sábado, 15 de febrero de 2025

15 libros PDF para aprender inglés gratis ya mismo

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15 libros PDF para aprender inglés gratis ya mismo

viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025

British Council / A special restaurant

 Fuente: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/audio-zone/special-restaurant

A special restaurant

A special restaurant 
 

Listen to Jo talking about a very special restaurant she visited recently.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

 

   
 

Interviewer: Hi, Jo.

Jo: Hello.

Interviewer: Thank you for talking to me today. What would you like to talk about?

Jo: So, I'm going to tell you about my recent visit to, erm, a very well-known restaurant and a very special restaurant.

Interviewer: OK – great.

Jo: It's called El Celler de Can Roca and it's in Girona in Spain and, erm, it often comes in the, like, top two or three restaurants in the world.

Interviewer: Wow!

Jo: And I went last week. And, well, the first thing that was exciting for us was to even get a table 'cause, erm, we booked a year ago and we had to go, you have to go, 'cause you can book a year in advance, so you have to go online at one minute to midnight a year before you think you could go and keep refreshing, refreshing the page until places become available and just go immediately and get the table. So, we were really excited to have the table and we were kind of nervous on Friday because we waited a whole year, so expectations were really high. And it was also, by chance, boiling hot in Girona and it was in the middle of a heatwave. It was 44 degrees.

Interviewer: Oh my goodness.

Jo: So, we were just waiting in our hotel room, couldn't go outside 'cause it was too hot, erm, kind of wondering what this dinner was going to be like, er, and getting all dressed up. So, yeah, we went and, well, the place is beautiful, all … I thought it would be quite, erm, it didn't really feel formal though. The staff were all really friendly and they showed us inside the kitchen first. And it's amazing 'cause no one is stressed in the kitchen – or they did a good job of pretending that they weren't. And they were making amazing things that looked like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for adults – little olive trees with amazing, like, erm, er, olive kind of confections hanging from them. And, yeah, the whole thing was amazing – a once-in-a-lifetime experience of lots of different courses of tiny, beautiful, surprising things, erm …

Interviewer: What was the best dish that you had?

Jo: It was all amazing but I think the best thing for me was one of the desserts. I had a sheep-themed pudding …

Interviewer: Wow!

Jo: So, it was all, erm – So, it was like a woolly sheep. It was like candy floss, like, made with, erm, like, sort of white sugar like you have at the fair. Erm, and that was supposed to represent the wool, and the sound of the spoon on the bowl made the sound of the bell on the sheep in the field. And then separately I had this thing to smell that smelled of wool. So I was, like, eating this sheep wool and smelling the smell of wool at the same time which, it sounds really weird, but it was actually delicious.

Interviewer: Sounds incredible!

Jo: It really was! It really was amazing.

Interviewer: Wow. Thank you for telling us about it.

Jo: It's a pleasure.


Put the items in the order Jo talks about them.

  • One of the desserts that she had

    The sta􀀁 and the kitchen

    Getting ready to go to the restaurant

    Booking the table online

    The amazing dishes that she saw being prepared

    The weather on the day she went to the restaurant

Complete the sentences.

10 items remaining

1.
Jo had to
the table at the restaurant a year
.
2.
The weather was very hot – there was a
.
3.
Jo
before she went to the restaurant.
4.
The
were really friendly and they didn't seem
.
5.
The kitchen staff were making amazing things with little
trees.
6.
For Jo, the best
was one of the desserts.
7.
Jo's dessert looked like a
.
8.
She had something to smell that smelled like a sheep's
.

 

 
 
 

domingo, 19 de enero de 2025

English Starter. File 2. Progress Check. Part 1.

 File 2: Progress Check
Choose the correct answer.


1. The Porsche Carrera GT is ... .    (options: a expensive car, a car expensive, an expensive car)


2. Get a ... and a piece of paper. Now listen and write. (options: pen, key, coin)


3. ... on! The movie is at 9:00 and we are very late. (options: Speak, go, come)


4. My coffee is good, but ... croissant is terrible. (options: this, these, those)


5. "Can I have your ... card, please?" (options: credit, stamp, key)


6. Pink = ... + red (options: yellow, white, blue)


7. I’m in Iceland this weekend and it’s 28ºF. It's very ... ! (options: hot, safe, cold)


8. There are six ... in this photo. (options: childs, children, childrens)


9. I’m very tired tonight. ... go home. (options: let's, let, lets)


10. "Would you like a cold drink?" "Yes, please. I’m very ... ." (options: hungry, worried, thristy)

American English File 1. Check your progress. Part 3.

23. Excuse me, are we in room 218 or 812? (options: are we, we are, we're)


24. "My address is 56 Hudson Road." "Sorry, is that fifty -six?" (options:fifteen, fifty, five)


25. Ronaldo is from Brazil, in South America. (options: South, north, east)


26. I don’t understand the exercise. Can you help me, please? (options: help, copy, check)


27. Ms. Wong, what’s your email address and your phone number ? (options: cell, number, code)

28. Please read the question and circle the correct answer. (options: circle, cover, cross)


29. It’s Saturday ! It’s the weekend – no school and no work. (options: Saturday, thursday, tuesday)


30. Hello class. Open your books, please. (options: Look, open, Go)

American English File 1. Check your progress. Part 2.

 
12. Good evening. I have a reservation for three nights. My name is Parker. (options: reception, reservation, last name).


13. "Happy birthday, Sam! How old are you ?" "I’m eight." (options: are you, you're, are your)

 
14. New York City is famous for its tall buildings. (options:it, it's, its)


15. "What's 7 + 10?" "That's easy. It's seventeen." (options: seventy, seven-ten, seventeen)


16. Nissan cars aren’t Chinese. They’re Japanese! (options: am not, isn't, aren't)


17. Angelo and I are from California. We're students. (options: am not, isn't, aren't)


18. Please stop talking and turn off your cell phones. (options: up, off, down)


19. "Hi, Doug, how are you?" " I'm fine , thanks." (options: I'm fine, I fine, I well)


20. Here’s an email from Masako. She’s on vacation in Mexico. (options: Mexican, Mexico, Spanish)


21. Good evening, ma'am. Would you like a cup of coffee? (options: would you like, you would like, you like)


22. "What day is it today ?" "It’s Thursday." (options: weekday, today, weekend)

American English File 1. Check your progress. Part 1.

Fuente: https://elt.oup.com/student/americanenglishfile/level01/level1tests/level1file01?cc=co&selLanguage=es&mode=hub

File 1: Progress Check

Choose the correct answer.


1. This is Cindy Lau. She's a student in my karate. (options:she, she's, shes)
class.


2. "Alice and Pierre are in Lisbon." " Are they on
vacation?" (options: Are they, they are, they're)


3. "What’s your phone number?" "It’s
845-555-0247." (options: you, you're, your)


4. She’s a student. Her name is Anna. (options: his, hers, her)


5. Go to page ninety-nine , please. (options:ninety-nine, the
ninety-nine, ninety and nine)


6. Hi, Milos. You're early! (options: your, you're, you)


7. Miguel and José are students at Washington University. (options: is, am, are)


8. Look at question 3, please. Listen and repeat. (options: Listen, close, sit)


9. Tony is from Sydney. It’s a city in Australia . (options: Asian, Australia, Australian)


10. Toronto isn't in the US. It’s in Canada. (options: aren't, isn't, isn't not)

11. " Are they British?" "No, they’re American." (options: are, are they, they're)



 

     

    American Headway Starter. Unit1. Grammar reference

     1.1 Am /are/ is

    • I am Rocker755
    • I'm a student
    • You are American Headway
    • You're a book
    • My name is unit one
    • My name's Grammar
    • This is Reference

    1.2 Questions with question words 

    • What's your name? answer: My name is unit one
    • How are you? answer: I'm fine, thanks

    1.3 Possessive adjectives

    • My name's American Headway
    • What's your name?
       

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