Lunches are not the same everywhere. In Central Europe they have a light meal which takes you no more than an hour and which is just a break to go on with your working day. What about you? What are the main differences with Spain? Which one do you prefer?
Related articles:
- What school lunches look like around the world (Daily Mail)
Working lunches around the world: what's in your lunchbox? (The Guardian)
How hot, smelly and noisy is your al desko lunch? (The Guardian)
Listening exercise to do: What your lunch says about you (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
REVISION EXERCISES included in Mock exams (1º Bach) in my site.
54. RELATIVE CLAUSES. Join
these sentences :
1. The report explains what
happened. Mr Robinson wrote this article last week.
2. I work with Joe. Joe's
father used to be a friend of my family.
3. My car isn't very fast. I
bought it two months ago.
4. I don't know when he
wrote the book. He critisized the government in it.
5. My girlfriend is younger
than me. She came to see me last summer.
6. I don't remember the name
of the island. This island is situated near the northern
coast of Scotland.
55. Put the sentences into the
PASSIVE VOICE :
1. I think they will finish
their holidays in August.
2. People can watch the Cup
Final from an armchair.
3. They have written her a
postcard. (two ways)
4. We eat a lot of oranges
in Spain.
5. You can see the sea from
our classroom.
6. He told her that he
didn't go to Granada on Thursday.
56. COMPARATIVES. Translate
the following sentences :
1. Alain Prost conduce más
rápido que yo, pero yo juego al tenis mejor que él.
2. Big Ben es menos alto que
la Torre Eiffel.
3. La habitación más
templada de la casa es la sala de estar.
4. Aquel chico, que es de
Competa, dice que el mejor vino que se hace en Málaga es el de su
pueblo.
5. El anillo que me dió no
es tan caro como parece.
6. Este es el ejercicio más
difícil que yo jamás haya hecho.
57. TRANSLATE the following
sentences :
1. Un número record de
libros fueron leídos en nuestra biblioteca.
2. La habitación de Arturo
era calentada por una estufa de gas que tenía que ser
alimentada con monedas cada par de horas.
3. Llegó a casa y se fue
directamente a la cama.
4. Se va a celebrar una
fiesta en la biblioteca.
5. Debiérais repasar todas
las lecciones durante las vacaciones.
6. Este libro se perdió hace siglos, pero la
semana pasada lo encontré en tu cajón.
7. El solía decir a la gente
lo que ellos debieran hacer.
8. El debiera haberle
preguntado a ella si ella quería que él la besara.
9. Mi padre no solía jugar
al ajedrez conmigo cuando yo era pequeño, porque yo jugaba
peor que él.
10. ¿Qué aspecto tiene? No
sé, pero ella solía ser muy guapa.
Solutions to the VOCABULARY exercise in the previous post.
1. on 2. for 3. in , out of 4. by 5. on 6. at 7. by/at 8. of 9. on
LINGOHACK >>>
- Episode 170315 / 15 March 2017 >>> Expressions presented: besieged, salvo, turnaround & upstaged.
