Another excellent lesson from Linguaspectrum

Germany celebrates unification (Reuters)

It was in (..?..), 1989 when the Berlin Wall (..?..) came down. There were (..?..) celebrations marking the end of a (..?..) nation, at least, unofficially. More than 20 years later, Bremen (..?..) to the 20th anniversary of the country’s unification. The political leadership of Germany attended a church service ahead of the first… more

BlackBerry losing street cred Reuters report

BlackBerry’s biggest problem may be an Apple, or more specifically, Apple’s increasingly popular iPhone. Kerry Ruebin has just handed in her work BlackBerry for good.

“Work just gave me an iPhone for …. to replace the BlackBerry to use for work.”

The loss of corporate clients is a big concern among analysts. BlackBerry… more

Listen to the video report and put the missing word(s) in the gaps below. Then answer the True or False questions.

BlackBerry losing street cred Reuters report Jill Bennet, Reuters

BlackBerry’s biggest problem may be an Apple, or more …………………….., Apple’s

increasingly popular iPhone. Kerry Ruebin has just handed in her work BlackBerry for… more

“The problem is all inside your head”, she said to me / The answer is easy if you take it logically / I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free / There must be fifty ways to leave your lover

She said it’s really not my habit to intrude / Furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be… more

Listen to the song and fill in the gaps

“The …………….. is all inside your head”, she said to me / The answer is easy if you take it …………… / I’d like to help you in your …………….. to be free / There must be fifty ways to leave your ………………

She said it’s …………. not my… more

Bath Time

Dragos wants to give Pufi a bath. But Dragos knows Pufi hates water, and baths. Anyway, Dragos fills the bath and calls Pufi. Pufi pretends to cry to get Dragos’ sympathy. Dragos isn’t fooled. He applauds Pufi’s act, sarcastically. When Pufi pretends to faint, Dragos has an idea. He holds a bone in the air. Sure enough, Pufi… more

Pufi hates bath time. And Dragos tries to be smarter than Pufi. But is he?

Now rearrange the sentences to tell the story of the video, “Bath Time”.

Dragos wants to Pufi a give bath. But Dragos Pufi hates knows and water, baths. Anyway, calls Dragos the Pufi bath and fills. Pufi get sympathy pretends to cry to Dragos’.… more

Here are the false statements corrected. All the information is in the text.

No one was hurt during the bull run.

Two Britons were injured.

It was the fourth run of a ten day long fiesta.

It was the third run of the nine-day long fiesta

There had been heavy rain in the afternoon.

There had been light morning rain… more