Learn the use of if-clauses (Type 2).
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Have fun!
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четверг, 12 февраля 2015 г.
суббота, 6 декабря 2014 г.
Modal verbs
Visit the website http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/modals-exercises.html
. Practice exercises on modal verbs. You will find the exercises useful while
preparing for your test on modal verbs.
воскресенье, 9 ноября 2014 г.
вторник, 27 мая 2014 г.
English isn’t as easy as you think
Get ready to
read the sentences. Comment upon the passages in blue.
You think English is easy?
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture..
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture..
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..
19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
вторник, 11 марта 2014 г.
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Watch two amature videos screened by the story A Perfect Day for Bananafish. Which of the videos do you like more? Which of them covers the idea of the story better? Give reasons for your answer.
Video №1
Video №1
Video №2
четверг, 24 октября 2013 г.
Shakespeare Webquest
This Shakespearean webquest by Luke Vyner includes activities on
Shakespeare’s life, Romeo and Juliet, ’boy players’ and famous quotes
from Shakespeare plays that we still use today.
Activity 1: William Shakespeare:
An introduction to his life
Shakespeare was born in ________ ________ ________ in Warwickshire. His father was a ________merchant and ________ maker. It is believed he schooled locally at ________ _________ ________ Grammar School.
At 18 he celebrated his marriage to ________ ________. They married in ________ and in total had ________ children together. Firstly ________ and then ________ Hamnet and Judith. Sadly Hamnet died at the age of ________.
As well as being a playwright Shakespeare was also an ________ and was one of the managing partners in Lord Chamberlain’s Theatre Company, later renamed the King’s Company. Shakespeare wrote his first poems ________ ________ ________ and The Rape of Lucrece between ________and ________.
As a playwright Shakespeare was ________ and from 1594 to 1611 he wrote about ________ plays per ________. Most of his early plays were ________ and ________. Due to his increased success, in ________ Shakespeare was able to move upmarket to Silver Street. It was here he wrote King Lear, Macbeth, Othello and his classic play ________.
The final years of his life were spent in ________ ________ in Stratford. He died aged ________ on 23rd April 1616. He famously left his ________ ________ bed to his wife Anne Hathaway. The reason for this is unknown.
Activity 2: The plot of Romeo
and Juliet
Read the statements about Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet.
Some are true and others are false. Predict whether you think
they are true or false, then visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet to check your answers and correct the false statements.
Introduction
1. The plot of Romeo and Juliet is based on a French tale.
2. Shakespeare created the supporting characters Mercutio and Paris.
3. The play is believed to have been written between 1581 and 1585.
Synopsis
4. The play is set in Venice, Italy.
5. It begins with a street fight between the Montagues and Capulets.
6. Romeo first sees Juliet at a ball in the Montague house.
7. With the help of Benvolio, they are secretly married the next day.
8. Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, in revenge for killing Romeo’s close friend and ally, Mercutio.
9. For the execution, Romeo is exiled from Verona.
10. Before he leaves, he secretly spends the night with Juliet.
11. Juliet’s mother offers her a drug that will put her into a coma for ’two and forty hours’ on the night before her planned wedding to Paris.
12. When she is found, she is believed to be dead.
13. Romeo buys a gun to kill himself when he hears the news.
14. At the crypt where Juliet’s body has been laid, Romeo is met by Paris.
15. He kills him before drinking the poison.
16. When Juliet awakens from her deep sleep, she realizes Romeo is dead and panicking she runs away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet to check your answers and correct the false statements.
Introduction
1. The plot of Romeo and Juliet is based on a French tale.
2. Shakespeare created the supporting characters Mercutio and Paris.
3. The play is believed to have been written between 1581 and 1585.
Synopsis
4. The play is set in Venice, Italy.
5. It begins with a street fight between the Montagues and Capulets.
6. Romeo first sees Juliet at a ball in the Montague house.
7. With the help of Benvolio, they are secretly married the next day.
8. Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, in revenge for killing Romeo’s close friend and ally, Mercutio.
9. For the execution, Romeo is exiled from Verona.
10. Before he leaves, he secretly spends the night with Juliet.
11. Juliet’s mother offers her a drug that will put her into a coma for ’two and forty hours’ on the night before her planned wedding to Paris.
12. When she is found, she is believed to be dead.
13. Romeo buys a gun to kill himself when he hears the news.
14. At the crypt where Juliet’s body has been laid, Romeo is met by Paris.
15. He kills him before drinking the poison.
16. When Juliet awakens from her deep sleep, she realizes Romeo is dead and panicking she runs away.
Activity 3: Boy players
Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_player and find out about boy players by reading the 'Boys in adult companies' section. Then, answer the questions below.
1. Between what years were female actors prohibited from performing in the theatre?
2. Was there an official law against female actors?
3. Why were adolescent boys used to play female roles?
4. Did boys also play the complex lead female roles?
5. What roles did actor John Honyman play?
1. Between what years were female actors prohibited from performing in the theatre?
2. Was there an official law against female actors?
3. Why were adolescent boys used to play female roles?
4. Did boys also play the complex lead female roles?
5. What roles did actor John Honyman play?
Activity 4: Shakespearean
language still used today
a. You are going to find out the meaning of the phrases
created by Shakespeare.
Find the following phrases from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-coined-by-shakespeare-in-midsummer-nights-dream.html
1. fancy free
2. many a true word spoken in jest
3. the course of true love never did run smooth
Find the following phrases from Hamlet
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-coined-by-shakespeare-in-hamlet.html
4. In my mind’s eye
5. Make your hair stand on end
6. Woe is me
Find the following phrases from Macbeth
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-coined-by-shakespeare-in-macbeth.html
7. A charmed life
8. A sorry sight
9. Be all and end all
b. Now choose your favourite sounding expression from the main list:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html
Once you’ve chosen your favourite expression, perform and teach it to the whole class.
Find the following phrases from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-coined-by-shakespeare-in-midsummer-nights-dream.html
1. fancy free
2. many a true word spoken in jest
3. the course of true love never did run smooth
Find the following phrases from Hamlet
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-coined-by-shakespeare-in-hamlet.html
4. In my mind’s eye
5. Make your hair stand on end
6. Woe is me
Find the following phrases from Macbeth
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-coined-by-shakespeare-in-macbeth.html
7. A charmed life
8. A sorry sight
9. Be all and end all
b. Now choose your favourite sounding expression from the main list:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html
Once you’ve chosen your favourite expression, perform and teach it to the whole class.
воскресенье, 20 октября 2013 г.
Indian ethnic music
What impression does this music produce on you? What kind of music do you enjoy listening to? Leave your commentary.
воскресенье, 13 октября 2013 г.
I do not know, nor do I care
Comment on the statement. Give examples of life situations in which people can say this or think this way.
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