Touch, spoken word poem with music - YouTube

This is from Elsa's American Indians site... a poem about "Touch"

Touch, spoken word poem with music - YouTube

If ever you want to know more about the native americans, here the site of the National Museum of Indian American :
http://www.nmai.si.edu/
Try to explore the collections, there 's surely something you will enjoy!

Freakonomics - Videos

Freakonomics -- Videos

some interesting Videos from the Freakonomics team...

which do you like best?

please feel free to leave a comment.

see you tomorrow