27 febrero, 2016

CLOZE TESTS

BRUSSELS SEES UNEMPLOYMENT IN SPAIN AT OVER SIX MILLION IN 2013

1. RECORDS 2. TO 3. WHICH 4. NEVERTHELESS 5. CURRENTLY 6. JOBLESS 7. APART 8. LABOR 9. IN 10. ON.

BRUSSELS TELLS MADRID TO SPEND LESS ON ROADS AND MORE ON JOBS


1. FROM 2. SO 3. PROMOTING 4. DOLE 5. FUNDS 6. INVESTMENT 7. BUDGETS 8. RATE 9. UNDER 10. COMMITMENT.

08 febrero, 2016

1A Ask me a question

Your home
1 Where do you live?
2 How long have you lived there?
3 Who do you live with?
4 What do you like most about your home?
5 Is there anything you don’t like about your neighbourhood? Why not?
Getting around
1 How do you usually get to work (or school / university)?
2 How long does it take?
3 Do you drive? What car do you drive?
4 How often do you use public transport?
5 What’s the best way to get round your town / city?
Free time
1 What do you enjoy doing in your free time?
2 What kind / type of music do you listen to?
3 How often do you go out during the week?
4 What sport(s) do you like doing?
5 How much time do you spend on social network sites every day?
Lifestyle
1 How much tea or coffee do you drink a day?
2 How many hours do you sleep at night?
3 What do you do to relax?
4 What do you do to keep healthy?
5 What was the last live event you went to?
Travel
1 What’s the most beautiful place you’ve / have ever been to?
2 Where are you going to go for your next holiday?
3 Do you think it’s better to travel alone or with other people?
4 Do you prefer having holidays at home or abroad?
5 Have you ever been to an English-speaking country?
Family
1 How many people are there in your immediate family?
2 Who in your family do you most like talking to?
3 Who do you prefer spending time with? Family or
friends?
4 How much do you know about your family tree?
5 When was the last time all your family did something together?
Childhood and school
1 Where were you born?
2 Which secondary school did / do you go to?
3 What was / is your best / worst subject?
4 Have you ever cheated in an exam? Did you get caught?
5 What did you want to be when you were a child?
A male or female relative
1 What’s his / her name?
2 How old is he / she?
3 What does he / she do?
4 What does he / she look like?
5 What’s / is he / she like?

04 febrero, 2016

3B Adverbs and adverbial phrases

1 Confusing adverbs and adverbial phrases
2 ever 3 hardly 4 specially 5 in the end 6 even 7 near 8 late 9 nearly 10 lately 11 at the end 12 hard 13 yet 14 at the moment 15 still 16 actually.
2 Comment adverbs
1 apparently 2 obviously 3 basically 4 eventually 5 Ideally 6 gradually 7 in fact 8 anyway

3B adverbs and adverbial phrases

a 2 do you really mean that; were absolutely awful
3 England played well
4 Unfortunately, England never play well
5 were incredibly lucky
6 do you ever have
7 To be honest, England were quite lucky
8 were extremely lucky
9 Personally, I thought both teams played badly; England were a bit better,
especially in the second half
10 in Munich next, so let’s see how they do there
b 2 slowly 3 quickly 4 earlier that day 5 obviously 6 actually 7 angrily 8 a little 9 badly 10 incredibly 11 here 12 always 13 well 14 naturally 15 in quarter of an hour

As,Since and Because?

Asbecause and since are conjunctions. Asbecause and since all introduce subordinate clauses. They connect the result of something with its reason.
Click here and you can see some examples

03 febrero, 2016

United States presidential election

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The election of the President and Vice President of the United States is an indirect vote in which citizens cast ballots for a slate of members of theU.S. Electoral College. These electors, in turn, directly elect the President and Vice President. Presidential elections occur quadrennially on Election Day, which since 1845 has been the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, coinciding with the general elections of various other federal, state, and local races. The 2016 U.S. presidential election is scheduled for November 8.
The process is regulated by a combination of both federal and state laws. Each state is allocated a number of Electoral College electors equal to the number of its Senators and Representatives in the U.S. Congress.Additionally, Washington, D.C. is given a number of electors equal to the number held by the smallest state.U.S. territories are not represented in the Electoral College.
Under the U.S. Constitution, each state legislature is allowed to designate a way of choosing electors. Thus, the popular vote on Election Day is conducted by the various states and not directly by the federal government. Once chosen, the electors can vote for anyone, but – with rare exceptions like an unpledged elector or faithless elector – they vote for their designated candidates and their votes are certified by Congress, who is the final judge of electors, in early January. The presidential term then officially begins on Inauguration Day, January 20 (although the formal inaugural ceremony traditionally takes place on the 21st if the 20th is a Sunday).
The nomination process, consisting of the primary elections and caucuses and the nominating conventions, was never specified in the Constitution, and was instead developed over time by the states and the political parties. The primary elections are staggered generally between January and June before the general election in November, while the nominating conventions are held in the Summer. This too is also an indirect election process, where voters cast ballots for a slate of delegates to a political party's nominating convention, who then in turn elect their party's presidential nominee. Each party's presidential nominee then chooses a vice presidential running mate to join with him or her on the same ticket, and this choice is rubber-stamped by the convention. Because of changes to national campaign finance laws since the 1970s regarding the disclosure of contributions for federal campaigns, presidential candidates from the major political parties usually declare their intentions to run as early as the Spring of the previous calendar year before the election. Thus, the entire modern presidential campaign and election process usually takes almost two years.

The series of presidential primary elections and caucuses held in each U.S. state and territory is part of the nominating process of United States presidential elections. This process was never included in the United States Constitution; it was created over time by the political parties. Some states hold only primary elections, some hold only caucuses, and others use a combination of both. These primaries and caucuses are staggered generally between January and June before the general election in November. The primary elections are run by state and local governments, while caucuses are private events that are directly run by the political parties themselves. A state's primary election or caucus is usually an indirect election: instead of voters directly selecting a particular person running for President, they determine how many delegates each party's national convention will receive from their respective state. These delegates then in turn select their party's presidential nominee.