KEY TO SHORT EXTRACTS

KEY TO SHORT EXTRACTS


c. at the hairdresser’s
b. decorating work
b. suspicious
c. the bride’s grandmother
b. in a restaurant

Vaug Class 15 - Give me mine

Vaughan Lesson

Give me mine Hoy toca hablar de los imperativos y los pronombres personales. Primero, el imperativo (afirmativo) siempre es el verbo básico sin más complicaciones. Por ejemplo "be good" (sé bueno) "close the door" (cierre la puerta) etc. Normalmente el complemento indirecto precede alpronombre personal. Proponemos unos ejemplos abajo: Dame el mío. Give me mine. Dale (a él) el suyo. Give him his. Dale (a ella) el suyo. Give her hers. Danos el nuestro. Give us ours. Dales el suyo. Give them theirs. Ahora complicamos las cosas. Para realmente sacar provecho de este ejercicio hay que practicarlo durante tres minutos todos los días durante una semana. Enséñame el tuyo. Show me yours. Enséñale (a ella) el suyo (de él). Show her his. Enséñales el nuestro. Show them ours. Enséñanos el suyo (de ellos). Show us theirs. Enséñale (a él) el mío. Show him mine.

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Repasa estos cuatro puntos del Vaughan Review para aumentar tu vocabulario.  Truco: para aprender una palabra nueva, repítela hasta la saciedad. Key Learning: "Yet" significa "ya" cuando se trata de una pregunta.  Has he asked her for it yet? - ¿Ya se lo ha pedido? One expression: A chip off the old block. De tal palo tal astilla. One phrasal verb: To get over - superar You'll get over it. - Ya lo superarás. One adjective: Flimsy - poco sólido / endeble The material for the shelves is too flimsy to bear any weight. - El material para los estantes es demasiado endeble para soportar peso.

Listening & Reading: Packs de Estudio

Pero, ¿Cuál es mi nivel? Decídelo tu mismo. Principiante ¿De quién son esas fotos? Whose pictures are those? ¿Son caros aquellos también? Are those expensive too? Intermedio Si apruebas el examen, aprobarás el curso. If you pass the exam, you'll pass the course. Recógelos. Pick them up. Avanzado Ojalá no hubiera cometido ese error. I wish I hadn't made that mistake. Te aplastaremos. We'll crush you.

Algunos ejemplos más con posesivos.

Tu libro y el mío están hechos de un material parecido.	Your book and mine are made of a similar material.
El nuestro ganó el primer premio.	Ours won first prize.
El tuyo ni siquiera recibió un premio de consolación.	Yours didn’t even receive a consolation prize.
Mi libro es mío y es para mí.	My book is mine and it’s for me.
Tu libro es tuyo y es para ti.	Your book is yours and it’s for you.
Su libro (de él) es suyo y es para él.	His book is his and it’s for him.
Su libro (de ella) es suyo y es para ella.	Her book is hers and it’s for her.
Nuestro libro es nuestro y es para nosotros.	Our book is ours and it’s for us.
Vuestro libro es vuestro y es para vosotros.	Your book is yours and it’s for you.
¿Dónde está el mío?	Where’s mine?
¿Quién tiene el de Pepe?	Who has Pepe’s?
Los míos y los de él son muy parecidos.	Mine and his are very similar.
Los nuestros no fueron elegidos.	Ours weren’t chosen.
¿Por qué son más grandes los tuyos que los míos?	Why are yours bigger than mine?
El de ellos es del mismo color que el de ella.	Theirs is the same color as hers.
Los de Pepe no llegarán hasta finales de mes.	Pepe’s won’t arrive until the end of the month.
Estos se parecen mucho a los de él.	These look a lot like his.
¿De quién son estos?	Whose are these?
¿De quiénes eran los que vi ayer?	Whose were the ones I saw yesterday?

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Some fun - Types of corporations

·       Socialism: You
have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbour.

·       Communism: You
have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.

·       Fascism: You
have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.

·       Nazism: You
have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.

·       Bureaucratism: You
have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws
the milk away..

·       Traditional Capitalism: You
have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy
grows. You sell them and retire on the income.

·       An American Corporation: You
have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four
cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow dropped dead.

·       A French Corporation: You
have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.

·       Japanese Corporation: You
have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary
cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon
image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.

·       An Italian
Corporation: You have 2 cows, but you don't know where they
are. You
break for lunch.

·       A Swiss
Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you.
You
charge others for storing them.

·       Chinese Corporation: You
have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high
bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.

·       An Iraqi
Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell
them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still
have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.......

·       Counter Culture: 'Wow,
dig it, like there's these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this
milk!'

·       Surrealism: You
have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.

·       Fatalist: You
have 2 doomed cows...

·       A West-Country
Corporation: You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda
cute.

·       A Brazilian
Corporation: You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You
have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick
and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.

·       Steve Moffat (scriptwriter for the British science fiction
TV series “Doctor Who”): You have two
cows. Both of them are your daughters time travelling from the past where they
had a brief love affair with Da Vinci making you the rightful Queen of England.

Vaug Class 14 - Some and Any 2

Vaughan Lesson

Some and Any (ii) Normalmente cuando formulamos una pregunta sobre un sustantivo incontable se emplea la palabra "any". ¿Tienes pegamento? Do you have any glue? ¿Hay miel en el armario? Is there any honey in the cupboard? ¿Comiste marisco cuando estuviste en Galicia? Did you eat any seafood when you were in Galicia? ¿Había nieve en la sierra? Was there any snow in the mountains? ¿Compraste agua mineral? Did you buy any mineral water? Sin embargo, cuando ofrecemos algo usando una pregunta y creemos con bastante certeza que nos van a contestar "sí", se usa "some". ¿Te apetece un té? Would you like some tea? ¿Te apetece un poco de caviar? Would you care for some caviar? ¿Te apetece un café? Do you feel like some coffee? ¿Te apetece algo de comer? Do you fancy some food? ¿Te apetece un poco de champagne? How about some champagne?

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Repasa estos cuatro puntos del Vaughan Review para aumentar tu vocabulario. Truco: para aprender una palabra nueva, repítela hasta la saciedad. Key Learning: Ni siquiera: "even" se coloca después del verbo auxiliar. I don't even know him. - Ni siquiera le conozco. One expression: It's not my cup of tea. No es lo mío. One phrasal verb: To dress up - disfrazarse / ir elegante I'm dressing up as Superman. - Voy a disfrazarme de Supermán. One adjective: Self-centered - egocéntrico Young children can be very self-centered at times. - A veces los niños pueden ser muy egoístas.

Listening & Reading

Sudoku ¡Grita! Shout! Le grité a él. I shouted at him. Ella cerró la puerta. She shut the door. Le disparé a él. I shot him. ¡Callate! Shut up! Ella grita mucho. She shouts a lot. Él se afeita todos los días. He shaves everyday. Las ventas se dispararon. Sales shot up. ¡Dispara! Shoot!

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ENGLISH WORKSHOP

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SHORT EXTRACTS

You will her people talking in five different situations.
Choose the best answer for each question.

1. You will hear an employee talking to a customer. Where are they?

a. at the dentist’s b. at the dressmaker’s c. at the hairdresser’s

2. You will hear a man talking to someone who is going to do some work at his house. What are they discussing?

a. electrical work b. decorating work c. carpentry work

3. You will hear someone making enquiries at a garage. How does the customer feel?

a. disappointed b. suspicious c. angry

4. You will hear two people talking about a wedding. Who is the woman you hear talking?

a. the bride b. the bride’s mother c. the bride’s grandmother

5. You will hear someone talking to a new employee. Where is she working?

a. in a shop b. in a restaurant c. in someone’s house



KEY TO OFFICE ROMANCES

(1) _marriage / weddings_.
(2) _the Manchester branck_
(3) _friendship/s_.
(4) __a bar or a disco_.
(5) _her client__.
(6) _have an argument_.
(7) __to resign / to leave_.
(8) _don’t say anything_.
(9) _work suffered_
(10) __don’t concentrate_

UNIT 7A: GO

GO

UNIT 7B: A TEST OF HONESTY

Reader's Digest: How honest are we?London, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Britons have few qualms about stealing from work, travelling on a train without a ticket and speeding on motorways, according to a pan-European honesty quiz conducted by Reader's Digest magazine.
Nearly 4,000 people in 19 European countries were confronted with 12 moral dilemmas to test their sense of right and wrong. The results of the test, published in the July issue of Reader's Digest, reveal that Britons rate themselves as less honest than the average European.
In only three out of the twelve dilemmas did the British display a clear propensity to act in a more moral fashion:
- When asked if they would hand a lost wallet containing £35 (EUR50) in at a police station, 76% of Britons said they would, compared to only 50% of the Europeans polled.
- Asked if they would drive home from a party, even though they knew they had had too much to drink, only 5% of Britons said they would, as against 14 % of Europeans.
- 43% admitted they would tell their friend if they suspected their partner was cheating. In contrast only 37% of Europeans would tell the truth.
Yet, in seven of the categories, Britons revealed themselves as being far from honest:
- When asked whether they would conceal income to avoid tax, nearly half (46%) of the British respondents confessed they would. Across Europe, 39% said they would whilst in Austria a whopping 64% would be willing to cheat the system.
- An average of 66% of Brits would board their commuter train without a ticket compared to 53% of Europeans. The Russians had no moral obligations in terms of transport with 80% more than happy to get on a train with no ticket.
- Another moral taboo that the British admitted to breaking was parking in a disabled bay if the supermarket car park was full. 36% admitted they would, although for no more than ten minutes. In contrast only 25% of Europeans would be willing to steal the space.
- Honesty with employers appears to be lacking in the UK. Nearly two thirds (60%) of the Brits questioned said would steal office stationery compared to under half (49%) in Europe.
- Over a quarter (28%) of the Brits interviewed admitted they would steal a hotel towel compared to 16% of all Europeans. However the report indicates that hygiene rather than morals is the deterrent. One woman from Banbury stated, 'You don't know who else has used them.'
- An astonishing 70% of the British respondents said they would break the speed limit on a motorway. The European average was 65%.
- Around two thirds of Brits said they would install illegal software (65%) with a European average of 64%.
- Throughout Europe more women than men gave the honest answer. This gender gap was greatest in Poland by 14%. Spain had the lowest difference of 1%.
- Young people (18-35) proved less honest than the over-fifties. 64% of Hungary's youth are willing to steal office stationery compared to 35% of the elder generation.
Bob Low, European Bureau Chief, Reader's Digest comments: "People were surprisingly honest about how dishonestly they would behave in certain situations.
"It appears that the British, in common with people throughout Europe, don't mind cheating on the state, or big institutions such as train companies or computer firms, over matters like evading tax, dodging fares or using illegal software. But they are much less likely to cheat individuals or put them at risk. So they'll hand in lost wallets and they won't drink and drive."
Notes to Editors: The quiz was carried out by researchers in shopping centres in 19 European countries. In each country, some 200 people aged 18 and over were confronted with 12 everyday dilemmas to test their sense of right and wrong. The UK polling was carried out in Glasgow, Nottingham, and Banbury in Oxfordshire.

The Honesty Test Questions
1: As you leave a big supermarket, you realise that the cashier has given you £10 too much in change. Would you return and give the money back?
2: You have had too much to drink at a party and suspect you are well over the legal drink- driving limit. Would you still attempt to drive home?
3: You think you can get away with paying less tax if you conceal some of your income on your annual tax return. Would you do so?
4: The supermarket car park is full - except for the disabled parking spaces. You have one item to buy, which will take you no more than 10 minutes. Would you park your car in the disabled bay for that time?
5: You're in a hurry to get to work and you don't have time to buy a ticket before you board your commuter train. The next train is in 20 minutes. There's are good chance you won't be caught. Would you take a chance?
6: You need some envelopes and pens for your family's personal use. Would you take them from the supply at your office?
7:You find a wallet in the street with £35 inside, but no address. Would you hand it in at a police station?
8:You see your best friend's husband/wife walking hand-in-hand with a stranger. Would you feel obliged to tell your friend what you have seen?
9:The towels in your hotel bathroom are very attractive. Would you put one in your suitcase and walk away with it?
10: You are waiting in a long line for a bus in the driving rain. When it arrives you realise you won't get on unless you jump in the queue. Would you do so?
11: You are driving home at 9 p.m. and the motorway is almost empty. Would you drive at 15 m.p.h. over the speed limit to get back more quickly?
12: A friend offers you an illegal copy of an expensive computer software program for free. Would you accept it and install it on your own computer?
Distributed by PR Newswire on behalf of Reader's Digest

OFFICE ROMANCES

You will hear part of a radio interview on the topic of office romances.
For questions 1-10 complete the sentences with a word or short phrase.

More than 50% of office romances result in (1) ____________________.
Lorna Telford manages (2) ____________________ of the Recruitment Consultant Company.
Most office romances begin as (3) ____________________.
John thinks it is more difficult to meet people in (4) ____________________.
Lorna admits that her husband used to be (5) ____________________.
John thinks there may be problems if couples who work together (6) ____________________.
Lots of women with partners at work decide (7) ____________________.
Although managers do not like office romances, they usually (8) ____________________.
Colleagues felt that (9) ____________________ as a result of office romances.
Linda feels that people in love (10) ____________________ on their work.


KEY TO
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