Showing posts with label Solutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solutions. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 June 2020

SOLUTIONS 10th June - Irene's Challenges: Yoda Said It

Hello again, folks! 


Great to see you here. Here you are the answers to our last challenge. If you remember, I asked you to reorder Master Yoda's words, so let's see:

Es genial veros por aquí. Aquí tenéis las respuestas a nuestro último reto. Si os acordáis, os pedí reordenar las palabras del Maestro Yoda, veamos:


1. When nine hundred years you reach, look as good you will not.  When you reach nine hundred years, you will not look as good.

1. Cuando alcances novecientos años, no tendrás tan buena pinta.


2. Truly wonderful the mind of a child is. → The mind of a child is truly wonderful.

2. La mente de un niño es verdaderamente maravillosa.


3. If into the security recordings you go, only pain will you find.  If you go into the security recordings, you will only find pain.

3. Si entras en las grabaciones de seguridad, solo encontrarás dolor.


4. Size matters not. Look at me! Judge me by my size, do you? → Size doesn't matter. Look at me! Do you judge me by my size?

4. El tamaño no importa. ¡Mírame! ¿Me juzgas por mi tamaño?


5. Go I will. Good relations with the Wookies, I have. → I will go. I have good relations with the Wookies. 

5. Yo iré. Tengo buenas relaciones con los Wookies.

La teoría sobre el origen de Baby Yoda en 'The Mandalorian' que se ...

Hope you enjoyed it!
May the Force be with you,

Irene

Wednesday, 10 June 2020

SOLUTIONS 27th May - Irene's Challenges - Find the mistake

Hi there!

Here you are the solutions from last challenge.
Aquí tenéis las soluciones del último reto.


Please, feel free to write to me in the comments if you need any further explanation, or if you have any doubts.
Por favor, no dudéis en escribirme en los comentarios si necesitáis alguna explicación extra o si tenéis alguna duda.

Have a great week,

Irene

GLOSSARY:
Feel free (interj) - No dudar, sentirse libre de.
Muchos emails profesionales terminan con "Please feel free to contact me if you require additional information" (Por favor, no dude en ponerse en contacto conmigo si necesitan información adicional).

Wednesday, 27 May 2020

Irene's challenges - I need the questions (13th May) SOLUTIONS

Hi there,

Long time no see! 

Here you are the solutions of the first challenge:




  1. Madrid - Where are you from?
  2. English teacher - What do you do? You can also make the question "What's your job?" here, but I recommend "what do you do?", it's more polite.
  3. One brother - How many brothers or sisters do you have?
  4. Thirty-tree - How old are you?
  5. Chester (near Liverpool) - Where did you learn English? Actually, I learnt English both in Chester and Madrid.
  6. Ancient History and English - What did you study?
  7. Playing games, reading and arts&crafts - What do you like doing in your free time?
  8. A very interesting sci-fi novel - What are you reading now/at the moment?

GLOSSARY:
Long time no see (expr) - ¡Cuánto tiempo sin verte/veros!

Wednesday, 20 May 2020

- 6 AS - SOLUTIONS 6th of May - FAIRY TALES

FAIRY TALES (1)

1. Fairy Tale Vocabulary


EMPEROR´S NEW SUIT (2)

3. Answer the questions.

SHORT ANSWER
Answer each question below.

1.       What did the emperor spend all his money on?

Clothes or dress

2.       Where did the emperor spend most of his time?
In his wardrobe or closet

3.       The dishonest weavers said their clothes were to those who were unfit for their office.
Invisible

4.       How much cloth did the dishonest weavers make?
None

5.       What did the dishonest weavers do with the silk and gold thread?
Put it in their knapsack




Wednesday, 6 May 2020

- 5 AS- SOLUTIONS 22nd of April - GARDENING

GARDENING ( 2 )

3. Match the words and create compound nouns.

1. back garden : patio trasero
2. birdhouse: pajarera
3. vegetable batch: lote de verduras
4. compost heap: pila de compost
5. deckchair: tumbona
6. hosepipe: manguera
7. wildflowers: flores silvestres
8. watering can: regadera
9. greenhouse: invernadero
10. hanging basket: cesta

4. Choose the correct word

1. leaf
2. violet
3. daisy
4. bud
5. hay
6. roots



KEW GARDENS ( 3 )

FIND OUT INFORMATION ABOUT KEW GARDENS

1. What is "Kew Gardens"?


Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world"
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2. Where are Kew Gardens situated?


4. How large/big is Kew gardens?

Its present size of 121 hectares ( 300 acres). 

What it is meaning:
1 Hectareas is equal to 10000 square-metres.
1 Football Fields is equal to 5351.215 squaremetres

121 ha x 10000 = 1210000 square-metres

1210000: 5351,215 = 226,118 Football Fields

5. How many kinds of plants are there in Kew?

Kew Gardens has one of the most diverse collections of living plants of any botanic garden in the world. Over 50,000 living plants.

6. How many books has the library got?

The library is one of the largest collections of published botanical information in the world. Its main subject area is the taxonomy and systematics of wild plants, including collections of herbaria in microfom.



7. Write the Plant Collection. ( 1-10)

The Herbarium
The Fungarioum
Seed Collection
Economic Botany Collection
Explore our DNA and Tissue Bank 
Microscope Slide Collection
Spirit Collection
In Vitro Collection
Living Collection


8. The Palm House is a glasshouse ( also called a greenhouse) at Kew Gardens
( You Tube: "The Palm House at Kew Gardens"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ChP6OeNmBE) and complete the sentences:

- The Palm House was constructed in........1844..........from over...200...........tons of iron an ..16,000..........panes of glass.

- The Palm House looks like the upturned hull of a ..ship......

- This is almost certainly....the oldest pot plant in the world ....and it came here in ....1775.....



                              Treetop Walkway

Wednesday, 22 April 2020

- 4 AS - SOLUTIONS 8th OF APRIL - EASTER

EASTER VOCABULARY ( 1 )

From left to right.

Easter eggs
Basket
Lamb
Jelly beans
Bunny
Easter cake
Egg painting
Cross
Egg hunting
Holy Bible
Chick
Jesus Christ
Daffodil
Chocolate bunny
Hot cross buns
Easter cupcakes
Church
Lily
Chocolate egg
Tulip


A BRITISH EASTER: TRADITIONS ( 2 )

1. True - Time 1,04
2. False - Time  1,50
3. True - Time 2,30
4. True - Time 2,59
5. False - Time 3,47
6. True - Time 4,40
7. Hot cross buns
8. Greeting Easter Card
9. Rebirth
10. Easter Bunny Competition




Wednesday, 8 April 2020

-3 AS- SOLUTIONS 1st of April 2020 - FEELINGS

ADEJECTIVES AND FEELINGS (2)

1. Write the words from the box in empty spaces to complete the phrases. Use each word many times as you need it. 

1. boring
2. bored
3. interesting
4. depressing
5. depressed
6. amusing
7. surprising
8. confused
9. disgusting
10. disappointed
11. disappointing
12. confuising
13. interested
14. boring
15. amused
16. surprised
17. disppointed
18. interested
19. disppointed

Wednesday, 1 April 2020

-2 AS - SOLUTIONS 25th of March 2020 - HUMAN BODY

AROUND THE HUMAN BODY (1)

1. Write the words from the box in empty spaces to complete the phrases. Use each word only as many times as it is in the box, make sure that all words are used:

a.    Do the laundry
b.    Get up
c.    Have dinner
d.    Go to bed
e.    Watch TV
f.     Go home
g.    Have breakfast
h.    Go to work
i.     Read a book
j.     Listen to music
k.    Have a shower
l.     Go shopping
m.  Buy a newspaper
n.    Iron the clothes
o.    Get dressed
p.    Have lunch


    2. Now match the complete phrases with the pictures below, write the correct letter next to each picture.

1.    Go shopping
2.    Listen to music
3.    Go to bed
4.    Get dressed
5.    Have dinner
6.    Have a shower
7.    Have breakfast
8.    Read a book
9.    Have lunch
10.  Go home
11.  Get up
12.  Go to work
13.  Do the laundry
14.  Iron the clothes
15.  Watch TV
16.  Buy a newspaper

BODY IDIOMS (2) 

Kahoo Challenge -> Self-correction

WAYS TO MOVE (3)

1. Ways to move. Cloze exercise

1. With a final burst of energy, Mikes sprinted towards the finish line.
2. Tom turned around and stomped angrily out of the room.
3. Sue's baby is crawling already. She'll be walking soon!
4. Don't dawdle Jane! We'll be late!
5. I crept out of the room so that I didn't wake Sam up.
6. After the lights went out, I had to fumble my way across the room.
7. I love wandering around flea markets. You never know what you will find!


2. Using the human body as my canvas -> Self -correction



"Creo firmemente en la suerte y cuanto más duro trabajo, más tengo." Thomas Jefferson

Wednesday, 25 March 2020

-1 AS--SOLUTIONS 18th of March 2020


ST. PATRICK’S DAY AND PREPOSITIONS ( 1 )

Look at the picture and complete with the correct preposition:
on, in, next to, under, behind, in front of or between.

It is sitting on a mushroom.
The leprechaun is under a mushroom.
The leprechaun is in a pot of of gold.
It´s behind a mushroom.
It´s in front of the computer.
The leprechaun is between a shamrock and a gold pot.
It´s sleeping on a shamrock.
The leprechaun is in its house.
It´s between the mushrooms.
It´s next to a pot of gold.
The leprechaun is behind a bush.
It´s playig the harp under the rainbow.
The leprechaun is sitting on a pot of gold.
It´s behind a shamrock.
It´s in front of a pot of gold.
The leprechaun is standing next to a big jar of beer.


WHEN IS ST. PATRICK´S DAY 2020? (2)

Unscrable the St. Patrick´s day vocabulary and number the pictures.

1. hat
2. shamrock
3. snake
4. Ireland
5. jig
6. rainbow
7. beer
8. leprechaun
9. Irish
10. harp
11. gold
12. pot
13. pipebag
14. clover
15. flute
16. horseshoe
17. fiddle 
18. coins
19. green
20. flag


WHAT IS THE HISTORY OF ST. PATRICK´S DAY? (3)

Read and complete the article, then complete the following sentences.

1. Boston, USA
2. 1737
3. drums
4. banquet
5. Great Famine
6. violence
7. 1890s
8. cities


"Es duro fracasar, pero es peor no haber intentado triunfar" Theodore Roosvelt