Here is an interesting link about the principal differences between a formal and informal letter (included usual expressions); and other one about the useful expressions and their traslation.
Have a nice weekend.
Gastón
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Friday, 28 May 2010
Paragraph Writing Exercises
If you click this link you will find theoretical information and practice for writing on your own:
http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/Paragraph%20Writing%20Exercises.htm
Topics
If you feel like writing you can choose some of these topics and start writing ...
A. Descriptions
Describe a famous park or recreation area in your home country.
Describe an interesting neighbour you have had.
Describe a place you will never forget.
Describe a sporting event you attended recently.
Describe a place you go for recreation or exercise.
Describe the nightlife in a city you are familiar with.
B Writing
Answer these questions. Write 25–35 words for each question.
1 Describe an interesting day out that you have had.
2 What do you think you’ll do in the next three years?
3 Describe the area around your home
4 Describe your ideal house.
5 What were you frightened of when you were a child?
6 Describe your perfect day.
7 Describe a famous place you have been to.
8 What invention is the most useful in your everyday life? Why?
9 Which places in your country would you advise someone to visit?
Why?
http://www.buowl.boun.edu.tr/students/Paragraph%20Writing%20Exercises.htm
Topics
If you feel like writing you can choose some of these topics and start writing ...
A. Descriptions
Describe a famous park or recreation area in your home country.
Describe an interesting neighbour you have had.
Describe a place you will never forget.
Describe a sporting event you attended recently.
Describe a place you go for recreation or exercise.
Describe the nightlife in a city you are familiar with.
B Writing
Answer these questions. Write 25–35 words for each question.
1 Describe an interesting day out that you have had.
2 What do you think you’ll do in the next three years?
3 Describe the area around your home
4 Describe your ideal house.
5 What were you frightened of when you were a child?
6 Describe your perfect day.
7 Describe a famous place you have been to.
8 What invention is the most useful in your everyday life? Why?
9 Which places in your country would you advise someone to visit?
Why?
Thursday, 27 May 2010
A Christmas Carol - by Charles Dickens
1- How did Scrooge change in the story?
The Ghosts of Christmas visited him and showed him how lonely he was. This made him change for the better and he enjoyed Christmas Day and started to be generous.
2- Why did Marley want to help Scrooge?
Because Marley didn't want Scrooge to have the same unhappy fate.
3-Why was Scrooge unhappy when he saw his past?
Because he realized he has been very mean and he never had a happy Christmas and he lost the important things of life.
4- Why was he sad when he visited the Chratchit family Christmas?
Because he saw how poor these people were but still they were happy
5- What did the Ghost of Christmas Future show Scrooge?
It showed what will happen to him. It showed him scenes of his death and how people reacted: they didn't care.
6- What did Scrooge do on Christmas Day and the day after?
He changed his life and begun to be more generous.
7- What is the moral of the story?Do you agree with it?
The story is about the importance of generosity and compassion. In addition it shows us how important it is to consider each other in life.
Advice
Catherine's problem:
MESSAGE BOARD
First, I think you should be patient. If I were you I could offer/lend some money to buy new clothes or you should talk to her before she borrows your clothes again.
Rocio and Vanessa
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Charles Dickens - Biography
Interesting links:
Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. His father, John Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea in 1824. 12-year-old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory,
earning six shillings a week to help support the family. This dark experience cast a shadow over the clever, sensitive boy that became a defining experience in his life, he would later write that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age."
This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short stories and articles before his death on June 9, 1870. He wished to be buried, without fanfare, in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, the flowers from thousands of mourners overflowing the open grave. Among the more beautiful bouquets were many simple clusters of wildflowers, wrapped in rags.The stories, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever. -->Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. His father, John Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea in 1824. 12-year-old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory,
12-year-old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory earning six shillings a week to help support the family.earning six shillings a week to help support the family. This dark experience cast a shadow over the clever, sensitive boy that became a defining experience in his life, he would later write that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age."
This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short stories and articles before his death on June 9, 1870. He wished to be buried, without fanfare, in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, the flowers from thousands of mourners overflowing the open grave. Among the more beautiful bouquets were many simple clusters of wildflowers, wrapped in rags.The stories, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever. -->
earning six shillings a week to help support the family. This dark experience cast a shadow over the clever, sensitive boy that became a defining experience in his life, he would later write that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age."
This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short stories and articles before his death on June 9, 1870. He wished to be buried, without fanfare, in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, the flowers from thousands of mourners overflowing the open grave. Among the more beautiful bouquets were many simple clusters of wildflowers, wrapped in rags.The stories, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever. -->Dickens was born on February 7, 1812, the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. His father, John Dickens, continually living beyond his means, was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea in 1824. 12-year-old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory,
12-year-old Charles was removed from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory earning six shillings a week to help support the family.earning six shillings a week to help support the family. This dark experience cast a shadow over the clever, sensitive boy that became a defining experience in his life, he would later write that he wondered "how I could have been so easily cast away at such an age."
This childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, would be a heavy influence on Dickens' later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.
Dickens would go on to write 15 major novels and countless short stories and articles before his death on June 9, 1870. He wished to be buried, without fanfare, in a small cemetery in Rochester, but the Nation would not allow it. He was laid to rest in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, the flowers from thousands of mourners overflowing the open grave. Among the more beautiful bouquets were many simple clusters of wildflowers, wrapped in rags.The stories, characters, and places he wrote about will live forever. -->
Monday, 17 May 2010
Wouldn't it be nice
Wouldn't it be nice if we were older
Then we wouldn't have to wait so longAnd wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong
You know its gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together
Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through
The happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was never ending
Oh Wouldn't it be nice
Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true (run, run, run)
Baby then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married (we could be married)
And then we'd be happy (then we'd be happy)
Wouldn't it be nice (ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba)
You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But lets talk about it
Oh, wouldn't it be nice
good night my baby
sleep tight my baby
good night my baby
sleep tight my baby
good night my baby
sleep tight my baby
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
From: Rocio Diaz [http://rochilu_91@hotmail.com/]
To: Tennis courses in France [http://info@tennisfrance.com/]
Subject: Information about courses.
To: Tennis courses in France [http://info@tennisfrance.com/]
Subject: Information about courses.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to ask for information about your tennis courses. I am interested in an intensive course of one or two weeks. I am 18 and I study at university in Rosario.
I have looked at your website, but there is no information about courses for next summer. Could you please send me information about dates, prices and location.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully.
Rocio Diaz.
I am writing to ask for information about your tennis courses. I am interested in an intensive course of one or two weeks. I am 18 and I study at university in Rosario.
I have looked at your website, but there is no information about courses for next summer. Could you please send me information about dates, prices and location.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours faithfully.
Rocio Diaz.
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