4 Jun 2013
21 May 2013
16 May 2013
8 May 2013
6 May 2013
1 May 2013
Breaking news webquest
Prepare a 1-min presentation on ONE of the following topics:
You will be allowed to make use of my laptop and the Internet in class if you wish to do so.
- An English language news channel you watch (e.g. the BBC, CNN, Sky News, etc.) and your opinions about it, e.g. how easy/ difficult it is to understand and if you think that it provides a good coverage of the news.
- Your experience of reading English newspapers, magazines or websites.
You will be allowed to make use of my laptop and the Internet in class if you wish to do so.
Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe - BBC Four
The aim of Newswipe was to expose the inner workings of news media.
The series was a comic, thoughtful and acerbic analysis of recent news coverage. Newswipe also looked at the way the news is presented to the public.
A clip entitled "How To Report The News" from episode two of the second series amassed over two and a half million views on YouTube after it was syndicated by The Huffington Post soon after its first airing. It is currently the ninth 'top rated' video of all-time on the site.
30 Apr 2013
Some funny stories
Sherlock Holmes and Watson
A tent
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson went on a camping trip. After a good meal and a bottle of wine they lay down for the night, and went to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes awoke and woke up his faithful friend.Holmes: Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see.
Watson: I see millions and millions of stars.
Holmes: What does that tell you?
Watson thought for a minute.
Watson: Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and potentially billions of planets.
Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo. Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a
quarter past three. Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful and that we are small and insignificant.
Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?
Holmes was silent for a minute, then spoke.
Holmes: Watson, it tells me that some bastard has stolen our tent!
Genie in the lamp
A man was walking along a California beach and stumbled upon an old lamp. He picked it up and rubbed it and out popped a genie.Genie: OK. OK. You released me from the lamp, blah, blah, blah. This is the 4th time this month and I'm getting a little sick of these wishes, so you can forget about three. You only get one wish!
The man sat and thought about it for a while.
Man: I've always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I'm scared to fly and I never travel by boat because I get very seasick. Could you build me a bridge from California to Hawaii so I can drive over there to visit?
Genie: That's impossible! Think of the logistics of that! How would the bridge supports ever reach the bottom of the Pacific? Think of how much concrete... How much steel!! No, think of another wish!
The man tried to think of a really good wish.
Man: I've been married and divorced four times. My wives always said that I don't care and that I'm insensitive. So, I wish that I could understand women . . . know how they feel inside and what they're thinking when they give me the silent treatment . . .know why they're crying, know what they really want when they say, 'nothing' . . . know how to make them truly happy . . .
Genie: You want that bridge with two lanes or four?
School Question
Mother: Little Jimmy, why are you home from school so early?Little Jimmy: I was the only one who could answer a question.
Mother: Oh, really? What was the question?
Little Jimmy: Who threw the eraser at the principal?
Magician
A magician was working on a cruise ship in the Caribbean. The audience would be different each week, so the magician allowed himself to do the same tricks over and over again. There was only one problem: the captain's parrot saw the shows each week and began to understand how the magician did every trick. Once the parrot understood, he started shouting in the middle of the show: "Look, it's not the same hat." "Look, he is hiding the flowers under the table." "Hey, why are all the cards the Ace of Spades?"The magician was furious but couldn't do anything; it was, after all, the captain's parrot.
One day the ship had an accident and sank. The magician found himself floating on a piece of wood in the middle of the ocean with the parrot, of course. They stared at each other with hate, but did not say a word. This went on for a day and another and another. After a week the parrot said: "OK, you win. Where's the boat?"
Getting Out of A Ticket
A man in his 40's bought a new BMW and was out on the road for a nice evening drive. The top was down, the breeze was blowing through what was left of his hair and he decided to drive much faster. As the needle jumped up to 80 mph, he suddenly saw the flashing red and blue lights of a police car behind him. "There's no way they can catch a BMW," he thought to himself and drove even faster. The needle hit 90, 100.... Then the reality of the situation hit him. "What the hell am I doing?" he thought and stopped. The policeman came up to him, took his driving license without a word and examined it and the car.- It's been a long day, this is the end of my working day and it's Friday afternoon. I don't feel like more paperwork, so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before, you can go.
The driver thinks for a second.
- Last week my wife ran off with a policeman. I was afraid you were trying to give her back.
- Have a nice weekend.
20 Apr 2013
Margaret Thatcher
Watch the videos:
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/video/2013/apr/11/glenda-jackson-margaret-thatcher-video
- http://uk.reuters.com/video/2013/04/09/britons-remain-divided-on-thatcher-legac?videoId=242133483
Do the worksheet in the folder:
16 Apr 2013
8 Apr 2013
Man Down: Women Win Battle of Sexes | Video - ABC News
Here is an interview with Dan Abrams, a book author:
Man Down: Women Win Battle of Sexes | Video - ABC News
Watch the interview and answer the questions:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rxk1gcns8896089/PREGUNTAS%20VIDEO%20MAN%20DOWN.pdf
KEY
1) Man Down
2) Battle
3) cops, drivers, gamblers, spies, world leaders, beer
tasters and managers.
4) credibility – a man (guy)
5) legal analyst
6) 3 – 2 – 4 – 1
1 c
2 b 3 a 4
a 5 c 6 c
4 Apr 2013
3 Apr 2013
On BODY LANGUAGE
-Interactive online test to see if you can tell the difference between real/fake smiles
-Simple reading on body language, with pictures
2 Apr 2013
11 Mar 2013
4B READING Glossary
- stomp= walk around angrily, walk very loudly
- full-blown= fully developed (+drama, +argument, +disaster)
- rapt= very interested in what you are watching/listening to
- flip= turn over with a sudden quick movement
- toss= throw lightly
- a hop= a jump
- crested= with a group of feathers standing on their heads
- hover= wait somewhere especially near sb
- for a few beats= for a short time
- die away= disappear little by little
- launched into= started energetically
- a baboon
8 Mar 2013
Pronunciación Lógica del Inglés
This book was recommended by one of my That's English's students and it certainly looks good... For those of you who are still trying to come to terms with English Pronunciation.
3 Mar 2013
24 Feb 2013
Second conditional sentences in The Big Bang Theory
TASK
- Watch the video and copy the second conditional sentences in it.
- Identify the tenses in both the main clause and the if-clause.
- Check against the key below.
- Then watch it again but this time cover subtitles!
KEY
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If that was a movie
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I would go see it
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Would
it be totally weird
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if I used your shower?
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If you had your own game character
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we could hang out (maybe go on a quest)
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If I were to ask Leslie Winkle out
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it would just be for dinner
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If you were a robot (and you didn´t know)
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would
you want me to tell you?
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If I ever did perfect a time machine
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I would just go into the past and give to myself
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If you
just apologized to Gabelhouser
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he would give you
your job back.
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If he were any bigger
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he´d have moons
orbiting him
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If all
guys were like me
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the human race couldn´t survive
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If I could afford the rent
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I´d ask you to
leave
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People who wouldn´t
recognize true genius
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if it were standing in front of them giving a speech
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It would be so
much easier
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if I were a violent sociopath
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If cats could sing
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they´d hate that
song too
|
21 Feb 2013
Yossi Ghinsberg - Keynote Motivational Speaker
TASK
Do the exercises in the worksheet on Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/s/8fdadd355e8llla/Yossi%20Ghinsberg_Video.pdf
KEY
1. inner call 2. three friends and his equipment 3. to cry and to pray 4. searching for his friend
5. he’d take
care of him 6. natural 7. a snake and raw eggs 8.
complain
9. take action 10.
rainforest conservation 11. reward 12. in the jungle but I found myself
4 Feb 2013
28 Jan 2013
22 Jan 2013
Ana´s English Blog: BURNS NIGHT
Ana´s English Blog: BURNS NIGHT: People in Scotland (and around the world) celebrate BURNS NIGHT on January the 25 th . That day is the birthday of the n...
Next reading book
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
Also available at PlanetBook
18 Jan 2013
15 Jan 2013
Key to ADVERBS worksheet [photocopy]
Vocabulary Builder 4
1. Adverbs which are often confused- lately / late
- At the moment / actually
- hard /hardly
- near / nearly
- specially /especially
- In the end / at the end
- basically
- eventually
- apparently
- in fact
- obviously
- anyway
- ideally
- gradually
- A little: a bit, slightly
- Quite: fairly, rather
- Very: extremely, incredibly, really
Grammar adverbs
Mini-saga Competition (corrected versions)
ALCOHOL AND BARBITURATES
To
celebrate their silver wedding they planned a trip to Morocco .They
had been drinking and chatting all flight long. Suddenly, when the
plane was about to land, she fell unconscious. As she was recovering
in hospital, he threw away his poison ring and ran away to join a
Tuareg tribe.
The
successor to Paul the octopus
First was Paul the
Octopus predicting World Cup results. Now a psychic fish
is used to forecast match scores for Euro 2012. The
dragonfish Big Huat was spot on for the football match
between Poland and Greece. Its younger nephew
was wide of the mark suggesting the Poles would win.
A stranger in his city
That day he had
risen strangely calm. He went to work as everyday where his fellows
barely noticed his presence. On returning home he jumped off a
bridge. In his suicide note he wrote that if someone had smiled at
him during the day he would have cancelled his decision.
Love is blind
She had always
wanted to find the love of her dreams. Now, it seemed possible.
Hearing his velvety
voice, she fell in love immediately. Although he
was black, colour was not an issue.
The problem was
that the piano, the three wise men’s gift, could not
be brought home.
What a wonderful surprise
Ben was a broke man
who slept in a bank door. He only wanted a warm place to rest, but
people didn’t help him. However, Christmas is the time when people
are generous, and a rich man decided to give him a thousand pounds to
eat.
| The panic attack He woke up suddenly in the dark, he felt a cold wooden floor on his back, he couldn't move or breathe, the ceiling was next to his face. What the hell is that? He died crying and screaming. He had understood he was in a coffin, nobody could help him. |
Snowing in the
city of sun
(Málaga 5-01-2013)
(Málaga 5-01-2013)
He had been excited
all morning,
It's coming daddy,
daddy, coming.
Here!... Please
candies, please!
no candies, no
only the frosty snow
falls.
One minute my child
is gone,
my heart is broken,
Christmas will never
be...
I feel that falling
on my soul,
snowing in red and
raining tears.
My first in
live music concert
About ten to ten p.m.(one word) everyone were hysterical. We all were screaming and singing his name. Suddenly lights switched off and a deafening storm was herad in the stadium. In the stage, on a white curtain a shadow of his body was projected. Then we all knew he was there. |
MY FACE IN THE
MIRROR
The alarm clock rang
at 6:00 a.m. like every morning. He got up very slowly, as if he
weighed more than 1000 pounds. He shuffled his feet to the shower
and, drop by drop, the water trickled down his body. He could
neither smile nor cry. Then, his looked at his face in the mirror but
there was no reflection and, as he had been doing for the last 100
years, he walked through the wall and went nowhere.
THE TRUTH IS
IN YOUR MIND
Two priests had
to cross a river without a bridge. Then, a cute woman
appeared asking for help to cross it. One
priest carried her over his shoulder. After, the other
priest reprobated his behavior for hours. The first one said: I´ve
forgotten her, however, she´s still on your mind.
The birthday present
It was 3 days before
Tom's birthday. He discovered an expensive watch in Sarah's coat,
with a card: «Happy birthday, darling».
Three days later Sarah gave her present to Tom. Unfortunately it wasn't a wonderful watch. It was just a horrible tie. Tom felt devastated. His wife had a lover.
Three days later Sarah gave her present to Tom. Unfortunately it wasn't a wonderful watch. It was just a horrible tie. Tom felt devastated. His wife had a lover.
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