What do you think about this NEW TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION?

How much does a kilogram of platinun-iridium weigh?

Could my genius students help me understand what this means? I'm eager to know!!!

A kilogram just isn't what it used to be… literally.

A kilogram weighs 1000 grams, right? Right? Well, no. A kg isn't actually a unit of weight at all, it's a unit of mass.

For the past 123 years, the kilogram has been arguably the most influential standard, affecting everything from the increasing numbers on your bathroom scale to the calculation of gravity, density, force and pressure. Unfortunately, it is losing mass, and scientists aren't sure why.

More info: http://bit.ly/15UZAkT

though, although, even though, despite, in spite of

Translators

Watch it up to the end. It's really good.



Any comments?

Any comments?

Parts of a paragraph

This video is about how to write a paper properly.

Writing: revising is rewriting

You have to write compositions and much more! Have a look at the following video and see if you can get some useful tips.

Casino Royale: Simple Past x Past Perfect

Watch the video segment and write ( 1 ) in the parentheses of the action that took place first and ( 2 ) in the parentheses of the action that happened later.

Ex: ( 1 ) James Bond took a plane to the Bahamas.
      ( 2 ) He drove across the island to the hotel.

( ) He crouched to tie his shoe string.
( ) He gave his car keys to the bellboy.

( ) Two guys gave Bond their car keys by mistake.
( ) Bond crashed their car in the parking lot.

( ) He threw the car keys away.
( ) He entered the hotel lobby.

( ) He made a reservation at the hotel
( ) He saw the images of the parking lot in the surveillance room.

Now fill in the blanks of the exercise below with the simple past or the past perfect forms of the verbs in parentheses. You may use "already" if it is applicable.

a) When he _____________ (drive) across the island to the hotel, James Bond ___________ (take) a plane to the Bahamas.

b) When Bond _________________ (crouch) to tie his shoe string, he ______________ (give) his car keys to the hotel bellboy.

c) Two guys _____________ (give) Bond their car keys by mistake when he ____________ (crash) their car in the parking lot.

d) Bond _________________ (throw) the keys away when he ______________ (enter) the hotel lobby.

e) When he ____________ (make) a reservation at the hotel he ________________ (see) the images of the parking lot in the surveillance room.

Booking a hotel room on the phone

Life challenges

Speed dating

Have you ever heard about "Speed Dating"? Watch this video and give your opions!

Would you like to take part in one of these dates?
Do you think it an effective way to meet a partner?
What are the pros and cons?

Women and Conditional Sentences

Watch the following video. After that, click on the following link and do the comprehension exercises.

http://www.real-english.com/reo/55/55-1.htm

Optical invisibility or cloacking

Watch the following video and, without cheating, try to explain how they manage to achieve the "invisibility effect".

Had you heard about it before?

Alan Turing

 

Today would have been Alan Turing's 101st birthday. He died at age 41.

Voice recognition lift

How about some fun?

Vocabulary Unit 1 to Unit 4

Let's keep revising. Now vocabulary:

• a Food and restaurants
• b Sport
• c Personality
• d Money
• e Transport and travel
• f Appearance
• g Education
• h Houses

Revision Unit 4

Click on the following links and practice:

• Lesson A first conditional and future time clauses + when, until, etc. (1)
• Lesson A first conditional and future time clauses + when, until, etc. (2)
• Lesson B first and second conditional
• Lesson B second conditional
• Lesson C usually and used to (1)
• Lesson C usually and used to (2)
• File 4 Lesson C get
• File 4 A visit from a pop star

SUPER MOON

Had you heard about the following?

The largest and closest full Moon of 2013 will occur on June 23rd. It won't be this close again during a full Moon phase until August 2014.

More info: http://bit.ly/13yHrEs

Technology Addiction can affect the brain

Watch the following video and do the comprehension activities below. After that, it would be really interesting to read about your opinions as regards this topic.

You may also share you score by sending it to my account. My nickname is "sunshine".

Commas and Capital Letters in Writing - Part 2

To continue with the series, here is the second video.



After watching the video, do the exercises in the following site: http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/punctuation_coordinating.conjunctions1.htm

Commas and capital letters (Part 1 of 3)

Very interesting video about how to use commas in complex sentences and compound sentences. You will also learn how to use capital letters in writing.
Useful and interesting. Don't miss it!

After watching it, practice on the following page:
http://www.englishwithjennifer.com/punctuation_sentence.punctuation.htm

Three Interviews using the Present Perfect Tenses + Verb Review

Watch this video, then click on Exercise 1

Yesterday

Watch this video, then click on Exercise 1

Food

Watch and learn . . .

Textbuilder

You will find HERE and interesting tool to practice writing.


It's worth trying.

Listen and Write

You will find in the following site a tool that enables you to listen and write what you hear.

What for?! Just to improve your comprehension and writing, that's all.

I've selected one of the exercises:

click here

Narrative Writing

This video gives instructions and helpful tips on how to complete the personal narrative essay assignment:

Present Perfect Tense and Review

Watch the following video. Once you've finished, go to the link below and do the comprehension exercises:



Click on this link: http://www.real-english.com/reo/57/57-1.htm

If you want a physicist to speak at your funeral . . .

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. 
You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.

And at one point you'd hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.

And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.

And you'll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely theconservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they'll be comforted to know your energy's still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you're just less orderly. Amen.

-Aaron Freeman.

If I were a boy

Watch the video, do the activities and don't forget to send me your score! Remember, my teacher's code is sunshine

What's she trying to tell us? I'll be waiting for your comments!

Man of the year

Watch the video and do the comprehension activities below. After that, send me your score. My teacher's code is sunshine

A Nano Ship to the Stars

Here is a short video by Michio Kaku. Listen to what he has to say and prepare a written summary in which you inform others about you have just watched.

FOOTLOOSE

I. Watch the movie segment and say what youngsters must, must not, can, or don't have to do, according to the new rules decided by the City Council of Bomont.


1. Minors _________ obey the curfew.

2. They ______________ dance lasciviously in public places.

3. Minors _______ be home by 10 pm on weeknights and 11 pm on weekends. Youngsters who are above 18 ________ obey the curfew.

4. Individuals ___________ organize public gatherings where minors engage in inappropriate activities, such as consumption of alcohol or unlawful drugs.

5. Minors __________ listen to vulgar or demeaning amplified music.

6.  Adults __________ advise their children of what is good for them if they wish, but they ____________ help them break the law.

7. Minors ____________ to be happy about the new decision, but they _________ respect and accept the decision.

Discuss:

1. Do you agree with the prohibition?

2. What did the teens do wrongly, in your opinion?

3. Should the City Council decide what people can or can't do to have fun? Explain.

4. What are the possible consequences of such a drastic decision?

Airline Passenger

 Listen to the following article and do the following:

1. Do the "Gap Fill" exercise.
2. Prepare the article to discuss it in class.

ROBOTS

Listen to the article and decide if the following statements are TRUE or FALSE:

1. You can now buy a robot in a convenience store in Japan.
2. Housework has become a thing of the past in Japan.
3. A new robot is on sale in Japan for $ 100,500.
4. The robot has its own personality and a kind expression.
5. The robot has vocabulary of 100,000 words.
6. The robot can help its owners become rich and live longer lives.
7. The robot will remind you to exercise.
8. Most Japanese people will be able to buy one.

Match the following synonyms from the article:

a.	unveiled	1. collection
b.	consign	2. achievement
c.	astronomic	3. idea
d.	brainchild	4. quotes
e.	collaboration	5. relegate
f.	array	6. equivalent
g.	cites	7. revealed
h.	marvel	8. collusion
i.	feat	9. wonder
j.	commensurate	10. whopping

Description

Look at the following photograph and try to describe it. Here are some questions that may help:

• Where are they?
• What are they doing?
• What are they talking about?
• Do they know one another?
• Are they celebrating anything? If so, what?
• Would you like to be there? Why? Why not?

Riddle

What about this one?

Who can answer this question?

Who are these women?

Here are a few female scientists that you might not have heard of (but definitely should have). Marie Curie hasn't bee included, because as much as we all love her, she is the automatic "female scientist" that always springs to mind and we think it's time we branched out!

I'll give you a few days to see if you recognize them and can give some info about at least one of them . . .

And the winner is . . . . . . DANILO!!!  

Yes, Danilo has been the only one who's guessed five of these female scientists. You can read his findings in "comments". 
Below, you'll read more about them:

1. Ada Lovelace
Analyst, metaphysician, and founder of scientific computing. Read more about her life here:http://bit.ly/V3im
2. Rosalind Franklin
Biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite. She received no credit for her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA. More on her life:http://bit.ly/4CJMC0
3. Rachel Carson
Marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. More on her life:http://bit.ly/16f4Hcm
4. Lise Meitner
A physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. She was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, but was overlooked for the Nobel Prize in favour of male colleagues. More on her life:http://bit.ly/3js4zk
5. Cecilia Payne
Astronomer and astrophysicist who, in 1925, proposed in her Ph.D. thesis an explanation for the composition of stars in terms of the relative abundances of hydrogen and helium. More on her life: http://bit.ly/n4RNqS
6. Mary Anning
A paleontologist who made many important finds in the Jurassic marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis in Dorset. More on her life: http://bit.ly/rGXKq

Weird but interesting

How difficult was it?

Steven Spielberg

Does eating fish make children smarter?

Before watching the video try to answer the question. Watch it and share with us if you either guessed or you didn't.

Atom

How true is this?

Office Supplies

What are you short of in the office?

Tenses

A good summary, isn't it?

Tongue Twisters

Salary Theorem

What do you think about this theorem? Rather depressing, isn't it?

Which step have you reached today?

CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

I.              Watch the movie segment and make a list of 4 inappropriate behaviors Veruka and Augustus have. Observe both  Veruka and Augustus to come up with sentences

II. Rewrite your sentences above, using modals for advice. 

Could this be the perfect family dog?

Watch the video and do the exercise below:

• Is there any further information about these dogs? For example:
• How obedient are they?
• What does it require due to its size?
• How difficult are they to train?

Peer-review

Tongue twisters

How about trying these ones?

The gay agenda . . .

What do they mean?

Do you think you may explain the following?

There's nothing quite like that (55/5)-6 o'clock feeling.

Last but not least:

Modal and Semi-modal verbs

I find it quite useful. What about you?

Teacher Areested at JFK

What do you think about this news?
Could you explain it in your own words?

Welcome back!

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”