Solutions to exercises on adjectives/verbs + preposition

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Ejercicios de selectividad

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So/such exercises!

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A new trend: Mindfullness courses

Mindfulness is a new trend that many people are following for different reasons. Here you have some information on the topic. Click here to read the article!

PET Vocabulary list

 Remember that I.E.S. Mediterráneo is a
 
 Here you have a list with the basic vocabulary that you should master in order to succeed in your B1 (PET) Cambridge exam!

Chomsky on education

Climate refugees

Do you know what a climate refugee is?  Here is an interesting article on another source of migration caused by global warming. Click here!

Orientaciones PEBAU

Here you have the crireria for PEBAU again! Click here!

Writing for Monday 22nd

1) Is music important in your life?
2) Does consumerism affect our  environment?

Are tatoos an addiction or a fashion?

Are tatoos an addiction or a fashion? What do you think? Read these two articles to know about the topic.

Article 1

Article 2

Health: New addictionss

Here you have an article on addiction to new technologies. Click here! Do you know any other addictions? For example, can one develop an addiction for tatoos?

Sports and health

Have a look at this vídeo on the benefits of sports for your brain and body!To do a listening comprehension of it click here. You just have to click on the answer you think correct. In that link, you can also find two articles related to the topic. Have a look at them!

Topics for the writing section from previous years!

Dear students! Here you have a list of topics for the writing section that have appeared in previous years. Have a look here!

More vocabulary for Selectividad.

More vocabulary for Selectividad. Click here!

More on education: a return to the cane?

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More on education

Verbs and adjectives followed by prepositions

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On tatoos

A recent (or not so recent) trend is tatoos. Have a look at an article on this topic and say what you think
about this trend. Click here!

Shopping and new technologies: e-commerce vs. m-commerce

Here you have an article related to shopping either through your computer or through your smart phone. Have a look here!

Shopping and consumerism

 


Buying any good is not small potatoes! It requires a lot of raw materials and energy. Here you have an article which may interest you! Click here!

Have a look at this video as well, so that you can have an idea of what I mean!

Is context important when appreciating any kind of art?

 

Pearls Before Breakfast: Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let’s find out.

HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L’ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play.

It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour. In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1,097 people passed by. Almost all of them were on the way to work, which meant, for almost all of them, a government job. L’Enfant Plaza is at the nucleus of federal Washington, and these were mostly mid-level bureaucrats with those indeterminate, oddly fungible titles: policy analyst, project manager, budget officer, specialist, facilitator, consultant.

Each passerby had a quick choice to make, one familiar to commuters in any urban area where the occasional street performer is part of the cityscape: Do you stop and listen? Do you hurry past with a blend of guilt and irritation, aware of your cupidity but annoyed by the unbidden demand on your time and your wallet? Do you throw in a buck, just to be polite? Does your decision change if he’s really bad? What if he’s really good? Do you have time for beauty? Shouldn’t you? What’s the moral mathematics of the moment?

 

On that Friday in January, those private questions would be answered in an unusually public way. No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made. His performance was arranged by The Washington Post as an experiment in context, perception and priorities -- as well as an unblinking assessment of public taste: In a banal setting at an inconvenient time, would beauty transcend?

The musician did not play popular tunes whose familiarity alone might have drawn interest. That was not the test. These were masterpieces that have endured for centuries on their brilliance alone, soaring music befitting the grandeur of cathedrals and concert halls.

The acoustics proved surprisingly kind. Though the arcade is of utilitarian design, a buffer between the Metro escalator and the outdoors, it somehow caught the sound and bounced it back round and resonant. The violin is an instrument that is said to be much like the human voice, and in this musician’s masterly hands, it sobbed and laughed and sang -- ecstatic, sorrowful, importuning, adoring, flirtatious, castigating, playful, romancing, merry, triumphal, sumptuous.

 

So, what do you think happened?

Next writing for Tuesday 8th: Do you think learning a foreign language is important?

Some exercises of "would rather"

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Notes on "Would rather"

Here you have some notes on "would rather", an expression used to express preference. You shall complete this handout with whatever piece of information I give in class.

Notes on ING or (TO) +V-infinitive after certain verbs

Here you have a handout about the grammatical point that we have to deal with in class. Click here.