"Give Peace A Chance" by John Lennon

In 1969, during the Vietnam war, John Lennon (The Beatles) and Yoko Ono got married and decided to spend their honeymoon in Amsterdam. As they know it would be a great press event, John and Yoko decided to use the publicity to promote world peace. They invited the world's press into their room at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel. After their other stunts, such as the nude cover of the Two Virgins album, the press were expecting them to be having sex, but instead the couple were sitting in bed talking about peace . A reporter asked John what he was trying to do. John said, "All we are saying is give peace a chance," spontaneously, but he liked the phrase and set it to music for the song. He sang the song several times during the Bed-In, and finally, on 1 June 1969, recorded it using a simple setup of four microphones and a four-track Ampex tape recorder rented from RCA Victor in Montreal.
The song quickly became the anthem of the anti-war movement all over the world and it is still sung by a lot of people in anti-war demonstrations.



Hace ya casi cuarenta años, John y Yoko clamaron al mundo por la paz. La protesta pacífica que realizaron en pijama, desde su cama y convocando al periodismo de la época, trascendió tiempos y fronteras.
El escenario de la guerra de aquellos días no era el de hoy. Los protagonistas también eran otros, pero la crueldad, la misma…
Hoy como ayer, la necesidad de darle una oportunidad (chance) a la paz es imperiosa, por éso, sumándome al espíritu de aquella canción que desde entonces suena como un verdadero rezo, os invito a ver el video que nos recuerda que la guerra no es una consecuencia inevitable y que en todos y cada uno de nosotros está el poder de cambiar el destino de la humanidad.
Ciudadana Mónica


Click in the link below to watch the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlKX-m17C7U&feature=fvst






Now click in the following link to read the lyrics of the song and the translation into Spanish:
http://www.box.net/shared/yt39pul2ag

What to wear?

Click on this link (nab_081118_what_to_wear.mp3 ) and listen to somebody speaking about teenage fashion in the UK for girls. You can also read it at the same time by clicking here. There are some exercises at the end of the transcript. Please do them in your notebook and send a comment.

Listening: Investing

Watch the following video and click here to do the exercises.

Listening: A Business Meeting

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Listening: Hotel reservation

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1st CONDITIONAL

There are three types of conditional sentences in English: 1st, 2nd and 3rd.


1st Conditional sentence structure is as follows:


If + present simple , will + verb
If it rains tomorrow, I will stay at home
or
I will stay at home if it rains tomorrow.

We can also have negative sentences ( If it doesn't rain tomorrow, I won't stay at home ) and interrogative sentences ( Will you stay at home if it rains tomorrow? )


I you need more information click here.

Now do these exercises:

• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_1_statements.htm
• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/mix.htm
• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_1_negation.htm
• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_1_mix3.htm
• http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/if_clauses/type_1_mix.htm
• http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.con1.p.htm
• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/1cond1.htm
• http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/1cond2.htm
• http://www.ieslosremedios.org/~josefina/english_exercises/first_conditional.jcl.htm
• http://www.montsemorales.com/gramatica/Condition1.htm
• http://www.bnv-bamberg.de/home/ulrich.koch/flg/englischinteraktiv/ifclauses1a.htm
• http://inglesnanet.com/grammar/ifclausestype1.htm
• http://www.go4english.com/vg/read.php?unitid=1688

If you have any question, ask your teacher.
Send a comment if you want to.

Irregular verbs list

English irregular verbs are not really as difficult as you think. It is something you can solve if you take some time. As you know we study irregular verbs in three columns: the first one is the infinitive (base form) the second one is the past simple and the third one is the past participle.

You can find some exercises below:

http://www.mansioningles.com/gram53.htm

http://mrc.ltd.free.fr/preterit.htm

http://www.english-4u.de/iv_quiz1.htm

http://suz.deutsch-digital.de/english/grammar/verbsa.htm?docbase=http://suz.deutsch-
digital.de/english/grammar/index.php
http://www.pumpkinandcompany.com/PAC/Kids-activ-games_Gquiz3e_PastSimple1.htm

http://www.bradleys-english-school.com/online/concentration/past1.html

http://www.kico4u.de/english/uebungen/aktiv/simplepast1.htm

You also must click on videos (irregular verbs) to learn the pronunciation.

Irregular verbs video