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Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Did you know that.....

Learning a New Language Stimulates Same Pleasure Centres in the Brain as Sex and Chocolate ?

Bean-to-Bar Chocolate and the Future of the Chocolate Industry

So how about starting with the list of  Irregular verbs?  Satisfaction guaranteed! :-)

Saturday, 25 October 2014

Nice

'Nice' is an adjective that you can apply to almost everything ( a nice person, nice weather, nice clothes.... but are there any other adjectives in English apart from 'nice'?

Sunday, 19 October 2014

Easy?

Weren't we saying the other day that Latin languages are horribly difficult? Who told you that Spanish pronunciation was easy? Here you can see that the pronunciation is tremendously difficult too!



... so how lucky you are to be learning English...!

*Thanks Laia Portolés for this video

Thursday, 9 October 2014

What are you like?

We are talking about description in both L2 and L3, so

Remember:
What do they look like? Tall and handsome.
What are they like? Friendly.
What do they like? They like going to the beach

 


What are you like?
Take The World's shortest Personality Test: Short but accurate.

    In Level 3 we talked about how birth order can influence your personality. Are you a firstborn? a middlechild?,  lastborn , or an only child?
    WATCH this video . No transcript but some key words here:   
    Natural leader, siblings, an only child, twins, goody-goody, strengths and weaknesses,  adopted,  they don't take criticism very well, leadership roles, romantic capabilities, real evidence, narcissistic relationship, highly compatible relationship.

    Hope you know yourself a bit bettter after this!