Madrid TEFL Professors: 2009

Saturday, April 4, 2009

The Dearly Deported

Reprinted from European Vibe Magazine ( http://www.europeanvibe.com/ )

A tale of warning to Americans without papers

Let’s face it, Spain has hardly been like Fort Knox to get into for non-EU citizens without residence permits over the last few years. Among the countless people of different nationalities to be living in Spain less than 100% legally, many Americans could be found rather less worried about being apprehended than the average extra-comunitario. Whether racism or classism is to blame for the authorities’ discrepancy in treatment of US passport holders and, say, Chinese, Peruvian or Senegalese nationals, things are changing. Johnny found out about the crack down more suddenly than he would have hoped.

As difficult as it was returning to snowy Madrid after a three week hiatus in sunny Florida - grumpy with jetlag, disappointed that no one had rolled out the red carpet for me in welcome, and frustrated over my fruitless search for a new flat, it was certainly hard to complain given the circumstances of my two best madrileño mates.

While recovering from the 20-hour trip and shivering through layers of socks and sleeves, hopelessly browsing the disorganized Spanish apartment sites and cursing under my breath at the time-wasting Nigerian scam ads, my flatmate to be was facing a very different set of frustrations altogether, making my petty problems shrink to shreds of insignificance.

Most of you have probably noticed by now the lackadaisical lethargy which typifies the Barajas Airport staff (and come to think of it, characterizes Spanish people-facing services in general), and how easily one can get from point A (the terminal gate) to point B (the fresh air of chain smoking cabbies on the outside).

Well, instead of skipping merrily through customs like the rest of us after a quick passport glance, my flatmate had the misfortune to happen upon an atypically attentive Spanish immigration agent. Having taught English here like so many others without working papers for the entirety of the fall and using up his three month tourist time limit, the stamped dates on his passport sold him out as quickly as he could say cerveza. And with his broken, perhaps even shattered, grasp of the Spanish language, there was no possible way of talking himself out of the situation. The passport stamps spoke for themselves.

Now, first, let me say that I’ve come across many a teacher who’s overstayed their welcome here by a solid three years plus and have never even flirted with the danger of deportation. Going a step further, not one of these teachers, or even a ‘lifer’ expat for that matter has been able to recall a single one incident of an American teacher being deported or denied entry back into Spain resulting from passport issues. Not one. So then why my flatmate? Seriously? Well, after examining the situation a little more in depth, it seems that it was a combination of factors. First, he had decided to take the cheap route and fly standby on a buddy pass. And, with his flight date being at the tail end of the holiday season, waiting to catch an open seat on a flight to Madrid proved to be much more difficult than planned. Long story short, after six nights of sleeping on cardboard boxes in airport terminals without a shower or shave, he found himself drowsily handing over his passport at customs. It also didn’t help that he’d washed his passport accidentally on multiple occasions, leaving it wrinkled, faded, and suspicious enough to warrant an ill-fated second glance.

So there my shaggy-haired amigo was: sporting a week’s worth of scruff to rival Grizzly Adams; eyes red and puffy with exhaustion; funky, stale body odour from a week without washing wafting through the customs line; and handing over his battered passport to immigration.

The official’s eyebrows raised in suspicion of this human overload of senses and stench; eyes flicking from face to passport and back several times before turning the page to discover the incriminating August entry date. Silently, he did the math, counting in months on his fingers and moving his lips silently to be sure – five months! Without hesitation, he then called up his superior, telling my flatmate to wait.

So there he stood, heart fluttering with that nervous, “Oh-shit-I’m-busted” feeling for a few minutes before being summoned to another room for questioning – in Spanish. Through what I imagine was lots of animated body language and sentence fragments, the Spanish immigration officials managed to communicate one thing quite clearly: “You’re not getting in.” What followed was a 24-hour drama that involved my friend hiring an abogado, heated arguments from his Spanish-speaking British girlfriend, and yet another sleepless night in yet another airport. In the end, the authorities refused to budge, and promptly sent him back to the last airport he came from (apparently, if you get stopped at the airport, it doesn’t matter where you live or need to go, they just send you right back in the direction you came), and put him on a three-month European probation.

Of course, the weekend wasn’t over yet, and as the snow melted from crisp wintery white to coke-slushy brown the gato gods had one more trick left to play. I had just gotten into bed on Sunday night when I received a text from another good friend of mine: “Dude I just got arrested. I’m in jail and am getting deported.” I had just seen this guy an hour earlier, so how in the hell did this happen so quickly? Sceptically, I texted him back, “Not a good joke,” but received no response. I then called his flatmate as well, also to no avail.

Starting to worry once again, but feeling more concerned about my Monday morning alarm clock, I drifted into a restless sleep full of deportation nightmares. The next day when I awoke, I was pleased to find that my friend had been released from Spanish captivity. As it turns out, he was stopped in the Cuatro Caminos metro station by the police, who were looking for a fugitive in the area. When they asked my friend for some form of identification, he searched his vacant pockets, realizing with regret that he’d left both passport and driving licence at his flat. And unfortunately for him, it’s illegal to be in public without official identification over here (abonos don’t count either). So following their suspicions, the cops put my friend in cuffs, sat him in the back of a squad car, and drove him to a station with holding cells where he was repeatedly questioned, forced to stay the night, and issued an order to be deported pending trial within a six-month period.

The thing I don’t get and probably never will is that my friend was here illegally for six months, but instead of kicking him immediately to the curb; they’re letting him stay until if and when the papers go through. And even better is the fact that according to his lawyer (coincidentally, the same lawyer as my friend who was deported in the airport), if the paper work doesn’t go through within that six-month period due to Spanish disorganization/procrastination, then his case will be thrown out and he can stay. If the papers are processed however, then he’s banished from the European continent for six to nine years! Ouch.

So, for any of you who’ve exhausted your three-month visa here, be careful. Always say you’re a tourist, be sure to have ID on you at all times, avoid areas with a high number of immigrants, and if you’re flying direct to Madrid from the States, please take note of your personal hygiene and appearance (probably a good idea to keep your passport in mint condition, too). As for me? Well, with two friends less in the phone book, what else is a guy to do but sit back, sip a Mahou, and give the nearest wood a good knuckle knockin’ in the hopes that my luck won’t so soon run out.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Phrasal Verb Exercises "About"

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Phrasal Verb Quiz "Back"

Phrasal Verb Quiz "A" Mixture

Phrasal Verb Quiz "Away"

Conversation Lesson

Conversation Lesson Plan

This blog is for TEFL professionals in Madrid to share ideas and lesson plans. I will post a new quiz or lesson plan at least once per week.

My only request is that if you use a quiz or lesson plan, please share one. Email them to me at aprender.english.2009@gmail.com

Vocabulary
1. disgrace: n : a state of dishonor; escándalo
2. distinguish: v 1: mark as different; distinguir
3. hypothetical: adj : based on hypothesis; hipotético
4. fetish: n 1: a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers; fetiche
5. perceive: v 1: to become aware of through the senses; percibir
6. ideology: n 1: an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation; ideología
7. implications: n 1: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); comprometimiento
8. colleague: n 1: an associate you work with; colega
9. magnum opus: n : a great work of art or literature; obra maestra
10. inheritance: (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents; herencia

Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live
By CARL SAFINA
Published: February 9, 2009
“You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching,” Robert Darwin told his son, “and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family.” Yet the feckless boy is everywhere. Charles Darwin gets so much credit, we can’t distinguish evolution from him.
Equating evolution with Charles Darwin ignores 150 years of discoveries, including most of what scientists understand about evolution. Such as: Gregor Mendel’s patterns of heredity (which gave Darwin’s idea of natural selection a mechanism — genetics — by which it could work); the discovery of DNA (which gave genetics a mechanism and lets us see evolutionary lineages); developmental biology (which gives DNA a mechanism); studies documenting evolution in nature (which converted the hypothetical to observable fact); evolution’s role in medicine and disease (bringing immediate relevance to the topic); and more.
By propounding “Darwinism,” even scientists and science writers perpetuate an impression that evolution is about one man, one book, one “theory.” The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi said, “If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.” The point is that making a master teacher into a sacred fetish misses the essence of his teaching. So let us now kill Darwin.
That all life is related by common ancestry, and that populations change form over time, are the broad strokes and fine brushwork of evolution. But Darwin was late to the party. His grandfather, and others, believed new species evolved. Farmers and fanciers continually created new plant and animal varieties by selecting who survived to breed, thus handing Charles Darwin an idea. All Darwin perceived was that selection must work in nature, too.
In 1859, Darwin’s perception and evidence became “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.” Few realize he published 8 books before and 10 books after “Origin.” He wrote seminal books on orchids, insects, barnacles and corals. He figured out how atolls form, and why they’re tropical.
Credit Darwin’s towering genius. No mind ran so freely, so widely or so freshly over the hills and vales of existence. But there’s a limit to how much credit is reasonable. Parking evolution with Charles Darwin overlooks the limits of his time and all subsequent progress.
Science was primitive in Darwin’s day. Ships had no engines. Not until 1842, six years after Darwin’s Beagle voyage, did Richard Owen coin the term “dinosaur.” Darwin was an adult before scientists began debating whether germs caused disease and whether physicians should clean their instruments. In 1850s London, John Snow fought cholera unaware that bacteria caused it. Not until 1857 did Johann Carl Fuhlrott and Hermann Schaaffhausen announce that unusual bones from the Neander Valley in Germany were perhaps remains of a very old human race. In 1860 Louis Pasteur performed experiments that eventually disproved “spontaneous generation,” the idea that life continually arose from nonliving things.
Science has marched on. But evolution can seem uniquely stuck on its founder. We don’t call astronomy Copernicism, nor gravity Newtonism. “Darwinism” implies an ideology adhering to one man’s dictates, like Marxism. And “isms” (capitalism, Catholicism, racism) are not science. “Darwinism” implies that biological scientists “believe in” Darwin’s “theory.” It’s as if, since 1860, scientists have just ditto-headed Darwin rather than challenging and testing his ideas, or adding vast new knowledge.
Using phrases like “Darwinian selection” or “Darwinian evolution” implies there must be another kind of evolution at work, a process that can be described with another adjective. For instance, “Newtonian physics” distinguishes the mechanical physics Newton explored from subatomic quantum physics. So “Darwinian evolution” raises a question: What’s the other evolution?
Into the breach: intelligent design. I am not quite saying Darwinism gave rise to creationism, though the “isms” imply equivalence. But the term “Darwinian” built a stage upon which “intelligent” could share the spotlight.
Charles Darwin didn’t invent a belief system. He had an idea, not an ideology. The idea spawned a discipline, not disciples. He spent 20-plus years amassing and assessing the evidence and implications of similar, yet differing, creatures separated in time (fossils) or in space (islands). That’s science.
That’s why Darwin must go.
Almost everything we understand about evolution came after Darwin, not from him. He knew nothing of heredity or genetics, both crucial to evolution. Evolution wasn’t even Darwin’s idea.
Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus believed life evolved from a single ancestor. “Shall we conjecture that one and the same kind of living filaments is and has been the cause of all organic life?” he wrote in “Zoonomia” in 1794. He just couldn’t figure out how.
Charles Darwin was after the how. Thinking about farmers’ selective breeding, considering the high mortality of seeds and wild animals, he surmised that natural conditions acted as a filter determining which individuals survived to breed more individuals like themselves. He called this filter “natural selection.” What Darwin had to say about evolution basically begins and ends right there. Darwin took the tiniest step beyond common knowledge. Yet because he perceived — correctly — a mechanism by which life diversifies, his insight packed sweeping power.
But he wasn’t alone. Darwin had been incubating his thesis for two decades when Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to him from Southeast Asia, independently outlining the same idea. Fearing a scoop, Darwin’s colleagues arranged a public presentation crediting both men. It was an idea whose time had come, with or without Darwin.
Darwin penned the magnum opus. Yet there were weaknesses. Individual variation underpinned the idea, but what created variants? Worse, people thought traits of both parents blended in the offspring, so wouldn’t a successful trait be diluted out of existence in a few generations? Because Darwin and colleagues were ignorant of genes and the mechanics of inheritance, they couldn’t fully understand evolution.
Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk, discovered that in pea plants inheritance of individual traits followed patterns. Superiors burned his papers posthumously in 1884. Not until Mendel’s rediscovered “genetics” met Darwin’s natural selection in the “modern synthesis” of the 1920s did science take a giant step toward understanding evolutionary mechanics. Rosalind Franklin, James Watson and Francis Crick bestowed the next leap: DNA, the structure and mechanism of variation and inheritance.
Darwin’s intellect, humility (“It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance”) and prescience astonish more as scientists clarify, in detail he never imagined, how much he got right.
But our understanding of how life works since Darwin won’t swim in the public pool of ideas until we kill the cult of Darwinism. Only when we fully acknowledge the subsequent century and a half of value added can we really appreciate both Darwin’s genius and the fact that evolution is life’s driving force, with or without Darwin.
Discussion

1. Do you believe in evolution? Do you know anyone who does not believe in evolution?
2. Do you think that evolution should be considered an ideology?
3. What other ideologies can you think of? How are they similar or different from evolution?
4. Can you think of an ideology where the author became more important than the message? Is this a good or bad thing?

Conversation Lesson

Vocabulary:
1. glitch: n : a fault or defect in a system or machine
2. speculate: v 1: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds: especular
3. disengage: v 1: release from something that holds fast. connects, or entangles; soltar
4. rational: adj 1: consistent with or based on or using reason; racional
5. interpretation: n 1: a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something; interpretación
6. irony: n: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: ironía
7. amass: v 1: collect or gather; amasar
8. corrupt: adj 1: lacking in integrity; corrupto
9. hilarious: adj : marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter; hilarante
10. bias: n 1: a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation; bies

March 30, 2009
from http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
Is A Brain Glitch To Blame For Financial Crisis?
Yes, but not that one.

CNN reports on a study:
"the real cause of the financial crisis could actually be down to a quirk of the human brain."

Take a moment a speculate on what you think that glitch might be. Nope:
According to a new neurological study by Atlanta's Emory University, expert financial guidance causes the brain to switch off, disengaging from its usual rational decision-making process.
"It's almost as if the brain stops trying to make a decision on its own," Professor Gregory Berns, who led the research, told CNN.
"Normally, the human brain uses a specific set of regions to figure out the trade-offs between risk and reward, but when an 'expert' offers advice on how to make these decisions, we found that activity in these regions decreases."
Why would it be surprising to him that we trust experts?

I.

The study doesn't just find what brain regions are involved in decision making, it even quantifies the effect of expert advice on a person's choice. But as good as the study is, the interpretation is flawed. The brain glitch isn't that we trust experts. The real brain glitch is the one that made him put scare quotes around the word "expert."
"Our brains will make the assumption that other people know more than we do," he said.
He isn't saying, "hey, isn't it far out how our brains switch off in the presence of experts?" He's saying, "why would you blindly follow these so called experts?"

The irony of he himself being an 'expert', and people blindly following him, is lost on him.

II.

He can't possibly be saying we shouldn't listen to experts, can he?

The point of having an expert is to trust his judgment. If your judgment is nearly as good as his, than either he's not an expert, or you are.

Being an expert entails more than simply amassing information; this is why having an internet connection and the first season of House does not make you a doctor. It is why a Prescribatron will be a worse doctor both at the individual and the population levels (more on that someday.)

He must know that the average person could not hope to learn enough information on finance (or medicine, or law, etc) to be usefully critical of an expert's opinion. (Or, the reverse: if you could, you'd be an expert.) In keeping with "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing," not trusting the experts and doing it on your own could be more disastrous. (e.g. crash of 2000.)

So why is 'expert' in scare quotes? Does he think those guys really don't know anything about finance?
Berns says his research highlights how we should pay more attention to financial advice and question the motives of so-called experts, assessing their trustworthiness before submitting to their opinion.

Of course: financial experts aren't dumb, they're corrupt.

The real brain glitch is the one that assumes that anything that is attached to money is corrupt. Or, more precisely, we can best judge the truth by knowing a person's financial biases.

This is how the CNN piece ends:
"Frankly, we should have everyone in the finance industry submit to brain scans," he says.

Ha! That's hilarious, especially since it was the exact opposite of the point of his study-- wasn't it the people seeking advice that were the problem? See how much fun it is to distort science, even good science that you yourself conducted and has value up until the "Discussion?" Here, he flips it around to say that the problem is with the experts. Which is, of course, what he wanted to be true all along.

I'll wager he would never put "neurology expert" in quotes, because he isn't tainted by money. (Well, government money, but nihil obstat.)

Meanwhile, because he doesn't "make money" on his studies (which of course he does) we're supposed to assume this is pure science-- accept it at face value. "Well, it uses MRIs." The MRIs are a rhetorical trick. They make it so you don't notice the political/institutional/personal biases. How much money a guy gets paid is all we need to know to judge his honesty.

"No, it's the source of the money that matters." Oh. If I do a study on Geodon that fails, I have to disclose if it was paid by Pfizer. If I do a study on Geodon that fails and I am sleeping with the Lilly rep, I have to disclose if it was paid by Pfizer. Solid.

It's a little scary to think that science can be used by scientists to reinforce a populist bias, but there you go.

Discussion

1. Do you find yourself trusting experts? When is the last time you took someone’s advice without doing your own research?
2. Do you think that trusting experts is a problem?
3. Can you imagine a time when trusting experts is bad?
4. Do you agree that a brain glitch could have caused the financial crisis?
5. Do you think that there is a conflict of interest when someone is getting paid to produce a scientific study?
6. Do you think the public should know who is paying to su

Conversation Lesson Plan: Creating a New Society

Conversation Lesson Plan - Creating a New Society
Aim: Building conversation skills, expressing opinions
Activity: Group activity deciding on the laws for a new society
Level: pre-intermediate to advanced
Outline:
• Help activate vocabulary by asking students which laws they admire most and least in their own country - and why.
• Divide students into groups of 4 - 6. Try to include as many different personalities as possible in each group (to provide for more stimulating discussion!)
• Explain the following situation to the class:
A large area of your country has been set aside by the current government for the development of a new nation. This area will include an invited international community of 20,000 men and women. Imagine that your group has to decide the laws of this new country.
• Distribute the worksheet and ask students to discuss the questions.
• Answer the worksheet as a class - ask the opinions of each group and leave ample time for discussion of differing opinions.
• As a follow-up activity, the class could discuss which laws and customs they would like to change in their own country.
Populate Ideal Land
A large area of your country has been set aside by the current government for the development of a new nation. This area will include an invited international community of 20,000 men and women. Imagine that your group has to decide the laws of this new country.
Discuss the following questions.
1. Which political system will the country have?
2. What will the official language(s) be?
3. Will there be censorship?
4. What industries will your country try to develop?
5. Will citizens be allowed to carry a gun?
6. Will there be the death penalty?
7. Will there be a state religion?
8. What kind of immigration policy will there be?
9. What will the educational system be like? Will there be compulsory education to a certain age?
10. Who will be allowed to marry?

Phrasal Verb Quiz: At and As

At/As
Mark the correct answer.

1. I don't know why you are not interested in the job offer. If I got an offer like that, I would ______ at the opportunity.
a. jump
b. nibble
c. work
d. get
2. She never stops trying to annoy me. She is always trying to ______ at me.
a. hail
b. nibble
c. guess
d. get
3. He couldn’t have been very hungry. He just ______ at his food.
a. worked
b. nibbled
c. got
d. marked down
4. I don’t know for sure why they have done that but I could ______ at the reason.
a. work
b. know
c. get
d. guess
5. We did very well last year but even so I think we should ______ at doing better this year.
a. guess
b. know
c. aim
d. mark down
6. I don’t know how he can keep working so hard. I ______ at his ability to keep going.
a. Marvel
b. masquerade
c. know
d. work
7. Your typing skills are not very good. If you want to be a journalist, you’ll have to ______ at your typing.
a. jump
b. masquerade
c. work
d. get
8. I don’t have time to deal with it today but I’ll ______ at it first thing tomorrow.
a. look
b. jump
c. hail
d. mark down
9. When you start a new job, so much new information ______ at you at the same time and it’s difficult to retain it all.
a. knows
b. comes
c. gets
d. works
10. He’s the sort that when he has got a big problem he just ______ and ______ at it until he finds a solution.
a. stops
b. works
c. knows
d. hails
11. John thinks the situation may get better but I think he is just ______ at straws.
a. masquerading
b. jumping
c. grasping
d. getting
12. My boss never listens. He just ______ at me all the time without giving me a chance to speak.
a. works
b. jumps
c. talks
d. marks down
13. I am in control here, not you. I must insist that you ______ as I say.
a. do
b. know
c. work
d. get
14. We have little space for relaxation. This tiny room at the back ______ as our staffroom.
a. jumps
b. serves
c. nibbles
d. marks down
15. They tried to sell a second-hand car to us as new. It was in good condition and could almost ______ as new, but we saw that the odometer had been tampered with.
a. jump
b. know
c. pass
d. mark down
16. When Bill Gates first started he was already ______ as a genius.
a. worked
b. hailed
c. jumped
d. known
17. His real first name is Harry, but he is generally ______ as Jock.
a. worked
b. referred to
c. jumped
d. marked down
18. He knew nothing at all about the subject but ______ as an expert. He fooled quite a few people.
a. marked down
b. aimed
c. masqueraded
d. did
19. I had you ______ as a bit of an idiot but I’m pleased to see I was totally wrong.
a. worked
b. aimed
c. marked down
d. did
20. Were you born an idiot or have you had to ______ at it?
a. jump
b. guess
c. work
d. get

First Lesson Interview

First Lesson Interview

1. Tell me about your last vacation

2. Tell me about a normal Sunday for you.

3. Tell me about your average day at work.

4. Describe your job/studies.

5. What would you do if you won a million euros?

6. What have you eaten today?

7. Tell me how to get from Barajas airport to the center of Madrid.

8. What were you doing last night at 9 p.m.?

9. What are you going to do this weekend?

10. How long have you studied English?

11. What is the most difficult for you in English? What is your strongest point?

12. How often do you use English in work/daily life? Written or spoken?

13. What is your main goal for learning English?

Questionnaire

Rate the following questions from 1 to 5 based on their importance. 1 is the most important, 5 is the least important.

1. How important is improving your written English?

1 2 3 4 5

2. How important are dictation and listening activities?

1 2 3 4 5

3. How important is the use of a textbook during the course?

1 2 3 4 5

4. How important is doing homework outside of class?

1 2 3 4 5

5. How important is improving your spoken English?

1 2 3 4 5

6. What is more important to you; business English (1), everyday English (5), or both equally (3)?

1 2 3 4 5

7. How important is the use of materials dealing with current events, such as newspaper and magazine articles?

1 2 3 4 5

8. Name some of your hobbies and interests. Do you like reading novels? Do you read the newspaper daily? What are your favorite internet sites? Are you interested in politics? Religion? Sports?

9. Are there any questions you would like to ask me?

10. Do you have any additional comments?

Level Test

Nombre:
Nivel:

Level Test

Section One; Fill in the Blank
1 point for each correct answer

1. There isn’t money in the account.
(a) some (b) a (c) the (d) any

2. What the weather like yesterday?
(a) was (b) did (c) were (d) is

3. These flowers are than those.
(a) lovelier (b) more lovely (c) lovelier (d) loveliest

4. Where have you ?
(a) were (b) been (c) was (d) being

5. London is the largest city England.
(a) at (b) of (c) in (d) from

6. That businessman is rich and .
(a) success (b) successfull (c) succes (d) successful

7. beautiful garden!
(a) What (b) How (c) What a (d) How

8. There three international conventions in Madrid yesterday.
(a) were (b) had (c) was (d) has

9. You are : Manchester is in North-west England.
(a) reason (b) alright (c) all right (d) right

10. Those children are Scottish, ?
(a) don’t they? (b) aren’t they? (c) isn’t it? (d) is it?

11. He seldom late.
(a) arrives (b) arrive (c) cames (d) come

12. What did you last night?
(a) does (b) do (c) did (d) doing

13. You’ll come with me, ?
(a) willn’t you? (b) want you? (c) won’t you? (d) come you?

14. I have lived in this country ten years.
(a) during (b) for (c) since (d) from

15. He know me.
(a) doesn’t (b) not (c) don’t (d) isn’t

16. I have just these shoes.
(a) bought (b) to buy (c) buying (d) buy

17. He been in Spain before.
(a) didn’t have (b) hadn’t (c) haven’t (d) wasn’t

18. What you going to tell me?
(a) was (b) were (c) will (d) did

19. He to see me last Tuesday.
(a) come (b) came (c) comes (d) cames

20. I met that man .
(a) for a long time (b) many time ago (c) a long time ago (d) long time ago

Section Two: Spelling

Write the following words correctly in English:

1. Gobierno
2. Pensamiento
3. Responsabilidad
4. Deuda
5. Longitud
6. Informe
7. El cual
8. Vacaciones
9. Poseer
10. La verdad
11. Verdadero
12. Reirse
13. Circunstancias
14. Tiempo (atmosferico)
15. Acuerdo
16. En el extranjero
17. Estudiando
18. Inmediatamente
19. Febrero
20. Mintiendo
21. Aleman
22. Normalmente
23. Miercoles
24. Extranjero
25. Filosofia

Section Three: Translation

1. El jefe no suele llegar targde.

2. Cuanto tiempo hace que le conoces?

3. No ha venido nadie todavia.

4. Cada cuanto vas a Inglaterra?

5. Cuando volveremos a verte?

6. En que fabrica trabajas?

7. Quieres que te ayude?

8. Podras terminar este trabajo antes del viernes?

9. No deberias gastar tanto dinero.

10. Es possible que no vayamos al concierto.

11. Queremos que digas la verdad.

12. No iremos a no ser que nos inviten.

13. Si cambio de idea, te llamo.

14. Que harias si fueras la Reina de Inglaterra?

15. Si hubiera sabido que iba a pasar esto, no habria venido.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

The Dearly Deported

Friday, April 3, 2009

Phrasal Verb Exercises "About"

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Phrasal Verb Quiz "Back"

Phrasal Verb Quiz "A" Mixture

Phrasal Verb Quiz "Away"

Conversation Lesson

Conversation Lesson

Conversation Lesson

Conversation Lesson Plan

Conversation Lesson

Conversation Lesson Plan: Creating a New Society

Phrasal Verb Quiz: At and As

First Lesson Interview

Level Test

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