miércoles, 23 de enero de 2013

DOES MONEY REALLY MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND?





At least this is what the famous song "Money" from the film "Cabaret" says.
After getting the lyrics from a running dictation, watch the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xgIBrsDR1g

Do you think money really makes the world go round? Give your opinion. Read the following quotes and check what other people think about this issue.



10 Best Money Quotes

1. When money talks. nobody checks the grammar.
2. A fool and his money are soon parted.
3. The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
4. No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back.
5. "I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money." Pablo Picasso


6. It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. ~George Horace Lorimer
7. "Money has a power above
The stars and fate, to manage love:
Whose arrows, learned poets hold,
That never miss, are tipped with gold."

Samuel Butler

8. Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.
9. Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
10. "The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it."

From http://gurugagandhaari.hubpages.com/hub/10-Best-Money-Quotes

martes, 15 de enero de 2013

POSSIBLE LOTTERY PROJECTS


You are going to decide how to spend some of the government's lottery money on projects for your town. Share your ideas adding comments. Think of answers to these questions:




Is the project necessary?
Will it improve your town?
Is it cheap or expensive?
Who will the project help?
Where are you going to do the project?

domingo, 13 de enero de 2013

Sentence transformation




The ability to rewrite sentences so that they have the same meaning as the original is important to improve your style when using English. In this link you have plenty of examples. Let's pracise.

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bltransform1.htm

http://www.uefap.com/accuracy/exercise/jquiz/trans.htm