Welcome to my blog! Here you will have the opportunity to improve your English and get to know interesting facts about this language! I hope you learn and get the most out of it!! Inma Melgar
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2) Pay attention to the pronunciation of -ed in wanted and needed. How are they pronounced?
3) What's the meaning of ever?
4) Derivatives:
a. The suffixes -ful, -able and -less are attached to words to form adjectives. Look for three adjectives with these endings in the song. What do they mean?
b. What new words could you create from: understand, harm and arm? Look up the dictionary if necessary.
c. Which sense does the suffix -less add to a word? And the prefix un- (unnecessary)?
5) What's the difference between break, crash, and pierce? and between harm and pain?
I don't know why, but British love gravy... Watch the video and do these activities. Then, send them to my email.
What kind of meat does the speaker recommend you to use gravy with?
Where is the fat taken from?
When does the fat rise to the top of the bowl?
What are the ingredients of the roux?
How do you keep the roux from burning?
When do you know the roux is done?
What is the final step after seasoning it?
This is one of the songs from the fantastic film Nightmare before Christmas...Watch the video and do this activity (try to do it before you read the lyrics):
- Recognize words related to Halloween whose initials are...
Catherine Tate Show is a popular British sketch comedy on BBC 2. Catherine Tate is the star in all these sketches and plays a diverse range of characters.
Perhaps the most famous is Lauren, an argumentative and lazy teenage girl who gets out of embarrassing situations by repeating her catchphrase, "Am I bovvered?" (“I don’t care”) or "Look at my face, is my face bovvered? Face? Bovvered?" (“Look at my face" "Do you think I care?”). That's the way Catherine Tate caricatures British chavs.
Watch this video and try to understand it ignoring the subtitles first (although I know it’s a bit difficult). Then, answer these questions:
-Find a synonym for “big”
-How do you say "Coca-Cola Light" in English?
-What’s the difference between “employer” and “employee”?
-Lauren is exaggerating her friend's comment “you will sell burgers for the rest of your life”. Say an example of what she answers back.
-What happens at 1:00?
-Why is it so funny her comment “look at my face” just at this moment?
-Lauren is denying the evidence all the time. How would you describe her? Do you like her?
