IMBenglish: fevereiro 2011

quarta-feira, 23 de fevereiro de 2011

Test Correction - Addictions

A. 1. .... he wanted to try something new, he found smoking cool and his friend persuaded him to do it.
     2. ... smoking would make him feel happier and more in with people.
     3. ... she didn't even talk about cancer, she felt too shocked.
     4. ... is a very expensive habit for a teenager.
     5. ... go around the world, or buy a motorcycle or a Playstation ...

B. 1. hooked on
     2. camouflaged
     3. blow you away
     4. cool
     5. stank
     6. quitting

C. 1. Personal answer
     2. It ruins your lungs, it's addictive, it steals years from your life and causes heart problems.

D. 1. hungry
     2. growth
     3. feel
     4. appetite
     5. consume
     6. eating
     7. control

E. 1. Paul said he thought smoking affected just every part of the body.
    2. John informed that he had participated in a debate about smoking and had learnt a lot the day before.
    3. Mary added she included all that information in her portfolio.
    4. Paul told me that he was reading a very interesting book about giving up smoking.
    5. Richard explained that he had been working hard since the previous January.

F. 1. He asked me if I had joined that project recently.
    2. He asked me if I belonged to one of those banning groups.
    3. He asked me which the largest organization was.
    4. He asked me where I had met my old teacher.
    5. He asked me if I wouldn't reply to those proposals.

G. 1. will have
     2. will be / would be
     3. would drive
     4. would get
     5. wouldn't take
     6. will help
     7. won´t turn
     8. will get
     9. will clear
   10. will find / would find

H. Personal answer

quinta-feira, 17 de fevereiro de 2011

If Clauses type I and type II

IF CLAUSES

1. If he .......... (pay) me tonight, I'll have enough money for the tickets.

2. If I get a work permit, I .......... (stay) for another six months.

3. If I .......... (see) a tiger walking across Hyde Park, I would climb a tree.

4. You will succeed in life if you .......... (work) hard.

5. Mary would be very upset if you .......... (reveal) her secret.

6. You .......... (have) an accident if you drive so fast.

7. If she had free time, she .......... (drive) the kids to school.

8.If teens were well informed, they .......... (not/take) drugs.

9. If you drink too much, you .......... (get) drunk.

10. If I pass this exam, I .......... (go) to the university next Setember.

ANSWERS

1. pays

2. will stay

3. saw

4. work

5. revealed

6. will have

7. would drive

8. wouldn't take

9. will get

10. will go

terça-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2011

Numb - Linkin Park

segunda-feira, 14 de fevereiro de 2011

Valentine's Day Exhibition

domingo, 13 de fevereiro de 2011

Valentine's Day

If Clauses Type I

Fill 1	in the gaps with the right form of the verbs in brackets. If Clare __________________ late again, the hockey trainer will be furious. (to arrive)
2	You'll be sorry if you ___________________ for your exams. (to revise)
3	We ___________________ if the weather's good. (to go)
4	They ___________________ you if you wear a wig and dark glasses. (to recognise)
5	If the bus ___________________ on time, I won't miss the football. (to be)
6	If you ___________________ your homework now, you'll be free all tomorrow. (to do)
7	We___________________ out if there's no food at home. (to eat)
8	You'll find life much easier if you ___________________ more often. (to smile)
9	If it's hot, we___________________ for a swim. (to go)
10	You'll do it better if you ___________________ more time over it. (to take)
11	If she ___________________ practising, she'll get better. (to keep)
12	Mum will be very sad if Jim ___________________ Mother's Day again. (to forget)
13	I___________________ so happy if I pass the exam. (to be)
14	You'll be really tired tomorrow if you ___________________ to bed soon. (to go)
15	The government ___________________ the next election if they continue to ignore public opinion. (to lose)
16	If Valencia FC win the Spanish football league, I___________________ my hair blue. (to dye)
17	If someone ___________________ you a bike, you can come with us. (to lend)

ANSWERS

1	If Clare arrives late again, the hockey trainer will be furious.
2	You'll be sorry if you don't revise for your exams.
3	We'll go if the weather's good.
4	They won't recognise you if you wear a wig and dark glasses.
5	If the bus is on time, I won't miss the football.
6	If you do your homework now, you'll be free all tomorrow.
7	We'll eat out if there's no food at home.
8	You'll find life much easier if you smile more often.
9	If it's hot, we'll go for a swim.
10	You'll do it better if you take more time over it.

11	If she keeps practising, she'll get better. (to get)
12	Mum will be very sad if Jim forgets Mother's Day again. (to forget)
13	I'll be so happy if I pass the exam. (to be)
14	You'll be really tired tomorrow if you don't go to bed soon. (to go)
15	The government will lose the next election if they continue to ignore public opinion. (to lose)
16	If Valencia FC win the Spanish football league, I'll dye my hair blue.
17	If someone lends you a bike, you can come with us. (to lend) English aquarium

sábado, 5 de fevereiro de 2011

101 jobs of Homer

Occupations

Do you remember the jobs?

The job song

Anti - smoking add

Smoking harms your body

Anti - smoking song

Thank you for smoking

Plot

Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) is a handsome, smooth-talking tobacco lobbyist and the Vice President of a tobacco lobby called The Academy of Tobacco Studies, which for fifteen years has been researching the link between nicotine and lung cancer. They claim that their research—funded primarily by tobacco companies—has found no definitive evidence of the linkage. Naylor's job consists mainly of reporting the Academy's questionable research to the public and defending Big Tobacco on television programs by questioning opposing health claims and advocating personal choice. Naylor and his friends, firearm lobbyist Bobby Jay Bliss (David Koechner) and alcohol lobbyist Polly Bailey (Maria Bello), meet every week and jokingly call themselves the "Merchants of Death" or "The MOD Squad".

As anti-tobacco campaigns mount and numbers of young smokers decline, Naylor suggests that product placement of cigarettes could once again boost cigarette sales. Naylor's boss, BR (J.K. Simmons), sends Naylor to Los Angeles to bargain for cigarette placement in upcoming movies. Naylor takes along his young son Joey (Cameron Bright) in hopes of bonding with him. Throughout their trip, Naylor teaches Joey about the beauty of argument. Naylor is also sent to bribe Lorne Lutch (Sam Elliot), the cancer stricken man who once played the Marlboro Man in cigarette ads and is now campaigning against cigarettes. Naylor offers Lutch a suitcase of money for his silence and, though disgruntled, Lutch agrees.

Vermont Senator Finisterre (William H. Macy), one of Naylor's most vehement critics, is the promoter of a bill to add a skull and crossbones warning to cigarette packaging. During a televised debate with Finisterre, Naylor receives a death threat from a caller. Despite the threat, Naylor still plans to appear before the U.S. Senate to fight Finisteere's bill. Naylor is then kidnapped and covered in nicotine patches, causing him to nearly die of nicotine poisoning. Naylor awakes in a hospital where he is told that his smoking habits have resulted in a high nicotine tolerance level and have saved him, but that he is now hypersensitive to nicotine and can never smoke again.

Meanwhile, Naylor has begun a steamy fling with a young reporter named Heather Holloway (Katie Holmes). Believing he can trust her, Naylor tells Holloway all about his life and career as they make love. However, after Naylor’s kidnapping, Holloway publishes an article that relentlessly bashes Naylor and his work at the Academy. It exposes Lutch’s bribe, the secret plans for product placement, and the MOD squad as well and accuses Naylor of training Joey to follow his amoral example. Following the article, all public sympathy for Naylor’s kidnapping evaporates, and BR fires Naylor in an attempt to distance the Academy from negative press.

Unemployed and publicly hated, Naylor falls into depression until his son Joey helps him recall the integrity in his job of defending corporations that almost no one feels deserve a defense. Rejuvenated, Naylor tells the press about his affair with Holloway and promises to clear the names of everyone mentioned in her article. He also declares that he will still appear before the U.S. Senate on the packaging bill, even without the backing from the Academy. At the Senate hearing, Naylor admits to the dangers of smoking but argues that public awareness is already high enough without extra warnings. He emphasizes consumer choice and responsibility and, to the dismay of Senator Finisterre, claims that if tobacco companies are guilty of all tobacco related deaths then perhaps the state of Vermont is also guilty in their high production of cheese caused cholesterol related deaths.

Impressed by Naylor’s speech, BR offers Naylor his job back, but Naylor publicly refuses to work for his backstabbing boss. Heather Holloway, ruined by the public humiliation of Naylor’s confession of their affair, is reduced to working as a local weather girl. The Academy is dismantled soon after the trial, and Senator Finisterre begins working to digitally remove cigarettes from classic films. The MOD Squad still meets weekly, now with the addition of lobbyists for fast food, hazardous waste and oil drilling. In the footsteps of his father, Joey wins a school debate using lessons his father taught him. Naylor opens a firm to train lobbyists to improve the public image of other scrutinized institutions.