Idioms are fun: BODY PARTS

Dall'ultima STUDENT'S ACTIVITY vi propongo oggi alcuni IDIOMS ABOUT BODY PARTS

Perchè dovresti scegliere il nostro corso intensivo estivo 2013 per adulti?

Molti dei miei studenti e delle mie studentesse sono persone adulte che non hanno mai studiato inglese a scuola o che l'hanno studiato "male". Quando nuove persone vengono per il test d'ingresso (PLACEMENT TEST) mi dicono: "Il mio inglese è scolastico". Cosa significa? Il mio inglese è mediocre. Perchè l'inglese imparato a scuola non viene ritenuto di buon livello? Molto spesso perchè è visto come una materia scolastica. La lingua, inglese come tutte le altre, invece, è cultura e vita quotidiana e il 90% delle volte non può essere racchiusa in un testo scritto. 

E a questo punto ti chiederai: "Cosa c'è di diverso in questo corso"? 

L'INTENSIVE SUMMER COURSE ti permette di PARLARE, LEGGERE, ASCOLTARE E SCRIVERE in inglese. Come? 

- Con una metodologia basata sulla vita reale, chiamata REALIA, adattata ovviamente al tuo livello e alle tue necessità. 

ask and giving directions

- Il numero di partecipanti, min 3 max 5, ti permette di imparare in maniera piacevole e confrontarti. Troverai persone che come te hanno delle difficoltà e insieme imparerete a superarle con l'aiuto dell'insegnante.

at the restaurant

graded reading book club

 - Daremo vita a ROLE PLAY (any speaking activity when you either put yourself into somebody else's shoes, or when you stay in your own shoes but put yourself into a real life situation!), BOOK CLUB, CONVERSATION EXCHANGE e BOARD GAMES (giochi di società).

Ma perchè parlarne ancora? Usa il form a destra per prenotare il tuo test d'ingresso e dai un'occhiata qui per maggiori informazioni sui giorni delle lezioni di prova gratuite, le tariffe e gli orari.

phrasal verbs at a glance

SING ENGLISH: JUST GIVE ME A REASON... to review tenses

Per la serie SING ENGLISH oggi propongo una dei singoli in vetta nella UK CHART: JUST GIVE ME A REASON di Pink.

Questa canzone ci dà un'ottima opportunità per ripetere molti tempi verbali inglesi!

Level: Intermediate +

"Just Give Me A Reason"
(Pink feat. Nate Ruess)

Listen to the song following this link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpQFFLBMEPI

Complete the lyrics with the right tense of the verb in brackets. (Pay attention to continuous and passive forms)

Right from the start
You _________(to be) a thief
You __________(to steal) my heart
And I your willing victim
I ________(let) you see the parts of me
That __________(not to be) all that pretty
And with every touch you _______(to fix) them

Now you_______________(to talk) in your sleep, oh, oh
Things you never ___________(to say) to me, oh, oh
Tell me that you____________(to have) enough
Of our love, our love

Just give me a reason
Just a little bit's enough
Just a second we___________(not to break)  just bent
And we can learn to love again
It's in the stars
It ___________(to write) in the scars on our hearts
We're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

I'm sorry I don't understand
Where all of this _____________(to come) from
I ___________(to think) that we __________(to be) fine
(Oh, we had everything)
Your head ______________(to run) wild again
My dear we still have everythin'
And it's all in your mind
(Yeah, but this is happenin')

You____________(to have) real bad dreams, oh, oh
You __________(to lie) so close to me, oh, oh
There's nothing more than empty sheets
Between our love, our love
Oh, our love, our love

Just give me a reason
Just a little bit's enough
Just a second we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again
I never___________(to stop)
You're still written in the scars on my heart
You're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

Oh, tear ducts and rust
I_________(to fix) it for us
We __________(to collect) dust
But our love's enough
You ___________(to hold) it in
You ____________(to pour) a drink
No nothing is as bad as it seems
We__________(to come) clean

Just give me a reason
Just a little bit's enough
Just a second we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again
It's in the stars
It's been written in the scars on our hearts
That we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

Just give me a reason
Just a little bit's enough
Just a second we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again
It's in the stars
It's been written in the scars on our hearts
That we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

Oh, we can learn to love again
Oh, we can learn to love again
Oh, oh, that we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again

1.      For each sentence write the name of the tense used, then explain its use in the context.

Sentence	Tense	Use
Just give me a reason.
You stole my heart.
You’ve been talking in your sleep.
You’ve had enough of our love.
We’re not broken.
I don’t understand.
Your head is running wild.
You used to lie so close to me.
I’ll fix it for us.
We’ll come clean.
It’s been written in the scars on our hearts.

SOME TIPS FOR CAMBRIDGE EXAMINATIONS FOR SCHOOLS (2)

SING ENGLISH: CANDY BY ROBBIE WILLIAMS

CANDY Robbie Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtOV7bp-gys 

1 Cross out the wrong option.

I was there to witness
Candice’s inner princess/princes
She wants the boys to notise/notice
Her rainbows, and her ponies/ponys
She was educated
But could not count to ten
How she got lots of different horses
By lots of different men/man
And I say

Liberate your sons and daughters
The bush is high
But in the hole there’s water/weather
You can get some, when they give it
Nothing sacred, but it's a living

Hey ho here she goes
Either a little too high or a little too low/law
Got no self-esteem and vertigo
Cause she thinks she’s made of candy
Hey ho here she goes
Either a little too loud or a little too close
There's a hurricane in the back of her throat
And she thinks she’s made of candy

Ring a ring of roses
Whoever gets the closest/closer
She comes and she goes
As the war of the roses/ross
Mother was a victim
Father beat the system
By moving bricks to Brixton
And learning how to fix them
Liberate your sons and daughters
The bush is high
But in the hole there’s water
As you win
She’ll be the Hollywood love
And if it don’t feel good
What are you doing this for
Now tell me

Hey ho here she goes
Either a little too high or a little too low/law
Got no self-esteem and vertigo
Cause she thinks she’s made of candy
Hey ho here she goes
Either a little too loud or a little too close
There's a hurricane in the back of her throat
And she thinks she’s made of candy

Liberate your sons and daughters
The bush is high
But in the hole there’s water
As you win
She’ll be the Hollywood love
And if you don’t feel good
What are you doing this for
What are you doing this for
What are you doing this for

Hey ho here she goes
Either a little too high or a little too low/law
Got no self-esteem and vertigo
Cause she thinks she’s made of candy
Hey ho here she goes
Either a little too loud or a little too close
There's a hurricane in the back of her throat
And she thinks she’s made of candy

Comprehension

1)      What is the song about?

2)       Can you describe the girl in the video by using only three adjectives?

Grammar

1)      Underline all the verbs whose subject is Candice. 

Pronunciation THE SOUND -S

Voiceless sounds take /s/ Imagine the sound a snake  might make...ssssssssss	Voiced sounds take /z/ Imagine the sound a bee  might make...zzzzzzzz	These sounds take /iz/ Similar to the word 'is'
These sounds are voiceless: /f/ /h/ /k/ /p/ /t/	These sounds are voiced: /b/ /d/ /g/ /j/ /l/ /m/ /n/ /ng/ /r/ /v/ /w/ + all vowel sounds	/s/ /ks/ /z/ /dg/
EXAMPLES: laughs talks	EXAMPLES: lives sings	EXAMPLES: watches dresses

Culture

Ring a ring o'roses, a pocketful of posies, atishoo, atishoo, we all fall down.

It is often suggested that the rhyme relates to the symptoms of plague, specifically the Black Death - the bubonic plague that spread through Europe in the 1340s, or to the Great Plague of London, 1665/6. The plausible-sounding theory has it that the 'ring' was the ring of sores around the mouths of plague victims, who subsequently sneezed and fell down dead.

Some tips for Cambridge Examinations for Schools

Stai per sostenere l'esame PET for Schools ma pensi che la parte dello Speaking sia un po' difficile? Da un'occhiata qui!