Speaking Practise

Pronunciaton 3:  /ɔ:/    /ɜ:/    /ə/
  
A)
1.- /ɔ:/  Audience          Stalls             Arena 
2.- /ɜ:/  Interval             Circle           Curtain
3.- /ə/   Score               Spectator     Performance

B) Words with the same spelling but different pronunciations

A few words in English are spelled exactly the same but pronounced differently, and have different meanings, e.g. bow /baʊ/ = to put your head down, e.g. at the end of a concert or play when people are clapping, but bow /bəʊ/ = a weapon that you use to shoot an arrow.

1.- We went to a live concert last weekend
2.- We live next to the concert hall.
3.- We sat in the front row
4.- After the concert we had a row 




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Pronunciation 2 (linking)

1. He keeps arguing with the referee.  c
2. He's still asleep.                                f

3. I can't finish this steak.                     a

4. This chicken's past its sell-by date.   b

5. The rubbish is beginning to smell.    d

6. It's probably in Wikipedia.                e

a. Take_it_out

b. Throw_it_away

c. Send him_off

d. Take_it_away

e. Look_it_up

f. Wake him_up


  
Pronunciation 1 (/ɑː/ and /ɔː/)

1. I thought I'd brought enough money with me.

2. My daughter's caught a bad cold.

3. I bought it althought it was very expensive.
4. We've been through some tough times.
5. I didn't laugh! It was a cought.

 

   

If my house was burning.

If my hose was burning the first thing I would do is to take the most important things for me.

For example, the first thing I would take is my phone, because this is the most important material thing for me and there I have all my music, photos, videos, contacts etc…

If I had more time I would try to take all my clothes because is a necessary thing for me and I think that for everyone, and if I wouldn’t take the clothes I would have to buy it all again. Also I would take my football boots because they cost some money and I need it to play football evidently.

And also if I could I would take my Ps4 because I use so much and I entertain a lot playing it.

Name: Pau Rodríguez

Ocupation: Student

Blog address: pausblog99.blogspot.com

Christmas 14/15

Hello world!

Today I'm going to sum up you in a video  what I do in my Christmas.

My personal opinion about this project:

I think that is a interesting project, but sometimes result a little bit oppresive, because you're all the holidays thinking if you have enough content, thinking if would like the video to the people that is going to see it...

But I still thinking that is a project in which you can learn and havin' fun. 

Xmas Card

This is the cool christmas card that Silvia makes to me. 

Thank you Silvia!

21 Jump Street

This is the OV film that I saw in summer.

This movie is directed by Phil Lord and Chris miller and the protagonist are Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.

That's a film about two guys (Jenko and Schmidt that they are recently graduated polices. They work like park polices.

But one day their boss sends them undercover to a school to find the person who sells drugs at school.

They change their personalities and names Jenko for Brad and Schmidt for Doug.

When the arrive to the school they commit a mistake and the change their timetable and the roles change.

Doug becomes popular and becomes friends with Erick, one of the drug dealers and his girlfriend Molly, while Brad becomes friends of the chemical nerds.

And finally they get catch the drug dealers.  

Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire

This is the book that I read in this summer. 

Is a book written by J.K Rowling

Harry Potter arrives at Hogwarts and finds that year a tournament between different schools of magic.

The Triwizard tournament consists of 3 tests of risky and whoever wins the tournament, will get eternal glory for their school and take the Triwizard Cup.

Goblet of Fire had to choose his 3 participants, Fleur Delacour of the Beaxboutons school; Victor Krum from Durmstrang and Cedric Diggory, Hogwarts school.

Mysteriously a participant (Harry Potter) was selected despite not having the required age. He starts doing the tests. 

On his third test he fall in that that's a trap.

When he touch the cup with Cedric, appear in a graveyard in that Harry had dreamed before, because the cup was a trasporter, and there... Cedric dies, and Harry has a fight with Voldemort, and finally, the sprites of the Harry parent's help
him.
  

Summer 2014

This summer was so funny to me.

I didn't do anything special but I had a good summer.

I past the most part of my summer with my friends and it was so fun.

In July I was in Aquarama with alvaro, pablo etc...
I was too a weekend in moraira with my mother, my brother, my uncles and my cousins.

I had a good summer but sometimes was borning because i didn't go to any special place but I say it was a good summer to me because i meet a lot of new people.

The best part of my summer I think it was the Plantío Party's.

In August the only different thing I do is to change my football team to San Antonio de Benageber C.F and strat training with my new team and new mates.

And this is what I do in my 2014 summer. 

Saying

    It takes two to tango

Meaning:

It’s an inglish expresion that say’s that you need one more person to do something.

For example; if two person not agree in something; something is not going to get ahead, so the two people will lose out.

Origin:

The phrase originated in a song Takes Two to Tango, which was written and composed in 1952 by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning.

France Exchange

The last February my class and me were in Normandy in a exchange.

It was a very very good experience, because we learn a lot of culture, the lenguague of the country and we meet with our correspondents and we made a lot of friends.

Now I am going to tell you what we do from Wednesday to the Tuesday.

We take a plane and we go to París and there we take a bus and we go to Trouville(Normandy). There we meet our correspondents.

Wednesday: We take a plane and we go to París and there we take a bus and we go to Trouville(Normandy). There we meet our correspondents. 

Thursday: We went to visit Trouville-Deauville with our correspondents and after we went to the school Lycée Marie-Joseph and we did class. At night some people went to McDonald's to take the dinner and after to the bowling.

Friday: We went all the day to the museum Memorial de Caen, is a war museum.
In the night some people and me and my correspondent went to Emma's house (Silvia's Correspondent)

Saturday: I was all the day in Deaville with my correspondent and with a lot of people of my class a we pass a very good day.

Sunday: We went to the skate park of Deauville  with some people of my class and their correspondents.

Monday: We visited Mont Saint-Michel. Is a very good place to visit because is different and curious.

Tuesday: We were doing class in the school and we ate there. After we went to visit Honfleur.

Last wednesday: At morning in the school we say good bye to our correspondents and we were so sad, but after we take a bus to Paris and we visited a lot of places among themselves we visit the Tower Eiffel.

After we take a bus and we went to the airport and we take a plain to Valencia.

There finish our travel.

New's-Black Widow

The French court sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison for the murder of her husband in 2008 to Manuela Gonzalez, a woman of Spanish origin known as the 'Black Widow' death also by two of its partners in strange circumstances.

Her husband, Daniel Cano, was found dead in the backseat of his car, which was destroyed by fire on October 31, 2008 with a field in the town of Villard-Bonnot, located near Grenoble.

A month earlier, he had survived a fire that broke out in his bedroom under strange circumstances. The toxicological analysis performed allowed the corpse found in the blood samples of three different sleeping pills.


Nicolas Cano, Daniel Cano's Son:

Christmas #4: New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is the last night of the year, in this case, we pass the 2013 to 2014, and normaly everybody makes a party, a dinner etc...

In this event is typical to eat 12 grapes, at 12pm, i don't know why, but is like is.

Later, when is the new year also is typical to take masks, confetti, little trumpets, etc...

Now i'm going to tell how I passed my New Year's Eve.

This New Year's Eve I was in my grandparents house, with my mother, my brother, my grandparents and more family members, but not all.

We did that we did all the years, the unic new thing was the new year, but being with the family it is always well.

Christmas Time #3 'Reyes Magos' night

Now i'll have to talk about the 'Reyes Magos' night.

This night is celebrate the 5 of Jenuary, but is only celebrated in Latin America and Central America, France, the Philippines and Spain, but i supose that in Latin America (for example) they celebrate different like us.

In my family first we meet in a house of some of us and we take there the dinner.

Later, my family take the typical 'Roscon de Reyes', i say 'my family' because i don't like.

I don't know why, but in my family is costumary to do the 'TAI' just this night, my younger cousins ​​and me not participe, but they always leave a gift to us.

And this is how we do.

At the next day I have more gifts.

Christmas Time #1 and #2 My birthday and Christmas Eve

Today i'm going to speak about my birthday.

My birthday is the 25 of December and we celebrate on Christmas Eve. Is better for me because I have gifts of 'Papa Noel' and gifts of my birthday, and so I have more.

In my family we usually celebrate Christmas Eve and my birthday like this:

First we meet at a house of some familiar and we dined there.

After we get cake and my famiy sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and after that the give me the gifts.

I love the day of my birthday and the Christmas Eve because i stay with all my family and I enjoy them.

AQUARAMA 2013

Hi all!

Today i am going to talk about when i was in Aquarama.

I was in Aquarama with Álvaro and Pablo and Pablo's brother, Diego.

We left in the morning.

I went in the car of Pablo, and Álvaro went in his car.

We arrive to Aquarama at 11 o' clock and we go inside the park.

When we were inside we go running to the pink slide, I felt a lot of adrenaline.

We were in the park until 7 o' clock, after we go home.

Summer 13, My English Book

This book is about a boy named Jake, he lives in London that in a weekend he goes to Manchester to see how is the Carnival.

He goes in a red London bus and when he arrives was surprised because old the streets were full of disguised people, music etc...

After awhile, he saw a pretty girl, the girl was the queen of the Carnival and Jake say to her -What's your name?!-. And the girl say -My name is Maria!-.

Jake think that love at first sight and he go to follow her.

The parade moved fast and Jake lost to Maria he take a camera of a tourist and take a photo of Maria.

The police follow to Jake and the taked to see de comissioner.

The police interrogate to Jake and see the photo that had make and the police man say to the police woman - Maria, look at this photo-.And she look at Jake and say -Are you Jake?-.

END