This summer I'll travel to Rome one more time. There are ten months since my last visit and I miss its cobbled streets and its red façades. In this ocasion, I don't want falling in all these tentations that Rome offers me: excellent food, design everywhere, fashion... Just enjoy stones, art and light, and fresh water in the public fountains.
This time is the time to know Rome by night and also Firenze and Nappoli, one day in each city.
I consider these holidays a break. In my job and in my learning of English too. Certainly, to improve my English every day is very important to me, but I know that remaining ten days in Italy I'll be immersed in Italian lenguage and I must profit the ocasion.
I'll choose let here in Murcia my laptop. When I need check my email I'll found an Internet center.
I'll choose let here my problems. When I need to be busy I'll search figures in the clouds.
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
7/31/10
7/22/09
Twister
My new friend Miguel (13 years old) shown me these sentences:
En español: Tres brujas miran tres relojes Swatch. ¿Qué bruja mira qué reloj?
In English: Three witches watch three Swatch watches. Which witch watch which Swatch watch?
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En español: Tres brujas 'travestis' miran los botones de tres relojes Swatch. ¿Qué bruja travesti mira los botones de qué reloj Swatch?
In English: Three switched witches watch three Swatch watch switches. Which switched witche watches which Swatch watch switch?
He promised me more.
Click to see more pictures by his father, Jesús López.
4/21/09
Superfast crisp omelette
Ingredients for two people
A bag of crisps potatoes
2 eggs
a spoonful of olive oil
Method
Beat eggs in a bold and crush crisps and add to eggs. Leave for three minutes. Meanwhile heat oil in a pan. When it is hot, pour in the mixture. Cook one side, turn with the help of a dish and cook the other.
That's right! Ready to be served!
A bag of crisps potatoes
2 eggs
a spoonful of olive oil
Method
Beat eggs in a bold and crush crisps and add to eggs. Leave for three minutes. Meanwhile heat oil in a pan. When it is hot, pour in the mixture. Cook one side, turn with the help of a dish and cook the other.
That's right! Ready to be served!
4/9/09
I´m having problems to do my homework on time
To work hard in XL internet, to contribute in the Junta de Patronos of the Fundación + árboles, to participate in a lot of professional and cultural activities organized by my customers (specially active are the Observatorio del Diseño y la Arquitectura and the Biblioteca Regional), to know better my boyfriend and his children... Too many things to do at the same time! In this situation, what about my English improvement? Left it! Forgot it! Minimized it!
For example, today is Thursday, we're in Easter Holidays, I could to study two or three hours, doesn't I? And start writing my favorite recipe in English, the homework that my teacher Stephen Hasler suggested me yesterday.
But, however, I´m here, wasting time, choosing to watch a collection of videos produced in Spain -and in Spanish- like celebration of the International Year of Astronomy. And trying to embed one in this blog without arrive it.
Well, perhaps this site inspire me any suggestion to have to my customer, the Museo de la Ciencia y el Agua de Murcia, before the end of the year. To be in time. ;-)
For example, today is Thursday, we're in Easter Holidays, I could to study two or three hours, doesn't I? And start writing my favorite recipe in English, the homework that my teacher Stephen Hasler suggested me yesterday.
But, however, I´m here, wasting time, choosing to watch a collection of videos produced in Spain -and in Spanish- like celebration of the International Year of Astronomy. And trying to embed one in this blog without arrive it.
Well, perhaps this site inspire me any suggestion to have to my customer, the Museo de la Ciencia y el Agua de Murcia, before the end of the year. To be in time. ;-)
12/6/08
Testing
I'm testing some Internet skills. For example SitePal, a service on-line to create your own animated talking.That's my firt test!
Last notice: Unfortunatly, the free version of this test remain active just for 15 days! I'll think about the possibility to pay for the service.
12/3/08
Too busy to write
Wooow! Just now, when Bell School Cambridge Newsletter has sent a notice about this blog (with this enormous photo), I'm too busy to add a new post in it. The main cause is that I prepare a party with the help of my team to celebrate "10 years XL internet".
I would like to include all my memories about my experience there before the end of the year. I need it!
11/21/08
Music and films in English
Last summer, in England, I shopped for music and DVD films. I found interesting and cheap things.
In the Bell School Library there are a lot of DVDs to be borrowed and I used it.
Currently, at home, I try to listen to some song or to watch some film in English every day. Although a good communication (Fluency) is a priority, I would like arrive to have a good English accent too. Phonetics is very important to me.
11/8/08
Problems
After all these posts and comments about recent things in my life, I would like get back about my experience of English learning in Cambridge.
At the end of my first week in Bell School, I had a crisis. I was sure that my real level was lower than Upper-intermediate (the level assigned to me in the first test) and I needed talk about it with my main teacher, John Page.
I thought the possibility of making a change because I needed much more time than my classmates to read the exercises, my Vocabulary was quite short and my Grammar in oral expression was full of mistakes. I couldn't process the enormous quantity of information that I received each day.
But my teacher advised me to remain with the same group and to be stimulated with the difficulties. Besides, he told me, my classmates had differents problems than me, with Phonetics, for example. In his opinion, the situation was balanced.
I agreed and I didn't change. With the help of some books and more hours of study I could improve my English and be more confident and happy.
I think now that there, in Cambridge, I was building a new status for me, I could make "muscles" for the future (in words by my teacher in Spain, Stephen Hasler).
At the end of my first week in Bell School, I had a crisis. I was sure that my real level was lower than Upper-intermediate (the level assigned to me in the first test) and I needed talk about it with my main teacher, John Page.
I thought the possibility of making a change because I needed much more time than my classmates to read the exercises, my Vocabulary was quite short and my Grammar in oral expression was full of mistakes. I couldn't process the enormous quantity of information that I received each day.
But my teacher advised me to remain with the same group and to be stimulated with the difficulties. Besides, he told me, my classmates had differents problems than me, with Phonetics, for example. In his opinion, the situation was balanced.
I agreed and I didn't change. With the help of some books and more hours of study I could improve my English and be more confident and happy.
I think now that there, in Cambridge, I was building a new status for me, I could make "muscles" for the future (in words by my teacher in Spain, Stephen Hasler).
2/13/08
Homework: Make questions with HOW (long, deep, old…)
1. How many students has Stephen this year?
2. How often should you have English classes for the best results?
3. How old is your youngest student?
4. How many students had S. in 2007?
5. How cold is Loch Ness?
6. How many inhabitants are there in Cambridge?
7. How far is it from London to Cambridge? How far is London from Cambridge?
8. How many times did Lourdes’s children fall when skiing?
9. How often did they laugh at Stephen’s jokes last weekend?
10. How much doest it cost to make a woman happy?
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Answers
1. I’m not sure, but I estimate that they are ten.
2. The most complete english class is daily
3. It’s a girl who is 20 years old
4. In 2007 S. H. be teacher of 100 spanish students
5. Loch Ness is very cold because its water comes from glaciers
6. Cambridge has 130.000 inhabitants more or less, students included
7. It’s about 80 km (50 miles)
8. Well, I don’t have this information yet, but it’s possible that Steve will give me it soon
9. Ditto
10. Actually, that’s a challenge that depends of her boss, her hairdresser and, finally, her lover.
2. How often should you have English classes for the best results?
3. How old is your youngest student?
4. How many students had S. in 2007?
5. How cold is Loch Ness?
6. How many inhabitants are there in Cambridge?
7. How far is it from London to Cambridge? How far is London from Cambridge?
8. How many times did Lourdes’s children fall when skiing?
9. How often did they laugh at Stephen’s jokes last weekend?
10. How much doest it cost to make a woman happy?
.............
Answers
1. I’m not sure, but I estimate that they are ten.
2. The most complete english class is daily
3. It’s a girl who is 20 years old
4. In 2007 S. H. be teacher of 100 spanish students
5. Loch Ness is very cold because its water comes from glaciers
6. Cambridge has 130.000 inhabitants more or less, students included
7. It’s about 80 km (50 miles)
8. Well, I don’t have this information yet, but it’s possible that Steve will give me it soon
9. Ditto
10. Actually, that’s a challenge that depends of her boss, her hairdresser and, finally, her lover.
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