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2012 AMERICAN ELECTIONS IN CELEBRITIES TWEETS
2012 AMERICAN ELECTIONS IN CELEBRITIES TWEETS.
http://www.y100.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104650&article=10555060
http://www.y100.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104650&article=10555060
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Tuesday, 28 August 2012
Newsreport: Neil Amstrong's death
Neil Amstrong. First Man on the Moon, dies at 82
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/science/space/neil-armstrong-dies-first-man-on-moon.html?pagewanted=1_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120826
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/science/space/neil-armstrong-dies-first-man-on-moon.html?pagewanted=1_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20120826
Friday, 27 July 2012
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Friday, 13 July 2012
Passive Voice
Hershey's How we make chocolate.
Describing a process: Use of passive voice.
Watch the video: “Hershey’s How we Make Chocolate” and fill in the steps in the process with a suitable past participle.
Steps to make chocolate
1. Cocoa beans are __________________in South America and Africa and tropical regions in the Equator.
2. Cocoa beans are __________________ by hand, ____________ and _______________ in silos in the chocolate factory.
3. Cocoa beans are________________, _________________(dry pods and other unwanted matters are______________ and ________________by the country of origin and type of flavour. Then they are ________________in the right proportion.
4. Cocoa beans are __________________ to change their colour and enhance their flavour.
5. At the breaking chamber beans are _________________ into fragments and they are ___________________ into the shell and the nib, the centre of the cocoa bean, which is the part of the bean used to make chocolate. That is, grains are_________________.
6. Nibs are __________________to release their liquid: the chocolate liquor. The chocolate liquor is __________________ to extract cocoa butter leaving cocoa solids. Some additional chocolate butter and liquor are _________________ back in precise amounts. The cakes left are_________________, _________________and _________________ to get cocoa powder.
7. Wholesome milk and sugar are carefully _________________ in large tanks and ________________ahead to the central blending operation to get the crumb. The crumb is _________________to remove excess moisture and additional cocoa butter is________________.
8. The chocolate is ground and stirred constantly. It is punched so that it is refined.
9. Almonds are __________________ and ___________________in California.
10. Almonds are __________________ in the moulds, the chocolate paste is _________________ and air bubbles are _________________ in a bumpy ride. The chocolate bars are ___________________and________________.
11. Each product is individually ___________________in an automated wrapping machine.
Describing a process: Use of passive voice.
Watch the video: “Hershey’s How we Make Chocolate” and fill in the steps in the process with a suitable past participle.
Steps to make chocolate
1. Cocoa beans are __________________in South America and Africa and tropical regions in the Equator.
2. Cocoa beans are __________________ by hand, ____________ and _______________ in silos in the chocolate factory.
3. Cocoa beans are________________, _________________(dry pods and other unwanted matters are______________ and ________________by the country of origin and type of flavour. Then they are ________________in the right proportion.
4. Cocoa beans are __________________ to change their colour and enhance their flavour.
5. At the breaking chamber beans are _________________ into fragments and they are ___________________ into the shell and the nib, the centre of the cocoa bean, which is the part of the bean used to make chocolate. That is, grains are_________________.
6. Nibs are __________________to release their liquid: the chocolate liquor. The chocolate liquor is __________________ to extract cocoa butter leaving cocoa solids. Some additional chocolate butter and liquor are _________________ back in precise amounts. The cakes left are_________________, _________________and _________________ to get cocoa powder.
7. Wholesome milk and sugar are carefully _________________ in large tanks and ________________ahead to the central blending operation to get the crumb. The crumb is _________________to remove excess moisture and additional cocoa butter is________________.
8. The chocolate is ground and stirred constantly. It is punched so that it is refined.
9. Almonds are __________________ and ___________________in California.
10. Almonds are __________________ in the moulds, the chocolate paste is _________________ and air bubbles are _________________ in a bumpy ride. The chocolate bars are ___________________and________________.
11. Each product is individually ___________________in an automated wrapping machine.
Thursday, 12 July 2012
Adele - Rolling In The Deep
"Rolling
In The Deep" by Adele
_
____________ a fire ____________ in my heart
____________ a fever pitch, and ___________ _____________
me out the dark
Finally
I ___________ ____________ you crystal clear
___________ ahead and ____________me out and ___________ __________your
ship bare
___________ how ___________ ____________ with every piece of you
___________ _____________
the things that I _____________
_____________
____________ a fire ____________ in my heart
____________ a fever pitch
And
____________ ______________me out the dark
The
scars of your love _____________ me of
us
They
_____________ me ____________ that we almost _____________ it all
The
scars of your love, they ____________ me
breathless
I _____________ _____________ ____________
We
____________ ____________ ____________
it all
_____________ in the deep
(Tears
___________ _____________ ___________
, ___________in the deep)
You
____________ my heart inside of your
hand
(_____________ ____________
____________ you never ____________ ___________ me)
And
you ___________ it to the beat
(Tears____________ ___________ __________
, _____________ in the deep)
Baby,
I ___________ no story ___________
___________ __________
But
__________ ___________ one of you
And
__________ ___________ __________ your head __________
___________
of me in the depths of your despair
___________
a home down there
As
mine sure _____________
____________ ____________
We
___________ ____________ ___________ it all
____________ in the deep
You
___________ my heart inside of your hand
But
you ___________ it with a beating
___________
your soul through every open door
___________
your blessings __________ __________ what
you __________ __________
___________ my sorrow into treasured gold
You
__________me ___________ in kind and ___________ just what you ___________
(___________
__________ ___________ you never __________ __________ me)
We
_________ __________ __________
it all
(Tears___________ _________
_________ , ___________ in the deep)
We
___________ __________ __________
it all
(__________ _________
_________ you never __________ __________ me)
It
all, it all, it all
(Tears__________ __________
_________, ___________ in the deep)
But
you __________ it
You
____________ it
You
_
You
___________it to the beat.
Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address
.
1)
Read the
first story of the Commencement
Speech at Stanford given by Steve Jobs and put the verbs in brackets in the
correct tense. Put the adverbs of frequency in the right order if necessary.
Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from
one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated
from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
Today I __________ (want) (1) to tell you three stories from my life.
That's it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting
the dots.
I ___________(drop) (2)out of Reed College after the first six months
but then __________ (stay)(3) around as a drop-in for another eighteen months
or so before I really quit. So why _________I _________(drop)(4) out? It ________(start)(5) before I was born. My biological mother __________
(be)(6) a young, unwed graduate student, and she _________(decide)(7) to put me
up for adoption. She ________(feel)(8) very strongly that I should be adopted
by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth
by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the
last minute that they really ________ (want)(9) a girl. So my parents, who _________
(be)(10) on a waiting list, ________
(get) (11)a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an
unexpected baby boy. _________ you ________(want) (12)him?" They said,
"Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother never
__________ (graduate)(13) from college and that my father never ___________
(graduate)(14) from high school. She _________ (refuse)(15) to sign the final
adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised
that I ___________ (go)(16) to college.
This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to
college, but I naïvely _________ (choose)(17) a college that was almost as
expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being
spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it.
I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was
going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my
parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it
would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it
was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could
stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in
on the ones that looked far more interesting.
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the
floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to
buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night
to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of
what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be
priceless later on. Let me give you one example.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy
instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on
every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and
didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class
to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about
varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what
makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle
in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life.
But ten years later when we ___________ (design)(18) the first Macintosh
computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was
the first computer with beautiful typography. If I never ___________ (drop)(19) in on that single
course in college, the Mac never ____________ (have)(20) multiple typefaces or
proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely
that no personal computer would have them.
2) Listen to the
second story (5.22)and answer the
following questions.
1.
What happened when he had just turned
thirty?
2.
Why was Steve Jobs fired from Apple?
.
3.
Why did he return to the company? What had
he done in the meantime?
3) Listen to the
first part of the third story and fill in the blanks with the right word.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like:
"If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most
certainly be right." It made an __________ (1) on me, and since then, for
the past 33 years, I have looked in the ___________ (2)every morning and asked
myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I
am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for
too many days in a row, I know I need to __________(3) something.
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Monday, 25 June 2012
Reports
REPORTS
A
report is a piece of writing usually addressed to a superior (a boss, a
principal, etc.) or peer group (club members, or colleagues, etc.) in which you
describe a situation or event, give factual information and make suggestions
and recommendations.
Use a
title:
REPORT ON……
Useful
language:
Introduction
|
The main
purpose of this report is…
The
principal aim of this report is…
This
report is intended to…
This
report describes/ discusses/provides…
|
Reporting
an observation
|
It
seems/appears that…
It was
found/ felt that…
The
majority of/ The minority of…
|
Quoting
|
According
to…
|
Recommendation
|
It is
recommended that…
My
recommendations are as follows…
It is/
would be advisable for X to do something.
X should
consider + ing
|
Conclusion
|
To sum
up/ To summarize
In short/
In conclusion
On
balance
|
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Monday, 9 April 2012
Sustainability
Listen to a short video about the situation of disadvantaged children in Mexico and take down notes of key words.
Reconstruct and summarize the report.
Reconstruct and summarize the report.
Conditionals
Hypothetical situations (3rd type
conditionals)
What would have happened if…
1)
Perón
hadn’t been overthrown in a coup d’état?
2)
Frondizi
hadn’t been overthrown in a coup d’état?
3)
Cuba
hadn’t been expelled from the American States Organization?
4)
Ernesto
“Che” Guevara had come to an agreement with the American representative Richard
Goodwin in the Continental Summit in Punta del Este in February, 1962?
5)
De
la Rua hadn’t been expelled from office and resigned?
6)
Kirchner
hadn’t died?
Humanistic activities
HUMANISTIC ACTIVITIES
I LIKE YOU -YOU’RE
DIFFERENT
Write down on this card three
things you feel good about that make you different from everyone else in the
class. That is, they are not true of anyone else here.
POSITIVE POP-UP
- Let positive qualities pop
into your mind.
- Write them down.
- Arrange them in order of
importance with the qualities that are most satisfying or valuable ranking
the highest.
Sunday, 18 March 2012
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