GRAMMAR!!

I would like you to do the following exercises as a kind of warming up for the next class.

Your teacher

http://www.xtec.es/~ogodoy/sac/wordbuilding/exercises.htm

Different levels will be available for you to practice

TIME TO PLAY

FIRST ACTIVITY

TIME TO PLAY!! Take 15 minutes and try to play this adventure at the British Museum site!! A funny game in which you will have to rescue an important archeological treasure at risk! 

Follow these easy steps to start playing: 

First of all: Click on Time Explorer: travel back in time for the ultimate adventure and read below the following instructions:

1.- Go to information desk where you will have to chose a character, and where you will be told how to use control in order to move

2.- Once you have read it and selected your character, go to "Ancient Rome" and Start playing!! 

It´s funny and very easy, just move and click the space bar to get information that will lead you to the goblet. You must rescue it from the amphitheatre before a volcanic eruption destroys it!!! 

My aim is to make you learn new words: goblet? , drained? .......? Can you add any other new word? 

My score: 12:43 minutes!! Can you beat me?

 

 SECOND ACTIVITY

Saturday!.A good day to drop by the cinema and watch J. Edgar, a film about the private life of the first FBI director. He was supposed to be a closeted homosexual and apart from that, accused of exceeding the jurisdicition of the FBI, power that he used to harass dissenters and political activists.

Activivities to do: 

1.- Please, find in the trailer the exact minute where Leonardo Di Caprio says: ".....bend the rules". 

2.- "bend the  rules" is a very common expression: Can you translate it?

3.- I´ve used the word "closeted" to explain this activity: what does it mean?

http://jedgarmovie.warnerbros.com/index.html 

Have a nice day!

I hope you have enjoyed the class

Try to read this article and find out as many phrasal verbs as you can.....Click here!

Yosemite climbing

1) For adventurers who are keen on extreme sports: free solo climbing, a new way of climbing without rope or harnesses...Simply, amazing!!

As an additional exercise, try to complete the following sentence: "one wrong move; __________"

2) Just to make you think, an article about how to prevent the cognitive deterioration. It´s easy to read.! 

Be brave, face it and try to have a look!!

The question that may come up after reading it: are we actually doing enough to avoid it?

You must click on the photo to read the article.