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WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE DRUNKEN SAILOR

When I was listening to a BBC Radio program: The antartic explorer, this songs appeared and I liked. Her you have the song and the lyrics.
Enjoy them.

WHO LIT...

Maybe you have read the Swordbird book entry at Bookshop section.

I discover a wonderful sentence full of emotion:

"...WHO LIT THE SPARK OF LITERATURE IN MY HEART."

Really a good and lovely sentence for one you really appreciate.

SENTENCE TRANSFORMATIONS:

I would prefer it if nobody answered my phone for me . (want). I don't want anyone to answer my phone for me.

She forgot everything I told her. (anything). She didn't remember anything I told her.

I didn't know anyone at the conference. (nobody) . There was nobody known at the conference.- There was nobody I knew at the conference.

Mark asked me the price of a fax machine. (much) Mark asked me how much was to buy a fax machine.

The operator asked him if he wanted any more information. (else). The operator asked him if there was anything else he wanted to ask.

I'm sure Steve didn't mean to upset you. (intention) I'm sure Steve's intention wasn't to upset you.- I'm sure Steve had no intention of upsetting you.

Everyone thinks Ann will get a promotion soon. (expect) Ann is expected to get a promotion soon.

He has a good relationship with his parents. (gets). He gets on well with his parents.

L.I.S.T.E.N.

LOOK-INQUIRE-SUMMARISE-TAKE NOTES-ENCOURAGE-NEUTRALISE.
A very interesting lesson.

PARTITIVES / UNCOUNTABLES NOUMS:

A RAY OF SUNSHINE.

A DROP OF RAIN.

A JAR OF HONEY.

A CLAP OF THUNDER.

A TEASPOON OF SUGAR.

A SUM OF MONEY.

A PIECE OF ADVICE.

WORD FORMATION

CREATE: CREATION

OFFEND: OFFENCE

FORM: FORMATION

DEFEND:DEFENCE

ALLOW: ALLOWANCE

INSPECT: INSPECTION

RESIST: RESISTANCE

PREFER:PREFERENCE

INTERPRET: INTERPRETATION

INFORM: INFORMATION

NEW VOCABULARY: WORKLOAD

THE WORKLOAD IS THE WORK YOU HAVE TO DO. YOUR "carga de trabajo", OR "trabajo por hacer".

FOCUS VS CONCENTRATE

You have to focus on the information.

You have to concentrate in the information.

Useful language

Comparing:

The main / greatest/most important/most significant difference between the photographs is that...

The most striking/obvious similarity is that...

In the first photograph,... whereas/while/but in the second one...

Expresing preference:

I'd much rather/prefer ... than...

I don't like the idea of... so I would prefer to...

I'm not so keen on (interested) ..., so I would choose to...

PREPOSITIONS

TO WAVE AT SB. SALUDAR CON LA MANO.

TO HEAR FROM SB. (SB'S NEWS).

TO BUMP INTO SB . CHOCARSE, ENCRONTRARSE.

TO CONNECT WITH SB.

TO GLARE AT SB. (MIRAR CON MALA CARA, ODIO)

TO SMILE AT SB.

TO CHAT WITH SB.

TO SHOUT AT/TO SB.

TO WHISPER TO SB.

TO WRITE A LETTER TO SB.

TO WINK AT SB. ;-)

TO SHAKE HANDS WITH SB.

TO MAKE AN APPOINTMENT WITH SB. (PEDIR CITA)

TO COMMUNICATE WITH SB .

TO HAVE A MEETING WITH SB.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Watch it till the end. The last messagge is awesome.

It is a smelly story collection.
Imagine you could change people's mood just by smeeling a perfum.
Imagine you could stop the time just blowing a whistle.
I liked the book, the problem is that the stories are not long enought and when you start and like the story, it ends. May be, Fran Brennan, the writer could enlarge them more because I can't guess the possibilities of having that perfum or the whistle. Can you?

BLACK BEAUTY

What a wonderful story!
It is like if Anna Sewell told us about the Human rights using a horse story. Wonderful!
Interesting sentences:

Mind your own business!

I've never seem hin since...

Thank you a thousand times.

They called me all kinds of bad names.

It was money hard-earned.

THE MOONSPINNERS

WE MOVE TO GRECE, THEN TO CRETE. HERE, NICOLA, THE MAIN CHARACTER, FOUND A WOUNDED MAN. AGAIN WE HAVE A THRILLER WHERE NICOLA MUST KNOW HOW TO BEHAVIOR IF SHE WANTED TO STAY ALIVE.
SHE IS IN DANGER EVEN IN THE HOTEL WHEN SHE IS HOSTED.
BE CAREFUL NICOLA YOU ARE NOT WELCOMED AND NOBODY WILL HELP YOU.
HERE WE HAVE ANOTHER STRANGE-ODD BOOK FULL OF MYSTERY. ALTHOUGH THE COVER IS DREADFUL MARY STEWARTS MAKES YOU TRAVEL TO CRETE. I GUESS THERE IS A FILM BASED ON THAT BOOK.

DEATH OF AN ENGLISHMAN

WE ARE ON CHRISTMAS. IN ITALY, FLORENCE INDEED. THERE IS MURDER. AN ENGLISHMAN IS DEATH. IT WAS TOO ODD. HE LIKED CHANGING HIS FURNITURE IN THE NIGHT WHEN EVERYONE WAS SLEPT.
AN ECHOE IN THE NOISY STREET'S OF FLORENCE. CARABIENERI BACCI MUST SOLVE THE CRIME. CIPOLLA KNOWS THE TRUTH. BUT WHO IS CIPOLLA? WHAT IS HIS STORY? IS HE THE MURDERER?

CRIME AND MYSTERY IN THAT STRANGE BOOK WITH SO INUSUAL STORY. THE BEST, WITH ANY DOUBT, THE COVER.

THE WHISPERING KNIGHTS

YES, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT MAGICIANS AND WITCHES. SPECIFICALLY WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE RETURN OF MORGAN WITCH. SOME CHILDREN WERE PLAYING IN AN OLD BARN. THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS ONE OF MORGAN'S (MORGANA) HOUSES. AN INNOCENT SPELLING BECAME TRUTH. NOW THEY HAVE A BIG PROBLEM, WHO CAN STOP MORGAN?
I ENJOY READING THAT BOOK. IT SHOWS THAT GROWN UPS MUST TRUST CHILDREN WHEN THEY CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOR.

PRONUNCIATION 3: REGULAR VERBS IN PAST /-ED/

THE FINAL SOUND IS LIKE A /T/ IF THE LAST CONSONANT IS:

/K/: LIKE: WALKED OR TALKED.

/TS/ (ch): LIKE: WATCHED

/S/: LIKE: WASHED

/s/: LIKE: PASTED

/KS/ (x) LIKE: FAXED

/P/ LIKE: STOPPED

/F/ (gh) LIKE: LAUGHED

IF THE LAST LETTER IS A T/D/ OR AN OTHER CONSONAT, THE SOUND IS LIKE A /D/ LIKE: IMPROVED, CLEANED, OR REMOVED.

HERE, YOU CAN READ MORE INFORMATION. REMEBER YOU CAN TRY THE PRONUNCIATION BOX.

PRONUNCIATION 2: -AGE

WHEN WE HAVE ONLY A SILABE NEXT TO THE WORD "AGE" LIKE: PAGE, RAGE... WE SAY /EICH/, SO /EICH/, /PEICH/ AND /REICH/...

WHEN THE WORD IS BIGGER LIKE: VINTAGE, MASSAGE, GARAGE, VILLAGE... WE SAY /ICH/ SO WE HAVE /VINTICH/, /MESSICH/, /GAREICH/, /VILLICH/...

IT IS A GOOD MOOMENTO TO TRY THE PRONUNCIATION BOX. TRY WRITING THOSE ALL WORDS AND LISTEN CAREFULLY TO GRAHAM.

SAY VS TELL

SAY:

You can say an informaiton. You can say something. Say=give out information. So say + a piece of information. Be carefull: They say it TO me. (He said me: wrong)

TELL:

To distinguish: tell time, ...

To give instructions: Please, tell me...

To order something: I told you not to...

For further information you can visit this web, which explanation is in Spanish.

NEWS VS NEW

NEWS: Always plural, some bad NEWS, a piece of NEWS...

NEW:It is an adjective. This car is NEW. Only in singular.

PRONUNCIATION

That year we have to improve our pronunciation too. So we have to work harder. I have just added a gadget which can reproduce perfectly and accurately the pronunciation of the text you write into.

We saw the difference between:

Watch: The /t/ sound disappears. /wach/

Talk: is like /tok/without /l/

Walk: is like /wok/ without /l/ too.

If you want to understand better, you can try writing in the Pronunciation Box those three verbs.

Submit: it can be a synonymous of to give. It can be to sent by email, or it can be to hand something out. If the teacher said that we have to give her our workbooks done before Christmas, I have to hand my workbook out for the date she said.

The last day when the teacher is going to take our workbooks is called the deadline. It is a time limit.

But be carefull with the prepositions. Imagine that the picture shows October's calendar. We can say that the deadline is the 5th of October but we have two posibilities:

You have to hand your workbook out ON the October 5th. It means that you have to submit your book only in that day, you have not other posibilities.

You have to hand your workbook out BY the October 5th. It means that you can submit the work the 4th of October or even in September but the last day will be October 5th.

SAFE / SECURE / SURE

Poor mouse....
Let's see:

Safe and secure are synonymous, so safety and security too. There is a risk and if you are not in danger, that means that you are safe. The mouse takes security a tool like the helmet. It wants to be safe when it takes the cheese. Not to be killed. Estara salvo, sin peligro, seguro (de seguridad, de riesgo).

Sure, certain: when you are certain about something, you are sure. It is coming from the word certainty. You are sure that it is going to rain when the sky darkens and lightenings appear in the sky. So I'm sure that the mouse is going to be killed although the security protection.

ALIEN / LOCAL/ PACE (VOCABULARY)

An alien person: It is not an ET. An alien person is a strange person, a foreign one.

Local: In Spain we can say: I'm going to our local. But not in English. Local means that something is from the area surroinding us. It is coming from location. And if you are speaking about people, locals are the people living in that particular area.

Pace: It means SPEED. It is like the film of Keanu Reeves. I'm writing on my blog AT my own PACE.