Correct the mistakes, model B March 28, 2018

Model B

Correct the following sentences with 0-3 mistakes each.

1. I work in this country all my life.
2. The life is more easy for Official Language School students.
3. I have an advice: defend your rights politics.
4. Anybody is better that my baby.
5. He wants to know others countries and cultures.
6. I´ve met my best friend for six years.
7. Austerity is a big lie, the debt is illegitimate, evictions must stop.
8. I like much Ken Loach´s films .
9. Is interesting read about women´s lives to understand the glass ceiling.
10. The people is always using the word “politicians” instead of “government”.
11. The cook who speak Spanish arrived to her flat in New York.
12. Your cousin´s party liked him too much.
13. The news is fun: Putin has fallen in love with a British spy.
14. “Can I talk to Putin?””It´s me. Is that Nina?”

 

 

 

KEY AND EXPLANATION

• I have worked in this country all my life.
• For a period past-present: use present perfect.
• Life is easy for Official Language School students.
• No “the” for generalisations; no “-er/more” without comparisons.
• This is my advice: defend your political rights.
• Advice without “an”. Adjectives before nouns and without “s”.
• Nobody is better than my baby.
• “Any-” is only negative after “not”;comparatives with “than”
• He wants to discover other countries and cultures.
• “Others” instead of noun, not before a noun; “know” is knowledge, not learning.
• I´ve known my best friend for six years.
• You meet me when you see me but you know me when you remember me well.
• Austerity is a big lie! The debt is illegitimate! Evictions must stop!
• A comma separates parts of sentences, not whole sentences.
• I like Ken Loach´s films very much.
• Use “much” with  “very/ no/too/?/so/pretty” and not between verb and direct object.
• It is interesting to read about women´s lives to understand the glass ceiling.
• All sentences need a subject except with “there is/was…”. It is+adj+infinitive(/ing).
• People always use the word “politicians” instead of “government”.
• One person (singular) but two or more people (plural).
• The cook who speaks Spanish got to her flat in New York.
• He liked your cousin´s party very much.
• A person likes a thing, not the opposite. Too much is an excess, not a lot.
• The news is fun: Putin has fallen in love with a British spy.
• “News” is singular. “Fun” is can be used after “be”/before nouns.
• “Can I talk to Putin?””It´s me. Is that Nina?”
• Telephone language:”It’s/This is+name”and”Is that+name?”, not “I am/Are you?”.

 

Correct the mistakes, model A

Correct the following sentences with 0-3 mistakes each.

1. I like much reading Dana Gynther´s novels.
2. Is important pay women the same as mens for the same job.
3. People is always criticising the politicians when they mean the government.
4. The commuter who speak English arrived to her house in Paris.
5. Yesterday´s party liked me too much.
6. The news is fun: Trump has fallen in love with a Mexican spy.
7. “Can I talk to Trump?””It´s me. Is that Lola?”
8. I live in this city all my life.
9. The life is harder for Official Language School students.
10. I have an advice for you: defend your rights political.
11. Anybody is more pretty than my baby girl.
12. He travels to know other countries and cultures.
13. I´ve known my best friend for six years.
14. Austerity is a big lie, the debt is illegitimate, evictions must stop.

What´s your ecological footprint? March 27, 2018

Interview the students in your group and find out their carbon footprint. Do you agree with the method? Do they ask the right questions? Are you surprised by the results? Take notes so you can report everything to your next group.

Click here to calculate your ecological footprint

Ethical Man travels to India

EXAM PRACTICE March 26, 2018

LISTENING

PART [1]

       YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR THREE PEOPLE (HELEN, CHRISTINA  AND GEORGE) TALKING. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BRIEFLY ON THE ANSWER SHEET. You will hear it twice.

1   What does Christina like doing?

 

2   Why do people think Helen is serious?

 

3   Why do they think Helen is strange?

 

4   What is particular about the way George dresses?

 

5   What is George like, according to Helen? (two adjectives)
 

PART [2]

YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR A conversation between vanessa and max.  Write the best option A, B , or C ON THE ANSWER SHEET. You will hear it twice.

6  Why didn’t Vanessa go to the Skitsoid Kids’ concert?
A   Because she got ill.
B   Because she  couldn’t get tickets.
C   Because the concert was put off.

7    What does Max say about the first part of the concert?
A   It Was exciting.
B   It Was boring.
C   He couldn’t see the band.

8   Max…
A   Doesn’t like ballads.
B   isn´t interested in the rock songs.
C   Likes both ballads and rock songs.

9 The second part was really bad…
A  because of the new lyrics.
B  because of the wind.
C  because of the sound.

10 Vanessa…
A  will go to the concert with Max next spring.
B  Will get a ticket for the concert.
C  Tells Max to go alone to the concert.

PART [3]

Listen to five people talking about films that they have just been to see. FILL IN THE GAPS WiTH THE MISSING WORD  according to what the speakers say.  You will hear it twice.

“ I just thought it was too long and  ________(11)”(Speaker 1)

“  … and they even change the ________(12) as well”(Speaker 2)

“ I loved the  ________(13) “                     (Speaker 3)

“— and there are moments which are really ________(14).” (Speaker 4)

“… special effects were ________(15)” Speaker  5)

Final del formulario

 

 

 

 

Ideas for conversations with tourists March 13, 2018

Fallas is an ideal holiday to practise your English. Everybody wants to relax and have fun in the street. Try one of the following:

1-Hi. Can I help you? Are you trying to find a place?…Take the first/second/third street on the right/left… follow that road until you see a(n)… (if you see one of those countless tourists looking lost)

2-Hello. Can you take a photo of my friends with me?… Can you take another  one with… in the background?… Thanks, that’s very kind. It looks great! I love this part of the city. Do you like VLC?

3-Excuse me, please, do you speak English?…I´m trying to work out the lyrics of this song. Do you mind telling me the meaning of this word?

Very common Shakespearean phrases used today March 10, 2018

Interesting ideas: unjumble and match beginnings with ends

Neither a borrower… in my madness 

Brevity is… only to be kind

Conscience does… the soul of wit

You´ve got to be cruel… make cowards of us all

There is method… nor a lender be

Powerful images: Unjumble and match beginnings with ends

To vanish into… the ice 

Milk of…. thin air

Break… human kindness

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Key

Interesting ideas

Neither a borrower nor a lender be (Hamlet)

Brevity is the soul of wit (Hamlet)

Conscience does make cowards of us all (Hamlet)

You´ve got to be cruel only to be kind (Hamlet)

There is method in my madness (Hamlet)

Powerful images

To vanish into thin air (Othello)

Milk of human kindness (Macbeth)

Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew)

Powerful images

To vanish into thin air (Othello)

Milk of human kindness (Macbeth)

Break the ice (The Taming of the Shrew)

 

 

Shakespeare on Life and Death March 7, 2018

Speech: “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”

By William Shakespeare

(from Macbeth, spoken by Macbeth)

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

Match the words with their meanings:

1-tomorrow                             a-the theatre

2-to creep…pace                      b-the future

3-the last…of time                   c-to be anxious

4-yesterday                              d-to move slowly like a snake

5-to light the way                    e-to walk proudly

6-a fool                                      f-the end/death

7-out, brief candle                  g-bad actor

8-life´s but                               h-to give directions/show how to go

9-poor player                           i-an idiot

10-to strut                                 j-the past

11-to fret                                   k-finish (this) short life

12-the stage                              l-life is nothing except

(see key below)

KEY

1b 2d 3f 4j 5h 6i 7k 8l 9g 10e 11c 12a

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In this soliloquy Macbeth is a man for whom life has ceased to have meaning. He starts with a statement of the futility of life and of time itself with images of time – tomorrow, yesterday, day, recorded time – using a rhythm that stretches time out, making it creep.

Then there is a mention of light, but it’s only daylight to guide us to the darkness of death. The light has come naturally from the images of time, particularly the word ‘day’. In death that light is extinguished, like a candle, which is the next image, and a candle’s light is brief, like life, compared with the long period of the night to come. Candles cast shadows, which gives rise to the next image, life as a walking shadow.

A walking shadow is another term for an actor on the stage, so the shadow thrown by the candle creates the image of the actor on the stage. The actor plays out the dramas and anguish of a human being, strutting and fretting, but that only lasts for the performance, and then he goes home and you don’t hear from him again. His passion has been shallow, just an act, and for a very short time. All that is a representation of life: it’s full of empty passion that is just the raving of an idiot: it doesn’t last and it’s meaningless.

There you are. It’s a short piece of verse that sums up, not only a weariness of life but a whole philosophy of life and its futility. Each image gives birth to a new one and the beautiful logic develops in that way. And it captures perfectly the state of mind of the speaker. No wonder it’s one of the most famous passages in English poetry.

From  no-sweat-Shakespeare

 

Understanding Shakespeare (activate excelent subtitles)

Flappers March 6, 2018

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