As easy as a piece of cake

Now it's the moment to study for the exams and you have to use the new vocabulary, the new expressions, idioms, similes andvthe new structures you have learnt during the year.
I know it isn't easy but you have to show how much you have improved and putting the newly acquired into practice is the best way to "impress" your teacher.

Here you have an easy exercise to review the similes and animal idioms we have seen.

Name a person you would associate these similes or animal idioms or related to money with:
- is as deaf as a post (no comments)
- is as good as gold
- as stubborn as a mule
- is as blind as a bat
- is as quick as a flash
- is as white as a sheet
- eats like a horse
- drinks as a fish
- sleeps as a dog
- does all the donkey work
- takes the bull by the horns
- took the lion's share
- makes a real pig of himself
- is now in the doghouse
- is a bit of a dark horse
- whose bark is worse than their bite
- spends money like water
- has more money than sense
- is in the red
- lives beyond their possibilities
- can't make ends meet
- is really tight-fisted

Possibilites if you don't want to think much:

Nicole Kidman, Angela Merkel, Louis Braille, the King od Spain, Puttin, Marta Domínguez, Heather Mills, Mr Scrooch, Carpanta, Teresa of Calcutta, Heliogabalo, etc.

Or something that:
- works like a dream
- costs a fortune
- is good value for money

Or an occasion when you or someone:
- felt like a fish out ot water
- killed two birds with the same stone (no shoots allowed, Carlos)
- walked off with his tail between his legs
- could smell a rat
- felt it was the last straw



 

A touchy subject

Thanks to my colleague Irene, I post here a very interesting article about how foreigners see us, Spaniards, and our "touchy culture" from the magazine InMadrid.

Read the article and leave your opinion in comments.

A touchy subject



 

Thieves dig into stadium to steal Bieber concert cash

Thieves have made off with tens of thousands of dollars in cash from a Justin Bieber concert in Johannesburg, South African police said.

Burglars dug into a safe room in the city's Soccer City stadium - the venue of the 2010 football World Cup Final - just hours after the Canadian pop star wowed a sell-out crowd.

"The suspect had gained entry through the roof," said police spokeswoman Katlego Mogale.

"They broke the tile... of the bathroom between last night (Sunday) after the concert, and this morning."

The unknown number of thieves escaped with over 1 million rand ($110,000), Ms Mogale said.

A concert employee had put the money in a safe at the stadium before locking up for the evening, she added.

The 19-year-old singer had performed on the second leg of his troubled Believe world tour.

So far the tour has seen his pet capuchin monkey quarantined, a stun gun and drugs were found on his tour bus in Sweden, and Bieber came under fire for a note he wrote at the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

ABC News

You see what kind of things are going on in South Africa nowadays!

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10 May: Solar eclipse

An annular solar eclipse will cross Cape York on the morning of 10 May 2013. The eclipse will start at sunrise in Western Australia; move over Northern Territory in the region of Tennant Creek and cross Cape York befor...e heading out towards Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Ocean. It will intersect the path of the total solar eclipse of 14 November 2012 in the area of the west coast of Cape York and will cross the east coast to the north of Cooktown. The indigenous communities of Kowanyama and Pormpuraaw will have the highly unusual privilege of experiencing two solar eclipses within six months.

Read More :

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2013May10Agoogle.html

Albert Einstein said ...



 

 

And I wonder if this moment has already arrived.



 

Place and movement

This document contains the key to the 'place and movement exercises' as well as the explanations for the use of all the possibilities given.

Place and movement