My name is Bond, James Bond

Who can say that he’s never uttered these words? Whether you like James Bond or not, he’s there and he’ll always be. He’s part of the history of cinema, of action films, of love films, of spy films… He’s part of us.

As a fictional character he was created by Ian Fleming in 1953 and 55 years later he still looks young, fit and, why not, very handsome. The first film was recorded in 1962 starred by Sean Connery and he’s been Bond in 6 films.

It’s been 22 films and 7 actors up to now and whenever a new film is released, people still have heated discussions about which is the best film or who is the best actor featuring Bond. Not to mention the Bond Girls!

One thing I know for certain. Quantum of Solace has just been released and I’m already waiting for the next Bond film.

In the meantime, let’s enjoy the wonderful song again!

For more information about Quantum of Solace, go to 007 official web page. There are news, videos, games, downloads… Entertainment is guaranteed!

Here you can do the listening exercises again:

• Listening 1
• Listening 2
• Questions -PDF-

Your homework

Hello everybody,

Last Thursday we had a general overview of modal verbs. It is important you do some revision since this week we are going to put everything into practice and we do not want to spend the little time we have together in doing boring grammar exercises.

To help you with your revision you can have a look at these sites:

• modal verb tutorial.
• modal verbs exercises.
• click here and work, work, and work.

Vocabulary revision

How good is your memory? We are  nearly finishing module 2 and there are lots of vocabulary to remember. Let’s see if you have a good memory.

Have a go!

Funny adds

Did you have a good time? Hope so. But life is not always funny and it’s time for you to do some hard work. What about writing your opinion here for us to know? If you want to watch the adds again, or even try with some more, this is the link. Have a good time! And… don’t forget to post your opinion.

Grammar homework

I hardly ever forget your homework. On Monday we had a quick look at Cleft Sentences and there were a couple of exercises you had to do to be sure you had understood the structure.

You can download the worksheet and correct the exercises yourself.

Audio Examples of English IPA Symbols

The following pages contain charts of the IPA phonetic symbols with the examples spoken using RealAudio technology. The first page contains vowel and diphthong sounds, the second focus on consonant phonemes. 

VOWELS

CONSONANTS

Online Listening exercises

Some of you complain about how difficult you find to do listening exercises successfully. As I told you, the Internet is full of sites that contain exercises for us to improve our listening skills. By repeating what you hear, you can also improve your pronunciation. This is just an example. 

LINK

Remember that the posts in a blog never disappear, they just “move down” and, if by any chance, you don’t find them scrolling down, go to the Category Cloud on the right, and click on Listening. All the posts about Listening will appear on your computer screen as if by magic!