Do you consider yourself an honest person or...?

Are you 100% honest or do you sometimes lie? During the summer time and sometimes in the flirting game, funny situations happen. Let's read this newspaper article and do the listening exercise later, then you can give me your opinion.  😎

 

Keep the mornings honest, the afternoons for lying and cheating (The Guardian)

 

Listening exercise to do: How honest are we? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) Word formation  >> How many words do you know that come from 'honest'?

 

 

And Billy Joel insists on the topic in this other song: Just the way you are   

 

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Here I present a record of all the comments and projects made by our students during the summer time.

   So far, this is our SUMMER SCOREBOARD (Click here and you will discover who is leading our summer ranking). Don't procastinate it for tomorrow. There are only 4 weeks left!!!!

 

 

Lucy tells us in this video about 4 secrets to speak quickly and fluently.

REVISION EXERCISE for 1º Bachillerato  >>>   

96. Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions:

       I  want  to  tell you something ..........  Arthur. He  lives ..........  21  Gladstone Avenue,.......... Mrs Harrison  and  Mr Smithers.  He  works .......... the library ..........  Middleford High  Street. The Sunny Snack Bar is quite ......... the  library ..........  the other side .......... the road. Sometimes he  goes there .......... a cup .......... coffee.

97. Put the following sentences into the PASSIVE VOICE:

1. Somebody had cleaned my shoes.

2. We use this room only in special occasions.

3. Someone switched on a light and opened the door.

4. The police asked each of us about his movements on the night of the crime.

5. Someone will serve refreshments.

6. They make these artificial flowers of silk.

98. Complete these sentences using  SO / NEITHER :

1. He's a student. ......I.    2. You aren't very clever. .....my brother.   3. Mr Steele hadn't arrived yet.  ......you.    4. Mary has been to France. ..............Albert.   5. Arthur failed his A‑levels.   ...................we.

Proposed solutions to exercises 93, 94 & 95 in the previous post

Ex93   >>>  

1. Shall I buy you a drink?  /   I'll buy you...if you like     

2. Sorry, but I missed the 9.30 bus.

3. Why don't we order a pizza? / Let's...  / What about ordering...?   /   How about....?

Ex94  >>>>>. Define the words: 'tape' & 'palace'   

Ex95  >>>>

1. I wish I passed English.    2. There are fewer exercises in this exam than in the previous one.

3. I am going to have my hair cut before school starts. So is my brother.

4. When the exercises began to get more and more difficult, I asked my elder/eldest brother.

5. I have just remembered that I have to go to the bank right now.

 

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