POPPIES AND MORE.....

England footballers will now be allowed to wear poppies when playing Spain at the weekend, says world football's governing body, FIFA

What's a poppy? What does it mean?

Take a look at this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15637074

London 2012: Torch relay heading for 1,000 places

London Games organisers have set out the 1,018 places the torch will pass through when it is carried around the UK from 19 May to 27 July 2012.

On the last day of the 70-day relay it will travel down the River Thames to Olympic Park for the opening ceremony.

Read more here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15572381

Scary monsters

Do you know where monsters come from? Take a look into the origin of the scary monsters that come to life every Halloween.

http://www.life.com/gallery/66261/where-monsters-come-from#index/0

New words in English

New technology, the Internet and social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, are changing our language. Here you’ve got some of the words added to the dictionary.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14588727

Module 2B. answers

Here you've got the answers to the exercises you've been doing in class. Self-correction time!


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R1cVvFIPZVo2OJDwdTRqcgfpe1XQPxPg_J0hlsNWXW0/edit?hl=en_US

Problems with English: HOW TO PRONOUNCE certain WORDS?

PRONUNCIATION!!!!

This is what the Wikipedia says about the word:
Pronunciation refers to the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone says a word. A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as: the area in which they grew up, the area in which they now live, their ethnic group, their social class, or their education.

English Pronunciation is specially hard because there is a huge variety in regional differences withing the UK and even more variation of speech in other English-speaking countries.

Then, what can we do? There are a few tools that might be of some help:

http://www.howjsay.com/

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

This is the link for the activity about pronunciation in your books! (1ºMCM module 2A longman expert)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wLqNg8MH4z2aySxTHX-9cITWsEKM-Wz-xnLyAeR-a8Q/edit?hl=en_US

Finally, a video. English is not just difficult for us......!!!

Steve Jobs, a visionary

On October 5, 2011 Jobs died in California. On his death he was widely described as a visionary, pioneer and genius. Apart from that, he was also seen as a great inventor of "slogans": "THINK DIFFERENT" he said. In 2005 he addressed himself to a wide audience of university students at Standford University in the USA. He ended his lecture with these words:  STAY HUNGRY, STAY FOOLISH"

Here are the links to the video and the transcript:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtbJM9ksxo8   (English subtitles – part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLl59Q2GuC0  (English subtitles – part 2)

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html  (the text)