9.- FOR NEXT DAY, SPEAKING HINTS AND RECORDINGS

NEXT DAY, we will spend most of our time listening and speaking, apart from correcting exercises.

7.- NEW BOOKS BOUGHT FOR THE LIBRARY- LIST

LIBROS DE LECTURA DE LONGMAN PEARSON de LA BIBLIOTECA:

Penguin Active Reading EASYSTARTS
The hat
Newspaper Chase

Penguin Active Reading LEVEL 1
The Wrong man
Theseus and the Minotaur
The Rainbow Serpent
Kylie Minogue
Island for Sale
Amazon Rally
The Crown

Penguin Active Reading LEVEL 2
Don Quixote
Tim Burton’s The Nightmare before Christmas
Water for Life
Mr. Bean

Penguin Active Reading LEVEL 3
Titanic
The romans
Japanese Ghost stories
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Penguin Active Reading LEVEL 4
Three great plays of Shakespeare
The street lawyer
Secret codes
Oliver Twist
The Odyssey
Nicholas Nickelby
The dream and other stories
The body in the library

6.- A REASONABLE DOUBT: NEAR VS NEAR TO

It is claimed that you can say:

the office is near the station (preposition)
the office is near to the station (adjective)

Look it up in a dictionary , ask your friends, meditate, and tell us:

.- Is this actually true?
.- Is the meaning in both cases the same?
.- If the meaning is not the same in both cases, when should we use each of them?
.- Give us three more examples in which you use NEAR or NEAR TO

The first one who answers all these questions correctly will get a free beer in Irish Pub Bermeo. This offer will finish next Friday (Jan 31st)

5.- PUT YOUR HAND ON YOUR HEAD, IT'S PRONUNCIATION TIME

We learnt the pronunciation of /s/ /z/ sounds together with /sh/ sounds (sorry I did not find the correct icon in the computer).

Now if you want , you can put your hands on your head and find the words from this list which do not contain the sound /z/

spots- streets-rice-oasis-place-plays-arise-squares-rise-desert-face-phase-prize-sells-sense-smokes-snacks-nose-since-sits-science-songs-seas-smiles-six-exact-lose-crisps-voice-focus-sports-escapes-lost-box-boxes-concert-zoo-breeze-bays

Copied from:
English Pronunciation in Use by Mark Hancock
Cambridge University Press
Page 16/17

Hint:
spelling s like sad, ss like class and c like place sound /s/
spelling s is not always pronounced /s/ for example: sugar, rise, plays

spelling z like zero, like nose sounds /z/
spelling se at the end of a word usually sounds like /z/
spelling zz scissors sounds like /z/, although sc may sound /s/ as in science

Answers will be published tomorrow

4.- TRANSLATIONS JANUARY 19TH

1.-
Las personas interesadas en obtener una de las 70 invitaciones que sortea la Diputación de Bizkaia para acudir al concierto de AC/DC el próximo 4 de abril en el BEC pueden rellenar desde hoy el formulario disponible en la página web www.bizkaia.net. El plazo de inscripción estará abierto hasta el día 26 de enero de 2009 hasta las 14:00 horas

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2.-
El Ayuntamiento de Gernika-Lumo ha destinado 691.572 euros para la realización de obras de adaptación y reforma de la plaza Saraspe y la calle Etxegarai en aplicación de la legislación en materia de accesibilidad de entornos urbanos

ANSWER TO THE TRANSLATIONS

2.- Yesterday, hundreds of young people went to IURBENOR offices in Barakaldo to get more information about the future that awaits the 700 social flats planned to be built in Lutxana after the building company had announced a suspension of all payments.

3.- About 100 photographers took part in the XXII edition of the photography contest held by the municipality of Leioa. Marta Luengo took the local prize.

4.- The first British baby genetically selected so as not to carry the gene that produces breast cancer was reported to have been born yesterday at the University college hospital .

2.- 14 OF JANUARY (CLASS PLANNING)

B1.2 MON/WED.:
.- give back essays on Tess of the D'urbervilles, and pick up delayed ones.
.- practice conversation, interrupting a narration, interrupting your conversation partner correctly. (hand out)
.- start unit 5 (topic publicity, brand names, surveys , marketing)
.- Vocabulary: adjectives, description of the purpose of objects, the language of advertising, transform positive adjectives into negative adjectives by means of prefixes (un, in, im, dis),
the language of surveys and statistics, idioms related to comparisons.
.- Grammar points : comparative and superlative with adjectives (unit 13 in the grammarway to be done at home and check the answers at the back)
.- Listening for pronunciation: the difference between the sibilant sounds

2009-1.- WORDS FROM THE NEWS TO TRANSLATE

Thanks to Marisa, from B1.2 (thank you so much, you gave me a good idea), I thought I could upload here parts of texts I would like you to translate (by yourselves and not with power translators from Internet, and no cheating please!!!). It is a way to learn new vocabulary and put yourselves to test. If you would like your translations to be corrected you should send them to b122008blog@gmail.com . I promise I will correct them.

here is the first one:

1.- Los alumnos de la escuela de Laukariz han retomado las clases tras el periodo vacacional estrenando las nuevas instalaciones del colegio publico del barrio Mungiarra.

2.- Cientos de jovenes acudieron ayer a las oficinas de IURBENOR en Baracaldo para conseguir mas información sobre el futuro que espera a las 700 viviendas protegidas proyectadas en Lutxana tras el anuncio de la suspensión de pagos de la empresa.

3.- Alrededor de un centenar de fotografos se han presentado a la edición XXII del concurso de fotografía del ayuntamiento de Leioa. Marta Luengo se ha llevado el premio local.

4.- El primer bebé británico seleccionado genéticamente para no portar el gen del cancer de mama ha nacido en Londres- informó ayer el hospital del university college.