HOLYDAYS HOMEWORK SUGGESTION

Hello dear students,

As part of our “ear training” or listening exercises, I propose you the following audiobook for the holydays:  Told After Super, by Jerome K Jerome.

I have chosen it because it's only over one hour long, it's read in British English, at a slow pace and is fully subtitled, so you will have no problem with vocabulary doubts.  

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue.  WIKI

About Told After Super,  LibriVox remarks:

“It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when...

But no, I won't spoil the fun. This is a little gem: Jerome at his tongue-in-cheek best. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Genre(s): Horror & Supernatural Fiction, Humorous Fiction

Language: English”

It has been a pleasure working with you this couple of months, and I look forward to continue in 2015.  Have a very happy season and wonderful holydays.

Astrid Arroyave.

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LISTENING EXERCISE. AUDIO.

Hello gentlemen:

Here I’m suggesting you a very interesting material to listen to.   It's a children’s story of political contents.   I’m sure you’ll enjoy it very much.   It is ‘The Emperor New Clothes’ by Hans Christian Andersen; only 12:24 minutes long, which I consider a very manageable frame to work with, now that we begin this exercise.

If you can, please have it ready for next session on December the 17^th, so we can talk about this experience, and from then, we will decide what to do.

Are you agreed?

Have a nice weekend, see you next Wednesday.

Astrid Arroyave.

TRAVEL

On the road

By train

By boat.

FEELINGS

Feeling is the nominalization of the verb to feel. The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe experiences other than the physical sensation of touch, such as "a feeling of warmth" and of sentience in general. In Latin, sentiremeant to feel, hear or smell.

In marketing:  Design should reflect what your company does.

A GUT FEELING, or gut reaction, is a visceral emotional reaction to something. It may be negative, such as a feeling of uneasiness, or positive, such as a feeling of trust. Gut feelings are generally regarded as not modulated by conscious thought, and as a reflection of intuition rather than rationality. The phrase "gut feeling" may also be used as a shorthand term for an individual's "common sense" perception of what is considered "the right thing to do"; such as: helping an injured passerby, avoiding dark alleys and generally acting in accordance with instinctive feelings about a given situation. It can also refer to simple common knowledge phrases which are true no matter when said, such as "Water is wet", "Fire is hot", or to ideas that an individual intuitively regards as true, without proof.

What in the world are all (or some) of those people feeling?

What in the world could all of those people be feeling?

Take a walk down Memory Lane.  Just follow the song, and sing along, if you wish (recomended).