Serbia, mmm, interesting, the first non-English language song for ten years. My vote was for Ukraine. 
The United Kingdom ,through the B.B.C. ,is the biggest contributor financially to the contest, which is why we don’t have to go through the semi-finals.
Bad luck Scoot, flying nowhere it seems…
There is a continuing debate about political voting. I’ve produced a little task (Word.doc 113kb)that I’m be doing with Key Stage 3 students this week to investigate the claim. A nice little map skills task.
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Written on Sun, 13 May 2007 at 10:17 am
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May 13th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I liked Greece!!!
May 13th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
They weren’t dressed as Aliens in Silver
May 14th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Fantastic resource yet again Tony. Concepts of space, place interconnectedness etc (but in the words of the old school - what has that got to do with geography!!!). Now there is a GA superscheme - the geography of Eurovision…
May 14th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Now that people from outside Europe are taking part in the EUROfactor it seems to be getting worse, but some where cool, liked Ukrain. Didnt watch it all though as i found more intrest in other channels at the time.
May 14th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Good stuff Tony - many thanks for the prompt response. I had to laugh when the voting was coming on…
May 14th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Thanks for the praise!
I’ve had a couple of good lessons using this today, it promoted some good debate with year 8, none of it was about whether the song was good. We discussed the impact of Iraq as one possible reason for the United Kingdom’s unpopularity.
Remember when Blair came to power in 1997, and in the same month we won with Katrina and the Waves… Better song though!
I’m sure a heard booing when the U.K. entry was announced.
G, it all depends on what you class as Europe!
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