!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
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WORKING IN GROUPS. SPEAKING RESOURCES.
microsave.org
Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom:
http://iteslj.org/questions/
TOPICS:
CONVERSATIONS:
ESL FLOW:
ORAL ENGLISH ACTIVITIES:
TOPICS: SOCIETY & POLITICS:
HTTP://WWW.OHIO.EDU/LINGUISTICS/TOPICS/SOCIETY.HTML
http://www.ohio.edu/linguistics/esl/speaking/index.html
http://www.ohio.edu/linguistics/esl/speaking/index.html
ESL CONVERSATION QUESTIONS:
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:
HTTP://WWW.JOBINTERVIEWQUESTIONS.ORG/QUESTIONS/INTERVIEW-QUESTIONS.ASP
I don't know if the link below works:
WORKING IN GROUPS: USEFUL EXPRESSIONS:
http://www.uefap.com/speaking/group/grouplan.htm
I don't know if the link below works:
WORKING IN GROUPS: USEFUL EXPRESSIONS:
http://www.uefap.com/speaking/group/grouplan.htm
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
TOTAL ENGLISH ADVANCED UNIT 3
1 There is an incorrect preposition in each of the sentences below.
Find the errors and correct them.
a) Thierry was delighted that his son succeeded on passing his maths
exams. IN
b) The general opinion is that the sports centre would benefit of new
and inspiring management. FROM
c) Which car do you think you’ll opt to in the end? FOR
d) This is a very trendy bar but it seems to be lacking of atmosphere. IN
e) We worked so hard in the garden today that I decided the last few
small jobs were not worth bothering from. ABOUT
f) Eva was really nervous with reading a poem at her best friend’s
wedding. ABOUT
g) Exotic beach holidays do not appeal at everyone. TO
h) There really aren’t many features that distinguish the twins with
each other. FROM
SOURCE: TOTAL ENGLISH ADVANCED
Friday, April 6, 2012
The mother W. Somerset Maugham
READ MORE:
http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/stories/themother.pdf
Two or three people, hearing sounds of a quarrel in the patio, came out of their
rooms and listened.
'It's the new lodger,' said a woman. 'She's having a row with the porter who
brought her things:
It was a tenement house of two storeys, built round a patio, in a back street of La
Macarena, which is the roughest quarter in Seville. The rooms were let to working men and
the small functionaries with whom Spain is overrun, postmen, policemen, or tramconductors, and the place swarmed with children. There were twenty families there. They
squabbled and made it up; they chattered their heads off; they helped one another when
help was needed; for the Andalusians are good-natured people, and on the whole they got
on well enough together. One room had been for some time unlet. A woman had taken it
that morning, and an hour later had brought her bits and pieces, carrying as much as she
could herself, a gallego - the Galicians are the general porters of Spain - laden with the
rest.
But the quarrel was growing more violent, and the two women above, on the first
floor, anxious not to miss a word, leant over the balcony.
They heard the newcomer's shrill voice raised in a torrent of abuse and the man's
sullen interjections. The two women nudged one another.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
William Somerset Maugham biography
CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO LISTENING TO THE MONOLOGUE:
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/audio/2010/hastings/audio.html
Biographer discusses researching
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/audio/2010/hastings/audio.html
Biographer discusses researching
Somerset Maugham biography
Selina Hastings is a writer and journalist, the author of four literary biographies, including The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, which was published in May 2010.
In this audio clip, Hastings discussed the challenges she faced in researching Maugham. In a case of being in the perfect place at the perfect time, Hastings was the first scholar to be granted access to Maugham's papers by the Royal Literary Fund.
LITERATURE: The happy man W. Somerset Maugham
READ MORE:
http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/stories/thehappyman.pdf
It is a dangerous thing to order the lives of others and I have often wondered at the
self-confidence of politicians, reformers and suchlike who are prepared to force , upon
their fellows measures that must alter their manners, habits, and points of view. I have
always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one
knows that other as well as one knows oneself? Heaven knows, I know little enough of
myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our
neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the
other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same
meaning for them as for himself. And life, unfortunately, is something that you can lead
but once; mistakes are often irreparable, and who am I that I should tell this one and that
how he should lead it? Life is a difficult business and I have found it hard enough to make
my own a complete and rounded thing; I have not been tempted to teach my neighbour
what he should do with his. But there are men who flounder at the journey's start, the way
before them is confused and hazardous, and on occasion, however unwillingly, I have been
forced to point the finger of fate. Sometimes men have said to me, what shall I do with my
life? and I have seen myself for a moment wrapped in the dark cloak of Destiny.
http://www.miguelmllop.com/stories/stories/thehappyman.pdf
It is a dangerous thing to order the lives of others and I have often wondered at the
self-confidence of politicians, reformers and suchlike who are prepared to force , upon
their fellows measures that must alter their manners, habits, and points of view. I have
always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one
knows that other as well as one knows oneself? Heaven knows, I know little enough of
myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our
neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the
other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same
meaning for them as for himself. And life, unfortunately, is something that you can lead
but once; mistakes are often irreparable, and who am I that I should tell this one and that
how he should lead it? Life is a difficult business and I have found it hard enough to make
my own a complete and rounded thing; I have not been tempted to teach my neighbour
what he should do with his. But there are men who flounder at the journey's start, the way
before them is confused and hazardous, and on occasion, however unwillingly, I have been
forced to point the finger of fate. Sometimes men have said to me, what shall I do with my
life? and I have seen myself for a moment wrapped in the dark cloak of Destiny.
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