Tuesday 8 May 2012

Slow city movement


Click here to read about the slow city movement.

Monday 7 May 2012

The "zero" article

The omission of the article "the"

List of Topics Second Term

Unit 3C: In the context of success and failure: Have you ever tried successfully or unsuccessfully to learn something.
Unit 4A: Schooldays
Unit 4B: Your dream house/ the place where you live.
Unit 4C: Friends
Unit 5B: Work-life balance
Unit 5C: My ideal job/ advantages and disadvantages of different jobs/personality and types of jobs.
Unit 6A: Shopping
Some tips :
In your student's book you have questionnaires in each lesson. Don't forget to revise those parts of speaking.
 In the workbook, you have a listening exercise. In most of these listening exercises you can listen to somebody talking about the subjects in the lesson.
Listening to them can help you improve your speaking, grammar and pronunciation.

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (published in May 1992) is a book by John Gray offering manysuggestions for improving men-women relationships in couples by understanding the communication style and emotional needs of the opposite gender. It spawned a series of follow-on books expanding on specific situations The book, as suggested by the title, asserts the notion that men and women are as different as beings from other planets. Gray adopts this metaphor as the central theme of all his books and seminars, likening men and women to the classical Roman god Mars and goddessVenus as ideal types.In contrast to some psychologists and feminists who emphasize similarities between the sexes, Gray writes almost exclusively about differences. Gray says that his "Martians" and "Venusians" are only stereotypes and cannot be applied blindly to individuals.An example of the theories it offers is that women complain about problems because they want their problems to be acknowledged, while men complain about problems because they are asking for solutions. Other concepts in the book are the difference between women and men's point systems and how they react under stress.

Adjective + preposition

Click here to find some of the most common adjectives with prepositions.
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

English prepositions and verbs

This list will help you remember English verbs and prepositions. Practise using them as much as possible to feel more confident.
Exercise 1