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The Phantom of the Opera

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MAIN CHARACTHERS Erik Disfigured composer who lives in the cellars beneath the Paris Opera House, frequently referred to as “the Opera Ghost” Christine Daaé Budding young opera star, Erik’s student and Raoul’s love interest  Raoul  Phillipe’s younger brother and Christine’s childhood friend Phillipe The Comte de Chagny  a handsome and wealthy aristocrat Debienne and Poligny  Managers of the Paris Opera House who sell the institution early in the novel Montcharmin and Richard  New managers of the Paris Opera House, both initially skeptical of the existence of the Opera Ghost Madame (Mame) Giry The Opera House boxkeeper (similar to contemporary ushers) Carlotta A prima donna,  a renowned singer at the Paris Opera House Joseph Buquet A popular scene shifter responsible for moving and adjusting sets during the opera’s productions Professor and Mme. Valerius Christine’s benefactors who raise her after her father dies The Persian Mysterious Opera House res

Learning about pragmatics: a useful life skill | Macmillan

Learning about pragmatics: a useful life skill | Macmillan

Learning about pragmatics: a useful life skill | Macmillan

Learning about pragmatics: a useful life skill | Macmillan

Life skills tip of the week: ways of saying ‘I don’t know’ | Macmillan

Life skills tip of the week: ways of saying ‘I don’t know’ | Macmillan

Apostrophe do’s, dos and don’ts | Macmillan

Apostrophe do’s, dos and don’ts | Macmillan

Aquarius

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Valentine´s figures in US

The Price of Love - #valentinesday #love #romance by @kaibabez from EMPOWERED PRESENTATIONS! | Design | Workshops | Training

Future tenses made simple!

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 Present Continuous with  explicit time and place complement.  Planned actions which include arrangement and planned that include preparation, other people and to make previous agreement with someone else. For example, when the teacher wants to set an exam. We are having an exam on Passive Voice next 25th March at the SUM. We are playing a football game after school tomorrow. Be going to + infinitive I am going to +infinitive/ se niega e interroga con am not e inversión del orden de elementos She is going to +infinitive/ se niega e interroga con is not e inversión del orden de elementos They are going to visit + infinitive/ se niega e interroga con are not e inversión de elementos Contracted forms are acceptable as well but avoid using "gonna", it is too coloquial. USES: Something planned. We use the be going to+ infinitive structure to talk about your decisions you make and intentions you have that don´t include other people. I am going to tidy my be

Adrian Hon discusses life skills with Macmillan

Founder of Six to Start, the award-winning games developer behind Zombies, Run!, Adrian Hon creates original smartphone games which combine the digital and physical world. In this video interview, Adrian discusses why learning new skills is so important when thinking about  future career opportunities.(taken from MacMillan Education website)

Will you take as I am? Will you take as I am.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The paragraph

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Some students do not know how to write a paragraph in English (or Spanish). Watch this video and think upon the topic. Will advice do? I trust you will benefit from it.

Grammar man can help you!

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Tip 5: adverbs on the move

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Tip 4: Another, other & others

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Tip 3: Agreement or concord (concordancia)

3 CONCORD OR AGREEMENT Concord is very important. If you don´t agree the subjects to the verbs you will never get a pass in the text writing. To get a pass= aprobar REMEMBER 1: This=singular //This advantage is … These= plural //These advantages are… In this places   { in those places or in these places) Much = incontables que son singulares siempre. REMEMBER 1.1: Typical uncountable nouns: ü   Substances: water, air, coffee, plastic, iron, paper ü   Abstract ideas: life, fun, freedom, heath, time, progress ü   Activities: work, travel, sleep, football, help, research ü   Human feelings: happiness, anger, honesty, hope, respect, courage ü   Groups of items: furniture (mobiliario, furnitures no existe), luggage (equipaje, conjunto de maletas, luggages no existe) Other super-hyper-mega usual WORDS ( que se usan “mazo” de veces en la comunicación oral o escrita) ACCOMMODATION, ADVICE, BEHAVIOUR, BUSINESS, CASH, EQUIPMENT,HOMEWORK, HOUSEWO

Tips 1 & 2

1 Certain verbs are followed by V+ing or a noun. Si traduces del español y en esta estructura pones un infinitivo, siempre estará mal en inglés . Avoid doing it .= Evita hacerlo. AVOID,   BE WORTH,   DISLIKE,  LIKE,  HATE,  LOVE, ENJOY,  FANCY,  HELP,  KEEP,  MIND, PRACTISE,  RISK,  CAN´T STAND y algunos más. Si quieres ver una lista más completa ve a las páginas 127-128 del SB, Distinction 2, OXFORD. It´ s not worth waiting for a bus at this time of the day. ( no vale la pena esperar…) I dislike having to get up early.( Me desagrada tener que…) Do you like meeting people from other countries? ( ¿Te gusta conocer…?) I don´t fancy going out this evening . ( No me apetece salir…) John can´t help laughing when he sees you! ( John no puede evitar reirse…) I wish you wouldn´t keep interrupting .( Ojalá no me interrumpiérais..) I don´t mind helping you do the washing-up. (No me importa ayudarte a fregar …) Jane misses going for long country walks. ( Jane echa

The best selfies

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Colourful Style in London II

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Colourful Style in London

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Chris Hadfield discusses life skills with Macmillan (Pt 2)

Chris Hadfield discusses life skills with Macmillan (Pt 1)

Happy Birthday Axel, darling

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Shop assistants and customers

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