What did Santa bring you?

This image is a bit ambiguous. It is interesting to see the opinions of your students: the positive ones will believe  he is the father, the negative ones that he is bringing bad news home. What do you think?

The modern story of Nativity

Times Change, Feelings stay the same

I want an alien for Christmas

Another funny song for Christmas: I want an alien for Christmas




Lyrics can be found here

Grandma got run over by a Reindeer

I try to look for funny songs for Christmas. Here the first one: Grandma was run over by a Reindeer.



Lyrics can be found here

Get out of the car!

I found this short story. I find it funny so I think I'll be using it soon in class.

Jobs, Cash, Money

Personally I admired Steve Jobs and I have felt his death deeply. For this reason I watched the Standford discourse with my FCE and I showed them this sentence. Now they are writing their essays, it was a good trigger  (I hope).

Halloween Jokes

Happy Halloween! Today I leave you two Halloween jokes!

Stereotypes

I found this image on Tumblr some days ago. Then @pacogascon (our first guest cook) sent me the complete text. I hope you find it interesting and useful.

I’M SKINNY, so I MUST be anorexic.

I’m EMO, so I MUST cut my wrists.

I’m BLONDE, so I MUST be a ditz.

I’m JEWISH, so I MUST be greedy.

I’m GAY, so I MUST have AIDS.

I’m ARAB, so I MUST be a terrorist.

I’m RELIGIOUS, so I MUST shove my beliefs down your throat.

I don’t have a RELIGION, so I MUST be evil and have no morals.

I am LIBERAL, so I MUST be gay.

I TAKE (or used to take) ANTI-DEPRESSANTS, so I MUST be crazy.

I’m a GUY, so I MUST only want to get into your pants.

I’m IRISH, so I MUST have a bad drinking problem.

I’m INDIAN, so I MUST own a convenient store.

I’m NATIVE AMERICAN, so I MUST dance around a fire screaming like a savage.

I’m a CHEERLEADER, so I MUST be a whore…

I’m RICH, so I MUST be a conceited snob.

I WEAR BLACK, so I MUST be a goth or emo.

I’m “GOOD LOOKIN”, so I MUST not be a virgin.

I HAVE STRAIGHT A’S, so I MUST have no social life.

I DRESS IN UNUSUAL WAYS, so I MUST be looking for attention.

I’m a VEGETARIAN, so I MUST be a crazy political activist.

I’m COLOMBIAN, so I MUST be a drug dealer.

I’m GERMAN, so I must be a Nazi.

I hang out with GAYS, so I MUST be gay too.

I’m a VIRGIN so i MUST be prude.

I play VIDEO GAMES, so I MUST be a nerd.

I’m BLACK so I MUST love fried chicken and kool-aid.

I’m BI so I MUST think every girl I see is hot.

I’m a GIRL who actually EATS LUNCH, so I MUST be fat.

I’m SINGLE so I MUST be ugly.

I’m CHRISTIAN so I MUST hate homosexuals.

I’m MIXED so I must be fucked up.

I’m MUSLIM so I MUST be a terrorist.

I’m in BAND, so I MUST be a dork.

I’m BLACK so I MUST believe JESUS WUZ A BROTHA.

I’m GOTH so I MUST worship the devil.

I Love SHOPPING so I must be rich.

I’m ASIAN so I must be a NERD that does HOMEWORK 24/7.

I’m YOUNG, so I MUST be naive

I LIKE TO BE MYSELF, so I MUST be cocky and arrogant

I’m a MUSICIAN, so I MUST not be doing anything with my life

I wear what I WANT, so I MUST be a poser

I’m a YOUNG WRITER, so I MUST be emo.

I’m EMOTIONAL, so I MUST be depressed

I’m a TEENAGER, so I MUST be rebellious.

I’m POLITE to TEACHERS, so I MUST be a teacher’s pet.

I SMILE a lot, so I MUST be preppy.

I’m AMERICAN, so I MUST be an overweight pig with no boundaries.

I’m a GIRL, so I MUST suck at all guy sports.

I like to READ, so I MUST be a nerd.

I like FIRE so I must be an arsonist.

I have ARTISTIC TALENT, so I MUST think little of those who don’t.

I’m a TEENAGER, so I MUST have no clue

I’m a TEENAGER, so I MUST have a STEREOTYPE.

I’m not the most POPULAR person in school, so I MUST be a loser

I care about the ENVIRONMENT…I MUST be a tree hugging hippy.

I am A DREAMER, so I MUST be unrealistic.

I HAVE MANY DIFFERENT INTERESTS, so I MUST be unable to commit to one thing.

I’m a PERSON, so I MUST be LABELED.

Stereotypes only hurt.

Bark

Today, a little joke with homonyms… We should have plenty of humour in our classes.

 An English teacher enters to his class. He wants to revise the vocabulary they have already learnt about plants, so he starts asking his students.
- What is the name of the green parts of a plant? – he asks to one of his students.
- Leaves.
- Good. And you, Peter, what’s the name of the outer part of a tree?
- I don’t remember teacher.
- Bark, Peter, bark….- he reminds to his student.
 - Woof! Woof!

Longest one syllable word

My students love fun facts about language; history of some words or as this is the case a strange word. As well, the image help us to revise the superlative!

Via: Learn something every day

Double negatives

Just remember your kids  not to use double negatives!

Asimov encourages reading

This letter by Isaac Asimov is really inspiring and can be used to motivate students to read. 

Originally retrieved from Abadia Digital.

Classroom Poster

This image has been living in my computer for more or less two years; I don’t know where I took it. I was looking for a nice way to create a poster with some class rules and I found this.

I really like it because it is fun and different; so I hope you also like it.

By the way, if anyone knows the author, I’ll edit this to give him/her credit.