Christmas Fable

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On Christmas Eve, Nathan thought it would be nice to buy his wife a little gift for the next day. Always short of money, he thought long and hard about what that present might be'

Unable to decide, Nathan entered Debenhams and in the cosmetics section he asked the girl, 'How about some perfume?' She showed him a bottle costing £75.

'Too expensive,' muttered Nathan.

The young lady returned with a smaller bottle for £50. 'Oh dear,' Nathan groused, 'still far too much.'

Growing rather annoyed at Nathan's meanness, the sales girl brought out a tiny £10 bottle and offered it to him.

Nathan became really agitated, 'What I mean', he whined, 'is I'd like to see something really cheap.'

So the sales girl handed him a mirror.

 

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TIPS on Pronunciation

 

How can you improve your pronunciation?

• One way to get the best of your bookworm is to listen to ten lines (any) of the book in the CD.

• After listening you can record yourself reading those lines on  your mobile or any other device and then listen to your own.

• Notice that you pronounce correctly or as similar to the speaker as possible , that you stress the words in the same way, that you link the words in the sentence the same way as the original record and use a similar intonation.

If you do it differently you are doing it wrongly!

TRY! And repeat again and again until you notice there is little or no difference between the original record and yours.

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By doing this not only will you be improving your pronunciation,

but also your fluency will get better and better...

HuGS

Active Practice on The Passive

• He is believed never to have loved anyone. (= They believe he (has) never loved anyone.) 

• She is known to have been writing songs for a long time. (= They know she has been writing/was writing songs for a long time.)

• Steve was assumed to have left the day before. (= They assumed Steve had left the day before.) 

• The organisers were thought to have been preparing for days. (= Everybody thought the organisers had been preparing for days.) 

• This painting is known to have been painted by Pablo Picasso. (= They know that the painting was painted by Pablo Picasso. / They know that Pablo Picasso painted it.) 

• America was thought to have been discovered by Columbus. (= People thought that America had been discovered by Colombus. / People thought that Columbus had discovered America.)

Presentacion passive from Chemka

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Further practice  HERE


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