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Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous

Go here and here :)

Present Perfect

Present Perfect and Simple Past, click here

and here

Present Perfect

With 'already, just, still & yet"

Here

With FOR and SINCE, click here

Dr House

Here're the video-clips I told you about in class. With 'Dr House' talking about American/British English accents :)


With Dave Letterman:



"The fantastically talented Hugh Laurie paid a house call to Ellen, and they played an exciting game of American slang versus English slang "

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

http://www.quia.com/jq/16583.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/compsup.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/compsup3.html

MORE VERBS WITH PREPOSITION

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle3.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle4.html

VERBS WITH PREPOSITION

Here's a couple of interesting links to exercises on the use of particles, including adjectives with prepositions



http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle.html

http://a4esl.org/q/j/tp/mc-particle2.html

María Andrés Montecatini's anecdote

When I was 6 years old I loved to go to the beach with my family to spend the day there. My mother constantly reminded me to apply cream on, but I went to play with my sister and forgot about it, so when I returned with my parents I was totally burnt. Nowadays I never go without high protection!

Phrasal verbs: Joke

Phrasal verbs

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/pv1.htm

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/pv1.htm

More on PHRASAL VERBS

http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blphrasalref2.htm

http://www.phrasalverbdemon.com/

PHRASAL VERBS

Practise your phrasal verbs in the following links

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/ppva.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/idioms.html

Enjoy it!

My all-time favorite show!





"Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

Maria Simo' anecdote.

When I was a child (6-year-old) me and my family travelled to Paris. When we went to visit the Eiffel Tower my parents took off their eyes of me and my brother (4 year-old at the moment) one minute because they wanted to enjoy the view of Paris. Then, my "lovely" brother pushed me into an elevator... it rised to the top of the tower! In that time I was scared of the high altitudes. What a horror day!

PS: Now I love high altitudes and Paris, but my brother still does his "funny" jokes.

personal anecdote

PERSONAL ANECDOTE by Santiago

When I was in a party, I had a deeply pain in my stomache. I went outside, because the party was in a house and I felt better. So I decide to come back at home. In the door, I tried to take my keys...they aren´t in my pocket. So  came back at the party and walk around the floor that I stept. Nothing.  I tried to sleep in the door waiting some neighbor to open me the door when he would go to work. I don´t know why I did it, but I went to take my mail in the mailbox. What lucky I am that the keys were in the bottom!  I learnt to see my pocket when I leave home.

Cristina's personal anecdote.

When I was younger, I visited El Corte Inglés with my mother and decided to play “Hide and Seek”. When she realised I was gone, she worried and asked the security guards to look for me. Finally, a shop assistant found me, and when she was about to announce I was with her, I said “Shhh... I'm winning!”

(60 words)

Marina´s anecdote

Once when my family and I made a trip to Disneyland Paris , we were at the hotel and we were sleeping. Suddenly, the fire lamp was ringing so loud and we went out the corridor. All the people in our floor were there, but nobody saw fire. When the fire lamp finished ringing in a strange way, we returned to sleep.

Nobody will never know what really happened that night!

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Alexandra Fernadez's personal anecdote

Once when I was guiding a tour at the World Scout Jamboree in Sweden, a woman approached and started talking to me. After that nice conversation, another member of the group told me that I had been talking to a former member of ABBA! If I had known beforehand, I would have probably babbled nonsense. I love their music!

W: 59

Anni-Frid Lyngstad. She obviously didn't look so young! xD

Personal anecdote

Two years ago, I went to Brighton. One day, my friends and I decided to have lunch at McDonals during our visit to London. Suddenly, a voice which sounded familiar called me. It was a friend who was working in London for few months. We started to talk and his friends and mine were astonished. I was really happy.

Sara Vázquez

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ELENA'S ANECDOTE

Some time ago, I decided to try a new Body Pump lesson at my gym. While I was starting with the first exercises, a Japanese woman entered and seemed to recognize me.  She came to me and started speaking her mother tongue, which really disconcerted me. Actually, she had mistaken me for another girl from the gym who was studying Japanese!

                                  

(60 words)

Bárbara's anecdote! *0*

Some months ago, my friends and I were going back to home and we caught the underground. At 8'00PM more or less, when we were between two stops, a teenage boy took a gun from his pocket and he began to shout to the people. ‘Stop everybody!’ he said. And all of us hide under the sits. People were scared, but in Godella’s stop, that boy got off and I saw I had been hugged to one friend very strongly. What a terrible experience!

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CARMEN'S ANECDOTE

Once my family and I were on a journey to Morella. We were visiting that town's monuments and when it was time to have lunch we went to a restaurant. When we finished we realized that my sister had lost her wactch. A while later, I was peering out from the city walls, I fell and broke an arm. Finally, when we were leaving, my dad crashed the car.

We all drew a conclusion: It will take some time for us to go back to Morella.

Personal anecdote

Once, when I was with my family in Egypt, the cruise's captain said to us that there weren't any cabins left. So we went to talk to the trip's coordinator and he decided together with the voyage's organization to send us to another cruise. Finally, the first cruise was worst, since all the passengers began to be sick. We were lucky for not having taken that one.

Alicia's anecdote

Once when I was with some friends at night in my village, we saw a strange light on the horizon. We were very frightened because we didn't know what it was, and it was becoming bigger and bigger. Then, we thought it was an UFO so we ran off in fright until a friend realised... that light was the moon!

(60 words)

Alicia López

RAQUEL'S ANECDOTE


Once, when I was coming home with a friend, we saw a strange man next to the container. It was dark and there is none at the street: we were frightened. We decide to walk quick, but while we were passing the container, we heard footsteps behind us: the strange man was following us! We waked faster yet and when we went across the corner, we started to run faster than ever until my friend's house. We came in it and we had never seen him again.



Raquel Esteban Pérez

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Patricia Morillas' anecdote

Once when I was looking stars in my village, my friends and I heard an extrange noise.

We went to the place where that noise came from.
 We were very frightened because it was dark and we couldn't see anything. One of my friends brought a flashlight and then we saw that there were sheeps near the place we were! When we realised that they were only sheeps we started to laughing!

Ana Marqués' anecdote

Once, when I was saving the lives of hundreds of people in a marginal village of South America, a group of guerrilla got into my camp and kidnapped me. They caught me and covered my eyes, I was put in a jeep or a car like that and they took me away. My companions decided to call the Spanish Consulate and they negotiated the price of my ransom.

After paying a big amount of money, my kidnappers set me free.

Carolina's anecdote

Once, when I was with my friends on the playground of Primary School, I decided to climb a tree. My friends weren't watching me because they were playing other games, so I closed my eyes and then jumped from the top of the tree. I fell down and I hit my face against a bank which was next to the tree. The next thing I remember is watching my hands all covered by my own blood. I split my head open and so a doctor stitched me up.

Carolina Vicent Garcia

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JAIME'S PERSONAL ANECDOTE

Once when I was playing a role on a theatre stage, the scenery fell down on me.
My group partners saw me trying to pick it up and they came to help me. At first, the audience got scared, later they started to laugh a lot.
Someone was running behind the scenery and consequently, a part of it fell down!

(Words=60)

My personal anecdote

When my sister and I were younger, my grandmother took us to the church. We didn’t like it, so we were always up to mischief.

Once when we were there, my sister disappeared. While the parish priest was talking, she was begging at the front door. People thought she was joking, so they didn’t give her any money.

Laura Carceller

Tania's anecdote

Once when I was trying to sleep I saw my sister in front of the door of my room talking nonsense. I got out of my bed and asked her what she was doing awake at three o'clock in the morning but she didn't answer me. After a while, I remembered that my sister is sleepwalker so she wasn't conscious.
Immediately I took her back to her bed.

What a schock.

Once, when I was walking with my two friends in Uganda, I saw Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

It was last year, my friends and me went to Uganda for help poor people and one day we were walking and suddenly, I saw Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I started to shouting, and my friends and me went to ask them for an autograph. It was so exciting!

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Personal anecdote...

Once when I was going through Valencia’s Airport custom to go to London with my parents, the police officer asked me for my passport but I had left it at home. He insisted that I needed the password because I was minor. I didn’t know what to do, I was really worried. Finally, the police officer asked my father to sign an authorization which allowed me to travel.

(66 words)

Remember to take your passport with you!

Personal anecdote

I was walking through the concrete streets of the Big Apple, listening to Leonard Cohen. It was a rainy evening, clouds black like coal; getting lost to the sound of Chelsea Hotel #2. Hard raindrops falling from the sky, tearing my umbrella apart. Thick and fast.
And just when I was about to pray for shelter, I glimpsed a sign with big letters in the distance, reading: “Hotel Chelsea”. Still I wonder whether it was chance or fate which led me there.

Personal Anecdote

Once when I was taking pictures at the edge of a river, I dropped my camera and it sank.

At first I didn't know what to do, I was completely in shock. When I realized I was going to lose the camera with all my pictures I wanted to dive in the river and try to catch it but my friend convinced me it was hopeless.

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Núria Ferrer.

MY PERSONAL ANECDOTE

Once, when I was buying a T-shirt, I lost my wallet.

I was in H&M and I wanted to buy a T-shirt. When I went to pay, I couldn't find my wallet. I looked for it in all places that it could be but I couldn't find it.

Finally, I touched my pocket and... my wallet was there!!

(words=58)

By Patricia Blasco Hernández

Personal anecdote

Once, when my friend and me were coming back to home, we boarded to the train that was supposed to go to Alcoy, but it seemed that it was going to another destination.

Suddenly, my friend screamed: ''This train doesn't go to Alcoy, but to Seville''. It was a joke, because it was going to Alicante. We started to laugh, and finally and fortunately, we could take the right train.

(64 words)

Raquel Pastor

Personal anecdote

Once when I was doing my hair, I burned my thumb.

I was in Italy with my friend and she lends me her hair iron, I didn’t notice it was at 200 degrees and I took it. My poor thumb got burned. Finally, I spent all the night with tooth paste on my thumb.

(54 words)

My personal anecdote

Once when I was having a driving class, I saw an UFO crossing the sky.
It was in the afternoon and my driving instructor was next to me. We were waiting for a red light to come green when we suddenly saw it. It was like a green fireball crossing the sky! And like a shooting star, it suddenly disappeared.

(Words: 60)

By Ana Villaescusa Pérez

PERSONAL ANECDOTE by Carmen Carpena

Once, when I was coming home, I got trapped in a elevator that was going up and down all the time. I was very scared. I tried to call the technician, buy my phone didn't have money, so I got even more nervous. Finally, I asked to Movistar for money and I called the technician who took me out of there.

Ana's Riddle, by Ana Villaescusa Pérez

Ana’s Riddle
By Ana Villaescusa Pérez

I’m thinking of somebody. Try to guess who:

He was born on October, 2nd 1890, in New York City.
He was an American comedian and film star best known for his great sense of humor.
He did a lot of funny films, being always accompanied by his brothers.
Unfortunately, he left us in 1977 at Los Angeles, California. I think that he’s now looking at us and having fun about the people who wear his face as a mask in costume parties.

I’m sure that you know who’s the man I’m talking about, but I’ll give you another clue:
His two brothers Harpo and Chico were difficult to recognize out of the cameras without their costumes, but it was IMPOSSIBLE to recognize our man without his round glasses, his bushy eyebrows and his fake mustache!

Ana Villaescusa Pérez

Lara Domingo

Once, when I was swimming, I nearly drown.

I don't remember what happened because I was 2 years old but my oncle has told me.

I was in my aunt's house where there's a swimming pool and all my family were having lunch. Suddenly I dissapeared and they found me in the bottom of the pool.

Fortunately my oncle rescued me and today I'm still alive!

Words: 64

Personal anecdote

Once, when I was visiting Paris with my friends, a curious thing happend.
All my friends and I were visiting the most important monuments in Paris and we were queued in the Eiffel Tower.. Suddenly, about us a chinese tourist began to dance. Everybody laughted at her and the poor chinese didn't realize. Moreover, I imitated her and my friends couldn't stop laughing.

63 words

Personal anecdote

Once, when I was going to my house in Bristol, I got lost with the bus. It was dark at night,

I didn't know where I was and suddenly when I looked at my mobile phone, I realised that it had

no battery.

Finally, the bus driver helped me a lot because he left me in front of my house.

(60 words)

Personal anecdote

Once when I was walking down the street, I bumped into a streetlight.

I suddenly noticed a friend of mine was on the opposite side of the street.  I tried in vain to catch her attention yelling her name, and due to that I stopped looking ahead. Unfortunately, I ran into that streetlight and some people burst out laughing.

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Anecdote

Once, when I was shopping I got caught on the escalator.


I was going up on the escalator when I suddenly couldn't move because my shoelace was caught on the step. Many people were watching me but no one helped me, so at the end I pulled the shoelace to me and I finally released myself.


Inés Gómez
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Watch your step!

Once when I was walking on my way to school I had a “funny” fall into a drain.

On the street where I live the road surface had just been tarmacked and because of this it was completely black. I was humming carefree when suddenly I fell down a dark hole which was an uncovered and, luckily, dry drain. I was hanging on my backpack. Since this day I always keep an eye on my feet.

Alba Martínez.

Personal Anecdote

Blog Activity for Unit 2

Grammar focus: Use of past simple and continuous.

Instructions: Write a short personal anecdote

(number of words: 50-60).
An anecdote is a short, entertaining account of some happening, usually personal or biographical.
Begin with a sentence using the pattern “Once when I was …-ing, I found/lost/saw …”. Then explain the circumstances/complicating events surrounding the first sentence (Who? When? Where? Why?...). Finally, write an appropriate ending.

Remember: NO MORE THAN 60 words
Blog your activity and use the label “Personal anecdote”.

EXAMPLE
Once when I was travelling in Syria, I lost my Passport.
I was travelling with my sister and we were very worried.
We searched our hotel room but it was not there.
Finally, as we were leaving the hotel, the receptionist came running and told us he had something for us: MY PASSPORT!!

Tania's riddle

He was born in New York, on the first of december of 1935.
He is an amazing scriptwriter, director and actor that has won three Oscars and has directed films like "Annie Hall", "Manhattan", "Midnight in Paris" or "You will meet a tall dark stranger".
We can find in all his masterpieces topics like sexuality, literature, philosophy, psychology and above all the history of the cinema and the jewish identity that are almost always present in all his work. He is also a musician, a jazz clarinetist who performs regulary at a small theatre in Manhattan and sometimes he goes on tour.

Finally he is considered one of the best directors of the moment junto with Clint Eastwood because all his films not only entertain the public, they also teach them a educational message.

Who is it?

Tania Sanchis Giménez

English Language Class Blog: Blog Activity Unit 1: RIDDLES

English Language Class Blog: Blog Activity Unit 1: RIDDLES

BY SANTIAGO

He is a dead person. Long time ago, he was a great man, destroying armys and bringing the victory to the senate and the people of Rome. He often read literature greek, and also philosophy
history, etc. He won a lot of battles, but in the senate he always was won by his etern enemy, Marco Porcio Catón. He was the only person who was able to win in a battle to Hannibal, the great general of Cartago. He had one children and two girls and a brilliant wife, Emilia. So who is this person? I think that if he was alive now, he would go to Rome and he would see the changes of the history. I give you extra information; his third name means in latin walking-stick.

He was born in Rome, in 219 b.c, he loved the greek culture. He died in the same place, for cause of a headache very strong. If you love militar strategy as me, see the live of this character.
His family was an important family of the history of Rome.

María Simó' riddle.

He’s a football player from Terrasa (Catalonia) who was born in 25th January of 1980. He’s plays as a midfielder for FC Barcelona.

Widely considered among the finest play-makers in the world. This player is a product of Barcelona's La Masia youth system and has been a regular at Camp Nou since the age of 11. He made his way through the youth and reserve teams and was a key member of FC Barcelona B team that won promotion to the Second Division, at the beginning of his career.

Sustained impressive performance meant that he became a key member of Louis Van Gaal's title-winning team. Because an injury to Josep Guardiola in the following 1999-00 season meant that our player became Barcelona's principal playmaker, a position he has retained ever since. The same person that later has became in his trainer – in 2009-10 season. (In this time, they won 6 coups)

He is one of the football players possesses more titles. With his team (Barça) he won 6 Liga’s cups, 1 Spanish King cup, 5 Spanish Super cups, 3 Champions league cups and 2 UEFA Super cups.

Also with the National team, Spain, he won 1 FIFA’s world cup and 1 UEFA European Football Championship.

Who is it? :)

Bárbara's riddle

He's a handsome actor from Stockholm, Sweden. He was born in 1976 and he has hypnotic blue eyes and blond hair. He's really tall. "X" isn't the only actor in his family, because his father is a very recognised actor called Stellan, who has been in films such as "Angels and demons"or "Pirates of the Caribbean". But we're interested in his son.

This man served in the Swedish Military for eighteen months, but after that, he enrolled to study English, but he admits he didn't study much and then, after seven years away from acting, he started to consider it again. In 1997 he enrolled in a theater course at Marymount Manhattan College and moved to New York City. He returned to Stockholm after six months, but the time he spent studying theater showed him that he wanted to act.

Nowadays, he is one of the most important rolls in the HBO TV serie "True Blood", and he performs a sexy vampire, the sheriff Eric Northman in a true vampire story full of love, sex, violence and danger. Nevertheless, he has appeared in films like "Melancholia" or "Zoolander", but maybe you'll know this actor because of his charm in Lady Gaga's hit videoclip "Paparazzi", kissing the music diva.

I hope you don't know who he is! haha..

Raquel's Riddle


He's an italian artist(sculptor, painter, poetry and architect) who was born on 6 March , 1475 in the village of Caprese, Italy. He was one of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance.


He started her renowed career at age 23, when his magnificent Pieta was completed. This is a marble statue that shows the Virgin Mary grieving over the dead Jesus. After that, he worked on the colossal figure of David between 1501 and 1504, his most famous sculpture (standing at 4.34m in tall)  which was in place outside the Palazzo Vecchio. 


Later on his work in Florence, in 1505 he was invited  to Rome by the newly elected Pope Julius II, who forced him into the reluctant achievement of the world's greatest single fresco. He covered the ceiling with paintings done on wet plaster, showing nine scenes from the Old Testament. Afterwards, he painted The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel.


Toward the end of his life, Michelangelo became more involved in architecture and poetry. In 1546 he was made chief architect of the partly finished St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, where the Pieta is now kept.


By: Raquel Esteban Pérez

Ana Marqués' Riddle

He's a very famous singer born in Staffordshire (England) in 13rd February of 1974. He has been awarded many many times because of his great musical career and has broken two Guiness record of people gathered in one of his concerts.

This great singer began his career at the early 90's with the band 'Take That'. They enjoyed years of success and fame until this man decided to give up the group.

Then, he took his solo career with whom he got lots of hits as 'Feel' or 'Come undone'... but in this period of his life, he joined the world of drugs and his public image was widely damaged.

Luckily, he achieved to get out of it and currently he's completely recovered.

Nowadays, he's back with 'Take That'. They're recording a new album and they have recently released a new single: 'The Flood', whose video clip shows really beautiful images of London.

I think at this moment he's composing new beautiful songs, because apart from being a very professional singer and a very good-looking guy, he's also one of the best current composers; he has written wonderful songs as 'She's the one' and 'Only you know me'.

Silvia's Riddle

It is a woman, she is an Australian and American actress, singer, film producer, spokesmodel and humanitarian.

After starring in a number of small Australian films and TV shows, her breakthrough was in the 1989 thriller Dead Calm. Following several films over the early 1990s, she came to worldwide recognition for her performances in Days of Thunder , Far and Away, and Batman Forever . She followed this with other successful films in the late 1990s, it was her performance in the musical, Moulin Rouge which earned her second Golden Globe Award and first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her performance as Virginia Woolf the following year in the drama film The Hours received critical acclaim and she earned the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her other successful films include Cold Mountain , The Interpreter, Happy Feet (2006), and Australia.

She has been a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF since 1994 and for UNIFEM since 2006. Her work has earned her a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, three Golden Globe Awards, one BAFTA, and an Academy Award.

Silvia Martorell Crespo

Sara's riddle

She is a French actress who was born in Paris in 1975. She is daughter of actors, so she has been in touch with cinema since she was a child.

She is well-known because of her rols in Jeux d'Enfants (Love me if you dare), Big fish, Nine or Inception, for example. Furthermore, she is well-known because she won the Best Actress Oscar for "La vie en rose (Edith Piaf)".

This woman met his couple, Guillaume Canet, who is also an actor, during the filming of the film "Love me if you dare" in 2003, and his first child was born last May. They do many things together, they often go to cafés or go shopping around Paris, and they have good relation with the media.

She is ecologist and she is a member of Greenpeace and one of it's spokesperson. She is learning and improving some languages as she is one of the actress who doesn't usually film in her own language.

Right now, I think she and Guillaume are taking care of their baby. Or maybe, she is filming Low Life or Rust and Bone, the new films she is starring on.

Sara Vázquez

Riddle by Alexandra Fernández

He was born in London in 1946. He worked as a graphic designer before becoming an actor. He's never been married, but he met his partner at the age of 19. They've been together ever since.

Some of his appearances on the big screen as a villain were in films like Die Hard, Robin Hood: the Prince of Thieves or Sweeney Todd. His performances in Sense and Sensibility and the Harry Potter series are memorable. He is a very skilled narrator, he's got an alluring deep voice. He's been awarded an Emmy and a BAFTA, and nominated twice for a Tony.

He took his driving test in LA when he was 41. He failed the first time because he was driving 'too carefully'. His liscense isn't useful in Britain, where he lives.

He is currently acting in a Brodway play called Seminar, but he is likely to be having luch at this exact moment.

Carmen's Riddle

He was an American pop artist who was born on October 27th, 1923 and died on September 29, 1997.

In his paintings you can easily see the influence of the characteristic comic book style and his most famous painting is "Whaam".

This person studied fine arts at Ohio State University, however he had to leave his studies for three years because of World War II. After this, he hark back to his studies and had his first one-man exposition at Calerbach Gallery in NYC.

He created some sculptures too, such as "Lamp" (1978) .

Finally he died of pneumonia in NYC (1997).

I'm a huuuuge fan of this artist, so I hope you guess who's he and enjoy his work if you decide to learn something more about him.

By Carmen Rosa Sorlózano