"However, in life there´s only forward and backward. It´s one or the other. After you´ve regained your breath, licked your wounds, and re-evaluated the situation...hanging in there just means you are not going forward."
... I would certainly get to Australia, among many other countries I have on my list.
Check The Lonely planet website to watch a video and relax a bit from your studies (click on the photo).
COMING SOON: Extra revision exercises correction. REMEMBER: If you want the digital board programme to practice the grammar for the exam, send me an email to cristina.gaudem@gmail.com
Best of luck to everyone! I'm sure you will do great!!
Sometimes the best way to learn a language is getting straight into it. Travelling is one of the things we all love the most...have a look to the lonely planet website and check for your perfect trip...If you had the money and time, Where would you go?? Take a few minutes to read and enjoy. Click on the logo:
Here you have a screen capture of the summary we did in class today. Remember to do the exercises on the workbook and to update your notebooks because I´m checking (FUTURE VALUE) them next Monday (only day).
"IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"
And click in here...Who do you think you are going to find reading???
We´ve seen 2nd conditional today listening to different songs. I will upload the audio here so you can listen to it again if you want. For the time being, your can read here the strip's sentences:
****I´ve uploaded the audio. Click here and get both the multitrack and the base rythm!
If I should stay, I would only be in your way. (Withney Houston)
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And if you tolerate this, Then your children will be next (Manic Street Peachers)
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If Iwere a rich man,Yubby dibby dibby dibby dum.
All day long I'd biddy biddy bum.
If I were a wealthy man. I wouldn't have to work hard. (Barry sisters)
But if you make an ugly woman your wife, you'll be happy for the rest of your life
(The Skatalites)
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If you really bug me then I'll say goodbye (…)
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends (Spice Girls)
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If I´d have known then I wouldn´t have said it
I wouldn´t have said it if I would have known
Why leave her on her own (Artic Monkeys)...3rd conditional!!
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If you want blood, you got it (ACDC)
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If you had one chance or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted, would you capture it or just let it slip? (Eminem)
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All my hardcore heads, middle fingers up (what?)
If we can't build, then you will be destroyed (Akrobatik)
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If you knew your history,
then you would know where you coming from (Bob Marley)
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If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died (Nickelback)
--- If I could Stand up and take the blame I would
If I could take all the shame to the grave I would
If I could change I would (…), it´s easier to run. (Linkin Park)
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Madvillany was the group of the song that sounded everytime between two.
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Let´s get now with the third and last conditional...It´s the imposible one, that´s why we´ll look at it on a funny way:
We are half way from the end of the second term and....There´s a lot of stuff to be done!! Look, this is a summary of what is coming up next:
MoVIE MAKER PROJECT
(presentations starting next Friday)
Questions to be answered during the presentation of the movie:
What's the song about?
Why did you choose it?
Explain the relation between you and the meaning of the lyrics.
Is it important for you or you just simply like it?
Which is your favourite sentence/sentences and why?
Tell us something about the artist/group.
Did you enjoy making the project and why?
Which have been the main difficulties you've found during the process?
Do you think you have improved your English? Why?
SChOOL PROJECT (starting to prepare it next Monday)
We are all looking for info about COOPERATIVISM in Spain. Each group has one section, that you have chose, to focus on. HOMEWORK: Bring info to work on Monday.
Whenever we are finish with the school project, we will get back to our Monday Quizzes.
WHO IS THE POET AND POEM? (started today in class, follow the clues until you find the answer)
You can watch the video again on the post before or use the sentences we´ve got in class.
Here you have an extra help for those who follow the blog!! The full text that appears in the ad:
"If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
