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Chris Hemsworth's Dangerous Climb in the Himalayas:  Being Elsa Pataky's plus one,  the actor took part in the Spanish adventure programme "Planeta Calleja" . However, something went wrong. This is how he explained it: SOME HELP FOR YOU: We did a trip recently to the Himalayas. Oh, really? How high up did you go? We got higher and higher and we ended up in about 4000 metres above sea level. You acclimate every couple of days ... so your body adjusts to that, lack of oxygen. Have you ever heard of altitude depression? Just to give you an idea, if you had a bottle of water outside your sleeping bag, it's frozen by the time you wake up. It has to be tucked in with you. Oh, really? It was freezing. I'm in my bed, I'm just tossing and turning ...  and my breathing is getting worse ... like in a Darth Vader meets Daffy Duck . "Get him off the mountain" Apparently, the oxygen in my lungs, the next day was oxyge

Black Friday :  Todd explains Black Friday and Cyber Monday to Aimee. Living on the cheap:    Dan talks about how he saves a lot of money by living in Southeast Asia. Both with quiz, vocab., and script.

Scouring the nation for recipes that evoke each of the 50 states  (reading) The story of Thanksgiving by Ellen Degeneres: Autocorrect mishaps : Friday Night Mishaps (multiple choice listening activity) What's Your Worst Travel Mishap? Last year I planned to travel to Florence for the weekend with a friend in August. We each booked tickets for the same flight coming home Sunday evening and couldn’t figure out why mine was so much cheaper. On Sunday morning, while trying to check in online in order to print my boarding pass, I realized that the flight I had booked left Florence that very same day but in September! After a panicked phone call with Iberia, who mockingly informed me there was a 300-euro fee for my ignorance of the months of the year, I got booked on the correct flight. Signed: Your Teacher

They would and they did! To take over To boss sb around Funky phrasals (BBC Learning English) Phrasal Verbs Games (Macmillan Dictionary) Phrasal verbs in context (older post) APP

Improve your writing . How to write an essay . Written Production . Writing class: Makeovers . Writing C1 . Writing topics and reference sites online (C1) . The Essay - Mr. Bean Extra History: South Sea Bubble (market crash, 1711). VIDEOS PREPOSITION PLACEMENT IN RELATIVE CLAUSES Everyday English Formal English (writing) Is that the man  (who) she arrived with ? Is that the man  with whom she arrived ? Does he know the girl  (that) John is talking to ? Does he know the girl  to whom John is talking ? It is a club  (which) many important people belong to . It is a club  to which many important people belong .

Page 20, exercise f: 1.  a. eerie b. deafening c. hammered d. whining e. gurgling f. roar g. thump h. whisper i. decibels 2. roar: dull whisper: soft thump: dull 3.  absorb sound (vb.) ambient soung (adj.) a scraping sound (adj.) background noise (noun, making a compound noun) EXPRESSING PREFERENCES: Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 The More Education Republicans Have, the Less They Tend to Believe in Climate Change , an  exhaustive scientific report unveiled this month (The New York Times)

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LISTENING: Kazuo Ishiguro Is Awarded Nobel Prize In Literature (nrp.org) READING:  Kazuo Ishiguro, the 2017 Nobel Prize Winner in Literature , in The New Yorker Film adaptations: Kazuo Ishiguro on The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go

The World Heritage City of Alcalá de Henares, in Madrid, is hosting a new edition of its short film festival, ALCINE.  The festival has been held since 1983 and has served to launch the careers of some of Spain’s most important directors, such as Alejandro Amenábar, Isabel Coixet and Fernando León de Aranoa. At the same time as the official short film section, there is also a feature film section aimed at new directors. In addition, in order to increase the international presence at the festival, since 2007 there has been an official section for European work. Friday, November 10th, 10:00 am TRAILERS: 1. JAIME , a short film by Christopher Manning:   'Film gave me the sense I wasn't alone' 2. REFUGE , a short film by Leticia Agudo: 3. SWEET MADDIE STONE , a short film by Brady Hood: 4. Tête à Tête , a short film by  Natasha Tonkin: Promising indeed!