07/05/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, , aisle /ail/, appointment, armchair, ASAP, available, bargain, bat, beforehand, behave, beings, bill, blood, brain, brand, brick, budget, burglar, cabbage, cap (=gorra / tapón de botella), change one´s mind, chimney, choice, clay, clue, cockroach, college, concerning, convertible, cufflinks, curly, dam (presa, de pantano), dangerous, date, dead, death, demonstration, drawer (/dro:/), 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, in bold, 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, mate, mice, misunderstanding, mud, neither, new, nightmare, on one´s own = by oneself, once upon a time, owner, path, PE, plug, prey, puddle, pumpkin, referee, remote, rest room, right now, road, 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 fail, 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 sail, 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:

-Revisión de vocabulario en fotocopia.

-Corrección page 22, ejercicios 3a + 3b, sobre el listening que hicimos el último día en clase

-Phonetic transcription:

1. The doctor bought a dangerous car for his daughter
/ðə ˈdɒktə bɔːt ə ˈdeɪnʤrəs kɑː fə hɪz ˈdɔːtə/.

2. That judge reads an extraordinay book about literature
/ðæt ˈʤʌʤ riːdz ən ɪksˈtrɔːdnrɪ bʊk əˈbaʊt ˈlɪtərɪʧə/.

-Corrección book, page 29, PRONUNCIATION 1A + 2 + 3 (sobre THE / A / AN)

-Corrección fotocopia sobre SO / NETIHER.

HOMEWORK:

-For next Monday, 12/05/2014, reading book (“The Mummy”): from page 26 to page 29

-Transformations PET (a la vuelta de la revisión de vocabulario)

 Here are some sentences about the Galapagos tortoise, a very large animal with a shell on its back.

For each question, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first.

Use no more than three words.

Write only the missing words on your answer sheet.

1.Dolly is the youngest of the three tortoises.

Dolly is not ____________________ as Dirk and Dolores.

2.The Galapagos tortoise is the largest tortoise on Earth.

No other tortoise on Earth is _______________ than the Galapagos tortoise.

3.It is possible for a Galapagos tortoise to live for 150 years.

A Galapagos tortoise ___________________ live for 150 years.

4.Galapagos tortoises are only found on some islands in the Pacific Ocean.

You only ___________________ Galapagos tortoises on some islands in the Pacific Ocean.

5.Scientist have learned a lot about life on Earth from studying Galapagos tortoises.

Studying Galapagos tortoises ____________________ scientist a lot about life on Earth.