CONVERSATION QUESTIONS: DANGER

Las preguntas de este artículo tienen que ver con el "Peligro".

1.- Have you been in the midst of danger before?

2.- If you are in danger, what should you do?

3.- If your life was in danger, who would you call and why?

4.- Have you tried doing anything dangerous that could risk your life?

5.- Do you think your neighborhood is dangerous?

6.- What time is the most dangerous time to go out?

7.- Do you think that media (TV, movies, music) can be dangerous? Why?

8.- What dangers exist when you drive?

9.- What dangers exist for children?

10.- What do you do when you feel that something might happen to you?

WORD GAMES

Para esta publicación, presentamos un par de juegos de palabras para ejercitar su inglés.

NOTA.- Ambos son de nivel básico.

1.- Dobles

El ejercicio consiste en unir una palabra de cada fila para formar una nueva.

Ejemplo:

Dance    Floor   = Danceflor

A

- First

- Departure

- Telephone

- Bus

- Camping

- Shopping

- Orange

-Ground

- Telephone

B

- Juice

- Floor

- Site

- Lounge

- Box

- Station

- Number

- Name

- List

2.- Meses - Months

Encuentra el mes por su definición.

- Takes its name from Julius Caesar. = 

- Has the fewest days = 

- Is the longest (number of letters) = 

- Has Christmas on the 25th. = 

- Has thirty days and eight letters. = 

- Starts with the letter O. = 

- Has the letter L at the end = 

- Is a holiday for students in Britain. = 

- Is the first month. = 

- Is the shortest (number of letters) = 

- Is also a verb (soldiers do it) = 

- Is also a girl's name. = 

THE LOGICAL SONG - SUPERTRAMP

1.- Historia

El grupo británico de Rock, Supertamp, se formó en Londres en 1969. Su nombre proviene de un libro del poeta W.H. Davies de 1938 titulado "The Autobiography Of A Supertramp".

El sexto álbum de la banda, "Breakfast In America", es el más importante de su discografía. Su primer sencillo "The Logical Song", es sólo una muestra de ello. Su letra habla acerca de las preguntas que toda persona hace acerca de su existencia. Fue premiada como Mejor Canción Lírica y Musicalmente por la Academia Británica de Autores y Compositores. En los rankings, fue número 1 en Canadá, 6 en USA y 7 en UK.

2.- Lyrics

When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful

A miracle, oh, it was beautiful, magical

And all the birds in the trees, well they'd be singing so happily

Oh, joyfully, oh, playfully watching me

But then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible

Logical, oh, responsible, practical

And then they showed me a world where I could be so dependable

Oh, clinical, oh, intellectual, cynical

There are times when all the world's asleep

The questions run too deep

For such a simple man

Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned?

I know it sounds absurd

Please tell me who I am

I said, now, watch what you say, they'll be calling you a radical

A liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal

Oh, won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable

Respectable, oh, presentable, a vegetable

Oh, take, take, take it, yeah

But at night, when all the world's asleep

The questions run so deep

For such a simple man

Won't you please (oh, won't you tell me)

Please tell me what we've learned? (Can you hear me?)

I know it sounds absurd (oh, won't you tell me)

Please tell me who I am

Who I am, who I am, who I am

3.- Vocabulary

- Seemed = Seem = Parecer

- Wonderful = Maravilloso/a

- Miracle = Milagro

- Send away = Enviar algo o alguien con algún propósito

- Dependable = Fiable, digno de confianza

- Cynical = Malpensado, despiadado, egoísta

- Asleep = Dormido/a

- Sign up = Matricularse, hacerse socio/a

4.- Grammar

a) Simple Past Tense

Ejemplo:

- When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful.

b) Simple Present Tense

Ejemplo:

- There are times when all the world's asleep.

c) Future Will

Ejemplo:

- Won't you sign up your name?

d) Futuro Continuo

Ejemplo:

- They'll be calling you a radical.

e) Would

Ejemplo:

- We'd like to feel you're acceptable.

f) Sufijo _ly

Ejemplo:

- Happily

- Joyfully

- Playfully

5.- Videoclip

RIDDLES

Para esta publicación, hemos seleccionado 10 "acertijos" o "adivinanzas".

NOTA.- Se requiere un nivel B1 - B2 para la resolución de esta lista.

1.- If you were in a race and passed the person in the second place, what place would you be in?

2.- What goes up, but never comes down?

3.- What gets bigger and bigger, the more you take away from it?

4.- How many months have 28 days?

5.- Which weighs more, a ton of feathers or a ton of bricks?

6.- What is full of holes but can still hold water?

7.- What has two hands, a round face, always runs, but stays in place?

8.- Where does success come before work?

9.- If a man is born in Turkey, grows up in Italy, comes to England and dies in Manchester, what is he?

10.- What is it that no one wishes to have, yet no one wishes to lose?