Fwd: [eoi-english-2013-ni2b:30] Class summary for November 12th

Thanks, Marjorie.

You got to be extremely careful with proper tense usage.

See you,

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Subject: [eoi-english-2013-ni2b:30] Class summary for November 12th
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Hi guys!!


 I,m going to -talk +tell you about the summary of last tuesday , 12th of November.

•      At the beginning of the class, we -[were working] +WORKED in group and -discuss +DISCUSSED  some questions of the handout "Giving advice":

               - what do you think of your country's capital city?
                 What would you recommend seeing  there? why?
                  Are there any  things you'd tell people to avoid? why?
                  Have you visited any other capital cities? when?
                  why? what were they like?


       Useful vocabulary and grammar to give -advices +ADVICE or recommendations:

1.-There are a lots ways to give advice. Look at the different ways of answering the question: What would you recommend seeing there?

I'd go to Montmartre (if were you).

You should take a boat trip down the river.

You're best staying in an área called  Vosstaniya.

You could take a tour round the mountains (if you wanted).

your better off taking the train. (= it's preferable)

2.-We often use  the structures above with an if-clause+present tense-or another expression that refers to a general topic

If you want to relax, you should take a boat trip down

 In terms of accommodation,(respecto al alojamiento) you're best staying in an area called vosstaniya


VOCABULARY

  sunset :/ˈsʌn.set/

the time in the evening when you last see the sun in the sky

    

Sunrise: /ˈsʌn.raɪz/= 

the time in the morning when the sun starts to rise in the sky:

  

   dusk:  /dʌsk/

 the time before night when it is not yet dark:

twilight:  /ˈtwaɪ.laɪt (Crepúsculo)

 the period just before it becomes completely dark in the evening

  The city center(US)          
   
 The city centre (UK)
    
    downtown: /ˌdaʊnˈtaʊn
   in or to the central  part of a city

IMPORTANT:  dont use "the" before  Downtown

our country man= compatriota

to rip-off= Timar

rip sb off (phrasal verb)
 to cheat someone by making them pay too much money for something


Bob's tickets cost much less than ours - I think we've been ripped off.

I had a hell of a time= me lo pase genial

That you find fit=  Que encuentre conveniente

Then, we read an email. The email was written as one long text.
We worked in pairs and -divide +DIVIDED the email into six paragraph with (/. ). We -underline +UNDERLINED +the expressions that start the paragraphs and show a new subject is being introduced

• Finally some  -puntuations +punctuation marks that we learned this day:

.		English...........................................................
.	punto	dot
,	coma	comma
:	dos puntos	colon
;	punto y coma	semicolon
' ', " "	las comillas	' ' inverted commas (UK)
'	apostrofe	apostrophe
()	parentesis	brackets (UK), parentheses (US)
[]	los corchetes	square brackets (UK), brackets (US)
{}	las llaves	curly brackets (UK)
?	el signo de interrogación	question mark
!	el signo de exclamación	exclamation mark
¿	el signo de interrogación de apertura	opening question mark
¡	el signo de exclamación de apertura	opening exclamation mark
…	los puntos suspensivos	ellipsis (formal, technical) dot dot dot (usual) three dots (usual)
&	see this thread ampersand (símbolo "&")	ampersand
@	arroba	at sign
-	el guión	hyphen
—	el guión largo / la raya	dash
_	el guión bajo	underscore
/	la barra / barra oblicua / diagonal	slash
\	la barra inversa / barra invertida	backslash

     

That`s all friends

Marjorie

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