Fifth Year 2004-2005
Contents

Evaluation scales
Translation
Censorship
Scorsese's Casino

Star Wars
Papers headlines
Translation
English Language
Extra
reading

Software piracy
The Wedding
Hospital errors
dictionary game




Rev Billy
Ambiguous headlines
drugs and arts









Nursery Rhymes
Test
Interesting facts
Metrosexual
The wedding
Super Size me
Oral translation
tongue twisters
Oral tests

A Christmas Carol
Scottish English
Galeano
Winter in Alaska
Giving advice
Popular songs
Because I got high
Auld Lang Syne

Political correctness
Latinos
What would you do?
Riddle time


Advertising
Oral exam
Subliminal seduction
Notices in pubs
proverbs

U.S. States
Pledge of Alliance
George W. Bush
Anne Frank's Diary
Lost in music


Edward Lear
The Simpsons
Ebonics
Mail chains
Mini Sagas


Manifesto
Can't we talk

Keith Haring

Patirots are nuts
sh
The Italian
Spanglish


Phonetics &
Vocabulary

Phonetic symbols



Phrasal Verbs: Go
Intonation
Ways to praise


Proverbs
Phrasal verbs: turn
Silent letter l
The letters
ch


Worth, cost, value, price, expense, worthless, worthwhile, worthy
phrasal verbs:
bring, turn
Silent letters
'ed' exceptions
Intonation
letter 'a'
claim
deny, refuse, decline, reject & turn down
Fun phonetics

Colours
Definition
in, im, il, ir
Actually, at present
Silent letters


Phrasal verbs:
bring
/i:/ /I/ /e/




lie, lay
Phrasal verbs:
make
Word building
/b/ /v/ /f/
Slang

Word families
'ou' combo
phrasal verbs:
put

American English
arise, arouse, raise, rise, rouse
Cockney
Rhymes and rhythms


Criminals
Body compounds

glitter
-able
Silent 't'
jokes

fuck
slang
tongue twisters




suffixes
prefixes
commonplace
Further Readings
Units

Unit 0

Below zero


Unit 1
One Won



Unit 2
Two is company,
three is a crowd





Unit 3
Everything is relative










Unit 4
Adopt a rhino







Unit 5
Modals & manners




Unit 6
PC Politically correct, personal computer


Unit 7
Inverted Commas




Unit 8
American English




Unit 9
Life is a cartoon


Unit 10
Friggin' slang

Unit 11
Life is pop art

Unit 12
Is this the end, my friend?
Grammar &
Writing

Cloze test
Writing skills
Writing a resume
1 2 3

Conditionals
Used to
Organising a composition
Cloze test

wishes & regrets
Passives
Reporting verbs
Past tenses for hypothetical situations
On paragraphs


Relatives
So, substitute word












Gerunds vs. Infinitives
Punctuation





Modal verbs
Adverb + verb
collocations




Reported speech






Inversions











Translation




like, as







Exam samples Comunidad de Madrid

Memento Mori
, Jonathan Nolan

The Gift, Lou Reed


Eleven, Sandra Cisneros

Fernando Alba's
News

Do you speak Bush or Kerry

Aesop's fables

Friends finale

American Elections

Credit cards

I'm leaving for Canada

Crime, Immigration and Statistics

Kerry won

A
udimetros de audiencia

Sorry, everybody

We are not sorry

The 300 most common words

Earth view

Subliminal Advertising

Ebonics
Translator

Views on
Ebonics

Views on
Ebonics II

Anne Frank's Diary

Anne Frank's Diary: The Fraud

European Constitution

Joke sites

Bibliography