tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70084253404516483722024-02-18T23:45:36.498-08:00Ciclo de Perfeccionamiento 2 - CUIProf. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-54008604766042360762011-11-19T11:29:00.000-08:002011-11-19T11:51:32.557-08:00The British Pub, the heart of England<div><div></div><div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PDEesRBT_Ys?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div><div style="text-align: left;">Carmen: The British pub is said to be “the heart of England”. There are around fifty thousand public houses, or pubs, in the UK.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This is the Crown, a pub in the village of Charlton on Otmore in Oxfordshire. Pub names like “The Crown” and “The Prince of Wales” are very popular and celebrate the royal family.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The pub is a place to meet friends. But they are very different from a café as pubs serve alcohol.</div><div></div><div></div><div>At one point everyone drank beer. The water wasn’t very good so it was safer to drink beer than water. People often called this “small beer”.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Barmaid: Can I get you anything?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: No small, or large beer for me thanks.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In the past, the local pub was the centre of the community. Gossip and business deals happened right here in the pub.</div><div></div><div></div><div>The Crown is more than a hundred years old. The landlord, Mark Franklin, grew up in the village.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: Can I give you a hand with the polishing?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Mark: Yes you can.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: So Mark tell me how important is the pub for the community?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Mark: The pub is very important to the community because it’s the main meeting point for the village.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: So who comes here?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Mark: People come here from all walks of life, old and young. They meet here for darts nights and quiz nights.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: Great, so how has the pub changed over the years?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Mark: The pub has changed in the way we do food here now and we show satellite TV.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: Well many pubs like this in rural areas have closed. Do you think the Crown will stay open?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Mark: I hope the pub will stay open because I feel it’s the heart of the village. Would you like a drink?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: Oh yes please. This is thirsty work.</div><div></div><div></div><div>......</div><div></div><div></div><div>But there’s is a big difference between the rural village pub and pubs in towns and cities. There are many different types of pubs.</div><div></div><div></div><div>There are traditional pubs, famous for games like darts. And gastro pubs. These are pubs that serve expensive food.</div><div></div><div></div><div>There are also pubs that are owned by large companies. These pubs, wherever you are in the UK, all look very similar.</div><div></div><div></div><div>And then there are bars that look a bit like pubs. Like this one.</div><div></div><div></div><div>They seem to be having a good time. But drinking too much has become a problem in the UK.</div><div></div><div></div><div>When people drink a lot and get very drunk very quickly, this is called binge drinking. Binge drinking is increasing in young people.</div><div></div><div></div><div>......</div><div></div><div></div><div>There are several organisations that try to help young people with their drink problems. Glenda Lee works for Turning Point.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: So Glenda, tell me, do you see many young people with alcohol problems?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Glenda: We do, Carmen, we see more young people coming to us for help.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: So what kind of problems does drinking too much alcohol create?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Glenda: Drinking too much alcohol can lead to violence, accidents, to unprotected sex, to addiction and the possibility of death.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: Is it getting worse?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Glenda: Yes, the problem is getting worse. We’ve seen an increase in the past four years of young people and young adult drinking and especially binge drinking.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: So what are you doing about it?</div><div></div><div></div><div>Glenda: One thing that Turning Point is doing about it is a product called a binge pack. Inside is information about drinking, about how much is too much. We have a condom to encourage safe sex – and that’s a binge pack.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Carmen: Going to the pub is an important part of British culture. And drinking too much has become a problem. But going to the pub doesn’t mean you have to drink alcohol… I’m going to have a nice cup of tea!</div></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-8078375880450153482011-11-19T11:24:00.000-08:002011-11-19T11:47:38.070-08:00A Night Out - Scene 2<div><p style="margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; text-align: -webkit-auto; background-color: rgb(232, 240, 215); "><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 51, 0); ">VIDEO 1</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><b><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1wjE8UxUako" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></b></span></span></span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: This was Stephen’s idea. He loves clubbing, but this really isn’t my kind of music! I don’t know why I put up with him sometimes.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">S</span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; "><b>tephen: What’s wrong, Ash? Surely you must like this. It’s great! I’m just getting warmed up!</b></b></p><p></p><p></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: Oh Stephen I can hardly hear you. What did you say?</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: I said the music’s great. Why aren’t you dancing?</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: You must be joking, it sounds like a car alarm. It’s giving me a headache. I can’t stand this kind of music.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: Oh, but dance music’s much better...</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: You know I’m going to speak to the DJ.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: Ashlie! What are you doing? You’ve cleared the dance floor. This is a dance club, not some pop venue.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: Well, I couldn’t listen to that noise anymore.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: Come on. Let’s get out of here before people start complaining!</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">.....</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: Listen - we’ve tried live music, a club and a pub and I’ve just had a message from Sally and she says there’s a party at her friend’s house. Come on, let’s get a taxi. You don’t have to get up early tomorrow, do you?</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: No, but we won’t know anyone there. Are you sure we can we just turn up? Are they going to let us in?</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: Yes - I’m sure - we’ll just tell them you’re with me. Come on, I’ve got to look up her address.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">......</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: Hey guys, all right...</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">......</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: This is such a great house for a party.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: Yes, it is, isn’t it? Except someone’s just turned up that terrible music. We haven’t been very lucky tonight, have we?</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: For once I agree with you. I thought coming to a house party would be better than a club. You know, we could chat, meet some really cool people but this is awful.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: Right – that’s it. We’ve spent the whole night complaining about music. Come on, we’re off!</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">......</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Stephen: I can’t believe it. We were looking for the perfect night out and look where we ended up.</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Ashlie: Oh, I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we make our own music!</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Neighbour: Oi! Keep the noise down!</span></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p></div><div><p></p><p style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; text-align: center; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">VIDEO 2</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><b><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fSypgIpnSlo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></b></span></span></span></p><p></p></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-50208684903393536072011-11-12T14:12:00.000-08:002011-11-12T14:30:27.201-08:00A Night Out - Scene 1London has the best nightclubs in the world and there are plenty of great clubs for you to choose from. From the biggest superclubs, to intimate boutique clubs; London clubbing is like no other in the world. Visit world reknowned London Club Ministry of Sound and if you like West End clubs then Piccadilly Institute is a new super club. New Years Eve 2011 Parties and Clubbing and great London student nights.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">VIDEO 1</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MDbd9r0aX2U?hl=en&fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></span></b></div><br />Ashlie: That should do it. The Yorkshire Grey in half an hour... I’m here in Covent Garden and we’re going on a night out. It’s the very centre of London – a place where lots of people come to meet up and hit the town. Now, Stephen should be here any minute.<br />Stephen: Hi Ash. Sorry I’m late. Have you heard from Caroline and Carl?<br />Ashlie: Yes, they’re at the Yorkshire Grey. Just round the corner. Come on.<br />Stephen: You alright?<br />Ashlie: How are you?<br />Stephen: Hi Carline – how’ve you been?<br />Caroline: Yeah good – so great to see you.<br />Carl: How are you? How’s things?<br />Ashlie: Really good. You?<br />Carl: Yeah – good thanks.<br />Ashlie: Go on then Stephen – get us some drinks.<br />Stephen: Ok – what will you have?<br />Ashlie: I’ll have a sparkling water and what are you having, Caroline?<br />Caroline: Er, a glass of white wine.<br />Ashlie: And a glass of white for Caroline. Ooh and get us some crisps, salt and vinegar.<br />Stephen: And how about you Carl? What can I get you?<br />Carl: Thanks Stephen, I’ll have a pint of lager.<br />Ashlie: Come on then. Let’s go and sit down.<br />Carl: I’ll give you a hand.<br /><br />......<br /><br />Stephen: Hi there. Can I have a sparkling …<br />Stephen: Sorry - Hi Phil? This really isn’t a good time. I’ll call you back in er...10 minutes? OK. Yeah. Right. Um, can I have a sparkling water, a glass of white wine, a coke, a pint of lager - and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps, please?<br />Barmaid: There’s the lager, a sparkling water, a cola and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps.... Is there anything else?<br />Stephen: That’s it thanks.<br />Barmaid: That’s nine ninety, please.<br />Stephen: Here you go, 10 pounds. Keep the change.<br /><br />......<br /><br />Ashlie: Here they are. You guys took your time.<br />Stephen: Big queue at the bar. There you go.<br />Ashlie: Thank you.<br />Ashlie: So, what’s the plan for tonight then?<br />Stephen: Well, we could go to another pub? Or we could… Phil called. I said I’d call him back.<br />Ashlie: Ah - I’ll give him a ring. His band might be playing tonight. I’ll just pop outside. I’ll be back in a sec.<br />Caroline: What sort of music is it?<br />Stephen: Do you know what … it’s a bit … it’s not my kind of thing…<br />Ashlie: Right guys. Listen. Phil’s band are playing tonight in Brixton and if we leave now we’ll make it just in time.<br />Carl: OK then, lets go.<br />Ashlie: Come on then, let’s get a taxi.<br /><br />......<br /><br />Ashlie: Wow, they’re so cool!<br />Stephen: Hmmm.<br />Singer: Thank you very much. We’re the Rum Shebeens. Goodnight.<br />Ashlie: They were excellent. They were so good!<br />Stephen: Ah - I’m not sure about the music. It’s not exactly my kind of thing. You can’t really dance to it, can you? You know what guys, I think we should go dancing. I know a great place.<br />Carl: Actually, it’s getting quite late.<br />Stephen: Oh, come on.<br />Carl: Sorry, I’ve got to go to work in the morning.<br />Caroline: Me too, Stephen. I’m sorry. We’ll get a taxi home.<br />Stephen: OK, nevermind. It looks like it’s just me and you, kid!<br />Ashlie: Well, actually Stephen, it is late and...<br />Stephen: Oh come on, don’t be so boring. I want to dance.<br />Ashlie: Oh, alright, then. See you later guys!<br />Caroline: Have a good night. See you later!<br />Ashlie: See you!<br />Carl: Bye.<br />Stephen: Have a good night – take care!<br />Ashlie: Right then. Where are you taking me?<br />Stephen: You’re going to love it.<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>VIDEO 2</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/EF6H0GppqBw?hl=en&fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></b></span></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-40687746925792250202011-10-09T18:12:00.000-07:002011-10-09T18:19:58.334-07:00CNN Student News - Oct 10, 2011<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">It's Columbus Day, and CNN Student News commemorates the occasion by exploring the history of this holiday. We also consider how the U.S. economy might impact next year's presidential election. We offer some students' thoughts on how to stop bullying. And we meet a runner whose personal goal is more than 200,000 miles away. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/4/2/5042856/cnn_-_columbus_day.pdf">Transcription downloadable here.</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UNxEwyO_Vsc?hl=en&fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-76858249274016235872011-10-09T16:05:00.000-07:002011-10-09T16:11:40.963-07:00My life in the UK<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3WTYVAJm__k1818RST3Mn19SA0OQ8sI27ow89xVDDiFPFBMQ8dU2L0-7M2ifqvY0RfT0SGLCqF3BEwtA3My6AKnhLWRBGKB1EkLfA9b4ZCgI7sczWso1gD60rImRS-NKph6hoLapXqOKA/s1600/union_jack.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 167px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3WTYVAJm__k1818RST3Mn19SA0OQ8sI27ow89xVDDiFPFBMQ8dU2L0-7M2ifqvY0RfT0SGLCqF3BEwtA3My6AKnhLWRBGKB1EkLfA9b4ZCgI7sczWso1gD60rImRS-NKph6hoLapXqOKA/s200/union_jack.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661633160058007826" border="0" /></a>Have you ever studied abroad? How different is it from studying in your home country?<div class="field field-type-text field-field-text-footer"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd"> <p>Would you choose to live with a host family or your fellow students in a dormitory if you studied overseas? Why?</p> <p>Some people may experience culture shock when they first study or live in a foreign country. Are there any ways to overcome or cope with these negative feelings?</p><p><br /></p><p>A fellow student from Hong Kong tells us her experience studying in the UK.<br /></p><p><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 0);" href="http://c0953132.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/iwta-uk.mp3">Hear the podcast by clicking here!</a><br /></p><div class="field field-type-text field-field-tapescript"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p align="justify">I wanna talk about my life in UK. I went to study in the UK a few years ago. The most exciting experience is that I went to a <b>host family</b> for my Christmas holiday in December. I went there alone…on a train, it took me one or two hours to get there, to York and then I stayed there for one week. This was the first time that I spent time with a UK family which I learnt a lot from them. They treat me like a family member, they took me out to eat, to play and to see all the different interesting culture of their region. On Christmas Day, they even bought me some presents to celebrate the Christmas. </p> <p align="justify">When I went back to Oxford, which was the place that I stayed for that year, I had a chance to teach in a Chinese school every Sunday. The kids are about 14 years old and I taught them Chinese. They were all very cute but they all speak (spoke) in English. I spent lots of time to <b>encourage</b> them to speak in Cantonese. </p> <p align="justify">During my study (studies) in the UK, I lived with few other students from different countries. They are very nice and we use to cook on our own just like a big family. Every day we will go to…every day we went to supermarkets to buy food and drinks and desserts. We cooked every day…I was not a good cook, normally I just put everything into oven. And I’ve tried to bake a cake before but failed and they all laughed at me. And every time when I bake a cake, they never taste it. We share a flat together - we share kitchen, bathrooms but we do have our own sink and bedroom. The life in the UK is quite relaxing besides study because you can <b>explore</b> more and do different activities at school or even some other <b>extracurricular</b> <b>activities</b>. </p> <p align="justify">After I come back (to) Hong Kong, I still <b>keep in touch</b> with all my friends in the UK, from different countries like Italy, Malaysia, Japan, UK and other countries. Sometimes we even send email(s) to each other, sometimes they may come to Hong Kong to visit and we will meet each other again. </p> <p align="justify">I really enjoy the time in the UK, I hope you will also have the chance to explore more in other different countries in the future.<br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-34193984590756383152011-10-09T10:33:00.000-07:002011-10-09T10:52:04.914-07:00Daughter of ‘Dirty War,’ Raised by Man Who Killed Her Parents<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: arial;">Victoria Montenegro was abducted as a newborn by a military colonel. She testified last spring in the trial over baby thefts. This is a report taken from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/world/americas/argentinas-daughter-of-dirty-war-raised-by-man-who-killed-her-parents.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y">The New York Times</a> on October 8, 2011 by <a rel="author" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/alexei_barrionuevo/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More Articles by Alexei Barrionuevo" class="meta-per">Alexei Barrionuevo.</a> The article makes reference to the Oscar-winning Argentine film <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089276/">"The Official Story,"</a> which we post after the article with subtitles in English (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Official-Story-historia-oficial/dp/B0002TSZKG">as released in the USA in 2004</a>)<br /> <br />BUENOS AIRES — Victoria Montenegro recalls a childhood filled with <span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"><span class=" down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_CreateLink" title="Enlace"><img src="img/blank.gif" alt="Enlace" class="gl_link" border="0" /></span></span>chilling dinnertime discussions. Lt. Col. Hernán Tetzlaff, the head of the family, would recount military operations he had taken part in where “subversives” had been tortured or killed. The discussions often ended with his “slamming his gun on the table,” she said. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;" class="articleBody"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div class="articleInline runaroundLeft"> <div> </div> <div class="inlineImage module"> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="image"> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center;" class="icon enlargeThis"><a> <img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/10/09/world/americas/ARGENTINA/ARGENTINA-articleInline.jpg" alt="" height="127" width="190" /> </a></div> <a> </a> </div><a> </a>It took an incessant search by a human rights group, a DNA match and almost a decade of overcoming denial for Ms. Montenegro, 35, to realize that Colonel Tetzlaff <a> </a>was, in fact, not her father — nor the hero he portrayed himself to be. </div></div> <p> Instead, he was the man responsible for murdering her real parents and illegally taking her as his own child, she said. </p> <p> He confessed to her what he had done in 2000, Ms. Montenegro said. But it was not until she testified at a trial here last spring that she finally came to grips with her past, shedding once and for all the name that Colonel Tetzlaff and his wife had given her — María Sol — after falsifying her birth records. </p> <p> The trial, in the final phase of hearing testimony, could prove for the first time that the nation’s top military leaders engaged in a systematic plan to steal babies from perceived enemies of the government. </p> <p> Jorge Rafael Videla, who led the military during <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/argentina/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about Argentina." class="meta-loc">Argentina</a>’s dictatorship, stands accused of leading the effort to take babies from mothers in clandestine detention centers and give them to military or security officials, or even to third parties, on the condition that the new parents hide the true identities. Mr. Videla is one of 11 officials on trial for 35 acts of illegal appropriation of minors. </p> <p> The trial is also revealing the complicity of civilians, including judges and officials of the <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Roman Catholic Church." class="meta-org">Roman Catholic Church</a>. </p> <p> The abduction of an estimated 500 babies was one of the most traumatic chapters of the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. The frantic effort by mothers and grandmothers to locate their missing children has never let up. It was the one issue that civilian presidents elected after 1983 did not excuse the military for, even as amnesty was granted for other “dirty war” crimes. </p> <p> “Even the many Argentines who considered the amnesty a necessary evil were unwilling to forgive the military for this,” said José Miguel Vivanco, the Americas director for <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/h/human_rights_watch/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Human Rights Watch" class="meta-org">Human Rights Watch</a>. </p> <p> In Latin America, the baby thefts were largely unique to Argentina’s dictatorship, Mr. Vivanco said. There was no such effort in neighboring Chile’s 17-year dictatorship. </p> <p> One notable difference was the role of the Catholic Church. In Argentina <a title="Times article" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/world/americas/17church.html">the church largely supported</a> the military government, while in Chile it confronted the government of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and sought to expose its human rights crimes, Mr. Vivanco said. </p> <p> Priests and bishops in Argentina justified their support of the government on national security concerns, and defended the taking of children as a way to ensure they were not “contaminated” by leftist enemies of the military, said <a title="Nobel bio" href="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1980/esquivel-bio.html">Adolfo Pérez Esquivel</a>, a <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/nobel_prizes/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about Nobel Prizes." class="meta-classifier">Nobel Prize</a>-winning human rights advocate who has investigated dozens of disappearances and testified at the trial last month. </p> <p> Ms. Montenegro contended: “They thought they were doing something Christian to baptize us and give us the chance to be better people than our parents. They thought and felt they were saving our lives.” </p> <p> Church officials in Argentina and at the Vatican declined to answer questions about their knowledge of or involvement in the covert <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/a/adoptions/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier" title="More articles about adoptions." class="meta-classifier">adoptions</a>. </p> <p> For many years, the search for the missing children was largely futile. But that has changed in the past decade thanks to more government support, advanced forensic technology and a growing genetic data bank from years of testing. The latest adoptee to recover her real identity, Laura Reinhold Siver, brought the total number of recoveries to 105 in August. </p> <p> Still, the process of accepting the truth can be long and tortuous. For years, Ms. Montenegro rejected efforts by officials and advocates to discover her true identity. From a young age, she received a “strong ideological education” from Colonel Tetzlaff, an army officer at a secret detention center. </p> <p> If she picked up a flier from leftists on the street, “he would sit me down for hours to tell me what the subversives had done to Argentina,” she said. </p> <p> He took her along to a detention center where he spent hours discussing military operations with his fellow officers, “how they had killed people, tortured them,” she said. </p> <p> “I grew up thinking that in Argentina there had been a war, and that our soldiers had gone to war to guarantee the democracy,” she said. “And that there were no disappeared people, that it was all a lie.” </p> <p> She said he did not allow her to see movies about the “dirty war,” including “<a title="More about the movie on IMDb" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089276/">The Official Story</a>,” the 1985 film about an upper-middle-class couple raising a girl taken from a family that was disappeared. </p> <p> In 1992, when she was 15, Colonel Tetzlaff was detained briefly on suspicion of baby stealing. Five years later, a court informed Ms. Montenegro that she was not the biological child of Colonel Tetzlaff and his wife, she said. </p> <p> “I was still convinced it was all a lie,” she said. </p> <p> By 2000, Ms. Montenegro still believed her mission was to keep Colonel Tetzlaff out of prison. But she relented and gave a DNA sample. A judge then delivered jarring news: the test confirmed that she was the biological child of Hilda and Roque Montenegro, who had been active in the resistance. She learned that she and the Montenegros had been kidnapped when she was 13 days old. </p> <p> At a restaurant over dinner, Colonel Tetzlaff confessed to Ms. Montenegro and her husband: He had headed the operation in which the Montenegros were tortured and killed, and had taken her in May 1976, when she was 4 months old. </p> <p> “I can’t bear to say any more,” she said, choking up at the memory of the dinner. </p> <p> A court <a title="Case summary (in Spanish)" href="http://www.prensaanm.com.ar/informe/Buenos%20Aires.html?zoom_highlight=TETZLAFF">convicted Colonel Tetzlaff</a> in 2001 of illegally appropriating Ms. Montenegro. He went to prison, and Ms. Montenegro, still believing his actions during the dictatorship had been justified, visited him weekly until his death in 2003. </p> <p> Slowly, she got to know her biological parents’ family. </p> <p> “This was a process; it wasn’t one moment or one day when you erase everything and begin again,” she said. “You are not a machine that can be reset and restarted.” </p> <p> It fell to her to tell her three sons that Colonel Tetzlaff was not the man they thought he was. </p> <p> “He told them that their grandfather was a brave soldier, and I had to tell them that their grandfather was a murderer,” she said. </p> <p> When she testified at the trial, she used her original name, Victoria, for the first time. “It was very liberating,” she said. </p> <p> She says she still does not hate the Tetzlaffs. But “the heart doesn’t kidnap you, it doesn’t hide you, it doesn’t hurt you, it doesn’t lie to you all of your life,” she said. “Love is something else.” </p> <p> </p> <div class="authorIdentification"> <div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/sBvLERxVTkM?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/kChHDSteUpo?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OmFkSpUZ6YE?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2ms-200VD2M?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/S_6iH9FJkVI?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gFxMABCIyAo?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dqPpyx3TI0w?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pZP3JL4eMgs?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bq0JM2Dqgt0?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/siceQW8wcCA?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/t7K6aUWRmxk?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> <br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vfYePg3x3Hc?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /> </div> </div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-22063020772543134932011-09-25T08:24:00.000-07:002011-09-25T08:42:18.948-07:00Good Theatre in NYC<div style="text-align: justify;">Before the fall season on Broadway swings into high gear, a specialiazed critic checked back in with two of last season's Tony-winning hits to see how they are holding up and filed the following review.<br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/4/2/5042856/theatergoers_hoping_to_check_out_broadway.pdf">Transcription downloadable here!</a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OCVTnN_ee2c?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe><br /><br />Trailer to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.warhorseonbroadway.com/">War Horse</a><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q-bni4QqSv4?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.anythinggoesonbroadway.com/">Anything Goes (2011 B'way Revival)</a> on ABC News<br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6WjTaMZyS70?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-89285906657368597802011-09-17T14:32:00.000-07:002011-09-17T14:45:34.543-07:00Bestival - Part 2<p style="text-align: center;"> <strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Video 1</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rhWZ7AVYt8w?hl=en&fs=1" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe></span><br /></strong></p><p><strong>Stephen</strong>: Morning Ashlie.</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: Morning.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Sleep well?</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Come on Ash, get up. </p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: I need coffee!</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: I'll put the kettle on. Oh Ash, we forgot the sugar. I'll see if any of the other campers have some.</p> <p class="rtecenter"> <strong>......</strong></p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Hi there.</p> <p> <strong>Camper</strong>: Hello.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Erm... I was I wondering if I could borrow some sugar?</p> <p> <strong>Camper</strong>: Yes sure, here you go.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Ah thanks. Hi, I'm Stephen, and that's my sister Ashlie over there.</p> <p> <strong>Camper</strong>: Pleased to meet you. My name's Andy.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Where are you from?</p> <p> <strong>Camper</strong>: I'm from Sheffield. Where are you guys from?</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Ah, we're from London. Great tent!</p> <p> <strong>Camper</strong>: Yeah it is great, isn't it? It's got two sections; one for sleeping one for cooking.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Is it easy to put up?</p> <p> <strong>Camper</strong>: It's really, really easy actually. All modern tents are simple to put up.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Er yeah. They are, aren't they?</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: Stephen, kettle's boiled!</p> <p class="rtecenter"> <strong>......</strong></p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Er - excuse me, when's your next show?</p> <p> <strong>Performer</strong>: In an hour.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: So, who are you?</p> <p> <strong>Performer</strong>: We're the River People Theatre Company – we do folk theatre with puppetry and live music.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: So do you get to travel much around the country?</p> <p> <strong>Performer</strong>: Yeah – a bit – we've started. This is our first big festival. Er... and so we're going to do a bigger show and do more next year … going to do all the festivals next year.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Ah wonderful – well, hopefully I'll catch your next show.</p> <p> <strong>Performer</strong>: Yeah. Thanks very much.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Take care – bye!</p> <p class="rtecenter"> <strong>......</strong></p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Look Ash, a yoga class. Let's join in.</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: It might be a bit advanced for you.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: I'll be fine, just watch me.</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: If you're sure.</p> <p class="rtecenter"> <strong>......</strong></p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Er... Ashlie, I don't think I can get up. Can you give me a hand?</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie:</strong> Come on you. I think you need a bit more practice.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: What do you mean? I'm a natural!</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: Hmm yeah. I'm starving. I think it's time for something to eat.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Yeah - let's go back and have a BBQ back at the campsite.</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: Great idea!</p> <p class="rtecenter"> <strong>......</strong></p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Right, I'm an expert at this. I've got my charcoal, all I need is dry sticks and a stone.</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: How about some matches?</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: That's cheating.</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: But I'm really hungry!</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: OK, OK. </p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: Here you go.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Do we have any bread?</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: Ah no - I'll have to go and get some.</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Great.</p> <p class="rtecenter"> <strong>......</strong></p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: Stephen – it's burning!</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Oh no…</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: The food, it's on fire!</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: Oh the food's ruined!</p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: And my tent is soaking – come on! We can't cook anything else on that now. We'll have to go into town and get some more food.</p> <p class="rtecenter"> <strong>......</strong></p> <p> <strong>Ashlie</strong>: Stephen! It won't start!!</p> <p> <strong>Stephen</strong>: What are we going to do, we're stranded!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Video 2</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K1OLgIkQZqA?hl=en&fs=1" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe><br /></span></strong></p>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-60151113665766989992011-08-16T12:25:00.000-07:002011-08-16T12:53:57.736-07:00Bestival - Part 1<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">Video 1</span>
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<br />Ashlie: Oh look, Stephen. I can see the Isle of Wight.
<br />Stephen: Ah – you'll never guess what I've done.
<br />Ashlie: What Stephen? I don't believe it. What have you forgotten?
<br />Stephen: I don't have my passport!
<br />Ashlie: Stephen, we're not leaving England. You don't need your passport.
<br />Stephen: Oh, so you mean I don't need any foreign money after all?
<br />Ashlie: Ha ha - very funny. We're heading to a music festival on the Isle of Wight. It's an island on the south coast of England.
<br />Stephen: It's called Bestival, and I can't wait. There's going to be music, food and camping.
<br />Ashlie: I love camping; fresh air, stars at night...
<br />Stephen: Don't you mean, er, insects, cold showers and sleeping on the ground?
<br />Ashlie: It's going to be brilliant, Stephen. I just hope the weather's good, I do not fancy camping in the rain.
<br />Stephen: Well, you know what I always say; be prepared! So I've brought clothes for any weather. We'll be fine.
<br />Ashlie: Well, we're almost there. So we better head to the van. Come on you.
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<br />Stephen: I'm so glad we borrowed a camper van.
<br />Ashlie: It's cool, isn't it. Very retro!
<br />Stephen: I know. There aren't too many of these vans still around. This one's nearly forty years old.
<br />Ashlie: Oh, so just a bit older than you then!
<br />Stephen: Ha-ha. Come on. I want to have a look round the festival.
<br />Ashlie: OK, well I saw some interesting stalls over there.
<br />Stephen: Oh, I want to go to the main stage. I want to see some live music.
<br />Ashlie: OK, well I will meet you at the tea tent then in an hour. Have fun!
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<br />Ashlie: Oh! Hey you scared me there! You guys look great. What have you come as?
<br />Festival Goer 1: Erm, the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland.
<br />Ashlie: Oh wow. I've noticed a lot of people in fancy dress, actually. What's going on?
<br />Festival Goer 2: Oh it's erm – at this festival, every year, everybody gets dressed up.
<br />Festival Goer 1: And the theme this year is fantasy.
<br />Ashlie: So what does fantasy mean?
<br />Festival Goer 2: Fantasy means anything from outer space to Alice in Wonderland.
<br />Ashlie: Well, I must say you guys look amazing. I'll have to remember that one for next year. Have a nice festival guys!
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<br />Waitress: Hi, can I help?
<br />Ashlie: Oh yes. Can I get tea for two, please?
<br />Waitress: Would you like a high tea?
<br />Ashlie: That would be lovely, yes please.
<br />Waitress: I'll just be a minute.
<br />Ashlie: Thank you
<br />Stephen: Hey Ash!
<br />Ashlie: Wow Stephen!
<br />Stephen: Did you order tea?
<br />Ashlie: Yeah. Nice fantasy costume. But what on earth are you? You look like an alien.
<br />Stephen: What are you talking about? This is my rain gear. I thought I felt a few drops earlier.
<br />Ashlie: Oh.
<br />Waitress: High tea for two.
<br />Ashlie: Thank you.
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<br />Ashlie: Come on then, let's set up camp.
<br />Stephen: Are you really going to sleep in your tent, Ash?
<br />Ashlie: Of course I am. I love sleeping under the stars, you know, getting closer to nature.
<br />Stephen: Well, I'm staying in the camper van. I don't want to sleep on the ground.
<br />Ashlie: Stephen you can't do that. That's not proper camping.
<br />Stephen: Yes, but I've got running water and…even a fridge.
<br />Ashlie: Well, I still say that that's not real camping.
<br />Stephen: It is to me and besides, you snore.
<br />Ashlie: I do not!
<br />Ashlie: Where's my tent?
<br />Stephen: There you go. We need to get everything sorted before it gets dark.
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<br />Stephen: Right, that's me done!
<br />Stephen: Do you need a hand?
<br />Ashlie: I think there's another pole or something somewhere.
<br />Stephen: Are you sure you don't want any help?
<br />Ashlie: No, I'm fine, I know what I'm doing.
<br />Stephen: OK, if you're sure.
<br />Ashlie: I think I've sorted it... Ta da!
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<br />Stephen: Right, I'm off to bed. See you in the morning.
<br />Ashlie: OK, night!
<br />Stephen: Night!
<br />Ashlie: Stephen!
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<br /></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-24674608031827032612011-07-21T09:33:00.000-07:002011-07-21T09:43:36.070-07:00Ethical Shopping in the UK<div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/sites/podcasts/files/imagecache/widescreen/image/iStock_000011010616XSmall.jpg" alt="Image" title="" class="imagecache imagecache-widescreen imagecache-default imagecache-widescreen_default" height="80" width="300" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-text-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p>Are you after value for money when you're shopping for fashion; or fashion that's made with values? <a href="http://www.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/4/2/5042856/uk-culture-ethical-shopping.mp3"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Listen and find out more.</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">Hello and welcome to Trend UK, your shortcut to popular culture from the British Council. In the next few minutes we’re going to be asking whether you’re after value for money when you’re shopping for fashion; or fashion that’s made with values. We’re all after a bargain on the high street. But how often do you stop to consider how some stores seem to stock low-cost/high fashion items quicker and more cheaply than others? Fulfilling our needs for fast fashion means increased production and competition in clothing made in countries with low-wage economies. Our reporter Mark has been to the high street to find out more.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Here in a typical British high street there are plenty of bargains to be had. Handbags at £3.99, T-shirts for a fiver and shoes for under a tenner - all roughly equivalent to the price of an everyday meal. But how many of the people shopping in this high street have stopped to think about how it’s possible to sell clothes so cheaply? Is it because some companies are turning a blind eye to the exploitation in the countries where these items are made? Ruth Rothelson is an expert on ethical shopping from the Ethical Consumer Research Association, who amongst other things produced the magazine ‘Ethical Consumer’.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Ruth, just tell us what the Ethical Consumer Research Association is.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">OK, well the Ethical Consumer Research Association exists to provide information for shoppers, letting them know what the companies are doing behind the brands that they see on the shelves.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">So what makes an ethical shopper?</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Very broadly speaking, people who are concerned about ethical issues want to know that the product they’re buying hasn’t been made at the expense of the people who are producing it, whether it’s in this country or abroad. They might also be concerned with other kinds of issues: whether the company is involved in armaments, or whether they’re donating money to certain political parties. And that as a shopper, you might not want to give your money to that party so therefore you might not want to buy a product from a company who is supporting a political party that you don’t agree with.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">And is there any kind of rule of thumb? Is something that’s more expensive, for example, likely to be more ethical?</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately it isn’t always the case that the more expensive something is, the more ethical it is. We can buy very cheap products and it’s very likely that when products are cheap, something has suffered in order to get it to us. Whether it’s the person making it or the animals or the environment. Quality however, is often a good indicator whether something, especially with clothes, has been made well. And unfortunately a lot of ethical products will cost more because they reflect the real cost of bringing that thing into the shops. So something that has been made in a factory where the workers have been paid a proper wage will cost you more to buy, simply because the people making it are getting paid enough to live on.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Do you have to be well off then to be an ethical shopper?</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">It really depends. You don’t have to be rich to be an ethical shopper. One way of thinking about ethical shopping is thinking about buying less. Sometimes we buy an awful lot more than we need. We buy more items of clothing than we need. So being an ethical shopper really means thinking a bit before you go and spend your money in the shops. Some things may cost a little bit more in the short-run, but be worth it in the long-run. If you are paying for quality, something will last you longer and then save you money. And sometimes you can buy things second-hand. There’s a lot of charity shops on the high street to buy good clothes. Sometimes you can look a lot better than someone who’s just bought off the high street because you can have quite a unique look, and the quality that you find in most second-hand shops is really very good these days. So it’s about thinking before you shop.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Thanks Ruth. Now among the shoppers here I’ve got Lauren and Bella. Starting with you Bella, would you consider shopping ethically?</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Definitely for food. And clothing, well, when I buy clothes I wouldn’t want to think of them being made in a sweat shop.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Lauren you do shop ethically. But you’ve got a slightly different take on it haven’t you.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Yeah I suppose I shop ethically but my original thing for that was that I like to wear clothes that are different from everyone else. So I would start shopping for vintage clothes. So ethically, obviously they’re second-hand so…also I buy a lot of clothes from market stalls, from fashion students maybe. So they’re all made here, so they would be made ethically as well.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Thanks Lauren, thanks Bella. Well it’s an interesting debate, and I’ll certainly be doing my clothes shopping with a little bit more care in future.</p> </div> </div> </div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-70024535078982309452011-06-20T12:24:00.001-07:002011-06-20T12:24:25.534-07:00Falkland man chooses Argentine citizenship<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(80, 80, 80); line-height: 16px; font-family:Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" ><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; ">A British man, born on the Falkland Islands has become the first person from there to chose Argentine citizenship.</p><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; ">James Peck was handed his national identity card by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, during a ceremony to mark the 29th anniversary of the end of the Falklands War.</p><p style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; clear: both; font-size: 1.077em; text-rendering: auto; ">Peck's father fought for the British during the conflict.</p></span><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qQfIzfxJ0J8?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-37083948714766557452011-06-20T12:11:00.000-07:002011-06-20T12:12:21.443-07:00Treasures of Heaven at The British Museum<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" ><b><span class="Apple-style-span">Treasures of Heaven. Saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe at The British Museum.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); "> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" ><span class="Apple-style-span">So, if you are planning a trip to London, do not miss this exhibition. And if you stay in Argentina, just enjoy this great video. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" >This major exhibition brings together for the first time some of the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" >finest sacred treasures of the medieval age.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51); line-height: 21px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" ><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/x0mPTh8eNGE" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 21px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 13px; font-family:'Helevtica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10px;" ><div class="grid_4 alpha margin12pxT" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0.8em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; float: left; position: relative; width: 30.4em; font-family:inherit;font-size:10px;color:initial;"><p class="type13px plain margin12pxT margin13pxB" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The exhibition features over 150 objects from more than 40 institutions including the Vatican, European church treasuries, museums from the USA and Europe and the British Museum’s own pre-eminent collection.</span></p><h2 class="type13px bold margin12pxT margin0pxB" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; display: block; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="tohBlue" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-decoration: none; font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;color:initial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span">Where heaven and earth meet</span></span></h2><p class="type13px plain pad4pxT margin13pxB" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">It was during the medieval period that the use of relics in devotional practice first developed and became a central part of Christian worship. For many, the relics of Christ and the saints – objects associated with them, such as body parts or possessions – continue to provide a bridge between heaven and earth today.</span></p><h2 class="type13px bold margin12pxT margin0pxB" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; display: block; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="tohBlue" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-decoration: none; font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;color:initial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span">Sacred containers</span></span></h2><p class="type13px plain pad4pxT margin12pxB" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Relics were usually set into ornate containers of silver and gold known as reliquaries, opulently decorated by the finest craftsmen of the age. They had spiritual and symbolic value that reflected the importance of their sacred contents.</span></p></div><div class="grid_4 omega" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; float: left; position: relative; width: 30.4em; font-family:inherit;font-size:10px;color:initial;"><h2 class="type13px bold margin12pxT margin0pxB" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; display: block; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="tohBlue" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-decoration: none; font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;color:initial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span">Over a thousand years of history</span></span></h2><p class="type13px plain pad4pxT margin12pxB" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The earliest items date from the late Roman period and trace the evolution of the cult of the saints from the 4th century to the peak of relic veneration in late medieval Europe.</span></p><p class="type13px plain pad4pxT margin12pxB" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Relics featured in the exhibition include three thorns thought to be from the Crown of Thorns, fragments of the True Cross, the foot of St Blaise, the breast milk of the Virgin Mary, the hair of St John the Evangelist, and the Mandylion of Edessa (one of the earliest known likenesses of Jesus).</span></p><h2 class="type13px bold margin12pxT margin0pxB" style="margin-top: 12px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; display: block; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="tohBlue" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; text-decoration: none; font-family:inherit;font-size:13px;color:initial;" ><span class="Apple-style-span">Witness a lost heritage</span></span></h2><p class="type13px plain pad4pxT margin12pxB" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.4em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 4px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border- font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em; font-family:inherit;font-size:1.3em;color:initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Treasures such as these have not been seen in significant numbers in the UK since the Reformation in the 16th century, which saw the wholesale destruction of saints’ shrines. The exhibition offers a rare opportunity to glimpse the heritage of beautiful medieval craftsmans</span><span class="Apple-style-span">hip that was lost to this country for centuries.</span></p></div></span></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-29772265107601294522011-05-26T17:33:00.000-07:002011-05-26T17:47:05.408-07:002012: The end of the world?<p style="text-align: center;font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>Mayan End of World Prediction Explored in Film</b></span> <br /><small>Texas Guardian<br />Friday 20th May, 2011<br /></small></p><p style="text-align: center; font-family:verdana;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0);">In recent years, the idea that the world will end on December 21, 2012 has gained attention and spawned thousands of web sites, blogs, books and even a Hollywood movie. Although scientists generally dismiss the idea, curators of the Museum of Natural Science in Houston decided to use the prediction as a hook to draw visitors into the world of the ancient Maya. They do it through a planetarium film and an exhibit being prepared for next year-- just in time, some might say, for the end of everything. </span><br /></p><div face="verdana" size="larger" style=" text-align: justify; "><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PjhUNy7N9Z8?hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PjhUNy7N9Z8?hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></div><br />The film shown on the museum's huge planetarium screen examines myths and rituals of the ancient Maya in southern Mexico and Central America. It focuses on the Maya calendar, or long count, which was divided into baktuns of 144,000 days each.<br /><br />From the film: "All Maya kept the same ritual, solar and long count calendars, using them to describe the past and foretell the future."<br /><br />On some surviving calendars, everything ends on the day equivalent to our date of December 21, 2012.<br /><br />Carolyn Sumners, Vice President of the museum's Department of Astronomy and Physical Science, supervised the film project. "There is an alignment with the center of the galaxy on December 21st. It just happens that the Maya 13th Baktun starts on December 21st, at least in some of the calendars, and there is just enough going on to make one wonder if it is all connected," she said.<br /><br />But the film makes clear that the Maya were not necessarily predicting catastrophe.Sumners says the end of Maya time periods generally were regarded the same way we look at such things as the start of a new century or a new millennium. "It seems to be a cause of celebration. There does not seem to be any indication in the Maya writings of great disaster. They did believe in the end of time; they talked about great floods,<br />Sumners explained. "All these things were discussed, but they did not tie them to the long count."<br /><br />To bring audiences into the world of the Maya, Sumners and her team went to four sites in Mexico and Guatemala to shoot extreme wide-angle video of the ruins.<br /><br />They employed computer-generated images to show what those sites might have looked like centuries ago when they were the centers of great Maya achievements in math and astronomy.<br /><br />Visitors to Houston's Natural Science Museum can also see Maya artifacts on display.<br /><br />Curator Dirk Van Tuerenhout is developing an even larger exhibit for next year, to coincide with the end-of-world date. "It is a combination of all kinds of sources of information that we are pulling together to tell the story of the Maya culture, ancient Maya, colonial Maya, modern Maya," said Van Tuerenhout.<br /><br />The Maya civilization collapsed more than 500 years ago, probably because of environmental changes that undermined its agriculture. But Maya people still live in the Yucatan peninsula and parts of Central America and many have emigrated to Houston.<br /><br />Researchers have used their knowledge of modern Maya languages to decipher the ancient hieroglyphs, and many top experts in this field are at the University of Texas.<br /><br />Van Tuerenhout says they offer valuable insights. "The ancient voices are speaking through these very few individuals who can read and decipher Maya writing," he said.<br /><br />Van Tuerenhout says ancient Mayan sites continue to provide new information about the mysterious ancient civilization and its achievements.<br /><br />He says the Museum's goal is to show people that there is much more to the Maya than a spurious prediction of doom.</div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-10252602007465140652011-05-19T11:22:00.000-07:002011-05-19T11:39:01.853-07:00"Chicago" in Buenos Aires, New York and London!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs9ZUfMPVbQxnY2TPORQ0OrX9nWeM5TGAS6MLnVUZ9BLGd0FqIm3d5QjpNLoU6VjG5DnDsKw9774WtJ11K8x0zqTN3Dqh3y1SxbP_jpQWMMiyoPU_HnPlbCv05gvLPRjxrwWUuQ0tj40-/s1600/chicago-musical-logo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 83px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs9ZUfMPVbQxnY2TPORQ0OrX9nWeM5TGAS6MLnVUZ9BLGd0FqIm3d5QjpNLoU6VjG5DnDsKw9774WtJ11K8x0zqTN3Dqh3y1SxbP_jpQWMMiyoPU_HnPlbCv05gvLPRjxrwWUuQ0tj40-/s200/chicago-musical-logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608498502923760770" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://www.ticketek.com.ar/Teatro/Musical/CHICAGO__CHICAGOLOLA">Buenos Aires' Teatro Lola Membrives</a> houses one of the most powerful pieces of musical plays: <a href="http://www.ticketek.com.ar/Teatro/Musical/CHICAGO__CHICAGOLOLA">CHICAGO</a>. It is a musical with lots of history behind, and in Buenos Aires is being staged for the third time. The following is a review of the current Broadway production.</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eJOs_L9FiSo?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" width="425" frameborder="0" height="349"></iframe><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Judging by the performance of “Chicago” I recently attended, it's easy to see why it's lasted so long. Six years is a milestone for a show that at first blush seems so dramatically hollow. But with this one, it's really all about style, and stylistically, this is a gorgeous living tribute to Broadway style master Bob Fosse, with a tremendous assist from composers John Kander and Freb Ebb. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It continues to be a lean and mean production; there’s nothing windy about this “Chicago.” In the leads now are Charlotte D'Amboise as the murderess Roxie Hart, and her jailmate Velma Kelly, played by a scintillating Caroline O'Connor. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Another revelation in this cast is movie star Billy Zane as the suave mercenary lawyer Billy Flynn. Besides being dreamy to look at, he has all the requisite chops for Broadway. Making his New York debut, Zane’s crooning and confident acting is on par with any polished veteran. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">D'Amboise plays up the hometown girl in Roxie, lowering the temperature a bit on a role that others have turned red-hot. But she brings a kind of giddy, free-spirit to the part that is utterly charming. Her extended solo turn that seemed entirely improvised was sensational. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Caroline O'Connor is slinky and sexy and loaded with attitude. With her smashing singing voice and fat-free body, she is one very impressive package. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Of course much of the credit for keeping the show in such fine shape goes to Director Walter Bobbie and Ann Reinking, credited with choreography in the style of Bob Fosse. In this faithful recreation they manage to enhance Fosse's dazzling work, never to detract. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">“Chicago” is a show that can take some serious tampering, and part of the brilliance of the creative team is knowing just how far they can alter the original concept without losing its essence. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Roxie's husband Amos was played six years ago by the very trim song and dance legend Joel Grey. Now, the role is filled out by the physically opposite Rob Bartlett, and the results are equally satisfying even though Bartlett neither sings nor dances. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">And as the prison matron Mama Morton, there's the booming voiced, ample-bodied Roz Ryan, who adds a wonderful new dimension to the part, created by the great character actress Marcia Lewis. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">But the true keepers of the Fosse flame are the dancing ensemble. These mostly unheralded triple threats are always onstage, and it seems never short of vitality or style. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Six years usually spells the geriatric ward for a Broadway show, but whether it's the showbiz equivalent of Viagra or tremendous quality control, "Chicago" continues to hold up beautifully.</span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:verdana;" >The trailer to the original London Production</span><br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/HZR150AnWvU?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" width="425" frameborder="0" height="349"></iframe></div>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-59934012583727808752011-04-15T12:01:00.000-07:002011-04-15T12:22:47.029-07:00CNN Student News: April 15, 2011<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; ">CNN Student News is a ten-minute, commercial-free, daily news program for middle and high school students in the US produced by the journalists and educators at CNN. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; ">Today we bring you the latest edition of CNN Students News (April 15. 2011) for you to practise Listening Comprehension. <b>The programme is not intended for learners of English</b>, but we think it is a great way for you to improve your target language and to be in contact with English. Additionally, you may download today's program's transcription. Enjoy!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://www.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/4/2/5042856/cnn_student_news.pdf"><b>TRANSCRIPTION</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"><br /></span></span></div><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3BjoVfSVZxQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-66607321847350357872011-04-09T11:47:00.000-07:002011-04-09T11:54:09.585-07:00Bomb detection dog wins purple cross<div style="text-align: center; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 25px; line-height: 29px; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: 21.9pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(75, 53, 74); vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 18.5pt; color: white; ">Bomb detection dog wins purple cross<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(209, 209, 209); vertical-align: baseline; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 6.5pt; color: rgb(15, 36, 62); ">Jennifer Macey reported this story on Tuesday, April 5, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 4.5pt; text-transform: uppercase; "><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" ></span></o:p></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><b>This report is brought to you courtesy of ABC Radio Australia.</b></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 13px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >As you listen, you may read the transcription. Ideally, it would be great not to do so. We post it here for you to check some words that may be difficult to understand beca</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 13px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" >use of their pronunciation.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://www.weebly.com/uploads/5/0/4/2/5042856/20110405-pm11-sabripurplecross.mp3">LISTEN HERE</a></span></b></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; ">________________________________________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSGjIw32H-KKOQL5RSP1Wi84VEbVE8bb4MlIxxGBM0t_aLBJvrcZKDskjyQ5YSil158UrAkB0UEEHHSOoigeyBZ0QehLI1K1N3Vs0HJ0WYwEzSKjMBIenMXcVovzmZKsDc8slgg-S3InQ/s320/327837-11-04-05-sarbi-award.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593658562547880066" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 180px; " /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; ">MARK COLVIN: The bomb detection dog Sarbi which went m</span>issing in action in Afghanistan for 13 months today received the RSPCA's highest honour, the purple cross medal. It's only the second time the purple cross has been awarded for service in war. The first was bestowed posthumously on 'Murphy', one of John Simpson's Gallipoli donkeys.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align: baseline; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; "><br />Jennifer Macey prepared this report.<br /><br />LYNNE BRADSHAW: So here's your reward, Sarbi. Congratulations.<br /><br />JENNIFER MACEY: At the War Memorial in Canberra today, the national president of the RSPCA, Lynne Bradshaw received a big lick on the lips from the latest recipient of the animal bravery award, the bomb detection dog Sarbi.<br /><br />LYNNE BRADSHAW: I think there's no doubt that Sarbi has shown an incredible resilience and strength that should be recognised. The RSPCA would like to present Sarbi with the RSPCA Australia purple cross award for the courage she has shown while serving her country during her time in Afghanistan.<br /><br />And by presenting this award to Sarbi, the RSPCA hopes to raise awareness of the role that animals play in war, the unquestioning and unwavering service to man. And we hope now that Sarbi can live out her life here in Australia with all the love and luxuries that any dog deserves.<br /><br />JENNIFER MACEY: The medal was in recognition of an encounter Sarbi had with the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2008. The Taliban ambushed a convoy of Australian and American troops, injuring nine soldiers, including Sarbi's handler, Sergeant D.<br /><br />The explosion blew off the leash that attached Sarbi to her handler and she went missing in action. One of the soldiers, Trooper Mark Donaldson was later awarded a Victoria Cross for risking his life to rescue an Afghan interpreter who was blown off the vehicle. Today the nine-year-old Labrador/Newfoundland cross, Sarbi, becomes the second member of that convoy awarded a medal for bravery.<br /><br />LYNNE BRADSHAW: Throughout our history thousands of animals have supported the Australian Defence Force in a variety of roles. Like most people, no doubt, we would prefer animals didn't go to war but they do go, and while ever they do we must recognise the part they play and, in many cases, the lives lost.<br /><br />JENNIFER MACEY: After the ambush, nobody could find Sarbi. Then 13 months later an American soldier on patrol in north-eastern Uruzgan province spotted a Labrador cross walking with an Afghan man. She was eventually identified and reunited with her handler, Sergeant D. Then, after several months in quarantine Sarbi returned to Australia in January.<br /><br />Corporal Adam Exelby from the School of Military Engineering in Sydney trains dogs to sniff out explosives and accompanied Sarbi to the ceremony in Canberra today.<br /><br />ADAM EXELBY: I think it's great. I think they probably don't maybe get recognised enough for the job that they do over there.<br /><br />JENNIFER MACEY: Sarbi meanwhile took all the attention in her stride.<br /><br />ADAM EXELBY: Yeah, I think she's all a bit bewildered at the moment but all the attention, you know they do tend to get a lot of attention, especially overseas as well with the troops. Yeah, probably wouldn't be the first time that she's actually had a lot of attention.<br /><br />JENNIFER MACEY: But she won't be going back to the front line again.<br /><br />ADAM EXELBY: No, she won't actually deploy overseas again. As far as her role here in Australia, she's currently helping with a course that's running. But other than that, she's probably due to retire in the not too distant future. So she'll actually, Sergeant D will be taking her home and she'll become a bit of a home dog.<br /><br />JENNIFER MACEY: This is the Sarbi's third award. She's also the recipient of the Afghanistan medal and the canine service medal awarded by the Australian Defence Trackers Association.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; ">MARK COLVIN: Jennifer Macey.</span></p>Prof. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-40655506509369498652010-12-12T15:10:00.000-08:002010-12-12T15:11:15.695-08:00Opposite Verbs I<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Opposite Verbs I</h1>Match the verbs on the leftwith its opposite on the right.<br />Use the boxes on the left to write your choices.<br />Then click on the answer button to see if your answer is correct.</center><form name="a"><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "></p><center><table border="0" width="400" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><input type="text" name="0" size="1" maxlength="1"> 1. shrink<br /><input type="text" name="1" size="1" maxlength="1"> 2. stop<br /><input type="text" name="2" size="1" maxlength="1"> 3. take<br /><input type="text" name="3" size="1" maxlength="1"> 4. take off (clothes)<br /><input type="text" name="4" size="1" maxlength="1"> 5. take off (plane)<br /><input type="text" name="5" size="1" maxlength="1"> 6. tighten<br /><input type="text" name="6" size="1" maxlength="1"> 7. weep<br /><input type="text" name="7" size="1" maxlength="1"> 8. win<br /><input type="text" name="8" size="1" maxlength="1"> 9. withdraw</td><td valign="top">a. laugh<br />b. deposit<br />c. loosen<br />d. expand<br />e. land<br />f. start<br />g. lose<br />h. put on<br />i. give</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "></p><select style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><option>Answers</option><option> 1-d 2-f 3-i 4-h 5-e 6-c 7-a 8-g 9-b</option></select><p style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> (c) </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">1998 Vera Mello</span></p></center></form>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-28404680158353677642010-12-12T15:08:00.000-08:002010-12-12T15:10:09.810-08:00Opposite Verbs II<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Opposite Verbs II</h1>Match the verbs on the left with its opposite on the right.<br />Use the boxes on the left to write your choices.<br />Then click on the answer button to see if your answer is correct.</center><form name="a" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><p></p><center><table border="0" width="400"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><input type="text" name="0" size="1" maxlength="1">1. regress<br /><input type="text" name="1" size="1" maxlength="1">2. rise<br /><input type="text" name="2" size="1" maxlength="1">3. shorten<br /><input type="text" name="3" size="1" maxlength="1">4. show<br /><input type="text" name="4" size="1" maxlength="1">5. sink<br /><input type="text" name="5" size="1" maxlength="1">6. sit<br /><input type="text" name="6" size="1" maxlength="1">7. spend<br /><input type="text" name="7" size="1" maxlength="1">8. stay</td><td valign="top">a. fall<br />b. lengthen<br />c. stand<br />d. save<br />e. leave<br />f. float<br />g. hide<br />h. progress</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><select><option>Answers</option><option> 1-h 2-a 3-b 4-g 5-f 6-c 7-d 8-e</option></select><p style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; ">(C) 1997 Vera Mello</span></p></center></form>Profesores del CUIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00795270667733794910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-5190780629837679272010-12-08T07:35:00.000-08:002010-12-08T07:36:16.343-08:00Participles<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Participles</h1>Click the answer button to see the correct answer.</center><form style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><ol><p></p><li>It's ___ how popular American music is around the world.<br />a. surprised<br />b. surprising<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>I thought the movie "Independence Day" was really ___ .<br />a. bored<br />b. boring<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>That tall new building in Kuala Lampur really ___ me!<br />a. fascinate<br />b. fascinating<br />c. fascinates<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c</option></select><p></p></li><li>Bryan Adams is a really ___ singer.<br />a. interested<br />b. interesting<br />c. interest<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>The comedian we saw last night really ___ us.<br />a. amusing<br />b. amused<br />c. amuse<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>I think flying in an airplane is a ___ experience.<br />a. terrifying<br />b. terrified<br />c. terrify<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>Have you heard about the ___ new roller coaster at the amusement park?<br />a. excited<br />b. excite<br />c. exciting<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c</option></select><p></p></li><li>He ___ us with his knowledge of Medieval history.<br />a. surprised<br />b. surprising<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>That three hour lecture yesterday was really ___ !<br />a. tired<br />b. tiring<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>Halloween is coming soon! What a ___ holiday!<br />a. frighten<br />b. frightened<br />c. frightening<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c</option></select></li></ol></form><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span ></span></p><center style="text-align: left;font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span >Copyright (C) 1996 by Larry Davis</span></center>Prof. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-8697015187903850502010-12-08T07:33:00.000-08:002010-12-08T07:35:21.817-08:00Assorted Questions<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Assorted Questions</h1>Click the answer button to see the correct answer.</center><form style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><ol><p></p><li>That is ___ you are poor.<br />a. why<br />b. that<br />c. which<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>I couldn't help ___ when he told me that story.<br />a. laugh<br />b. laughed<br />c. laughing<br />d. to laugh<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>I heard him ___.<br />a. sings<br />b. is singing<br />c. sing<br />d. sang<br />e. has sung<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>The place ___ we used to study is no longer a school.<br />a. whom<br />b. at<br />c. where<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>He is ___ taller than you.<br />a. very<br />b. so<br />c. much<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>Jane is ___ than her sister.<br />a. more tall<br />b. tall<br />c. taller<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>There are ___ books on my desk.<br />a. little<br />b. a little<br />c. a few<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>The supermarket ___ their prices last week.<br />a. rose<br />b. raised<br />c. has risen<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>I ___ him last Saturday.<br />a. have visited<br />b. visited<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>Shakespeare ___ in 1616.<br />a. died<br />b. has died<br />c. was died<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>I ___ that movie yet.<br />a. don't see<br />b. haven't seen<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>He wished he ___ better.<br />a. do<br />b. did<br />c. had done<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>I ___ to go to school.<br />a. can<br />b. have<br />c. must<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>Would you ___ opening the window?<br />a. go<br />b. have<br />c. mind<br />d. please<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>Did you enjoy ___ with your girlfriend?<br />a. walk<br />b. walked<br />c. walking<br />d. to walk<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>I ___ rather die than spend the rest of my life in prison.<br />a. will<br />b. would<br />c. might<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>He ___ be a fool to do such a thing.<br />a. can<br />b. must<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>Joe and I ___ good friends.<br />a. am<br />b. is<br />c. are<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>That question is ___ important to be neglected.<br />a. so<br />b. too<br />c. very<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>My mother told me ___ do that.<br />a. not to<br />b. not<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>One of the students ___ in the classroom.<br />a. is<br />b. are<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>I am very fond of ___.<br />a. they<br />b. them<br />c. their<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>___ isn't easy to learn how to play the piano.<br />a. It<br />b. That<br />c. This<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>He had the boy ___ his car.<br />a. wash<br />b. washed<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>I am not as ___ at swimming as you are.<br />a. good<br />b. well<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>Neither my brother nor I ___ rich.<br />a. am<br />b. are<br />c. is<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>I saw her ___ by the door.<br />a. to stand<br />b. standing<br />c. stands<br />d. stood<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>This is a ___ interesting book.<br />a. much<br />b. very<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>My brother is ___ stronger than your father.<br />a. much<br />b. very<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>Please take good care ___ your mother.<br />a. about<br />b. of<br />c. to<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>___ my way to school, I stopped at the post office.<br />a. At<br />b. In<br />c. On<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>I bought this car ___ four thousand dollars.<br />a. by<br />b. for<br />c. with<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>This is a ___ fast car.<br />a. much<br />b. very<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>I had ___ money, so I couldn't buy lunch.<br />a. little<br />b. a little<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>Please speak a little slower. I can ___ understand you.<br />a. hard<br />b. hardly<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>I am not used ___ driving this car.<br />a. for<br />b. of<br />c. to<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>I get up ___ seven.<br />a. at<br />b. in<br />c. to<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>I didn't see ___ of those movies.<br />a. any<br />b. none<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>There were ___ people at the party.<br />a. many<br />b. much<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>I have a ___ money in my pocket.<br />a. few<br />b. little<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>He looks ___ than his father.<br />a. more happy<br />b. happier<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>This place is famous ___ its good-tasting rice.<br />a. by<br />b. for<br />c. with<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>I go to school ___ foot.<br />a. by<br />b. on<br />c. with<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>I have lived here ___ many years.<br />a. during<br />b. for<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>My brother is ___ of the two.<br />a. taller<br />b. the taller<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select><p></p></li><li>This news ___ interesting.<br />a. was<br />b. were<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a </option></select><p></p></li><li>Did they ___ tennis last Saturday?<br />a. played<br />b. plays<br />c. play<br />d. playing<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>c </option></select><p></p></li><li>He ___ a camera.<br />a. have<br />b. has<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b </option></select></li></ol></form><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "></p><center style="text-align: left;font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span > (C) 1997 Charles I. Kelly</span></center>Prof. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-76760190333084900232010-11-26T06:24:00.001-08:002010-11-26T06:24:46.624-08:00Various Questions I<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Various Questions I</h1>Click the answer buttons to see the answers.</center><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "></p><form style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><ol><p></p><li>He ___ smoke a lot, but after he developed a lung disease, he decided to quit smoking.<br />a. used to<br />b. was used to<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>My life was rather dull ___ I decided to move to the city.<br />a. unless<br />b. until<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>His watch ___<br />a. has been stolen.<br />b. has stolen<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>Little ___ that their plan has been discovered.<br />a. do they suspect<br />b. they suspect<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>___ the rain, we went to the club.<br />a. Despite<br />b. Despite of<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>He didn't go to the party. Now he regrets ___ so.<br />a. not having done<br />b. not have done<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>If I had known I'd hurt him so much, I ___ that.<br />a. couldn't have said<br />b. wouldn't have said<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>Personally I ___ go to Greece.<br />a. would rather<br />b. would prefer<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>She hasn't read the article, nor ___ the essay.<br />a. has written<br />b. has she written<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>Margareth ___ her mother the prize she had gotten in the competition.<br />a. proudly showed<br />b. showed proudly<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>Have you picked up my ___ by mistake?<br />a. car's key<br />b. car key<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>I wonder how much ___<br />a. that car is.<br />b. is that car<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>Our customer's money ___ if they're not satisfied with the product.<br />a. will be refunded<br />b. will have been refunded<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>It's clearly stated that you ___ copy the site without written permission from the webmaster.<br />a. should not<br />b. ought not<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>This ticket ___ a free meal in our new cafeteria.<br />a. entitles you to<br />b. entitles you for<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>The price of oil ___ several times in the last two years.<br />a. has gone up<br />b. went up<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>___ for the TOEFL exam in June, we took a sham exam in April.<br />a. Prepare<br />b. To prepare<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>I'm sure that by the end of this week, I ___ the hang of HTML.<br />a. will have been getting<br />b. will have gotten<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>Everything depends on ___ we get a raise in our salary.<br />a. if<br />b. whether<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>The policeman is demanding that the thief ___ the crime.<br />a. confess<br />b. confesses<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></li><p></p><center style="text-align: left;"><span >Copyright 1998 by Vera Mello</span></center></ol></form>Prof. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-50443681380368336942010-11-26T06:21:00.000-08:002010-11-26T06:24:04.325-08:00Various Questions II<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="text-align: center;font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; "> Various Questions II</h1></span><center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Click the answer buttons to see the answers.</center><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "></p><form style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><ol><p></p><li>She was angry ___ being left alone.<br />a. with<br />b. at<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>That woman dressed ___ is my neighbor.<br />a. in black<br />b. with black<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>I'm sure there's no secret between ___<br />a. you and I.<br />b. you and me.<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>I must ___ the bill today.<br />a. pay<br />b. pay for<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>The dentist told him ___ forget to brush his teeth beforegoing to bed.<br />a. not to<br />b. to not<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>___ such bad accident.<br />a. Never I have seen<br />b. Never have I seen<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>I don't know where ___<br />a. the bookstore is.<br />b. is the bookstore<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>She has just finished reading ___ chapters of the book.<br />a. the two first<br />b. the first two<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>What ___ this is!<br />a. delicious coffee<br />b. a delicious coffee<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>He was ___ for murder.<br />a. hung<br />b. hanged<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>He's ___ a man that nobody likes him.<br />a. so stubborn<br />b. such stubborn<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>Hemingway and Steinbeck are excellent writers, but I prefer ___<br />a. the last<br />b. the latter<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>They are using new ___ in their industry.<br />a. machineries<br />b. machinery<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>John, as well as his brother, ___ coming to the party.<br />a. is<br />b. are<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>___ we walked home.<br />a. After<br />b. Afterwards<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>He flunked biology. Now he wishes he ___ more.<br />a. studied<br />b. had studied<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select><p></p></li><li>___ he is right or wrong does not concern us.<br />a. Whether<br />b. If<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select><p></p></li><li>It's mandatory that he ___ there on time.<br />a. is<br />b. be<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></li><p></p><center style="text-align: left;"><span>Copyright 1998 by Vera Mello</span></center></ol></form>Prof. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-42277602514941482692010-11-19T09:41:00.000-08:002010-11-19T09:42:36.691-08:00Opposite Verbs<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Opposite Verbs</h1>Match the verbs on the leftwith its opposite on the right.<br />Use the boxes on the left to write your choices.<br />Then click on the answer button to see if your answer is correct.</center><form name="a" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><p></p><center><table border="0" width="400"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><input type="text" name="0" size="1" maxlength="1">1. make up<br /><input type="text" name="1" size="1" maxlength="1">2. marry<br /><input type="text" name="2" size="1" maxlength="1">3. obey<br /><input type="text" name="3" size="1" maxlength="1">4. open<br /><input type="text" name="4" size="1" maxlength="1">5. owe<br /><input type="text" name="5" size="1" maxlength="1">6. send<br /><input type="text" name="6" size="1" maxlength="1">7. speed up<br /><input type="text" name="7" size="1" maxlength="1">8. shrink</td><td valign="top">a. receive<br />b. divorce<br />c. pay<br />d. expand<br />e. disobey<br />f. break up<br />g. shut<br />h. slow down</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><select><option>Answers</option><option> 1-f 2-b 3-e 4-g 5-c 6-a 7-h 8-d</option></select></center></form>Prof. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-71943136205374984452010-11-19T09:37:00.000-08:002010-11-19T09:41:52.763-08:00Road Vocabulary<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">Road Vocabulary</h1><span >Use the boxes on the left to write your choices.<br />Then click on the answer button to see if your answer is correct.</span></center><form name="a" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><p></p><center><table border="0" cellpadding="6"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><input type="text" name="0" size="1" maxlength="1">1. The channel at the edge of a street or road that drains off the rainwater.<br /><input type="text" name="1" size="1" maxlength="1">2. The place on a roadway reserved for parking the car in emergencies.<br /><input type="text" name="2" size="1" maxlength="1">3. The marked place where pedestrians should cross the street (in British English).<br /><input type="text" name="3" size="1" maxlength="1">4. The place on the street reserved for pedestrians to walk.<br /><input type="text" name="4" size="1" maxlength="1">5. A high-speed highway with several lanes.<br /><input type="text" name="5" size="1" maxlength="1">6. A street or avenue, usually wide and with trees on both sides.<br /><input type="text" name="6" size="1" maxlength="1">7. The place (area) where you can park the car.</td><td valign="top">a. boulevard<br />b. zebra crossing<br />c. gutter<br />d. parking zone<br />e. freeway<br />f. shoulder<br />g. sidewalk<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><select><option>Answers</option><option> 1-c 2-f 3-b 4-g 5-e 6-a 7-d</option></select></center></form>Prof. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008425340451648372.post-11855669001649312812010-11-05T08:42:00.000-07:002010-11-05T08:45:41.001-07:00B or V?<center style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><h1 style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; ">B and V Minimal Pair Quiz</h1>Click the answer button to see the answer.</center><ol style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><li><form>Of all breeds, collies are the ones I like the ___.<br />a. best<br />b. vest<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>It is a good idea to ___ and lock the door when you are alone.<br />a. bolt<br />b. volt<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>A ___ is a measure of the amount of electrical force required to create one amp of current.<br />a. bolt<br />b. volt<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>A ___ is an unobstructed sound passing through the mouth and nasal passages.<br />a. bowel<br />b. vowel<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>America's most popular summer game has three ___ and a home plate.<br />a. vases<br />b. bases<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>What a ___ and horrible crime!<br />a. vile<br />b. bile<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>When I turned around she was gone. She ___ into thin air!<br />a. vanished<br />b. banished<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>Some restaurants offer ___ parking. You just give the keys to the attendant and he does the parking for you.<br />a. valet<br />b. balet<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>Doctors may ask a patient to drink ___ to do a stomach and intestinal test.<br />a. valium<br />b. barium<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>In legal terms, to "___" means to sell something.<br />a. vend<br />b. bend<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>To reduce stress, it is good to ___ or release pent up emotions.<br />a. vent<br />b. bent<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>A ___ weevil is an insect that damages the cotton plant.<br />a. vole<br />b. boll<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>___ writers include Jane Austen, E.M. Forster and Terry McMillan.<br />a. Rebel<br />b. Revel<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>After a bath it is nice to lounge around in a terry-cloth ___.<br />a. rove<br />b. robe<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>To copy an audio or video recording one must ___ from one machine to another.<br />a. dove<br />b. dub<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>Baby cattle are known as ___.<br />a. calves<br />b. cabs<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>She slowly turned the ___ on its axis to find South America.<br />a. glove<br />b. globe<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>Let's all support Women's ___!<br />a. Live<br />b. Lib<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li><li><form>She never misses a chance to make a ___ about her husband's eating habits.<br />a. jibe<br />b. jive<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>a</option></select></form></li><li><form>The ___ of the small church performed the ceremony.<br />a. bicker<br />b. vicar<br /><select><option>Answer</option><option>b</option></select></form></li></ol><p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "></p><center style="text-align: left;font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><span >(C) 1998 Donna Tatsuki </span></center>Prof. Mariano Ignaciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12578703774286802457noreply@blogger.com