PREPOSITIONS OF MOVEMENT FOR LEVEL 2

In order to use the prepositions of movement correctly, most of us need a lot of practice given that they are used in a totally different way than in our mother tongue.
So, here are four  activities that might help you.

Activity one: exercise

Activity two: common expressions with prepositions of movement

Activity three: song 

Activity four: sing along!

IS THE SYNTAX OF LANGUAGE SIMILAR TO A COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM?

What does an optimal communicational system have in common with a computational system? What are the core syntactic principles of language? Wow! Interesting question.
Listen to Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Noam Chomsky talking on this interesting topic: human cognitive nature, which in its properties is similar to a snowflake.

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OLD ENGLISH ROMANTIC POETRY: WULF AND EADWACER

Love poetry isn't a modern thing at all and nor are the plots! Let's go back in time to the beginnings of Old English Literature, to the Exeter Book, written during the period between the 8th and the 10th century, let's read and listen in Old English to  this poem, a woman's song, she is lamenting being apart from her lover Wulf, possibly by the doings of her husband Eadwacer. Click here to read the text and translation of this  Old English love triangle!
" Leodum is minum   swylce him mon lac gife;       It is to my people as if someone gave them a gift.        willað hy hine aþecgan,   gif he on þreat cymeð. They want to kill him, if he comes with a troop.
Ungelic is us.                                                             It is different for us.
 Wulf is on iege,  ic on oþerre.   "                            Wulf is on one island I on another.  

FUNNY TRANSLATIONS!

Translating can be an interesting activity to improve your knowledge of both, the source language and the target language, but watch out, it is not always easy to find the right word equivalent!
Here are some funny examples:

THREE SECRETS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SPOKEN ENGLISH!

To improve you pronunciation and listening skills, there are three secrets to take into account:

1.ENGLISH IS A STRESS-BASED LANGUAGE
2.LINKING
3.COLLOCATIONS

Don't miss professor Judy Thomson's Ted Talk!

HERMAN MELVILLE?: YES, MOBY DICK AND......

HERMAN Melville was the super famous writer of the super famous novel "Moby Dick":
 who doesn't now the adventures of the white whale, Ismael and Captain Ahab?
However, few people know he was a great traveller, and a poet too.
 Therefore, today we are going to pay a little homage to this interesting character, going to the web: the Melville society and reading this composition: