We had a wonderful dinner at the new Italian restaurant in town. The food and service were excellent, and we all really enjoyed ourselves. Now we are heading back home, tired but happy after a fun night out.
This document provides recipes for Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage, Colcannon (a traditional Irish side dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage), Irish Mint Cupcakes, Banana Cupcakes, and Vanilla Cupcakes With Chocolate Frosting. The Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe calls for ingredients like corned beef, potatoes, cabbage and bacon and instructions to simmer all ingredients together until tender. The Colcannon recipe includes mashed potatoes flavored with leeks, bacon and cabbage. The Irish Mint Cupcakes recipe mixes chocolate cake batter with mint extract and chips for a St. Patrick's Day treat.
This document provides instructions and topics for an English language presentation and role play about changing eating habits. For the presentation, students are asked to discuss how food is produced and consumed in their country, using a short personal anecdote. They will present their views on whether modern choices and production methods make our food less healthy. For the role play, students must take on the role of people like a parent or nutritionist to debate whether modern eating habits have culturally and nutritionally disadvantaged people compared to past generations. Students are given cause and effect language and vocabulary to support their arguments.
The Dixie Chicks, a popular American country group, faced backlash after their singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush while performing in London. Radio stations in the US stopped playing their music and listeners were encouraged to destroy their albums. Though Maines apologized, the group continued to receive threats and protests. In response, the Dixie Chicks posed nude for a magazine cover, vowing to continue speaking out. Their recent tour has faced planned protests, but their album sales increased again as some supported their freedom of expression.
1. The document provides instructions and materials for a speaking exercise about what someone would do if they won the lottery.
2. Participants are asked to prepare a 1-2 minute solo presentation or a 4-5 minute group discussion speculating how their life would change and how they would spend $15 million if they won the lottery.
3. The document provides topic vocabulary related to money, sample lottery winner stories, and questions to consider about feelings, lifestyle changes, and potential drawbacks of winning a large sum of money.
This document describes the four types of conditional sentences in English:
1) Type 0 or "Zero Conditional" uses the simple present tense and describes general truths or laws.
2) Type 1 or "First Conditional" uses the present tense in the if-clause and will or may in the main clause to talk about probable future events.
3) Type 2 or "Second Conditional" uses the past tense in both clauses to talk about hypothetical or imaginary situations in the present or future.
4) Type 3 or "Third Conditional" uses the past perfect tense in both clauses to talk about imaginary situations in the past.
Fast food is popular but not very healthy. While convenient and inexpensive, fast food tends to be high in calories, fat, sugar, and salt. For a healthier diet, people should minimize fast food and instead focus on home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains.
This document provides guidance for a presentation on whether travel broadens the mind. It includes:
1. An introduction outlining the task to discuss if travel broadens the mind and consider issues like culture, mutual understanding, and leisure opportunities.
2. Suggestions to either discuss examples for each of the three issues or focus on one issue and provide three examples.
3. Guidance on using vocabulary from the list like "for example" when offering examples.
Relative clauses are used to join information that is repeated. They contain a relative pronoun like who, which, that, where, when or whose to refer back to the antecedent. Relative pronouns depend on whether the antecedent is a person, animal, thing, time or place. Other relative pronouns include whose for possession, when for time, where for place, why for reason, and whom for people after prepositions. The document also provides examples of defining different occupations using relative clauses.
This document provides recipes for Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage, Colcannon (a traditional Irish side dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage), Irish Mint Cupcakes, Banana Cupcakes, and Vanilla Cupcakes With Chocolate Frosting. The Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe calls for ingredients like corned beef, potatoes, cabbage and bacon and instructions to simmer all ingredients together until tender. The Colcannon recipe includes mashed potatoes flavored with leeks, bacon and cabbage. The Irish Mint Cupcakes recipe mixes chocolate cake batter with mint extract and chips for a St. Patrick's Day treat.
This document provides instructions and topics for an English language presentation and role play about changing eating habits. For the presentation, students are asked to discuss how food is produced and consumed in their country, using a short personal anecdote. They will present their views on whether modern choices and production methods make our food less healthy. For the role play, students must take on the role of people like a parent or nutritionist to debate whether modern eating habits have culturally and nutritionally disadvantaged people compared to past generations. Students are given cause and effect language and vocabulary to support their arguments.
The Dixie Chicks, a popular American country group, faced backlash after their singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush while performing in London. Radio stations in the US stopped playing their music and listeners were encouraged to destroy their albums. Though Maines apologized, the group continued to receive threats and protests. In response, the Dixie Chicks posed nude for a magazine cover, vowing to continue speaking out. Their recent tour has faced planned protests, but their album sales increased again as some supported their freedom of expression.
1. The document provides instructions and materials for a speaking exercise about what someone would do if they won the lottery.
2. Participants are asked to prepare a 1-2 minute solo presentation or a 4-5 minute group discussion speculating how their life would change and how they would spend $15 million if they won the lottery.
3. The document provides topic vocabulary related to money, sample lottery winner stories, and questions to consider about feelings, lifestyle changes, and potential drawbacks of winning a large sum of money.
This document describes the four types of conditional sentences in English:
1) Type 0 or "Zero Conditional" uses the simple present tense and describes general truths or laws.
2) Type 1 or "First Conditional" uses the present tense in the if-clause and will or may in the main clause to talk about probable future events.
3) Type 2 or "Second Conditional" uses the past tense in both clauses to talk about hypothetical or imaginary situations in the present or future.
4) Type 3 or "Third Conditional" uses the past perfect tense in both clauses to talk about imaginary situations in the past.
Fast food is popular but not very healthy. While convenient and inexpensive, fast food tends to be high in calories, fat, sugar, and salt. For a healthier diet, people should minimize fast food and instead focus on home-cooked meals with lots of vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains.
This document provides guidance for a presentation on whether travel broadens the mind. It includes:
1. An introduction outlining the task to discuss if travel broadens the mind and consider issues like culture, mutual understanding, and leisure opportunities.
2. Suggestions to either discuss examples for each of the three issues or focus on one issue and provide three examples.
3. Guidance on using vocabulary from the list like "for example" when offering examples.
Relative clauses are used to join information that is repeated. They contain a relative pronoun like who, which, that, where, when or whose to refer back to the antecedent. Relative pronouns depend on whether the antecedent is a person, animal, thing, time or place. Other relative pronouns include whose for possession, when for time, where for place, why for reason, and whom for people after prepositions. The document also provides examples of defining different occupations using relative clauses.
The document provides a summary of the top 5 holiday destinations for British holidaymakers according to travel writers:
1) Spain, which remains the number one destination, offering beaches as well as activities like walking and cycling. Low-cost airlines have increased city breaks.
2) France, with popular regions like the Atlantic coast, Corsica and Ile de Ré. Cultural activities include visiting gardens and cycling.
3) Great Britain, where interesting experiences include renting unusual accommodations like lighthouses and sleeping on yachts.
4) Greece, where holidays focus on simplicity, with whitewashed villas and nutritious meals. The islands attract most visitors.
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Women have made gradual progress towards equality over the past century. Historically, women lacked many legal rights and protections from abuse. Thanks to activists like Clara Campoamor, Spanish women gained the right to vote in 1931. While laws now establish equal rights for men and women, issues remain such as domestic violence, barriers to women's education, and discrimination against women in the workplace and immigrant women. Continued effort is still needed for women to fully achieve their goals and create a better future.
Jina and her father decided to leave their country to seek a better life abroad. Jina was worried as they waited for their van, but also hopeful about the future. Her father worked long hours in difficult conditions and dreamed of traveling to give them better opportunities. After Jina's mother passed away, her aunt took her and her cousin in. Years later, when an opportunity to join relatives in another country arose, Jina was sad to leave her cousin but excited to start their new life with her father overseas.
The document summarizes changes in the role of women in Spanish society over time. In the past, women woke up early to take care of household responsibilities and children until the afternoon. Now, women still wake up early but also have jobs as professionals like doctors, teachers, or lawyers. After work, they continue household responsibilities and often study additional courses. Women today are busier and more stressed than in the past as they try to balance many responsibilities without help. The document suggests women should find hobbies to reduce stress and bring more balance to their lives.
Nati is a hardworking and responsible Romany student who seems determined to achieve great things. However, as a Romany girl, she will likely face significant obstacles and barriers that will prevent her from achieving her ambitions and expectations, such as attending university, due to the traditions and limitations experienced by Romany women in her community and family. Unless society undergoes a deep social revolution that provides equal opportunities for girls like Nati regardless of their ethnicity, their potential will remain unfulfilled as they will be unable to write their own stories and lives.
Carol dreams of being in a room with her lover, embracing and talking in hushed voices as night falls. She feels afraid of returning to her former life with her controlling husband. In her dream, Carol's lover tenderly puts a lock of hair back in place, and she realizes he makes her feel worthy, important, and able to choose. Carol is startled awake by her husband slamming the door home from his poker game. Reality sets in, making her dream of freedom with her lover vanish.
Alice studied biology but could not find a job in a lab. She became a housewife and had twins. Later, she took a job as a policewoman to have some work outside the home. As a working mother with a husband who did not help around the house, Alice was exhausted every day from her double duties. During an incident transporting a criminal to court, the criminal overpowered Alice but she was able to escape by feigning a seizure and overtaking the criminal with her own gun. After this dangerous experience, Alice's husband decided to help more around the house, and she eventually found work in a lab as she had originally wanted.
Jurgita is a woman working her third night at a bar called Ipanema to support her son. A rude customer calls her derogatory names and makes lewd gestures. Though angry, Jurgita remains professional to avoid problems. An old regular advises her to ignore the unhappy customer, as he is a regular but bitter man. Later, when the rude customer howls at her, Jurgita sternly tells him that in her country, pigs do not sing like wolves.
The document discusses the heavy burden that women carry through their daily contributions to social, cultural, and economic development, which often go unrecognized. The author inherited this "backpack" at birth and has carried it for 50 years, but now wants to take it off and inspire other women to do the same at an earlier age. She wants freedom from the stress of having to prove herself as a good worker and mother, and for her daughters not to have to shoulder this weight. The small, daily jobs done by women have propelled human progress, and the author wonders what would happen if women set down this burden and who would take it up instead.
In her dream, Ofelia Grant was a 23-year-old suffragette living in London in 1917 who fought for women's right to vote. At that time, women could not vote or work, but Ofelia believed women deserved more. A year later, Parliament granted some women the right to vote due to many men fighting in World War I. Upon waking, she reflected on how far women's rights have come since then but also how much further they still need to go to achieve true equality.
This document provides recipes for Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage, Colcannon (a traditional Irish side dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage), Irish Mint Cupcakes, Banana Cupcakes, and Vanilla Cupcakes With Chocolate Frosting. The Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe calls for cooking corned beef, potatoes, and cabbage together in a stockpot with onion, garlic, broth, and seasonings. The Colcannon recipe mixes mashed potatoes with sautéed cabbage, leeks, onion and bacon. The Irish Mint Cupcakes recipe makes chocolate cupcakes with a mint frosting and crushed thin mint cookies.
This document provides recipes for Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage, Colcannon (a traditional Irish side dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage), Irish Mint Cupcakes, Banana Cupcakes, and Vanilla Cupcakes With Chocolate Frosting. The Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe calls for ingredients like corned beef, potatoes, cabbage and bacon and instructions to simmer all ingredients together until tender. The Colcannon recipe includes mashed potatoes flavored with leeks, bacon and cabbage. The Irish Mint Cupcakes recipe mixes chocolate cake batter with mint extract and chips for a St. Patrick's Day treat.
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th and this document invites people to a party at the School of Languages to experience Irish culture through food, music, and learning about Irish traditions like wearing green for luck, while having fun.
Gabriel's class schedule is shown for two weeks. In the first week from March 21-24, his classes are assigned to different classrooms from 16:00-21:00 on Mondays through Thursdays. In the second week from March 28-31, his schedule is noted as "as usual" for some time slots, while other classes are assigned to specific classrooms from 16:00-21:00 on Mondays through Thursdays.
This glossary defines various terms related to outdoor activities and injuries. It includes definitions of words like bruise, climb, come to a halt, constriction, cushion, diameter, drag, expedition, fracture, hammock, injured, jaw, kayaking, open fire, paw, permit, rifle, rucksack, save someone's life, self-defence, shot, slide, slip, slope, venom, and wrap (a)round. The glossary provides concise definitions of these terms in 1-2 sentences for a total of 30 terms.
The document describes three accounts of lucky escapes. In the first, a scientist in the Amazon was constricted by an anaconda but was saved when his colleagues heard his screams and kicked the snake off of him. In the second, a British climber fell 300 meters down a mountain but survived with only bruises and back fractures, likely cushioned by his large backpack. The third story describes two Norwegian men who were attacked in their tent by a polar bear; one man was dragged away but shot and killed by his friend using their second rifle.
The document provides a summary of the top 5 holiday destinations for British holidaymakers according to travel writers:
1) Spain, which remains the number one destination, offering beaches as well as activities like walking and cycling. Low-cost airlines have increased city breaks.
2) France, with popular regions like the Atlantic coast, Corsica and Ile de Ré. Cultural activities include visiting gardens and cycling.
3) Great Britain, where interesting experiences include renting unusual accommodations like lighthouses and sleeping on yachts.
4) Greece, where holidays focus on simplicity, with whitewashed villas and nutritious meals. The islands attract most visitors.
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Women have made gradual progress towards equality over the past century. Historically, women lacked many legal rights and protections from abuse. Thanks to activists like Clara Campoamor, Spanish women gained the right to vote in 1931. While laws now establish equal rights for men and women, issues remain such as domestic violence, barriers to women's education, and discrimination against women in the workplace and immigrant women. Continued effort is still needed for women to fully achieve their goals and create a better future.
Jina and her father decided to leave their country to seek a better life abroad. Jina was worried as they waited for their van, but also hopeful about the future. Her father worked long hours in difficult conditions and dreamed of traveling to give them better opportunities. After Jina's mother passed away, her aunt took her and her cousin in. Years later, when an opportunity to join relatives in another country arose, Jina was sad to leave her cousin but excited to start their new life with her father overseas.
The document summarizes changes in the role of women in Spanish society over time. In the past, women woke up early to take care of household responsibilities and children until the afternoon. Now, women still wake up early but also have jobs as professionals like doctors, teachers, or lawyers. After work, they continue household responsibilities and often study additional courses. Women today are busier and more stressed than in the past as they try to balance many responsibilities without help. The document suggests women should find hobbies to reduce stress and bring more balance to their lives.
Nati is a hardworking and responsible Romany student who seems determined to achieve great things. However, as a Romany girl, she will likely face significant obstacles and barriers that will prevent her from achieving her ambitions and expectations, such as attending university, due to the traditions and limitations experienced by Romany women in her community and family. Unless society undergoes a deep social revolution that provides equal opportunities for girls like Nati regardless of their ethnicity, their potential will remain unfulfilled as they will be unable to write their own stories and lives.
Carol dreams of being in a room with her lover, embracing and talking in hushed voices as night falls. She feels afraid of returning to her former life with her controlling husband. In her dream, Carol's lover tenderly puts a lock of hair back in place, and she realizes he makes her feel worthy, important, and able to choose. Carol is startled awake by her husband slamming the door home from his poker game. Reality sets in, making her dream of freedom with her lover vanish.
Alice studied biology but could not find a job in a lab. She became a housewife and had twins. Later, she took a job as a policewoman to have some work outside the home. As a working mother with a husband who did not help around the house, Alice was exhausted every day from her double duties. During an incident transporting a criminal to court, the criminal overpowered Alice but she was able to escape by feigning a seizure and overtaking the criminal with her own gun. After this dangerous experience, Alice's husband decided to help more around the house, and she eventually found work in a lab as she had originally wanted.
Jurgita is a woman working her third night at a bar called Ipanema to support her son. A rude customer calls her derogatory names and makes lewd gestures. Though angry, Jurgita remains professional to avoid problems. An old regular advises her to ignore the unhappy customer, as he is a regular but bitter man. Later, when the rude customer howls at her, Jurgita sternly tells him that in her country, pigs do not sing like wolves.
The document discusses the heavy burden that women carry through their daily contributions to social, cultural, and economic development, which often go unrecognized. The author inherited this "backpack" at birth and has carried it for 50 years, but now wants to take it off and inspire other women to do the same at an earlier age. She wants freedom from the stress of having to prove herself as a good worker and mother, and for her daughters not to have to shoulder this weight. The small, daily jobs done by women have propelled human progress, and the author wonders what would happen if women set down this burden and who would take it up instead.
In her dream, Ofelia Grant was a 23-year-old suffragette living in London in 1917 who fought for women's right to vote. At that time, women could not vote or work, but Ofelia believed women deserved more. A year later, Parliament granted some women the right to vote due to many men fighting in World War I. Upon waking, she reflected on how far women's rights have come since then but also how much further they still need to go to achieve true equality.
This document provides recipes for Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage, Colcannon (a traditional Irish side dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage), Irish Mint Cupcakes, Banana Cupcakes, and Vanilla Cupcakes With Chocolate Frosting. The Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe calls for cooking corned beef, potatoes, and cabbage together in a stockpot with onion, garlic, broth, and seasonings. The Colcannon recipe mixes mashed potatoes with sautéed cabbage, leeks, onion and bacon. The Irish Mint Cupcakes recipe makes chocolate cupcakes with a mint frosting and crushed thin mint cookies.
This document provides recipes for Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage, Colcannon (a traditional Irish side dish of mashed potatoes and cabbage), Irish Mint Cupcakes, Banana Cupcakes, and Vanilla Cupcakes With Chocolate Frosting. The Quick Corned Beef and Cabbage recipe calls for ingredients like corned beef, potatoes, cabbage and bacon and instructions to simmer all ingredients together until tender. The Colcannon recipe includes mashed potatoes flavored with leeks, bacon and cabbage. The Irish Mint Cupcakes recipe mixes chocolate cake batter with mint extract and chips for a St. Patrick's Day treat.
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17th and this document invites people to a party at the School of Languages to experience Irish culture through food, music, and learning about Irish traditions like wearing green for luck, while having fun.
Gabriel's class schedule is shown for two weeks. In the first week from March 21-24, his classes are assigned to different classrooms from 16:00-21:00 on Mondays through Thursdays. In the second week from March 28-31, his schedule is noted as "as usual" for some time slots, while other classes are assigned to specific classrooms from 16:00-21:00 on Mondays through Thursdays.
This glossary defines various terms related to outdoor activities and injuries. It includes definitions of words like bruise, climb, come to a halt, constriction, cushion, diameter, drag, expedition, fracture, hammock, injured, jaw, kayaking, open fire, paw, permit, rifle, rucksack, save someone's life, self-defence, shot, slide, slip, slope, venom, and wrap (a)round. The glossary provides concise definitions of these terms in 1-2 sentences for a total of 30 terms.
The document describes three accounts of lucky escapes. In the first, a scientist in the Amazon was constricted by an anaconda but was saved when his colleagues heard his screams and kicked the snake off of him. In the second, a British climber fell 300 meters down a mountain but survived with only bruises and back fractures, likely cushioned by his large backpack. The third story describes two Norwegian men who were attacked in their tent by a polar bear; one man was dragged away but shot and killed by his friend using their second rifle.