martes, 14 de mayo de 2013

USEFUL LINKS: numbers, countries, possessives ...

Hi students,

                       Here are some useful links for you to practise.

VIDEOS



Verb To BE






  2. ALPHABET  -  English Alphabet | ESL Video

                              -  http://www.real-english.com/reo/3/unit3.htm

                              -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkXcNZckW28&NR=1&feature=fvwp

                              - What's your name? How do you spell that? | ESL Video      
  

     THERE IS / THERE ARE




  b.  Miko likes pears

4. Coronavirus: Supermarket
   https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=35311

5.  What's your name? (elem.)
      https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=32248

6. Buying food
   https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=35308

7. Birthdays & phone numbers (elem.)

8. Where's the gym?

9. Jeff's Alpacas (elem.)
    https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=33780

10. a)  Did you say...? (elem.)

      b) Classmate interviews (elem.)

11. Do You Need Anything From... (elem.)
       https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=35433

 12.  a)  How much does this cost? (elem.)
            https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=35372
      
       b) Calling 911  (elem.)

13. Kayo's Vegetable Garden (elem.)
      https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=35203

14. My house

 15.  a)  Travelling (elem.)
           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqXl5giyz1Q

       b)  Where are you from? (elem.)
16.   A Typical Day
        https://www.eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=44745

17.   a)  Each or per pound? (elem.)
            https://www.eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=35370

       b) Hot Air Balloon Ride (elem.)

 18. Personal Information
         https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=33946  

19. a)  Shopping
            https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=35202

      b)  Come Over to My Place (elem.)  

20. How much is it?
       https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=43587 

21. Martine and Jamie (elem.)
       https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=6597

22. Alphabet Practice
      https://www.eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=44556

23. What is your name? Spelling

24. What does she look like?
       https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=33396

25. I like your smile! (elem.)
         https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=33912

26. a)  Birthday cake (elem.)
            https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=32906

      b)  Is It Cold (elem)

27.  a) My Daily Routine (elem.)
          https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=36953

        b) Mr.Bean in the Airport (elem.)
           https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=32905

28.  What are you doing this weekend?
       https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=33645

29. a)   At the airport
           https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=33290

      b) The Present (elem.)
 
30.  My Daily Routine-Mariana (elem.)

31. a)  LOVE STORY- Taylor Swift
          https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=46278

      b)  Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On (elem.)

32.   b)  Angela's House (elem.)
        
             Simple Past

33. a)  Starbucks Japan - Prep. of location (elem.)

      b)  Johnny Nash - I Can See Clearly Now (elem.)

34. a) Prepositions of Place
           https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=17367

       b) Are You Busy? (elem)

35. a)  Do you like insects?

      b)  London
   https://www.facebook.com/Mustdotravelstv/videos/377493616498347/

36. a) Telephone Numbers
           https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=16394

      b) What Are You Doing? (elem)

37.  a)    Pet Fish (elem.) 

         b)  She always does that (low-int.)
               https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=48930

38. a) Tracy Chapman - Stand by me

      b) Saint Patrick (low int)

39. a)  Mr Bean goes to a Judo class

      b) When do I start?  (low-int.)

40. a) Asking questions

      b) What do you want? (Pre-Int)

41. a)  My family 

      b) Video with exercises
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEB8-SWMYhI

42.    The elephant & the credit card

       b)  Adverbs of frequency

43.  a) Job interview

       b)  SONG
      j. https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=34349


45. a) Are you free on Friday? (low-int.)
   
       b) My best friend (Pre-int)

46. a) Celine Dion
 
     b) Headphones (low-int)

47. Describing people

       b. Job interview

48. The boyfriend (elem.)
 
       Ralph-Cartoon /elem)

49. a) Making Lemonade

     b) The Smithsonian Festival (low-int)

50. a) Can you come to the party? (Pre-int)

       b) What Can You Do? (Pre-int.)

51. Classmate interviews 1

       b) Song: I still haven't found...

52. a) Germs experiment
           https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=37217

     b) Job interview-problems (low-int)


   The incredibles

54. King Penguin (elem.)
      https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=33719

       Four Seasons

55. The Police (song)

56. Morning Routine

57. a) Classmate Interviews 2

      b) I will remember you-song (low-int)

58.  a. Hamburgers

        b. How to order at restaurants

59. I'm sick (Pre-int)

      b. Getting a table

60. The Afghan Girl

      b. Caring for our planet

61. Watch out! (Pre-int)

       b) Song: Anti Hero.Taylor Swift

62. Thursday Appointment (Flowers)

         Die with a smile - Bruno Mars & L G

63. Talisman

       Climate Change

      b) Song: Blinding lights

64. The Boy

     b. Cell phone history

65. The girl from Ipanema

66. Hotel  (Translator)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIK9Ink_768&spfreload=10

                                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyqfYJX23lg

68. Can't feel my face (song)

69. Conversations
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6E3Qw2eXPA 

70. Billy Joel

     UP - Promise (Pre Int)
71. Coldplay - Song

72.  Job interview (Pre int)

    b) Song: Boston-Kenny Chesney
       https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=34139  

73. Horses (Pre-int)
         
74. This game is fun! (Pre-int)

75. The rainforest

76. The Lion King - Song (Pre-int)
     
77. Justin explains Canada Day

78. Saint Patrick's Day

79. Yesterday was amazing! (Pre-int)

80. My favorite object
     
       Unchained Melody 

81.  a)   The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (Int)

       b)  Tombi the Cat  (int.)

82.  Mockingjay - Trailer - Prepositions

      Inside the White House (Int)

83. TED - Languages

84. a)  Something new for 30 days

     b)  Addictive Cucumbers (Int.)

85. How do plants defend themselves?

86.  Real English
     http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.htm

87. Corona Virus: Watch the video and do the exercises
     https://eslvideo.com/quiz.php?id=35010


90. Cycling
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Url1pt8NgEo

91. Bryan Adams

92. Next Summer


95. My best friend

96. An Amazing Woman

97. a) Save your tears... (song)

       b) Kernel the Great Dane (Int)

98. . Living together - Episodes
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUlNbVLJTJo

99. Funny video: German Coast Guard
       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSdxqIBfEAw

100. Giorgio Moretti
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KXmZKW_cag&t=3s

101. Teacher presenter
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oOX48NOyTQ&t=26s

 

   

LISTENING


 1.  NUMBERS   1-20   https://agendaweb.org/exercises/vocabulary/numbers/numbers-20  

                             1-100  https://agendaweb.org/exercises/vocabulary/numbers/audio-100.html

 2. ALPHABET  http://www.carmenlu.com/first/listening/pronunciation/alphabet1.htm 
                          

3 Meeting people: Names  http://www.esl-lab.com/eslbasic/meetingpeople-1.htm#list


4. http://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/smalltalk/smalltalk01.htm

5. http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/omaudio/contenidotematico.htm

6. Family:  https://www.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/The_family/Family_test_nv381fr

8.  http://www.adelescorner.org/listening/personal_id/personal_id.html

9. Dates:  http://www.esl-lab.com/eslbasic/calendar-1.htm#list

11. http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G067-Rain.htm

12. Time: http://www.esl-lab.com/eslbasic/clocks-watches-1.htm#list

13. Hotel: http://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/hotel/hotel01.htm

14. At the airport: http://www.agendaweb.org/vocabulary/travelling-tourism-exercises.html

15.  http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G044-Hotel.html 

21.  BOOK
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT88FkZJiRs

22. The new class
      https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/1L3-the-new-class-2.php
      https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/1L3-the-new-class.php

23.  A musician's day
       https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/1L2-rockstar.php
       https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/1L2-rockstar-2.php

24. World of Movies
        https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/1L1-world-of-movies.php
        https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/listening/1L1-world-of-movies-2.php

25.   A swimmer: first listen and then go to "check your understanding"
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/beginner-a1-listening/interview-swimmer

26.  http://www.ompersonal.com.ar

27.   http://www.cuentoseningles.com.ar/articles/health/GMOs.html

28.   http://www.cuentoseningles.com.ar/shortstories/podcasts/index.html

29.  Ordering food: listen and check your understanding
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/beginner-a1-listening/ordering-food-cafe




  THE POPE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2un5XjtFL0

JANE FONDA
http://youtu.be/Zk1vkuKnU48

Severn Cullis-Suzuki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJJGuIZVfLM 

EXTRA PRACTICE
https://www.duolingo.com/ 

VOCABULARY


http://www.macmillanenglish.com/hotspot/resources/flashcards/classroom.pdf


HOUSE VOCABULARY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL7E631bVr0 


S O N G S

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU

2. http://www.saberingles.com.ar/songs/exercises/61.html

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7HA0j7mhDY     
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUyzH9HpkqE

Gloria Gaynor
4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEVKkIWbPrY
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj8C43r4zm0&feature=kp

5.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC5IiYpozuE

Adele
6.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlsBObg-1BQ 

 Celine Dion
7.     http://youtu.be/9SevA6D55XU

Geroge Benson
8.   http://youtu.be/Tr97MQiqW38

Shania Twain
9.   http://youtu.be/wHUNoUFrh6E

The Lord's Prayer by Andrea Bocelli
10.  http://gloria.tv/?embed=frame&media=479543&width=768&height=

Celine Dion
11.  http://youtu.be/bpJnwwmM6mk

Whitney Houston
12. http://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/songs/whitney-houston/i-will-always-love-you.html

John Lennon - Christmas
13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4u489MkaV4

IMAGINE
14. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwUGSYDKUxU

NAT KING COLE - Unforgettable
15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUMoiU3h750

Nat & Natalie Cole
16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shGUYqRo9ts

ELTON JOHN - Sacrifice
17. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCwYb8pIt1Q

USA FOR AFRICA - We are the World
18.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi0RpNSELas

THE  ROLLING  STONES
19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Bgfkm8CbY

 THE  CURE - Friday I'm in Love
20. http://www.saberingles.com.ar/songs/exercises/61.html

ED SHEERAN
21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDDMYw_IZnE

ELVIS PRESLEY - Love Me
22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppm-eFrv0e0

 Michael Jackson - Man in the mirror
23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5vz6iwV38U

Mariah Carey
24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8vZUqxlW88



READING COMPREHENSION


 1.  http://www.cuentoseningles.com.ar/articles/health/sleep.html

2. http://www.cuentoseningles.com.ar/articles/health/goodfood.html

3. http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/reading/1r6-my-name-is-ben.php

4. http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/


STORIES 

1.  http://www.manythings.org/voa/stories/

2. http://www.really-learn-english.com/english-short-stories.html

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkQC0eHxC2Q

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMOqGR0BGqc

5. http://www.eslfast.com/

6. http://www.rong-chang.com/ne/

THE ALPHABET
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0nUaCyj1G8

http://www.glogster.com/roose16/the-english-alphabet/g-6lffifs58h8ii5po3tv0pa0

NUMBERS
http://englishflashgames.blogspot.com.ar/2011/09/numbers-game.html

http://esl.about.com/library/beginnercourse/bl_beginner_course_numberbasic.htm

COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES
http://iteslj.org/v/e/ab-countries_nationalities.html 

 https://agendaweb.org/vocabulary/countries_nationalities-exercises.html 

VERB "BE"
http://elt.oup.com/student/headway/beg/grammar/grammarunit01/hwy_begin_unit01_1?cc=ar&selLanguage=en

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1737

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/elementary/a_grammar/file01/grammar01_c01;jsessionid=6E5F5EFD469D19B4C4492811ECF6D94C?cc=ar&selLanguage=en

EXPRESS ROUTINE, HABITUAL ACTIONS
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/simple-present-1

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_mix.htm

PAST
   http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_statements.htm 

 POSSIBILITY AND OBLIGATION
1. https://elt.oup.com/student/naturalenglish/pre/a_grammar/unit05/nepre_grammar05_1?cc=us&selLanguage=en


PRESENT  PERFECT
http://www.agendaweb.org/exercises/verbs/present-perfect

PRESENT PERFECT  VS  SIMPLE PAST
https://agendaweb.org/verbs/present-perfect-simple-past-simple-exercises.html

ENGLISH TENSES

TENSE
EXAMPLE
USE
EXPRESSIONS
Present Simple
I eat
Habitual actions Routine
Always, usually, once a week, never, etc.
Present Continuous
I am eating
Actions now or around now
At the moment, now, these days, etc.
Past Simple
I ate
Finished and definite actions
Yesterday, …ago,    last…, etc.
Present Perfect
I have eaten
Unfinished and indefinite actions
Ever, already, yet, never, etc.
Future Simple
I will eat
Decision at the moment of speaking
I think, in ten years, etc.
Future of intention
I am going to eat
Plan or intention
Next weekend, tomorrow, etc.


PAST  TENSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK12tjcqpsM


TAG  QUESTIONS
PRACTICE
1     
Imagine that you’re at a barbecue party. Add tags to start a friendly conversation:

a.       These sausages are delicious, …………………………….?
b.      You haven’t been here long, ……………………………….?
c.       It’s a big garden, ………………………………..?
d.      There aren’t many people here yet, …………………………………….?
e.      You’re Celia’s friend, ……………………………………?
f.        You came together, ………………………………..?
g.       These burgers look good, …………………………………?
h.      We can sit on the grass, …………………………….?
i.         We’ve been lucky with the weather, …………………………………..?

2.  Complete the conversation. Put in the question tags.

Sally: You don’t really want to marry me, …………………………..?
John: Of course I do. But I need time.
Sally:  you love me, ……………………………?
John:  You know I love you. I’ve told you enough times, ………………………………….?
Sally: Yes, that’s true. But, you’re really happy, …………………………………………?                The situation doesn’t bother you, …………………………………….?
John:  why are we arguing?  There’s nothing to argue about, ………………………………………?

Sally: No, you’re right. You can’t ever see things from my point of view, ……………………………………?

Exercises  for  Evaluation 


*  In pairs: Write a job interview dialogue using Tag Questions and other questions.

*  Record a job interview with a partner using Question Tags and other questions.



USED  TO    -    WOULD

ROALD   DAHL


Second Memory: The Great Mouse Plot



   My second and only other memory of Llandaff Cathedral school is extremely bizarre. It happened a little over a year later, when I was just nine. By then I had made some friends, and when I walked to school in the mornings, I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys of my own age along the way. After school was over, the same four boys and I would set out together across the village green and through the village itself, heading for home. On the way to school and on the way back, we always passed the sweet-shop. No we didn't; we never passed it. We always stopped. 
   The sweet-shop in Llandaff in the year 1923 was the very centre of our lives. To us, it was what a bar is to a drunk, or a church is to a bishop. Without it, there would have been little to live for. But it had one terrible drawback, this sweet-shop. The woman who owned it was a horror. We hated her, and we had good reason for doing so.



EXERCISES  USED TO  /  WOULD


1.  http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g11-used-to-would.php 


2. The simple past tense, used to and would are all possible ways to talk about the past. The sentences below are all in the simple past. Read them and discuss these questions:

1.       Which sentences could be changed to would + verb?
2.       Which sentences could be changed to used to + verb?

When I was a child:

a.       I was afraid of the dark.
b.      I believed in ghosts.
c.       I went on vacation to Disney World in 1999.
d.      I broke my leg skiing.
e.      I sucked my thumb when I was tired.
f.        I started learning the piano.
g.       I had long hair.
h.      I went to the movies every Saturday.
i.         I didn’t like vegetables.
j.        I lived downtown.




THE  VERB  PHRASE

PRACTICE

Leer el texto y marcar las frases verbales que aparecen allí. Excepto en el caso de los verbos modales, indicar si se refieren a un hecho o a una situación habitual, si a una situación que tiene lugar ahora o alrededor de este momento, o si tuvo lugar en el pasado:
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A Study about Internet Addiction of University Students

Abstract
Internet addiction is the most modern form of addiction and belongs to behavioral addictions. The term appeared in 1996 and spread very quickly all over the world, especially among teenagers and young people. Many users escape the formal use of the Internet and easily lose control of the situation. The article aims to deal with the university students’ addiction to Internet and social media. It is a fact that most young people spend valuable time on the Internet without knowing the negative impact this engagement may have. For this purpose, a questionnaire based on the Internet Addiction Test was formulated, in order to answer a number of questions about Internet addiction, the consequences and causes of this phenomenon, the ways of dealing with the problem, the indications (information) and statistical data available for Greece, etc. The results obtained will be very useful and can be used by researchers to shape the profile of new and future uses, regarding the impact of internet use on professional life and development of young people, but also in dealing with social phenomena and adaptation problems.

Keywords : Internet, Addiction, Social Media, PC, Online

Conclusions

Internet offers incredible possibilities; it feeds us with information, news, entertainment, etc. It is a useful interactive tool, which facilitates our everyday life when used reasonably. The use of social networking sites, especially by the young people, should be done sparingly so as not to provoke extreme behaviors. A future expansion of the research will be further quantitative analysis of the collected data in order to identify the existence of correlations between answers to different questions, and if there are significant differences in the impact of Internet regarding sexes.
FRASES VERBALES
Evaluación

1.       Marcar las frases verbales que aparecen en las siguientes oraciones. Indicar si se refieren a un hecho o a una situación habitual, si a una situación que tiene lugar ahora o alrededor de este momento, o si tuvo lugar en el pasado:

a.       These jeans do not fit me anymore.
b.      The three children are playing in the park.
c.       I did the washing after eating Chinese food.
d.      When Jasmine arrived the bus had left.
e.      Erin was feeding some guinea pigs when he fell from the stool.

f.       The dispenser has a lot of napkins.




R E C I P I E S

Hello students,
                           I'm enclosing another recipe that a student sent me:

Tangerine cake recipe by Susan:
Mix three tangerines including the skin and removing the seeds. Add three eggs, one tea cup of oil and one tea cup of sugar. Pour the mix into a bowl. Add three tea cups of flour with one teaspoon of baking soda.  Put it in a pizza dish,  sprinkle with sugar and bake.

Regards,
Pat

                                                          
 Hello students,
                          I’m enclosing a recipe for a chocolate cake. This is the specialty of a student-chef we have in one of our groups. I’ve tried it. It’s DELICIOUS!!!
Regards,
Pat 

CHOCOLATE CAKE

Put in a bowl three cups of self-rising flour, one teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate, two cups of sugar, half cup of bitter cocoa and half cup of sweet cocoa. Mix and add three eggs, three quarters of a cup of oil and two cups of boiling water. With the first cup of the water mix the ingredients with energy. Then add the second cup of water. 

Kisses,
         Susan

Hi students,
                    I'm enclosing another recipe that Susan sent me. Enjoy it!!
Best regards,
Pat

Granola recipe: Turn on the oven at minimum temperature. In a baking dish, put half a kilo of rolled oat and 3 spoons of honey. Stir 3 or 4 times for 20 minutes. Remove from the oven. Let it get cool and add 100 grams of raisins, 150 grams of walnuts or almonds, 3 spoons of oat bran and ½ cup toasted crushed sesame seeds.  Keep it in a glass jar.
                                                                                                                          Susan


ANOTHER RECIPE!!
Recipe:

Ingredients

- 3 eggs
- 120 grams white chocolate
- 120 grams of cream

Separate the eggs (place the egg whites in a large bowl)
Preheat the oven to 170C 
Melt the chocolate in a double boiler over hot water.
120 g. cream cheese (softened)
Remove the bowl from the double boiler add 3 egg yolks and mix well.
Add 1/3 meringue into the cream cheese batter and blend well.
Por the batter into the pan.
Pour some hot water.
Dust with powdered sugar if you like

Whit love: Zulema


Recipie


Pork loin with dark beer and honey

           INGREDIENTS

·         Pork loin 500-600 gr
FILLING:
·         Ham 100 gr
·         Roquefort  cheese 50 gr
·         Mozzarella 100 gr
·         Purple Onion
·         Bell Pepper
·         Pistachio
SAUCE:
·         Garlic: 1 clove
·         Dark Beer  1 450ml
·         Honey 1 tablespoon
CONDIMENT:
·         Salt
·         Pepper
·         Provençal
·         Paprika
·         Olive oil

Steps:
1)      Take the loin, cut the fat, and start cutting it from the bottom, along but without cutting the opposite side, turn the loin and make another cut, continue that until opening totally the loin. The sense of this is to make a plaque of meat for filling it.
2)  Brown the onion and the bell pepper in olive oil, apart from that.
 
3)  With the loin totally open, start inserting the filling, first the ham along the loin but leaving a margin of meat for the correct close of the loin at the end, following with the different kinds of cheese respecting the same margin, then onion and bell pepper previously browned, and finally the pistachio. 
 
4) Close the loin making a roll, and ending with the meat's margin previously left, wrapping the loin and leaving all the filling inside. You can help yourself at the end by using toothpicks or sewing it.

5)  Take the loin and put it in a saucepan with a dash of olive oil, and brown the stuffed loin.

6)  Make a mixture with the beer, the chopped garlic, the honey, and if you want, a little mustard. Put the mixture on the loin, and leave it to cook in minimum fire with the saucepan covered, at least one and a half hour until the sauce has a creamy consistency. Take a look during the cooking and turn over the loin to make a homogeneous cooking. It usually doesn’t happen, but if you see the liquid reduce a lot, you can put some dash of water. And if at the end of the cooking there is a lot of liquid you can take off the lid to make it reduce to get the creamy consistency.


7)  Serve with Spanish fries or mashed potatoes.



                                           

                                           LECTURA  COMPRENSIVA


REFERENCIAS TEXTUALES

PRÁCTICA
Hurricane Irma

A record-breaking hurricane is causing death and destruction as it passes through the Caribbean and heads towards the U.S. state of Florida. On Thursday, Hurricane Irma caused major devastation across the Caribbean islands of Barbuda, St. Martin, Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands. The Prime Minister of Barbuda, Gaston Browne, said about 95 per cent of the buildings on the island had suffered some damage. He said: "It's absolute devastation. The island is literally under water….Barbuda is barely habitable." A government official for St Martin said: "There is massive destruction. We'll concentrate our first efforts so that in the next hours people can get access to food and drinking water."

Hurricane Irma is a category 5 storm –the strongest on the 1-5 scale hurricanes. It is the second strongest hurricane ever to be recorded and the strongest ever recorded east of the Caribbean Sea. Irma has kept a wind speed close to 300 kph for more than 24 hours. This is the longest period ever recorded. Meteorologists said Hurricane Irma was over 1,200 km wide. It is likely to become a Category 4 hurricane when it makes landfall in Florida on Saturday morning. Florida officials have already ordered a mandatory evacuation of Florida Keys – the southern part of the state of Florida. Residents there, are bracing themselves for winds of up to 300 kph and massive and damaging storm surges.

A.    Responde las siguientes preguntas

1.      ¿Qué cantidad de construcciones sufrieron daños?
2.      ¿En qué se van a concentrar los esfuerzos según el Primer Ministro?
3.      ¿A qué categoría pertenece el huracán Irma?
4.      ¿Por cuánto tiempo se mantuvo el viento de 300kph?
5.      ¿Cuándo podría bajar a categoría 4?


B.     Busca los antecedentes de los referentes marcados en el texto.




TRABAJO PRÁCTICO

Chocolate - Comprehension Questions and Text References
Emma de Dios Álvarez
University of Valladolid (Valladolid, Spain)
Chocolate originated in Mexico with the Aztec Indians and came to Spain through the Spanish conquerors. Christopher Columbus encountered cocoa beans for the first time in 1502.
The Aztecs used cocoa beans to make a bitter, foamy beverage called tchocolatl, which was drunk during religious celebrations. The Spaniards weren't fond of tchocolatl, but that didn't stop them from shipping the beans back home. Charles I received a shipment in 1525. Spain held a monopoly over the cocoa trade for about a hundred years.
Although it arrived in Italy in the late 16th century, cocoa didn't really become a trend outside of Spain until 1615, when Louis XIII married Anne of Austria, the daughter of King Philip III of Spain. Chocolate was served at their wedding in Paris, and soon after that, it became a favorite drink for French aristocrats.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, chocolate was the most popular drink in Spain. Popular foods at the time were sponge cake, marzipan, turron, and crystallised fruits. Richard Ford in Gatherings from Spain said that chocolate "is for the Spanish what tea is for the English and coffee for the French. It is found nearly everywhere and it is always excellent."
Today, Spain is a major producer of chocolate, with 50 large manufacturers and countless small-scale producers. The quality of Spanish chocolate is still excellent. However, chocolate products are not widely marketed outside the country.

A. Responde las siguientes preguntas en español.
1.    Where was chocolate initially used?
2.    How did the Aztecs name it?
3.    Did Spanish like this beverage?
4.    How many years did the Spanish monopoly of chocolate last?
5.    When did the chocolate catch on in other countries?
6.    What other types of food were popular in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
7.    How did Richard Ford describe chocolate?
8.    What do you think Gatherings from Spain is?
9.    How does the writer describe Spanish chocolate?
10.  Is Spanish chocolate massively marketed outside the country?

B. Busca los antecedentes de los referentes marcados en el texto y expresa si la referencia es anafórica o catafórica.



https://youtu.be/06olHmcJjS0 

PAST CONTINUOUS and PAST SIMPLE

The Life of a Genius


Antoni Gaudí Cornet was a Catalan architect who has become internationally recognised as one of the most prodigious experts in his discipline, as well as one of the top exponents of modernism. His exceptional ground-breaking genius made him the inventor of a unique, personal and incomparable architectural language that defies classification.

Architectural studies
In 1870, when he was working at various jobs to enable him to pay for his studies, he moved to Barcelona to pursue his academic career in architecture. He was an inconsistent student, but he was showing some evidence of brilliance that opened doors for him, when he started to collaborate with some of his professors. When he completed his studies at the School of Architecture in 1878 the Director, Elies Rogent, declared: “I do not know if we have awarded this degree to a madman or to a genius; only time will tell.” Undeniably, however, the young architect’s ideas were not a mere repetition of things that had already been done up to that time, nor could anybody receive them with indifference.
Above and beyond his relationship with Güell, Gaudí received many commissions and proposed numerous projects. Many of these, fortunately, were transformed into reality, but some never made it off paper.

During his mature period, masterpieces followed one after another: the Bellesguard Tower, Park Güell, the restoration of Mallorca Cathedral, the church on the Güell Estate, Casa Batlló, La Pedrera, and lastly, the Church of the Sagrada Familia.
Surprisingly, the magnificence of Antoni Gaudí’s architecture coincided, as the result of a personal decision by the architect, with a progressive withdrawal by the man himself. Gaudí, who in his youth had frequented theatres, concerts and tertulias (social gatherings), went from being a young dandy with gourmet tastes to neglecting his personal appearance. At a certain moment of his life, he was eating frugally and distancing himself from social life, while simultaneously, he was devoting himself ever more fervently to a religious and mystical sentiment.
The final goodbye

Gaudí died on the 10th of June 1926. He was knocked down by a tram while he was making his way, as he did every evening, to the Sagrada Família from the Church of Sant Felip Neri. After being struck he lost consciousness, and nobody suspected that this dishevelled old man who was not carrying any identity papers was the famous architect. He was taken to the Santa Cruz Hospital, where he was later recognised by the Priest of the Sagrada Família. He was buried two days later in that very church, following a funeral attended by throngs of people: most of the citizens of Barcelona came out to bid a final farewell to the most universal architect that the city had ever known.




PRACTICE

1.         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_lrUe7sAAc
2.  https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-past-continuous-exercise-1.html  



EVALUATION


Write a text about another talented person, similar to the one about Gaudí, using Past Continuous and Past Simple. This exercise should be done in your Academic Portfolio:

https://es.slideshare.net/marcopolosilvasegovia/portafolio-estudiantil





TRADUCCIÓN  AUTOMÁTICA

Aplicar traducción automática al siguiente texto, corregirla y mejorarla:


Anderson (1995, p. 68) points out that "the current major Machine Translation (MT) evaluation effort, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), shows that when compared to expert human translators, MT systems perform only about 65% as well on the average".

According to the data students use MT regularly to look up one word, translate instructions, and to double-check their work. Students perceive MT to be helpful in their language learning, especially acquisition of vocabulary, but are conscious that MT produces errors. To this last point, it is encouraging that students are critically assessing the output of the MT tool. This is a skill that should be fostered as a part of our instruction in best practices. We want our students to question linguistic constructions and to monitor cultural competency and if the MT tool provides yet another venue through which we may develop these critical skills, is it not advantageous to integrate this tool into our discussions rather than to prohibit it as taboo? Faculty are skeptical of a positive impact on language learning but do not see it as a threat to the profession. There is a trend with professors indicating MT is more useful in advanced level courses but overall there are many opinions on how it should (not) be integrated and what constitutes academic dishonesty. Looking ahead, we seek to question the current policy in the four language programs within the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University that prohibits the use of MT in language course assignments. 
RUBRIC FOR A WRITING

CRITERIA
4
3
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Remarks
Content: the topic and main idea are clear.





Organization: in general, has a logical sequence (introduction, body and conclusion)





Vocabulary and grammar:  correct use of the vocabulary and grammar   rules.





     










RUBRICA PARA DESEMPEÑO ORAL

Criterios para la corrección
Escalas ilustrativas
Desempeño
ALCANCE  (1 a 4)
 Alcance general
 Riqueza de vocabulario

CORRECCIÓN  (1 a 4)
 Corrección gramatical
 Control de vocabulario

FLUIDEZ  (1 a 4)
 Fluidez

INTERACCIÓN  (1 a 4)
 Interacción global
 Turnos de palabra
 Colaboración

COHERENCIA  (1 a 4)
 Coherencia





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