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/
Reports vs essays
Monday, 25 May 2015
HUNKY-DORY
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/
Thursday, 14 May 2015
THAT TAKES THE BISCUIT!
That
takes the biscuit informal
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!
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/
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.
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
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 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.
Photocopy from 30th April: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THU29mQkxVS094ZG8/view?usp=sharing
Photocopy from 30th April: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THU29mQkxVS094ZG8/view?usp=sharing