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Thursday 25 August 2011

Unit: tourism

http://youtu.be/UW48lUGy60g

New link to practice english

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You can enter this site to practice english doing activities like games and grammar exercises.

Thursday 4 August 2011

Chilean News

Dear students

You can find chilean news in english on www.santiagotimes,cl

It's a really interesting way to learn more.

Friday 17 June 2011

PAY ATTENTION!!!

Don't forget to register for the "Winter Camps 2011" on www.ingles.mineduc.cl
Deadline: June 20th until 6 in the afternoon

Good Luck!!!

Thursday 2 June 2011

Order of adjectives

Adjective order

Order of adjectives

When we use more than one adjective to describe something (e.g. A big, red car) there are rules about which order the adjectives come in.

Colour, origin, material, purpose

Just before the noun come adjectives that tell you the purpose of the noun.

· A dining table.

· A tennis racket.

In these sentences ‘dining’ and ‘tennis’ are adjectives that tell us the purpose of the noun.

Before ‘purpose’ come adjectives that tell us what something is made of – the ‘material

· A wooden dining table.

· A plastic lunch box.

Wooden’ and ‘plastic’ tell us the material that the noun is made from. Other ‘material’ adjectives include ‘steel’, ‘metal’, ‘woollen’, ‘stone, ‘leather’ etc.

Before ‘material’ come adjectives that talk about ‘origin’ – where something comes from.

· A Swedish wooden dining table.

· Egyptian cotton bed sheets.

Before ‘origin’ comes colour.

· A black Swedish wooden dining table.

· A bright blue dressing gown.

· Some red leather shoes.

So, the order of adjectives is:

COLOUR then ORIGIN then MATERIAL then PURPOSE

It’s important to remember that it’s unusual to have all of these adjectives in one sentence.

Other adjectives

Other adjectives can describe the size or age of something and also our opinion of it.

Adjectives describing ‘size’, ‘length’ or ‘age’ come before ‘colour’, ‘origin’, ‘material’ and ‘purpose’.

· He drives a big Japanese car.

· She’s got long black hair.

· They live in an old stone farmhouse in France.

An adjective that gives our opinion of something usually comes before all other adjectives.

· She’s got beautiful long black hair.

· He’s wearing an expensive Italian silk suit.

Finally, numbers usually come before adjectives.

· We bought four beautiful Swedish dining chairs.

· They’ve got two lovely children.

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Unit "Tourism" 3ºD Vocabulary

Attractions: things for tourists to see and do

e.g The zoo is our city's most popular attraction for kids.

Baggage: bags and suitcases packed with personal belongings

e.g If you need help with your baggage we have a cart you can use.

Bed and Breakfast: a home that offers a place to stay and a place to eat

e.g I can book you into a beautiful Bed and Breakfast on the lake.

Bellboy: a staff member who helps guests with their luggage

e.g The bellboy will take your bags to your room for you.

Book: arrange to stay in a hotel

e.g I can book our family in for the weekend of the seventh.

Booked: full, no vacancies

e.g I'm afraid the hotel is booked tonight.

Brochures: small booklets that provide information on the local sites and attractions.

e.g Feel free to take some brochures to your room to look at.

Check-in: go to the front desk to receive keys

You can check-in anytime after four o'clock.

Check-out: return the keys and pay for the bill.

e.g Please return your parking pass when you check-out.

Front desk, reception: the place where guests go to check in and out and to get information.

e.g Towels are available at the front desk.

Guest: a person that is staying at the hotel.

e.g Our washrooms are for guests only.

Hostel: a very inexpensive place for backpackers and travellers on a budget

e.g In the hostel you probably won't get your own room.

Hotel manager: person in charge at the hotel.

e.g I'll let you make your complaint to the hotel manager.

Reservation: a request to save a specific room for a future date

e.g They say they made a reservation but it doesn't show on the computer.

Friday 29 April 2011

More debates ideas

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LIkes and Dislikes examples

1. Expressing Likes

I love chocolate. I love playing football. I love .

I like animals. I like dancing. I like .

*I fancy you. I fancy reading. I fancy .

I enjoy foreign films. I enjoy running. I enjoy .

I'm crazy about Beck. I'm crazy about skiing. I'm crazy about .

I'm mad about Brad Pitt. I'm mad about singing. I'm mad about .

*I'm keen on John. I'm keen on swimming. I'm keen on .

*I'm fond of her. I'm fond of cycling. I'm fond of .

is my favorite movie / actor / singer / book, etc.

looks / sounds / smells / tastes / feels good.

2. Expressing Dislikes

I hate spiders. I hate writing essays. I hate .

I don't like spinach. I don't like being cold. I don't like .

*I don't fancy her. I don't fancy playing cards. I don't fancy .

I can’t stand smoke. I can't stand being late. I can't stand .

I can't bear lazy people. I can't bear eating onions. I can't bear .

I can't put up with Mike. I can't put up with lying. I can't put up with .

I’m fed up with Jill. I'm fed up with wasting money. I'm fed up with .

I’m sick of homework. I'm sick of going to the movies. I'm sick of .

I’m tired of vegetables. I'm tired of being sick. I'm tired of .

really bugs me.

makes me mad / angry.

drives me crazy.

annoys me.

3. Expressing Indifference

Do you mind if I open the window? I don't mind.

Does it bother you if I smoke? It doesn't bother me.

Do you want to go here or there? It doesn't matter to me.

Which movie should we watch? It makes no difference to me.

Which book do you like more? It's all the same to me.

What do you want for dinner? I don't care.

Do you want this one or that one? I couldn't care less.

* British English

links for debates

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Adjectives order

Adjective Order

A new red Swiss army knife

A new red Swiss army knife

When we use more than one adjective in a phrase, they usually follow this order:

age

color

origin

material

purpose

a

new

red

Swiss

plastic

army

knife

We can have other types of adjectives which we put before the age. These are general adjectives about the size, the shape and our opinion of the noun. Often we can change the order of these adjectives but we usually put the most important first.

Here we are concerned with taste:

opinion

size

a

tasty

big

sandwich

But if we think the most important thing about the sandwich is its size, we can say:

size

opinion

a

big

tasty

sandwich

When you write, it is best not to use too many adjectives. Certainly, never more than two or, at most, three in a phrase:

the sharp, Swiss army knife

a big, thick sandwich

Grammar explanations

www.dailywritingtips.com/data-and-information/


Thursday 28 April 2011

"Love"


LOVE IS ENOUGH

is enough: though the world be a-waning,
And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining,
Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover
The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming there under,
Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder,
And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over

Love assed over,
Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter:
The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter
These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.




William Morris (1834-96)



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News


You can watch and listen to chilean news in english. It's a useful tool for improving our language.


http://www.ilovechile.cl/2011/04/24/i-love-chile-tv-weekly-news-april-24th-2011/20792