OXFORD VS CAMBRIDGE

                                        
                                       CHOOSING A COLLEGE

ENGLISH IS CUH-RAY-ZEE

ENGLISH IS CUH-RAY-ZEE
English is the most widely spoken language in the history of the planet.
One out of every seven human beings can speak or read it.
Half the world's books, 3/4 of the international mail are in English.
It has the largest vocabulary, perhaps two million words,
And a noble body of literature. But face it:
English is cuh-ray-zee!
Just a few examples: There's no egg in eggplant, no pine or apple in pineapple.
Quicksand works slowly; boxing rings are square.
A writer writes, but do fingers fing?
Hammers don't ham, grocers don't groce. Haberdashers don't haberdash.
English is cuh-ray-zee!
If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?
It's one goose, two geese. Why not one moose, two meese?
If it's one index, two indices; why not one Kleenex,two Kleenices?
English is cuh-ray-zee!
You can comb through the annals of history, but not just one annal.
You can make amends, but not just one amend.
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one, is it an odd or an end?
If the teacher taught, why isn't it true that a preacher praught?
If you wrote a letter, did you also bote your tongue?
And if a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
English is cuh-ray-zee!
Why is it that night falls but never breaks and day breaks but never falls?
In what other language do people drive on the parkway and park on the driveway?
Ship by truck but send cargo by ship? Recite at a play but play at a recital?
Have noses that run and feet that smell?
English is cuh-ray-zee!
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same
When a wise man and a wise guy are very different?
To overlook something and to oversee something are very different,
But quite a lot and quite a few are the same.
How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell the next?
English is cuh-ray-zee!
You have to marvel at the lunacy of a language in which your house can burn down
While it is burning up. You fill out a form by filling it in.
In which your alarm clock goes off by going on.
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?
Well, English was invented by people, not computers
And reflects the creativity of the human race.
So that's why when the stars are out, they're visible,
But when the lights are out, they're invisible.
When I wind up my watch I start it, but when I wind up this rap,
I end it. English is cuh-ray-zee!
Words by Josh White, Jr. and Pete Seeger
(Based on Richard Lederer's "Crazy English")
Copyright (c) 1996

PREPOSITIONS

Prepositions of place and movement

Video- Prepositions

AT THE RESTAURANT

zonaClic - actividades - At the restaurant

TALKING ABOUT TELEVISION SHOWS

DISCOVER BRITAIN

DISCOVER BRITAIN on PhotoPeach

EMMA magazine February 2014 issue

EMMA magazine February 2014 issue

VOWEL SOUNDS IN ENGLISH

 

Choose one pair of words for each of the sounds in the picture:

A)  COME – BUT                                                B)  PUT – LOOK

C)  GREAT – RAIN                                             D)  MAN – FAT

E)  FATHER – CAR                                             F)  TEN – BREAD

G) MY – LINE                                                    H)  BIRD – WORK

I)  PARENTS – AIRPORT                                     J)  THIS – SIT

K)  POOR – TOUR                                              L)  TREE – SEA

M)   COURSE – TALK                                         N)  BOY – OIL

O)  DEAR – HERE                                              P)  DOCTOR – TEACHER

Q)  HOT – FOG                                                R)  NOW – MOUTH

S)  ONLY – DON'T                                             T)  SOON – FOOD

Check KEY at the bottom.

 A 12, B 7, C 13, D 3, E 4, F 11, G 15, H 10, I 19, J 1, K 20, L 2, M 6, N 17, O 18

 P 9, Q 5, R 16, S 14, T 8

                                  
                                         OXFORD versus CAMBRIDGE

SCHWA

THIS VOWEL IS THE MOST COMMON SOUND IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ESCOLA OFICIAL DE IDIOMAS A CORUÑA

ESCOLA OFICIAL DE IDIOMAS, ligazon

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

TEN INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT OUR DEAR ENGLISH LANGUAGE

1.   English is a West Germanic language.

2.   It is spoken as a first language in the United kingdom, the United States, 
      Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and a number of Caribbean
      nations. 

3.   It is also an official language in almost 60 other states such as India, 
      Kenya, Malta, Philippines, South Africa ...

4.   It is an official language in the European Union, the United Nations as well 
      as in many world organizations.

5.   It is the third most common native language in the world, after Mandarin 
      Chinese and Spanish.

6.   English comes from dialects brought to the Eastern coast of Great Britain 
      by Germanic settlers.

7.   English has many words of French origin due to the Norman conquest of 
      Engand in the 11th century.

8.   Latin has also influenced English because it was the lingua franca of the 
      Christian Church and of European intellectual life.

9.   English is the first global dominant language of communication,science, 
      information, technology ,business, seafearing, aviation, entertainment, 
      radio and diplomacy.

10.  A working knowledge of English has become a requirement in a number of 
       fields, occupations and professions such as medicine and computing and 
       so more than a million people speak English to at least a basic level.