Oh,no!!! My battery is flat!!

Nowadays batteries are one of our biggest concerns, if not the biggest. Expressions like these can be uttered with such a desperate feeling that we would think someone is about to die: "My battery is flat", "Your car battery is dead, I'm afraid", "The battery of my mobile phone is too low", "The TV remote control has run out! How are we change channels?"....  And now the problem becomes more and more serious with the appearance of electrical cars.

Articles related to the issue:

• Smaller, longer-lasting and cheaper batteries store much more energy (Treehugger)

• How to make your 'dead' batteries last eight times longer  (CNN)

• Can electricity from the human body replace batteries? (BBC News)

By the way, one of our articles was from the website TREEHUGGER. Where does this word come from? (See at the bottom of this post)

 

Listening exercise to do: It's good to talk (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English) 

 

The English we speak: Echo chamber (BBC Learning English)

 

REVISION EXERCISE for 1º Bachillerato  >>>   

93. EVERYDAY ENGLISH. What would you say in these situations?

1. You are in a bar. Offer to buy your friend a drink.

2. You are late for a meeting. Apologize and say why you are late.

3. You have just come home from the cinema. Suggest your friend to order a pizza.

94. Define the words: 'tape' & 'palace' :

95. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. ¡Ojala que apruebe el inglés!     

2. Hay menos ejercicios en este examen que en el anterior.

3. Voy a pelarme antes de que empiece el instituto. Y mi hermano también.

4. Cuando los ejercicios empezaron a complicarse, le pregunté a mi hermano mayor.

5. Acabo de recordar que tengo que ir al banco ahora mismo.

Proposed solutions to exercises 91 & 92 in the previous post

Ex91   >>>  

1. Who did you go to the cinema with?      2. How often does he do the gardening?

3. What is the book about?     4. How long have you been learning English?  

5. What will the weather be like tomorrow?

Ex92  >>>

1. shorter and shorter     2. further    3. the funniest    4. The more polluted, the bigger

LINGOHACK  >>>

• Episode 170726 / 26 July 2017   >>>  Expressions presented: segregated, front-runner, vehicles & internal combustion engine.

TREEHUGGER is a person who hugs trees, that is, a person who loves nature.