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Time expresions na2 unit 2 b from DULCE ROSALES

Vocabulary Wheel

Travelling and Holidays

Hello there!
Watch this video and revise and extend the vocabulary we've seen in class.

Now go HERE and learn all you need about airport vocabulary.

Unit 1 (question formation and phrasal verbs)

To revise the question formation : Visit this post and this one.




PHRASAL VERBS

In this exercise you must read the sentence and the clue in brackets and try to put an appropriate phrasal verb in the correct tense in the gaps. The missing phrasal verbs are popular.

1 – This is a pretty dress. Shall I ------ it ---? ( to see if something fits or looks good on you )
2 – The pasta has gone bad. I should --------- it ------. ( to put something in the rubbish bin )
3 – I know that learning English is difficult, but don't ------ ---. ( to stop doing something )
4 – We are going to miss our flight. -------- ---! (to move/do something quicker )
5 – She's on the other line, could you ------- --- a minute please? ( To wait a little )
6 – I gave you some money last week. Can you ---- me ----- please? (to give money to someone who borrowed it to you)
7 – Don't stop writing. -------- ---. (to continue doing something )
8 – Some agents came to my school, so I ------- them ----------. ( to take someone on a tour )
9 – Could you ----- your cigarette ---- please? ( to extinguish/switch something off )
10 – Please ------- --- this word in the dictionary. I don't know how it's spelt. ( to check the meaning/spelling of a word)

Phrasal Verbs

A – hurry up
B - go on 
C – look up 
D – put out
E – pay back
F – hold on
G – throw away 
H – show / around
I – try on
J – give up

 from Nicoletta Di Gia, EC Cape Town English School

ANSWERS IN CLASS!
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Now you can watch this video and the ones which follow to learn some phrasal verbs further.

Happy weekend!

Animals

How much vocabulary about animals are you familiar with?
Let's look at some

The environment - Unit 4A

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.

KEY to Newspapers Vocabulary

Hi guys!

This is the answer KEY to the end of the photocopies
 for unit 5C, i.e.  'Newspapers Vocabulary.' 
Check!

1) People working in the papers: 

        1C, 2F, 3K, 4N, 5E, 6B, 7L, 8O, 9M, 10I, 11J, 12H, 13G, 14A, 15D

2) Pages 

•     Welcome to... TRAVEL PAGE       
•      Prime Minister... FRONT PAGE
•     O'Toole... REVIEW PAGE
•     Coe breaks... SPORTS PAGE
•     Soft colours... FASHION P.
•     Pope to meet... GOSSIP COLUMN
•     How I saved...FEATURES PAGE
•     Will Distillers... CITY PAGE
•     The President...EDITORIAL
•      Calling all ... SITUATION VACANT PAGE

3) Other feautures:

  1 TV/radio programmes   2 Weather forecast     3 Letters from readers    4 Crosswords/puzzles

  5 Classified adds (personal)    6  Classified adds (cars for sale)   7 Obituary   8 C. adds (objects wanted     9 advertisement     10 horoscope    11 classiefied add (house for sale)  12 announcement of a marriage

4)  Turning the pages...

a. advertising    b. circulation    c. entertainment    d. headlines     e. cartoons     f. sensational

g. gossip column     h. views     i. censorship    j. correspondents    k. news agencies

l. reviews    m. editorial

5)   Hmmm...have a look at the last page of the photocopies (the language of the headlines) ;-)

NOW go on reading

 Interesting links to visit:

• Top national and international media resources from U.K.:

Go >  HERE

• And...top PAPERS in U.S. today:

1. USA Today 2. The Wall Street Journal 3. The New York Times 4. Los Angeles Times  5. The Washington Post 6. Daily News, 7. New York Post  8. Chicago Tribune 9. Newsday,  10. Houston Chronicle

Any problem? Ask here in comments or in class... as you prefer

Have a great weekend!

D. 

Improve Your Vocabulary

A good way to improve your English  is by  having an appropriate command of the words formation...

Read texts A & B, and in each of the gaps write a suitable word. This word should be formed from the word with the same number in the box on the right of the text. The first one has been done for you.

A.

The only way to 0.  fitness   is through exercise. Spending your life as a 'couch potato' is almost the 1.______ thing that you can do. I'm not saying that you need to become 2._____ about keeping yourself fit and spend long miserable hours 3.______ jogging for miles in the rain every day. But it is essential that you do a minimum of 4.______ exercise . Have a 5._______ with your doctor, and then exercise 6.________according to his 7.________.

0. fit 1. health 2. fanatic 3. happy 4. day 5. discuss 6. system 7. instruct

B.

8._______ you know someone who is 9._______ of spiders. The problem is so common that 10.______ even have a word for it - arachnophobia. No one is sure what it is that inspires this 11.______ terror. Some people believe it is the legs, the numerous eyes, or even their scuttling form of movement. Perhaps it is a 12._______ of all these things. Many people spray spiders with 13.______ as soon as they see them, despite the fact that spiders are useful in keeping down 14._______ of other insect pests in the house. Mind you, for some people anything is 15.________ to spiders!

8. Doubt 9. terror 10. psychology 11. rational 12. combine 13. insect 14. infest 15. prefer ANSWERS *

 

*ANSWERS in comment # 1  

:-)

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Answers SELF Test Units 1-2

You have here the answers to the Self Test done in class today (NA1- Tuesday/Thursday group)

GRAMMAR

1

1. Isn't this film fantastic?

2. What are you thinking about?

3. How many students are in your class?

4. Coul you tell me where the cinema is?

5. Do you know what time the bank closes?

2

1 French 2 short dark 3 new blue striped 4 Italians 5 the poor 6 lovely little silver 7 so 8 such a

3

1 haven't 2 won't 3 doesn't 4 does 5 would 6 am

4

1 have you been learning 2 I've been painting 3 have jsut seen 4 hasn't talked 5 haven't done 6 has he had

5

1 was doin 2 had been walking 3 had left 4 didn't go 5 was raing 6 had been waiting

VOCABULARY

6

1 stubborn 2 impulsive 3 reserved 4 ambitious 5 cheerful 6 immature 7 open- minded 8 insincere

7

a. type b. Chatting c. Vain d. To e. Neck f.up g. Nearly h. In i. Still j. Hardly k. late

8

1 customs 2 flight 3 took 4 bagagge 5 control 6 crew 7 passengers 8 landed

As hard as nails....

As light as a feather

Hi there!
Trying to keep as cool as a cucumber...

I am sorry to say I've had trouble with my computer at home, so I haven't been able to upload the ppt. for similes shown in class last week.

But there is a very interesting LINK here you should not miss!


Cheers!

D.

VIDEO: National Geographic - Catastrophic Climate Change

National Geographic - Catastropic Climate Chage from United Nations Foundation on Vimeo.

As you read the text you'll see that part of the second half of it is missing...
Could you write down any of  the missing information?
Give it a try if you like!

• Visit Pili's Intermediate 2 blog to revise some vocabulary. 
• Visit the previous post if you missed it yesterday! 

* Again, I must thank and congratulate Patricia, Lorena and Noemi for voluntarily taking part in the peer assessment of today's class.
Cheers!

 Have a gorgeous weekend! 

 Dulce ;-)

crime and criminals

   Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) is a fictionalized film account of the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials, written by Abby Mann and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark and  Marlene Dietrich, among others.
  The film depicts the trial of certain judges who executed Nazi law. It’s based on a real trial: the film was inspired by the Judges' Trial before the U.S. Nuremberg Military Tribunal in 1947. By the time the film was made, all of the convicts had already been released, including four of them who were sentenced to life in prison.

Watch Spencer Tracy delivering his final verdict :


You can see the script of the verdict HERE.

Crime Quiz:

1 - A person who breaks into houses to steal is a ...

burglar
pickpocket
shoplifter

2 - A person who attacks people in the street to steal is a ...

burglar

pickpocket
mugger

3 - Killing someone as a punishment for a crime is...

capital punishment

corporal punishment

4 - A person who burns property is...

a burglar
an arsonist

a robber

5 - Which is more serious?

Theft
Robbery

6 - A story that proves someone could not have committed a crime is...

an alibi

a witness

7 - A person who transports things illegally into a country is a...

mugger
smuggler

bandit

8 - Killing someone without intending to do it is a…

murder
manslaughter

vandal

9 - Killing someone with intention is...

murder
manslaughter

assassination

10 - Paying an official to do something illegal is...

mugging
bribery

arson

(Click on the BLUE words for meaning and pronunciation)

Reading > Two crime stories:
STORY ONE
STORY TWO

Finally,
Write a comment saying in which cases you would give comunity service to a criminal, and in which you would give a life sentence. Briefly justify your opinion with examples.

TV or Not TV...



In class yesterday we introduced the vocabulary of television. We discussed about it, read about it and listened to people talking about the topic.


The presentation seen then is here for you to revise, together with some exercises to improve further.

Tv

View more presentations from dursitarosales.

Visit THIS LINK and do the exercise

Do some LISTENING HERE: (Try to listen and answer the questions- and NOT read...)

Now, question: Is TV educational? (Leave a comment)

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The PASSIVE Voice and Movie Time

These days we are looking at the passive voice in class, and at the vocabulary of the CINEMA.
Please, have a look at the powerpoint presentation below.
For further practice, Click HERE.

For revision and extension on the cinema. Click HERE and HERE (Reading)

Some Listening Practice HERE!

Passive Voice

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NOW YOU WORK.
In the comments ask three questions using the passive for your partners to answer. ANSWERS must be full sentences. See example in comments 1 and 2.
:-)

KEY to homework

Vocabulary: Work and employment.

Last Wednesday you were given some HOMEWORK on vocabulary to revise and extend the language of “Job & Employment”. After you have made the exercises by yourself, check here for possible mistakes.

Any questions? In class!!!

Key to Work and Employment exercises

1. Asking about someone’s job: 1C   2A   3B

2. Areas of Work: 1E   2C   3F  4B   5A  6D
3. Office Jobs: 1C   2B   3A  4D
4. Factory:  1D   2E   3A  4C  5B
5.  Manual Jobs:  1E   2D    3C   4A   5B
6. Professions: 1H   2G   3E   4F   5D   6C   7A    8B
7. Emergency Services:
1 sailor    2 firefighter    3 paramedic   4 soldier   5 pilot   6 police officer

(2^nd PAGE)

1. Looking for a Job:

1 section  2 qualifications   3 CV    4 application    5interview   6 experience

2. Applying for a job: 1 found   2 applied for   3 go into   4 filled in/ sent it off     5 offered

3. Job advertisements:

CLEANER:  requires, rates

ACCOUNTS: position, salary

SALES ASSISTANT: applicant, experience, training, apply

NURSE: temporary, leave

6. Unemployment: 1 was sacked   2 be made redundant    3 unemployed

7. Two word jobs:

lorry driver, shop assistant, window cleaner, bank clerk, driving instructor, taxi driver, traffic warden, security guard, social worker, estate agent.
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Work and Employment

All these words are related to WORK. Check what they mean

General

a regular job

commuter

employee

employer

He took a job as a waiter.

job

occupation

profession

to earn one's living

to run a firm

trade

What do you do for a living?

worker

Application

application

application form

apprentice, trainee

CV (curriculum vitae)

job interview

to apply for a job

training

training course

vacancy

Unemployment

period of notice to be on sick leave

to be unemployed to be out of work to be on the dole

to fire somebody to sack somebody

to dismiss somebody

to hand in one's notice to resign to quit

unemployment

unemployment benefit, dole money

Working hours, pay

a full-time job

a part-time job

continued payment of wages

flexitime

pay slip

salary

to get a rise wages

to work in shifts

to work overtime

wage cut

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All you need to know about WORK  is HERE!

Infinitive or -ING?

I really love doing nothing

Remember the general rules:


WE use the -ing form

After certain Verbs

After preposition

When the verb is the subject of the dentece

We use the infinitive:

After certain verbs

After adjectives

For reason or purpose


See the following links

FOR:

Verbs followed by INFINITIVE
Verbs followed by -ING
Verbs Followed by Gerunds OR Infinitives (Different Meaning)*


FURTHER PRACTICE

1. Do they enjoy_____ (read) ?
2. Sorry for ______(be) so late. I overslept!
3. I don't mind _____ (help) in the house.
4. It was stupid _________(run): the train had left.
5. She's always dreamt of ________(have) a house by the seaside .
6. ___________(not/have) a mobile phone nowadays is old-fashiones.
7. What about________ (ask) our teacher?
8. We stopped_________ (talk) when the teacher entered the room.
9. Please, keep__________ (tell) us what happened yesterday.
10. She promised_________ (help) me with the essay.
11. They would prefer ________(fly) to England.
12. Will you be able________ (speak) English fluently next year?
13. She left without _________(say) good-bye.
14. He persuaded her________ (buy) another washing-machine.
15. Susan bought the car _________(give) it to her daughter for her birthday ?

Answers will be seen in Comment 1 :-)