Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Answers to exercises in unit 2



Here are the answers to the exercises from unit 2 that we did not do in lecture time. They are from pages 18-20.
Unit 3 to follow.....

Sunday, 14 November 2010

video links

Here are the links to the videos we watched about Heathrow's T5.



Thursday, 4 November 2010

British accents and dialects

This one is also very nice and slightly more academic.....

http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/

21 accents

Have a listen to Amy Walker saying the same thing in 21 different accents (luckily she tells us where each accent is from).

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Advice on PowerPoint

answers to your homestudy tasks

Page 10 'To merge or not to merge'
2. portfolios
3. acquire
4. targets
5. chances
6. fortunes
7. shareholder value
8. failure

Page 11.
Language check 1
1b 2e 3a 4d 5c

Language check 2
a pres cont
b pres perf
c past perf
d pres simp
e future (passive)

Language check 3
1 past per
2 future pass
3 pres perf
4 pres simp
5 pres cont

practice
2 has been
3 has accepted
4 will become
5 had not wanted / didn't want
6 has made
7 do not get
8 are becoming
9 will cost
10 will see

Monday, 1 November 2010

online translation help and a good learners' dictionary


As mentioned, there is a lot of good translation and dictionary help available for free online.
If you don't already know them it is worth trying out these websites. Most have free iphone aps too.

Linguee


LEO

Beolingus

Macmillan (mono-lingual) dictionaty for advanced learners