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REPORTED SPEECH-GRAMMAR

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REPORTED SPEECH

1) ORDERS /REQUESTS

2) STATEMENTS (AFFIRMATIVE-NEGATIVE)

3) QUESTIONS a) YES-NO QUESTIONS

b) WH-QUESTIONS

1) ORDERS (told-ordered-commanded)/REQUESTS (asked-requested)

Affirmative commands	Negative commands
Father (me): "Do your homework!."	Teacher (them). "Don't talk to your neighbour!"
Father told me to do my homework.	The teacher ordered them not to talk to their neighbour.

Affirmative requests	Negative requests
Helen (her sister) "Open the window, please!"	Billy (the people) : “Don´t smoke here, please?
Helen asked her sister to open the window.	Billy asked the people not to smoke there
Frank: (his wife) :”Can you help me, please?
Frank asked his wife to help him

2) STATEMENTS (said)

Backshift of tenses
from	to
Simple Present	Simple Past
Simple Past	Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
will	would
Progressive forms
am/are/is	was/were
was/were	had been
has been
had been

DIRECT SPEECH		REPORTED SPEECH

Peter: "I work in the garden."	Peter said that he worked in the garden.
Peter: "I worked in the garden."	Peter said that he had worked in the garden.
Peter: "I have worked in the garden."
Peter: "I had worked in the garden."
Peter: "I will work in the garden."	Peter said that he would work in the garden.
Peter: "I can work in the garden."	Peter said that he could work in the garden.
Peter: "I may work in the garden."	Peter said that he might work in the garden.
Peter: "I would work in the garden." (could, might, should, ought to)	Peter said that he would work in the garden. (could, might, should, ought to)
Progressive forms
Peter: "I'm working in the garden."	Peter said that he was working in the garden.
Peter: "I was working in the garden."	Peter said that he had been working in the garden.
Peter: "I have been working in the garden."
Peter: "I had been working in the garden."

If the sentence contains an expression of time, you must change it as well.

Peter: "I worked in the garden yesterday."
Peter said that he had worked in the garden the day before.

Shifting of expressions of time

DIRECT SPEECH	REPORTED SPEECH
this (evening)	that (evening)
today/this day	that day
these (days)	those (days)
now	Then, at that moment
(a week) ago	(a week) before
last weekend	the weekend before / the previous weekend
here	there
next (week)	the following (week)
tomorrow	the next/following day

Note:

In some cases the backshift of tenses is not necessary, e.g. when statements are still true.

John: "My brother is at Leipzig university."
John said that his brother was at Leipzig university. or
John said that his brother is at Leipzig university.

Mandy: "The sun rises in the East."
Mandy said that the sun rose in the East. or
Mandy said that the sun rises in the East.

3)QUESTIONS (asked-wanted to know)

YES-NO QUESTIONS: …asked + if + subject + verb
DIRECT SPEECH	REPORTED SPEECH
Peter: (me)"Do you play football?"	Peter asked me if I played football
Millie: (Peter): “Have you finished your work?”	Millie asked if Peter had finished his work

WH-QUESTIONS: …asked + wh-word + subject + verb
DIRECT SPEECH	REPORTED SPEECH
Peter: "When do you play football?"	Peter asked me when I played football.
Helen : “Where did they spend their holidays? “	Helen asked where they had spent their holidays

CONDITIONALS

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Conditional sentences can be practised here

IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH -TENSES 2

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More practice for tenses

IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH -TENSES

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Improve your English tenses

IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH 1

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Improve your English using this page

IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH

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REAL ENGLISH ON VIDEOS

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lET´S WATCH SPONTANEOUS SITUATIONS ON VIDEOS

THE WELSH PATAGONIA

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THE WELSH PATAGONIA

a) ASK QUESTIONS

1) ……………………………………………………………………..……..?

In 1865

2) …………………………………………………………………………….?

In the south of Argentina

3) ………………………………………………………………………………?

Port Madryn

4) ………………………………………………………………………………...?

153

5) ………………………………………………………………………………….?

On the home, the school and the chapel

6)…………………………………………………………………………………..?

They were practical

7) …………………………………………………………………………………?

In 1878

8) ……………………………………………………………………………………?

About Patagonia

9) ………………………………………………………………………………….?

On July 28th

10) …………………………………………………………………………………?

Yes, it is

b) READ THE TEXT AND FIND:

1) 5 Passive sentences 4) 2 sentences in Past Continuous

2) 5 sentences in Simple Past 5) 1 sentence in Present Continuous

3) 5 adjectives

c) QUESTIOS FOR COMPREHENSION

1) Where did the ship the Mimosa sail from?

2) What did the immigrants want to find?

3) What was beginning to disappear?

4) What did the Argentinian government give them?

5) Who taught them to hunt?

6) What was their economy based on?

7) What happened to the Welsh language as the years passed?

8) Who was Gwilyn Roberts and what did he do?

9) What happens in the Patagonia nowadays?

10) What is celebrated on July 28th?

d) READ THE TEXT AND COMPLETE

1) The name of a ship…………………………………….

2) The immigrants´nationality………………………….

3) The immigrants´ambition…………………………………………………………

4) The name of a native group……………………………

5) The immigrants were called……………………………………………

6) ……………………………………was looking for volunteers to go to Patagonia

7) A holiday: …………………………………………….

8) Two languages: ………………………………………..

9) The Welsh are people from………………..

10) Location of Port Madryn: ………………........................................................

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K´S FIRST CASE. Guide for reading

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K´S FIRST CASE: Guide to read the story

1. Describe the people in the story
2. What happened on November 17th?
3. Describe Sir Michael´s house
4. Describe Sir Michael´s study
5. What clues did K find?
6. What things didn´t K find?
7. What happened in K´s first theory?
8. What happened in K´s second theory?
9. What happened in K´s third theory?
10. What happened in K´s fouth theory?
11. What did Sir Michael usually do?
12. What did Mrs Flack say about Sir Michael and Lady Elizabeth?
13. Where was Miss Everett that night?
14. What did Lady Elizabeth say about her husband?
15. What did Colonel Fawcett quarrel with Sir Michael about?
16. What did Angela feel about Lady Elizabeth?
17. What did Angela really love?
18. Why didn´t Andrew Cavell like Sir Michael?
19. How long has Nancy been with the family?
20. Did she like Angela? Why?
21. Look at page 48 and describe each picture
22. Who put the mechanism in the wall behind the freezer? Everyone had reasons for killing Sir Michael

Was… a) Lady Elizabeth? b)Colonel Fawcett? c)Angela Everett?
d)Andrew Cavell? e)Nancy Flack?

Reasons for killing Sir Michael:
a)..................................................................
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b)..................................................................
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c)..................................................................
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d)..................................................................
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e)..................................................................
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23. What did Sir Michael write to Andrew Cavell?
24. How did Angela feel about Sir Michael when she knew about this letter?
25. Who made the bow which killed Sir Michael?
26. How did the mechanism work?
-the murderer put the ……………in the freezer before 9 o´clock
-Michael ………………the ice-tray
-the icicle went into the ………………on the bow
-the string went ………………….
-the icicle went like an ……………………

27. Describe Nancy´s plan
–she ……………into his study last night
–she put the ………………in the freezer
–she ………………the icicle in the big refrigerador in the kitchen
–she put the ………………………..in the wall behind the freezer
–she ………………leave any fingerprints

28. Who was the murderer?
29. Who did the murderer really want to kill? Why?

have/has got

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Thank God someone´s making waves-GREENPEACE

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The natural world is under violent assault from man.

The seas and rivers are being poisoned by radioactive wastes, by chemical discharges and by dumping of dangerous toxins and raw sewage. The air we breathe is polluted by smoke and fumes from factories and motor vehicles; even the rain is poisoned.

It´s little wonder forests and lakes are being destroyed and everywhere wildlife is disappearing. Yet the destruction continues.

Governments and industries throughout the world are intensifying their efforts to extract the earth´s mineral riches and to plunder its living resources.

The great rain-forests and the frozen continents alike are seriously threatened. And this despite the warnings of the scientific community and the deep concern of millions of ordinary people.

Despite the fact, too, that we can create environmentally-clean industries, harness the power of the sun, wind and waves for our energy needs and manage the finite resources of the earth in a way that will safeguard our future and protect all the rich variety of life-forms which share this planet with us.

But there is still hope. The forces of destruction are being challenged across the globe - and at the spearhead of this challenge is Greenpeace.

Wherever the envionment is in danger, Greenpeace has made a stand. Its scientific presentations and peaceful direct actions at sea and on land have shocked governments and industries into the awareness that Geenpeace will not allow the natural world to be destroyed.

Those actions, too, have won the admiration and support of millions.

Now you can strengthen the thin green line; you can make your voice heard in defence of the living world by joining Greenpeace today.

Thank God someone´s making waves.

GUÍA DE LECTURA

1) Acción del hombre sobre la naturaleza:.......................................................................................

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2) Qué reciben: a) ríos y mares

b) la atmósfera

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3) Consecuencias sobre los recursos naturales:(minerales, etc): .........................................................

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5) Advertencias:........................................................................................................................................

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6) Desarrollos positivos posibles: ............................................................................................................

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7) Actitud y acciones de Greenpeace:...................................................................................................

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8) Adhesiones:..........................................................................................................................................

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9) Interpretación del título:...................................................................................................................

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EXPLIQUE

1) It´s little wonder forests and lakes...

2) Greenpeace has made a stand.

3) .............have shocked ....................into awareness that...............

4) You can make your voice heard.

REPORTED SPEECH

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EXERCISES

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EXERCISES

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EXERCISES

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VERB TO BE/ QUESTIONS

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VERB TO BE /PRONOUNS

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ANIMAL FACTS

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SIMPLE PRESENT

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Let´s practise Simple present

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

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Let´s practise Conditional sentences

ADVERBS

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Let´s practise adverbs

PRACTICE

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Verb "TO BE" practice 3

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Verb TO BE practice 2

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Verb TO BE practice 1

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SMPLE PRESENT

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REPORTED SPEECH: LET´S PRACTISE 2

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CONDITIONAL SENTENCES 1st type

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CONDITIONAL SENTENCES 1ST TYPE

1. If you (not study), you (fail) the test.
2. We (die) if we (not get) help soon!
3. If you (look) in the fridge, you (find) some cold drinks.
4. If there (be) no oil in the engine, the car (break) down.
5. I (lend) you my umbrella if you (need) it.
6. The sea level (rise) if the planet (get) hotter.
7. If you (eat) your sandwiches now, you (have) anything for lunch!
8. You (be) safe in an accident if you (wear) your seatbelt.
9. If he (save) all his money, he (be able to go) on holiday to Canada.
10. I (not come) with you if you (not bring) John!

CONDITIONAL SENTENCES 2009

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Exercises on Conditional Sentences
Conditional Sentence Type 1
Exercise on If Clauses Type I
Exercise 2 on If Clauses Type I
Conditional Sentence Type 2
Exercise on If Clauses Type II
Exercise 2 on If Clauses Type II

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Conditional Sentence Type 1
→ It is possible and also very likely that the condition will be fulfilled.
Form: if + Simple Present, will-Future
Example: If I find her address, I’ll send her an invitation.
more on Conditional Sentences Type I ►
Conditional Sentence Type 2
→ It is possible but very unlikely, that the condition will be fulfilled.
Form: if + Simple Past, Conditional I (= would + Infinitive)
Example: If I found her address, I would send her an invitation.
more on Conditional Sentences Type II ►

Bulimia-anorexia nervosa

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Las alumnas Daiana Aschemager, Ma. Candela Blanco, Daniela Parma y Camila Vavallo se encargaron de traducir una presentación en Power point sobre bulimia y anorexia.
El presente trabajo tuvo dos objetivos a cumplir: la práctica del idioma inglés y mostrar las terribles consecuencias de estos desórdenes en la alimentación, lamentablemente tan comunes en nuestros días.

"An obsession with being thin"

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After reading the text: "An obsession with being thin", you will divide into groups to do the following activities:

GROUP 1:
Look up the following words in an English-english dictionary

1) to threaten
2) Find the corresponding adjective
3) to starve
4) to induce
5) to lead
6) an eating binge
7) a purge
8) ipecac syrup:
9) anorexia nervosa
10) bulimia

GROUP 2

Re-read the text "An obsession ...", use the correct prepositions and complete the ideas.
1) Anne Murray has become obsessed ................

2) Some people focus their lives ............................

3) She thinks she isn´t good..................................

4) She wants to have food and emotions..................control

5) She has a strong need .....................................

6) The obsession took hold ............................

7) She is always thinking.............................

8) She has the fear ...................................
9) ...........addition ...............with their bodies, many teens have the need ...........approval .........their parents or peers.

Addictions

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Instructions

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-Suppose a person you know, tells you that he/she is an addict. What can you do to help him?
-Find information about different kinds of addictions in http://www.addictions.co.uk/.
-Make a campaign to inform your classmates about addictions

Smoking

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The diseases caused by the habit of smoking kill more than 438.000 people in Argentina every year. In fact, the habit of smoking is directly responsible for the majority of the cases of cancer of lung (87 %), for emphysema and for chronic bronchitis. Even with the campaigns in opposition to the tobacco, people continue smoking or start smoking every year. According to the American Society of the Cancer 90 % of the new smokers are children or teenagers who substitute, in many cases, those who stop smoking or die prematurely of a disease associated with the habit of smoking.

Emiliano Martorelli

Drugs

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Addiction can affect anyone and there are many drugs, both legal (for example tranquillisers and sleeping tablets) and illegal (cocaine, cannabis).
Drugs have been in human history for ever, but as the time has been passing, the type of substances and the way of consuming have changed.
Drugs extend our vision, to a satisfactory world, but at the same time to an evil world.
Look for help is the first thing to do, to be better

Lucía Pinillos-Yamila Hass

drugs

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A drug is any chemical or biological substance, synthetic or non-synthetic, that when it is taken into the organism's body, it will in some way alter the functions of that organism.
The excessive consumption of those substances can produce dependency, stimulation or depression of the central nervious system.
Drug addiction is a condition characterized by compulsive drug intake, craving and seeking, despite what the majority of society may perceive as the negative consequences associated with drug use.
Such persons are dependent on the drug, but are not addicted. One is addicted, rather than merely dependent, if one exhibits compulsive behavior towards the drug and has difficulty in quitting it.
There are drugs that are no legal like cocaine.

Camila Arboleya
Julieta Delgado

Smoking

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You should respect people when they tell you they don´t want you to smoke near them. Cigarettes become an addiction, that´s why it is very hard to stop smoking. The more cigarettes you smoke, the more breathing problem you will have. Smoking is harmful for your health, and for other people´s. If you smoke a lot of cigarettes, they will probably make you ill.Smoking is unhealthy because it can produce lung cancer.

Yamilia Rugiero y Julieta Gualdoni

Telly addict

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The television is a drug that breaks the communication among the people and can create a real addiction in children and young people with weak personalities or problems in the behavior. The content of some images and television programs induces to the violence in the young people, including the sexual one. For these people the images are not an entertainment, they use the television like a sedative.
The television poduces the same effect that is derived from the chemical drug ingestion

Rodrigo Parotti - Fernando Muñoz

Smoking

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Don´t eat delicacies!

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It is very bad, because it contributes neither any nutrients, vitamins nor proteins. The only thing that adds is calories, and that is why people and children get fatter and fatter. Delicacies and junk food are the principal problems of the people, because they are addictive and besides they put on weight, so that they create the obesity. Some of the problems that produce obesity is the agitation, problems to travel, problems in the column, cardiac problems, cholesterol, and the most serious, the death. For all this, you already know ... don´t eat delicacies.

Gastón Martorelli- Nicolás Carrón

tranquilizers

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Effects:

• Sedation and lass of muscular coordination.

• Some people experience a “floating”sensation, and most exhibit mental confusion and physical unsteadiness.

• Occasionally, paradoxical reactions, sleep disturbances, rage, or personality changes.

• Other side effects include skin rashes, nausea and dizziness.

Agustina González y Romina Gasali

vigorexia

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It`s generally a men`s obsession of looking at themselves as muscular people. They always match themselves in the mirror, they weigh themselves constantly, and day by day the get more and more far from their families and friends.
The mass media influences a lot in people with weak mood. People who suffers from vigorexia feel uncomfortable with their body.
To change, they eat diet food and they also spend many hours in the gym. To prevent this illnes it is important to assume it, to know that it exists, after this, the amount of hours people spend in the gym and un the mirror must be reduced. To finish with this, it could be helpful that people consult a psychologist in order to start a therapy.

Jonathan Infantino y Juan Ignacio Grodz

food addiction

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Food addiction is a disease characterized by obsession with weight and body image. This addiction causes nourshing upheavals like “Bulimia”, an eating disorder that affects mostly females and characterized by episodes of excessive food ingestion.
The person uses diverse methods to burn off the calories, such as vomiting, consuming laxatives, water pill enemas and other drastic measures.
They usually hide their problems to their family.

Lucía Isla y Melisa Contratti

gambling

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Like all the addictions, gambling implies to escape from reality. Several events happen and this can lead us to take the risk and the fantasy that surrounds gambling.
The consequences of this addiction can be catastrophic: The debts and the loans increase putting in risk the life of the person, their family and friends.
The addiction is accompanied by high levels of guilt, shame and remorse. The person who suffers from this addiction is unable to find a solution by himself, but this problem can finish with the rigth treatment. In this way, the addict will be able to be happy again and recover his normal life.

Marcelo Ríos – Pascual Biondo

Gambling

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The gambling addicts escape from the reality when they are playing. They live in a world of risks and fantasies .
To be a compulsive player can be catastrophic, not only thy are affected, thir family are also. Their obligations begin to increse, because they lose money. Then they start to be depressed because they feel fault and they can`t find solution on their own, and they begin to have more and more problems.
This addiction has a solution, the victim can return to his normal and happy life because the treatment is highly effective.

Agustina Moretti; Keila Gomar.

alcoholism

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This addiction is very common in our society. It affects young and old people. But, actually young people are becoming more and more addicted to alcohol.
This is because of the social context our society is living.
This addiction is very dangerous for our body. It affects our mind and our system. Excessive alcohol can kill us. We must stop drinking, this is the first step in the fight against alcoholism.

Stella Corbo
Ailén Tripicchio

alcoholism

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workhaholic

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The real sense of the work addiction is the escape from intimacy and feelings of emptiness that endanger the family life.
As it’s difficult to detect it, sometimes it can only be noticed after the appearance of physical symptons like dream’s problems, hypertension, rheumatic upsets and muscular diseases, vascular upsets, angina pectoris, infarct or nowrishing disorder. Other factors are inefficiency and stress.
A workaholic is a person who is constantly in a hurry, always busy or doing many tasks permanently. It’s mainly an adicction to action.
This adicction can be revealed during the holidays when you have enough free time which favors the appearance of abstinence symptons such as anxiety, insomnia and anguish. Then you begin to feel this as something threatening.

Nora Anzilutti - Laura Nievas

shopaholic

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The compulsive buyers spend their money because they feel the necessity to ligthen the stress. Then they feel guilty and have to fight with their family for the excessive costs.
The main characteristics are:
-Have debts.
-Buy to enjoy themselves.
-Get a lot of the similar object.

Anabella Benincasa – Jésica Sujka.

RICK AND THE TURKISH HAREM I: ANSWER

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1) Describe the atmosphere of the place where the story happens.
2) Describe Prince Yamanie. Where was he from?
3) Why did the detective visit the Prince?
4) What American characteristic did the Prince mention to Rick?
5) Explain the relationship between the American Senator William Bawls and the Tehran Interantional terrorist Sect?
6) Did the Prince accept to help Rick? Why?
7) Did Rick trust Prince Yamanie?
8) How did the dancers and servants look like?
9) Coul Rick sleep that night?

RICK AND THE TURKISH HAREM (I) (II)

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Read the following adventure of Rick Mansworth, Private Detective, and choose the correct adjective

Read the second part of Rick's adventure and turn the conversation into indirect speech

LET´S PRACTISE

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TENSES AND OTHER WORDS MUST BE CHANGED WHEN THEY ARE REPORTED:

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PRESENTATION

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Pi3 Ef 9 B Reported Speech Presentation1

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1st or 2nd type?

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1) We´d have more time to enjoy ourselves if we........................................(not-have) so much homework.
2) They .................................................(not-win) the championship if they lose on Sunday.
3) What will you do if she ......................................................(not arrive)?
4) ........................................................(you-see) her again if she said she was sorry?
5) If I were rich, I .............................................(share) the money with you!
6) He...............................................(not-help) you if you don´t help him.
7) A: I´ve lost my calculator. Have you seen it?
B:No, but if I ...................................(find) it, I................................(give) it to you.
8) My brother isn´t good at Maths. If he ............................(be) good, he ......................
(become) an engineer.
9) If she ....................................................(not-stop) smoking, she ................................(get) ill.
10) I don´t travel by underground. If it.......................................(not-be) so crowded in the morning, I..........................................(use) it more often.

What would you do if ...?

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Make sentences from the chart

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Wishes-advice

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