FILMS VOCABULARY:

• THRILLER


• HRROR FILM


• COMEDY


• ROMANCE


• HISTORICAL DRAMA


• SCIENCE FICTION FILM


• ACTION FILM


• WESTERN

-It was TERRIFIC performance, for which he deserves to win an Oscar.

-Absolutely TERRIFYING! I have never been so frightened in all my life.

-This was probably the worst film I've seen all year. The plot was non-existent and the acting was TERRIBLE.

• SCENE


• SET


• CAST


• STAR


• ROLE


• PERFORMANCE


• PLOT


• SECUNDARY CHARAPTER


• SPECIAL EFFECTS

CLOSER MAGAZINE

Though it was publiated in august 2010 I hacve recently read it. As you can imagine I'm not interested in Spanish Celebreties so, I'm not either interested in British jetset. But I have to recognize that I have learnt many vocabulary words like:

• The relation has hit rock bottom


• He was giving her the cold shoulder.


• He's got to put an end.


• To tie a knot with ...


• Awkward.


• Awesome.


• To make matters worse..


• Milestone.


• Breastfeeding.


• She wants to throw herself back into work.


• My top priority.


• The singer has bee spotted looking cosy with...


• He can't turn his back on both of us.


• She's three months pregnant.


• They have made nos ecret of their desire for children.


• They are both willing to consider alternatives.


• They really want to give their kids the opportunities they never had growing up.


• The pills gave me a sense of wellbeing.


• GP


• She had severe withdrawal symptoms.


• I'm hoping my surgeon can sort it out.


• I got stung by a bee.


• It's been ages since...


• My life is falling apart.


• She is finding it hard to cope.


• A broken relationship has taken her to the limit.


• Everyone is keeping an eye on her.


• I was getting a complex.


• If he doesn't like it, he knows where the door is.


• If it doesn't work out we will try it again.


• I'm not one for yoga.


• You need to break into a sweat.


• I just put on weight too easily.


• I was speechless.


• To feel the preasure.


• To get my tummy in shape.


• He is doing his best.


• I like being the way I am.

And me too.

WICKED WORDS BY TERRY DEARY

This book is awesome. It plays with the language and it explains some difficult aspects very easily.

• The Black Maria: the police van for taking criminals to prision is called the Black Maria. In 1830, in Boston, when the police arrived Maria, a strong black woman who helped loading the troublemakers onto the police wagon. That is way after years, the van is called this way.


• Hooligan: when someone calls you holligan is comparing you with Patrick Hooligan, who was one of the most important criminal from Ireland in 1890.


• Slidebrns: The hair than some men have under their eras are sideburns. Elvis had big siledurns. The word became popular when these whiskers were grow by a US General and sort of named after him, althought his name was Brunside.

I love when writer starts explaining some farcical figures of speech:

• Kick the bucket.


• Done in cold blood.


• To be in another person's shoes.


• Not worth your salt.


• Making both ends meet.


• Having green finger.


• A forlorn hope.


• As sure as eggs is eggs.


• As bald as a coot.

And there are many proverbs too:

• A teacher is better than two books.


• The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet.


• A bald head is soon shaved.


• Many a man's tongue has broken his nose.


• A man with a head of wax should not walk in the sun.


• It does not always rain when the pig squeals.


• When the mouse laughts at th cat there is a hole near by.

There are many others like:

• If the cockrels crows before he goes to bed, he's sure to rise with a watery head.


• You can hatch chikens fron fried eggs.


• Remember, two watermelons cannot be held under one arm.


• Cats in mittens catch no ice.


• He that lives on hope will die of hunger.


• Liars should have good memories.


• Dead men tell no tales.


• Dn't count your chicken before they hatch.


• God sents nuts to those that have no teeth.


• He who makes no mitakes makes nothing.


• There is no peace for the wicked.


• He who laughs last laughs longest.


• All good things come to an end.


• It is easier to pull down than to build.


• Actons speaks louder than words.

If you can, buy and read it, it is amazing.

OVER 1000 FANTASTIC FACTS

1204 facts are described in this 500-paged book. It works in a simplyly way. It describes many short facts about different contents: Earth and space, science, prehistoric life, the animal world and History. I'll write a fact about each contents:

1. 39- Stars are born in clouds of dust and gas in space called nebulae. Astronomers can see these clouds as shinning patches in the night sky, or dark patches against the distant star. These clouds shrink as gravity pulls the dust and gas together. At the centre, the as gets hotter and hotter until a new star is born.


2. 351- Bones have blood vessels for nourishment and nerves to feel the preassure and pain. Also, some bones are not solid. They contain a jellylike substance called arrow. This makes tiny parts for the blood, called red ad white blood cells.


3. 419- The first fish could not bite, they were suckers! About 600 million years ago, new animmals appeared in thesea, the first fish. They had no jaws ot teeth and probably sucked in worms and small pieces of food from the mud.


4. 765- Snakes are superb hunters because their senses are so well adapted to detecting prey even in the dark. Some snakes have an extra skill, they can feel the heat from another animal's body. Snakes, such as the western diamond rattlesnake, do this using special heat-detecting pits between their eyes and nostrils. Using this extra sense, the snake can find its prey in the dark and strike withdeadly accuracy.


5. 1038- Hoplites were equipped with a shield, helmet, spear ans sword. A Greek who lost his shield was a coward. The Shied carried by hoplites was over one metre across and made of wood and bronze. It was very heavy, and anyone trying to run away from an enemy would throw it away, so men who lost their shields in battle were often accused of cowardice.

A very nice book, with a very interesting information for anyone who likes learning culture facts. If you can, buy it.

MY FIRST QUESTION AND ANSWER BOOK

The book was bought in Machester and though it has got 500 pages it is quite cheap. It was an offer. A sale. I liked it becouse it talks about many different sorts of things: planets, weather, animals, inventions, dinosaurs, Egyptians, human body... Near all the books is done by asking us some questions like:

• What is the Ritcher Scale?


• Which space probe has travelled the furthest?


• How does a tornado start?


• Do whales grow tusks?


• Are all snowflakes the same?


• Why do tractors have such big tyres?


• What are nails made from?


• What was the biggest dinasaur that ever lived?


• Can insects walk on water?

Answers:

• The Ritcher Scale measures the strength of an earthquake.


• A probe called Voyager I, launched from Earth in 1977, is now 14 thousand million kilometres from the Earth.


• A tornado starts over very hotground. Here, warm air rises quickl and makes a spinning funnel.


• Yes, some whales like the narwhal has a tusk like a unicorn's.


• No they aren't, all snowflakes are differet.


• Tractors have huge tyres to stop them getting stuck in the mud.


• Fingernails and toenails are made from a hard material called keratin.


• The biggest dinosaur ever discovered is Argentinosaurus. It may have measured 40 metres from head to tail.


• Yes, they can. Some insects like pondskater has a slim, light bod with long, wide legs, which allow it to glide across the surface of the water.

There is many information about Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, pirates, explorers...

It is a nice book to have a basic information about cultural facts and a good way to check that we need to learn more vocabulary than we thought.

Surely an English child could be smiling, but for an English learner sometimes the dictionary is needed. For example: courtyard, seek, worship, barley, leek, beak, hatch...

ACCENTS:

DR NO - IAN FLEMING

THE BOOK I HAVE JUST READ: THE FILMS TRAILER:

I HAVE JUST READ THIS BOOK. I THINK IT IS INTERESTING. IT HAS GOT 16 CHAPTERS AND THERE ARE SOME CHAPTERS DIVIDED IN PARTS IF THE CHAPTER IS A BIT LONGER THAN OTHERS. SO YOU CAN READ IT EASILY. ITS LEVEL IS NUMBER 5: INTERMEDIATE. AND IF YOU WANT TO BUY ITS ISBN IS :1-4050-3009-7. IT CAN BE THE BEST CHOICE FOR THE THREE WISE MEN.
THE BOOK HAS GOT THREE AUDIO CDS AND EXTRA EXERCISES TO CHECK IF YOU HAVE UNDERSTOOD IT PROPERLY.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS BOOK WAS ONE OF THE FIRSTS ABOUT JAMES BOND AND I DIDN'T LIKE JAMES BOND'S FILMS ALTHOUGHT I SAW HOW THEY FILM "THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGHT" IN BILBAO.
I LIKED SPECIAL MACHINES, SPECIAL GATCHES THAT AN INVENTOR MADE FOR JAMES BOND, DEADLY WEAPONS, TIME BOMBS, CIGARETTE LIGHTER WITH A LASER RAY, EXPLOSIVE CHEWING GUM... MAYBE, THE PROBLEM IS THAT I HAVE WATCHED MANY A-TEAM AND MC-GYVER EPISODES BUT THAT IS ANOTHER SUBJECT.
I'M WATCHING THE FILM BEFORE RETURNING TO JOB, SO I HAVE ALREADY 10 DAYS TO WATCH IT BUT FIRST I WANT TO LISTEN TO THE THREE AUDIO CDS. I THINK IT IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING.
THE AUTHOR, IAN FLEMING, BORN IN MAYFAIR, IN LONDON IN 1908. HE WORKED FOR THE SECRET SERVICE DURING THE WAR AND THAT IS WHY JAMES BOND ADVENTURES ARE SO REAL. HIS COUSIN CHRISTOPHER LEE (SARUMAN - LORD OF THE RING) WORKED IN THE FILM AS DR NO.
BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW THAT IAN FLEMING WROTE CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG" TOO, A VERY CURIOUS CHILD NOVEL?
IM GOING TO WRITE A SHORT TEXT ABOUT MODAL VERBS THAT APPEARED IN THE BOOK IN THE BRANCH: "SOME MODAL VERBS".

MY NATIVITY SCENE:

After working for two days, here you have the video of my Nativity Scene. It has got some new vocabulary and two carols of Sinatra. If you click on the four square arrows, the screen gets bigger and you can watch it properly. Enjoy it.

A REAL CHRISTMAS TALE:

WE ARE IN 1914. THE FIRST WORLD WAR HAS BEGUN. ALL OF THE WORLD'S GREAT POWERS ARE INVOLVED.
ON THE ONE HAND, WE HAVE THE ALLIES OR TRIPLE ENTENTE: ENGLAND, FRANCE AND RUSSIA. ON THE OTHER HAND, WE HAVE GERMANY, AUSTRA-HUNGARY AND ITALY.
THEY ARE FIGHTING SINCE JULY. IN FACT, ALL STARTED WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF THE ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND OF AUSTRIA WHO WAS GOING TO BE THE NEW KING OF THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN EMPIRE; AND JUST A MONTH LATER THE WAR HAS STARTED WITH THE INVASION OF SERBIA.
DAY IN DAY OUT, DECEMBER HAS ARRIVED. GERMAN AND ENGLISH SOLDIERS ARE FIGHTING KILING EACH OTHERS IN THE COLD BATTLEFIELD. THEY DON'T REMEMBER WHY ARE THEY FIGHTING. SOME SHOOTING WAS HEARD AND A DEAD BODY FELT DOWN TO THE GROUND. NOBODY IS GOING TO BURY IT, JUST SNOW.
SUDDENLY SOME GERMAN SOLDIERS STARTED SINGING CAROLS, WE ARE IN CHRISTMAS EVE. HOME WAS FAR AWAY AND SOME SOLDIERS STARTED LEAVING TRENCHS. THEY HAD A SIGN:

JUST BY ONE DAY WAR IS OVER, TRUCE IS DONE.
SOLDIERS PLAYED FOOTBALL AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES.
THEY TOOK SOME PICTURES. YES, THERE ARE IN BLACK AND WHITE BUT REMEMBER WE ARE IN 1914.

I DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW BUT SANTA MANAGED TO ARRIVE TO THE TRENCHS.

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PHOTO!, TWO ENEMIES, TAKING A PHOTO.

THEY CELEBRATED CHRISTMAS EVE SINGING, TALKING, SHOWING THEIR RELATIVES PHOTOS, WRITTING BACK TO HOME AND EATTING A SPECIAL DINNER.

AND THEY COULD DO ANOTHER IMPORTATNT THING, THEY BURIED DEAD BODIES AND THEY COULD CURE INJURIED SOLDIERS.

UNFORTUNATELLY, THEY HAD TO CONTINUE WITH THE WAR, A WAR THAT WOULD ENDED IN NOVEMBER 1918, WITH 5.525.000 ALLIES SOLDIERS DEAD AND 4.386.000 GERMAN SOLDIERS DEAD.

THEN, IF CHRISTMAS IS SO POWERFULL THAT COULD STOP A WAR, LETS SING CAROLS INSTEAD SHOOTING.

DEMOLITION CALL, (THANKS ALBERTO)

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READING INSPIRES ADULTS TOO.

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AMES ROOM - DR.VILAYANUR RAMACHANDRAN

WE HAD TO READ A READING ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF LAUGHTER. INSTEAD OF THIS, I HAVE FOUND A VIDEO OF THE SAME DOCTOR EXPLAINING AMES ROOM ILLUSION. I THINK IT IS THE SAME OPTICAL ILLUSION THAT WAS USED IN THE FILM "LORD OF THE RING".

Ramachandran - Ames room illusion explained

LEMURS AND PLUTO ( WHAT A MIX! )

SCIENTISTS HAVE RECENTLY IDENTIFIED A NEW SPECIES OF ANIMAL IN THE RAINFOREST OF BORNEO. THEY HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THIS CREATURE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, AFTER REPORTS FROM LOCALVILLAGERS, AND SAY IT IS A TYPE OF LEMUR.
LEMURS STARTED DANCING WHEN SCIENTISTS ARRIVED.

SCIENTIST (AGAIN) USING THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE THINK THEY HAVE FOUND TWO NEW MOONS CIRCLING THE PLANET PLUTO. (I HAVE TO ADD THAT NOWADAYS PLUTO IS NOT A PLANET.
ASTRONOMERS HAVE BEEN LOOKING CLOSELY AT PLUTO SINCE 1978 WHEN THEY SPOTTED ITS FIRST MOON. tHE TELESCOPE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, AND HAS PRODUCED MORE THAN 700,000 IMAGES OF THE UNIVERSE.
BUT WHY PLUTO ISN'T A PLANET ANY MORE?
THIS VIDEO WILL ANSWER THE QUESTION:

MALLORY AND IRVINE. NEXT STATION: EVEREST

ON JUNE 8, 1924, GEORGE MALLORY AND ANDREW IRVINE BEGAN THE FINAL STAGE OF THEIR ATTEMPT TO BE THE FIRST TO CONQUER EVEREST. WHAT HAPPENED THIS DAY ONLY THEY KNOW.

AUSTRALIA (4) KANGAROOS AND KOALA BEARS

SPECIAL ANIMALS LIVING IN AUSTRALIA:
KANGAROOS:

KOALA BEARS:

AUSTRALIA (3) ULURU - AYERS ROCKS

A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE NEAR ULURU, CAMELS INCLUDED.

AUSTRALIA (2) AS A CONTINENT

AUSTRALIA (1) REEFS, SEA SNAKES, SHARKS...

BE CAREFULL, YOU ARE DOING EXPERIMENTS WITH SHARKS...

One Lucky Sea Snake
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GAME: ROUND THE BRITISH ISLES WITH A WASHING MACHINE:

WHEN YOU ARRIVE TO A CITY YOU HAVE TO ANSWER A QUESTION:

• CAMBRIDGE:

-Which word is wrong in this quote? When I think of Britain I think of the royal family, cricket, warm milk, cheese and cucumber sandwiches and wet weather. (ANSWER: MILK)

• ABERDEEN:

-What 8 letter word means that someone has muscles? (ANSWER: MUSCULAR)

• BELFAST:

-What is the missing word in this question: He doesn't look as .... he's very happy. (ANSWER: IF)

• EDINBURGH:

-Is a Scot the person, the language or the drink? (ANSWER: PERSON)

• GLASGOW:

-Where did Tony Hawks start his journey around Ireland with a fridge? (ANSWER: DUBLIN)

• LIVERPOOL:

-What is the most probable missing word in this question: Why ... she believe that? (ANSWER: DOES)

• YORK:

-Finish this proverb: You can't .... a book by its cover. (ANSWER: JUDGE)

• LONDON:

-Is "prefer" a stative or dynamic verb? (ANSWER: STATIVE)

• LAND'S END:

-What 9 letter word means "Moving your body nervously"? (ANSWER: FIDGETING)

• JOHN O'GROATS:

Finish this idiom: She's bitten off more than she can ... (ANSWER: CHEW)

• DUBLIN:

-What was the name of the TV show in Lesson 1A? (ANSWER: FAKING IT!)

• CARDIFF:

-Name all three main British political parties. (ANSWER: LABOUR, CONSERVATIVES, LIBERAL DEMOCRATS)

ALVARO NEIL: THE BICICLOWN

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, SO I DECIDED TO INVESTIGATE IT. AND IT IS AMAZING. A MAN CALLED ALVARO NEIL, A LAWYER, GIVES UP JOB TO CYCLE AROUND THE WORLD. FIRST HE WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA, AND THEN HE WENT ROUND AFRICA.
HERE YOU HAVE ALVARO HIMSELF SPEAKING ABOUT HIS JOURNEY AROUND AFRICA. AMAZING.

ROUND IRELAND WITH A FRIDGE

THIS IS A MOVIE TRAILER BUT TONY HAWKS DID IT. HE ACCEPTED A BET, HE HAD TO HITCHHIKE AROUND IRELAND WITH A FRIDGE. AND BY THE WAY, TONY'S REAL FRIDGE WAS BIGGER THAN THE FRIDGE YOU CAN SEE IN THE FILM.

BRITISH SEASIDE (2) BLACKPOOL-LIVERPOOL - MANCHESTER

I WANT TO VISIT BLACKPOOL:

I REALLY WANT TO VISIT LIVERPOOL.I LIKE THE BEATLES TOO.

BUT I'M SORRY I REALLY LOVE MANCHESTER AND IF IT IS POSSIBLE, I WILL BE A MANCUNIAN AGAIN.

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LIVERPOOL AND BLACKPOOL ARE QUITE NEAR TO MANCHESTER, SO WE CAN VISIT THEM ALL.

BRITISH SEASIDE (1)

WHAT CAN WE DO IN THE SEASIDE?

• WE CAN COLLECT SHELLS.
• WE CAN BUILD SANDCASTLES.
• WE CAN RIDE A DONKEY.
• WE CAN WALK ALONG THE BEACH.
• WE CAN HAVE A PICNIC.
• WE CAN EAT SOME FISH AND CHIPS.
  

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

THE VIKINGS IN AMERICA:

TRAVEL WORDS

HALLOWEEN (2)

JACK O'LANTERN HISTORY:

HALLOWEEN (1)

DRESS UP AS A ...: DISFRAZARSE DE ...
COSTUME: DISFRAZ
TRICK OR TREAT: TRUCO O GOLOSINA
SPIDERWEB: TELA DE ARAÑAS
CELTS: CELTAS
TOMB: TUMBA
TURNIP: RÁBANO
GRIND: AFILAR
GROUND: AFILADO
PUMPKIN: CALABAZA
GHOUL: DEMONIO
POUNCE ON: ABALANZARSE
THE GRIM REAPER: LA MUERTE

PHRASAL VERBS

TRAVEL