Saturday 19 June 2010

Feedback to comments on previous post

Dear students:

I am very pleased beacuse you liked  the listening activities I posted. Your comments were quite long and very good! Here is  my feedback on some common mistakes.

  • in or at the beginning/the end?
at the beginning means the first part; e.g.: The front matter is at the beginning of the book. The place where something begins or is begun: at the beginning of the road.

in the beginning - with reference to the origin or beginning
primitively, originally

in the end -means finally, at the end of the day.  e.g: Despite all the problems of putting on the play, it was a grand success, and that was all that mattered in the end

At ended, I have remembered a lot of things which made me feel good.
  • It was “Hole in my soul” by Aerosmith and that was hard difficulty (mmm.... This is not a very clear sentence, I am afraid )
  • I don´t know how can I say en English (word order: I can say)
Well, that is all for now. 

Oh, before finishing this post, I would like to give you one more listening activity, but this one is about a song for South Africa Football World Cup,  " Wavin' Flag " by K'nann. If you pay attention, you'll find more interactive activities at the end of the song. Click HERE

Best, Nelba


    7 comments:

    1. Hi, Nelba!
      After having practiced a lot with "lyrics training", the world cup song was very easy to me.
      I can´t believe I hadn´t made any mistake!
      The reading and comprehension activities were easy, but generally I have no problems in this subject. My problem are the listening activities, but I notice that I´m improving a lot with "lyrics training" Thank you.
      Bye
      Ana De Simone
      Adults 5 A

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    2. We have just listened to a song called "without you" by a group called "Blue".
      I think it is a funny song but if you analyses their lyric you find a descripcion about love of a woman. When they mentioned at first material things is like an ironic way.
      "Spending most my nights, lost inside your eyes,
      Wondering how can I ever live without you
      Live without you beside my side."
      A5C

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    3. We had just listen to a song called "Without You" by a grop called "Blue". I´m going to give my opinion about the meaning of what they are singing:

      It´s more than clear than this is a humorous song, because these guys are comparing objects (cellphones, credit cards, and even vehicles)with someone they love. But trying to go deeper, I would say they change their minds as the song goes on: reflecting how they feel after knowing and feeling what love really is.

      Pablo Rimancus A5C

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    4. We have just listened to a song called "Without you" by a group called "Blue". In my opinion it's a song for teenagers; because some young people usually think that when they love someone they need to be with he/she as soon as possible or they'll die. So in that song the idea is to "have" that person, as you have material things. I don't agree with this.

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    5. Hello Nelba,
      I'm happy because Uruguay have just won. Although I'm argentinian I'm happy for them. Well, respect the activities of World cup I could do everything included the "world cup song". I like the lyrics very much and I hope that people of the world listen to it paying attention.
      I like football so I enjoyed doing these excersises. The video is fine and some footballplayers are interesting.
      I hope tomorrow Argentina wins and that our flag could be a "waving flag".
      Thanks again
      Regina A5

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    6. Hello Faba and Regina, the review is great but you should add more pictures of the movie, and it should be longer , but the reading it's great and you have an exelent vocabulary.Thank you for reading my comment, i'm Tomás Solari of adults 5b

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    7. Hi Nelba, sorry for taking so long to answer the activities.
      The Worldcup has finished and i'm very worried beacuse Argentina it could be the finalist of that competition. We losed for 4 goals down, when we had been one of the most important national team to win the Cup.
      At least, "Las leonas" won the Champion Trophy. It's a proud to our country to see this!


      Grettings,

      Gustavo Marder
      Adults 5 A

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