Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Preparing artichoke hearts

The globe artichoke is related to the thistle. Its leaves are edible, as is the bottom part of the flower, called the 'heart' or 'fond' (which you can also buy tinned or frozen).
-Holding the artichoke by the stem, saw the body of the artichoke in half horizontally. Discard the purple leaves at the tip.
-Break the stem at the base of the artichoke by pushing it away from you. Pull the stem from the artichoke and remove the fibres.
-Snap the leaves from around the cut edges of the artichoke. Cut the remaining leaves from the artichoke.
-Holding the artichoke in the palm of your hands and, angling the knife, peel away the skin to leave only the white 'fond'. Slice off the tip of the artichoke.
-Scrape the hairy choke from the centre of the artichoke using a spoon.


Third Conditional: no possibility

Third Conditional: no possibility

The first conditional and second conditionals talk about the future. With the third conditional we talk about the past. We talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. That is why there is no possibility for this condition. The third conditional is also like a dream, but with no possibility of the dream coming true.
Last week you bought a lottery ticket. But you did not win. :-(
conditionresult
 Past PerfectWOULD HAVE + Past Participle
IfI had won the lotteryI would have bought a car.
Notice that we are thinking about an impossible past condition. You did not win the lottery. So the condition was not true, and that particular condition can never be true because it is finished. We use the past perfect tense to talk about the impossible past condition. We use WOULD HAVE + past participle to talk about the impossible past result. The important thing about the third conditional is that both the condition and result are impossible now.
Sometimes, we use should havecould havemight have instead of would have, for example: If you had bought a lottery ticket, you might have won.
Look at some more examples in the tables below:
IFconditionresult
 past perfectWOULD HAVE + past participle
IfI had seen MaryI would have told her.
IfTara had been free yesterdayI would have invited her.
Ifthey had not passed their examtheir teacher would have been sad.
Ifit had rained yesterdaywould you have stayed at home?
Ifit had rained yesterdaywhat would you have done?

resultIFcondition
WOULD HAVE + past participle past perfect
I would have told MaryifI had seen her.
I would have invited Taraifshe had been free yesterday.
Their teacher would have been sadifthey had not passed their exam.
Would you have stayed at homeifit had rained yesterday?
What would you have doneifit had rained yesterday?

Monday, 27 January 2014

EXERCISES

15.1 '-ing' or '-ed'?

Complete the film review.
Slow Lightning, the new movie featuring up-and-coming Hollywood star Jake Vanguard, looks like an combination of action thrills and romantic comedy, directed by Jeff Katzenberger. Of course, as an avid fan of Vanguard's, I was extremely  to see what he could achieve in collaboration with Katzenberger.The results, though, are very . As you would expect, the cinematography and effects are brilliant, but the story is poorly scripted, and most audiences will be by Vanguard's unintelligent, formulaic acting. The action centres on the theft of a nuclear device from a US Army base, but the subplot involving the kidnapping of a bus driver and his grandmother will leave most viewers . At 200 minutes, the movie is simply too long, and by the end I was with the whole thing. It was to see how far the legendary Katzenberger has fallen since his great movies of the 90s.

 Past or perfect, simple or progressive?

Complete the sentences.
  1. Today's big news: the Prime Minister  that he will resign in September.score
  2. My father  his car yesterday.score
  3. I'm already 40 and I  any of the Seven Wonders of the World.score
  4. She has  driving lessons for the last three years and she still hasn't passed her test.score
  5. We  our parents twice since Christmas.score
  6. The universe  ever since the Big Bang.score
  7. How long  that Jeff was leaving?score
  8. When he  reading his book, Ben went to bed.score
  9. She was completely sunburnt because she  in the sun all day.


Wednesday, 22 January 2014

9.1 '-ing' form or infinitive?

Complete the sentences.
  1. He was relieved  his keys.score
  2. I have dreams  Kilimanjaro one day.score
  3. We're used to  homeless people on our streets.score
  4. Have you seen this new gadget? It's for  your shoes.score
  5. You can find out a lot about a person by  them up on the internet.score
  6. I couldn't help  when he fell over.score
  7. That's strange: I don't remember  that cup there.score
  8. I forbid you  about this.score
  9. Pete's over there: can't you see him  to you?score




Tuesday, 21 January 2014


plumber
thumb
doubt

watch
listen
mortgage




  Autumn
damn
column




knee
know
knock


ghost
hour
honest

wrong
wrist
wrote

half
calm
talk

guest














guess
guard
tongue
Sign
resing
foreing



Wednesday, 15 January 2014

vocabulary

low  bad time in someone's life:
glance to give a quick short look:
rile  to make someone angry:

occurrence something that happens:

bugbear particular thing that annoys or upsets you:

slurp When a thick liquid slurps, it makes loud noises:

rustling the sound that paper or leaves make when they move:

forage  to go from place to place searchingespecially for food:

faux not real, but made to look or seem real

lament to express sadness and feeling sorry about something

tackleto try to deal with something or someone

art-houseused to describe films from other countries or the type of films that small film companies mak

chaina set of connected or related things

Monday, 13 January 2014

Ecuador




Ecuador

  1. Introduction
  2. presentation
Where is located?
What is the capital?
Currency
Language
what does  the colours represent of the flag and the shield?
How it  is divided?
- Coast
- Sierra
- Orient-Amazonian  
 Galapagos Island