UNIT 4

Listening 

Interactive video: 👌👌

On your travels: 👎👍

Yoour new smartphone: 👍👍

Nigerian talking drums: 👍👌

Practical English: 👎👍

Abby: 👌👍

Grammar

Present perfect:👍👌

Past simple:👌

Subject and object questions:👎👍

Present perfect: 👍

Reading

On your travels: 👍

Nigerian talking drums: 👎👍

The best teachers: 👌

The lost world: 👍👍

Writing

An informal e-mail x2: 👍👍

Speaking

Abby: 👍👌

Recipe´s project: 👍👎

Culture

Nigerian talking drums: 

Areas I need to work on

I need to work on in listening, and translation because I always fail

GLOSSARY

Unit 4

annoying: causing annoyance; irritatingly bothersome.
amusing: causing (someone) to laugh or providing amusement.
upsetting: tending to disturb or upset.
browse: to eat or feed on bushes, leaves.
plug in: an attachment at the end of an electrical cord, inserted into a socket for electric power.
scroll: a roll of papyrus once used for writing.
unplug: to disconnect by removing a plug from an electrical connection.
gap: a break or opening.
squeeze: to apply pressure to (something) in order to force out juice, sap, or the like.
warn: to give advance notice to, esp. of danger or possible harm.

Unit 5

burglar: one who commits burglary

mugger: a person who mugs, esp. one who assaults a person in order to rob him or her.

murderer: a person who commits murder.

arson: the crime of deliberately setting fire to property.

lawyer: a person whose profession is to represent clients in a court of law or to advise or act for them in other legal matters.

fraudster: a swindler

forgery: the crime of falsely making or changing writing or a signature.

mugging: an assault or threat of violence upon a person, esp. with intent to rob.

pickpocketing:one who steals from the pockets of people, as in a crowded public place.

household: the people of a house taken as a group.

local council: a body appointed or elected to give advice, to make rules, or to administer an organization.

evidence: that which tends to prove or disprove something;

proof.

kidnapping: to carry off (a person) by force or trickery, esp. for use as a hostage or to get money;

abduct.

THE RECIPE

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INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups of flour (around 260 grams): 436 Kcal
• 3/4 cup cocoa powder: 300 Kcal
• 1 and a half cups of whole milk: 335 Kcal
• 2 large of beaten eggs: 324 Kcal
• 2 tablespoons of melted butter: 1800 Kcal
• 1/4 cup of olive or vegetable oil: 225 Kcal
• 3/4 cup of granulated sugar: 290 Kcal

                                 PREPARATION

1. Preheat the oven 200 centigrades.
2. Mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl
3. Mix the liquid ingredients in another bowl
4. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ones and mix no more than 15 seconds because too much time can result on hard muffins
5. Spoon the batter into de muffin
6. Sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips onto the top of the muffins and transfer to the oven inmediately

GLOSSARY

Chapters 5-6

Trick: a sneaky scheme to deceive or cheat

Argue: to present or state reasons for or against a thing
Cave: a hollow place in the earth, esp. one into a hill, mountain...
Pushed: to press against with force in order to move
Soft: smooth and pleasing to the touch
Camp: a place where a group of people sleep in tents or other temporary shelters
Toward: in the direction of
Forgive: to grant pardon for (an offense); absolve
Bite: to cut or tear with the teeth
Narrow: limited in range or scope

UNIT 3

Listening

Interactive video:👍

Reading and vocabulary:👎👍

Trinidad and Tobago:👌

Discussion essay:👍

Abby:👍👍

Reading

Trinidad and Tobago:👍

Looking for a bargain:👎👍

Speaking

Abby:👍

The lost world:👍👍

Speaking exercises:👌

Writing

Exam´s writing:👍

Writing exercises:👎

Discussion essay:👌

What I learn about culture

I have larnt some culture of Trinidad and Tobago, and their food

Areas I need to work on

I think in this unit I have to work on the listenings

My diary of achievements

I think I do the reading better than other times

GLOSSARY 

Chapters 1-2

perplexed: bewildered, puzzled

mine: to show possesion

approached: to come nearer

liar: person who tell lies

thick: filled or covered

deep: extending far down

nodded: to express by scuh a movement

complaint: a course od bodily pain

nose: the sense of smell

request: something asked for

Chapters 3-4

plateau: a land area having a level of surface raised much higher above nearby land

sceptical: indined to have doubt or doubts

shot: the discharge of a firerman

wing: two limbs or similar parts of birds, insects etc.

truth: the actual state of a matter

empty: containing nothing;without contents

envelope: a flat paper container, as for a letter.

THE WIRE GIRLS

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The wire girls