Wednesday, April 2, 2014

B2 ( Vocabulary warm-up): YOUR TAGXEDOS on crime and punishment

http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.htmlMany thanks for your tagxedos!
As I mentioned in class, using and creating word clouds can help you memorize and revise the vocabulary learnt in each unit. So far, I've received 2 tagxedos. Now.... remember that you can use any vocabulary or piece of language that you find either difficult or interesting to revise. For instance, try with phrasal verbs, idioms and proverbs, adjectives to express feeling/emotions, etc.
You can also include vocabulary from your student's books or from the graded readers. When you email your tagxedo, please include the unit number and title it makes reference to. Here's an example:  unit 1- studies, learning, university, languages; unit 2: present and past habits, food,etc.

EXERCISES
Together with all your word clouds, I'll be posting articles or similar material. Please read them and submit your comments in this entry. Remember to revise the vocabulary below and their special uses in your books before answering the questions.



1. This is the first BBC article.
Free Speech: Should a criminal be punished or educated? What are your views on this?

  Antonio García Hiraldo UNIT 3- VOCABULARY ABOUT CRIMES JUAN A. Gil de los Santos UNIT 3- VOCABULARY ABOUT CRIMES AND CRIMINALS Sandra Eliana Alzate Vargas-UNIT 4     PHRASAL VERBS 
Exercise: Look at the star....and work out the prepositions/adverbs that can be combined with the verbs to get different meanings. To check your answers  please visit this online phrasal verbs dictionary. You can then submit your answers.

EXERCISE: work with a dictionary to match the following particles with the verbs above and find out new meanings. Submit your answers here.

On
Up
Out
Over
Off
Away
Out
Off
Out
Round
Up
Up
Out
After
Over
Away
On
Out
On with
Run out


Claudia González Caracuel--UNIT 5- ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Yolanda Romero Mena YolandRomero Mena

2 comments:

Antonio said...

Hello

It is perfect to learn vocabulary that you don't know well.

Juan said...

Esta mañana revisando los phrasal verbs de ayer hubo uno que me intrigó un poco. Hold up, esto es, atracar un banco. En un primer momento creí que no tenía lógica para un español (aunque es cierto que muchos phrasal verbs no la tienen y algunos sí).

Pero luego investigando un poco por curiosidad descubrí que este en concreto finalmente sí que tenía su razón de ser. Y es que cuando un atracador dice Manos arriba (Hands up!) en el atraco la gente permanece con las manos arriba todo el tiempo (de ahi tambien el nombre hold-up).

Así queda la frase es un poco graciosa, Hands up, this is a hold up! (¡Manos arriba, esto es un atraco!).
Aquí adjunto un chiste muy gracioso sobre un atraco que contiene varios verbos de acción y phrasal verbs

http://www.wepsite.de/the_hold-up.htm