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Thursday, September 26, 2019

the Best items of All Time -Alphabet



WE use the Alphabet


TASK 1

Write your favourite group on your notebook.
translate into your language
read it aloud to your table companions.


TASK 2
Read this list with 15 (fifteen) groups and some songs

Copy the ones you can say in good English
  

1
BEATLES

SHE LOVES YOU
2
QUEEN

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
3
ABBA

DANCING QUEEN
4
ROLLING STONES

(I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION
5
OASIS

WONDERWALL
6
TAKE THAT

BACK FOR GOOD
7
SPICE GIRLS

WANNABE
8
BEE GEES

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE
9
U2

WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
10
STATUS QUO

ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD
11
BOYZONE

NO MATTER WHAT
12
BLONDIE

HEART OF GLASS
13
BLACK EYED PEAS

I GOTTA FEELING
14
BONEY M

RIVERS OF BABYLON /
 BROWN GIRL IN THE RING
15
SLADE

MERRY XMAS EVERYBODY


TASK 3

Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Best Ballads of All Time
  • 'Let It Be'
  • 'Purple Rain' ...
  • 'Wish You Were Here' ...
  • 'Let's Get It On' 
  • 'Black' ...
  • 'Freebird' ...
  • 'Hey Jude' ...
  • 'With Or Without U'

TASK 4. Beatlemania


Monday, September 23, 2019

Pow Gasol and OW and AU-AW English spelling frequencies




Can you read the poster on the left?

Who can't deny that Pau Gasol was the POW =  Player of the week in NBA jargon.

The nick name is Pow Gasol, Power Gasol, Pow in short.

The other partner in spelling is OU, as in house, mouse, sound, 
pronounce, announce, 
sound as in profound, ground,  
ADD: 6 others




If the onomatopeic spelling clearly offers the sound of the word, ...how would you pronounce WOW! 
(meaning exclamative surprise: What a wonderful thing!)

ou-ow -1 /au/ ow, town, power
TOWN + down, brown, town, 
HOW, now, cow, cowboy, clown, 
FLOWER +vowel, towel, tower, flower, power, 
crowded, powder,


au-aw /o:/  pause and law, audio and awful  
Very regular indeed. Here is the list.
 draw, drawer, awe, lawyer,  …
August, Laurie, autumn, cause, sauna, author, auxiliar, auto-, saurus, …
(names) Laura, Paula, Claudia, Paul, Paula, .. Austria, Australia,



Obviously, there are some irregularities with stressed syllables. Here you have a challenge:  Can you collect another 4?

With OW: (adjectives) slow, low, (verbs +nouns) show, snow, know, growWith AW:  aunt, laugh, ...... , but not many.