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Sunday, December 17, 2017

Eagles - Please Come Home for Christmas (Live!)



The Eagles - Please Come Home For Christmas

Artist : Eagles, The
Title : Please Come Home For Christmas
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Bells will be ringing, the sad sad news,
Oh what a Christmas, to have the Blues
My baby's gone, I have no friends
To wish me greetings once again

Choirs will be singing, Silent Night
Oh, Christmas carols, by candlelight
Please come home for Christmas,
Please come home for Christmas
If not for Christmas, by New Years Night

TAG:Friends and relations send salutations
Sure as the stars shine above
But this is Christmas, yes Christmas my dear
It's the time of year to be with one you love

So won't you tell me, you'll never more roam
Christmas and New Year, will find you home
There'll be no more sorrow no grief and pain
And I'll be happy, happy once again
Oh there'll be no more sorrow, no grief and pain
And I'll be happy, at Christmas once again

Elvis Presley, Martina McBride - Blue Christmas



Ill have a blue christmas without you
Ill be so blue just thinking about you
Decorations of red on a green christmas tree
Wont be the same dear, if you're not here with me

And when those blue snowflakes start falling
That's when those blue memories start calling
Youll be doin all right, with your christmas of white
But I'll have a blue, blue blue blue christmas

[Instrumental]

Youll be doin all right, with your christmas of white,
But I'll have a blue, blue christmas
Songwriters: BILLY HAYES, JAY W. JOHNSON

Blue Christmas lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, DEMI MUSIC CORP. D/B/A LICHELLE MUSIC COMPANY

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence



Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools" said I
"You do not know, silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the signs said
"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whisper'd in the sounds of silenceWriter/s: PAUL SIMON 
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Friday, November 10, 2017

How to Stop Translating in Your Head and Start Thinking in English Like ...










English Lessons with Halina

  • Are you nervous about communicating in English with foreign colleagues?
  • Do you throw a full command of English, but feel like your flexibility may be lacking?
  • Would you like to memorize how to sound more natural when making little talk and talking about problems?
  • Do you feel the need to improve your conversational skills?
If you answered "YES" to any of these questions, then link up right off!
I give English one to one tutoring classes as well as ONLINE English Courses.
I realize what YOU need to succeed in English. I know the essential skills you need to grow to suit an active communicator in English.
My classes are for students who want to use a most proficient approach to get fluent in English fast by practicing English Skills. Training is a subconscious process and is faster than conscious learning.
Being able to put across effectively is the most important of all life sciences.
Communication is merely the act of transferring information from one place to another, whether this is vocal,  written, visually or non-verbally (using body language, gestures and the tone and pitch of the voice). 
How well this information can be transmitted and received is a measure of how good our communication skills are.
Developing your English communication skills can facilitate all facets of your life, from your professional heart to social gatherings and everything in between. 
Formal methods of learning English exemplify passive learning with a limited success rate. I steadfastly trust in Active Learning of English Skills which is much more efficient than passive learning.
These are the main disadvantages of passive English learning
1. The major weakness of passive education is that it splits the language into different components – reading, writing, listening, grammar, and pronunciation – which you try to learn separately.
2. When learners are not actively involved in the class, they continue to think in their native language. Whatever the instructor explains to them, they try to interpret it in their mother tongue. It gets virtually impossible to process the information intuitively or spontaneously.
3. Because learners aren’t taught to think in English, they are unable to communicate in English.
Active learning helps students start speaking English confidently in less than a year.
Active learning is more than just listening: it involves the active participation of pupils. They must use the language all the time and be emotionally involved in the process.
We need the conversion from Passive Learning to Active Training English Skills
As a language teacher, I use all kinds of tricks just because making students speak and building their self-confidence in keeping the conversation going is the most essential for me.
When I teach Polish, my foreigners and I have to speak only Polish, and also my English classes are run entirely in English. I train without a bridge language.
This means they are required to forget about native language and start talking as well as intending in a foreign linguistic communication. Thinking in a foreign language, this is just what I want my learners to achieve.
My students read the words in different contexts, mostly singing phrases, expressions, collocations, idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs also telling tales. Moreover, I inspire them to talk to everybody, even to themselves in a foreign language. Consequently, they
can communicate as well as discuss a variety of beautiful narrations.
Many teachers spend most of their time altering each other’s errors.
Nevertheless, I correct only fundamental errors, as I don’t want students to stop talking. I also encourage my learners to listen to songs, watch movies with subtitles in a language they learn, read a lot and so forth.

1. The most important is to deliver comprehensible input. We improve the language when we understand it.
I am very much against the support in the native language.
2. Learners spend more time dynamically speaking English when we convert them, for influencing pupils.
I also produce an environment for gaining all language skills – reading, listening, talking, writing, and pronunciation at the same time. Learners experience everyday situations again entirely in English.
3. The mobile is an obvious choice for delivering information. It gives students access to reading material both in the form of educational activity and after the course of a written report. It covers support for sharing sessions with friends or teachers, which is essential for digital learners.
The lessons added by a teacher allow building an active connection between everyone.
As a result, I as an English teacher achieve a perpetual change from passive learning to the active, improving English skills.

Thursday, June 15, 2017

Muhammet Kahraman - Today I Will Not Die (Official Video)



The song for Syrian kids has been published by my friend.

Today I will not die is a song of hope written for Syrian refugee kids and all children of war in the world.

Lyrics: Turgay Evren 
Melody: Muhammet Kahraman
Arrangement: Emre Moğulkoç


Today I will not cry




Today I will be happy




Today I will not die
Today my land is Turkey 

Dreams were my home
The jets hijacked




Green was my land
Before the sunset, I will not give up
I will leave behind
Blood and death
My orphan heart is my best friend
My smile sets my path

We are the children of heaven
Our love will beat all the weapons
We are the roses of all seasons
Compassion will conquer all the vengeance
We are all brothers and sisters
We deserve the world much better

Today I will not complain
Today I will be content
Today I got no space for pain
Hope will spread to every tent

My toys are bombs
Raining from the skies
Human rights are a song
Composed of white lies
My soul will not starve
Hope will not drown
In the sea of blame
My heart will not go lame
My innocence will rise again 

Dreams were my home
The jets hijacked


Green was my land
Before the sunset
I will not give up
I will leave behind
Blood and death
My orphan heart is my best friend
My smile sets my path

We are the children of the heaven
Our love will beat all the weapons
We are the roses of all seasons
Compassion will conquer all the vengeance
We are all brothers and sisters
We deserve the world much better

Friday, January 6, 2017

“Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics”



Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.[1][2] It has its roots in 1940s' and 1950s' rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical and other musical sources.

 

Charles's recording hit number one for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, beginning on Monday, October 9, 1961. "Hit the Road Jack" won a Grammy award for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording. The song was number one on the R&B Sides chart for five weeks, thereby becoming Charles's sixth number one on that chart. The song is ranked number 387 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". 

It is only

"It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I Like It)"

If I could stick my pen in my heart
And spill it all over the stage
Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya
Would you think the boy is strange? Ain't he strange?
If I could win ya, if I could sing ya
A love song so divine
Would it be enough for your cheating heart
If I broke down and cried? If I cried?
I said I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it
I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it
I said can't you see that this old boy has been a lonely?
If I could stick a knife in my heart
Suicide right on stage
Would it be enough for your teenage lust
Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?
If I could dig down deep in my heart
Feelings would flood on the page
Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya
Would ya think the boy's insane? He's insane
I said I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it
I said I know it's only rock'n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it
I said can't you see that this old boy has been a lonely?
And do ya think that you're the only girl around?
I bet you think that you're the only woman in town
I said I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it
I said I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it
I said I know it's only rock 'n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it. I like it...

Monday, October 17, 2016

Halina's English Academy



Private lessons with Halina
I understand what YOU need to succeed with English. I know the essential skills you need to develop to become an effective communicator in English.
I would love to teach you one-to-one!
I am available for private lessons on Skype or in my virtual classroom. My online classroom is equipped with a microphone, camera, whiteboard, media player, file sharing, and a variety of other tools.
I have 25 years of experience teaching private English lessons to adults and adolescents from beginning level to advanced.
My students have included business executives, professors, medicine doctors, engineers, university students, primary and secondary school students, and adults learning English for daily life.
I know I can help you make significant, fast ae well as adequate progress in English.
For your program, you can choose any of the topics listed below or suggest additional topics. I will design the lessons to suit your specific needs.
General Conversation Skills
Everyday expressions, idioms, slang, conversation topics and situations, cultural issues, and skill-building in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
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Interview and CV preparation, oral and written reports and presentations, formal and informal business meetings, entrepreneurial culture, office English, and skill-building in pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary.
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Discounts:
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