EOI Basic Level: 2014

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Armchair tourism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/02/140219_vwitn_armchair_tourism.shtml

The video shows the Taj Mahal. It is the landmark building in India. Many people visit this construction, +a symbol of love, each year. There are people who -[are not going to] +cannot visit Taj Mahal. These people could +go -virtual sightseeing -in Taj Mahal +in India +vitually with Street View. Google, with the approval of the government, is using a special camera to exhibit it on the internet.

I think it is a good idea, although all places are more exciting to visit firsthand.

Ta, Miriam

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Job vs. Work

El verbo es fácil: "trabajar" es "to work", pero con el nombre tenemos que distinguir principalmente entre "job" y "work".

Lo mejor es analizar algunos ejemplos (de Oxford Dictionaries):

empleo: job

conseguir trabajo
to get o/or find work

consiguió un trabajo muy bien pagado
he got himself a very well-paid job

lugar: work

está en el trabajo
she's at work

ir al trabajo
to go to work

llámame al trabajo
give me a call at work

actividad, labor: work

su capacidad de trabajo es enorme
he has an enormous capacity for work

la máquina hace el trabajo de cinco personas
the machine does the work of five people

requiere años de trabajo
it takes years of work

Otros enlaces de la web

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Prison Bank

PRISON BANK

This video shows an unusual story in a prison . Some might say this is the safest bank in the world. -Is +It operates inside Peru's largest -prisón +prison and is run entirely by inmates.

+The Bank -have +has almost 120 -customer +customers and the bank manager is a convicted prisoner . +This seems to me a great idea because often the -flights +fights are about money .The idea is to help the men save -his +their money and give it +back when they are -reliased +released.

We can send a lot of convicted -prisoner +prisoners as bank -manager +managers [.Because] -because we have many bank robbers in our country.

Video

Video

Thanks, Carmelo

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Water ATM

BBC Video

Water ATM

Commentary

In this video we can see a boy that uses a card in a machine similar to -a +an ATM (automatic teller machine) to fill a bottle of water.

This is a project launched by the city government of Delhi in India, to provide clean drinking water to residents.

The water -come +comes from local low-cost treatment plants. Residents can pay with a pre-paid card and these machines provide them +with drinking water for a small fee.

I think this project is very important because many illnesses could be -avoid +avoided -[with only] +[just by] drinking clean water but this should be done across the country.

Initiatives like this should be made in all countries without access to clean water.

Ta, Ana

Monday, December 1, 2014

Sushi Art

BBC Video

Sushi Art

Commentary

The video´s name is Sushi art. -He +It talks about Takayo Kiyato, who -IS preparing the traditional Japanese dish: rice with seaweed,

+She likes famous paintings. She has made a lot of versions of her dish. She works carefully and she -make +makes her dishes with a lot of care.

In my opinion, it´s a -video very interesting +video -[, maybe] +[. Maybe ] in the future all +the dishes which we eat +will become famous -painting +paintings, [that´s right?] +[Don't you think so?]

Ta, Macarena

Super fan

BBC Video

Football super fan

Commentary

The video happens in Brazil.

This -year's +year the wold cup +is in Sao Paulo. In the video there is a football fan. He thinks Brazil -don't +won't win the tournament. This man loves sporting Brazil's national colours. He always wears -with -clothes green and yelow +clothes, he has -your +[his own] dress code.

He has a car with a loudspeaker for playing the national anthem. He's +a lawyer and in his office green and yelow colours are everywhere.

In my opinion, this man is too -[much fan] +fanatic of +his national colours, but he's funny and -transmit +transmits -hapinness +happiness.

Ta, Mayka

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Active office

Commentary

VOCABULARY
1.    Sedentary
2.    Heart Disease: enfermedad cardiaca
3.    Habits
4.    Experiment
5.    Take a stand: tomar una postura con respecto a algo

SUMMARY OF THE VIDEO
In the video there is a man doing exercise while working on his computer.
A -british +British experiment -want +WANTS to change the habits of the people, because a sedentary -work +job -[can to be] +[CAN BE] the cause of a heart disease.
In the school of this video, we can see some pupils take lessons standing, and in the meetings at work, the -workpeople +workers are standing too. Perhaps, next time you take a stand, you should do it standing up.
I think people will continue working -sit +sitting down and children at the school -[do it] too. +IT IS VERY -TIRED -TIRING STANDING UP ALL THE TIME!

BBC Video

Active office

Ta, Caroline!

Driving change in the west bank

Commentary

This video shows a Palestinian woman. She´s the first woman in -Palestinian +Palestine licensed to drive public buses. She checks the bus engine every day. She encourages other women to compete on an equal footing with men in all professions. I like that women advance professionally and that they break with taboo. This is a start. I think we have a long way to go.

Audio comment

BBC Video

Driving change in the west bank

Thanks, Encarna, very nice!

Saturday, November 29, 2014

Key: NEF 1 & 2 Revise and Check

GRAMMAR
1 c 6 c 11 a
2 b 7 c 12 c
3 a 8 b 13 a
4 c 9 b 14 b
5 a 10 c 15 c

VOCABULARY
a
1 do 6 book
2 look 7 invite
3 wear 8 drive
4 take 9 play
5 stay 10 leave

b
1 on 3 in 5 at 7 on
2 in 4 on 6 at
c
1 beard (the others are about hair)
2 lazy (the others are positive adjectives)
3 friendly (the others are negative adjectives)
4 tie (the others are normally worn by women)
5 gloves (the others are worn on your feet)
6 scarf (the others are pieces of jewellery)
7 dirty (the others are about the weather)
8 luxurious (the others are negative)

PRONUNCIATION
a
1 J 3 lives 5 university
2 shorts 4 weight

b
1 talkative 3 prefer 5 comfortable
2 moustache 4 disgusting

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?
a
A bad thing.
b
1 T 3 T 5 F
2 T 4 F 6 T

Monday, November 17, 2014

Common mistakes in your writings

These are some notes on the most common mistakes in your writings. I will have linked to them already in my correction comments, but general review is advisable.

a /an

En inglés necesitamos algo delante de casi todos los nombres (un artículo definido o indefinido, un adjetivo posesivo...). El artículo indefinido (para uno cualquiera) es "a" y delante de sonido vocálico "an".