FAMILY MEMBERS (BÁSICO 1-2)

1 Look at Ann’s family tree.

a) Complete Ann’s description of her family by writing the correct name in the gaps.

 

1 __________ and 2 __________, my mother and father, (I call them mum and dad, by the way), have three children, two daughters, me and 3 __________, and one son, 4__________. My older sister, 5 __________, is married and has two children, my niece, 6 __________, and my nephew, 7 __________. Her husband’s name is 8 __________. He’s my brother-in-law, and he’s very nice. My younger brother, 9 __________, is still at school. I have two cousins. One of them, 10 __________, my dad’s brother’s daughter, is a really good friend. The other one, 11 __________, is younger than me, and I don’t know him very well. He lives in Australia with his parents, Uncle 12 __________ and Aunt 13 __________. I know all my other relatives very well. I visit my grandfather, 14__________, and my grandmother, 15 __________, every Sunday. I call them grandad and granny. And my favourite auntie, 16 __________, who is single, is lots of fun.

COLOUR IDIOMS

1. I don't believe in being untruthful, but sometimes it's good to tell a _______ lie to avoid hurting somebody's feelings.

a) grey b) white c) yellow d) green

2. They treat you so well at that hotel. They really give you the _______ carpet treatment.

a) blue b) black c) red d) white

3. You can tell him until you're _______ in the face, but he just won't listen to reason.

a) white b) blue c) red d) purple


4. The caught him _______ as he tried to steal some jeans from the shop.

a) red-handed b) black-handed c) blue-handed d) brown-handed


5. I had a call out of the _______ from an old friend I hadn't seen for twenty years

a) blue b) red c) black d) pink


6. You're luck, always doing nice things. My husband only ever takes me out once in a _______ moon.

a) silver b) blue c) grey d) yellow


7. You look as _______ as a sheet. What's happened?

a) blue b) green c) yellow d) white


8. Money is such a problem these days. I always seem to be in the _________ .

a) black b) blue c) red d) green


9. You should see my mother's garden. She's really got _______ fingers. She can make anything grow.

a) blue b) yellow c) black d) green


10. I played rugby for the first time in ages yesterday. That's why I'm black and ________ all over now.

a) red b) blue c) green d) orange

PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES

Positive Personality Adjectives
A - E Personality Adjectives adaptable adorable agreeable alert alluring ambitious amused boundless brave bright calm capable charming cheerful coherent comfortable confident cooperative courageous credible cultured dashing dazzling debonair decisive decorous delightful detailed determined diligent discreet dynamic eager efficient elated eminent enchanting encouraging endurable energetic entertaining enthusiastic excellent excited exclusive A - E Personality Adjectives	E - P Personality Adjectives exuberant fabulous fair faithful fantastic fearless fine frank friendly funny generous gentle glorious good happy harmonious helpful hilarious honorable impartial industrious instinctive jolly joyous kind kind-hearted knowledgeable level likeable lively lovely loving lucky mature modern nice obedient painstaking peaceful perfect placid plausible pleasant pleasant plucky  E - P Personality Adjectives	P - Z Personality Adjectives productive protective proud punctual quiet receptive reflective relieved resolute responsible rhetorical righteous romantic sedate seemly selective self-assured sensitive shrewd silly sincere skilful smiling splendid steadfast stimulating successful succinct talented thoughtful thrifty tough trustworthy unbiased unusual upbeat vigorous vivacious warm willing wise witty wonderful zany zealous P - Z Personality Adjectives
Positive Personality Adjectives

Negative Personality Adjectives
A - F Personality Adjectives abrasive abrupt abusive afraid aloof ambiguous angry annoyed anxious arrogant ashamed awful bad belligerent bewildered boorish bored boring callous careless clumsy combative confused cowardly crazy creepy cruel cynical dangerous deceitful defeated defective defiant demonic depressed deranged disagreeable disillusioned disturbed domineering draconian embarrassed envious erratic evasive evil faded fanatical A - F Personality	F - R Personality Adjectives fierce filthy finicky flashy flippant foolish forgetful frantic fretful frightened furtive greedy grieving grouchy gruesome grumpy guarded gullible helpless hesitant homeless horrible hungry hurt ignorant ill irresolute jealous jittery lacking lazy lonely malicious materialistic mean mysterious naive nasty naughty nervous noisy obnoxious outrageous panicky pathetic possessive quarrelsome repulsive F - R Personality	R - W Personality Adjectives ruthless sad scary secretive selfish silly slow sneaky snobbish sore spendthrift squeamish stingy strange sulky tacky tense terrible testy thick-skinned thoughtless threatening tight timid tired tiresome troubled truculent typical undesirable unsuitable unsure upset uptight vague vengeful venomous volatile voracious vulgar wary wasteful weak weary wicked worried worthless wretched R - W Personality
Negative Personality Adjectives

HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS (Fill in the gaps) int2-adv2

How To Achieve Success

If you want to be successful in your work and be recognized in your life, then this video shows you how. It gives you the many secrets of success and the means of achieving them.

1. Steps

How to achieve success. This is such a great topic. I have studied some really successful people and this was the basis for a book and what I found was that there was a common denominator with really successful people.

There are few things that are common. The first thing about successful people is that they know where they want to go. They have a really___________________________________________________ and when you say to them what you want, they can tell ____________________________________.

They thought about it. They have __________________ and they are really __________________________. This may change and they may be changing their goals all the time.

But they do know where they want to get. They do know where they want to go from, A to B. And that's the first thing, it's being really clear about where you want to go in order to be successful.

The second thing you really need to be successful is passion. You have to __________________________. So, whatever it is you want to be successful at.

How are your passions? Get the feelings and loving what you do. And the more you love it, the more successful you will be. The third top tip about being successful is that successful people have _______________________________
So, they know what the overall picture looks like and they also have ______________________________. They keep an eye and they track on the little bits in between. So, being able to scope to the real big picture and to get into the nitty gritty detail and not to get bogged down on either of those is one of the top roots to success.

And the next thing is you got to have ________________ to make it. Everyone I know who is incredibly successful seems to emanate sense of "I am going to succeed. I am going to fail on the way. Doesn't matter. I am going to _____________________________. And get there, I am going to get".

So if you have a sense of fired up passion, loving what you do, being really clear about where it is you want to go and having utter faith that you can get there, success is yours.




(*) nitty gritty: The heart of the matter; the basic essentials; the harsh realities.
(**) to be bogged down: get stuck while doing something.

PRONOUNS (BÁSICO 1)

http://personales.ya.com/mjandres/archivos/Pronouns.pdf

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/pronouns/pronouns1.pdf

http://www.tlsbooks.com/pronouns.pdf

http://ies1libertas.edu.gva.es/departamentos/ingles/PDFs/primero/eposp1e1.pdf

http://www.englishbanana.com/using-personal-pronouns-6-bgb58.pdf

http://www.azargrammar.com/assets/advanced/UUEGTeacher-CreatedWorksheets/Worksheets8/PronounExercises.pdf

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY...

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy is a proverb. It means that without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring. (from Wikipedia)

IRREGULAR VERBS

H2OIL

ABOUT THE FILM

Ever wonder where America gets most of its oil? If you thought it was Saudi Arabia or Iraq you are wrong. America’s biggest oil supplier has quickly become Canada’s oil sands. Located under Alberta’s pristine boreal forests, the process of oil sands extraction uses up to 4 barrels of fresh water to produce only one barrel of crude oil.
It goes without saying that water — its depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination — has become the most important issue to face humanity in this century. At the same time, the war for oil is well underway across the globe. A struggle is increasingly being fought between water and oil, not only over them.
Alberta’s oil sands are at the centre of this tension. As the province rushes towards a large-scale extraction, the social, ecological and human impacts are hitting a crisis point. In only a few short years the continent will be a crisscross of pipelines, reaching from the arctic all the way to the southern US, leaving toxic water basins the size of Lake Ontario, and surface-mines as large as Florida.
H2Oil follows a voyage of discovery, heartbreak and politicization in the stories of those attempting to defend water in Alberta against tar sands expansion. Unlikely alliances are built and lives are changed as they come up against the largest industrial project in human history.
Ultimately we ask what is more important, oil or water? And what will be our response?
With hope and courage H2Oil tells the story of one of the most significant, and destructive projects of our time.

More at: http://h2oildoc.com/home/

FROM POACHER TO CONSERVATIONIST

From poacher to conservationist from WWF on Vimeo.

ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

(Poem by Richard Brautigan)