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суббота, 12 января 2013 г.

Past Simple In Queen’s Xmas Speech 2012

The Queen’s Xmas message was full of Past Simple Irregular & Regular verbs. There are other past tenses as well as passive sentences, but here we will just concentrate on the past tense.

Watch the video and read the transcript (below the video, if necessary) and look out for…
1) Regular verbs (add an -ed ending to the infinitive of the verb);
2) Irregular verbs (there is no rule for these type – you have to learn them).

In the comment box, write your own sentences using these regular and irregular verbs.

Follow the full text here.

Further reading:
The Telegraph : Queen's Christmas speech: monarch humbled by Jubilee crowds.
CBC News : Queen's Christmas message urges serving others.
The Guardian : Queen's Christmas speech to be broadcast in 3D.

четверг, 25 октября 2012 г.

Where is Matt? 2008

Just answer one simple question:

What is YOUR place to dance?

Belinda Carlisle - California

What cultural information do songs teach us?

Find as much as you can in this song.

Share your essays in the comment box.

Songwriters: COMPTON, JOHN PARKER

I remember I was in the tanning salon
When I heard that River Phoenix was gone
They say that only the good die young
But that ain't true where I come from
California...California

It took a lot for me to say
I want to walk away, LA
From the sharks and the Chardonnay
In California...California

4 in the morning we were in our beds
The swaying palm trees above our heads
Woke up to a primal rumbling sound
When the Northridge quake ripped open the ground
California...California

It took a lot for me to say
I want to walk away LA
From the sharks and the Chardonnay
In California... In California
Golden State, I'm back in the Golden State
Golden State of Mind

понедельник, 15 октября 2012 г.

American City Life

How many other songs that mention an American town or city

can you remember?

Please add a link to music videos in the comment box!

Let's create a picture of American city life together!

воскресенье, 1 июля 2012 г.

A Tale of Two Islands

среда, 22 февраля 2012 г.

Book or Movie?

Some time ago I read this book:

Frank Abagnale, 'Catch Me If You Can'
and later I watched the movie based on this book:

And I always have this question that troubles me: What is better - a book or a movie? In this case, I vote for the book.
What do you think about this dilemma? What do you vote for - a book or a movie?

четверг, 24 ноября 2011 г.

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone

http://family.go.com/travel/things-to-do/wyoming/yellowstone--park/poi-282407-canyon-village/

Hello, my name is Chris Brown and I'd like to welcome everybody to Yellowstone National Park. Just _____ from our present location the Yellowstone River _____ the Upper Falls. At that point it flows for another 22 miles through one of the prettiest and most _____ canyons in North America. Families love Artist's Point. It gives them an _____ to view the lower falls as well as the walls of the Grand Canyon.

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is just fantastic for families because of all that you can see in just this one spot. You're so high up and it's so _____ large and deep, it gives the kids the _____ on things. It left a great impression on me.

It's pretty _____, don't you think?
Mm, hmm, you wouldn't want to _____ there.
No, you wouldn't.

The _____ visitor's center at Canyon is a _____ place to take kids after a day of being out in the wild. There's so much information. _____ they can touch and feel. Computers that give them the information, maps, _____, just all sorts of things that they can interact with and learn, I mean that's what this is all about is learning about why _____ places like Yellowstone and having them is important.

Cardiff, Wales.

http://www.5min.com/Video/Visit-the-Cardiff-Castle-in-Wales-United-Kingdom-261515522

So where is Wales? First let’s ________, its not in England. This distinction is not only correct, it is ________ important to the Welch. Wales is a part of Great Britain along with Scotland and England. The UK or United Kingdom includes the countries of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland.

Isolated ________ discovery showed there were people in Wales 250 years ago. Monolithic monuments can be found along many the country road, ______ the memory of the ______ as they have for thousand of years. Around 600 BC the Celts began ______ in Wales where they ______ for 500 years until the arrival of the Romans. The ______ Celts were never really conquered; they were able to live side by side with the Romans, all the while preserving their language and traditions.

Like their ______, the Welsh today has ______ pride in their culture and on going resistance to the domination of their bigger stronger neighbors. They strive to secure their _____ and future as a separate nation to the localized government. A passion for their ______ is never afar from the surface.

A good place to start your trip in Wales is the bustling ______ capital city of Cardiff. The center piece of the city is the 12 century Cardiff castle.

Cardiff Bay ______ quietly next to contemporary hotels, the huge millennium center and the old harbor. During the industrial revolution Cardiff enjoyed tremendous _____ exporting much of the worlds iron and coal. To step back into the past, we visited the museum of Welsh life where _____ buildings from all over Wales represent various periods of history. Animals _____, shop windows display the wears of the day and rooms _____ that the iron workers will be home for dinner any minute.