Unit 4 A VOCABULARY - Feelings

CAUSE OF THE FEELING		RECEIVER OF THE FEELING
alarming	frustrating	alarmed	frustrated
amusing	humiliating	amused	humiliated
annoying	interesting	annoyed	interested
astonishing	intriguing	astonished	intrigued
boring	overwhelming	bored	overwhelmed
compelling	perplexing	compelled	perplexed
concerning	pleasing	concerned	pleased
confusing	relaxing	confused	relaxed
embarrassing	relieving	embarrassed	relieved
encouraging	satisfying	encouraged	satisfied
energizing	shocking	energized	shocked
enlightening	stunning	enlightened	stunned
entertaining	surprising	entertained	surprised
exciting	terrifying	excited	terrified
exhausting	tiring	exhausted	tired
frightening		frightened

SONG I will survive

File 4 A Would you get out alive?

Escape from the Amazon



Another video to enjoy the Rainforest

File 3 Expressing your opinion - Writing

• Company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near my community

The fact that a company has announced that it wishes to build a large factory near my community brings different points of view in the people.
In my opinion, the new factory could produce positive changes in my community and a lot of problems could be solved.
Firstly, the factory would bring much money to the population.
One advantage is the industrial unit creates opportunities for the people who are looking for a job.
In most cases the large company hires people living in the community.
Secondly, many plants pollute water and air and because of that, people could suffer from different kind of illnesses.
In addition, an opinion survey has showed that the toxins produced by the factory could produce cancer in the people who live around.
Finally, I believe that this disadvantage can be solved if the government controls the pollution that the factory produces, whereas the factory respects the rules, they could go on producing.
In conclusion, I think that a new factory is a very important opportunity for our community.
We have to take advantage of this situation; a company chooses our land and hires our people.
If we respect each other, both will have a better life!!!
Sabrina Martí

Advice for Writers Jeffrey Archer

JUST GOOD FRIENDS - Jeffrey Archer

Review:

Very few authors are capable of writing good books everytime and Jeffrey Archer is definitely one of those authors. He always writes very good novels and short stories. Just good friends by Jeffrey Archer is a good short story. It just seems to be a normal story till the last page when suddenly readers gets a twist in the tale and the last line makes the readers imagination throughout reading the book go topsy turvy. The story is a narration and the narrator starts the story on a morning. The narrator just wakes up on a morning and looks at the guy next to her sleeping. She thinks that the guy will not get up till sometime and starts remembering the initial days of their meeting. They met in a bar after her boyfriend cheats on her and goes away after making her pregnant. She sees the guy with whom she lives now at a bar and feels jealous of a girl who goes with him to bar. After twenty days when they break up the narrator feels very happy and goes to the guy’s side and sits there. The guy looks up at the narrator and softly touches her cheek and takes her home. They would be living in his house since then. When she gets out of her thoughts she sees him get up and go to the kitchen. He pours milk into his cornflakes bowl and in another bowl pours milk and offers that bowl to the narrator and she swishes her tail and drinks it happily. The author wrote the story in such a way that no one gets the doubt that the narrator is not a woman but a cat.

Questions:

1. What do remember about Jeffrey Archer?
2. Who are the main characters of the story?
3. Who is the narrator? How do you know?
4. How did you find out the narrator is a cat?
5. When did you find out the narrator is a cat?
6. What does "she" say about herself?
7. Can you describe Roger?
8. Where did the narrator and Roger first meet? How was that?
9. Can you describe their relationship?
10. Were you surprised to discover the narrator is a cat? Why?
11. Did you like the story? Why?

File 4A 3 Grammar UNREAL CONDITIONS

At the end of the class the students created these sentences....

- I wouldn't have been OFFENDED if she had invited me to her party. (Nair)
- If I were mugged I would be scared stiff.(Mercedes)
- If I were Bill Gates, I would buy a Greek island.(Fernando)
- If you have moved to Rome, I would have followed you!(Fernando)
- If I hadn't got any brothers I would have been spoilt when I was a child. (Rocío)
- If you hadn't played with fire, you wouldn't have burnt yourself.(José Luis)
- If I were you, I would practice more sport.(José Luis)
- If I won the lottery, I would travel around the world. (José Luis)
- The police wouldn't have caught the mugger if I hadn't called them!!!(Muriel)

Unit 4 A - 2 Vocabulary feelings

Students' sentences

• Someone in the class told me that my girldfriend disgusting! I was OFFENDED
• I saw a person who had been mugged and I lent him some money. He was GRATEFUL
• My brother gave up his studies. My parents are very DISAPPOINTED.
• I'm going to propose to my girfriend tonight. I'm really NERVOUS.
• He's just seen a burglar breking into a neighbour's house. I was SHOCKED.
• He has travelled abroad for his job and misses barbacue and tango so much! He's HOMESICK.
• He doesn't have any family so he's LONELY and MISERABLE for Christmas!

Expressions with take

Unit 3C - Vocabulary

MORE Expressions with TAke
TAKE:
action
a bath/shower
a bite
a break
the bus
a (phone) call
a chance
a class
control
a course in Spanish
a decision
a deep breath
a dislike to sb.
an exam
French at school
a guess
a holiday
an interest in sth.
the lead
a look
medicine
a nap
notes
notice
a photo/picture
a pill
a risk
a sip
size 14
someones´s temperature
a walkan x-ray

Composition

Driving in Rosario

We think that these statistics are similar in our city, except the number 3. We think that driving at night is not four times as dangerous as driving during the day, it is only twice riskier.
In our city, specially in downtown, travelling is dangerous. In the rush hour there are traffic jams and people became really nervous. This is an extra risk.
In our opinion the punishment for dangerous drivers should be different. For some serious offences like going through red lights, driving too fast or drunkdriving the punishment should be strong. Driving licences shoul be kept by the authories and expensive fines should be paid.

Virginia Papini - María Mercedes Romero
Another View...
Driving in Rosario.

In Rosario, roads are very dangerous, because people don't respect traffics laws, and drive very fast. Specially motorcyclists that work as delivery boys, nowadays lots of people call for take away food and they have to carry it just in time.

We think that driving too fast is the main reason of accidents. And drink-drivers are very dangerous too, especially at the weekends. We considerer that police controls in the streets can help to reduce the number of accidents.

Besides, the age at which a driver is most at risk is probably under 25, because youngsters don't realize the possible consequences of their actions. We think that a possible solution could be to impose more severe punishment to offenders, such as suspending their driving licenses.

Román Lattanzi