That is the time when you've reached the summit, but if they keep on doing that for years, that means that you've become a legend and you'll never die as you will stay in the people's hearts for ever.
As our Spanish writer Garcilaso de la Vega said, it is not just a matter of becoming a legend, but of not being forgotten by your kin and people around you when you pass away.
Here's my musical hint for today: Calling out your name by Rich Mullins. Here's a version with the lyrics for you to check!
Here are some activities for you to do:
Real Easy English: Talking about music (BBC Learning English)
Learning English from the News: Lost Maya city found in Mexico (BBC Learning English)
Job applications: Your first day (BBC Learning English)
A listening exercise for you to do: Why you need a good night's sleep (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
Road towards success in the new PAU (Selectivity exam).....
Use of English
9. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH THE CORRECT OPTION:
9.1. “I waited for him for two hours but he didn’t turn…” up / over / down / off
9.2. “He passed… peacefully after a long illness.” over / back / down / away
10. FILL IN THE GAPS WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:
10.1. “Ed Sheeran… since he was a little boy.” (sing)
10.2. “She… a sales manager three years ago.” (become)
11. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: “The new iPhone is very expensive, so I
decided not to buy it.” The new iPhone is so …
12. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS: “It takes her less than two hours to have it ready.”
13. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO INDIRECT SPEECH: “Jason told her, ‘Don’t be late to my party tomorrow.’”
14. THERE ARE TWO MISTAKES IN THIS SENTENCE. FIND THE MISTAKES AND REWRITE THE SENTENCE CORRECTLY.
“If only women get equals opportunities in today’s world.”
SOLUTIONS TO THE RELATIVE CLAUSES EXERCISE IN THE PREVIOUS POST
1. Lindsay is the eldest child who has has to look after the other children.
2. The King, who had a whisky everyday, lived for a long time.(king is written with a capital letter so it is considered a non-defining relative clause. If it hadn't, it would have been a defining one without commas)
3. He was reading the book whose characters were zombies.
4. Nowadays new kinds of sport, which seldom appear on television, attract more and more people.
5. John Bloom, whose novel..... film, died recently.
6. He used a sexist word whose meaning was pejorative for women.
7. He received an e-mail, whose content was spam.
8. That man, who has more.... a politician, talks a lot.
9. Michael, whose family....ago, has been attending Italian lessons.
10. Clark Kent worked for a newspaper that was called ‘The Daily Planet’.
11. Johnny Depp, whose portrait.... superb, is starring in Finding Neverland.
12. I could not move my car, which had no petrol.
13. Nikki, who is against the ban, sells cinema tickets.
14. Occidental observers are against the veiling of women in Arabia, which is ..... segregation.
15. Van Gogh, whose works.... millions, only sold one painting during his lifetime.
16. Every year lots of tourists visit that old building, which is one of the major attractions in London.
17. John, who was a heavy smoker, has given up smoking.
18. The man, whose sister .... Liverpool, fell off his bike and was taken to hospital.
19. Jane Halifax, who does not... the proposal, is the president of the committee.
20. The dog whose name was Laika was sent into space in 1957.
21. This is the computer I bought last month.
22. MTV, whose influence..... rapidly, reaches millions of households.
23. Is this the place where they sell disks for the CD Rom?
24. The boy I sold a videgame to last week is very satisfied.
25. This is the computer game everyone is talking about.
26. Elisabeth, who Thomas invited to his premiere, is a prestigious writer.
27. Those books, which I have been waiting for three months, are no longer published in England. (I have been waiting for these books since August)
28.
Mars, which businessmen are investing their money in, is expecting visitors in the short term. (investment , shortly)
29. We interviewed that young man, who they hired, last week.
30. The actor the police was looking for was a criminal.
