Unit 2A - Present Perfect Simple vs Present Perfect Continuous

To practice click here. You'll find some grammar explanations, as well as exercises to practice and improve.

Unit 1A - Questions and Answers

Interviewing 

Emma Stone

Watch the interview and complete the information: 

1.     Growing up, her nick name was .....................................................

2.     Jimmy Fallon calls her .................Her other nick names are.............................................................................................................

3.     .................................. freaks her out (to react with extreme emotion)

4.     She had to delete her Facebook because...........................................

5.     Her tattoo represents.........................................and was designed by.................................. She decided to get the tattoo because .............................................................................................................

6.     Describe the scene of the first time Emma and Jimmy met:..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

7.     The drink they try is called ............................... and tastes like .............................................................................................................

8.     The Help, the movie in which she performs, is about .........................................................................................................

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Have you seen it? Did you like it? Why/Why not?

9.     What do you think Emma stone is like?

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10.  Take notes about the questions Jimmy asks her throughout the interview (direct and indirect)

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11.  Do you find the interview too personal?...............................................

12. What questions would you have asked her?

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tell me a story...

On our first day we have revised how to tell an anecdote or a story.
And now you must prepare a story for next day to tell your partners in a group.

BUT the story must include FOUR LIES.

After you have finished telling your story,
your partners will have to guess which the lies were...

Here is the ppt shown in class:

Telling a story speak from dursitarosales

THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS!

Nice weekened!

Dulce

 :-)

Clothes related idioms and other expressions

 At the end of unit 2A we looked at some idioms related to items of clothing.

Here you have two texts you can read and listen to, where most of those idioms are mentioned (and a few more).

What idiom would you relate this picture to? 

When in context, everything is much easier to be learnt!

Notice the American accent of the reader, and thus, some changes in the vocabulary, for example PANTS instead of TROUSERS...

CLICK!

• Clothes idioms 1

• Clothes idioms 2

Please, leave a comment, trying to use one of the idioms seen so far and aswering the question below the photo ;-)
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Enjoy your weekend!

D.

You do, don't you?... I don't... (Unit 1B)

 LET'S REVISE A BIT MORE on the different uses of AUXILIARY VERBS!

For echo questions, remember:

 Just 'echo' the statement with the appropriate auxiliary verb + a personal pronoun.

A: I've been to Seville.
B: Have you?
A: I can't drive.
B:Can't you?
A: I know him well.
B: Do you?
A: My sister is an architect...
B:Is she?
A:  My dog is so funny!
B: Is it?
A: David  loves birds.
B: Does he?
A: I should go now
B: Should you? Why?

How would you DISAGREE to these statements?

Example> 0. A: I don' like Chinese food. B: I do!
1.  My sister is quite tall .  B:_____
2. I would like to live somewhere else.  B:_____
3. I think he is not a good president .  B:_____
4. I have never seen that film before.  B:_____
5.  I have two cars.  B:_____
6. Rose passed her exam.  B:_____
7. Mark and I are going on holiday soon.  B:_____
8. I can't speak French at all.  B:_____

  (Check answers in comment 1)

 

NOW...
 Click here , here and here  for further practice on agreeing/ disagreeing .
  Also WATCH this funny video.

Questions tags: >  HERE and HERE!

PLEASE, LEAVE A COMMENT...Will you?

Informal e-mails/letters

At the end of unit 1 we'll be looking at how to write

 an informal e-mail.
And on Wednesday and Thursday we'll write one in class ;-)

Click HERE for some further details.

Ppt an informal letter from Elvira del Valle Suárez

West End girls

Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
in a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police! There's a madman around
Running down underground
to a dive bar in a West End town

In a West End town, a dead end world
the East End boys and West End girls
In a West End town, a dead end world
the East End boys and West End girls
West End girls

Too many shadows, whispering voices
faces on posters, too many choices
If? When? Why? What?
How much have you got?
Have you got it? Do you get it?
If so, how often?
Which do you choose
a hard or soft option?
(How much do you need?)

You got a heart of glass or a heart of stone?
Just you wait 'til I get you home
We've got no future, we've got no past
Here today, built to last
In every city, in every nation
from Lake Geneva to the Finland station
(How far have you been?)


PET SHOP Boys


The Pet Shop Boys are Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, who met in an electronics shop on Kings Road in Chelsea, London in August 1981. Recognising a mutual interest in dance music, they began to work on material together, first in Tennant's flat in Chelsea and from 1982, in a small studio in Camden Town. It was during those early years that several future hit songs were created, including "It's a Sin", "West End Girls", "Rent" and "Jealousy". Starting out, the two called themselves West End because of their love of London's West End, but later they came up with the name Pet Shop Boys, derived from friends of theirs who worked in a pet shop in Ealing. Their big break came in August 1983, when Tennant was assigned by Smash Hits to interview The Police in New York. The duo were obsessed with a stream of Hi-NRG records made by New York producer Bobby Orlando, simply known as Bobby 'O'. According to Tennant: "I thought: well, if I've got to go and see The Police play, then I'm also going to have lunch with Bobby 'O'." They shared a cheeseburger and carrot cake, at a restaurant called the Apple Jack, on 19 August (two years to the day since Tennant and Lowe had met) and, after hearing a demo tape that Tennant had brought along with him, Orlando suggested making a record with the Pet Shop Boys. In April 1984, the Orlando-produced "West End Girls" was released, becoming a club hit in Los Angeles and San Francisco. On 2 November, it was voted "Screamer of the Week" by listeners of Long Island, New York radio station WLIR. It was a minor dance hit in Belgium, and France, but was only available in the United Kingdom as a 12" import.

"West End Girls" is influenced by hip hop music with lyrics focusing on class, and inner-city pressure, and were inspired by T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land. It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.
The first version of the song was produced by Bobby Orlando and was released on Columbia Records' Bobcat Records imprint in April 1984, becoming a club hit in the United States and some European countries. After the duo signed with EMI, the song was re-recorded with producer Stephen Hague for their first studio album, Please. In October 1985, the song was re-released, reaching number one in the United Kingdom and the United States in 1986.
In 1987, the song won Best Single at the Brit Awards, and Best International Hit at the Ivor Novello Awards. In 2005, 20 years after its release, the song was awarded Song of The Decade between the years 1985 and 1994 by the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.
The song was performed by Pet Shop Boys at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony.

 ( © Wikipedia)