After such hard work with the mid-year exam, how about a change of tune and some fun listening to your classmates pronouncing those so much dreaded words and endings you never wanted to utter? I suggest meeting on Friday March 9th for a pronunciation workshop. Let's say 6 o'clock in our classroom. Everybody is welcome! So... You guys down for it? Yeah!
Ok, guys, after watching the Bicycle Thief episode in class, and revising the vocabulary, I really think you should watch it again, so as to get acquainted with these new words and expressions. Plus, I'm sure you'll be able to catch more funny lines this second time! So just have a laugh with it!
I figure you'd find a cloze exercise pretty timely before the mid-year exam... And, please, do me this favor and do not peek at the answer key until you have sweated on your decisions!
Since it's perfect time in the year to revise the work done in class, here I attach a gapped text on the so-called cyber crime -incidentally a pretty burning subject nowadays-, accompanied by some related vocabulary exercise to work on.
Yesterday we had a pretty interesting discussion about the hazards of plastic bottles, the so-called 6th continent in the Pacific, and civic and corporate responsibilities for all this terrible hazardous waste. Thanks, Silvana, for bringing up this topic! Here follow a brief explanation of this new human-made continent, and the news on this Australian town which banned bottled water.
"There is a patch of floating garbage in the North Pacific.
It is twice the size of Texas.
It is so large, that is has been dubbed the 6th Continent.
It is not a pretty sight and it is killing the ocean.
One of the major causes is people drinking water from plastic bottles.
In the US alone, 173,589,041 plastic bottles are dumped in the oceans
every day.
Yes, you read it right, over 173 million plastic bottles, every day.
People, stop drinking from disposable plastic bottles and switch to
reusable bottles .
It will save you money and give the oceans a chance."
Note on subtitles: If you want to read the English subtitles, click on CC at the bottom of the clip and then click on Transcibir Audio.
