Where is Matt? 2008

Just answer one simple question:

What is YOUR place to dance?

Practice your translation skills: Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech, 2005.

1. Watch the video.
2. If you like, read the full speech text to gain further insights.
3. Translate the passage:

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

4. Post your translations in the comment box.

Belinda Carlisle - California

What cultural information do songs teach us?

Find as much as you can in this song.

Share your essays in the comment box.

Songwriters: COMPTON, JOHN PARKER

I remember I was in the tanning salon
When I heard that River Phoenix was gone
They say that only the good die young
But that ain't true where I come from
California...California

It took a lot for me to say
I want to walk away, LA
From the sharks and the Chardonnay
In California...California

4 in the morning we were in our beds
The swaying palm trees above our heads
Woke up to a primal rumbling sound
When the Northridge quake ripped open the ground
California...California

It took a lot for me to say
I want to walk away LA
From the sharks and the Chardonnay
In California... In California
Golden State, I'm back in the Golden State
Golden State of Mind

American City Life

How many other songs that mention an American town or city

can you remember? 

Please add a link to music videos in the comment box!

Let's create a picture of American city life together!

Past Simple Assignment

McDonald's Commercial

Fast food:

are you for it or against it?

Please express your ideas below in the comment box! 

Leave your name and the number of your group, please.