You don't have to do all these exercises... but you really must do some :)

Hi guys,

Find some extra exercises on must, mustn't have to, don't have to.

En español

In English (exercises and some more notes comparing both)

Enjoy!

Revise and check 5 & 6

Relative clauses

The woman who gave me the flowers: how to construct relative clauses. by Liz Walter

by Liz Walter​ There are two main types of relative clause. One is for making it clear who or what we are talking about. Teachers call this type ‘defining relative clauses’, and they don’t have commas around them: The woman who gave me the flowers is my neighbour. This is the chair that I bought […]

http://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2015/03/18/the-woman-who-gave-me-the-flowers-how-to-construct-relative-clauses/

3 & 4 Revise and Check

GRAMMAR

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

VOCABULARY

a
1 in 3 for 5 for
2 for 4 on
b
1 do 3 do 5 make
2 make 4 do
c
1 lay 6 Gate
2 washing 7 trolley
3 try on 8 check-in
4 receipt 9 Terminal
5 fit 10 lifts
d
1 boring 3 exciting 5 interested
2 relaxed 4 depressed

PRONUNCIATION

a
1 trolley 3 chemist’s 5 yet
2 worry 4 customer
b
1 Arrivals 3 teenager 5 arrangement
2 opposite 4 delivery

CAN YOU UNDERSTAND THIS TEXT?

a
a) expensive designer shoes (only the left ones)
b) expensive designer shoes (only the right ones)
1 Malmö.
2 Two men. They stole expensive designer shoes shoes – the left ones only.
3 Shop assistants.
4 30 minutes.
5 Because in Sweden shops display left shoes and in Denmark shops display right shoes.
6 Yes, they did.
7 Because many stores have fewer shop assistants.
8 Because the thieves will then go to Germany.

Egypt's salt hotel

From: Ana Isabel Sanchez Cuervo 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/06/140604_vwitn_salt_hotel.shtml

Egypt's salt hotel

The video tells about a hotel made entirely of salt in western Egypt. The building materials come from the shores of lakes.

Everything at the hotel -are +is made of salt -, +: the walls, small sculptures and even the beds. Workers at the hotel say it's resisted the rain so far, but people think this story isn't true at all.

Whales

Stranded: unable to leave a place because something prevents you from moving.

Tirelessly: working energetically non-stop.

Floating: being near the surface of the water.

No mean feat: a great achievement.

Mammals: animals which drink milk from their mothers’ bodies when young, like dogs, cows and horses







The video -[is showing] +shows us a rescue of around 70 pilot whales on the sand at Puponga Beach

in New Zealand. The -volunteer +volunteers -hard worked +hard. However, the rescue wasn’t a success -[. Because] +because only 46 pilot whales survive at the moment in the sea.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/01/140122_vwitn_whales.shtml

Camera glasses

From: ana utrilla

CAMERA   GLASSES

 The camera-glasses are a prototype which helps sight people.

 They were developed by researchers from Oxford.

 The glasses show the images in the lent and give a clear sense of reality

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/06/140618_vwitn_camera_glasses.shtml

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No y not: cuándo y con qué

Hi guys,

1. Como norma básica recordad que usamos "not" para negar con el verbo, y usamos "no" para negar con el nombre.

There is no time to lose = There isn't any time to lose

2. Y recordad que en inglés normalmente no negamos dos veces:

No hice nada = I didn't do anything = I did nothing = No hice "cosa alguna"

Grammar notes and exercises:

No - not // no double negative

Present perfect and simple past

Hi guys,

Some notes and exercises to review the present perfect, and how it is used together with the simple past.

Apuntes y ejercicios en español - comparación presente perfecto y pasado simple


Otro tipo de explicación y más ejercicios


Algunos ejemplos más de cómo decir "ha ido / ha estado" frente a "se ha ido"

Repaso:


Algunos ejercicios básicos de repaso de cómo se forma el tiempo (no cómo se usa).

Los tres advervios con los que más se usa: already, yet and just

Later,

Bull power

From: Dario Moyano Romero

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/01/140108_vwitn_bull_power.shtml

One of the biggest problems in the world are the greenhouse gases. The cows are +the animals that most produce global warming. +Her +Their belches -produces +produce a lot of methane and +this is an alarm to our atmosphere.

To put end to this problem, a group of -scientist +scientists have made a system to recycle these gases.  The gas is collected from the bull's stomach through a small pipe and compressed in a canister. In this way you can store gas and +use -uses it as fuel. Every day one animal produces enough fuel to drive a car one kilometre.

Many kinds of intelligence

From: Ana Belén Amores Portero

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/07/140723_vwitn_intelligence.shtml

Many kinds of intelligence

Words:

Dread: Preocupación, miedo a los resultados de los exámenes.

Soften the blow: Suavizar las consecuencias de la noticia

Thoughtful: Reflexivo

Gone viral: Tener muchas visitas en internet.

Plagiarism: Plagio, copiar en un exámen.

Students and teachers are dread of exams results. A teacher wrote a letter that said that in the exams we can only -asses +assess the content but we can not -asses +assess the values. This letter +has gone viral -in +[on the] internet but the director has been accused of plagiarism because, after +THAT, someone -was +has discovered a similar message on an American Blog.

This teacher -, downplays the exam results because they do not -asses +assess everything we know.

From: María G.S.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/03/140319_vwitn_lion.shtml

Hugging lions

There is a private zoo in Buenos Aires, where the visitors can pet and feed -to the bears, tigers, lions... and nobody is dead, yet.

The owner claims to be able to domesticate -to these dangerous animals. He says this is possible because they aren't hungry.

However people who disagree say they're calm because the animals are sedated. This situation is risky for both humans and animals alike.
It's like being into the lion's den.

Stone from the space

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/04/140408_vwitn_stone.shtml

Vocabulary.

Skydiving: Go through the sky with a parachute. (paracaidismo).

whizzes: Something that happens without explanation. (fenómeno, p.ej. meteorológico).

Fruitless: Without getting. (infructuoso).

 Indeed: Really. (realmente, de verdad). 

Stone from the space .

In this video we can see a -Man ​​+man who is practicing  skydiving in Norway . He was recording  the jump when +he saw a big  black stone  falling  from  +the sky.  After that +,  when the geologists viewed  the video on a PC  thought  that -this +these whizzes  -was +were indeed  from  space.

A little later they searched with dogs +[on the ground for the stone] -[the stone on the  ground] but  the attempt has been fruitless yet.

Thanks, Jose.

Robot Security Guard

From: Raquel RG

ROBOT SECURITY GUARD

Vocabulary: 

- Minder: cuiador

- On patrol: de patrulla

- Substitute: sustituto

- Etiquette: etiqueta, protocolo

Summary:

The video shows Bob+, a metal minder that is on patrol in +the security company G4S. This kind of robot checks if anything is missing +BY doing a scan of a room and -he +it also knows some office etiquette.

I think it is an amazing technology to find out what is missing, but I also think this robot would have to be in other places to warn people of their missing objects.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/07/140702_vwitn_robot_security.shtml

Ta, Rachel

Battle of the Oranges

From: Iván Rodríguez García 

The Battle of the Oranges isn´t -a +an ordinary carnival. it´s -a +an epic food fight with oranges.

This event -is +[takes place] in Ivrea in northern Italy where it is based on a legend from the Middle Ages. It started when a daughter of a miller rejected the advances of an evil lord.

There are many oranges which are thrown in three days. More or less there are several tonnes of oranges.The  clean-up operation is a battle in itself.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/03/140305_vwitn_oranges.shtml