Our favourite Christmas song!

Hello people!

Since Christmas is around the corner we have been listening to some Christmas music, like we always do before hollidays. We have decided to upload this song called "Last Chrismas" by Cascada in the blog so you can give a look.

We hope you enjoy the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7S0RUo1Z0

We have done this Wordle with the lyrics of the song.

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

About the lyrics:

It can be considered a Christmas song for its rythm and as it mentions it but it is also a love song, well, a heartbreak song we'd say. 

The singer talks about her past relationship with someone who broke her heart and used her. She hurt so much but those times are past now, she's found someone new and she won't give her heart to the one who fooled her anymore. They won't spend more Christmas' together. 

Connecting cultures

Metaphors

These are some metaphors used when talking about culture:

1. Culture is a backpack. It is hard to carry but it provides necessary things.
2. Culture is a butterfly. It is a fragile thing of great beauty.
3. Culture is a pair of handcuffs. It takes away your freedom and traps you.
4. Culture is a pair of glasses. It helps you to see the world clearly.
5. Culture is water. It can keep you alive or kill you.
6. Culture is a mask. It hides a person’s true identity.

And we have come up with two new metaphors:

· Culture is a pomegranate. The different beliefs mixted together woult be the seeds of culture.

· Culture is a the appartment you decide to leave in. You choose the one which makes you feel more comfortable, lets you be yourself and gives you freedom.

"Dancing with the Devil" vocabulary

Here we leave you a MovieMaker telling a horror story called "Dancing with the Devil". We find it really interesting so you might want to take a look at it.

And here you have another Quizlet with some vocabulary used in the horror story.
We hope you find it useful.

https://quizlet.com/169228344/vocabulary-dancing-with-the-devil-flash-cards/

Definition of culture

Irene De La Fuente (Spain)

"Culture among countries is the most interesting thing that we have. We have different ideas, thinking, religions, etc. We are human beings and we can understand each other if we have a free soul and an open mind."

The definition Irene De La Fuente gives of culture, is our favourite one.
We like the way she describes it and says it's the most interesting thing a country has.

We agree with her, culture is what makes a country different from the other ones, it gives us an identity and without it we would probably just be like a huge society, with the same interests, traditions, religion... which we believe would decrease our interest in traveling, since why would you want to go somewhere to see what you already see in your own country?

Nevertheless, sometimes culture can create fights between the different beliefs even if the ones with opposite thoughts are from the same place. To appreciate everything different cultures provide us with, we have to be open minded and realize we can not all follow the same traditions, religion, beliefs, and so on.

To sum up, we like to have our own culture and we wouldn't change it for another one but we also enjoy getting to know the other ones when traveling or experiencing. 

Blog vocabulary

In the link below you will find the vocabulary of the blog, we belive it's a good way to learn while playing.

https://quizlet.com/159834171/blog-vocabulary-flash-cards/

We hope you like our idea and learn some new words.

You could leave a comment with your opinion!

Have a nice day!

Welcome to G&G!

In this blog we are going to be posting information about culture in different english speaking countries, such as: traditional food, dances, some landskapes and so on. 

We are also going to upload some short videos and songs we believe you will enjoy.

We hope you learn as many things as we do,
feel free to ask any doubts or curiosities!

Have a nice day!


Here we leave you the first song, called Headlights- Meadowlark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aukHA92Czzo