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Pronunciation practice with Salsita Almendros

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Captain Salsita waiting for passengers

Captain Salsita waiting for passengers

Have you seen this video before? It’s the flight attendant onboard a South West airlines flight who is ‘rapping’ the welcome aboard message.

Come along to conversation hour and learn how to ‘rap’ this song. I’ve posted the words below.

When? Tuesday 21st April, PST 11pm

Where? The airport at languagelab.com (Click here to teleport)

Watch the video here

Here are the words

This is flight 372 on SWA the flight attendants on board serving you today
Theresa in the middle
David in the back
My name is David and I’m here to tell you that
Shortly after take off
First things first
There’s soft drinks and coffee to quench your thirst
But if you want another kind of drink then just holler
Alcohol and beverages ‘ll be four dollars
If a monster energy drink is your plan
That’ll be three dollars and you get the whole can

We won’t take your cash
You’ve gotta pay with plastic
If you have a coupon
Then that’s fantastic

We know your ready to get to new places
Open up the bags put away your suitcases
Carry on items go under the seat
In front of you so none of you have things by your feet
If you have a seat on the row with the exit
We’re gonna talk to you so you might as well accept it
You gotta help us evacuate in case we need you
If you don’t wanna then we’re gonna reseat you

Before we leave
Our advice is
Put away your electronic devices
Fasten your seat belt
Then put your trays up
Press the button to make the seat back raise up
Sit back relax
Have a good time
It’s almost time to go so I’m done with the rhyme

Thank you for the fact that I wasn’t ignored
This is South West airlines
Welcome aboard

Languagelab Writing Contest

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on February 28, 2009
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One of our students Energizer Aboma came to me a few days ago with a great idea – a writing contest. This is a great way to improve your writing and get critical feedback that can help you improve.

Many of our students have been writing on the English City News Blog a newspaper run by the students and Lane Jarman, reporter at the City News.  If you would like to write something for the blog come to one of Lane’s activities or comment on another student’s article and we will get back to you.

Ok so here are the rules:

  • Below there is a list of 50 words, you must look up their meanings.
  • Students must write a fictional story,  news style report or discursive essay using at least thirty words in the list.
  • Points will be given for originality, style, grammar and structure.
  • The winner’s profile will be featured on the new Languagelab website and also displayed all over English City.
  • Everyone who enters will be given detailed feedback and those who choose to share their feedback with the group will be posted on the blog for all students to benefit from.

The words:

  1. advice
  2. benefit
  3. liaise
  4. compete
  5. effect
  6. relate
  7. budget
  8. discreet
  9. regard
  10. respond
  11. comply
  12. procure
  13. paradigm
  14. defy
  15. assess
  16. criterion
  17. appreciate
  18. jingoism
  19. analyse
  20. retain
  21. affect
  22. enhance
  23. podcasting
  24. acquire
  25. oblige
  26. information
  27. use
  28. intend
  29. ecopolitics
  30. endeavour
  31. continue
  32. provide
  33. allege
  34. emphasize
  35. aesthetic
  36. empathy
  37. request
  38. pragmatic
  39. despite
  40. ubiquitous
  41. sceptic
  42. propose
  43. assume
  44. ambiguous
  45. competence
  46. irony
  47. subtle
  48. implement
  49. concur
  50. general

The deadline is 9th March and all submissions should be made on the English City News Blog or to jessie@languagelab.com

Good Luck !

Visit English City for a day !

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jessie
on February 18, 2009
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Want to come and visit English City ?

Never learned English in a virtual world ?

If you want to visit English City for one day and meet our ‘English City People’, students and teachers why not get a Day Pass - for the special reduced price of $2,500 Lindens which is less than $10 US dollars you can try all the classes and activities for 24 hours and also get help from our team on how to use your voice and move around in English City.

So to visit us:

1. Register

2. Visit our welcome area

3. Join the group Languagelab Day Pass

Start learning now !

Jessie Teacher


New Years Eve - English City is open to the public !!

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on December 31, 2008
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This New Years Eve December 31st -

Languagelab is opening English City to the public for free !

1. FREE ENGLISH LESSONS We are holding lots of fun and interesting English classes for you to attend for FREE. You can explore English City, meet new friends and improve your speaking,listening, reading and writing FREE!

2. ONE MONTHS FREE SUBSCRIPTION And if you buy a subscription on New Years Eve or New Years Day you will get the 2nd month free! So pay for January and get February free.

Included in a one month subscription you get:* Classes with native speaker teachers.
*24/7 Access to our virtual City.
*Games and online activities to help you to improve your English. *Students from all over the world to practice with.

3. COMPETITIONS Languagelab will also be holding COMPETITIONS at the party, where you can win FREE subscriptions worth over $100. We have lots of other OFFERS and give a ways too! You will have to come in-world and see for yourself. So don’t miss out and start 2009 with a Languagelab bang! Click here to visit English City.

A full programme of events will be available in the welcome area and on the website but I will give you an idea of what will be happening, click on the link to go to the event.

2:00am PDT: The Party

begins with New Year at Christmas Island.

3:00am PDT: See in the New Year New

Zealand ! DJ and fireworks at the Manor in English City.

4:00am PDT: Darts quiz at the pub, the Edgware Arms - see in the New Year British style.

5:00am PDT: Languagelab’s Lowri Mills sees the New Year in Sydney! First prize of the night is up for grabs!

6:00am PDT: Pogo stick races and 250 Linden prize to the winner Vladivostock New Year !

7:00am PDT: Celebrate, watch and vote with the Coolest Quick Build Contest - 250L prize to the winner.

8:00am PDT: Think you are funny? Like comedy? Come, listen, participate and vote at the Funniest Avatar Joke Contest - 250L to the Winner at the Theatre in Arts.

9:00am PDT: Jessie brings in an Indonesian New Year with another large prize drawing come and join us.

10:00am PDT: Sailboat races at Hotel Pier - 250L to the Winner ! The New Year arrives at Dhaka!

11:00am PDT: Practice your best moves ice skating at the Home Sim. Enjoy some hot cocoa or get involved with a snow ball fight.

12:00pm PDT: Darts quiz at the pub, the Edgware Arms - see in the New Year British style.

13:00pm PDT: Funniest Avatar Joke Contest - 250L to the Winner at the

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14:00pm PDT: What kind of fish are in the sea? Come find out at the

languagelab.com Fishing

Contest -250L to the Winner, happy New Year Athens and Cairo.

15:00pm PDT: Sailboat races at Hotel

Pier - 250L to the Winner ! The New Year arrives at Dhaka!

16:00pm PDT: London celebrates New

Years Eve ! Lowri starts giving away major prizes while the

London Home Office is out in London celebrating….

17:00pm PDT: While the New Year crosses the Atlantic, we will enjoy hot cocoa,

skating and perhaps a snowball fight at the

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18:00pm PDT: Enjoy the New Year all over the world with dancing, singing and fireworks ! Dart contest too at the Edgware Arms

19:00pm PDT: Party at Ciudad Bonita!!!! Fun and Spanish dancing at languagelab.com’s beautiful Spanish City and all of it’s charm.

20:00pm PDT: Enjoy the New Year with the World as Languagelab.com opens all 18 sims to the public to celebrate our global New Year - Fireworks and fun, happy New Year to you !

21:00pm PDT: Pogo you way into 2009. Participate, watch and win the languagelab.com - Pogo Stick Races 250L to the Winner.

22:00pm PDT: Ami Champion is celebrating a Texas New Year with a large prize and Sailboat races at Hotel Pier - 250L to the Winner

23:00pm PDT: Bring in the New Year with laughter with the Funniest Avatar - Joke Contest - 250L to the Winner

00:00pm PDT: Celebrate the Second Life New Years with fireworks, crackers, the official dropping of the Ball! The Final Party of the Night! The biggest and best in SL.

So as we say good bye to 2008 and hello to 2009 we will have a very full programme of events at English City - 24 hours of fun and games and a special event for each hour - so to celebrate the New Year in every country ! Our students are from over 50 countries so there are lots of traditions and celebrations to take part in and also there are some special offers and prizes to be won for some lucky students ! Every hour there will be a prize given away one for each country.

So what are you waiting for ?
Come to English City and visit us !
See you there,
Jessie Teacher
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Special Offer ! Buy on 1st January and get February free !

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on December 29, 2008
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Buy on the 1st of January and get 1 month free !

If you have always wanted to study English with native speakers and never had the chance then 2009 is the year for you !

If you buy a subscription on New Years Day 1st January 2009 you will get the 2nd month free ! So pay for January and get February free. 

So you can explore English City, meet new friends and improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing FREE !

Included in a one month subscription you get:

Classes with native speaker teachers.

24/7 Access to our virtual City.

Games and online activities to help you to improve your English.

Students from all over the world to practice with. 

If you would like to take a look at English City and meet some of our actors, who are called the ‘English City People’ you can sign up and visit us free too - English City is open to the public on January the 1st.

There may be some special prizes and offers available exclusively in English City too - but to get those offers you have to go in-world and find them !

So why not go and visit English City and see the City People and enjoy our New Years offers.

See you there !

Sharing Christmas traditions in English City

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on December 22, 2008
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As we talked about before there are lots of different traditions connected to Christmas and the holiday season.  Some of these traditions are very old and some of them are newer, some countries have taken, adapted and used other traditions to create a unique Christmas culture.

The topics that will be talked about in this Christmas session are:

The origins of Christmas,
Santa Claus,
Christmas Trees,
Christmas Stockings,
Mistletoe,
The Holly and the Ivy,
Poinsettias,
Candy Cane,
Christmas Cards,
Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer,
Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

How many of these do you know about ? Why not join Lane Jarman and talk about your Christmas experience.  Sharing traditions is on December 25th at 6:00am PDT and 2pm UK at the Manor and is followed by Christmas Carols with Lane from 7am-8am (3pm UK).

So if you would like to sing again or missed the Carols by Candlelight, come along to the Manor and sing :-)

Float making for the Christmas Parade and the Christmas Parade

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on December 22, 2008
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On December 25th you are invited to a float making session with Lowri Mills as part of a seasonal skills class. The float making is at 4am-5am PDT and (12 noon UK) at the Hotel.

The main parade is on from 8am-9am PDT (4pm UK ) starting outside the Grammar House.

You will learn how to make a Christmas float which will involve being able to listen to instructions.
To continue the theme of making things and instructions, here is a great video on how to make an origami Santa Claus !

Key vocabulary:

to fold       to measure


Origami Santa Claus! Marry Christmas!! - More free videos are here

Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer - The Movie

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on December 22, 2008
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“Rudolf the red-nosed reindeer had a very shiny nose….”

This is the start of a popular Christmas carol about one of Santa Claus reindeers.

When you go and visit Bonnie go ahead and ask her who the other reindeers are, there a quite a few to guess.

The last Christmas Eve activity at English City is watching the movie Rudolf the Rednose reindeer, sometimes if I watch movies in a language that is not my own I get confused and want to ask someone for help with vocabulary or the story, well if you watch with Bonnie you will be able to ask her for help when you need it.

The film starts at the Cinema in English City at 1pm PDT (9pm UK) and lasts for around an hour.

Have fun see you at the movie !

‘Twas the night before Christmas - Reading by Judith

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A good way to practice English is to listen to new words and hear people with different accents speaking and then you can learn how to improve your pronunciation and intonation.

On Wednesday, Christmas Eve, Judith Triellis will be reading the famous poem, ‘Twas the Night before Christmas’ at the Manor in English City at 12-1pm PDT (8-9pm UK)

Be prepared to tell your own holiday season stories and to share your tales with other students, great practice for listening and speaking.

Here is a little background information on the author of the poem.

Clement Clarke Moore (1779 - 1863) wrote the poem Twas the night before Christmas also called “A Visit from St. Nicholas” in 1822. It is now the tradition in many American families to read the poem every Christmas Eve. The poem Twas the night before Christmas has redefined our image of Christmas and Santa Claus. Prior to the creation of the story of Twas the night before Christmas St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, had never been associated with a sleigh or reindeers!

The first publication date was 23rd December 1823 and it was an immediate success. Moore was the Bishop of New York who was famous for officiating at the inauguration of George Washington. The tradition of reading Twas the night before Christmas poem on Christmas Eve is now a Worldwide institution.

Christmas Party with Santa Claus and Presents for all !

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Go and join the Christmas Parties on Wednesday 25th December at English City.

Christmas is an annual holiday celebrated on 24th-25th December. Traditionally it is  Christian festival held to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ who was born in Bethlehem.

Customs vary from country to country but the celebration usually centres around spending time with family and friends and eating a lot of food, and perhaps going to a Church service on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. Houses are decorated with a Christmas tree and lights and presents are placed under the tree.

In most European countries Christmas Eve is celebrated on the 24th but in the UK and USA it is celebrated on Christmas Day, with turkey being the traditional Christmas Dinner.

However, each country has different traditional food and drink, in the Czech Reupblic they eat carp,  a freshwater fish and in Poland there are 12 different courses to eat on Christmas Eve !

Christmas began as a Christian festival but is also celebrated by many non-Christians as a secular, cultural festival. The holiday is celebrated all over the world.

Go and join the Christmas Party on Wednesday 25th December at English City.
Times are:
7am-9am      PDT  (3pm-5pm UK)  With Kent
9am - 10am  PDT  (5pm-6pm UK)  With Phillip
10am-12pm  PDT  (6pm-8pm UK)  With Pebbles
Click here to check schedule.

You can pick up your present, talk to your friends and have a happy and fun experience while practicing new vocabulary and learning new Christmas words.

See you there !

Jessie Teacher