Edutainment – Bouteiller’s English Teaching in Hong Kong


Burning down the house by the Cardigans & Tom Jones
November 17, 2009, 9:16 pm
Filed under: * Poems & Songs - Music *, My Weekly Journal

Instead of burning down the house, I would decorate it for Christmas! But I feel like listening to this song to relax a little and give me some positive energy. Let’s ‘burn’ it down for a while and see how you feel! Check this out:



Joke of today …… the awful sea gull
November 16, 2009, 10:55 pm
Filed under: * Poems & Songs - Music *, Gag!, My Weekly Journal

Do you still remember why I hate sea gulls so much?! :-P

A Revenge (from Saint Malo)

A ‘hungry sea gull’, ‘whatever’ bird, high up in the ‘blue’ sky was chasing a flock of ‘tourists’.

They ‘visited’ and ‘toured around’ as they flew ahead ‘to France’.

Suddenly it swooped down to the ’shore’ and greedily seized a magnificent ‘cake’ in its hook-like ‘beak’!

The ‘Hong Kong girl’ ‘became angry’ as she watched!

Now the whole flock of ‘tourists’ wheeled and turned, still ‘taking pictures’

-an amazing sight to see- :-P

and darkening the sky with their ‘umbrellas’, :-P

closed up into a ‘beach’ and mobbed the ’sea gull’ driving it ahead of them,

until overwhelmed by their fury and the sheer weight of its load, it ‘poisoned’, dropping the ‘cakes’

into the ‘English Chanel’ below and fled to the cover of … ‘heaven’.

Wytus

(‘transformed’ by Nikki Bouteiller)

:-D



Straight through my heart by Backstreet Boys

All the thanks to Marco, we have Backstreet Boys’ latest song to share – Straight through my heart. Check it out:

Do you think they can make such a successful come-back(at least they earn pretty deliciously!) if they didn’t work hard and try their best when they were teenage boys? What are your dreams? Have you geared up to your road of success yet? :-)



Invisible by Taylor Swift

All the thanks to Sharon, here we have another sweet song from Taylor Swift. Let’s check it out:



Kissing you from Romeo and Juliet (1996)
October 12, 2009, 1:04 pm
Filed under: * Poems & Songs - Music *, * Pop Culture - Film *, My Weekly Journal

From time to time, I always watch the Love at First Sight scene of Romeo and Juliet on Youtube. Each of their dialogues is a piece of literature. I wish I could speak like that. :-P Meanwhile, the background music is so sweet. The scene then ends with this beautiful poem: (It is when they find out they are the son and daughter of two enemy families.)

Then Juliet, seeing Romeo leaving, whispered quietly to herself on the balcony:

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.

This is the link for the movie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y9Vd4tGPi0

Here is the song ‘Kissing you’:

Lyrics:

Pride can stand a thousand trials,
The strong will never fall

But watching stars without you,
My soul cries.

Heaving heart is full of pain,
Oh, oh, the aching.

‘Cause I’m kissing you, oh.
I’m kissing you, oh.

Touch me deep, pure and true,
Gift to me forever

‘Cause I’m kissing you, oh.
I’m kissing you, oh.

Where are you now?
Where are you now?

‘Cause I’m kissing you.
I’m kissing you, oh.



100 single ladies dancing in the Central London!

Having the background music Single Ladies by Beyonce, there are 100 ladies dancing in Central London in this video. However, how many lady dancers are really single? Well, who knows?! :-P Check this out:

Do you prefer the thighs of these ladies or the ones of Beyonce? :-P

Hey, here’s a man’s version! :-P Check this out:

Haha, what do you think?! :-D



Fashion by Lady GaGa & the movie Shopaholic

One of my big expenditure is always fashion. I’m so into fashion especially dresses. I’m not too crazy about shoes but I can’t keep my eyes off “stilettos”, normally with crazy narrow (at least 3 to 4 inches!) heels!! :-P Recently I always switch to Fashion TV as there are lots of 2010 fashion week shows around Europe (like Milan, Paris, London), New York and Tokyo!

Before I show you some gorgeous fashion shows, let’s listen to how Lady GaGa sings about her madness on fashion of the movie Shopaholic and some world-class famous fashion designers. These are the music videos of the movie Shopaholic shown earlier this year. Check it out:

Full lyrics:



The Shape of my Heart by Backstreet Boys

All the thanks to Yvonne, Backstreet Boys have come on air here! This boy group was one of the boy groups that I chased after in all the music programmes on MTV and Channel [V] every weekend when I was a teenager! My eyes were always on tall and cute guys. (I was already 170cm tall when I was 11! Westerners are always taller! :-P You know…… :-P ) Guess which one I like most! Tell me your preference too!!

Um…… why would I choose this songs, the Shape of my Heart? It is because the lyrics of this song can show you how I feel for my students, especially in these verses:

` Chorus:
` Looking back on the things I’ve done
` I was trying to be someone
` I played my part, kept you in the dark
` Now let me show you the shape of my heart
`
` Send in this beautiful loneliness that’s tragical
` So help me I can’t win this war, oh no
`
` I’m here with my confession
` Got nothing to hide no more
` I don’t know where to start
` But to show you the shape of my heart…
`
` I’m looking back on the things I’ve done
` I never wanna play the same old part
` I’ll keep you in the dark
` Now let me show you the shape of my heart

Let’s give it a ‘click’!

Do you know the shape of my heart now? :-D



Hurray! It’s over! Wake me up when September ends! :-P

All the thanks to everyone of you, my stressful and horrible September is gone now! Hurray! It’s all over for now. I just replied all the comments too. Great! I’m happy. There’s not much to worry. :-)

This following song is ‘Wake me up when September ends’ by Green Day. It’s about a summer love story, which has to ends when September, the time for the man who needs to go for the army training, ends.

To me, it’s great to have my last stressful September ends. However, to you all, as students, when your honeymoon month of the academic year, September, ends, that means it’s time to be serious to focus on your new year study targets. Hence, we won’t regret when it’s too late. Work hard everybody!

This is a Japanese comic version. The original one bears the copyright and can’t be embed here. Check this out:



Over the Rainbow by Angela Zhang

Dear students

After 2 weeks of school, have you all got used to a new school life year yet? Is there a lot of work and stress already? Remember, life is like a roller coaster. There are always unexpected ups and down. This is why our life could be so fun and exciting if we take it this away. Just don’t forget that I’ll always be at your side to offer you any support if you need. :-)

Let me dedicate my favourite song, Over the rainbow, to you all. Hope you all will meet your target of the year and bring yourselves over the rainbow one day. Check it out:

All the best!

Cheers

Madame Bouteiller