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How to cook a Thanksgiving meal

After watching this video, answer some comprehension questions.

And for dessert, how about some pumpkin pie?



Now answer some comprehension questions.

Please tell me how you found these two exercises. Were they difficult / easy / alright? Do you like this king of video activities?

It's all about the MONEY

Here you have a collection of songs about MONEY. Click on them to watch their videoclips. (Some of them will lead you to Lyricstraining in case you want to play their lyrics game)

Money - Pink Floyd
Money, Money, Money - Abba
Material Girl - Madonna
Can't buy me love - The Beatles
Money - Cabaret
She works hard for the money - Donna Summer
Money for nothing - Dire Straits

If I were a rich man - Fiddler on the roof
All about the money - Meja
Billionaire - Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars
Price Tag - Jessie J

Do you know any other songs about MONEY?

No class today

Dear Students:

Hoy, lunes 28 Nov, no habrá clase por enfermedad de la profe.

Espero que lo veais a tiempo, que se lo digáis a los compañeros que podáis y siento las molestias.

Nos vemos el miércoles.

Conchita

Thanksgiving Movie Scenes

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)



Click HERE to watch The Blind Side (2009)

Parts of the body

Homework for the 28th November

Workbook:

Finish 2B (page 19)

2C Reading Ex 1 (page 20)

Revise travelling vocabulary
(Text on p. 29)

Present Perfect vs. Past Simple

Present Perfect

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Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
More exercises

Homework for the 23rd November

Workbook

Reading Exercise 3

(page 18)

For group B only:

Also Exercises 4 and 5

Most Britons Know No Foreign Words

News English Lesson, 19th November, 2011 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Around two-(1) ____ of British people cannot say anything in a foreign language. This (2) ____ they are among the world’s worst language learners. A report from Hotels.com showed that one-(3) ____ of Britons were (4) ____ of what ‘bonjour’ meant. Over 60 per cent could not guess what the Dutch word ‘goedemorgen’ meant, even (5) ____ it sounds similar to ‘good morning’. One of the (6) ____ phrases people in the report understood was 'Una cerveza por favor' – ‘One beer please’.
Britons have an (7) ____ of being very bad at trying to speak the local language when they travel. The findings in this report (8) ____ to prove this. Only a third said they would (9) ____ to say a few foreign words when they go abroad. Most of those questioned said they expected people (10) ____ speak English when they went overseas. All British students have to study a foreign language (11) ____ to the age of 14. However, only one (12) ____ ten young people said they could speak one.

Put the correct words from this table into the article.

1.	(a)	thirds	(b)	third	(c)	thirdly
2.	(a)	meaning	(b)	mean	(c)	means
3.	(a)	five	(b)	fifty	(c)	fifth
4.	(a)	surely	(b)	unsure	(c)	insure
5.	(a)	though	(b)	thought	(c)	through
6.	(a)	much	(b)	some	(c)	few
7.	(a)	picture	(b)	image	(c)	drawing
8.	(a)	seem	(b)	seems	(c)	seam
9.	(a)	trying	(b)	try	(c)	tries
10.	(a)	at	(b)	of	(c)	to
11.	(a)	down	(b)	up	(c)	along
12	(a)	in	(b)	up	(c)	at

Set Fire to the Rain

Homework for 21st November

Workbook 2A

(the whole unit)

Worksheet: Grammar 2A

+ Finish Adele's song's exercises

- ED endings

Click here to listen and read the rules to pronounce -ED correctly.

Also watch this video to learn the difference betwen voiced and unvoiced sounds. Practice at home, it's actually quite fun!



Finally, here you have a game to practice the pronunciation of the -ed endings.

Homework for 16th November

Grammar Bank 2A

Exercises a) + b)

Page 133

11-11-11 (11th November, 2011)

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Today sees an (1) ____ that only happens once every 100 years. All the numbers in the time and date are the (2) ____ – the number one. At 11 seconds past 11 minutes past 11 o’clock, the time will be 11.11.11 and the (3) ____ will be 11.11.11. Some people believe mysteries of the universe happen on this day. Famous psychic Uri Geller (4) ____ the number represents “the need to find balance (5) ____ life”. He said: “When I see the number 1111, I pray for sick children and world (6) ____.” A new movie released today called "11-11-11" predicts the opening to Hell.

November 11 is also remembered around the world for another important (7) ____. It is Veterans Day in North America and Remembrance or Armistice Day in the U.K. This is the day when people (8) ____ the (9) ____ of World War I on the 11th of November 1918. Fighting ended at 11am on that day. It is (10) ____ known (11) ____ "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month". WWI was (12) ____ “the War to End All Wars”. Over 20 million people died in it.

Put the correct words from this table into the article.

1.	(a)	even	(b)	event	(c)	eventful
2.	(a)	same	(b)	similar	(c)	identical
3.	(a)	days	(b)	dating	(c)	date
4.	(a)	belief	(b)	believes	(c)	believing
5.	(a)	in	(b)	on	(c)	at
6.	(a)	piece	(b)	peace	(c)	peas
7.	(a)	why	(b)	goal	(c)	reason
8.	(a)	remember	(b)	memory	(c)	memorize
9.	(a)	finish	(b)	last	(c)	end
10.	(a)	famously	(b)	fame	(c)	famous
11.	(a)	has	(b)	as	(c)	was
12	(a)	call	(b)	calls	(c)	called

Taken from News English Lessons

Ka-Ching!

Now play a game with the lyrics here.
Select Game mode: Beginner / Intermediate / Expert!

Do you eat healthily?

Have you heard of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution?





You can also read this article from the British National Health Service (NHS).

Or do this Quiz.

Homework for 14th November

Writing task on page 17

Workbook 1B

(pages 8+9)

Craig Flatman's strange diet

Do you remember the story we read on page 19?

Read the real news from 2005
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series7/jam_sandwich_diet.shtml

Homewok for 9th November

From the Classbook: 

Revision (page 18)

Reading (page 19)

Practise Pronunciation from page 10!

Funny Lessons

Here is a little joke in English:

An Order of Spaghetti

A doctor was having an affair with his nurse. Shortly afterward, she told him she was pregnant. Not wanting his wife to know, he gave the nurse a sum of money and asked her to go to Italy and have the baby there.

“But how will I let you know the baby is born?” she asked. He replied, “Just send me a postcard and write 'spaghetti' on the back. I'll take care of expenses.”

Not knowing what else to do, the nurse took the money and flew to Italy.

Six months went by and then one day the doctor's wife called him at the office and explained, “Dear, you received a very strange postcard in the mail today from Europe, and I don't understand what it means.”

The doctor said, “Just wait until I get home and I will explain it to you”. Later that evening, the doctor came home, read the postcard, fell to the floor with a heart attack. Paramedics rushed him to the ER. The lead medic stayed back to comfort the wife. He asked what trauma had precipitated the cardiac arrest.

So the wife picked up the card and read, “Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti - Two with sausage and meatballs, two without”.

For help with its vocabulary, verbs and and sentences, please click here.
Find more jokes at: www.funnylesson.com

Food Vocabulary

Fruit and Vegetables Videos for pronunciation.

Try this Crossword to practise more vocabulary

World’s “Best Restaurant” Closes (30th July, 2011)

A Spanish restaurant that was (1) ____ best in the world five times has closed. The El Bulli, run by award-winning chef Ferran Adria, served its final meals this week. He created a special 49-(2) ____ menu as a final (3) ____. The lucky customers on Mr Adria’s last night were his staff and their families. The courses included some of Adria’s unique creations, such (4) ____ squid and coconut ravioli, roses with ham wonton and melon water, and blackberry risotto. The (5) ____ restaurant will now become a centre for food creativity (6) ____ the name of the El Bulli Foundation.
El Bulli opened in 1984. It was named best restaurant in the world a record five times by the ‘Restaurant’ magazine, which used the (7) ____ of around 800 chefs, critics and food (8) ____. Mr Adria never believed his restaurant deserved the title of the world’s best. He said: "It is not the best restaurant in the world because (9) ____ does not exist." However, it was an unusual eatery. The food (10) ____ cooking with chemistry and science; it was closed at lunch time (11) ____ staff could develop new dishes; it only served 50 customers a day for six months of the year; and it never (12) ____ a profit.

Put the correct words into the article.

1.	(a)	voting	(b)	votes	(c)	voted
2.	(a)	course	(b)	case	(c)	cause
3.	(a)	very well	(b)	farewell	(c)	well
4.	(a)	has	(b)	was	(c)	as
5.	(a)	fame	(b)	famously	(c)	famous
6.	(a)	under	(b)	below	(c)	before
7.	(a)	onions	(b)	opinions	(c)	openings
8.	(a)	experts	(b)	expats	(c)	expects
9.	(a)	that	(b)	those	(c)	them
10.	(a)	mixture	(b)	mixed	(c)	mixes
11.	(a)	sew	(b)	such	(c)	so
12	(a)	did	(b)	made	(c)	was

Taken from News English Lessons

Homework for 7th November

Prepare one story to tell!

Exercise 2, page 9 Classbook

Vocabulary Bank: Sports

Page 145, Classbook

Workbook 1B:

Exercises 1 + 2, page 7 

Family Roots

Here you have an online Listening exercise to revise Unit 1C:

Our Family Roots: Genealogy