ARBONA,+ANA

__//**3rd presentation**//__ (8) Good pronunciation, a bit of a broken accents (syllabic stops) Good vocabulary preparation Very correct English breathing (/i:/, not /e/) in babies...can appear...subject (subject+may arise/show/be visible it´s involved+subject(subject+predicate) I spent there one week (one week there)(second time, correct)

2nd term book review __THE TIGER´S WIFE__ This is the first novel written by Téa Obreaht, who has showed her big talent in //The Tiger’s wife//. Téa Obreaht, a young writer, was born in Yugoslavia in 1985 and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before her family moved to the United States in 1997. Now she lives in New York. The story is narrated in first person through the voice of Natalia, a young girl who has just known about her beloved grandpa’s unexpected death in an estrange city in inexplicable circumstances. She is a doctor, like her grandfather, and she’s in a mission of mercy in an orphanage. As soon as she knows about the tragedy that has happened into her family, she stars a back-in-time travel to understand her grandfather’s death. The novel takes us through her grandfather’s life and her memories from her childhood to the present. She tells us the stories that her grandfather used to tell her about the deathless man and the Tiger’s wife, where afterwards she will find the clue to all her questions about his death. The main character of the story is Natalia, although her grandfather can be called the main character too through Natalie’s memories. The action is set in the Balkans, probably in the author’s motherland ( it is Croatia ), during and after the war in the 1990´s, when the Balkans changed their old configuration. However Natalia says that it happened 60 years ago and the names of the cities are invented, there’re details , which make us think about this conflict. I recommend this book to those students, who have a good level of English. It’s quite long and hard to read, because of the vocabulary and the plot. There’re a lot of characters and convoluted stories, so if you want to follow the story of the book, you have to pay attention to every detail. You will need a dictionary not far from you…

MARKING AND ASSESSMENT

2nd term book review __THE TIGER´S WIFE__

This is the first novel written by Téa Obreaht, who has shown her big talent in //The Tiger’s wife//. Téa Obreaht, a young writer, was born in Yugoslavia in 1985 and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt before her family moved to the United States in 1997. Now she lives in New York. The story is narrated in first person through the voice of Natalia, a young girl who has just known about her beloved grandpa’s unexpected death in a strange city in inexplicable circumstances. She is a doctor, like her grandfather, and she’s in a mission of mercy in an orphanage. As soon as she knows about the tragedy that has happened in her family, she stars a back-in-time travel to understand her grandfather’s death. The novel takes us through her grandfather’s life and her memories from her childhood to the present. She tells us the stories that her grandfather used to tell her about the deathless man and the Tiger’s wife, where afterwards she will find the clue to all her questions about his death. The main character of the story is Natalia, although her grandfather can be called the main character too through Natalie’s memories. The action is set in the Balkans, probably in the author’s motherland ( Croatia ), during and after the war in the 1990´s, when the Balkans changed their old configuration. However, Natalia says that it happened 60 years ago and the names of the cities are invented. Even so, there’re details which make us think about this conflict. I recommend this book to students w h ose Enlis is really g ood. It’s quite long and hard to read, because of the vocabulary and the plot. There’re a lot of characters and convoluted stories, so if you want to follow the narrative, you have to pay attention to every detail. You will need a dictionary not far from you…

__THE INTERVIEW__
[|http://www.notodofilmfest.com/index.php?corto=31150#/Home/Ficha/31150/] Here you have some useful words and expression from this short film in case you are having an interview soon in Englush...
 * ===__WORDS__=== || ===__MEANING__=== ||
 * SHIFTS || The hours you work per day. ||
 * PROFITS || An advantageous gain or return; benefit. ||
 * TO HAVE A DEGREE IN BUSINNES ADMINISTRATION ||  ||
 * TEAM-WORKING || Work in team, not individualy. ||
 * LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION || Letter you have from previuos jobs. ||
 * GENERAL MANAGER || Director. ||
 * GROSS SALARY || Salary, not taking off taxes. ||
 * EXTRA PAY || Pay you get in June and December. ||
 * COMPASSIONATE LEAVES || Leave granted in an emergency such as family sickness or death ||


 * ===__**EXPRESSIONS / USEFUL LANGUAGE**__=== ||
 * THREE MONTHS CONTRACT ||
 * I HAVE A DEGREE IN BUSINNES ADMINISTRATION ||
 * WE ARE LIVING HARD TIMES ||
 * I WORK HARD ||
 * YOU ARE FLUENT IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND GERMAN ||
 * THERE IS PLENTY OF WORK TO DO ||
 * I´M A GOOD PROFESSIONAL ||
 * I KNOW HOW TO WORK IN TEAM ||
 * CREATIVITY AND INNOVATIVE ATTITUDE ||
 * THE GROSS SALARY IS ..., THE EXTRA PAY ARE ALREADY INCLUDED ||
 * CONGRATULATIONS AND WELLCOME ON BOARD ||

__**WOMEN AND THE CRISIS**__ She had worked for this company for ages! And that´s why she couldn´t expect something like this. She started to work there in 1999 and after three years of hard work, she got a permanent post in the company and her salary started to rise, maybe not as fast as the prices grew up, but anyway she was quite pleased. She never got well with her boss. She knew he was a chauvinist, but she had always thought that this job was worth it. She had had a lot of problems with him when she decided to get married and it was even worse when her first son was born. She used to repeat to herself “This job is worth it”. But it has changed since the latest changes in labour legislation. Now it is easier to sack employees than before, so it was the first thing that Susanne´s boss though about. And the second thing he thought about it was hiring Susanne again but… with other conditions. These were the conditions and it was the conversation they had:“//You´re going to be sacked, Susanne. I´m so sorry…”// he said, //“but if you agree with the new situation, I will take you on again within three months”.// The conditions included basic salary, non-paid overtime and lower qualification in her contract in order to pay a lower salary. Obviously, he was taking advantage of the crisis. She had two options: agree with the new conditions and get a temporal job or become a new unemployed woman. Well, in fact she had only one option, or we can even say she hadn´t any option, because she needed that job as his husband had lost his job one year ago and had become a long-term unemployed. Like Susanne, there are lots of helpless women, who have to go through this situation. MARKING AND ASSESSMENT She had worked for this company for ages! And that´s why she couldn´t expect something like this. She started to work there in 1999 and after three years of hard work, she got a permanent post in the company and her salary started to rise, maybe not as fast as the prices went up, but anyway she was quite pleased. She never got well with her boss. She knew he was a chauvinist, but she had always thought that this job was worth it. She had had a lot of problems with him when she decided to get married and it was even worse when her first son was born. She used to repeat to herself “This job is worth it”. But that has changed since the latest changes in labour legislation. Now it is easier to sack employees than before, so that was the first thing that Susanne´s boss thought about. And the second thing he thought about was hiring Susanne again but… with other conditions. These were the conditions and it was the conversation they had:“//You´re going to be sacked, Susanne. I´m so sorry…”// he said, //“but if you agree with the new situation, I will take you on again within three months”.// The conditions included basic salary, non-paid overtime and lower qualification in her contract in order to pay a lower salary. Obviously, he was taking advantage of the crisis. She had two options: agree with the new conditions and get a temporary job or become unemployed again. Well, in fact she had only one option, or we can even say she hadn´t any options, because she needed that job as his husband had lost his job one year ago and had become a long-term unemployed. Like Susanne, there are lots of helpless women, who have to go through this situation.

SECOND PRESENTATION (8) for me is (it is) good, articulate, careful but fluent unusual accent but good pronunciation pronunciation (/^/, not /u/) what I use to watch (tend to) documentary film )(documentary) interested on (in) there plays + names of actors (in it were) war (/o/, not /a/) focus (/ou/, not (o/) half (the "l" sholud not be pronounced) Good

am used to asking **//__(very__//** good he spends there a month (a month there) good pron,unusual accent jetlag good Siberia (/ai/, not /si/) we get there (got)XX the travel by plane (the flight) feelt (felt) ||  ||
 * || ANAARBONA(8) ||  ||
 * || MONOLOGUE ||  ||
 * || for chosing (choosing)

**He doesn't wash - Agony Aunt**

 * Dear Anne,**I love my partner dearly but I can't cope with his aversion to soap and water and clean clothing. He wasn't like this when I first knew him. He lives in my house and helps with the bills but I hate him being in my bed because quite frankly, he smells. The idea of sex with him is abhorrent for the same reason. I've tried dropping hints and also just being direct but nothing works. I don't want to ask him to leave but I will have to if he can't respect me enough to spend 5 minutes a day in the shower. He has enough time to spend 4 hours a day in the pub when I'm at work. Any suggestions? Many thanks, **PM**

**Dear PM:** You’re living a really difficult situation. You have to deal with your heart and you head, so if you’re not able to work this situation out, sooner or later you will have to take a serious decision, before you get mad. I have consulted your problem with a good friend of mine, who used to have the same problem, well, maybe not exactly the same, because yours could be named as “a limit situation”, but something similar. She managed to solve the problem by giving her husband an ultimatum. In your case, it didn’t work as I understood by reading your letter. It’s said that when a man gets married, his wife “teaches” him to be tidy and clean, but in your case, it’s the opposite. Well, here we are to help you as far as possible. I’m sure you have been trying for such a long time to persuade him to become a bit more hygienic, although judging by your words you haven’t got any result. Don’t give up! If he loves you, it’s a matter of time. I’m sure you’re thinking that he doesn’t respect you, or even that he doesn’t love you, but try to understand why he behaves like this. Try to get the point of his aversion to water. Maybe he’s a Greenpeace activist who’s very concerned about lack of water on the planet Earth, so he doesn’t want to waste it. Have you ever tried to talk to him and understand him, but not to persuade to use the shower more often? So, we assume that it’s not the problem, he’s not an extreme ecologist, and he doesn’t wash because he can’t get even five minutes to do it or he just doesn’t want to. In this case, here you have a short list of things you could try to do: A present like this could help you: a set of aromatic soap and shampoo.Don’t sit next to him on the sofa and make sure he notices you deliberately do it.Don’t take him to any party or meeting.Tell him about other men you find attractive.If I were you I’d suggest a romantic bath… It could be a good excuse to “introduce him to the water” but don’t forget to change the water before you get in… in order to prevent any skin infection.Think about getting two single beds, so you cold keep your sheets clean.The last chance is to tell him openly that you want him to wash and change his clothes. If anything on this list works, he has pathological fear to water! Ask a psychologist, but if you know that’s it’s not the point, don’t threaten him any more and just get divorced. He doesn’t deserve you. Anne

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**He doesn't wash - Agony Aunt**

 * Dear Anne,**I love my partner dearly but I can't cope with his aversion to soap and water and clean clothing. He wasn't like this when I first knew him. He lives in my house and helps with the bills but I hate him being in my bed because quite frankly, he smells. The idea of sex with him is abhorrent for the same reason. I've tried dropping hints and also just being direct but nothing works. I don't want to ask him to leave but I will have to if he can't respect me enough to spend 5 minutes a day in the shower. He has enough time to spend 4 hours a day in the pub when I'm at work. Any suggestions? Many thanks, **PM**

**Dear PM:** You’re living a really difficult situation. You have to deal with your heart and you head, so if you’re not able to work this situation out, sooner or later you will have to take a serious decision, before you get mad. I have consulted your problem with a good friend of mine, who used to have the same problem, well, maybe not exactly the same, because yours could be classed as “a limit situation”, but something similar. She managed to solve the problem by giving her husband an ultimatum. In your case, it didn’t work as I understood by reading your letter. It’s said that when a man gets married, his wife “teaches” him to be tidy and clean, but in your case, it’s the opposite. Well, here we are to help you as far as possible. I’m sure you have been trying for such a long time to persuade him to become a bit more hygienic, although judging by your words you haven’t got any results. Don’t give up! If he loves you, it’s a matter of time. I’m sure you’re thinking that he doesn’t respect you, or even that he doesn’t love you, but try to understand why he behaves like this. Try to get the point of his aversion to water. Maybe he’s a Greenpeace activist who’s very concerned about lack of water on planet Earth, so he doesn’t want to waste it. Have you ever tried to talk to him and understand him, but not to persuade to use the shower more often? So, we assume that it’s not the problem, he’s not an extreme ecologist, and he doesn’t wash because he can’t get even five minutes to do it or he just doesn’t want to. In this case, here you have a short list of things you could try to do: A present like this could help you: a set of aromatic soap and shampoo.Don’t sit next to him on the sofa and make sure he notices you deliberately do it.Don’t take him to any party or meeting.Tell him about other men you find attractive.If I were you I’d suggest a romantic bath… It could be a good excuse to “introduce him to the water” but don’t forget to change the water before you get in… in order to prevent any skin infection.Think about getting two single beds, so you can keep your sheets clean.The last chance is to tell him openly that you want him to wash and change his clothes. If anything on this list works, he has pathological fear of water! Ask a psychologist, but if you know that’s it’s not the point, don’t threaten him any more and just get divorced. He doesn’t deserve you. =** Very good and very original and interesting **=

REVIEW //by Ana Arbona//
 * __THE ORACLE NIGHT__**

If you are looking for a new book to read, which has been edited not long ago, but you’re not looking for a best seller, //The Oracle Night// could be a good novel for you to read for the second term. Paul Auster, the author, is well-known as a writer all over the world for other novels like //The Brooklyn Follies// or //The New York Trilogy//, so the success of these books speaks for his talent for writing. The language used by the author in this novel is not very elaborated, so you won’t find it difficult to understand and follow the plot, even if you don’t look at the dictionary for every single unknown word. I’m sure I made a very good choice and I want to share this experience with you, so I recommend this book for all advanced students. The story gets more and more interesting and enigmatic in every page, so you will find it catching and at the same time not very hard to read. I’m sure you will enjoy the story, the characters and you will understand the power of the written words. I recommend this book for those, who like unexpected and unusual endings. CORRECTIONS AND ASSESSMENT **__THE ORACLE NIGHT__**

If you are looking for a new book to read, published not long ago, but you’re not looking for a best seller, //The Oracle Night// could be a good novel for you to read for the second term. Paul Auster, the author, is well-known as a writer all over the world for other novels like //The Brooklyn Follies// or //The New York Trilogy//, so the success of these books speaks for his talent for writing. The language used by the author in this novel is not very elaborate, so you won’t find it difficult to understand and follow the plot, even if you don’t look up every single word in the dictionary. I’m sure I made a very good choice and I want to share this experience with you, so I recommend this book for all advanced students. The story gets more and more interesting and enigmatic in every page, so you will find it catching and at the same time not very hard to read. I’m sure you will enjoy the story, the characters and you will understand the power of the written words. I recommend this book to those, who like unexpected and unusual endings. ** Good **