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Smile - its newsletter time! 181
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John Finley
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Jan 26, 2009 03:17 PST
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John Finley's Learn English newsletter
Monday 26 January 2009 © 2009 Issue No. 181
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Contents:
1. Welcome
2. Test
3. Idiom
4. Useful Link
5. Jokes
6. Test Answers
7. Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
8. That's all folks
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1. Welcome
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Hi
It's lunchtime on Monday and my two youngest sons
are having their morning nap (a nap is a short sleep)
allowing me to write this newsletter.
After taking Ben to nursery at 9am we went to a large
furniture store and they both had fun in the indoor
playground there before driving me crazy by running
around the store for 30 minutes.
The good thing is that it tired them out.
Now I have about an hour to relax (and do housework,
and this newsletter!) before they wake up and the 'fun'
starts again!
Have a nice couple of weeks
;-)
john
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2. Test
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Complete the following sentences by selecting
what you think are the correct answers. Good luck!
1. We ..... a vacuum cleaner last year.
* bought
* have bought
* had bought
2. Since June we ..... five new shops.
* did open
* have opened
* opened
3. It ..... since early this morning.
* has rained
* has been raining
* rained
4. We ..... a new project in May.
* started
* have been starting
* have started
5. To date we ..... a lot of money on research.
* spent
* have spent
* had spent
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3. Idiom
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#-# to go down well #-#
If something goes down well, it is successful.
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Last week the test went down well. That means,
that I received positive feedback about the test.
(Hopefully this week's test went down well with you!)
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Imagine you make a speech. If the response you get
is positive then you can say that it went down well.
However, if everyone sits there looking unhappy
then your speech probably didn't go down well.
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I baked a carrot cake at the weekend and everybody
who ate a piece (or two or three!) said that they liked it.
My cake went down well with everybody.
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4. Useful Link
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The BBC website is, in my humble opinion, the best
news site on the internet. I visit it every day - and I
strongly recommend it to English learners. See what
you think at:
<A HREF="<http://news.bbc.co.uk/>">
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/>
</A>
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5. Jokes
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A woman walks into a butcher's shop just before
closing time on Christmas Eve and asks,
"Do you have any turkey left ?"
The butcher says, "Yes, Madam", opens his fridge,
takes out his only turkey and puts it on the scales.
It weighs three kilogrammes.
The woman looks at the turkey and at the scales
and asks, "Do you have one that's a bit bigger
than this one, please?"
The butcher puts the turkey back into the fridge
and then takes it out again, but this time when
he puts it on the scales he keeps his thumb on
the turkey. The scales now show four kilogrammes.
"That's wonderful," says the woman. "I'll take
both of them, please."
#-#-# <http://www.angelfire.com/on/topfen> #-#-#
A man was walking along a riverbank (the land
at the side of a river is called a bank) when
he saw a man walking along the opposite bank.
He called across, "Hey, how do I get to the other
side of the river?"
The other man looked confused and shouted back,
"You're on the other side of the river already."
#-#-# <http://www.angelfire.com/on/topfen> #-#-#
A teacher said, "Mary, I'd like you to give me a
sentence beginning with "I", please."
Mary thought for a few seconds and then said,
"I is..."
The teacher interrupted her and said, "No Mary,
you cannot begin a sentence with "I is" - you
must use "I am".
Mary looked upset and said, "But Miss..."
The teacher shouted, "Give me a sentence beginning
with "I am", please."
Mary shrugged her shoulders and said, "I am the
ninth letter of the alphabet."
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6. Test answers
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Here are the completed sentences.
1. We bought a vacuum cleaner last year.
2. Since June we have opened five new shops.
3. It has been raining since early this morning.
4. We started a new project in May.
5. To date we have spent a lot of money on research.
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7. Subscribe/Unsubscribe details
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8. That's all folks!
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That's all for a couple of weeks.
Don't forget, if you enjoy reading the newsletter
and find it useful, please tell others about it.
;-)
john
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