Revision Vocabulary B2.2

A question of time....

    These last few days we've been looking at unit 2B, which is about distancing, time and multitasking.
Please, revise grammar and vocabulary both in your student's book,  in the photocopies given -and also in your workbook!

    REMEMBER your homework for next Monday (7th) is to read the text on pages 28-29 and do exercise c) ( LEXIS IN CONTEXT) only!

Time expresions na2 unit 2 b from DULCE ROSALES

HAVE A gorgeous weekend.

ANSWERS unit 1

ANSWERS TO extra exercises on 'HAVE' and 'WORK' (photocopy).

WORK
1 charge of       2 off    3 a team    4 prospects     5  be/get promoted     6 short-term    7 employees      8 staff    9 training    10 qualifications     11 self-employed     12 made redundant    13 out of work     14 voluntary/unpaid    15 challenging    16 repetitive    17 career    18 perks/benefits


HAVE
a)
2 I've been reading    3 don't have /havent'got       4 to have escaped    5 Don't you have    6 already have    7 I'll be having    8 didn't have to      9 have it dry cleaned     10 I've got to/I have to

b)
2 've had/ 've been having    3 has this been going on       4 having my hair cut    5 've seen     6 he doesn't have/ hasn' got     7 Do you have /Have you got     8 I've got

Activation : IN CLASS!


See you again on Monday the 17th.
REMEMBER there will be a Listening & Reading Test next Wednesday, 19th.

 HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WEEK !

Synonyms

Lots of words we tend to confuse... 

Learning synonyms can help us improve our advanced vocabulary.

HERE is an interesting link to practice on different topics. Starting with Business & Employment.

As blind as a bat...

Loca como una cabra...

If you tell someone 'he is as crazy as a goat', they won't understand what you are talking about... because

This Spanish idiom expression does not exist in English as such. It so happens with most idiomatic expressions of the like: they have not an equivalent in our language or viceversa. 



I've found this link which will help you study some of these so called 'similes' > as ..... as/ like...

Eg. He is as cool as a cucumber...

      I've got a head like a sieve...

 

 

(C) Dulce               :-)

Are you getting Bald?

Here is an interesting piece of BBC News
on why we men go bald!

Enjoy it!
:-)

D.

Consumerism

The Lonely Man and the Myth of Ownership

Pretend you were the only person on earth. You were born from unknown origins and have always lived alone. Let’s say that you are also completely self-sufficient and can survive complete isolation..

Now tell me, what would you own?

You wouldn’t be able to answer that because the concept doesn’t make sense to you. Without other people to compare, trade, boast and compete with ownership is an illusion. There is no stuff that is yours and not yours, just the world.

This is why forsaking all goods doesn’t free you from the tight chains of consumerism. You are falling for the myth of ownership and fighting against it. But the person truly free of this grasp will realize you can’t fight something that doesn’t exist. Canceling the dualistic reasoning of mine and not mine, is the first step...


ACTIVITY:
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I Shop Therefore...

(Answers in Comment 1) ;-)

Big Mouth!

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NA1 --Uncountable & Plural Nouns

In NA1 we are looking at these especial uncountable and plural nouns in unit 6B...

Learn more about them here.

I hope you leave a comment after you read this!
Nice weekend to all my sweet students!


PRACTICE
Exercise 1
Exercise 2

Uncountable and Plural Nouns Na1



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Transport & Travel

NI1

To revise and extend what we have studied in unit 2C

Click HERE to practice vocabulary and pronunciation

Click HERE and do a listening activity...


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GET GET GET (phrasal verbs)

Describing people NI1

Click here to find and revise some personality adjectives, with definitions and exercises.

• easygoing
• ambitious
• cheerful
• hardworking
• trustworthy
• impatient
• optimistic
• sensitive
• moody
• sociable
• indecisive
• reserved
• lazy
• attentive
• punctual
• humorous
• modest
• bossy
• intelligent
• impulsive
• considerate
• imaginative
• independent
• selfish
• self-confident
• responsible
• talkative

Practice UNIT 1

NI1
Sports:
To revise unit 1B

Listening

Vocabulary Exercise 1, exercise 2

NA1
General:
Test your skills here

FOOD & RESTAURANTS

Click HERE to listen to a conversation in a restaurant and do the exercise.


Click HERE to revise your vocabulary and pronunciation on FOOD!


More practice here!

Improve your vocabulary learning through MIND MAPS:

Mind Map example>

AGATHA CHRISTIE

The Queen of Crime Agatha Christie is the best-selling author of all time. She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages. In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections. She also wrote over a dozen plays, including The Mousetrap, which is now the longest running play in theatrical history. Christie's first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was the first to feature her eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. One of the most famous fictional creations of all time, Poirot's 'little grey cells' triumphed over some of the most devious criminal minds ever created in crime fiction. Christie’s last published novel, Sleeping Murder, featured her other world-famous sleuth, the shrewdly inquisitive Miss Jane Marple of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple appears in twelve novels, and twenty short stories; the first novel to feature her was The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930. The Poirot and Marple novels have been widely dramatized in feature films and television movies. Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Witness for the Prosecution (1957), And Then There Were None (1945), and Death on the Nile (1978) are a few of the successful films based on her works. Agatha Christie also wrote six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. She also wrote non-fiction; one book Come Tell Me How you Live, describes her archeological travels with her husband Max and the other two are collections of poems, stories and verses, some with a religious theme. She also wrote her Autobiography which she completed in 1976. Although synonymous with crime fiction, the breadth of themes in her novels is quite extraordinary and she deserves her place as one of the best-loved writers of all time.

I could personally recommend you to read one of her thrilling stories this summer or watch one of the films,say...

Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, A Christmas Tragedy; Passenger to Frankfurt; A Murder is Announced, etc, etc **ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HER, HER STORIES, AND FILMS is HERE

And a funny video by Monty Python!

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