tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9429737768286012012024-03-13T22:01:28.535+01:00Another blog about Englishteflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-45041191112859162362016-10-21T21:29:00.001+02:002016-10-21T21:29:50.590+02:00Qs you should be able to answerWhat's your name?
Where are you from?
Have you got brothers and/or sisters?
Are they younger or older?
Where do you live?
What are your hobbies?
What is/are your favourite subjects at school?
Have you got pets?
What are the seasons in a year?
How many days are there in one year?
How many months are there in one year?
Could you tell me the names of the months in English?
How many days are there inteflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-73561691715409207242016-10-21T21:22:00.001+02:002016-10-21T21:22:08.624+02:00Order of the adjectives in EnglishColour
Shape
Origin
Purpose
teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-30679550935510962772016-10-12T19:00:00.001+02:002016-10-13T16:51:42.794+02:00ill or sick?
Apparently, sick can be placed before a noun and sick can't. In British English sick also means vomit or be about to. Ill can be in expressions like: ill-mannered or ill-treated. Both mean to be in poor health conditions.
teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-39558963821708538902013-03-30T08:32:00.000+01:002013-04-13T10:48:38.778+02:00I`m not scaredI'd like to go back now to 1988. I was about 17 years old at that time. I would walk a few miles to the shopping centre and buy my vinyl records. I had been working with my father for a couple of weeks so that he accepted to pay for our HiFi player. I could play vinyl records and music audio tapes. It did not play CDs! It was a technology breakthrough though; I could make copies of my teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-51578859068502426512013-02-13T18:20:00.000+01:002013-02-25T18:41:29.193+01:00My Rosetta Stone
History tells that a French soldier discovered a stone where a message had
been sculpted in three different languages. The Rosetta stone, as it was
later called, provided the key to translate the hieroglypic texts.
As I am lately learning German, here's my own key stone:
Zuerst am Morgen klingelt der Wecker, dann schlafe ich noch zhen Minuten.
Ich stehe um sieben Uhr auf. Dann teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-56214801471072707962012-12-24T17:23:00.001+01:002012-12-27T15:37:12.281+01:00British Car Plates
I have always wanted to know why car placard numbers were different in Great Britain.
I have found it out, but it turned out to be more difficult to understand than I thought.
Basically, the whole sequence of numbers and letters is divided into three sets:
What I'll call a geographical locator: The first section of letters tell you where the car is from.
A date locator: if card get teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-86158142740346250862012-11-13T19:38:00.001+01:002012-11-13T19:38:27.782+01:00Power DistanceI had never thought of it, but once you twig the idea, you feel better with yourself as a teacher. When I was younger, it would have been impossible to shout in class or talk to other students when our teachers were speaking. In other words, the teachers were the authority in class. If they decided so, they would not repeat their explanations and they would not tell us how they made out their teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-23997702571496428632012-05-24T18:16:00.004+02:002012-07-16T19:10:30.876+02:00Robotics Laws1. A robot must not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by a human beings except where such orders conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existance as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-36642567523083038832012-04-05T22:48:00.001+02:002012-07-15T23:09:38.060+02:00A small, good thingThis short story by Raymond Carver is one of the most shocking ones I have ever read. Belive or not, the story hooks your attention from the first line but once you are onto it, you really feel the pressure of an uncomfortable situation. On and on you expect a negative conclusion and every clue you get, it makes you feel more pessimistic about the end of it. (I know it all sounds extremely teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-71464268578207954912012-04-05T17:23:00.001+02:002015-08-23T16:21:51.326+02:00Oh Joseph, I'm so tired
In once heard from a movie, that it's not us who choose books but the other way round. So I can't help talking about what happened when I decided to go to the city and buy a new book with a couple of short stories to read. I went into the shop and there he was....He never taught me for a whole term, but I saw him around for a long time at university and I attended some of his lectures about teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-23807163475208830082012-02-02T21:12:00.001+01:002012-02-02T21:13:15.398+01:00Living AbroadNowadays, travelling is a possibility for everybody. Most people have already visited other countries over the world and an important number of people have lived abroad. The only idea of living abroad is very interesting, because it means a change in anyone's life.
If you move to another country, you'll find a new lifestyle: you'll know a new culture, you'll meet new people who can be really teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-37646684235518115172011-12-29T14:03:00.003+01:002011-12-29T14:19:55.895+01:00Great ExpectationsMy students complain that I always choose very old books to read. I understand it is hard to think in a world in which noone watched TV, use mobile phones or computers, people travelled in carriages pulled by horses and social institutions were much different than they are now. Well.., I think the finest pieces of Literature were written at that time. Also, if we think of it, we usually teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-53823404435624648112011-12-04T21:37:00.000+01:002011-12-04T21:37:04.130+01:00Changing PlacesJust before my 40th birthday, I had the feeling (all men have, I suppose) that I might have missed something out as I was going through the path of life.
The book I am going to post about has been in three different shelves for the last fifteen years. The pages are yellow and the cover is worn out by the pass of time. I read only 40 or 50 pages when my teachers asked me to read it in 1994, teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-22387267291605608452011-11-29T23:47:00.003+01:002013-03-30T15:03:09.751+01:00Rick Astley
Do you know this guy in the photo? The question is who did not at the end of the 1980's. They'd thought you were an alien if you didn't. I still have a couple of his LPs or tapes! somewhere.
If I ask any of my teenage students who he is, I swear none of them would know. My father always said that music is never out of fashion. I didn' belive him. When I was sixteen, it was a matter of teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-22109125724794376172011-09-01T19:04:00.004+02:002011-09-12T11:27:20.088+02:00Defender of the FaithPhilip Milton Roth served the US army for two years and he used his experience there to write his first novel: Goodbye, Columbus, published in 1959. The book is divided into a short novel and five short sotories. Defender of the Faith is the one I decided to read.
As Marcus Cunliffe points out in his Literature of the United States: "In the early twentieth century the general or WASP teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-34965986626882064372011-08-21T16:09:00.003+02:002012-08-20T06:36:31.727+02:00The CourterIt was a few years ago that I heard on TV that a Mr. Salman Rushdie had written such a controversial book, that a death threaten had been issued to him. I was quite young and naïve, so that I wondered what on earth could a person write to deserve such a severe punishment.
I knew nothing else about him, as at that time his books were not included in my curricular design. It was then fifteen days teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-52677496896508242562011-08-03T15:37:00.002+02:002011-08-03T22:21:16.232+02:00The rich boy & The curious case of Benjamin ButtonI remember to have found particularly easy to read Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, so that I thought that If I read something by some other writer belinging the so called lost generation, it would turn out to be the same easy.
That was not the case; I found it hard to read those two Fitzgerald's stories, I think due to the amount of vocabulary he uses - sometimes only suitable for the time and teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-77192875279849222122011-07-26T12:07:00.007+02:002012-07-18T17:32:42.539+02:00To room 19This is another short story I read recently and I summarize it as follows:
When you start reading it, you come accross a young, wealthy and well established couple, who own a big house and have four children. Apparently, everything should be all right, but the wife feels all alone and desperate. She had to do without her professional life and that - among other reasons - makes her feel down.
As teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-41690840512211120452011-07-25T09:47:00.004+02:002012-07-18T17:35:23.726+02:00RecitatifAll that I knew about Toni Morrison is that when at college one of my teachers insisted - or otherwise we'd fail - that we had to read Beloved and The Bluest Eye. At that time, I could not understand much of what I was reading, but I searched for some summaries that helped me answer the questions on my test and deliver a very modest piece of writing.
A few years have passed since then and earlyteflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-75267651431861006972011-05-27T08:54:00.007+02:002011-05-27T12:12:09.153+02:00Computers TodayIn the past, people used to switch on their computers to look for information; mainly specialized websites or wikipedia. Now, we are facing a new situation; the Internet's consumer profile is different. People still look up their emails, but they have other means of personal information exchange: Facebook, Twiter, Tuenti..., as well as knowledge and information sharing sites such as Delicious, teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-25138654979222771892011-05-26T22:23:00.004+02:002011-05-26T22:30:17.548+02:00An awful dayIt was Friday morning. Apparently, the beginning of a fantastic, bright and delightful weekend..., but everything went wrong that day. First, when I tried to start my car, I realised that it had a flat tyre, so I had to walk to work. When I got there, my boss had something to tell me: I got a reduction on my salary because I had been on strike the previous year. It was very disappointing. I was teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-36223499277135845922011-05-19T13:08:00.003+02:002011-05-19T13:18:47.054+02:00SMS LanguageI explained some of my students this morning what SMS language is -even though I didn't write this sort of messages myself when I was a teenager- and asked them to write a short message as classroom task.Hi teacher, DW, 2mro I won't go2 the sk8 park, so I'll do my homework,k?By MiriamI c a gr8 film 4u. It's "No country 4 old men". Btw I c u in u house.By AlejandroHi, teacher. Do u can change examteflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-89523828994696289872011-05-17T18:24:00.004+02:002011-05-17T18:34:23.177+02:00FranceAbout five years ago, I was travelling to France for a vacation. First, we travelled to Calais and we got the underground train to France. It was cold, we were in our car! Then, when we got to France, we travelled for miles into the countryside. We were trying to find the cottage..., well, mu grandad's cottage. We stopped and looked at the map; then my dad reversed the car into a ditch. We were teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-69476650259271639872011-03-26T13:00:00.002+01:002011-03-26T13:04:53.574+01:00VampiresSomething terrible happened. A body appeared in the river last night. The dead body hasn't got any blood on it and it has got two little holes on its neck. It is as though a vampire attacked him. Apparently all happened by the river Thames last night in the East End, very close to one of the river quays. The victim is a caucasian middle age man. Short, fair hair; no glasses, clean teeth; teflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-942973776828601201.post-31583187340840906092011-03-23T15:03:00.003+01:002011-03-23T15:11:46.698+01:00An Amazing Journey!Dear Claudia,Sylvia and I had a nice time in Istanbul. We stayed in a nice hotel. It was not new, but the rooms had recently been redecorated. Very early in the morning, we heard the prays from the high minarets and we were overwhelmed by the religious feeling around us. We had a boat trip through the Bosphorus Strait and we were taken from the old to the moder side of this huge city. It wasteflanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04014888167101891635noreply@blogger.com2