ON CLOUD NINE: May 2015

Monday, 25 May 2015

HUNKY-DORY

Photocopies from 21st May: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THbUo0TDBhakFYLVU/view?usp=sharing

Green is great_ cutting-edge work in research and education: http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/britain-great-episodes/green-great

Reports:
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/student/coursework/reports/

http://www.gcu.ac.uk/student/coursework/reports/howareportdiffersfromanessay/

http://writingeoi.blogspot.com.es/p/report.html

Reports vs essays

http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/OffCampus/Improve/9.12.html

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/media/wwwlboroacuk/content/library/downloads/advicesheets/report%20writing.pdf

Thursday, 14 May 2015

You say that something or someone (really) takes the biscuit (BrE) when it or they have done something that you find extremely annoying or surprising:
And you say she's opening your letters now? Oh, that really takes the biscuit!

(AmE that takes the cake)

(Taken from http://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/britanico/that-really-takes-the-biscuit)

Photocopy from 12th May: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THSDBOQ3ZTc01JdDQ/view?usp=sharing

Link to some more information about complaint letters: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Complaint-Letter-to-a-Company
Link to information about reviews -and other types of writing, for that matter. It was Oscar who found this site. Thank you!!!: http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/book-reviews/

Thursday, 7 May 2015

GOLDEN WATTLE

Did you know that the golden wattle, a type of acacia tree, is a symbol, an emblem of Australia?
I didn't!!! I only learnt it when I read that the newborn princess Charlotte Elisabeth Diana has received "a cot blanket made of merino wool from Tasmania with embroidered wattle" as a gift from the Australian people.

This year we are learning a lot of things about Australia's fauna and flora!!! Bilbies, wombats, echidnas, pigmy possums, etc.

http://www.anbg.gov.au/emblems/aust.emblem.html

Anyway, here are the photocopies from 7th May: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THcUFQRkRqVmhUZjA/view?usp=sharing

Links to websites with information about writing REVIEWS:
  http://www.slideshare.net/rrrosaco/writing-a-review
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/english/creativewriting/movingimagesrev2.shtml
  http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/writing-film-book-review.php
http://www.xtec.cat/~vfeliu/writing/revi3.htm

http://english-tonight.com/esl-writing-activity-review-of-a-book-or-movie-in-english/

http://www.eltbase.com/quiz/303_01.htm

Listen to Muriel Spark talking about The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/bc/bc_20040801-1600b.mp3
Listen to this programme about Christopher Isherwood in Berlin: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f9y25
Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00v3mb1
Listen to David Mitchell on an interview in 2007: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007mdcg

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

IN THE LOOP

Photocopies from 5th May: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THcWVzTlF4VVZ0Y0U/view?usp=sharing

Transcript_The book I would never lend: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THUjFuV3pYX25Zc2c/view?usp=sharing
Transcript_Student's book-2.18-2.23: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THM2xvUTd3Q3hWZVk/view?usp=sharing

video 1_tarsier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Tarsier#p006jq6v

video 2_tarsier: http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Tarsier#p00bkrzw
video 3_tarsier: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8404000/8404535.stm

Expressions_finger on the pulse: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theenglishwespeak/2013/03/130326_tews_116_finger_on_the_pulse.shtml
Expressions_work for peanuts: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/tae_20111219-1200a.mp3
Expressions_by the skin of my teeth: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/tae_20120903-1200a.mp3
Expressions_face the music: http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/tae_20141216-1000a.mp3

Friday, 1 May 2015

JUMPING ON THE BANDWAGON

climb/jump on the bandwagon (informal, disapproving) to join others in doing sth that is becoming fashionable because you hope to become popular or successful yourself.