This Week's Romance

This Week's Wedding video was sent to us by Tere (NA2). Although she doesn't know the people, she finds the message very beautiful, and it also helps her improve her listening skill.

This Week's Idea Worth Spreading

Isabel Allende tells tales of passion.

From Idaira NA2

This Week's Photo

 

 

 

In our Intermediate One B class, we've been reading about the photojournalist, Alfred Eisenstaedt. This is one of his most famous photographs. It was taken in New York's Times Square on V-J day, celebrating the end of World War II.

 



This Week's Music

In our NA2 class, we're looking at the theme of Art. Enjoy!

Listening Key CD3: NA2

19

1  the Park rules  2 is illegal  3  seeds and insects  4  uninhabited islands  5  fearless  6 feed
7 litter  8 souvenirs  9 your guide’s instructions

20

1A  2C  3C  4A  5C  6B  7A  8B  9A  10C

21
1  wake up  2  conscious  3  daylight hours  4 measured their levels  5 anticipation  6 inside their minds/brains/heads  7 can control them  8 flying

22
1 tennis final  2 £1265.79  3 membership fees  4 police station  5 Installation of  6 locks  7 £80
8 (new) nets  9 (set of) glasses

This Week's Great Design

Donky Bicycle by Ben Wilson
Donky bike designer Ben Wilson aimed to combine the load-carrying ability of traditional Dutch bikes with the strength and simplicity of a BMX. A steel beam running through the middle of the frame means it can carry heavy loads on both its front and rear platforms.

This Week's Speaking Idea

Readers for this semester: NI1, NI2 and NA2

Strict deadline = Tuesday 7th May 2013.


For NI One. When Summer Comes. CUP. ISBN: 9780521656115 with CDs.

A hot summer and a holiday by the sea: Stephen and Anna Martins are escaping their stressful lives in London, and taking a holiday in the south-west of England. They make friends with a local fisherman, but when Stephen is called back to London for work, Anna is left alone for a few days. And then something happens which changes their lives for ever.

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For NI2: Land of my Childhood: Stories from South Asia. OUP. ISBN: 978-0-19-479235-6 with CDs.

WINNER: The Language Learner Literature Award 2009

'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.'

But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother. The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, M. Athar Tahir, Chitra Divakaruni, Anu Kumar, Anne Ranasinghe, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Vijita Fernando, and Amara Bavani Dev.

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For NA2: Treading on Dreams: stories from Ireland. OUP. ISBN: 978-0-19-479196-0 + CDs.

At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake, playing a tune across the water in the early morning with no other sound in the clear cold air.'

Innocence and experience, loss and longing, humour and sadness run hand in hand through these stories.

The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Irish writers Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien, William Trevor, Lorcan Byrne, Frank O'Connor, Claire Keegan, Eamonn Sweeney, and Somerville & Ross.

Answer Key CD3: NA2

17

1 researching  2 writing  3  loneliness  4 three or four   5 relationships  6 run down
7 two or three weeks  8 pyjamas  9 restaurants  10  expenses

 18

1  ninety minutes  2 twenty minutes  3 rapid-eye movement  4 in colour  5 ten minutes  6  half an hour  7 external sounds  8 stimulation

 19

1  the Park rules  2 is illegal  3  seeds and insects  4  uninhabited islands  5  fearless  6 feed
7 litter  8 souvenirs  9 your guide’s instructions

Answer Key CD3 NI One

11.

1. Monday(s)

2. post office

3. 18 February

4. violin

5. photograph

6. (course) books

 

12.

1F

2T

3F

4T

5F

6F

 

13.

1. The music

2. A piano concert

3. A beach bag

4. Cloudy

5. On the dining room table

6. At the bookshop

7. 3:15

 

14.

1B

2B

3C

4A

5A

6C

 

15.

1. (sandy) beaches

2. 70

3. fan

4. teabags

5. owner

6. flight(s)

 

16.

1T

2F

3F

4F

5T

6T

Week beginning Monday 10th March