Look at the picture and ask your partner for details about his/her picture to find similarities and differences between them.
Tell your partner what your text is about. Listen to each other and then exchange opinions about the topic and the content of the texts.
Student A: Describe this photo.
Student B: describe this photo
To know more on the topic
In turns, ask your partner three questions about the following subjects and answer his/her questions. Start with the first one.
- The kind of movies she likes and dislikes
- A movie that she hates or loves.
- Her opinion about the Importance of the Oscar Awards or any other Cinema awards, like the Goyas.
Now watch the Mery Streep's speech at the Oscar awards 2012. Who did she thank? And why?
dilluns, 27 de febrer del 2012
dilluns, 13 de febrer del 2012
Whitney Houston
Student A: Picture to describe
Student B: Picture to describe
To know more on the topic
In turns, ask your partner three questions about the following subjects and answer his/her questions. Start with the first one.
- Why famous people take drugs.
- The music she likes now.
- The music of her adolescence.
- What she would have if she was famous.
Now watch this video about her death and take some notes or listen to thi song below:
dilluns, 6 de febrer del 2012
Europe struggles in record cold
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| cold snap = ola de frío |
Student A:
- Look at the picture and ask your partner for details about his/her picture to find similarities and differences between them.
- Tell your partner what your text is about. Listen to each other and then exchange opinions about the topic and the content of the texts.
Student B:
- Look at the picture and ask your partner for details about his/her picture to find similarities and differences between them.
- Tell your partner what your text is about. Listen to each other and then exchange opinions about the topic and the content of the texts.
In turns, ask your partner three questions about the following subjects and answer his/her questions. Start with the first one.
- Things to do in cold weather.
- The effects of the weather in personality, character, life.
- What bad experiences have you had with badweather (very hot, very cold, rainy, windy)?
Finally, watch this video twice and take notes of what you understand.
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dilluns, 16 de gener del 2012
Driving: The do's and don'ts
DO or DON'T?
- always wear your seat belt.
- make assumptions about what other drivers are going to do. Just because someone has their turn signal on does not mean they are actually going to turn. They may be like the rest of us, and have forgotten that it is on!
- assume that other cars know what you are doing, either. Make sure that you use your turn signals and give yourself, and the cars around you, plenty of room to maneuver.
- follow the speed limits.
- give pedestrians the right-of-way in crosswalks.
- play your car stereo so loudly that you are disruptive to others, or so loudly that you are unable to hear train signals or emergency vehicle sirens.
- leave valuables in your car, especially in places where they can be seen, no matter where you are parked.
- make room for bicycles.
- plan your route out in advance for long car trips and keep a map or atlas in the car in case you get lost.
- keep children in tested and approved car seats, no matter how much they beg or plead to get out. If you need, take frequent breaks so that little ones can stretch their legs.
- let your emotions and frustrations get the best of you. Don't engage in road rage, no matter how irritating another driver might be to you.
- talk on your cell phone and drive at the same time. If you need to make or answer a telephone call while you are driving, pull over at a safe place, use the phone, and then resume your journey.
- drink and drive, and don't get in a car with a driver who has been drinking or using drugs.
- give pedestrians the right-of-way in crosswalks.pay attention when you are driving, even if you are familiar with the area. A surprising number of accidents happen only blocks from home!
- be courteous toward other drivers.
- make sure that your spare tire is in your car and that you have a working jack.
- engage in other activities, while driving, that distract your attention or reduce your reaction time. Eating, changing clothes, or putting on makeup while driving is dangerous. In some states, if you are caught doing these things while driving you can be cited for "driver inattention" and given a ticket.
SOLUTIONS
Now watch this video (start at minute 1:54) What are the safety driving principles that are given?
- always wear your seat belt.
- make assumptions about what other drivers are going to do. Just because someone has their turn signal on does not mean they are actually going to turn. They may be like the rest of us, and have forgotten that it is on!
- assume that other cars know what you are doing, either. Make sure that you use your turn signals and give yourself, and the cars around you, plenty of room to maneuver.
- follow the speed limits.
- give pedestrians the right-of-way in crosswalks.
- play your car stereo so loudly that you are disruptive to others, or so loudly that you are unable to hear train signals or emergency vehicle sirens.
- leave valuables in your car, especially in places where they can be seen, no matter where you are parked.
- make room for bicycles.
- plan your route out in advance for long car trips and keep a map or atlas in the car in case you get lost.
- keep children in tested and approved car seats, no matter how much they beg or plead to get out. If you need, take frequent breaks so that little ones can stretch their legs.
- let your emotions and frustrations get the best of you. Don't engage in road rage, no matter how irritating another driver might be to you.
- talk on your cell phone and drive at the same time. If you need to make or answer a telephone call while you are driving, pull over at a safe place, use the phone, and then resume your journey.
- drink and drive, and don't get in a car with a driver who has been drinking or using drugs.
- give pedestrians the right-of-way in crosswalks.pay attention when you are driving, even if you are familiar with the area. A surprising number of accidents happen only blocks from home!
- be courteous toward other drivers.
- make sure that your spare tire is in your car and that you have a working jack.
- engage in other activities, while driving, that distract your attention or reduce your reaction time. Eating, changing clothes, or putting on makeup while driving is dangerous. In some states, if you are caught doing these things while driving you can be cited for "driver inattention" and given a ticket.
SOLUTIONS
Now watch this video (start at minute 1:54) What are the safety driving principles that are given?
dilluns, 9 de gener del 2012
Families
Talk about the size of families in the past and at the present.
Watch this video of an extended family and explain it to your partner.
What are boomerang children? Watch this short video and find out.
Useful vocabulary:
- a recent poll : una enquesta recent
- tough times: temps dolents, durs, de crisi
- saving: estalviant
- my folks: els meus pares
- a loser : un perdedor
- downsides, snags: incovenients
- privacy: privacitat
- household chores: tasques domèstiques
- move back: tornar a viure amb
- He's seen better days: ha vist millor dies (s'ha mort)
- mortgage payments: pagaments de l'hipoteca
What types of families are there? Read this article.
What type of family is making a comeback? Read this article.
dilluns, 12 de desembre del 2011
Student B: Sports: if you really want to win, cheat
Vocabulary: Learn English
In which sports are there most cases of cheating? How do people cheat in these sports?
Tell your partner about famous cheatings in sport:
4. Stella Walsh had a pretty ingenious sports hack: ambiguous genitalia! Walsh was an Olympic competitor for Poland, winning the gold in the 100m sprint in 1932, and the silver in 1936. Walsh set 18 world records in her life, but accusations that she was male dogged her for years, and she was forced to undergo a gender check at the 1936 Olympics. Which she apparently passed, despite the fact that when she was autopsied following her death it was found that she had male genitalia, along with female characteristics. Further investigation revealed that she had both an XX and an XY pair of chromosomes
5. Easily one of the most famous plays in sports history, Diego Maradona’s goal came six minutes into the second half of the 1986 World Cup quarter-final between England and Argentina. Maradona punched the ball into the goal with his left hand, and referee Ali Bin Nasser allowed it, not having seen the penalty.
6.The East Germans became a sporting powerhouse in the 1970s and '80s, rivalling the much larger United States and Soviet Union. Thousands of East German athletes were given performance-enhancing steroids in an effort to prove East German superiority over the West. Many thought they were simply taking vitamins.
7. On April. 21, 1980, the 23-year-old Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon. She did it in the third-fastest time ever recorded for a female runner (two hours, 31 minutes, 56 seconds). Eventually a few spectators came forward and said they saw Ruiz join the race during its final half-mile. It seems that she had sprinted to the finish line.
Watch this video and write down different kinds of cheating in sport.
In which sports are there most cases of cheating? How do people cheat in these sports?
Tell your partner about famous cheatings in sport:
4. Stella Walsh had a pretty ingenious sports hack: ambiguous genitalia! Walsh was an Olympic competitor for Poland, winning the gold in the 100m sprint in 1932, and the silver in 1936. Walsh set 18 world records in her life, but accusations that she was male dogged her for years, and she was forced to undergo a gender check at the 1936 Olympics. Which she apparently passed, despite the fact that when she was autopsied following her death it was found that she had male genitalia, along with female characteristics. Further investigation revealed that she had both an XX and an XY pair of chromosomes
5. Easily one of the most famous plays in sports history, Diego Maradona’s goal came six minutes into the second half of the 1986 World Cup quarter-final between England and Argentina. Maradona punched the ball into the goal with his left hand, and referee Ali Bin Nasser allowed it, not having seen the penalty.
6.The East Germans became a sporting powerhouse in the 1970s and '80s, rivalling the much larger United States and Soviet Union. Thousands of East German athletes were given performance-enhancing steroids in an effort to prove East German superiority over the West. Many thought they were simply taking vitamins.
7. On April. 21, 1980, the 23-year-old Ruiz was the first woman to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon. She did it in the third-fastest time ever recorded for a female runner (two hours, 31 minutes, 56 seconds). Eventually a few spectators came forward and said they saw Ruiz join the race during its final half-mile. It seems that she had sprinted to the finish line.
Watch this video and write down different kinds of cheating in sport.
dilluns, 5 de desembre del 2011
Student A: Sports: if you really want to win, cheat
Vocabulary: Learn English
In which sports are there most cases of cheating? How do people cheat in these sports?
Tell your partner about famous cheatings in sport:
In which sports are there most cases of cheating? How do people cheat in these sports?
Tell your partner about famous cheatings in sport:
1. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Spain was stripped of its gold medal in intellectual disability basketball after it was discovered that 10 of the 12 competitors for the winning team were not disabled. The athletes had not been given the required mental tests and The Spanish Federation for Mentally Handicapped Sports had deliberately chosen to sign up athletes who were not intellectually disabled in order to “win medals and gain more sponsorship.”
2. Dora Ratjen was a German athlete who competed in the 1936 Olympics in the High Jump. Not much of a story really, except for one thing: Dora was actually Hermann, a man who was coerced by the Hitler Youth into tightly binding his genitals and competing against women. The German Olympic team struggled in the previous Olympic games, and so it was thought entering a man here and there on the women’s side of things might remedy the situation. But German men couldn’t even beat the women of other countries, as Ratjen finished fourth, failing to medal.
3. Steroids are much in the news of late, with Major League Baseball facing a juicing crisis, but you have to go back more than twenty years to a time when steroids really first went mainstream. The Olympics have a long history of athletes using anything they can get their hands on, but it all came to a head in the 80′s with Ben Johnson being stripped of his gold medal that he won in the 100m sprint.
2. Dora Ratjen was a German athlete who competed in the 1936 Olympics in the High Jump. Not much of a story really, except for one thing: Dora was actually Hermann, a man who was coerced by the Hitler Youth into tightly binding his genitals and competing against women. The German Olympic team struggled in the previous Olympic games, and so it was thought entering a man here and there on the women’s side of things might remedy the situation. But German men couldn’t even beat the women of other countries, as Ratjen finished fourth, failing to medal.
3. Steroids are much in the news of late, with Major League Baseball facing a juicing crisis, but you have to go back more than twenty years to a time when steroids really first went mainstream. The Olympics have a long history of athletes using anything they can get their hands on, but it all came to a head in the 80′s with Ben Johnson being stripped of his gold medal that he won in the 100m sprint.
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