Halloweeeeeeen!!!

Booooooo!

I hope you enjoyed today's mini-celebration! Here are the links to:

• the skeleton song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e54m6XOpRgU&feature=channel
• the spooky Trick-or Trick song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9p9Q3gdkzY&list=QL&feature=BF
• the This is Halloween song from the animated movie "Nightmare before Christmas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpvdAJYvofI
• the jokes: http://www.cavernsofblood.com/halloween-jokes/
• and the history of Halloween by Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

See you next Wednesday and please, make sure you read the first chapter of the Reading Book so that we can start discussing it.

Homework for Monday

I've been thinking about today's homework and you just have to complete the following exercises from the workbook:
p.38 ex. 1 & 2, p.39 ex. 3 & 4, p.41 ex. 1,2 & 3.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Stative vs active verbs

Here are the several links to help you review stative verbs:
http://www.slideshare.net/martateacher3y5/state-and-action-verbs-2026914
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9M7FhSYcH4&feature=related
http://www.slideshare.net/migrane/state-verbs-5249194


Feel free to tell me about other cool and interesting links that you find when surfing the Net!

Take heart!

Wakie, wakie! Just to let you know that, as promised, I had a nice long nap before writing this post.
This is a fill-in-the-gap (with the correct preposition) exercise to keep you entertained over the weekend!

1. Peter took me ........ at tennis.
2. She's decided to take a few days ....... next week.
3. The army is threatening to take ........ if civil unrest continues.
4. He loves taking engines ......... and then putting them back together again.
5. Taking ........  a tent can be quite tricky.
6. The smell of the sea took him ....... to his childhood.
7. Sara had to take ....... 2cm her trousers because she lost weight.
8. How many teeth did the dentist take ........?
9. I must take you ......... on that point.
10. Thank you, I won't take ...... any more of your time!

At long last!

Here's the link to today's interesting news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11493191

take You Tube

Take a look at this presentation about the phrasal expressions with the verb TAKE:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpiI09OcRO0

and to chill out sing along to this really GROOVY song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHv9nqY6FF4
(if the link doesn't work, then click on the word "song")

Book for reading

By the way, the book for reading this first term is:
"Frozen Pizza and other slices of life" by Antoinette Moses and published in the Cambridge English Readers' collection. The ISBN: 9780521686471.

Take your time

Here are 10 sentences for you to translate into English to keep you exploring the verb TAKE as a phrasal verb (e.g.: take away, take on, take out, take in, etc... Have a look at the previous post about TAKE and come prepared with the meanings of the phrasal forms I noted there). I intend to do further practise in this week's Friday class!

Example: 0. Devolví la camisa porque no me quedaba bien = I took the shirt back because it didn't fit me.
1.  Me sorprendió su dimisión.
2. Los reporteros anotaron todas las palabras de su (de él) discurso.
3. Cuando me vio venir, salió corriendo en dirección opuesta.
4. Me dieron unas pastillas para quitar el dolor.
5. Tu hija no se parece a ti en absoluto.
6. Vale, retiro todo lo dicho. Me doy cuenta de que estoy equivocada.
7. Contrataron a nuevos empleados/ plantilla.
8. Vale, entonces tuviste un mal día. No la tomes conmigo.
9. La mesa ocupa demasiado espacio.
10. No le ha cogido el gusto a su nueva escuela.

Well, if you feel a bit taken by this verb, here are a couple more for those of you who've taken to this translation challenge!

11. He empezado a jugar al golf.
12. Intenta no dejar que te invadan (y prevalezcan) los sentimientos negativos.
N.B.: Simply copy and paste the sentences on to a word document and type up your answers there. Finally you can either send them to me by email or bring them to class. Good luck!

further practice in -ING

Here are ALL the sentences that were available for the "Guess who said it" game we played today in case you want to practise more the uses of -ing. I strongly recommend you to create your own sentences and send them to me for correction.

1. I think ............ing (.......)  is really ...............ing.
2. .................ing (......) always makes me very happy.
3. I keep ..............ing ..............................
4. I try to avoid ...............ing (..........).
5. ................ing (........) really drives me crazy.
6. I'm really excited about ........................ing (................)
7. At 10.30 p.m. last Saturday evening I was ........................ing (..........)
8. .....................ing (...........) was the most .....................ing thing I've ever done.
9. I think ........................ing (........) is more fun than ..........................ing (.............)
10. I really miss .....................ing (..............)
11. This month I'm ........................ing (.............)
12. I think that I might end up ........................ing (..............)
13. I don't like people ...........................ing (...............)
14. I'm sick of ...........................ing (...............)
15. I spend quite a lot of time ..............................ing (................)
16. I had a good time last weekend, despite ........................ing (.....................)

Answers to worksheet 6A

I'm wondering how long did it TAKE you to find out that the answers are at the very bottom of the worksheet!? Oooops! I'm afraid I forgot to cut them off before handing them out to you because I photocopied them in a hurry.