People just go bananas these days making videos and uploading them onto Youtube or any other digital platform hoping them to become the most watched videos, that is to say, viral even if it is his own baby who smashed the family TV set or if one of his neighbours bumped its car into a street lamp. We may laugh now, but in the mean time we are just waiting for the next one, like the water bottle flip challenge.
Do you know what the yellow-highlighted words mean? Try to use them in your next comment or composition.
Here are some articles to read about the issue:
Secrets of YouTube – what makes a video go viral (The Guardian)
Blogging With Video, Hoping to Go Viral (The New York Times)
Listening exercise to do: What makes a video go viral? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
REVISION EXERCISE for 1º Bachillerato >>>
114. RELATIVE CLAUSES. Insert
the second sentence into the first one by means of a relative
clause:
1. This is the bed. I slept
in this bed when I came last Thursday.
2. My cousin visited his
mother yesterday. She lives in Liverpool.
3. My fater has got a
Mercedes Benz. It is a famous car make from Germany.
4. I think the house is too
expensive. We were looking at the house.
5. I wouldn't read a book.
Its writer has been in prison for murder.
115. Put the following
sentences into the PASSIVE VOICE:
1. They don't sell milk in
that shop.
2. My mother was cooking the
dinner when I went into the kitchen.
3. Have you seen my brother
at school ?
4. One cannot eat an orange if nobody has
peeled it before.
5. They gave us some books
for you. (two passives)
116. Translate the following
sentences into English:
1. ¿Cree usted que alguna
gente puede predecir el futuro? Creo que sí.
2. Me temo que me estaba
preparando para irme a casa.
3. Necesito un vestido nuevo
para la fiesta, ¿tienes uno verde?
4. En cinco años puede que
me compre un coche nuevo.
5. Cuando trabajabas en la
oficina que está junto al supermercado, ¿tomaste
alguna vez parte en manifestaciones?
6. Cuando me haga mayor
dejaré de jugar al rugby.
7. Si conduces cuando estás
bebido probablemente tendrás un accidente.
8. Tan pronto como llegue al
colegio hablaré con el profesor.
9. En Cádiz se construyen
muchos barcos.
10. A tu padre le encantaría
trabajar en otra compañía.
11. Mi hermano quería que
fueras a verle esta tarde.
12. ¿Te levantas tan pronto
como te despiertas?
13. ¿Seguirás trabajando
hasta que tengas 60 años?
14. Ellos descubrieron que
tú no hiciste el examen.
15. ¿Crees que tendrás
bastante azúcar para el pastel? No hay demasiada azúcar, pero no
hace falta que compres más.
Ex111 >>>
1. How long have you studied English? I have studied English for 10 years / since 2007
I started learning English ten years ago.
Ex112 >>>>
1. if he didn't so much homework. 2. if I knew he was going to put an exercise on the conditional sentences.
3. I would have passed 4. he will buy tickets for Roland Garros. 5. he would drive faster. 6. it boils.
Ex 113 >>>
1. David told Liz she should have told that to her family.
2. The mother asked her daughter why she hadn't waited for her at the hairdresser's.
3. Brian told his son to go there and not to cry any more.
4. Peter asked a friend if he thought they might help them.
5. Sandy asked John why his sister didn't work harder.
6. Arthur told Mr Steele he would work the following day and he wouldn't be late.
LINGOHACK >>>
- Episode 170823 / 23 August 2017 >>> Expressions presented: outraged, inspired by fiction, crowned & podioatrist.
