Fwd: [eoi-english-2013-ni2c:143] Class summary for March 31st

Ta.

Watch out for basic slips!

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From: Soraya Barbero
Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 6:16 PM
Subject: [eoi-english-2013-ni2c:143] Class summary for March 31st
To: eoi-english-2013-ni2c@googlegroups.com

Hi classmates!!!

Sorry +for the delay, but here is the brief summary.

We started with -the pages -from 56 -until +to 58  from the student´s book.

We did the  exercises  from 1 until 6 [como arriba, esto suena "poco inglés"], about reading and speaking, according to the text:  “ Five inventions that shape the way we live today”.

Vocabulary:

Facilities : comodidades [más bien, "instalaciones"]

Utilities: utilidades ["suministros básicos (agua, gas...)"]

Water/electricity supply: suminsitro de agua/electricidad

Flush: sonrojarse_/ inundar

                Flush the toilet : tirar de la cadena

Flush something down the toilet: tirar algo por el  baño.

Its is only natural = es de lo mas natural

Goods: bienes/mercancías

Also We did -the exercises 1,2 and 3, +on page 58 -[. A]+[, a]bout Important dates. We practiced -the reading dates and -its +their approximates [mejor: practiced reading exact and approximate dates] and We listened +TO it.

A.D= Anno Domini

B.C= Before Christ

More vocabulary:

Overmanned: exceso de mano de obra

Undermanned: falta de mano de obra

Understaffed: falta de personal

Overstaffed: exceso de personal

Survival/ Revival/Removal/ Disposal = Suffix –al, : to form nouns from the verb.

I think it was all.

See you

Soraya

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