Happy Valentine's Day to All Our Podcasting Friends And Allies, From Brooklyn, New York, After We Thoroughly Enjoyed Listening To The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast For English Language Students, By English Language Students, Found Here: http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com/
A Video of tonight's Valentine podcast episode from Brooklyn may be downloaded over a broadband connection, here: http://www.profgreen.tv/HappyVal.ram using RealVideo. There you will get to see Rana from Syria, (as pictured at the left in the above screenshot) and Sandra, from Peru, (seated in the middle above). We had twenty minutes at the end of class to prepare this unrehearsed spontaneous delivery!
A West African student from Togo shares a French song in appreciation of The Bardwell Centre English class, and, as he sings, the melody he sings reminds me somehow of the melody for the song, "City of New Orleans," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_New_Orleans_(song) :
http://tinyurl.com/bnxo5
Watch and listen to his song again on the video below, and tell me if it doesn't also remind you of the melody for that great American Folksong, "The City of New Orleans:" http://profgreen.tv/SunsetPark2.ram (Does anyone know what song he is singing in French? It talks about the sadness of parting, or? Thank you, in advance, for any help in this regard!)
A curious fact:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17CONO.html
For, the wake-up on Apollo 17 lunar landing day, Houston used the John Denver version of Steve Goodman's song "the City of New Orleans," which you can hear, at the above URL, on an MP3 file!
(Next time I will bring appropriate M-Audio preamp and microphone gear to get better sound. This was done literally on the spur of the moment.)
Un Feliz Dia de San Valentin! To All,
From The Basic Speech Class,
Del Profesor Ricardo Green
P.S. As promised to Angela V., the lyrics and audio,
for "Achy Breaky Heart," here goes the audio:
http://rosemck1.tripod.com/achy-breaky-heart.mid (audio)
And here are the lyrics found at:
cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/cyrus-billy-ray/achy-breaky-heart-5784.html http://tinyurl.com/b6cjf
For a Valentine's Karaoke Sing-A-Long,
I Propose An International Karaoke Festival For ESL/EFL English-Language-Teachers-and-Learners-Alike:-)
