Thursday, 12 December 2013

Música: deures de Nadal

Escolteu la música dels seguents vídeos:

Trieu-ne un, el que més us agradi o us inspiri.
Heu de fer un dibuix o collage en un paper de mida Din A4. Poseu el vostre nom al darrera, pero no digueu de quina peça de música es tracta, els companys ho hauran d'endevinar.

Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Unit 2: Progress check's answer key

Ex 1:
1 issue
2 limits / endangers / violates
3 reported
4 comply with
5 ban

Ex 2:
1 His older brother talked him into getting a tattoo.
2 He got into trouble at school.
3 She shouldn't put up with his bad manners.
4 He worked out his problems alone.

Ex 3:
1 They had a very poor start but then the company took off.
2 He gets satisfaction out of his job.
3 If he has problems at school he should try to work them out.
4 The new policy doesn't leave anybody out.

Ex 4:
1 can't
2 Can
3 will be able to
4 couldn't

Ex 5:
1 should have
2 mustn't
3 needn't have
4 had to
5 ought to

Ex 6:
1 She can't have been at home.
2 The thief may have escaped through the back door.
3 The shop might not be open at this time.
4 They must have been on holiday when the burglar broke in.
5 She must be very tired.

Ex 7: your own answers.

Grammar review 2
a 1 will be driving
2 have/haven't issued
3 won't have finished
4 had been talking
b 1 Anne must have left by the time the police arrived.
2 Teenagers can hang out in public places.
3 I should have told people about my prize.
4 I needn't have taken my winter clothes.

Thursday, 28 November 2013

Today, tongue twister time!

Try to read this as fast as you can:
 
She sells sea shells on the sea shore

A big black bug bit a big black bear

Whether the weather is warm, whether the weather is cold, we have to put up with the weather, whether we like it or not!

Betty Botter had some butter,
"But," she said, "this butter's bitter.
If I bake this bitter butter,
It would make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter,
That would make my batter better."
So she bought a bit of butter –
Better than her bitter butter –
And she baked it in her batter;
And the batter was not bitter.
So 'twas better Betty Botter
Bought a bit of better butter.
 


Now, let's create our own tongue twister:

  1. Write your first name
  2. What did she/he do?
  3. Where?
  4. When?
  5. Why? Because…

  • On a piece of blank paper write your answer to question 1.
  • Pass the paper to the person on your right. Write an answer to question 2 on the paper you have just received. Your answer must begin with the first sound in the person's name (e.g. Bob - bought a bike).
  • Pass the paper on again and write an answer to question 3, again using the sound at the beginning of the name.
  • Continue until all the questions have been answered.
  • Pass the paper back to the person who started with it. Read all of the tongue twisters aloud.
  Here you have some examples:
  • Bob bought a bike in Bali on his birthday because he was bored
  • Susan sang a song at the seaside on the 6th of September because she saw some sunshine
  • Laura laughed in the laundrette at lunchtime because she lost her laundry


Friday, 22 November 2013

Unit 2: extra practise

You can find some self-correcting exercises the links bellow.

1) In this link, you have a short explanation about modal verbs, followed by 4 exercises.

2) Here you can practise a bit more the uses of can, could and be able to.

3) Here you can practise the differences between mustn't and needn't.

4) Here you have loads of exercises where you can practise your phrasal verbs: exercise 1, exercise 2, exercise 3, exercise 4, exercise 5, exercise 6, exercise 7, exercise 8, exercise9, and exercise 10

5) Another big list of phrasal verbs exercises: exercise 1, exercise 2, exercise 3, exercise 4, exercise 5, exercise 6, exercise 7, and exercise 8

6) Finally, practising can also be "fun"! Here you have two silly little games: one with modal verbs and another one with phrasal verbs

Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Katy's Perry "Roar"



Watch this video:
What is Katy singing about?



Put the lines in the correct order:

a) I let you push me past the breaking point
b) I guess that I forgot I had a choice
c) So I sat quietly, agreed politely
d) I used to bit my tongue and hold my breath
e) I stood for nothing, so I fell for everything
f) Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
g) You hear my voice, you hear that sound
h) I see it all, I see it now
i) You held me down, but I got up
j) You held me down, but I got up 
k) Get ready ‘cause I’ve had enough
l) Already brushing off the dust
m) Like thunder, gonna shake the ground

Now, listen and circle the word you hear
I got the I/eye/ice of the tiger, a fighter/fire, dancing through the fighter/fire
‘cause I am a chimpanzee/champion and you’re gonna hear/here/hair me ROARR...
Louder, louder than a lion/liar
‘cause I am a chimpanzee/champion and you’re gonna hear/here/hair me ROARR
Oh oh oh...
You’re gonna hear/here/hair me ROARRR

Write the missing words
Now I’m floating like a ........
Stinging like a ...... to my own......
You held me down, but I got up
Already brushing off the .....
You hear my ......, you hear that.....
Like a ....., gonna shake the ground
You held me down, but I got up
Get ready ‘cause I’ve had ......
I see it ...... I see it ....
Roar-or, roar-or....

Sometimes we write expressions like we say them “colloquially”, can you write them “properly”?
You’re gonna
‘cause
Can you think of any other expression like the ones above?



What do you think "the eye of the tiger" means? 

When you say someone has "the eye of the tiger" you mean they are focused on winning and not distracted by "being a team player" or other sympathetic emotion. In this sense, saying someone has the eye of the tiger is not always a compliment, but almost always it is a sign of respect.   
 
 

 

Let's have a look at the lyrics doing this activity

What is the difference between the songs?