Another video which complements the text of your coursebook. It will help you understand what Pompeii was like and its tremendous destruction…..
A Day In Pompeii
Watch the video and then describe how Pompeii was destroyed. Use the Simple Past to describe the sequence of events.
A healthy recipe
Can you cook healthy, nutritious dishes for you and your friends? If not, take a look at the following slide share. You will learn how to make a minestrone soup. I strongly recommend it.
The Origin of Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs are verbs that don’t take on the regular –d, -ed, or -ied spelling patterns of the past simple. – “[I]rregular verbs . . . derive from the Old English period. At that time they were called strong and weak verbs respectively. Strong verbs formed their past tense and past participle with an ablaut or vowel gradation. Weak verbs formed their past tense and past participle with an inflentional suffix, that is, a {-d} or {-t} suffix. With the loss of inflections during the Middle English period, all new verbs took on the weak verb formation with an {-ed} or {-t} in past forms. This weak formation soon became the norm for what we now refer to as English regular verbs; strong verbs became irregular verbs.” (Bernard O’Dwyer, Modern English Structures, 2nd ed. Broadview Press, 2006)
According to the Longman Student Grammar (2002), the nine most common lexical verbs in English are all irregular: say, get, go, know, think, see, make, come, and take. Here is a list-of-irregular-verbs.
Every Building Has Its Own Story
- big ben
- empire state building
- the tower of London
Christmas quiz
- Where does Santa live?
- What colour is Santa’s suit?
- Name one of Santa’s reindeer.
- Name one object that reminds us of Christmas.
- What “jingles” at Christmas?
- What do we hang on the fireplace?
- What does Santa ride on?
- What do we sing at Christmas time?
- Where do we put our Christmas gifts?
- What’s the weather like in the North Pole?
Jamie Oliver won the TED prize
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Jamie Oliver
In 2010, Jamie Oliver won the TED prize and gave his TED speech, “Teach every child about food,” in which he spoke about the need for a global food revolution. Four years later, the revolution was in full swing. Jamie’s annual global awareness campaign, Food Revolution Day, reached millions of people every year — the third Food Revolution Day in May 2014 saw more than 10,000 events in 121 countries and reached over 1 billlion people on Twitter alone. (Συνεχίστε…)
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver was only 23 when he first appeared on British television screens. More than 4 million people turned in to his popular show “Jamie’s Kitchen”. The show began as an experiment and turned into a phenomenon. (Συνεχίστε…)