martes, 8 de abril de 2014

07/04/2014, Monday

VOCABULARY:
Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, appointment, armchair, ASAP, available, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, beings, bill, blood, brain, brand, budget, burglar, cabbage, cap (=gorra / tapón de botella), change one´s mind, chimney, choice, cockroach, college, concerning, convertible, clue, cufflinks, curly, dangerous, date, dead, death, demonstration, Dutch, earthquake, essay, eve, eventually, exercise bike (=bicicleta estática), faith, fan, far, fear, feed-fed-fed fingerprint, fireplace, flood, fool, footstep, for, fork, FYI, get on/off, gift, go straight on, guilty, guy, hairdryer, ham, hammer, hill, huge, handcuffs, human beings, hurry up, indecisive /indi´sai:siv/, inherit, instead, is up to you, it doesn´t matter, jam, journalist, kind (noun / adjective), knife, knowledge, landscape, lazy, leather, likely, loan, look forward to hearing from you,  lung, main square, matches, mice, misunderstanding, neither, new, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, path, PE, plug, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, right now, root, rot-rotted-rotten, roundabout, rucksack, sand, seldom, seed, selfish, shark, sheep, shelter, silly, sin, since, sinner, skyscraper, sleeve, smart, snowmobile, so, socket, spear, spoon, stage, stepmother, stopper, straight, strike, stubborn, subject, succeed, success, terrific, terrified, thief, tidy, tiny, tonight, town hall, twice, to afford, to be afraid, to argue, to arrive in, to arrive at, to ask for, to be in a hurry, to be scared of, to belong, to breathe, to be fed up with, to be looking forward to, to be over, to belong to, to book, to break into, to complain, to depend on, to earn, to delete, to die, to enter, to face, to fall in love with, to fill in, to find out, to free, to guess, to give up, to go on holiday, to hire, to hold on (on the phone),to involve, to look after, to look for, to look up, to make sense, to mean-meant-meant, to pass out, to pass away, to pay attention, to pay for, to postpone, to pick somebody up, to put on, to put someone through (on the phone), to quit, to reach, to realize, to reject, to rescue, to rest, to shout, to speak to, to take into account, to take off, to throw away, to turn down, to turn up, to try on, to upload, to wait for, to worry about, treadmill (=cinta para correr), turn left, turn right, umpire, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, wildebeest, wire, wireless, witness, yatch, 

TODAY IN CLASS:
-The Mummy, from page 6 to page 9.
-Book, page 12: 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 8 (xorregir ejercicio 8 sobre vocabulario para describir objetos)
-Corregir Page 21, GRAMMAR: 1A + 1B + 2 (about green grammar panel) + 3 

HOMEWORK:
-Fotocopia con ejercicio de preposiciones:
Principio del formulario
1. Jane is arriving _______ January 26 _______ 2 o'clock _______ the afternoon.
2. It snows here every year _______ December. We always go outside and play in the snow _______ Christmas day.
3. Michael is leaving _______ Friday _____ night.
4. Frankie started working for her law firm _______ 2005.
5. Normally, _______ New Year's Eve, it's tradition to kiss the one you love _______ midnight.
6. Don't be ridiculous; there were no telephones _______ the seventeenth century! The telephone was invented _______ the 1870s.
7. The hills here are covered with wildflowers _______ early spring.
8. We met at the restaurant _______ 6:30 and stayed _____ 10:30.
Final del formulario

-Fotocopia con texto para Reading:
 Look at the sentences below about a brother and sister, who are ballet dancers.
Read the text on the opposite page to decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect.
If it is correct, mark A. If it is not correct, mark B.

Xander and Demelza Parish

Xander Parish and his sister Demelza were both, until recently, members of the Royal Ballet, Britain´s most famous dance company.

Althogh a little younger that her brother, 23-year-old Demelza was the first to develop an interest in dance. "I knew from the age of two that I wanted to be a ballerina. Xander used to come to the local dance school with me and sit on the floor playing with his toy trucks while I was practising"-
"I wasn´t at all interested until I was eight", says Xander. "Then I saw my sister in a dance show and thought I´d like to be on the stage too, with everyone clapping me".
There is no previous history of ballet in the family. Their mother works at home and their father runs a company supplying ink to the printing trade. Howvere, Xander and Demelza have a lot to thank their parents for. As well as driving them to many dance classes after school in their home-town, they also gave them the right body shape. "How your body develops depend very much on your family. If you put on weight as a teenager, or your legs don´t grow long enough, your ballet career can be over before it´s even begun", Xander explains. When they went for their interview to get into the Royal Ballet School, the staff looked very carefully at their parents. "Luckily Mum and Dad are both really slim and I think that encouraged the school to accept us", remembers Xander.
That was more than ten years ago. Xander and Demelza first went to the Royal Ballet´s Junior School, in the countyside outside London, and then went on to the Senior School in the city centre. The training was hard, and they both badly missed their family at first. But it was worth it when, four years ago, both were offered contracts as permanent dancers with the Royal Ballet.
Xander and Demelza are very close and have perfomed together in countries all round the world. Although they spend so much time together, they hardly ever argue. "That´s because we´ve been together for so long", Demelza explains. "In the early days it was nice to have each other around. Nowadays I can always trust Xander to tell me the truth about my work, and I know he will always be helpful".
It seems certain that family support has helped them get on in their careers, but what if they hadn´t been so successful? "I would definitely be a professional footballer instead", says Xander. For Demelza, the question is impossible to answer. "I´ve only ever wanted to be a ballet dancer", she says. "And when I retire from dancing – I´ll teach it!".

1. Demelza and Xander both started dancing lessons at the age of two.
2. Xander changed his mind about dancing after he saw his sister performing to an audience.
3. Mrs Parish passed on her tallent for ballet to her two children.
4. Mr Paris is employed as a printer.
5. The interviewers at the Royal Ballet School checked Mr and Mrs Parish´s appearance.
6. The two parts of the Royal Ballet School are in separate locations.
7. Xander and Demelza enjoyed their time at ballet school right form the start.
8. Demelza thinks that Xander sometimes judges her dancing too negatively.
9. If he wasn´t a dancer, Xander would consider a career in sport.
10. Demelza plans to give up everything to do with dancing when she is older.

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