giovedì 30 gennaio 2014

Frasi chiavi per la lingua inglese. Settima Serie: Vocabulary. High Intermediate

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Sommario: 1. Learning vocabulary: general advice. –  2. Learning vocabulary: specific techniques. – 3. Organising a vocabulary notebook. - 

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Learnin vocabulary: general advice.

1. What do you need to learn?
2. How many words does the average English speaker use in everyday speech?
3. There are many words in English you din’t need at all.
4. There are other words that you need simply to understand when you read or hear them.
5. There are words which you need to be able to use yourself.
6. The most common words in English are the grammar words, wich you are already knows.

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Learning vocabulary: specific techniques

1. Learn words with associated meanings together.
2. Complete this bubble network for the word dog.
3. Add as many other bubbles as you like.
4. Learn words that form collocations together.
5. The best way to build your collocation knowledge is to notice what other words usually appear with the words you want to learn.
6. Learn words based on the same root together.
7. Pictures might help you remember vocabulary visually.


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Organizing a vocabulary notebook

A notebook
1. While you are learning vocabulary, you should keep a vocabulary notebook, either on paper or electronical.
2. There are many different ways to organize your notebook.
3. Organizing words by meaning.
4. Try dividing your notebook into general sections with different sections.
5. Using various types of diagram.
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Frasi chiavi per la lingua inglese. Sesta Serie: Vocabulary. Upper-intermediate.

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Sommario: 1. Learning vocabulary: general advice. –  2. Learning vocabulary: aids to learning. – 3. Organising a vocabulary notebook. - 

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Learnin vocabulary: general advice.

1. Winston Churchill was famous for his particularly large vocabulary.
2. The most common words in English are the grammar words which you already know..
3. There are many words in English you din’t need at all.
4. There are other words that you need simply to understand when you read or hear them.
5. There are words which you need to be able to use yourself.
6. Clearly you need to spend most time learning this last group.

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Learning vocabulary: aids to learning

1. Learn words with associated meanings together.
2. Learning words together that are associated in meaning is a popular and useful was of organising your vocabulary study.
3. Learn words with a grammatical association together.
4. Learn together words based on the same root.
5. Using pictures and diagrams: pictures meght help you to remember vocabulary.
6. Word trees can be useful.
7. Word forks are good way of learning adjectives and verbs.


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Organising a vocabulary notebook

1. There is no one correct way to organise a vocabulary notebook, but is a good idea to think about a possible way of doing so.
2. Organising words by meaning.
3. Try dividing your notebook into different broad sections, which sections for words for feelings, words to describe place, words for movement, words for thinking, etc.
4. In each section you can build families of words related in meaning.
5. Using various types of diagram.
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Frasi chiavi per la lingua inglese. Quinta Serie: Vocabulary. Pre-intermediate and intermediate.

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Sommario: 1. Country, nationality and language. –  2. The phisical world. – 3. Wheater. - 



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Country, nationality and language

1. I come from Argentina, so I’m Argentinian and my first language is Spanish.
2. The capital is Buenos Aires, wich has a population of more than 10 million people.
3. The continents in the world are Europe, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antartica.
4. We also use these terms for different parts of the world: the Middle East, the Far East, the Caribbean, Scandinavia.
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The phisical world

1. Two thirds of the surface of the Earth is covered in water.
2. El Azizia in Libya is the hottest place in the world, where temperature is over 57 °C have been recorder.
3. The coldest place on earth is probably Vostok in Antarctica, which reached a temperature of minus 89 °C
4. The Krubera-Voronja Cave near the Black Sea coast in Georgia, is the deepest cave in the world.
5. It is over 2000 metres deep.
6. The Beljing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the longest canal in the world.
7. It is 1,794 kilometres long.


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Wheater

1. The sun is shining.
2. The wind is blowing.
3. It’s snowing.
4. It’s raining.
5. It is very cloudy this morning, but the sun came out after lunch.
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Frasi chiavi per la lingua inglese. Quarta Serie: Vocabulary. Elementary.

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Sommario: 1. The family. –  2. Birth, marriage and death. – 3. Parts of the body. - 




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The family

1. Ivan is Anne’s husband and Karen and Karen and Jack’s father.
2. Anne is Anne’s husband and Karen and Jack’s mother.
3. Anne and Ivan are Karen and Jack’s parents.
4. Karen is Anne and Ivan’s daughter. Jack is their son.
5. Karen is Jack’s sister. Jack is Karen’s brother.
6. Karen is Jack’s sister. Jack is Karen’s brother.

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Birth, marriage and death

1. Anna had a baby yesterday.
2. He was born at 1.15 yesterday morning.
3. He weighed 3 kilograms.
4. They are going to call him John - after John, his grandfather.
5. His grandfather’s birthday is June 16th too - but he was born in 1945.
6. The baby’s parents were born in 1974.


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Parts of the body

1. Head and face: hair, eye, nose, tooth / teeth, ear, mouth, lip, neck.
2. Arm and leg: nail, thumb, finger, hand, shoulder, arm, leg, knee, foot / feet, toe.
3. Rest of body: chest, side, stomach, back, waist, hip.
4. We have skin covering our bodies.
5. Inside the body: heart, brain, blood.
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martedì 28 gennaio 2014

Frasi chiavi per la lingua inglese. Terza Serie: Grammatica. Advanced.

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Present continuous and present simple

1. Jean stays with us quite often.
2. The children love having here here.
3. Jean’s with us at the moment.
4. The children are loving having her here.
5. The new treatment for influenza doesn’t appear to work.
6. Madonna is currently appearing in a musical on a Broadway.


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Past simple and present perfect.

1. I didn’t shave this morning.
2. I haven’t shave this morning.
3. The film star Jim Cooper has died of cancer. He was 68 and lived in Texas.
4. A teacher from Oslo has become the first woman to cross the Antartic alone.
5. It took her 42 days to make the crossing with her dog team.
6. The US space shuttle Atlantis has returned safety to earth.



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Past continuous and past simple

1. Sally was reading to the children while Kevin was washing up.
2.When I was learning to drive I was living with my parents.
3. When I learned to drive I was living with my parents.
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Frasi chiavi per la lingua inglese. Seconda Serie: Grammatica. Intermediate.

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Present continuous (I am doing)

1. Sarah is in her car. She is on her way to work. She is driving to work.
2. Please don’t make so much noise. I’m trying to work.
3. Where’s Mark? He’s having a shower.
4. Let’s go out now. It isn’t raining any more.
5. Hello, Jane. Are you enjoying the party?
6. What’s all the noise? What’s going on?


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Present simple (I do)

1. Nurses look after patients in hospital.
2. I usually go away at weekends.
3. The earth goes round the sun.
4. The café opens at 7.30 in the morning.
5. Do I work?
6. Does he drive?



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Past simple (I did) 

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian musicien and composer.
2. He lived from 1756 to 1791.
3. He started composing at the age of five and wrote more than 600 pieces of music.
4. He was only 35 years old when he died.
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lunedì 27 gennaio 2014

Frasi chiavi per la lingua inglese. Prima Serie: Grammatica. Elementary.

Home || → 2ª Serie.
Testo di studio base
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- Dizionari: Dicios - Sansoni - WordR - Pons.
- Coniugazione: Verbix - Coniugator -
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am/is/are

A dog
1. The television is in living-room.
2. I’m 32 years old. My sister is 29.
3. Steve is ill. He’s in bed.
4. Am I late?
5. Is your mother at home?
6. Are your parents at home?
7.  I’m tired, but I’m not hungry.
8. I’m afraid of dogs.
9. My brother is afraid of dogs.
10. Ann and I are good friends.
11. The boy is angry.
12. May father is angry with me.



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I am doing / are you doing?
(present continuous)

A newspaper
1. I’m working. I’m not watching TV.
2. Maria is reading a newspaper.
3. She isn’t eating. 
4. «Are you feeling OK?» «Yes, I’m fine, thanks».
5. Why are you wearing a coat? It’s not cold.
6. What are the children doing? The’re watching television.
7. She’s wearing a hat.
8. It’s raining.
9. Please be quiet. I’m working.
10. The’re playing footbal.



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I do/work/like etc.
(present simple) 

the sun
1. I work in a shop. My brother works in a bank.
2. Lucy lives in London. Her parents live in Scotland.
3. It rains a lot in winter.
4. The heart goes round the sun.
5. I like bog cities.
6. We do a lot of different things in our free time.
7. It costs a lot of money to build a hospital.
8. We go often away at weekends.
9. Sue always gets to work early.
10. I sometimes wlak to work, but not very often.

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I have...
and I’ve got...

1. I have blue eyes = I’ve got blue eyes.
2. Tim has two sister = Tim has got two sisters.
3. Our car has foor doors = Our car has got four doors.
4. Sarah isn’t feeling well. She has a headache = She’s got a headache.
5. They like animals. They have a horse, three dogs and six cats.
6. Thev’ve got a horse.
7. I’ve got a motorbike, but I haven’t got a car.
8. Tracey and Jeff haven’t got any children.
9. It’s a nice house, but it hasn’t got a garden.
10. Have you got a camera? No, I haven’t.

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was/were

1. Now Robert is at work. At midnight last night he wasn’t at work.
2. He was in bed.
3. He was asleep.
4. I am tired. I was tired last night.
5. Where is Kate? Where was Kate yesterday?
6. The weather is good today. The weather was good last Sunday.
7. You are late. You were late yesterday.
8. They aren’t here. They weren’t here last Sunday.
9. Last year Rachel was 22, so she is 23 now.
10. The hotel was confortable, but it wasn’t expensive.

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worked/got/went etc.
(past simple) 

1. They watch television every evening.
2. They watched television yesterday evening.
3. I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleaned my teeth.
4. Terry worked in a bank from 1996 to 2003.
5. Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.
6. We enjoyed the party last night. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people. The party finished at midnight.
7. I usually get up early, but this morning I got up at 9 o’clock.
8. We did a lot of work yesterday.
9. We did a lot of work yesterday.
10. Caroline went to the cinema three times last week.
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