1º Avanzado EOI Alcalá de Guadaíra

Hello,

Even though I am not teaching your level this year, from now on I will continue updating the blog, as it was agreed in our faculty meeting last Friday.

I will upload exercises every week, focusing especially on the reading comprehension skills - as they are the easiest of all four to be implemented online - , not neglecting the other three though.

We will start with a cloze text using an article from the BBC. The article is about a recent finding in the science field.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/lcp/4eoialcala/myfiles/reindeer.htm

After you have finished the exercise you can read the article in its original location here

Best,

Raúl

P.S: for those of you wondering what 'started back ... used to do' means or where the heck I took it from, here is the song where you will find the answer: Maybellene, originally by Chuck Berry. 

Lyrics | Chuck Berry Lyrics | Maybellene Lyrics

(tip: there is always a song for every single grammatical issue you would want to study or practise).

Hi there,

Here go the solutions for the exercises on pages 82-83, 88, and 155

Grammar (page 82)

a. 1. used to driving, 2. to have, 3. Sarah to talk, 4. Killing her husband, 5. apologized for being, 6. as a waiter.

b. 1. meeting, 2. cleaning, 3. to get, 4. to be

Vocabulary

a. conductor, violinist, drummer, editor, composer, journalist, soloist, reporter, presenter, commentator.

b. weather forecast, review, biased, catchy, tune, censored, pillow, snore, nap, imsomnia

Reading comprehension (page 83)

1b, 2a, 3b, 4b, 5c, 6a, 7b, 8c

Reading comprehension (page 88)

1T, 2T, 3F, 4T, 5F, 6F, 7F, 8T, 9T, 10F

Vocabulary (page 155)

1. Places of Worship: cathedral, chapel, mosque, synagogue, temple

Other buildings: town hall, concert hall, footbal stadium,  law courts, skyscraper

Landmarks and sights: bridge, harbour, hill, square, statue

Getting around: underground, cable car, cycle lane, pedestrian street, taxi rank

2. 1e, 2a, 3b, 4f, 5d, 6c

3. traffic jams, slums, vandalism, overcrowding, pollution, homeless people, beggars, poverty

4. 1c, 2f, 3g, 4a, 5d, 6b, 7e

And last but not least, here's some information about the Amish community. The name 'Amish' did not originate from 'American', as I wrongly ventured last Thursday (I'm sorry), but from the founder of the community, the Swiss Mennonite leader Jakob Ammann.

Some music to make your exercise correction more enjoyable:

Lyrics:

As promised, here's the key for the exercises on pages 79 and 154.

Reading 4C, pages 78-79 :

1.c   2.a   3.c   4.c   5.a   6.b   7.b   8.c   9.a   10.a

Vocabulary The Media

1 Paparazzi, 2 critic, 3 commentator, 4 reporter, 5 editor, 6 presenter, 7 freelance journalist, 8 newsreader, 9 press photographer

1 review, 2 crossword, 3 cartoon, 4 advertisement, 5 small ads, 6 horoscope, 7 weather forecast, 8 front page.

1D, 2E, 3B, 4A, 5C

And here's a beautiful tune for you to listen to while correcting the exercise:

Lyrics:

C ya 2morrow!

Hi there again!

Here go two interesting tunes: the first is 'Dark as a dungeon' by the great country singer Merle Travis

Listening challenge: finding the lyrics for this song on the Internet is quite easy, no problem here, but, would you be able to transcribe Merle's introductory words to the song? Listen carefully and write the transcript as an attached comment to this post! - you might want to use headphones for this - Remember you can listen to it as many times as you want!

The second interesting tune is 'Blue Moon of Kentucky' by Bill Monroe and his Bluegrass Boys

Cya 2morrow!

As I promised this morning I'd do, here're the three songs you have to choose from to sing at our karaoke party on the 18th...

YMCA, by Village People

Lyrics:

Village People Lyrics
Ymca Lyrics

Mercy, by someone called Duffy (Duck?)

Here're the lyrics

Duffy Lyrics
Mercy Lyrics

This is the third .... er, song (?)

Beyoncè's 'Crazy in love'

and here're the lyrics

Soundtrack Lyrics
Crazy In Love-Beyonce FeatJay-Z Lyrics

Jose asked me about one song I mentioned sometime during our last class on Tuesday. The song was about three young men in a car crash.
Well, the song's title is 'Miller, Jack and Mad Dog', which you can find in king of the hillbilly swing Wayne 'The Train' Hancock's album 'A-Town Blues'.

Here're the lyrics

Hancock Wayne Lyrics
Miller, Jack & Mad Dog Lyrics

Now, here's a presentation I've made this morning for you to review the position of adverbials in the sentence. We'll be dealing with this topic tomorrow in class. Hope you find it useful!

Fairfield Four sing 'Po Lazarus'. This is the starting song of the movie 'O'Brother (were art thou)'

Lyrics:

Well, the high sheriff
He told his deputy
go out and bring me Lazarus
Well, the high sheriff
He Told his deputy
He said go out and bring me Lazarus
Well, Bring him dead or alive,
Lawd, Lawd
Bring him dead or alive

Well the deputy he told the high sheriff
I ain't gonna mess with Lazarus
Well the deputy he told the high sheriff
Says I ain't gonna mess with Lazarus
Well he's a dangerous man
Lawd, Lawd
He's a dangerous man
Well then the high sheriff, he found Lazarus
He was hidin' in the chill of a mountain
Well the high sheriff, found Lazarus
He was hidin' in the chill of the mountain
With his head hung down
Lawd, Lawd
With his head hung down
Well then the high sheriff, he told Lazarus
He says Lazarus I come to arrest you
Well the high sheriff, told Lazarus
Says Lazarus I come to arrest you
And bring ya dead or alive
Lawd, Lawd
Bring you dead or alive
Well then Lazarus, he told the high sheriff
Says I never been arrested
Well Lazarus, told the high sheriff
Says I never been arrested
By no one man
Lawd, Lawd
By no one man
And then the high sheriff, he shot Lazarus
Well, he shot him mighty big number
Well the high sheriff, shot Lazarus
Well he shot him with a mighty big number
With a forty five
Lawd, Lawd
With a forty five
Well then they take old Lazarus
Yes they laid him on the commissary gallery
Well they taken poor Lazarus
And the laid him on the commissary gallery
He said my wounded side
Lawd, Lawd
My wounded side

The Osborne Brothers play 'Rocky Top', Tennessee's Anthem.

Lyrics: