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With texts and topics that make learners want to speak, American English File is the course that gets students talking. Do you agree? How old do you think these people are? Do you like the way they are dressed? Complete their two fashion rules. Why do the journalists mention the following?
What are the opposites of these adjectives and verbs? In what situations do you usually? Practice distinguishing them. Put two words from the list in each column. Look at the typical spellings for these sounds. Say why. You have decided to sell them on eBay. Write a detailed description, making them sound as attractive as possible. Set a starting price. For sale! Blue and white striped cotton skirt - never worn! Size six. Would look great with white T-shirt. Perfect for the summer.
I think it looks ridiculous unless you're under I think pink streaked hair looks great at any age. You shouldn't judge other people by the way they dress. Women, but not men, are always expected to dress attractively for work or on TV.
Fur coats should be banned. Only sheep follow fashion. Good dressers have their own style. People who follow fashion are usually vain and selfish. It's risky to buy clothes online. I'd love to go. When things go wrong he starts shouting at everyone.
Nothing really bothers me. He never spends money unless he absolutely has to. It looks like the kind of thing my grandma would wear. I need to sit down. Circle the word that is different. Circle the word with a different sound. What do sham ans do? The rise of the shamans b Read the article again and choose a, b, or c. Check their meaning and pronunciation and try to learn them.
Thomas's hospital had a very early operating theater. Thomas's were done on rich people. The sound of drumbeats reverberates in the small conference room as the shaman goes into a trance. The others present, their eyes closed, focus on the rhythmic sounds of the drums.
The shaman, in his trance, makes the journey to a parallel reality in search of solutions to the various problems the group has brought with it. For most people this may seem weird, but it is becoming a fairly common experience for others. People from many different professions - students, businessmen, housewives, even former soldiers - are turning to shamanism, an ancient spiritual practice where the practitioner communes with "spirit guides" to gain access to information and healing.
Cosima Klinger-Paul, an Austrian who moved to India in and has started a school of shamanism, says that the interest in the practice is not surprising.
It is the oldest healing method of mankind. Shamans believe that all illnesses have a spiritual cause, which is reflected in the physical body. Healing the spiritual cause heals the physical body. An important shamanic belief is the concept of "soul loss. Once the person gets the missing part of his soul back, shamans believe that the lost vitality and health also comes back.
But is it really as simplistic as this? Those who have undergone shamanic healing sessions seem to think so. Harnam Sidhu, a year-old marketing executive, swears by the practice.
Sidhu was suffering from glaucoma - a degenerative condition that causes the loss of optic nerves leading to blindness. Doctors had told him it was a matter of months before he went completely blind in the bad eye. As a last resort, he tried shamanism. After a few sessions, when he went for a checkup, his doctor told him that a miracle had happened - his condition was starting to reverse.
Believers stress that shamanic healing isan established tradition that has been tested time and again over centuries. I tend to say no to requests for quick healing. This is not a spiritual aspirin that you can take and be healed. What information or instructions are the passengers being given? What word or phrase do the flight attendants use to m ean? Is it really worth listening to the safety dem onstration telling you how to put your life jacket on?
Why is there usually a big m irror when you are going through Customs? Why can you som etim es smell roasted chicken in a plane when they are serving you fish? Why do airport s ta ff m em bers get annoyed with some passengers who ask fo r a wheelchair?
Can you guess the answers to any of the questions? What are the answers to the questions, according to the text? Underline the part o f the text that gave you the answer. Do you believe it at all? I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. Most airline passengers think it is laughable that a small yellow lifejacket with a whistle will make any difference if the plane crashes into the water.
However, in some cases, like when a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing landed in the Indian Ocean in , it did. Despite instructions from the cabin crew not to pre- inflate their lifejackets inside the plane, several passengers did.
They were unable to escape the rising water inside the plane. So it is probably a good idea to look up from your magazine when the flight attendant is giving the safety demonstration.
Customs officers are watching everywhere. They are watching you from the moment you walk off the plane, while you are standing in Baggage claim waiting for your bag, and especially when you come out the other side of Customs, which is when people who are trying to smuggle something finally let their guard down and get caught.
The large two-way mirror in Customs, behind which customs officers sit and watch is part of that process. As you walk past, it makes you look taller and thinner.
So you feel good about yourself and you relax and smile. Birds are one of the major problems for any airport when planes are taking off and landing. Any large bird can easily cause an accident. It flies into the engine, totally destroying itself and the machinery.
Smaller birds are less of a problem. In some cases they can do some damage, but usually they are just roasted. W heelchairs are a big problem for airline staff. Not only is there always a shortage of them for the people who really need them, but what is worse, some of the people who request them often don't need them at all.
I've lost count of the number of times I have pushed someone through the airport, taken them through Customs and Passport Control, gotten a porter to pick up their luggage, and then seen the person jump up in Arrivals and move quickly toward their waiting relatives. Another miracle, courtesy of the airline industry! After years in a wheelchair, he walks again! The passenger is usually so embarrassed that he disappears as quickly as he can.
When this happens, there is often such a strong smell of roasted bird that passengers on the plane think that chicken is being cooked. Where did you fly to? How long for? Were you carrying anything that you shouldn't have? How did you feel? Was anyone on the flight injured? Did you get jet lag? What was it like? What did you do? Before you listen, discuss questions with a partner and imagine what the answers will be.
How many of the questions did you answer correctly? W hat exactly happened? Last updated at Nightmare over the Atlantic! We may shortly have to make an emergency landing on water. We imagined that we were about to crash into the Atlantic.
It was awful. It was very traumatic. Everybody was terrified. I can't think of anything worse than being told your plane's about to crash. We would like to apologize to passengers on this flight. W hat do you think is the difference between the two highlighted verbs?
The pilot was very experienced and had flown this route many times before. When the announcement was made, the plane had been flying for about three hours. Learn more about narrative tenses and the past perfect continuous, and practice them.
Which ones have a past participle that is different from the simple past form? Write these past participles in the chart. Then listen and repeat.
Notice which are the stressed and unstressed words. Read a newspaper story. Then imagine you were a passenger on the plane, and tell your partner the story. The story can either be true or invented. If it's invented, try to tell it in such a convincing way that your partner thinks it's true. Choose one o f the topics below and plan what you're going to say. Use the language in the Telling an anecdote box to help you, and ask your teacher for any other words you need.
Talk about a time when you B show interest and ask for more details. Then decide whether you think the story is true or not. Then change roles. This happened to me a few years ago when I was on vacation in Florida. I was swimming in the ocean one day when I saw a shark. How big was it? I was.. The main events I decided to I felt G the position of adverbs and adverbial phrases V adverbs and adverbial phrases P word stress and intonation If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
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