22 Jan 2013

Ana´s English Blog: BURNS NIGHT

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The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared


by Jonas Jonasson





Also available at PlanetBook

BURNS NIGHT


Find out who BURNS was here.

15 Jan 2013


Key to ADVERBS worksheet [photocopy]

Vocabulary Builder 4

1. Adverbs which are often confused
  1. lately / late
  2. At the moment / actually
  3. hard /hardly
  4. near / nearly
  5. specially /especially
  6. In the end / at the end
2. Common sentence adverbs
  1. basically
  2. eventually
  3. apparently
  4. in fact
  5. obviously
  6. anyway
  7. ideally
  8. gradually
3. Adverbs of degree
  1. A little: a bit, slightly
  2. Quite: fairly, rather
  3. 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)
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.