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sábado, 6 de diciembre de 2014

Duet by Seal and Buika - You get me






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You get me
 (Duet by Seal and Buika)

A) Choose the correct option
If/ when I say yes/ no, if I resist
If /when I don't give in to this /that
Would it become/ be
a lesson /a session or a loss?

B) Put the lines in  order
 • Suddenly I'm not killing time.
 • It's all over now
 •.Suddenly I know what it's about
 • Thoughts come in and words come out.

C) Fill in the blanks
You ____ me, you get ____        
Like a ________  ______
You've heard a ________ times         
Like that rainbow's ______
You can _____     _______
You _____  me, you ____ me

D) Cross out the extra words
If I don’t say yes, if I let it go away
And face the real consequence I've known
Would it ever lead to
Living a life with regret?

E) Complete the lines
Suddenly the walls are coming ___________
I won't be the same when I come __________.
Suddenly I’ve ____________
But it's all over _________

F) Correct the mistakes
You get us, you get us
Just like a yellow sunset
Where the moon meets the river
Like nobody alive
You appear in my sleep
You get us, you get us

CHORUS

G) Cross out the extra words
It's very hard to ignore,
Is Undeniable too
But, there’s this feeling inside me
When I first look at you
You  just get me, you just get me
 

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YOU GET ME

martes, 14 de octubre de 2014

REVIEW YOUR ABC

* Las consonantes que en español tienen "una consonante seguida de la E", cambian en inglés la E por una I

Spanish -----------------English

bE ------------------------bI ------------------- b, c, d,e, g, p, t, v

* Las consonantes que en español tienen "una E + una consonante + una E", en inglés simplemente no pronuncies la última E.

Spanish -----------------English

EmE ---------------------Em ------------------- f, l, m, n, s, x



Otras consonantes se pueden agrupar por sonidos parecidos:

/ei/ ---- a, h, j, k

/ju:/---- q, u, w

/ai/---- i, y

OTRAS:  o, r, z

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Otra sugerencia para aprender las letras es usando acrónimos que casi con toda seguridad hemos usado o hemos oído mientras hablamos en español. Lo bueno sería que cada uno hiciera su propia tabla porque le ayudaría mejor a retenerlo, pero por sugerir algo, ahí va.

Alguna vez hemos oído hablar del grupo ACDC (ei si di si), o del pinchadiscos DJ (di yei), o hemos dicho alguna vez OK (ou kei), o has bailado la canción YMCA (uai em si ai), o te has comido un emanem (M&M)

Además, no tienes que aprender las letras en orden, sino que aprendes grupos, por lo que no tienes que recorrer todo al alfabeto para llegar a la letra que quieres recordar, sino que dices su palabra relacionada y listo


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Otra forma de aprenderlo es cantando

Do you want to sing it?









EXERCISE YOUR ABC


Click AQUÍ


and HERE






jueves, 2 de octubre de 2014

FORVO - NATIVE PRONUNCIATION

 How do they pronounce CUPBOARD, KNOWLEDGE ?






Si hay una palabra que no sabes pronunciar o sobre la que tienes dudas, puedes oirla pronunciada por un nativo en:


viernes, 30 de mayo de 2014

REPORTED SPEECH

You can practice REPORTED SPEECH for a while on this web, and this one , and this too.


more to practice.

* Reporting Verbs and structures


Test Your Knowledge of Reported Speech:
Once you've studied the rules - or if you already know the rules - test your knowledge:

Reported Speech Quiz



Reporting Verbs Exercise at Auto-English

Fill the gaps using the verbs in the box. Use each verb once only.
advise
hope
promise
suggest
beg
insist
remind
threaten
deny
invite
refuse
warn

1
"I didn't do it," she said.

She ________________ doing it.
2
"Have lunch with me," she said.

She ________________ me to have lunch with her.
3
"Why don't you buy one?" said Tom.

Tom ________________ I buy one.
4
"I promise I'll take you to Prague," said Mary.

Mary ________________ to take me to Prague.
5
"I hope Andy phones tonight," said Clare.

Clare ________________ Andy would phone that night.
6
"Please, please don't tell anyone!" he said.

He ________________ me not to tell anyone.
7
"I won't do it," he said.

He ________________ to do it.
8
"You should have lessons," she said.

She ________________ me to have lessons.
9
"We really must go with you," they said.

They ________________ on going with me.
10
"Don't forget to phone Granny," said Mum.

Mum ________________ me to phone Granny.
11
"If you wear my T-shirt again, I'll pinch you very hard," said Maggy.

Maggie ________________ to pinch me very hard if I wore her T-shirt again.
12
"Don't fly kites near electric overhead cables," said my father.

My father ________________ me not to fly kites near electric overhead cables.

jueves, 8 de mayo de 2014

Passives

When to use the passive
To change the focus of a sentence.
In the passive sentence above, we can make the object and action ('me' and 'gave a prescription') more important than the subject ('the doctor').
If we don't know who does an action.
"My bicycle has been stolen" – I don't know who has stolen it.
If we don't want to say who did something.
"The lights were left on all night." (I don't want to say that you left the lights on.)
If it is obvious who does something.
"I was given a prescription" – I know that only doctors give prescriptions, so I don't need to add "by the doctor".
"He was arrested" I know that the police arrest people, so I don't need to add "by the police".



Forming a passive sentence in English


Firstly, you need to make the object into the new subject.

me –> I
you –> You
him / her –> He / She
us –> We
them –> They

Then you make the verb passive.
Put the verb "to be" into the same tense as the verb in the active subject. For example "gave" is the past simple tense. The past simple form of "to be" is "was" or "were".


Present simple –> is /are
Present continuous –> is / are being
Present perfect –> has/have been

Past Simple -> was / were
Past continuous – was / were being
Modals will, can etc – will be, can be etc.

Then add the past participle of the verb. For example "gave" – "was GIVEN".



http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/passiv.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

http://baladre.info/english/sedaviwebfront/passivetheory.htm

http://www.xtec.cat/~ogodoy/sac/rephrasing/rephrexercises.htm



Other Grammar exercises

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm

Gerundios/Infinitivos http://thatsoriano.blogspot.es/img/gerundio.jpg

Descargar programa para practicar gramática
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lunes, 14 de abril de 2014

Para Todos La 2 - Debate: La vida Privada


Para Todos La 2 - Debate: La vida Privada

La vida privada es aquel territorio donde se desarrolla nuestra intimidad. Lo que hagamos en ella debería quedar protegido de aquellos a los que consideramos extraños. En los últimos tiempos, el concepto de privacidad se ha redefinido a causa de los avances tecnológicos. Coloquio entre Francesc Torralba, filósofo y profesor de Ética de la Universidad Ramon Llull; y Javier Cuchi, de la Asociación de Internautas.

martes, 18 de marzo de 2014

Bob Dylan - Blowing in the wind

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KARAOKE

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How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
How many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they are forever banned.

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind


Blowin' in the Wind at Wikipedia



Tongue-twister

Betty / Botter / bought a / bit of / butter
But the / butter / was / bitter
So she / bought a / better / butter
And she / made the / butter / better




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Botter

"Betty Botter" has some variations, but most are very similar. A common one is:

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









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Pronunciation



jueves, 20 de febrero de 2014