wordsarewordsarewords http://josemelo.wordpress.com enjoy and learn! Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:42:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/9e923fd6521d7f7d3139c71c36fad016?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png wordsarewordsarewords http://josemelo.wordpress.com 700 years into the future! http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/700-years-from-now/ http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/700-years-from-now/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:37:37 +0000 ja http://josemelo.wordpress.com/?p=309 ]]>

The planet is a garbage dump. The future is reduced to ruins. The surviving humans have been cruising the skies on a spaceship for the past 700 years. A tiny robot, WALL-E, speeds up around the earth compacting trash into piles as tall as skyscrapers! Ignorance led consumerist humans to such chaos. Is there a chance for love?

Posted in Animation, Funny Stuff, Ideas & Thoughts, Movies, technology, Video Tagged: environment, technology, trash, wall-e, waste ]]> http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/700-years-from-now/feed/ 0 ja Kutiman – YouTube mixer http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/302/ http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/302/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:21:52 +0000 ja http://josemelo.wordpress.com/?p=302 ]]>

This project consists of seven music tracks/videos that were made exclusively from video material found on YouTube. Kutiman, an Israeli musician and producer, spent 3 months in his bedroom meshing and cutting over one hundred videos for samples of singers and instruments—from guitars, pianos, drums and harps, to synthesizers, a bouzouki and even a cash register. Here are the resulting seven tracks:

Posted in Funny Stuff, Ideas & Thoughts, technology, Video Tagged: images, Kutiman, Music, Ophir Kutiel, ThruYOU, YouTube ]]> http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/302/feed/ 0 ja ThruYOU The origami of speakers http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/the-origami-of-speakers/ http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/the-origami-of-speakers/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:22:31 +0000 ja http://josemelo.wordpress.com/?p=299 ]]>

OrigAudio is an eco-friendly, foldable, self powered speaker. Use them for travel, the beach, your office, camping, dorm life and everywhere else!

Posted in Funny Stuff, technology Tagged: gadgets, technology ]]> http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/the-origami-of-speakers/feed/ 0 ja In technology we trust! The Mactini! http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/in-technology-we-trust/ http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/in-technology-we-trust/#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:09:22 +0000 ja http://josemelo.wordpress.com/?p=295 ]]>

Teenagers have  high expectations about what technology might bring over the next decade,

Teens also think new inventions — over a time frame, not necessarily by 2020 — can solve serious global problems such as unclean water, hunger, disease and pollution.

How far can technology go? Watch this funny video about the limits of technology!

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Posted in Ideas & Thoughts, Music, Vocabulary Tagged: the script ]]> http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/the-man-who-cant-be-moved/feed/ 0 ja Grammar exercises – test http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/grammar-exercises-test/ http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/grammar-exercises-test/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:42:26 +0000 ja http://josemelo.wordpress.com/?p=290 ]]>

I believe these exercises can help you for your test.  Practise them all!

Present Perfect -  affirmative negative interrogative

Past Simple – regular verbs irregular verbs 1 irregular verbs 2 negative interrogative

Present Perfect Continuous – affirmative negative interrogative

If clauses – type I type I

If clauses -  type II type II

Passive Voice -  present/past future

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merrychristmas2

Posted in Traditions ]]> http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/merry-christmas-2/feed/ 0 ja merrychristmas2 Human Rights Day http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/human-rights-day/ http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/human-rights-day/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:10:19 +0000 ja http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/human-rights-day/ ]]>

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights from Seth Brau on Vimeo.

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relatives

Posted in Interactive Grammar ]]> http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/relative-pronouns-2/feed/ 0 ja relatives Past Simple – regular/irregular verbs+exercises http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/past-simple-regularirregular-verbsexercises/ http://josemelo.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/past-simple-regularirregular-verbsexercises/#comments Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:02:30 +0000 ja http://josemelo.wordpress.com/?p=269 ]]>

Exercises: regular regular regular regular regular regular

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