Thursday, February 27, 2014
Passive: more exercises
Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Exercise 8 Exercise 9 Exercise 10
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Monday, February 24, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Random Acts of Kindness Day: what do you know about it?
Random Acts of Kindness Day is the name of an unofficial holiday increasingly celebrated around the world by localities or organizations, or nationwide, in order to encourage acts of kindness. The holiday is now on February 17th. It is not a holiday, rather a national day where the entire country is challenged to do something kind to a friend or stranger for no reason at all.
Here's a short video on the concept of "pay it forward": an expression for describing the beneficiary of a good deed repaying it to others instead of to the original benefactor.
What do you think of these 2 concepts?
Saturday, February 15, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
St Valentine's Day: an easy reading quiz + Some Quotes
Short text to practise vocabulary related to St Valentine's Day
Quotes
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost
― Robert Frost
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Let her go: fill in the missing words. You can do it!
There are 40 missing words in the song. Will you guess them?
http://lyricstraining.com/play/passenger/let_her_go/HuRFPTXgEu
http://lyricstraining.com/play/passenger/let_her_go/HuRFPTXgEu
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