21/05/2014, Wednesday

VOCABULARY:

Ache, actually =  in fact, aisle /ail/, ancient, appointment, armchair, ASAP, available, bargain, bat, become-became-become, beforehand, behave, beings, bill, blood, brain, brand, brick, budget, burglar, cabbage, cap (=gorra / tapón de botella), change one´s mind, chimney, choice, clay, cliff, clue, cockroach, coffin, college, concerning, convertible, cufflinks, curly, dam (presa, de pantano), dangerous, date, dead, death, demonstration, desert /ˈdezət/, dessert /dɪˈzɜːt/, 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, hide-hid-hidden, 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, pyramid /´piramid/, rainforest, 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, ravine /re´vi:n/, to sail, saline /´seilain/ , 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, unfair, wallet, wavy, weekly, what (=lo que), whale, whose, wild, wildebeest, wire, wireless, witness, yatch,

TODAY IN CLASS:

-Corrección ejercicio sobre comparativos y superlativos 00712

-Corrección ejercicio de revisión FOR / SINCE (segunda página 01100)

-DVD: House for four, chapter 3, section 3

HOMEWORK:

-For next Monday, 26/05/2014, from page 33 to the end.

-Cloze PET PAGE 56 “Telling Stories”

Telling stories (CLOZEPG 56)

It is believed ____________(0) storytelling is very important for young people and adults alike. One well-known author ______________(26) that is early experience of storytelling has helped him _______________(27) feel more confident about speaking in public, When he has to give a speech, he ______________(28) sure he includes one or two stories to keep his audience _______________(29) in what he is talking about.

Teachers and parents _______________(30) that storytelling helps children learn to read and write. It also encourages a child´s _______________(31). For example, a story at bedtime entertains children, and _______________(32) time some of these stories can become a family tradition, and get passed from one generation to the _______________(33).

In Britain there is now a natioonal storytelling week _______________(34) a year, and 1,000 storytelling performances take place in schools, museums, libraries and _______________(35) parks.

26.         A.tells                   B.warns                 C.says                     D.describes

27.        A.on                       B.for                     C.with                     D.to

28.        A. is                       B.feels                   C.makes                   D.gets

29.        A.keen                   B.interested           C.lively                    D.surprised

30.        A.agree                 B.decide                  C.show                   D.wonder

31.         A.plan                   B.idea                    C.mind                    D.imagination

32.        A.over                   B.during                 C.in                         D.around

33.        A. second              B.nearest                 C.next                     D.another

34.        A.only                   B.once                    C.every                   D.each

35.       A.Just                    B.again                   C.then                     D.even