Category Archives: English culture

A ‘real’ Martion invasion in 1938

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama. It was performed as a Halloween episode on October 30, 1938 and directed and narrated by Orson Welles. The episode was an adaptation of H.G.Wells’ novel The war of the worlds. Although was a performance of the book, many listeners thought that an actual Martian invasion was in progress!!

😎 Try it! Read more about The war of the worlds by clicking on the link above, listen to the original radio broadcasting and then imagine you are a radio newsreader and try to do your own version of this broadcast. What are  you going to talk about? How? How will you impress your listeners? Write and perform a dialog with your classmates.

 

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Sk8er Boy (Avril Lavigne)

Avril Lavigne is a Canadian pop singer who started making records at the age of 16. One of her most famous hits is ‘Skater boy’ or ‘Sk8ter boy’ in modern slang. The abbreviations are quite common in slang as well as in sms messages.

8-) Try it! After listening the song, can you translate (transl8) the abbreviations?

 

active8     4 2
gr8 b4 g2g      
l8r 4eva      ur

Do you know any other sms abbreviations in English?