Booklet 1

The new booklet is at Picachu photocopy center now.
As you'll see we'll continue talking about weather and then we'll move to "Old age" .
The grammatical point is going to be "future". We'll start with simple future and then we'll move to future continuous and future perfect. Not that difficult, but you need to be careful as they are quite confusing.


Here you have some questions for you to answer on the "comments" section of this blog.
Choose at least 2. You can answer all of them if you want.
Even though these questions may be answered based in your opinion, you need to justify what you say. If you write that you don't like cold weather, for example, say why.

(Please make sure that your name appears somewhere on your post so I can identify you)


1. What do you like and dislike about the climate of your country?
2. What do you like and dislike about the climate of Iquique?
3. How does the climate of a country/city affect the people who live there? Think about these aspects of people's lives:
- their daily routines
- their eating and drinking habits
- their clothes
- their homes and other buildings
- their character and attitude to life
4. Has the weather ever affected your life in a dramatic way?
5. Do you know any old sayings about the weather, like "Red sky at night, sheperds' delight? (you can post some in Spanish if you don't know the English equivalent)

Progress Report

Hi, there!

Check these progress reports and please catch up with the assignments, comments, and translation that must be done and sent.

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgmvk7jn_12hct3vf
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgmvk7jn_11gfc48n

Some help with pronunciation

American English pronunciation practice (lots of quizzes) : http://www.manythings.org/pp/

An English pronouncing dictionary with instant sound:
http://www.howjsay.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml

Theory: (avanced)
http://www.americanaccent.com/intonation.html
http://www.americanaccent.com/pronunciation.html
http://www.americanaccent.com/liaisons.html
http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/ReducedForms.html


26 common English pronunciation problems:
http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/l1spanish.html

Lots of practice in specific accents and sounds:
http://fonetiks.org/


http://www.mybrokenenglish.com/

(requires Flash)
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/test/intro.swf

http://members.fortunecity.com/leanora/engpinen.html

http://www.tutorpal.com/slideshow/