HANDWRITTEN QUOTES

 (6th Cultural Week-10: Writing in the 21st century)

One of the activities for this year's cultural week was HANDWRITTEN QUOTES IN ENGLISH. Here are some of the best we've found:

CAN YOU FIND SOME MORE...? HAND IN BEFORE WEDNESDAY, 22nd.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF WRITING ON VIDEO

 (6th Cultural Week-9: Writing in the 21st century)

Getting ready for this year's Cultural Week, here's a video in English with a brief history of writing from the British Museum.

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SEE vs LOOK vs WATCH

Check the difference between these three verbs with a similar meaning SEE, LOOK & WATCH.

CONFUSING 'LIKE" (VERB vs PREPOSITION) & AS

Here's a chart and an explanation of the confusing uses of LIKE, as a verb or a prepostion. Study the examples.

Would like vs. (Do) like

What kind of food do you like? (Facts, personal preferences)

I  like your new car.

I like ice cream, bananas. 

I like Chinese food.

What kind of food would you like? (If you could choose)

I would like Italian food.

I' d like another glass of wine, please.

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Be like vs. Look like

What does John like? (What are his personal preferences?)

He likes horror movies, basketball, chocolate ice cream...

What does John look like? (Physical description)

He is tall, dark and handsome.
He has black hair and wears glasses.

What is John like? (Description of personality)

He is a nice guy. He is very kind and friendly.
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Confusing Like vs. As

The World is Your Oyster
As and Like in this post. Let’s take a look at these at times confusing words.

 LIKE = similar to, the same as. You cannot use as in this way

• You have a huge house! It’s like a palace (not as a palace)
• You love romantic films, like me (not as me)
• I love eating in the garden. It’s like being on holiday. (not as being)
• It’s raining again! I hate weather like this (not as this)

In these sentences, like is a preposition, so it is followed by a noun ( like a palace), a pronoun (like me/this) or -ing ( like being)

Sometimes we can use like = for example

• Some people, like my dentist, run half marathons once a week.

Note: We can also use such as = for example

• Some people, such as my dentist, run half marathons once a week

AS = in the same way as, or in the same condition as. We use as before the subject + verb

• As I said at the meeting last week, I think we should revise our sales forecasts.
• If you had done as I said, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

Note: we can use Like in the above examples in informal spoken English, NOT written English.

• Like I said at the meeting last week, I think we should revise our sales forecasts.

Compare as and like in these sentences:

• You should have done it as I showed you (or like I showed you – spoken)
• You should have done it like this. (not as this)

As can also be a preposition, but the meaning is different to like. Let’s take a look:

• As an English Language Trainer, I have many lessons to prepare. (As a trainer =in my position as a trainer)
• Like my teaching colleagues, I have many lessons to prepare. ( Like my teaching colleagues = the same as my colleagues)

As (preposition) = in the position of, in the form of

• A few years ago I worked as a financial adviser.
• We haven’t got a separate office, so we use the fourth bedroom as an office.
• London is wonderful as a city to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

LINK TO EXERCISE: AS OR LIKE?

SPEAK vs TALK

Another post to see the difference between two confusing verbs: SPEAK & TALK, see the chart above.

SAY vs TELL

The always confusing uses of SAY and TELL, check the difference with these two charts.

More info @ Cambridge University Press: SAY vs TELLMore detailed information in this link from EnglishWithATwist: WHEN TO USE SAY OR TELL? 
Below some typical collocations with these verbs and others like ASK, SPEAK & TALK:

VI CULTURAL WEEK POSTER & CONTESTS

Showing you for the first time the poster that announces our 6th Cultural Week devoted to the HISTORY OF HANDWRITING.

Also a reminder of what you can do to participate in the activities of this week.

1) In activities set by the English Department, check them HERE. (Your participation will be valued).

2) Or in the contests organized by the school's library:

- Emoticon contest.

- Pictogram contest.

- Stand up comedy monlogues.
- Quiz about the 100 Curiosities of the Spanish language.
- Creative writing contest.
- Musical reading and performance contest.
- Handwriting contest.

Check them all, HERE.

Participate in all or some of them, and bring you work after the Easter holidays. Deadline to hand in 22nd April.

The Cultural Week will be held between the 27th and 30th of April.

 (6th Cultural Week-8: Writing in the 21st century)

PHRASAL VERBS: TELEPHONES & COMMUNICATION

A post devoted to phrasal verbs used when talking about telephones.

Remember there's a separate page in this blog where you can find phrasal verbs listed alphabetically.

SPEAKING ON THE PHONE

Here are a list of expressions formal & informal of speaking on the phone.

Link: 

Telephone English

TRIBUTE

Our tribute to all the victims of the "Germanwings" flight GU9525 Barcelona-Düsseldorf plane crash, and very specially the 16 students and 2 teachers from the Joseph-König Gymnasium from Haltern-am-See, coming back from a school exchange trip. For the many times students from our own school have exchanged with other students from Germany.

TODAY: SPRING STARTS AND THERE'S A SOLAR ECLIPSE

Today's a holiday and it's also the beginning of a new season: SPRING, so let's celebrate. Here's Google's doodle for the day.

By the way, we'll also be witness of a solar eclipse, which actually will be best experienced in the Iberian peninsula from A Coruña. Here's an explanatory video on solar eclipses.

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Galian version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno.