Advanced Learning English Lesson 3 - City vs Rural Life - Vocabulary and...

Marty McFly Visits Hill Valley in October 2015

We're finally living in the month that Marty visited in 'Back to the Future II'

The exact date is October 21st, 2015, so there's still some time for flying cars and dehydrated pizza to hit the market

Here's a clip from the movie where Marty first walks into the Hill Valley of October 2015. Notice how he encounters a fax machine mailbox on the street.

And the trailer for a non-exixtent film that was going to be realeased at that time.

So, get ready for a real fake day; make your welcome posters, so Marty can feel at home.

Have fun

Well, as you seem a litle bit reluctant to believe me when I told you  about this in class, here you have some links  for you to check.

A brief history of money: key

KEY

1.    Who is James going to see?
A CURATOR AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
2.    What is Irving Finkel showing James?
A PIECE OF CLAY.
3.    How were workmen paid, according to the document from question 2?
IN A QUANTITY OF BARLEY.
4.    What goods have been used as currency, according to the documentary?
BARLEY, GOLD, SILVER, COWRY SHELLS, ETC.
5.    What were people happy to use in exchange for other goods 2.500 years ago?
IRON
6.    When does the early coin which James is showing us date back to?
7th CENTURY B.C.
7.    What were these early coins made of?
GOLD, SILVER OR ELECTRUM (A MIXTURE OF BOTH).
8.    What did coins become useful for?
FOR SPREADING MESSAGES.
9.    Why did historical leaders have their faces put on coins?
TO PUBLICIZE HOW POWERFUL THEY WERE / TO PUBLICIZE THEIR POWER.
10.    What does Catherine Eagleton use to make a coin?
A LOG, A HAMMER, A DIE AND A PIECE OF METAL.
11.    Why did people start using paper money?
BECAUSE COINS WERE MORE DIFFICULT TO MOVE AROUND: THEY WERE RISKY, MORE DANGEROUS, INCONVENIENT.
12.    What is required for something to be used as money?
IT IS REQUIRED FOR SOMEBODY TO TRUST IT IS WORTH A CERTAIN AMOUN

Young explorers: a brief history of money

What the video, and try and answer these questions.

YOUNG EXPLORERS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF MONEY
1.    Who is James going to see?
2.    What is Irving Finkel showing James?
3.    How were workmen paid, according to the document from question 2?
4.    What goods have been used as currency, according to the documentary?
5.    What were people happy to use in exchange for other goods 2.500 years ago?
6.    When does the early coin which James is showing us date back to?
7.    What were these early coins made of?
8.    What did coins become useful for?
9.    Why did historical leaders have their faces put on coins?
10.    What does Catherine Eagleton use to make a coin?
11.    Why did people start using paper money?
12.    What is required for something to be used as money?

The tell-tale heart

Here a short video  you have by Jules Dassin.
I hope you find it useful and entertaining.

Crime in the UK

CAR CRIME UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFNVi64j0Ms

1. There are ________________on London roads at 8.00pm.
2. A full time job for the police is to check whether drivers have the correct ________________.
3. An NAPR [1]camera has spotted a car which is listed as having no ________________.
4. The police have to find out the driver’s ________________.
5. They want to check out on ________________ and on his ________________.
6. The police computer doesn’t agree that the car is ________________.
7. The driver is ________________.
8. He has a ________________ driving license.
9. To do a more thorough [2]check of the man’s identity, the policeman will use a ________________.
10. 60% of the drivers who are stopped give ________________.
11. The man was telling the truth: he had no ________________.
12. The man has lived in England for ________________ years.

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[1] NAPR: Automatic Number Plate Recognition

[2] Thourough: /ˈθʌrə/ concienzudo, minucioso, meticuloso.




KEY
1. 3 MILLION CARS
2. DOCUMENTATION
3. INSURANCE
4. IDENTITY
5. THE MAN / VEHICLE
6. INSURED
7. IRAQI
8. PROVISIONAL
9. MOBILE FINGERPRINT SCAN
10. FALSE DETAILS
11. CRIMINAL RECORD
12. 20 OR 21

Back to school

 In this unit (7), we are learning vocabulary about  school.

How do you say “goma”, ” borrador”, tijeras” etc… in English? Let’s revise the vocabulary of school supplies.

Then, visit a well-known public boarding school in UK Eton school and find out about it. 

 

When you are old

Listen to this wonderful poem by W. B. Yeats, no doubt one of the most beautiful love poems ever witten.
Post a comment on it later on.




Here you have the words:

863. When You are Old

WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

Watch this video with Sonnet 29 by Shakespeare recorded by Matthew MacFayden. Absolutely fantastic!



Here are the words:
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, …
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.