10 October 2011
Penguin Man
Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in brackets (past simple, present perfect, present perfect continuous)
One day, Alfred David’s wife ________________ (1-tell) him that he walked like a penguin. Since then, his identification with the creatures _____________ (2-become) almost total. For the past twenty-five years he ______________ (3-walk) around in a penguin suit. People in his home town in Belgium long ago ______________ (4-accept) this harmless eccentric as part of the scenery.
All this time, he ______________ (5-collect) penguin objects, and so far he ______________ (6-accumulate) over two thousand. A few years ago he ______________ (7-open) the European Museum of the Penguin.
As far as anyone knows, he ______________ (8-never go) to Antarctica but this ______________ (9-not stop) him frim making friends among the penguin population. Since his fascination ______________ (10-develop) he ______________ (11-buy) tons of fish to feed his ’friends and family’ in the local zoo. If he looks more and more like one it could be because he ______________ (12-eat) too much raw fish himself.
(from Clockwise Upper-intermediate
http://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/adult_courses/clockwise/upper-intermediate/?cc=global&selLanguage=en)
Penguin obsessed pensioner wants to be buried in Antarctic
(http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/bizarre/penguin-53923.html)
A Belgian man, who is obsessed with penguins, has revealed his wish is to be buried dressed in his black-and-white costume in the Antarctic so he can be close to the flightless birds.
A Belgian pensioner wants to be buried in the Antarctic, dressed in his penguin suit in a coffin decorated with the flightless birds.
Alfred David, 79, became obsessed with penguins after he developed a limp following a car accident in 1968, leading colleagues to dub him Monsieur Pingouin or Mr. Penguin and regularly wears a hooded black-and-white costume in homage to the creatures.
He said: "My ultimate dream is to be buried in a deep ocean close to where penguins live."
However, his obsession has cost him dearly as after setting up a museum with 3,500 items of penguin memorabilia and attempting to change his name to Mr. Penguin, Mr. David's wife dumped him.
He later donated the collection - which ranged from penguin lavatory paper to cups and toys - to a local soccer team to raise money for the club.
More:
http://mysendoff.com/2011/10/a-life-in-black-and-white/
In the last decade penguins have been making quite a cultural impact around the world.
For the last 40 years of David’s life, the man has been collecting penguin paraphernalia; everything from portraits of penguin to lavatory paper, cups and toys.
KEY:
1 - told, 2- has become, 3 - has been walking, 4 - accepted, 5 - has been collecting, 6 - has accumulated, 7 - opened, 8 - has never been, 9 - hasn't stopped, 10 - developed, 11 - has bought / has been buying, 12 - has been eating
9 October 2011
4 October 2011
Mika - Relax
Useful expressions, collocations, prepositions
take a ride
end up somewhere
scream for help
be lost
take it easy
play with fire
the last thing on my mind
blame something on somebody
"Relax (Take It Easy)"
Took a ride to the end of the line
Where no one ever goes.
Ended up on a broken train with nobody I know.
But the pain and the longing's the same.
Where the dying
Now I'm lost and I'm screaming for help.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
It's as if I'm scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
It's as if I scared.
It's as if I'm playing with fire.
Scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?
Relax
There is an answer to the darkest times.
It's clear we don't understand but the last thing on my mind
Is to leave you.
I believe that we're in this together.
Don't scream - there are so many roads left.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
Relax, take it easy
For there is nothing that we can do.
Relax, take it easy
Blame it on me or blame it on you.
(Relax)
It's as if I'm scared.
It's as if I'm terrified.
It's as if I scared.
It's as if I'm playing with fire.
Relax
It's as if I'm terrified.
Are you scared?
Are we playing with fire?
Relax
Relax
The Pursuit of Happiness
http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/search/label/past%20continuous
6:27-12:30
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Fill in the gaps with the past simple or the past continuous:
Chris ______________ (phone) his wife when the bus ______________ (arrive).
Chris ______________ (run) when the guy ______________(start) to talk about the sports game.
Christopher ______________ (play) in the kindergarden when his dad ______________ (come) to pick him up./
Vitamin D - Video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15165497
useful expressions:
measure their vitamin D level
behaviour
figure
take supplements
pale skin
don't seem to be able to
people should be aiming for
some level of uncertainty
essentially
may also need to consider that
excrete
fortified foods
overdose
who should be taking extra supplements
in terms of their risk of cancer
sunburn triples the risk of melanoma
never getting sunburnt
28 September 2011
26 September 2011
25 September 2011
18 September 2011
5 September 2011
3 September 2011
Fox in socks - extreme tongue-twister
Dr Seuss - Fox in Socks (Animated Book) by mar-touf
(https://www.facebook.com/5percangol)
Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
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Fox
Socks
Box
Knox
Knox in box.
Fox in socks.
Knox on fox in socks in box.
Socks on Knox and Knox in box.
Fox in socks on box on Knox.
Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.
Look, sir. Look, sir. Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's do tricks with bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with chicks and clocks, sir.
First, I'll make a quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a quick trick block stack.
You can make a quick trick chick stack.
You can make a quick trick clock stack.
And here's a new trick, Mr. Knox....
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks.
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box.
Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this Mr. Knox, sir....
Clocks on fox tick.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.
Please, sir. I don't like this trick, sir.
My tongue isn't quick or slick, sir.
I get all those ticks and clocks, sir,
mixed up with the chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.
I'm so sorry, Mr. Knox, sir.
Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say....
New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.
Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.
Who sees who sew whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew Sue's new socks, sir.
That's not easy, Mr. Fox, sir.
Who comes? ...
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.
Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sews crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.
Sue sews socks of fox in socks now.
Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now.
Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.
Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.
Hose goes.
Rose grows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.
Mr. Fox!
I hate this game, sir.
This game makes my tongue quite lame, sir.
Mr. Knox, sir, what a shame, sir.
We'll find something new to do now.
Here is lots of new blue goo now.
New goo. Blue goo.
Gooey. Gooey.
Blue goo. New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.
Gooey goo for chewy chewing!
That's what that Goo-Goose is doing.
Do you choose to chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir, choose to chew, sir,
with the Goo-Goose, chew, sir.
Do, sir.
Mr. Fox, sir,
I won't do it.
I can't say.
I won't chew it.
Very well, sir.
Step this way.
We'll find another game to play.
Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.
Ben bends Bim's broom.
Bim bends Ben's broom.
Bim's bends.
Ben's bends.
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.
Ben's band. Bim's band.
Big bands. Pig bands.
Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs and Bim's band booms.
Pig band! Boom band!
Big band! Broom band!
My poor mouth can't say that. No, sir.
My poor mouth is much too slow, sir.
Well then... bring your mouth this way.
I'll find it something it can say.
Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.
Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.
I can't blab such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't make of rubber.
Mr. Knox. Now come now. Come now.
You don't have to be so dumb now....
Try to say this, Mr. Knox, please....
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Stop it! Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say such silly stuff, sir.
Very well, then, Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's have a little talk about tweetle beetles....
What do you know about tweetle beetles? Well...
When tweetle beetles fight,
it's called a tweetle beetle battle.
And when they battle in a puddle,
it's a tweetle beetle puddle battle.
AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle,
they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.
AND...
When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle
and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.
AND...
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.
AND...
Now wait a minute, Mr. Socks Fox!
When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle
with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle,
THIS is what they call...
...a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled
muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!
Fox in socks, our game is done, sir.
Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.
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