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sábado, 8 de septiembre de 2012

READING COMPREHENSION - SELLING HUMAN EGGS


Selling human eggs




A twenty-five-year-old English woman has advertised 1) __________ own eggs for sale 2) __________ the internet to pay off  her credit card debt. She 3) __________ that she has three jobs - a day job and two part-time jobs in pubs 4) __________ the evening, but thinks selling her eggs would be a better way to 5) __________ out her money problems.
Last year, the law changed and children 6) __________ from donated eggs can be told 7) __________ their biological mother is. Since then, fewer women have been donating eggs. Critics 8) __________ that it is dangerous to donate eggs and also say that people should do it for free and not for money. Despite the 9) ___________, it is likely that paying for eggs 10)___________________more common in the future.

Questions

Select the correct answer according to the text.

Principio del formulario
1
the
her
hers
6
born
be born
are born

2
in
at
on
7
that
whom
who


3
tells
says
speaks

8
saying
says
say


4
in
on
at
9
advices
critics
advertised

5
sorting
sorted
sort


10
 will become
will became
had become


Find in the text the following categories.

1.      A  phrasal verb: _______________________________________
2.      An adverb: ___________________________________________
3.      A conditional verb: ____________________________________
4.      A past participle verb: _________________________________
5.      A connector: _________________________________________
6.       A conjuction: ________________________________________
7.       A relative word: ______________________________________
8.       An adjective: ________________________________________
9.      A composed noun: ____________________________________
10.   An infinitive verb: ____________________________________



READING COMPREHENSION - INTELLIGENT PILLS


TOPIC:   ______________________                 DATE: ____________     GRADE: __________

Intelligence pills


*      Instructions: Read through the text, answer the questions that follow.

Some scientists have predicted that healthy adults and children may one day take drugs to improve their intelligence and intellectual performance.  A research group has suggested that such drugs might become as common as coffee or tea within the next couple of decades.
To counter this, students taking exams might have to take drugs tests like athletes.  There are already drugs that are known to improve mental performance, like Ritalin, which is given to children with problems concentrating.  A drug given to people with trouble sleeping also helps people remember numbers.
These drugs raise serious legal and moral questions, but people already take vitamins to help them remember things better, so it will not be a simple problem to solve.  It will probably be very difficult to decide at what point a food supplement becomes an unfair drug in an examination. 
Principio del formulario

Questions

Q1 - Only children will take pills to improve their intellectual performance.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q2 - Intelligence pills are already as common as coffee or tea.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say
Q3 - Coffee is as common as tea.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say
Q4 - Students could have to take intelligence drugs tests.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say
Q5 - A sleeping pill helps people remember numbers.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say
Q6 - Vitamins to help people study are illegal.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say
Q7 - Food supplements are unfair.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say

Q8 – There are already drugs that are known to improve mental performance.
 Right
Wrong
Doesn't say
Q9 - Food supplements must be taken by athletes.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say
Q10 – F Red bull is a drink for athletes.
Right
Wrong
Doesn't say


Final del formulario

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE REVIEW.



Dear students! You can do a short review o the following  topics: COMPARATIVE AND  SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES here. Just go to the  links:


http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Comparative%20Adjectives.pdf

http://englishforeveryone.org/PDFs/Superlative%20Adjectives.pdf


Do this practice too.


STUDENT: ----------------------------------------------------------------------  
                                 
BOB                                                 HOMER                                            ALICE
28 YEARS OLD                             39 YEARS OLD                                9 YEARS OLD
55 KILOS                                       80 KILOS                                         33 KILOS
1.50 MT                                         1.55 MT                                            1.20 MT
               
1. Use the information of each one to do five comparative sentences.

a.  _________________________________
b.  _________________________________
c.   _________________________________
d.  _________________________________
e.  _________________________________


2. Choose the correct comparative of the adjectives.

a. Take an ice cream is  better than   best than to eat cake.
b. Travel by buses is  cheapest than   cheaper than travel by planes.
c. the plum is more bigger than   bigger than the strawberry.
d. smoking is  more dangerous  than  most dangerous than to drink alcohol.
e. I will try to be best than  better than all the rest of students.
 3. Choose the correct superlative of the adjectives.

a. Paul has got  the most expensive the expensivest car I know.
b. My house is the biggest  the most big in my street.
c. Summer is the hottest  the hotest season of the year.
d. Sara is really intelligent. In fact she is the intelligentest the most inteligent person I know.

e. Our class is  the most noisy the noisiest of the school. I wish it wouldn’t!
f. Nelly has bought the most interesting the interestingest book she saw at the bookstore.

g. My dog is the fattest  the most fat in the neighborhood.

h. Felipe is the happiest  the happyiest friend that I have had.

i. Sara really sings very badly. In fact she is the baddest the worst singer   I´ve heard.

j. Riosucio has many people  the most part the more part of them are from Indian resguards. 

lunes, 20 de agosto de 2012

COMPARATIVE & SUPERLATIVE IN SONGS


COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADJECTIVES


IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE - ROXETTE




It must have been love but it's over now

Lay a whisper on my pillow
Leave the winter on the ground
I wake up lonely, there's air of silence
In the bedroom and all around

Touch me now, I close my eyes
And dream away

It must have been love but it's over now
It must have been good but I lost it somehow
It must have been love but it's over now
From the moment we touched till the time had run out

Make believing we're together
That I'm sheltered by your heart
But in and outside, I turned to water
Like a teardrop in your palm

And it's a hard winter's day
I dream away

It must have been love but it's over now
It was all that I wanted, now, I'm living without
It must have been love but it's over now
It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows

It must have been love but it's over now
It must have been good but I lost it somehow
It must have been love but it's over now
From the moment we touched till the time had run out

Yeah, it must have been love but it's over now
It was all that I wanted, now, I'm living without
It must have been love but it's over now
It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows

It must have been love but it's over now
It must have been love but it's over now

SHE IS LIKE THE WIND- PATRICK SWAYZE



She's like the wind through my tree 
She rides the night next to me 
She leads me through moonlight 
Only to burn me with the sun 
She's taken my heart 
But she doesn't know what she's done 

Chorus: 
Feel her breath on my face 
Her body close to me 
Can't look in her eyes 
She's out of my league 
Just a fool to believe 
I have anything she needs 
She's like the wind 

I look in the mirror and all I see 
Is a young old man 
With only a dream 
Am I just foolin' myself 
That she'll stop the pain 
Livin' without her 
I go insane 

Chorus