Sunday, 6 November 2011

Save the Planet!!

Hello! Today we are going to listen to an extraordinary woman called Jane Goodall. She is a British primatologist (specialist in the study of chimpanzee behaviour) who has discovered amazing things about this animal, which is so similar to us humans!
Her main message is one of hope and love.
She is Messenger of Peace of the United Nations and has received countless awards around the world.
At this moment she is in Argentina! (on Monday 7th she is giving a conference in La Plata Museum!)
Listen to what she says and enjoy!

To see and listen to Jane Goodall Click here


After listening, send me an e-mail to solibarrav@gmail.com and summarise Jane´s message in your words and give me your opinion!


For more information on Jane Goodall´s life and Earth saving projects go to www.janegoodall.com
Your help can make a difference!

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Watch part of "Thor: Taser" and learn as well!!!!

Hello there Adults4!! Today I bring you a wonderful tool to explore new ways of practising English!
It´s fantastic! And if you like it, you can use it anytime you like to practise! 

It´s great! And it shows previews of great films...
Instructions: (read them all first)

- You will watch a very short part of a film called "Thor: Taser" (taser is a small electroshock machine). It is about Thor, a strange man who suddenly and mysteriously appears on our planet, in the middle of a circle on the ground. Jane, Professor Andrews and Darcy find him there. Good actors appear. Watch what happens!
- After watching the short video, you have to press the red button that says "Next" and the site will guide you to some questions to see if you understood the general meaning, and then to vocabulary exercises.

It is wonderful! And if you have doubts you always have the short video there to watch it again as many times as you need.
It is great fun and a wonderful way to learn and practise!



After trying it, you can leave a comment below (clicking on the word Comments) so I know if you liked it! Thank you! Sol

Tuesday, 13 September 2011

Who am I?

Let´s have fun with a guessing game!!! Let´s do a listening activity at the same time!

Click HERE and a window will open up with the image of someone you know. Click on the play button below the image and listen to this person.
Then, answer the questions below:

- Who is he?
- How does he feel?
- What does he wish?

Send the answers to me to solibarrav@gmail.com

Have a lot of fun!!

Friday, 12 August 2011




New post coming soon... great work up to now!

Let´s keep it coming after the two week rest! :)






Have a nice elections weekend!

Monday, 4 July 2011

Task One: Reading
Do you remember this piece of news? It happened on January 15th 2009. It was all over the news... (taken from CNN.com). Have a look and read what happened!

Airplane crash-lands into Hudson River; all aboard reported safe

The plane entered the water Thursday afternoon after a failed takeoff, the FAA says.
A US Airways plane with 155 people on board ditched into a chilly Hudson River on Thursday, apparently after striking at least one bird upon takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport, according to officials and passengers.
Everyone on board was accounted for and alive, officials said. About 15 people were being treated at hospitals and others were being evaluated at nearby sanitary posts.
Flight 1549, headed to Charlotte, North Carolina, was in the air for less than three minutes, according to FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown.



Task Two: Listening comprehension
Now, let´s listen to a survivor of this accident.
 
Listen and pay attention to what he says about the THREE THINGS HE LEARNED WHEN HIS PLANE CRASHED.

Click here to watch and listen to his talk.


Task Three: Answer the questions

After listening to the survivor, write an email to me to solibarrav@gmail.com and tell me: 

1- What three things did he learn in that terrible moment?

2- Also, imagine you are in his shoes at that time, what things would YOU think of or decide to do if you survive?


Sunday, 22 May 2011

Girls send food to space!



This is a true story taken from CNN.com... Read it and then answer the multiple choice and other questions below! Your answers will magically appear in my e-mail. Don´t forget to write your name in the last question!!
You have time to answer this post until June 10th :)


Tuesday, 26 April 2011

Natural Disasters




If you cannot read or see this post correctly, click here

If you cannot open the video, click here

Friday, 22 April 2011

Happy Easter




HAPPY EASTER!!!! HAVE A WONDERFUL, PEACEFUL AND HAPPY DAY!




Thursday, 24 March 2011

Welcome


WELCOME TO OUR BLOG ADULTS 4 2011 STUDENTS!


It´s such a pleasure to meet you here!!! This will be our space, our cyberplace, to think, write, chat and work with English!

So welcome! Please leave a comment below and tell me about YOU, what you do, why you study English, your hobbies or pastimes, your name,  and Escuela-de-Lengua´s-course!!

Your cyberteacher, Sol

Thursday, 18 November 2010

You have worked wonderfully all year!
It has been a true pleasure to read your work and be in contact with you!
Have wonderful holidays!!! Keep in touch! :)

Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Letter to an editorial


Hello there everybody!
This time we will do a practical, real, necessary exercise!
Most courses have already reached a listening exercise in class where you probably found that the recording is suddenly silent... there is an error in the original copy of the CD of our book: Total English Intermediate, Part A, CD Part A, Track 24, which corresponds to Unit 3, Communication, for Activity 2. When Speaker 2 is speaking, you will see that his voice is interrupted.
Was there a recording problem? Is it only the copy that we received in Argentina? We have no idea.
That´s why, our exercise today is to write a letter to the editorial of the book (and we will really send it to them!) and tell them about the problem we have found.
So, write a letter to the Editorial, approximately 120 words, tell them what the problem is, and you may ask for a possible solution. Send me the letter to solibarrav@gmail.com so I can check it out and send it! :) You may work in pairs or individually.

Deadline: October 15th

Thursday, 23 September 2010

Miners in Chile

Good work on the Miners´article!!! I am receiving your answers!
Great!! :)
New post coming soon

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Friendship feedback

I have been reading your answers to the last post on Friendship. Fantastic work! Keep it coming... a new post coming soon!

Friday, 23 July 2010

Friendship

Hello there everyone! I hope you are enjoying your Winter holidays!!
It´s nice to stay at home a little more, warm and comfortable, with a cup of hot chocolate... and reading our tutorials!! :)
This time, in a different format. Have a look:

Read the questions about Friendship and answer them!I will magically receive your answers!
Have fun!
Deadline: August 15th


:)

Tuesday, 29 June 2010



Football World Cup...
everyone is talking about it! On TV, in the street, among friends and family... like it or not, we are all living the World Cup!

Activity 1-
So, let´s read about it! Click on http://fourfourtwo.com/news/worldcup2010/58096/default.aspx and read an article in English on Argentina´s last match and some more information about our players.

What do you learn by reading the article? Any news or information you didn´t know about? Write to me about it to solibarrav@gmail.com

Activity 2-
Now, let´s watch a funny commercial that is on TV these days!
Click on to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmc1f-J3jKQ&NR=1 and watch the commercial. What happens in this short video?
Tell me about it to solibarrav@gmail.com and also tell me about YOU: Are you watching the World Cup? All matches or only Argentina? Alone or with other people? Tell me about your feelings and expectations. (each exercise minimum 50 words. Please, use double spaced format, size 12 Arial font. You may illustrate your writing with an image from the web related to the World Cup! :))
Deadline: July 14th


Great work!

In case you want to listen to some music while you write, here is the link to the World Cup Song “Waving Flag”! Click on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhM-cpSwrmM
or the happy, energetic, official Shakira song “Waka Waka”! Click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WeISLedvxY&feature=related

Thursday, 24 June 2010

Your Murphy´s Laws!!


You are doing a fantastic job! Here are some Murphy´s Laws that YOU thought about. Read below and check out if these Murphy´s Laws happen to you too!

Martín Ramón said:
For example, on a rainy day I go out with an umbrella, then the sun will rise and I’ll be a fool with my umbrella in hand. For that reason I don’t use umbrellas.
When I go to my toolbox to search for a tool, it will be in the bottom under all other tools.
When you have your dirty hands or if you are cooking the phone will ring.
You are standing at the bus stop waiting for your bus with other people; the first bus to come is not yours.
(Only for smokers) you are standing at bus stop, you light a cigarette and the bus will come.

Vanesa Sanz said:
I think that Murphy’s Law apply every day. There are a lot of examples.
Think about queues in a supermarket. If you change queues, the queue you were before will move more quickly.
Or about cars: if you wash your car, the next day IT will rain.
If you don’t smoke and there is someone near you smoking, the smoke will always FLOAT towards you (this always happenS to me and I hate the cigarettes!). So, I believe in Murphy’s Law, they are a fact, not only a law.

Victoria Sanz said:
Sometimes Murphy’s Law applies in my life. When the weather is bad I always say “If I don’t take the umbrella with me, It will rain” but when I take it, It never rains. And if there’s a loose paving stone, I will step on it.
I usually go to the supermarket and when I choose between two queues, the other will move faster than the one I selected.

Marisa Gonzalez said:
Sometimes, in my daily life, I remember the Murphy’s law: when I wear my white
jacket (which I use for my job) before I have breakfast… I will spill my tea over the jacket!
If I wear my white jeans, I will stain it THEM with chocolate or ice cream.
If I need a taxi becAuse it’s very late o it’s rainy, I won’t catch it.
If I forget my umbrella, it will rain.
If I put away my papers and throw away some of them becAuse I think that I won`t need THEM any more, I will need them the next week.
If I want to buy something for myself (clothes, shoes) I won´t to find my size or my number.
If one day there is an electricity blackout, I won’t find candles.

Ana Laura Ceraldi said:
Murphy’s Law applies in my everyday life. Luckily, it is true for little things but those things sometimes make me feel really angry. For example: every time I go to the bus stop, I see the bus leaving, especially if it rains, the weather is very cold or I have to arrive early at work. And when I see another bus coming, it‘s not the one I need!!

Susana Souilla and Sandra Rivero said:
We don’t believe that Murphy’s Law applies in our everyday life, but it’s true that sometimes we aren’t lucky. For example, sometimes, when we are in a hurry we lose the bus, there are long queues in the bank, or the traffic lights are always red; when we need money, we don’t find any cash machine or if we find one, it doesn’t work or hasn’t got any money, and when we go on holiday, the weather is bad and it rains everyday.
These situations don’t mean that we have to believe in Murpphy’s Law. In the western world and especially in the cities, life is very demanding, we want everything to always be ok and we become pessimist when we have difficulties. But it isn’t about the famous Murphy’s Law, it’s just the life with its pros and cons.

Thursday, 3 June 2010

MURPHY´S LAW




Are you familiar with Murphy's Law??
It is a famous law that says that

"If anything can go wrong, it will"

Do you know the story of the famous Murphy´s Law? Check it or find it out at:

http://www.murphys-laws.com/murphy/murphy-true.html


Activity ONE: Writing about you



Does Murphy´s Law apply in your everyday life? Do silly, normal, small, annoying things happen to you every day? Can you think of examples?


Tell me about it by mail to solibarrav@gmail.com!! (Your work cannot have less than 50 words. Please, use double spaced format, size 12 Arial font. You are expected to illustrate your writing with an image from the web related to your anecdote)

Activity TWO: Listening Section



Now, let´s listen to a song where Muphy´s Law situations appear all along!

The singer, Alanis Morissette named the song “Ironic”, do you know it?


Enjoy the song, listen to the lyrics and take notes of as many Murphy´s Law situations as you hear.

Click on the following link to listen to the song and watch the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v9yUVgrmPY

From your notes, write examples of Murhpy´s Law situations that are mentioned in the song and e-mail them to me to
solibarrav@gmail.com... have any of them happened to you? :)


Deadline: June 22th

Did you like the song? She mentions many awkward situations!
If you have doubts or would like to read the lyrics, click on this link: www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/alanismorissette/ironic.html

Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Are you superstitious?





           





                   SUPERSTITIONS

Reading + Filling the gaps:


Some animals are related to evil things, for example “crows”. Do you know what crows are? They are ugly black birds. The American writer Edgar Allan Poe wrote a famous poem called The Crow. You can read a rhyme below referring to crows:

COUNTING CROWS

One's bad,

Two's luck,

Three's health,

Four's wealth,

Five's sickness,

Six is death!!!

Here are some popular phrases related to evil things. Work with a partner and fill in the gaps of the sentences below. (Every dash corresponds to one letter).
REMEMBER to use an Online dictionary to check the meaning of the words you don´t know ;-)

1) To break a mirror means 7 years _ _ _ luck.

2) If a mirror in the house falls and breaks by itself, someone in the house will _ _ _ soon.

3) If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die _ _ _ _ _.

4) Walking below a _ _ _ _ _ _ will give you bad luck. 5) The devil can enter your body when you _ _ _ _ _ _. Having someone say, "God bless you," drives the devil away.
6) Sparrows carry the souls of the dead, it's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (not lucky) to kill one.
7) If 13 people sit down at a table to eat, one of them will die before the _ _ _ _ (360 days) is over.
Can´t guess the words? I took the rhymes from the following website: “ Info about Superstitions: old wives tales, folklore, bizarre beliefs, taboos, omens, lucky & unlucky things” Look for the phrases at: http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/scary.html

Please send me the complete sentences by e-mail to solibarrav@gmail.com and also tell me: are YOU superstitious??? Support your choice. The paragraph must take above 50 words. Remember to write your names and the course you belong to at the end of the e-mail! :)

Now, let´s do a listening activity! Some people are superstitious and believe in horoscopes. We will listen to this man giving his point of view. Is he for or against horoscopes?

Click on this link www.listenaminute.com/h/horoscopes.html Then, click on LISTEN (it is written in blue, below the word DOWNLOADS). A new small window will appear.

If the sound is not good the first time, do not worry. Play it a second time and it will be fine. Audio files usually take time to download.

DEADLINE May 31st