Wednesday 30 October 2013

How much do you know this blog?


In the following word search puzzle there are 20 words related to this blog, how many do you manage to find?

P C P O G I V F C W D X S C I R Y L J O 
E A Y I E K V C U Q Z G M S E A S Z L F 
B T R D I I I B M L J A R U H H A V T F 
L A D A X K D K G C H I N M S R Z J Q I 
K L G R N L S G D A M I T Y V I L L E C 
O O S E M O C R E V O G Y U E B C R H E 
U N Z K Z S R R E H S O Q G U M U A T P 
R I M O V I E M K T J P N H Z S P N F Q 
P A Z J C T I F A N S A H A W P B N C F 
E K P R E O Y P E L H O U N I M S R O G 
P S X P S A A H T C R X P N T C S M E P 
X C Q A Q L M S X R G L E M J N S W Z V 
X O Y U I S C E O R G S N Z I G E A A E 
R D I C F C N R C B S L D N F A T O Y Z 
Q Z Z D F U J M V H A N A F X C N X K L 
S R O Z D I A M E U F L X C C B U X Q P 
N B O N J O V I H W E J L O C B O W O M 
O T Z F L B R V A E P E F L P E C X B W 
O J T X N S P B V F O M H Y E N N X I R 
C F O R D A R E E Q W E L L X E O T E R 

Words are...

ACCENT
AMITYVILLE
BONJOVI
CATALONIA
COUNTESS
ENJOY
EXCHANGE
HAPPINESS
HAVE
HORROR
IMPOSTERS
LYRICS
MOVIE
MUSIC
OFFICE
OVERCOMES
PARANORMAL
QUIZ
RADIO
VERBS

Tuesday 29 October 2013

True or not...




True or not.... I love movies "based on true events". How many times reality overcomes fiction*1? Specifically regarding horror movies cause "true events" are basically what the director perceives from those events; later we can perceive a different thing when further investigating the events. 



For example, "The Amityville Horror" first released on the 70's:


La morada del miedo
Extracted from wikipedia:
"In December 1975, George and Kathy Lutz and their three children moved into 112 Ocean Avenue, a large Dutch Colonial house in Amityville, a suburban neighborhood*2 located on the south shore*3 of Long Island, New York. Thirteen months before the Lutzes moved in, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. had shot and killed six members of his family at the house. After 28 days, the Lutzes left the house, claiming to have been terrorized by paranormal phenomena while living there." Margot Kidder playing Kathy Lutz.



There are 8 more movies after this one which cannot compare to the original story.

  • Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
  • Amityville 3-D (1983) (made in 3-D, and has also been released as Amityville III: The Demon)
  • Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes (1989)
  • The Amityville Curse (1990)
  • Amityville: It's About Time (1992)
  • Amityville: A New Generation (1993)
  • Amityville Dollhouse (1996)

Released in 2005 the remake also entitled "The Amityville Horror" was quite alike to the first one however...
La morada del miedo (2005) Poster
- There was a new member in the family, the little girl played by Chloë Grace Moretz who literally sees the younger child of the murdered De Feo family. (A good horror movie can't stand without a little dead girl...)

- The way George Lutz (the father of the family) goes crazy*4 everytime he is in the house is a bit more radical than in the first movie.
- The babysitter has completely changed:

From this to this...

There are other slight*5 differences I will not go trough so I want to tell you about the later Amityville movies:

    My Amityville Horror (2012) Poster
  • "My Amityville horror" 2012. Documentary movies are a trend*6 and the Amityville's one was a must. One of the Lutzes boys (Daniel Lutz) has grown up and he explains his experience in the house and how the facts affected him. I personally get the impression that "psychological issues" where behind paranormal phenomena lived during those 28 days. Call me innocent, I prefer to think that there were really paranormal activities other than George Lutz having a strong personality and not being very kind to his family (which is the real fact behind I guess). Have a look at the trailer:

      • "The Amityville Asylum" 2013; Still haven't see it. Impressions will come in a few days...



IT WILL CONTINUE...


*1 Reality overcomes fiction = la realidad supera la ficción
*2 Neighborhood = vecindario
*3  Shore = costa, orilla
*4  he/she goes grazy = él/ella se vuelve loco/a
*5 Slight = Ligero Slightly = ligeramente
*6 Trend = moda, tendencia

Monday 28 October 2013

Language exchange; Let's verbling!







Following our philosophy of enjoying English: check the free classes that Verbling is offering, if you want to "get on board" then register to became a teacher of your own language or student of other languages (not only English).

https://www.verbling.com/

Monday 21 October 2013

Sense of humour; medicine for Monday...




I really recommend "The Office".. it's not the ideal office to work but you really laugh your head off* watching it!!! 

Michael Scott's Best Moments







*laugh one's head off = "partirse de risa"

Sunday 20 October 2013

HAPPY SUNDAY!



"LA FELICIDAD ES COMO UNA MARIPOSA; CUANTO MÁS LA PERSIGAS MÁS TE EVITARÁ, PERO SI CENTRAS TU ATENCIÓN EN OTRAS COSAS, VENDRÁ Y SE SENTARÁ SUAVEMENTE EN TU HOMBRO..."

Friday 18 October 2013

New resources for Learning "The English Menu"

ENJOY ENGLISH THROUGH ... RADIO?



What's on the menu this week?
- Sweet Home Alabama
- Satisfaction; Rolling Stones 
- Just can't get enough
- Wonderwall
- Unbelievable
- Grace Kelly
- Get Lucky
- Move like Jagger