It's over for another year...

A confession: I am really glad Eurovision is over for this year. I thought Spain richly deserved the third-to-last place because the song was bland, boring and uninteresting. (See? Why use the word "bad" when you've got so many other adjectives?)

A debate has started up on The Guardian's Eurovision blog. Do you have a better chance of winning the Eurovision Song Contest if your song is in English?

One other thought: I'm not sure why the British always expect to have good results in Eurovision, since they're always talking about how they're not European....

This wouldn't work on the FCE. But it's still fun.

"Complaints Choirs" are one of those odd bits of guiri humour that allow us to laugh at ourselves and relieve tension.

This video clip is a bit old, but it's kind of cute. It was created by AS IT HAPPENS, one of Canada's most popular public affairs radio shows, and it's easy to sing along to. (Just a bit of information: Stephen Harper is Canada's Prime Minister; Conrad Black is a media mogul who owns - or owned - newspapers around the world.)

Laugh and enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yChwJyOL9vc&feature=youtu.be

The last World Cup post for today (I promise).

This video has no educational purpose at all. It's just a fun dance tune from the 2006 World Cup, and it's easy to understand the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOZp6rgDedo

I just want to make it clear, by the way, that I'm not a really huge football fan or anything; English teachers have a nasty habit of focusing vocabulary on a particular season or event - it's simply a way of using current events (=news) to introduce new concepts. (Teacher stuff. :)