Ophra interviews Kate Winslet

On 12 January 2009, Kate Winslet won Two Golden Globe Awards for her roles in the films ‘The Reader’ and ‘Revolutionary Road’ at the last 66th Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles. In this interview she talks to Ophra about her films.

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1. ……….. Kate only knew the names of two of the nominees.

2. ……….. Kate won two awards for best actress.

3. ……….. Ophra invited Kate before she knew she had won the awards.

4. ……….. Kate has won 7 times the Golden Globe Awards.

5. ……….. Kate didn’t expect to win any awards.

6. ……….. ‘The Reader’ is one of Ophra’s favourite film because she had recommended to read the book some a year before.

7. ………..  Kate plays ‘Hanna’ a lonely woman in Germany during World War II

8. ……….. ‘Hanna’ hides one secret : her love affaire with a teenager.

9. ……….. Kate and Leonardo di Caprio hadn’t been together on a film for 11 years.

10. …….. In ‘Revolutionary  Road’ Kate and Leonardo play an American couple who are not satisfied with the life they are leading.

11. ……. Ralph Fiennes, the young actor of ‘The Reader’ was not allowed to play his part until he was an adult.

12. ……. Ophra congratulates Kate on not having had her breast operated.

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Back to school

Happy New Year to everybody! I hope you a had a wonderful Christmas time and the Three Wise Men brought plenty of presents for you.

As I promised I’m posting the solution to the test I handed out before Christmas. I’ve also prepared a reading comprehension test on Education since this is the topic we are covering this week.  Read the text, say which five sentences are true and check your answers.

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Reading Comprehension test

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

This is the last week of classes and  Christmas is around the corner. I know that you are going to be pretty busy these days: you will probably decorate the house, prepare special dishes, visit family, go to a party, wrap and deliver presents, travel, do your homework (ha,ha) etc. So it might be nice to be able to just sit back , relax and enjoy the Christmas episode of  Friends and listen to a traditional Christmas carol sung by The Jingle Cats.

To all my students at EOI and to everyone throughout the blogosphere and beyond:

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Have a chat with Santa

Father Christmas, also known as Santa, is coming back. If you want to know more about his life, you can have a chat with him. You have to be very careful about your  spelling and grammar, otherwise Santa will not understand your question. The goal of this activity is to practise personal information questions.

Go to: http://www.thisissanta.com/ you’ll see a picture of Santa and two text fields. Type your questions into the bottom field and then wait for the answers.

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Jennifer ESL’s videos

Jennifer is a professional  English teacher who has created free online instruction to help students to improve their English. In this lesson,  Jennifer explains the difference between -ED and -ING adjectives. Thank you Jennifer for such excellent lessons.

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Modal Verbs

In Unit 3 we have been talking about modals of obligation, deduction, ability and possibility. This is a ppt divided into four parts dealing with modal verbs. The 1st and the 2nd ppt cover the language reference, the 3rd ppt is for practise and  the 4th ppt is the answer key to the exercises.

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