Advent the arrival of someone or something important. The month leading up to Christmas Angel  a spiritual being acting as a messenger of God (usually shown as a human being with wings) Bethlehem  a small town in the Middle East, birthplace of Jesus Christ Boxing Day 26th December Chimney  a vertical pipe in a house… Read More CHRISTMAS VOCABULARY

Luisa & Angelo ask you to revise “HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER)“, which will be sung during the lesson

Hello friends, next Tuesday, our last lesson before Xmas, we’ll be exchanging our Xmas and New Year wishes :  HAPPY CHRISTMAS (WAR IS OVER) – John Lennon So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun… Read More Christmastide

  Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there – I do not sleep. I am the thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints in snow, I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. As you awake with morning’s hush I am the swift-up-flinging… Read More Goodbye, Rosanna

(Song by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings, written about the pain and loss Clapton felt following the death of his four-year-old son, Conor) Would you know my name If I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven? I must be strong And carry on, ‘Cause I know… Read More TEARS IN HEAVEN

Funeral Blues  (by W. H. Auden) Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message ‘He is Dead’. Put crepe bows… Read More FUNERAL BLUES