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Cooking sheperd's pie

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Write the ingredients for a Sheperd's pie



Now try to get these instructions in order:

- Pre-heat the oven to 350º
- Peel two potatoes and cut them into pieces
- Get a casserole
- Trim a cup of green beans and cut them into pieces
- Add the potatoes to a pot and add pour some hot water
- Spread the potato mixture over the beef and vegetable mixture
- While you boil the potatoes you can prepare the vegetables
- Add some ground beef and a tb. of dry basil
- Stir for 5 minutes until the meat is brown
- Chop one onion
- Sprinkle with Cheddar cheese
- Heat a tb. of oil in a skillet
- When they are cooked (about 20 minutes), drain the potatoes and mash them
- Cook the onions
- Lightly beat one egg and add to the smashed potatoes
- Continue baking until the cheese melts
- Bake the Sheperd's pie in the oven for 15-20 minutes
- Add the tomatoes, garlic and green beans and let it simmer for 5 more minutes
- Transfer the meat to the baking dish
- Mix it all together and let it simmer
- Add some water
- Bring the potatoes into a boil
- Dice one large tomato
- Mince one clove of garlic

Food and restaurants

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Here you have some questions about food and restaurants: Do you often eat out? What kind of restaurants do you prefer? What do you value most in a restaurant?: the service, the food, the atmosphere, the people you are with, the proximity to the place where you live or work, the price, ...? Do you ever go to fast-food restaurants?, if so why? Do you think that you have a healthy diet? Have you ever been on a diet?, is there any kind of food you're trying to cut down on or you have cut out entirely? Do you do enough exercise to burn the calories you consume?, do you ever worry about that? How do you feel when you it fast food or something you know you shouldn't eat? Do you eat enough fruit and vegetables? Do you think you shoul eat less carbohydrates or proteins?, why? What's your favourite kind of food?

Supersize me explained

Here you can listen to an American girl talking about the famous documentary Supersize me, which deals with the problem of fast food and obesity in the USA.
I think it is quite easy to follow and quite interesting too!

Talking about sport

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Look at these pictures and talk about the different sports you can see. 1. Are they played indoors or outdoors? 2. Are they individual or team sports? 3. What kind of equipment do you need? 4. Would you like to practice any of them?, why?, why no? 5. How could you benefit from doing any of these sports? 6. Is there any other kind of sport, which has not been featured, that you would like to try?

Simply red Money is too tight to mention

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Raising money for a charity

Have you ever considered giving money to a charity such as Vicente Ferrer Trust? Read about their approach, what they have done so far, how they help the communities of Anantapur in India, and learn about their future plans. http://rdtfvf.org/our-management-teams/our-founders/ Read in English, if possible, about other charities and the work they do, for example The Red Cross, Acnur,Caritas,Oxfam,Acnur, ... (here you have a list: and consider which one would you give money to.

My friends' picture

This is a picture of my friends, it was taken two weeks ago in Playas de Muro. At the back we can see the beautiful sea and the sky full of clouds, it had been raining a little bit but as we were wet we didn't care. At the front we can see the beautiful sandy beach of Playas de Muro, and in the middle my friends. Nicole and her children are German, they live in Berlin and they usually spend their summer holidays in Mallorca, and my friend Celia, who is at the back, is Spanish. The two Children are blond, Lucas is older than Nuno, who just turned in two years ols two weeks ago and Lucas is about to be six. Nicole and Celia are in her thirties, they are a bit younger than me. Nicole is very slim and has fair short hair though this summer she's been to the beach so much that she's almost blond. Celia has long fair wavy hair, and the only one who has shoulder-lenght brown curly hair is me but I'm not in the picture. In the picture they are playing and taking pictures because they are coming back soon to Germany and won't come back until next year. It was a bit cold because the sun had already set but we had been swimming when the sun was shining. Nicole and Celia are my best friends and Lucas is my God son. I get on very well with the two of them. I see Celia more often because she lives in Mallorca and we meet every week for a baguette and a few drinks and we chat a lot. Celia is a bit quiet and slow but I like her very much, she prefers lying on the beach rather than swimming. Nicole on the contrary loves swimming just like me but she always wants to see the sun set and Celia complains about the mosquitoes. Nicole is not so extrovert as Celia, but she's warm and kind, she's very indecisive, unpunctual, disorganized and she's a bit picky with the food as she is vegetarian and she doesn't eat seafood becuase she's not used to it., I never know how they manage to pack all their things to come back to Germany. Lucas is a bit shy and loves reading and playing games with Celia and Nuno can't speak yet but makes strange noises and he is very fun. I don't know what they are wearing, but surely not the bikini because it was a bit wet and cold.

More about multiple intelligences

If you want to know more about multiple intelligences and how to better improve your learning, check this link: Multiple Intelligences

My new Voki

This is my new Voki!, you can have one too. It's very easy!

Take the money and run by Woody Allen

This is a scene from a film by Woody Allen:

Quizz: Are you a good learner of English?

Welcome

There's a lot you can do to practice your English. I hope this blog can help you a little bit.

You'll find on the right the folders, look for Intermediate 1 or 2 to see all for each level, or IntUnit1 for just each unit. Soon I'll also group them by term, at the moment just click on first term.
You can look for topics for speaking and writing, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and guides and links to help you learn.
Beneath you have links to practise the different skills and some other interesting links.
I hope you like it. Good luck!

Present Perfect simple and continuous

Food Network

Visit: http://www.foodnetwork.com, choose the sections recipes or videos and tell us about a recipe you have learnt.