KEY TO UNITS 9 & 10 & I WISH EXERCISES

If you want to check the answers to the exercises you did in the class yesterday, click here.
I'm sorry about the answer in the Reading Comprehension. I'm afraid I wasn't exactly bright in our last class! Check the answer again, please.
Key unit 9&10 + I wish

KEY TO PASSIVE VOICE EXERCISES

I attach a link to the key of the last page of the passive voice exercises I gave you last week. They were very simple, so I don't think you'll have any problem.

Passive voice key

A FEW REMINDERS BEFORE THE EXAMS

I'd like to remind you of a few things before the exams begin.

- Our last class will be on Monday 30th June. Apart from correcting the exercises you've got, we'll do some more practice for the exam.

- The written exam will take place on Thursday 2nd June (Reading comprehension + cloze + vocab, Listening comprehension and Grammar + Writing).

- The oral exams will be:
Monday 13th June for the second group (19.00 - 21.00)
Wednesday 15th June for the fist group (17.00 - 19.00)

Everybody has to be there at 16.00
Any change to this timetable will have to be agreed with me.

- Remember that mobile phones are not permitted in the classroom, especially while the exams are taking place.

DISCURSIVE ESSAY

As I promised in my class, here you have the topic for your next assignment.

For the students who are in my second class (19.00 - 21.00), you simply have to look at the first topic which is in the last photocopy I gave you yesterday (Discursive essay 1: a balanced argument).

For the students who are in my first class (17.00 - 19.00), I just write the topic but I'll give you the same photocopy on Wednesday. I recommend you anyway to have the copy before writing the essay, as there are some useful ideas.

Low-cost airlines have revolutionized travel - but at what price?

Remember that you'll have to send it to me by email before Friday at midnight.

KEY TO READING COMPREHENSIONS

You can correct the last two Reading Comprehensions now. Here you have the keys:

Reading A:
6

a) Lack of sleep

b) amphibians

c) occurs every 90–100 minutes

d) we have dreams

e) their genetic make-up

Reading B:

8

a) F

b) T

c) T

d) F

e) F

TEACHER MAN. Part 3

I attach the questions for the last chapters of the book. I hope you have enjoyed it.
We'll correct the answers on Monday, but we won't spend the whole class with it as we have to do a lot more.

Click here, please: Teacher Man part 3

SCOTTISH DANCING ACTIVITY

Dear Students,

Tomorrow Thursday 19th you can enjoy the evening dancing in English!
David Vivanco, a famous Scottish teacher, is in Las Rozas. He'll teach us to learn Scottish dances and have a really good time dancing and practising English.

There are 2 sessions: 16.30 and 18.30. Both will be held in I.E.S. Burgo de Las Rozas (entrada Parque de París).
The price is just 2€ and they'll provide you with a bottle of water.
If you are interested, you can see me or any other teacher today or before the performance.

Here you have a link to have a look at the activity:
Ceilidh dance

KEY TO QUESTION 9 - VIDEO 5

Here you have the answer to question 9 in the sheet of the video we watched last time in the class.
Check your sentences.

REPHRASE MIKE’S SENTENCES USING THE WORDS GIVEN IN BRACKETS.

a)      Barristers are required to do another year’s training to become a barrister.

b)      I represent people (who) the police have accused of having done a crime. (or)  I represent people who are accused by the police of having done a crime.

c)      Occasionally it is necessary for me to go to prison to see a client there.

d)      Briefs are received wrapped in a ribbon.

e)      In my youth I had a strong sense of right and wrong.

Barack Obama pays 9/11 respects at Ground Zero

US president remembers victims of Osama bin Laden at the site of 2001 World Trade Centre terrorist attacks.

Barack Obama spoke no words as he laid a red, white and blue wreath at the centre of Ground Zero. But then he didn't need to: the location and the identity of the individuals gathered round him spoke for him.

The location was in the shade cast by the Survivor Tree, an oak that was recently planted at the World Trade Centre for a second time. The first time was in the 1970s, but the tree was later engulfed in rubble on 11 September 2001.
Remarkably, it was found alive though badly damaged, then nursed back to health and finally replanted at its old home last December. It now stands 9 metres (30ft) tall.

Close to the oak stood Payton Wall. She was four years old when her father, Glen Wall, died in the Twin Towers. Now 14, she wrote a letter to the president describing how she coped with that loss. By happenstance, Obama read the letter on Monday, the morning after he had orchestrated the killing of the architect of 9/11, Osama bin Laden.

A tree. A child. On the back of one man's killing, the almost 3,000 lives that he took were remembered in their company.
It happened under the same cloudless New York sky that had famously been a feature of 9/11 itself. On that day, almost 10 years ago, the beauty of the crystal clear blue sky seemed to mock the terrible events that were to unfold beneath it.
But on this occasion, with the knowledge that 9/11's architect had been confined to a watery grave, the beauty of the day seemed more in tune with events. Before laying the wreath, Obama walked through the memorial plaza that is now taking shape at the heart of Ground Zero. He saw the two giant footprints of the Twin Towers that form the physical and aesthetic heart of the site, which will become reflective pools and the largest manmade waterfalls in America. In the past week the first of the 2,976 names of those who died in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania have appeared, etched in bronze plates that have just been set out along the pools' edges.

If you want to read more, click here:
Obama pays respects at Ground Zero