Summer is a time to travel not only in Spain, but abroad. We are not used to paying cash and we use our credit cards instead. We are also used to buying flight tickets, hotel rooms, any item... using our credit cards. However, we must be very careful with certain pages as they may be tricky and frauds are everywhere.
Here are some articles for you to read about the issue and a listening exercise:
Criminals learning how to commit card fraud from dark web (The Guardian)
Watch out for these holiday shopping scams (CNN)
Online fraud: Do you have a digital double? (BBC News)
Listening exercise to do: "Are you at risk from online fraud?" (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
News Review: Capital One hack: 100 million people's data stolen (BBC Learning English)
Breaking news: Congratulations to Ana Muñoz (4° ESO A), as I have just been told that she passed her B1 exams at the Official Language School as a freelance student last June.
How to Use TO & FOR ⚡️English Prepositions | Common Grammar Mistakes
English with Lucy >>> British Humour Explained (with examples)
English in a Minute: Adverbs of frequency (BBC Learning English)
REVISION FOR 1º Bachillerato
145. Put the sentences into the PASSIVE VOICE :
1. Do they still build ships in Scotland ?
2. Nobody can sing a song well
if he is eating an apple at the same time.
3. The Chinese invented printing.
4. You mustn't take photographs in the
museum.
5. They have recently discovered
oil near the Falkland Islands.
146. Put these sentences into REPORTED SPEECH.
(Use suitable introducing verbs)
1. John: "I always play
football on Saturdays, but I'm not playing this Saturday because I'm ill".
2. She to him: "We've been
waiting here for you since six o'clock"
3. As the passengers left the coach, the
driver to them: "Don't forget to take all your belongings with you."
4. I to her:"Where did you
go last night?". She: "I ate
in a Chinese restaurant with my boyfriend"
5. We: "Will you stay with
us?" Robert: "Yes, of
course, I will"
147. Write suitable questions for these answers
(pay attention to the underlined words).
1. ________
? I live in a flat near the city centre.
2.
________ ? I speak three languages.
3.
________ ? I'm learning English because I need it
for my job.
4.
________ ? I've been learning English since
1985.
5.
________ ? Tomorrow it will be sunny and
warm.
"All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl"
Mind your Language - Many Happy Returns I
SOLUTIONS to the exercises in the previous post /for further exercises of this level go to Mock exams (1º Bach)/:
143. 1. works 2. has taught / has been teaching 3. left 4. enjoyed 5. Have you ever worked 6. spent 7. was made 8. could continue / would like to continue 9. happened 10. was working 11. to help 12. met 13. had told 14. was 15. am going to begin 16. will become 17. are getting 18. would do 19. had 20. is running
144.
1. Real Madrid have won the Champions League
Cup thirteen times, which doesn't please Barcelona supporters.
2. Leonardo DiCaprio, who began his career as an actor working with Robert DeNiro, played an important role
in the film Titanic.
3. I was in the cinema where your father sometimes
works.
4. The chair (which/that) I was sitting on was not very stable.
5. Albert, whose talent to predict the future is similar to Rappel's, guessed the result of the
match.
