Job Interviews

In this webside you will find questions and answers to practise a job interview. You will also find audio files to listen to a native English speaker and improve your interview skills while improving your English speaking.

Articles: a / an / the / -

Click on the link to read the rules for their use.

How to use the article in English

Exercises:

Excersise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Excercise 4
Excersise 5

"If" poem by Rudyard Kipling (British accent)

Today is World Poetry Day.

Spring. Quotations

Today is 20th March, 2014. Let's celebrate the first day of spring reading what others said about it.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.  ~Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

It's spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  ~Mark Twain

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.  ~Proverb

 In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.  ~Mark Twain
 
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.  ~Pablo Neruda

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost


I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. ~Pablo Neruda
 
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.  ~William Shakespeare
 
A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King.~Emily Dickinson

Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.  ~Virgil

Falles

 Falles?  

 "Mr. Pyrotechnic, you may commence the Mascletà!"

You might need to explain what Fallas are, and as you know, some words are difficult to translate.

Here you’ll find some words and expression that will help.

Falles:

1 The celebration held in commemoration of Saint Joseph on 19 March

2  the sculptures or monuments produced for or by a neighbourhood, which burn during the last day of the Fallas festival.They usually have a satirical theme.

Ninot: 

Wooden dolls put on display. They are filled with firecrackers and are made of cardboard and paper-maché. 

Casal Fallers: 

Organized groups of people (fallers and falleres)
Falleres: 
Girls and women dressed in a traditional costume. 
Mascletà: 
Fireworks display at midday
Masclet: 
Firecracker
Despertà:  
The wake-up call  at 8:00 am 
Banda: 
Brass bands march down every street playing lively music.

L'Ofrena de flors:    
The flower offering. Each falla casal takes an offering of flowers to the Virgin 
Els Castells:  
Fireworks
La Nit del Foc: 
The Night of Fire  
La Cremà:    
The Burning. 
Els plors: 
The crying
               

Na Jordana

Fireworks.

              

Verb Patterns. Exercises

Click on the links to practise what you have learned
1. Infinitive or Gerund?

2. Gerund, Infinitive

Verb Patterns

VERB PATTERNS. BASIC INTRODUCTION 

1) The infinitive with TO is used:  

• After adjectives: 
This is very easy to understand 

• After some verbs:

 

afford         decide         learn         seem              agree         

expect        manage       try            arrange           hope          

offer           wait            ask           promise          want          

choose       plan            refuse        would love      would like

• To express purpose: 
 He went to the airport to pick her up.  

• In the construction verb + object + to infinitive: 
I want Peter to speak to me. 
She’d like him to go there. 
They advised me not to buy it. 

2) The gerund (-ing form) is used: 

• After preposition:  
I look forward to seeing you again.                      
They apologized for not paying the bill. 
They came home alter meeting his friends 

• When it is the subject of the sentence: 
Eating in class is forbidden. 
Biting your nails is a bad habit 

• After some verbs:  

admit          enjoy           mind             consider          finish           
miss            stop            suggest         deny               imagine       
practise       tolerate        avoid            keep               mention     
can't help    dislike          like               hate               give up 

I can't help laughing at him.

I can't stand waiting in queues. 

There's / It's no use crying over spilt milk. 

That car isn't worth buying. 

David has given up smoking. 

Let's go hiking. (go + ing actions) 

3) The bare infinitive/ Infinitive without TO is used: 

• After modal verbs  
They must study . 
We can’t go there. 
She might pass. 
You should go to the library. (but, I ought to talk to him) 

• make / let somebody do something. 
 She made me cry. 
They let him go to the party.