Study newsletter 2015, week 48 Content Language level Page Phrase of the week What did you get up to? All levels 1 Mind map Money All levels 2 Czenglish By chance vs. accidentally Pre-intermediate (B1-) Advanced (C1) 3 Business Writing Writing Pre-intermediate (B1-) Advanced (C1) 4 Test Present perfect and present Pre-intermediate (B1-) Advanced (C1) 5 Phrase of the week What did you get up to? We use this expression to ask what someone did - especially if we think it was something unusual You can use this phrase in language. Spoken Written Informal Example 1 A: I had the most fantastic day. B: Really? What did you get up to? A: I did my first bungee jumping, actually. It was brilliant. Example 2 A: I heard that Peter s in trouble. What did he get up to this time? B: I think he had a huge conflict with the boss. A: Oh my god. 1
Mind map Learning new vocabulary in the most effective way Vyzkoušejte si interaktivní Mindmapy zde: http://www.jazykovka.info/studujeme-jazyky/mindmap/money/ Klikejte na slova, uslyšíte jednotlivá slovíčka namluvená rodilým mluvčím. Slovíčka Slovo Payment Exchange Currency Save Spend Earn Pocket money Banknote Coin Money box Význam slova platba výměna měna spořit utratit vydělat kapesné bankovka mince pokladnička, kasička 2
Czenglish WRONG: RIGHT: Are you accidentally free on Friday night? Are you, by chance, free on Friday night? An accident is something that didn't mean to happen, or something that results in injury, possibly death. So when you talk about it in English in relation to social availability it sounds very wrong. If you want to ask if someone doesn't have any plans at late notice, you can't say, "Are you accidentally free?" because it's no accident that the person is free, they may have simply not wanted to plan anything that evening. So, better is to say something like, "Do you happen to be free on Friday night?" or use the phrase 'by chance', e.g. Are you, by chance, free on Friday night? 3
Business Writing The Writing Process: Writing In my last post I talked about pre-writing two stages of the writing process that involve thinking up your ideas and deciding on the structure. Spending time on these steps will help you write. You won t need to worry about thinking up ideas at the same time as you are worrying about whether something should be in a new paragraph. Your idea thinking is done. On to the next step: writing. Again there are two stages, drafting and reviewing. Stage 3 Drafting The next step is to put your ideas into the structure drafting. Don t worry about grammar and spelling. The important thing to remember is that you are merely going to write sentences, as they come to you, that you put your ideas into the structure. Resist all temptation to take notice of red and green lines in your word-processing program that suggest you need to fix something. Please ignore those lines. Just write. Stage 4 Reviewing Once you ve put your ideas into the structure you have a first draft. It is rough and probably full of errors. But that s okay. Just keep ignoring the errors for the moment. Instead focus only on the content. Ask yourself these questions: Do you have enough information for each section or do you need to find some more? Is there something there that really isn t relevant that you should cut out? Does it seem as though all the ideas are in the correct place in the structure or do they need to be moved? After answering these questions, go and find the extra information, delete the things you don t want, move the things that are in the wrong place. The reason I suggest you ignore errors in stage 4 is because there is no point spending time perfecting a sentence that you are going to throw away. You will have a chance to fix everything in the post-writing step. DALICE TROST, původem z Austrálie, je absolventkou magisterského studia managementu lidských zdrojů na University of Canberra v Austrálii. Lektorka je držitelkou certifikátu TEFL opravňující k výuce cizích jazyků. V rámci své profesní praxe zastávala vysoké manažerské pozice jako personalistka, senior supervizorka, HR manažerka, a to mimo jiné ve společnostech v Dubaji a Austrálii. Aktivně se věnuje publikační práci v oboru vzdělávání a anglického jazyka. Lektorka je autorkou knihy, ze které čerpáme tyto tipy: Business Writing-A Tip a Day for 30 Days 4
TEST: Present perfect and present I'm afraid I (1) typing those letters. I (2) with customers all morning. Thank you, but I really (3) any more juice. I (4) two large glasses already. I can't find my wallet. (5) recently? James (6) from toothache since last week. He (7) to the doctor once, but it's still not better. We (8) why Amber is upset, but she (8) to us for ages. Why (9) at me? I suppose you (10) a woman on a motorbike before! 1. A haven t finished B haven t made C haven t done D haven t want 2. A 've been made B 've been seen C 've been dealing D 've been spoken 3. A don t know B don t want C don t make D don t suffer 4. A have starred B have suffered C have had D have seemed 5. A Have you been B Have you spoken C Have you suffered D Have you seen 6. A has been seing B has been suffering C has been seen D has been suffered 7. A has been B had was C has beeing D been 8. A don t want... hasn't wanted B don't make... hasn't known C don't have... hasn't stared D don't know... hasn't spoken 9. A you staring B are you staring C have you been stare D you stare 10. A haven t seen B didn t see C hadn t see D haven t saw Správné odpovědi se dozvíte ihned po dokončení on-line testu zde: http://www.jazykovka.info/studujeme-jazyky/minitest/present-perfect-and-present/ Správné odpovědi z minulého týdne (Past and present): 1C, 2A, 3C, 4C, 5A, 6D, 7B, 8B, 9C, 10A 5