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THIRD PRESENTATION (7) speak a little bit of me (about) talk ("l" is not pronounced) working is SEUR that is a courier company (, which) something (/^/, not /o/) care their children (look after ) (/e@, not /ei/) jewellery (/u:/, not /eue/) wardrobe (/o:/, not /a/) bracelet(/ei/, not /a-a/ project (/dz>/, not /j/) ever(/@/, not /er/) what (/o/, not /a/) Eiffel Tower (not /turifel/) decorative (stress on the first syllable) how much are you going to sell it for (sell it for) Is not (It´s not) look yourself (at) Fluent and resourceful but important pronunciation problems. Please study the points marked.

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01.Yes=No 02.No=Yes 03.Maybe=No 04.We need this=I want this 05.I am sorry=you'll be sorry 06.We need to talk=I need to complain 07.Sure,go ahead=You'll pay for this later 08.Do what you want=You'll pay for this later 09.I am not upset=Of course I am upset,you moron and You'll pay for this later 10.Are you listening to me?=Too late,you're dead 11.You have to learn to communicate=Just agree with me 12.Be romantic,turn out the lights=I have flabby thighs 13.You're so manly=You need a shave and you sweat and stink a lot 14.Do you love me?=I am going to ask for something expensive now 15.It's your decision=The correct decision should be obvious by now 16.You're certainly attentive tonight=Is sex all you ever think about? 17.I'll be ready in a minute=Kick off your shoes and find a good game on TV 18.How much do you love me?=I did something today that you're really not going to like me

I´m realising (Iealise) I´m stress (+ed) comfortable (/ªbªl/, not /teibªl/) leisure (/z>, not, s) immigrants in the work (at work) /e/Spanish (no /e/) strong accent worst (worse(self corrected??) Nigeria (/ai/, not/i/) future (//ts>/, not/t/)// //un/e/skilled(no/e/)// //logic/a/l (/ª/, not /a/)// //the true (truth)// //my boss do (does)// //culture (/^-^/, not /u-u/)// //a boss job (become a boss)// || SECOND TERM PRESENTATION (8.5) Good introduction- but soften your consonants comedy films as FG(comedies like FG) I don´t use to watch films in English (tend to) thinking is homework (it´s) vocabulary (stress on the second not third syllable) serie (+s, also in sg) Very fluent village (/i/, not /a/) get-sc-got (good self correction) sometimes (/^/), not /o/) didn´t wanted to (want) the other (/i-^/, not /e-o/) didn´t like it the English humour (no it//, no// the//) very drama (+tic) plot is set up in Italy (the action takes place in Italy) correctly (stress on the second not first syllable explain them (to them)
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TOO MUCH HAPPINESS by ALICE MUNRO

I have read "Too much happiness" by Alice Munro, a very popular writer over the world. She is the author of many collections of stories and she has won lots of prizes. When I first chose this book I expected terror short stories as Roald Dahl ones. This book has ten short stories. My surprise was when I started reading and I realise that this kind of stories were not similar at all. I am going to try to explain why the stories where not as I expected.

In one hand, the writer tends to explain you a situation around a character jumping to the past and the present of his/her story. Sometimes the reader feels lost because of it. Furthermore, in some of the stories there are many characters, not important ones for the story, and that makes you reading slowly because you don't know if you are loosing any detail of the story, what finally, you don't, so you could read quicklier.

On the other hand, the most important point in Munro's stories are the unexpecting ends, because you expect a conclusion or at least an open end and what she offers you is an uncertain one, where you feel ansious because you haven't understood anything at all.

I have to add tha the vocabulary used in this book is sometimes plain because the writer doesn't tend to explain a lot of places or characters in detail. You can read the stories with no difficulties. I found the problem in the way the writer writes, the way she describes the things or the people, the way she jumps from the past to the present, and so on.

In my opinion, I don't recommend this book at all, because I haven't enjoyed it. I have had more expectations than I have finally found. I prefer reading books where there are logical plots. But if you like thinking a lot and dreaming what is going to happen after the end, this is your book, because the writer is not going to close the end.

AINHOA FUSTER