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

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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.

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