HOLYDAYS HOMEWORK SUGGESTION

Hello dear students,

As part of our “ear training” or listening exercises, I propose you the following audiobook for the holydays:  Told After Super, by Jerome K Jerome.

I have chosen it because it's only over one hour long, it's read in British English, at a slow pace and is fully subtitled, so you will have no problem with vocabulary doubts. 

 

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue.  WIKI

About Told After Super,  LibriVox remarks:

“It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when...

But no, I won't spoil the fun. This is a little gem: Jerome at his tongue-in-cheek best. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Humorous Fiction

Language: English”

It has been a pleasure working with you this couple of months, and I look forward to continue in 2015.  Have a very happy season and wonderful holydays.

Astrid Arroyave.

OPEN LINK BELOW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMiH2J5WK74

LISTENING EXERCISE

LISTENING EXERCISE

Hello class,

As we spoke in class today, I am posting this short story for you to listen to, as many times as you need, until you fully comprehend it.

It is The Emperor’s New Clothes, by Hands Christian Anderson; only 12:24 minutes long, a good frame of time to work, to begin with.

I hope you enjoy it very much.

Astrid.

Unit 4 Jobs. Reading and use of English. Speaking.

UNIT 4     JOBS.

READING AND USE OF ENGLISH.

You've got a beautiful new degree, a dazzling career ahead of you and the world is your oyster.  Terrifyung, isn't it?

JOB HUNTING.

Digital footprint.

Job boards.

Unpaid Internship

Feeling low just after graduation?

SPEAKING.

EXERCISE EXPLANATION  

2 & 3,  page 42

EXERCISE EXPLANATION

3, 4 & 5, page 47

Next step in brain evolution. P34.

NEXT STEP IN BRAIN EVOLUTION

First phone call from New York to Chicago.

First cell or mobile phone in the world.

First computer in the world.

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Recommendations:

1.        Read all the questions.

2.       Number each and every paragraph.

3.       Read the whole text once.

4.       Determine where in the text are explained the answers.

5.       Explain the answer.

Robert Palmer Simply Irresistible Lyrics

permissible

adjective  pəˈmɪsəbl

typical

adjective  ˈtɪpɪkl 

powerful

adjective  ˈpaʊəfl

beautiful, successful, repectful

apple

 noun   ˈæpl

sample, people, multiple...

jungle

 noun    ˈdʒʌŋɡl

google, jingle, eagle.

Robert Palmer Simply Irresistible Lyrics

How can it be permissible
She compromise my principle, yeah yeah
That kind of love is mythical
She's anything but typical

She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
She used to look good to me, but now I find her
Simply irresistible, Simply irresistible

Her loving is so powerful, huh
It's simply unavoidable
The trend is irreversible
The woman is invincible

She's a natural law, and she leaves me in awe
She deserves the applause, I surrender because
She used to look good to me, but now I find her
Simply irresistible, Simply irresistible

Simply irresistible (She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible (She's all mine, there's no other way to go)

She's unavoidable, I'm backed against the wall 
She gives me feelings like I never felt before 
I'm breaking promises, she's breaking every law 
She used to look good to me, but now I find her 
Simply irresistible . She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went
Simply irresistible She's all mine, there's no other way to go

Her methods are inscrutable
The proof is irrefutable, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
She's so completely kissable, huh
Our lives are indivisible

She's a craze you'd endorse, she's a powerful force
You're obliged to conform when there's no other course
She used to look good to me, but now I find her
Simply irresistible (She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible (She's all mine, there's no other way to go)
Simply irresistible (She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went)
Simply irresistible (She's all mine, there's no other way to go)