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Palindrome sentences
Read them backwards:
Do geese see God?
Do geese see God?Was it Eliot's toilet I saw?/
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Was it a car or a cat I saw?
Murder for a jar of red rum
Too bad - I hid a boot.
12 April 2011
Dear beginners
Do this online task and check your answers.
Present Simple vs Present Continuous, by Anastasia_p
Find this and other present simple exercises at English Exercises.org
Present Simple vs Present Continuous, by Anastasia_p
Find this and other present simple exercises at English Exercises.org
08 April 2011
03 April 2011
Bread and butter pudding
Simple, fast and delicious! Even for beginner cooks.
Find the recipe here.
How clever I am! I would never have thought that I am able to make and post such a google document!
01 April 2011
Cat-lift! - Funny Videos at Videobash
Cat-lift! - Funny Videos at Videobash
April Fools' Day
Listen to this recording and give short answers to the following questions:
1 How old is this holiday?
2 What did ancient nations celebrate on this day?
3 Which nation started to celebrate New Year on January 1st?
4 What happened to those people who didn't accept this change?
5 Which TV channel enjoys playing tricks on the viewers?
6 Which famous English landmark was declared to undergo significant changes?
7 What will happen - according to a TV channel - if you jump in the air at 9.47 this day?
8 What was the biggest success at Burger King's on this day in 1998?
Here are some fool quotes:
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time." (Abraham Lincoln)
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." (Bruce Willis)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise knows himself to be a fool." (Shakespeare)
31 March 2011
The Common European Framework? We don't need bureaucrats to tell us what to teach! | Oxford University Press
I find this article extremely interesting. I agreed with it before I even came across it. We cannot teach as we think we should because we are restricted by exam regulations coming from ignorant bodies somewhere "out".
The Common European Framework? We don't need bureaucrats to tell us what to teach! Oxford University Press
The Common European Framework? We don't need bureaucrats to tell us what to teach! Oxford University Press
29 March 2011
April Fool's Day
April 1st is approaching, here are some fool quotes:
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time." (Abraham Lincoln)
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." (Bruce Willis)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise knows himself to be a fool." (Shakespeare)
"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."
"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time." (Abraham Lincoln)
"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes." (Bruce Willis)
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise knows himself to be a fool." (Shakespeare)
25 March 2011
The loudest cat in the world
Click on this link to watch and listen to Smokey purr.
Match the decibels with what they refer to. A) 20 B) 65 C) 70 D) 92
i) an average cat's voice
ii) a washing machine
iii) Smokey's purr
iiii) Smokey's purr from 6.5 feet's distance
True or false?
Smokey is unfriendly.
It purrs as loudly as a truck engine.
It doesn't annoy its owners.
The Guiness Book of Records had a category for the loudest cat.
Check this article for the correct answers. http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979157842
i) an average cat's voice
ii) a washing machine
iii) Smokey's purr
iiii) Smokey's purr from 6.5 feet's distance
True or false?
Smokey is unfriendly.
It purrs as loudly as a truck engine.
It doesn't annoy its owners.
The Guiness Book of Records had a category for the loudest cat.
Check this article for the correct answers. http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474979157842
18 March 2011
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