Category: Youtube

Found this via the LiverpoolFC Twitter feed!

And given my love of Spain, music and, most of all, Nando, I just had to share it with you.

Happy New Year to all readers of ¡Vámonos!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clRBpAv5HgM&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1]

A lovely Christmas song, written by José Luis Perales and performed here by Los Toribianitos, and today brought to my attention by one of my online friends, Francisco Meza in Perú.

NAVIDAD NAVIDAD EN LA NIEVE Y LA ARENA 

NAVIDAD NAVIDAD EN LA TIERRA Y EL MAR (BIS)

Mientras haya en la tierra un niño feliz 

mientras haya una hoguera para compartir 

mientras haya unas manos que trabajen en paz 

mientras haya una estrella, habrá Navidad.  

Mientras haya unos labios que hablen de amor 

mientras haya unas manos cuidando una flor 

mientras haya un futuro hacia donde ir, 

mientras haya ternura, habrá Navidad  

Mientras haya un vencido, dispuesto a olvidar 

mientras haya un caído a quien levantar 

mientras haya una guerra y se duerma un cañón 

mientras cure un herido, habrá Navidad

Sessame Street is 40 this year as Google reminded us yesterday when the Wallace and Gromit 20th birthday mast head was replaced with one celebrating Sesame Street. Today it’s Oscar the Grouch!

I’ve been having a little look at Youtube resources again, and, inspired by the session last week on teaching Infants languages, I’ve found some sweet little videos featuring Winnie the Pooh and Tigger too! Now, Winnie is always a winner in my books – I just love that bear of very little brain! – but talking Spanish is even better.

The words are:

Then there’s this clip called Es la hora de pensar and is a little song to signal thinking time. I think it would be a lovely cue to send children to their desks to work on whatever they are doing, or as a signal to change activity. And not just in language lessons but as one of those ’embedded’ ways of making language an everyday, incidental thing.

Hope you like them!

Very sweet – love the graphics. And it’s short too.

So, the decision about to whom London pass on the Olympic flame at the end of 2012 will soon be made. And much to everyone’s surprise, Chicago (despite Obama) are out and Madrid are still in to fight it out head to head with Rio.

Thanks to the above tweet I’ve found this song that won’t stay out of my head.

A lovely summer feel good song.

Hope you enjoy it too!

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyVa5DYl4yE&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgmu3PtJVNY&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x402061&color2=0x9461ca&border=1]

With all sorts of bugs doing the rounds at the moment, here’s another little gem that is
a)fun
b)free
c)useful and topical.

El Barrio Sésamo in Mexico has made this little video to encourage children to wash their hands and advises them to sing part of the song ‘Pin Pon’ to help them judge how long it should take.

So let’s see if the sinks will be ringing to the sound of children singing and washing…;o)