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One of the cleverest and funniest ads I've ever seen!

BRITs 2009

The Brit awards (the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards) were presented yesterday. Duffy picked up three awards. Her biggest hit to date, Mercy, was at number one in the singles chart for five weeks last year, and her first album, Rockferry, sold 1.7m copies in the UK last year.
Other winners were Girls Aloud, Kings of Leon or Katy Perry. Learn more about the awards and their winners, or watch some images and videos below:

Animal idol

Operación triunfo, Popstars, Factor X, Tienes talento, Tú sí que vales... or their English equivalents, Pop Idol, The X Factor, Fame Academy... all of them are talent shows, that is, a mixture of reality show and school where the contestants are looking for fame and stardom. You probably have seen some (or all) of them. Here's another one: Animal Idol.

What do you think of it? Would you watch it if it was on TV???

April fools!

If you read the articles attentively, you should know by now which articles were April Fools jokes. Most of you guessed correctly that the first article was fake, and so was the second. But could you imagine that the smoking tortoise really exists? Life's stranger than fiction!

The fake articles specify they are a joke somewhere on the page, so you can check for yourselves. You can also read the following articles:

April Fool's Day story round-up (The Telegraph)

Ben Schott's April Fool Almanac (Times online)

Read what La Vanguardia says today.

April Fool's Day

Today is April Fool's Day. On this day people like to play tricks on each other (similar to our Dia dels innocents). Newspapers also sometimes include fake news stories.

Read the following stories and decide which one is real and which one is a joke.

1. Dog racing on ice gets green light: Wembley to host first meeting (Daily Mirror)
2. Calling Carla: Brown enlists first lady to give Britain style (The Guardian)
3. Life's a drag for tortoise (The Sun)
4. The Facebook tool which turns your mobile into a snoop (Times online)

What do you think? Have your say and vote!

It can read your mind!

Incredible! This program knows what you're thinking!

Think of something - animal, mineral, vegetal or other - and this artificial intelligence program will guess it in 20 questions or less. Don't you believe it? Give it a try:

20Questions

You'll be amazed!

Eurovision Song Contest

Last night Spain voted that our representative in this year's Eurovision Song Contest will be Rodolfo Chikilicuatre, with the song Baila el Chiki Chiki. The song was selected by internet voters in MySpace, and then won in the TV final.

Spain won't be the only country to send an unusual singer to the contest. Ireland may be breaking all the records by sending Dustin the turkey, with the song Ireland douze points!

Barça v Celtic

Tonight there's an important match, as Barça is being visited by Celtic in the return leg of the Champions League. In the first leg, Barça won 2-3. What will happen tonight? Who will get a pass to the quarter-finals? Will Barça make it to the final in Moscow?

Read the information provided in this worksheet and do the accompanying exercises.

And the Oscar goes to...

Tonight is the night of the Oscars. Who's your favourite? Below you have the full list of nominees to help you decide. If you're in the mood, you can also answer some film questions in the Trivia, or click on Oscars.com to watch some film trailers. Come back tomorrow to know the winners.



By the way, could you win an Oscar?
http://www.its-english.com/movies/test/ex2.asp

Brit Awards

The BRIT Awards, often simply called The BRITs, are the British Phonographic Industry's annual pop music awards. They were given out last Wednesday night.

The Arctic Monkeys and Take That won two Brits each.

Here is the full list of winners:
http://www.brits.co.uk/winners/