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BROWNIES.

Ingredients

170g/6oz self-raising flour
salt
2 tbsp cocoa powder
170g/6oz caster sugar
5 tbsp sunflower oil, plus extra for greasing
230ml/8fl oz sweetened soya milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Method

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
2. Grease and flour a 20cm/8in square cake tin with some of the sunflower oil.
3. In a bowl sift together the flour, salt, cocoa powder and sugar.
4. Add the oil, soya milk and vanilla extract, and mix carefully together until completely mixed.
5. Pour into the tin, and bake for about 25 minutes, until the brownies spring back when gently pressed.
6. Leave to cool for five minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack.

BANANA MUFFINS

Ingredients

75g/3oz melted butter
250g/9oz self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
pinch of salt
½ tsp ground cinnamon
½ tsp ground nutmeg
115g/4oz caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large, ripe bananas
2 medium eggs
125ml/4fl oz milk
10 walnut kernels (optional)
To serve
2 bananas, sliced
50g/2oz walnut kernels
2 tbsp crème fraïche or yoghurt
2 tbsp runny honey

Method

1. Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas 5. Melt the butter and allow to cool. Mash the bananas well. Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg together in a large bowl, add caster sugar and stir through.
2. With a fork, beat together the eggs, vanilla extract, melted butter and milk in a second bowl. Add the mashed banana and stir through.
3. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and add the egg mixture, stirring roughly with a fork (don't over mix) until it is a lumpy paste.
4. Set paper cases into the moulds, or grease the moulds well with a little extra oil or butter and spoon in the mixture until almost full. Top each one with a walnut kernel if you like.
5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the muffins come away from the side of the pan when touched. Rest the muffin tray on a wire rack for five minutes then remove the muffins and leave on the rack for another five minutes before serving.
6. Serve the muffins with sliced banana and a dollop of creme fraiche, scattered with walnuts and drizzled with honey (or with Caramel yoghurt).

English past tense pronunciation

English Past Tense Pronunciation

This is me!

Best coat of arms in the classroom will win a prize!

News coming up soon! (Don´t throw your coat of arms away!)

Sound like Tarzan... schwa is here!

Be positive! It´s essential when learning a language!

Practice on some/any body/where/thing. See my correction on comments.

Complete the 00000000 with somebody, anybody, nobody, something, anything, nothing, somewhere, anywhere o nowhere.

1. ooooooooooo lives here. There is no water.
2. I spent the night ooooooooooo near the beach.
3. 0000000000 scares him. He's very brave.
4. There is to park here. Let's go ooooooooooo else to park.
5. Would you like 00000000000000 to wash your hands?.
6. May I have oooooooooooooo for dessert, please?
7. She needs 00000000000 to love. She's very lonely.
8. They will not sing 0000000000000 in this city. They said that they would never come back.
9. There isn't ooooooooooooooo you can do to help them. 00000000 can help them.
10. 00000000000000 is ringing the bell. Go and see who it is.

SOMEBODY AND ANYBODY

Which is the difference between somebody and anybody, and when do you use it?

Everybody needs somebody!

Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Everybody wouldn't do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done in the first place.



Now, if you want to have fun and enjoy with Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody (to love. Click on the video:

Dictionary entries

ANALYSING DICTIONARY ENTRIES




1) Look at the three dictionary entries. What information can you find in each entry?

a. lesson /’ lesn/ n 1 something to be learned or studied. 2. a unit of teaching and learning. 3. a course of instruction. 4. a passage from sacred writing read in a service of worship. 5. something learned from experience. V.trans. to give a lesson to somebody.
b. lesson /’ lesn/ exercise, task; instruction, precept; lecture, lecturing. V reproof, rebuke.
c. lesson /’ lesn/ n 1. (Educ) (a) (class, period) clase; ∼s start at nine o’clock las clases empiezan a las nueve; to give ∼s in sth dar clases de algo. 2. (from experience) lección; there is a lesson to be drawn from this podemos aprender mucho de esto

*The apostrophe (‘) shows stress. The stressed syllable is the one after the apostrophe.


2) Match the entries with the types of dictionaries

• Thesaurus
• Monolingual dictionary
• Bilingual dictionary (Spanish-English / English-Spanish)

Which of these types of dictionary do you often use?

3) Look carefully at the pronunciation of the words below. Practise saying them correctly:

Laugh /lɑ:f/ eyes /aɪz/ example /ɪg’zɑ:mpl/
Keys /ki:z/ kind /kaɪnd/ eighteen /eɪ’ti:n/

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