Beautiful rhymes to practise your English... for next class!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXeq48k_Ao
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
BBC ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION TIPS - VIDEO 4
Copy and paste the link below for more pronunciation practice... Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAk-XtHsyzM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAk-XtHsyzM
Friday, November 20, 2009
COCOA SNAILS
Ingredients600 g flour
2 egg yolks
3 g yeast
a pinch of salt
2 rounded tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons oil
milk as required – about 500 ml
For the filling:
Butter
Sugar
Cocoa
Instructions
In small bowl, dissolve yeast in slightly warm milk with 1 teaspoon of the sugar. Let stand 5-8 minutes.
Combine the flour, remaining sugar and salt.
Add the yeast mixture, oil and egg yolks.
Mix together lightly and knead it until smooth.
Cover with a cloth and leave to rise.
When it has risen put it on the table and roll it out.
Spread some butter on the dough and sprinkle with sugar and instant cocoa powder.
Roll the dough with the filling inside so that you get a long roll, then cut in to slices.
Put the slices on to a well-greased baking tin, leave it to rise again for about 15 minutes, then bake the snails in preheated 200 degree oven for about 15-20 minutes until snails get a nice golden brown colour.
The pastry is ready!!! Hurray!! Yummy! Enjoy!
BBC PRONUNCIATION TIPS 3
Another video for practising your English sounds...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZwKFFp7V50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZwKFFp7V50
EXERCISE: PAST SIMPLE
(a pedido de los chicos de 5to)
Reescriba las siguientes oraciones en tiempo pasado simple. Respete las mayúsculas, minúsculas y signos de puntuación.
1. I go to school in the morning.
2. Diane is very tired.
3. You are at home.
4. I have breakfast.
5. Thomas and Nick play tennis all day.
6. The plane arrives at half past ten.
7. I study English at home.
8. They stay all night in front of the computer.
9. It is ten past eleven.
Reescriba las siguientes oraciones en tiempo pasado simple. Respete las mayúsculas, minúsculas y signos de puntuación.
1. I go to school in the morning.
2. Diane is very tired.
3. You are at home.
4. I have breakfast.
5. Thomas and Nick play tennis all day.
6. The plane arrives at half past ten.
7. I study English at home.
8. They stay all night in front of the computer.
9. It is ten past eleven.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
BBC ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION TIPS - VIDEO 2
Try this new one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ7dM_LU9t4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ7dM_LU9t4
LA IMPORTANCIA DE HABLAR INGLES (FUNNY)
An Italian, a Frenchman and a Mexican went for a job interview in England .
Before the interview, they were told that they must compose a sentence in
English with three main words: green, pink, and yellow.
The Italian was first: 'I wake up in the morning. I see the yellow sun. I
see the green grass and I think to myself, I hope it will be a pink day.'
The Frenchman was next: 'I wake up in the morning, I eat a yellow banana, a
green pepper and in the evening I watch the pink panther on TV.'
Last one was the Mexican: 'I wake up in the morning, I hear the phone
'green...green...', I 'pink' up the phone and I say
'Yellow?'...
Before the interview, they were told that they must compose a sentence in
English with three main words: green, pink, and yellow.
The Italian was first: 'I wake up in the morning. I see the yellow sun. I
see the green grass and I think to myself, I hope it will be a pink day.'
The Frenchman was next: 'I wake up in the morning, I eat a yellow banana, a
green pepper and in the evening I watch the pink panther on TV.'
Last one was the Mexican: 'I wake up in the morning, I hear the phone
'green...green...', I 'pink' up the phone and I say
'Yellow?'...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
LISTENING COMPREHENSION 1
Posted especially on Juan´s request.
Anybody can click on the link below to have some listening practice!
Give it a try!
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/listening/101.html
Anybody can click on the link below to have some listening practice!
Give it a try!
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/listening/101.html
BBCENGLISH PRONUNCIATION - VIDEO 1
Acá va el primero de una serie de videos de pronunciación de Inglés que les van ayudar un montón.
Son editados por la BBC y me parecieron muy útiles.
Espero que a ustedes también les gusten... después me cuentan!
Very interesting! thank you BBC!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFKG0yvDx4
Son editados por la BBC y me parecieron muy útiles.
Espero que a ustedes también les gusten... después me cuentan!
Very interesting! thank you BBC!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFKG0yvDx4
Monday, November 16, 2009
FORREST GUMP GOES TO HEAVEN
The day finally arrived.
Forrest Gump dies and goes to Heaven.
He is at the Pearly Gates, met by St. Peter himself. However, the gates are closed, and
Forrest approaches the gatekeeper.
St. Peter said,
"Well, Forrest, it is certainly good to see you.
We have heard a lot about you.
I must tell you, though, that the place is filling up fast, and we have been administering an entrance examination
for everyone.
The test is short, but you have to pass it
before you can get into Heaven."
Forrest responds,
"It sure is good to be here, St. Peter, sir.
But, nobody ever told me about any entrance exam.
I sure hope that the test ain't too hard.
Life was a big enough test as it was."
St. Peter continued,
"Yes, I know, Forrest, but the test is only three questions.
First:
What two days of the week begin with the letter T?
Second:
How many seconds are there in a year?
Third:
What is God's first name?"
Forrest leaves to think the questions over.
He returns the next day and
sees St. Peter,
who waves him up, and says,
"Now that you have had a chance to think
the questions over, tell me your answers"
Forrest replied,
"Well, the first one --
which two days in the week begins with the letter "T"?
Shucks, that one is easy.
That would be Today and Tomorrow."
The Saint's eyes opened wide and
he exclaimed,
"Forrest, that is not what I was thinking, but
you do have a point, and
I guess I did not specify, so
I will give you credit for that answer."
"How about the next one?" asked St. Peter
"How many seconds in a year?
Now that one is harder," replied Forrest, but
I thunk and thunk about that, and
I guess the only answer can be twelve."
Astounded, St.. Peter said,
"Twelve? Twelve?
Forrest, how in Heaven's name could you come up with twelve seconds in a year?"
Forrest replied,
"Shucks, there's got to be twelve:
January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd ... "
"Hold it," interrupts St. Peter.
"I see where you are going with this, and
I see your point,
though that was not quite what I had in mind ... but
I will have to give you credit for that one, too.
Let us go on with the third and final question.
Can you tell me God's first name"?
"Sure," Forrest replied,
"it's Andy."
"Andy?"
exclaimed an exasperated and frustrated St Peter.
"Ok, I can understand how you
came up with your answers to my first two questions, but just how in the world did you come up with the name
Andy as the first name of God?"
"Shucks, that was the easiest one of all,"
Forrest replied.
"I learnt it from the song,
'ANDY WALKS WITH ME,
ANDY TALKS WITH ME,
ANDY TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN.' " St. Peter opened the Pearly Gates and said: "Run, Forrest, run!"
Forrest Gump dies and goes to Heaven.
He is at the Pearly Gates, met by St. Peter himself. However, the gates are closed, and
Forrest approaches the gatekeeper.
St. Peter said,
"Well, Forrest, it is certainly good to see you.
We have heard a lot about you.
I must tell you, though, that the place is filling up fast, and we have been administering an entrance examination
for everyone.
The test is short, but you have to pass it
before you can get into Heaven."
Forrest responds,
"It sure is good to be here, St. Peter, sir.
But, nobody ever told me about any entrance exam.
I sure hope that the test ain't too hard.
Life was a big enough test as it was."
St. Peter continued,
"Yes, I know, Forrest, but the test is only three questions.
First:
What two days of the week begin with the letter T?
Second:
How many seconds are there in a year?
Third:
What is God's first name?"
Forrest leaves to think the questions over.
He returns the next day and
sees St. Peter,
who waves him up, and says,
"Now that you have had a chance to think
the questions over, tell me your answers"
Forrest replied,
"Well, the first one --
which two days in the week begins with the letter "T"?
Shucks, that one is easy.
That would be Today and Tomorrow."
The Saint's eyes opened wide and
he exclaimed,
"Forrest, that is not what I was thinking, but
you do have a point, and
I guess I did not specify, so
I will give you credit for that answer."
"How about the next one?" asked St. Peter
"How many seconds in a year?
Now that one is harder," replied Forrest, but
I thunk and thunk about that, and
I guess the only answer can be twelve."
Astounded, St.. Peter said,
"Twelve? Twelve?
Forrest, how in Heaven's name could you come up with twelve seconds in a year?"
Forrest replied,
"Shucks, there's got to be twelve:
January 2nd, February 2nd, March 2nd ... "
"Hold it," interrupts St. Peter.
"I see where you are going with this, and
I see your point,
though that was not quite what I had in mind ... but
I will have to give you credit for that one, too.
Let us go on with the third and final question.
Can you tell me God's first name"?
"Sure," Forrest replied,
"it's Andy."
"Andy?"
exclaimed an exasperated and frustrated St Peter.
"Ok, I can understand how you
came up with your answers to my first two questions, but just how in the world did you come up with the name
Andy as the first name of God?"
"Shucks, that was the easiest one of all,"
Forrest replied.
"I learnt it from the song,
'ANDY WALKS WITH ME,
ANDY TALKS WITH ME,
ANDY TELLS ME I AM HIS OWN.' " St. Peter opened the Pearly Gates and said: "Run, Forrest, run!"
Sunday, November 15, 2009
THE COCK AND THE PEARL
Aesop's Fables: The Cock and the Pearl
A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw."Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard?"You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."Precious things are for those that can prize them.
A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw."Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard?"You may be a treasure," quoth Master Cock, "to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls."Precious things are for those that can prize them.
Vocabulary:
strutting: pavoneándosefarmyard: corralespied: vioquoth: dijo (en inglés antiguo)barley-corn: grano de cebada
strutting: pavoneándosefarmyard: corralespied: vioquoth: dijo (en inglés antiguo)barley-corn: grano de cebada
IRISH BLESSING
May you have...
a song in your heart
a smile on your lips
and nothing but joy
at your finger tips
a song in your heart
a smile on your lips
and nothing but joy
at your finger tips
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