Birmingham by Michelle

Birmingham is a big city with shopping centres, markets, supermarkets, bars, restaurants from differents origins, a lot buses lines… It has one Chinese neighbourhood with Chinese markets and Chinese restaurants. We find traditional dishes from England like a pudding, fish and chips, shortbread… however, the true specialities from Birmingham are: - The Balty: is a curry variety used by a lot of dishes. - The chocolate Cadbury. - The Bird’s Custard: an English cream. - Sunday Roast: it’s a roast meat with fries, that is normally eaten on Sundays. - A dish elaborated with Yorkshire Pudding, sausages and vegetables with gravy. Birmingham people have a very noticeable accent, the “brummie accent”, and the rest of Englands hate it. Bullring is a shopping centre very famous in this city. It’s characterized by a bull situated at the entrance. Also, this city was very important in the industrial revolution, and nowadays too. The “Black Country Living Museum” shows how Birmingham was in the past. In addition, there are famous canals in the city, with boatss, and some people lives there. About the traditions, we can find some festivals in the city with different music styles like as jazz, soul and funk. One important fest is the “Moseley folk and arts festival”. Finally, the food markets and the Chistmas German market are very famous too.

London by Jesús

London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It's a city which history is roman. In this city there are important buildings like the Palace of Parliament, the Big Ben, the London Eye.... Amoung others It's well known Oxford Street where you can to go shopping clothes, food.... I choose this place because I will want travel there. Since last year I starter to give more importance to english. As for traditions, I will explain some: -Pancake's day Carnival thuesdays in London are eaten and competitions with the pancakes. Pancake' races are very common -Christmas celebrations The city is iluminated and there are many decorations in the houses. Christmas markets are typical. Finally I'm going to talk about typical food of London. Typical dishes like fish and chips, cake and pure, cockles... Sweets and desserts like jaffa cakes, the lio of Eton.... Drinks like tea and beer.

Introduction

We are going to write about our favourite places in the English speaking world. We may have visited those places or we may want to visit them in the future, that's not important. Just present us your favourite place.

Answers

Sorry for the delay, but better late than never.
As I told you, you can correct your work with these keys. Follow the link.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oHV_tQlOBAVutFUxd2qCH0pEnW9FwI2MFAxPoBVP2tQ

British Homes

Watch the following video created by Oxford University Press and answer a questionnaire about it in the link that appears under the video.





https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1doGGUyY15S31_Nlje7vfzrPtxEi_6rZUFwcFQ9ukdOE/edit?usp=sharing

Irregular verbs

Most people find it difficult to learn irregular verbs because they have to memorise a long list with a lot of different changes that make no sense for them. However, there is a pattern. If you only look at a list organised alphabetically you won't see it, but there are other ways to learn them. You can try the rap you can find on YouTube. You can also have a look at lists where the verbs are grouped according to the changes in the past and past participle forms. In the second case, you would appreciate a pattern and you'll see that they even rhyme. Follow this link to see a different list.

http://diloeninglesonline.com/vocabulario/aprende-los-verbos-irregulares-en-ingles/

How to write.

As we commented in class, there are different types of writings and they have different characteristics.
You can click on the following links to check the presentations we saw in class.

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz1fDQSD7uvqRzYtOVRaN2hmeHM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz1fDQSD7uvqaFJjYTZrNUpyR28/view?usp=sharing