Ready for CAE p 125. Banksy. Extra Listening

0.    What is the underground car park at the Swiss Embassy in London likely to end up as?

An international monument

1.    What sculpture did Banksy manage to put in Disneyland?
2.    What material did Banksy start creating his works on?
3.    What stand do the exhibition organizers wish to make at the Andipa Gallery in Knightsbridge?
4.    What has the movement taking place in the urban street culture turned into?
5.    What is the real act of “anarchy” Banksy does?
6.    What are Banksy’s works not suitable for?
7.    What types of works are exhibited in Knightsbridge?
-       Some of his ________________.
-       Works taken from ________________.
8.    What happens when you see Banksy’s work out of context?
9.    What reactions do Banksy’s works provoke on people?
10.  What is Banksy against?

VOCABULARY

CLAD: (of people) dressed, or (of things) covered.
PRINT: a photographic copy of a painting, or a picture made by pressing paper onto a special surface covered in ink, or a single photograph from a film. Copia, grabado.
STAND: an opinion, especially one which is public. TO MAKE A STAND: to make a determined effort to defend something or to stop something from happening.
COMPLICIT: involved. Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity.
FLIPPANT: not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be amusing or to appear clever. Frívolo.
USP: ABBREVIATION FOR unique selling proposition: a feature of a product that makes it different from and better than other similar products and that can be emphasized in advertisements for the product.

KEY

1. A Guantanamo prisoner.
2. canvas.
3. Street art should remain on the streets. (It is made for people on the street).
4. A new pop art.
5. He gives art for free.
6. It is not suitable for staring at in your drawing room. It is not to be put on the wall.
7. some of his prints.
Works taken from the streets (and put in this gallery).
8. It loses an incredible amount of power.
9. People laugh. They make people think. They find them interesting.
10. The advertisements we see every day.

Ready for CAE p 125. Listening: Waxwork Sculptor. Vocabulary

Like: (n)a person or thing that is similar to another:
jazz, rock and the like (= similar types of music)
the likes of sb/sth (informal) used to refer to sb/sth that is considered as a type, especially one that is considered as good as sb/sth else:
She didn’t want to associate with the likes of me.

- netting: material that is made of string, thread or wire twisted or tied together, with spaces in between:
wire netting
- rod: barra
- clay: arcilla
- plaster: yeso
- hey presto: (ta-da) something that people say when they have just done sth so quickly and easily that it seems to have been done by magic:
You just press the button and, hey presto, a perfect cup of coffee!
2 something that people say just before they finish a magic trick

- roughly: approximately but not exactly
- touch up: touch sth up: (retocar) to improve sth by changing or adding to it slightly:
She was busy touching up her make-up in the mirror

Ready for CAE p 122. Word Formation: Anger. Vocabulary

Ready for CAE p 122. Word Formation: Anger. Vocabulary

- Faint: débil;‹noise› (apenas perceptible);
that cannot be clearly seen, heard or smelt:
a faint smell of perfume
2 very small; possible but unlikely. ‹hope/smile› (ligero)
SYN slight:
There is still a faint hope that she may be cured. They don’t have the faintest chance of winning.

- rage: a feeling of violent anger that is difficult to control. (furia, rabia, colera)

- outburst: (arrebato) a sudden strong expression of an emotion:
an outburst of anger. She was alarmed by his violent outburst

- to give free rein to, dar rienda suelta a

- residential: ‹course› (con alojamiento para los asistentes): (of a job, a course, etc.) requiring a person to live at a particular place; offering living accommodation:
a residential language course. a residential home for the elderly. residential care for children.

- composure: (compostura): the state of being calm and in control of your feelings or behaviour:
to keep / lose / recover / regain your composure

- assertive: expressing opinions or desires strongly and with confidence, so that people take notice. (firme y enérgico):
You should try and be more assertive.

- pushy: trying hard to get what you want, especially in a way that seems rude (prepotente, agresivo):
a pushy salesman

- demanding: (exigente) (of a person) expecting a lot of work or attention from others; not easily satisfied:
a demanding boss / child

- prone to: (propenso a) likely to suffer from sth or to do sth bad
prone to injury. Working without a break makes you more prone to error. Tired drivers were found to be particularly prone to ignore warning signs.

- background: the details of a person’s family, education, experience etc.:
a person’s family / social / cultural / educational / class background. The job would suit someone with a business background.

- quick-tempered: likely to become angry very quickly (irascible):
a quick-tempered woman

- disruptive: causing problems, noise, etc. so that sth cannot continue normally (perjudicial):
She had a disruptive influence on the rest of the class

Ready for CAE p 121. Word Formation. Extra Speaking

Ready for CAE Ss p 121. Word Formation. Extra Speaking

Ready for CAE p 119. Throw a Tantrum. Extra Listening

Ready for CAE p 119. Anger. Extra Speaking

Ready for CAE Ss p 119. Anger. Extra Speaking
Useful language:
- blow a fuse(informal) to get very angry

- irate: very angry

- cross: annoyed or quite angry (enfadado):
I was cross with him for being late. Please don’t get cross. Let me explain

- go berserk: /bər'sɜ:rk / || /bə'sɜ:k/ ponerse como una fiera

- blow your top (BrE) (NAmE blow your stack)(informal) to get very angry

- outburst of anger: (arrebato) a sudden strong expression of an emotion:
an outburst of anger. She was alarmed by his violent outburst.

- let off steam: (desfogarse, desahogarse). (informal) to get rid of your energy, anger or strong emotions by doing sth active or noisy.

- tantrum: a sudden short period of angry, unreasonable behaviour, especially in a child (pataleta, berrinche, rabieta):
to have / throw a tantrum. Children often have temper tantrums at the age of two or thereabouts

- lose / keep your temper (with sb)to fail / manage to control your anger:
She lost her temper with a customer and shouted at him. I struggle to keep my temper with the kids when they misbehave.

Ready for CAE p 119. Anger. Vocabulary

VOCABULARY 2: ANGER

To lose one’s temper (with sby): To fail / manage to control your anger. Perder los estribos.

To blow a fuse: Informal. To get very angry. Salirse de sus casillas.

To get worked up: Informal. To make sb/yourself reach a state of great excitement, anger, etc. Ponerse como loco, disgustarse.

To become irate: Very angry. Indignarse, airado, furioso.

To seethe with anger: To feel very angry but to be unable or unwilling to express it clearly or openly. Estar furioso, hervirte la sangre.

To be cross: To be annoyed, angry. Enfadado, enojado.

A heated argument: A discussion full of anger and excitement. Una discusión acalorada.

To go berserk: To be very angry and out of control. Desquiciado, frenético, ponerse hecho una furia.

To blow one’s top: informal. To become extremely angry. Explotar, ponerse como una fiera.

To fly into a rage: To suddenly become very angry. Ponerse hecho una furia, montar en cólera.

An outburst of temper: A sudden strong expression of anger. Un arranque / arrebato de ira.

To let off steam: To do or say sthg that helps you to get rid of strong feelings or energy. Desahogarse, dar rienda suelta a su indignación o energía.

To throw / to have a tantrum: Tener una pataleta, rabieta, un berrinche.

To scream one’s head off: (informal) to scream a lot and very loudly. Berrear.

To scream blue murder: to scream loudly and for a long time, especially in order to protest about sthg. Poner el grito en el cielo.

Ready for CAE p 118. Listening: Road Rage. Vocabulary

- Rage: [U, C] a feeling of violent anger that is difficult to control:
His face was dark with rage. to be shaking / trembling / speechless with rage. Sue stormed out of the room in a rage. He flies into a rage if you even mention the subject.
2 [U] (in compounds) anger and violent behaviour caused by a particular situation:
a case of trolley rage in the supermarket.
road rage: noun[U] a situation in which a driver becomes extremely angry or violent with the driver of another car because of the way they are driving

- deceive sb (into doing sth) to make sb believe sth that is not true:
Her husband had been deceiving her for years
deceive yourself: to refuse to admit to yourself that sth unpleasant is true:
[vn] You’re deceiving yourself if you think he’ll change his mind.

- blow a fuse(informal): to get very angry

- work sb / yourself up (into sth)to make sb/yourself reach a state of great excitement, anger, etc.:
Don’t work yourself up into a state about it. It isn’t worth it. What are you so worked up about? (ponerse nervioso)

- cut sb/sth up(BrE) to suddenly drive in front of another vehicle in a dangerous way

- be / get caught up in sth: to become involved in sth, especially when you do not want to be:
Innocent passers-by got caught up in the riots.

- Carry out: llevar a cabo

- evenly: with equal amounts for each person or in each place (uniformemente):
evenly distributed / divided. Incidence of the disease is fairly evenly spread across Europe.

- mileage /'maɪlɪdʒ/ sustantivo
1. (Auto) countable or uncountable distancia f recorrida (en millas), ≈ kilometraje m

- motorist: /'məʊtərɪst/ a person driving a car
(automovilista , conductor, -tora). Motorista(que va en moto) motorcyclist [ˈməʊt ə ˌsaɪk lɪst]

- trigger sth (off) to make sth happen suddenly (provocar)
SYN set off:
Nuts can trigger off a violent allergic reaction

- Crawl (gatear, ir a gatas): to move forward very slowly:
The traffic was crawling along. The weeks crawled by

- coin a term (acuñar un término): to invent a new word or phrase that other people then begin to use:
The term ‘cardboard city’ was coined to describe communities of homeless people living in cardboard boxes.

- Kit: equipo, cosas: a set of tools or equipment that you use for a particular purpose:
a first-aid kit.

- rashly: precipitadamente: doing sth that may not be sensible without first thinking about the possible results; done in this way.
SYN: recklessly:
He admitted driving recklessly

- praise: to express your approval or admiration for sb/sth (elogiar, alabar)
SYN compliment

- Considerately: thoughtfully

- erratic: not happening at regular times; not following any plan or regular pattern; that you cannot rely on (imprevisible)
SYN unpredictable:
The electricity supply here is quite erratic. She had learnt to live with his sudden changes of mood and erratic behaviour

- Irate: [aɪˈreɪt] very angry (airado, furioso):
irate customers

- Composure: /kəm'pəʊʒər /
compostura. the state of being calm and in control of your feelings or behaviour:
to keep / lose / recover / regain your composure

Ready for CAE p 118. Emotions. Extra Speaking

Ready for CAE Ss p 118. Emotions. Extra Speaking


Useful language:
Emotions: Joy, fear, anger, sadness, disgust, shame, guilt...
BODiLY SYMPTOMS: a lump in your throat, a change in breathing, stomach troubles, feeling hot / cold, your heart beating faster, perspiring, etc.
EXPRESSIVE REACTIONS: laughing, smiling, crying, sobbing, keeping silent, talking just a little, making a long speech, etc.
Rolling pin: a wooden or glass kitchen utensil (= a tool) in the shape of a tube, used for rolling pastry flat

Ready for CAE p 116. Edinburgh off the Beaten Track. Vocabulary

EDINBURGH

OFF THE BEATEN TRACK


Off the beaten track: far away from other people, houses, etc.

To wander away: to move away from the place where you ought to be or the people you are with.

Coastline: the land along a coast, especially when you are thinking of its shape or appearance.

Endless: very large in size or amount and seeming to have no end.

Unique: being the only one of its kind.

Steep: (of a slope, hill, etc.) rising or falling quickly, not gradually.

To nestle: to be located in a position that is protected, sheltered or partly hidden.

Leafy: (of a place) having a lot of trees and plants.

Mouth: the place where a river joins the sea.

Whitewashed: covered with whitewash. Whitewash: a mixture of chalk or lime and water, used for painting houses and walls white.

To stroll: to walk somewhere in a slow relaxed way.

Rocky: made of rock; full of rocks.

Causeway: a raised road or path across water or wet ground.

Upstream: along a river, in the opposite direction to the way in which the water flows.

To come across: to meet or find sby/sthg by chance.

To overgrow: covered with plants that have been allowed to grow wild and have not been controlled.

Evidence: the facts, signs or objects that make you believe that sthg is true.

Remains: the parts of ancient objects and buildings that have survived and are discovered in the present day.

Grounds: the land or gardens around a large building.

Seaside resort: a place where a lot of people go on holiday / vacation.

To boast: to have sthg that is impressive and that you can be proud of.

To invigorate: to make sby feel healthy and full of energy.

Within walking distance: very close, so that you can walk there.

Manicured: very neat and well cared for.

Lawn: an area of ground covered in short grass in a garden / yard or park, or used for playing a game on.

Bloom: a flower (usually one on a plant that people admire for its flowers).

Awhile: (formal or literary) for a short time.

Hustle and bustle: busy and noisy activity.

Parkland: open land with grass and trees, for example around a large house in the country.

To range from… to: to include a variety of different things in addition to those mentioned.

Gentle: calm and kind; doing things in a quiet and careful way:.

Slope: an area of land that is part of a mountain or hill.

Craggy: having many crags. Crags: a high steep rough mass of rock.

Windswept: (of a place) having strong winds and little protection from them.

Summit: the highest point of sthg, especially the top of a mountain.

Unspoilt: (of a place) beautiful because it has not been changed or built on.

Track: a rough path or road, usually one that has not been built but that has been made by people walking there.

Trail: a path through the countryside.

Breathtaking: very exciting or impressive (usually in a pleasant way); very surprising.

To sit: to be in a particular place.

Ready for CAE p 116. Google to Provide Virtual Tours of World Heritage Sites. Extra Website

Sites of outstanding universal value inscribed on the World Heritage List - the Palace of Versailles in France, the historic centre of Prague in the Czech Republic and the old town of Cáceres in Spain, for example - can now be explored online by internet users around the world, thanks to an alliance signed by UNESCO and the international corporation Google.The agreement makes it possible for internet users to visit 19* of the 890 World Heritage properties via Google's Street View interface. All the other sites on the List will be shown on the Google Earth and Google Maps interfaces.

Ready for CAE p 116. The City of Glasgow. Extra Listening

After watching the video you can do this listening comprehension exercise

You can watch other videos on this topic on 02 towns and cities playlist.

Ready for CAE p 114. Listening: Thomas Cook. Vocabulary

- Promote temperance
temperance /'tempərəns/ n uncountable
1(old-fashioned) the practice of not drinking alcohol because of your moral or religious beliefs. (alcohol avoidance) abstinencia f de bebidas.
2 (formal) the practice of controlling your behaviour, the amount you eat, etc., so that it is always reasonable (templanza , moderación)
SYN moderation
3 ‹movement› antialcohólico

- To trace the origins of
Trace: trace sb/sth (to sth) to find or discover sb/sth by looking carefully for them / it
SYN track down:
We finally traced him to an address in Chicago.
2 trace sth (back) (to sth) to find the origin or cause of sth:
She could trace her family tree back to the 16th century.

- hit on: to think of a good idea suddenly or by chance:
She hit upon/on the perfect title for her new novel

- He handed in his notice/resignation: to hand in your notice / resignation (= formally tell your employer that you want to stop working for them)

- Wood turner: Woodturning (torneado de madera) differs from most other forms of woodworking in that the wood is moving while a stationary tool is used to cut and shape it. Many intricate shapes and designs can be made by turning wood.

- He tried his hand at printing
try your hand (at sth)to do sth such as an activity or a sport for the first time (intentar, probar)

- This religious streak led him to become a member of the Temperance society
Streak: a series of successes or failures, especially in a sport or in gambling (racha):
a streak of good luck. to hit (= have) a winning streak. to be on a winning / losing streak. a lucky / unlucky streak.

- He packed them off on the 8.15 to a temperance meeting
pack sb off (to … )(informal) to send sb somewhere, especially because you do not want them with you (enviar, mandar):
My parents always packed me off to bed early.

- the world is your oyster: there is no limit to the opportunities open to you

- By the early 1860s he’d moved upmarket.
Upmarket: designed for or used by people who belong to a high social class or have a lot of money:
an upmarket restaurant
OPP downmarket
upmarket (BrE) (NAmE upscale) adverb:
The company has been forced to move more upmarket.
de categoría, para gente pudiente
upmarket adverbio: to go ~ subir de categoría

- famed for its beautiful scenery
Famed: adjective
famed (for sth) very well known
SYN renowned:
Las Vegas, famed for its casinos. a famed poet and musician

- He issued them with “circular notes”
issue sth (to sb) issue sb with sth to give sth to sb, especially officially:
to issue passports / visas / tickets. New members will be issued with a temporary identity card. Work permits were issued to only 5% of those who applied for them.

Circular note: traveller’s cheque

- Taking on responsibility for: to agree to be responsible for sth/sb (encargarse de):
I can’t take on any extra work.
Bite off more than you can chew

Ready for CAE p 114. Thomson Airways Safety Video. Extra Listening

Ready for CAE p 114. Bare Essentials of Safety from Air New Zealand. Extra Listening

Ready for CAE p 113 Going It Alone. Vocabulary

Urge: a strong desire to do sthg.

There must be more to life than: There are more important things in life than…

To hand in one’s notice: formally tell your employer that you want to stop working for them.

Truck: lorry.

Tough: having or causing problems or difficulties. Difficult.

To muck in: to share food, accommodation, etc. with other people.

To do one’s bit: (informal) to do your share of a task.

Mud: wet earth that is soft and sticky.

To take to sby: to start liking sby/sthg.

Straightaway: immediately.

To disrupt: to make it difficult for sthg to continue in the normal way.

To surround: to be all around sthg/sby.

To turn out to: to be discovered to be; to prove to be.

To gel: (of two or more people) to work well together; to form a successful group.

To book oneself onto sthg: to arrange with a hotel, restaurant, theatre, etc. to have a room, table, seat, etc. on a particular date.

To acclimatise: to get used to a new place, situation or climate.

To take an instant dislike to sby: a feeling of not liking sby/sthg.

To make it: to succeed in reaching a place in time, especially when this is difficult.

Relief: the feeling of happiness that you have when sthg unpleasant stops or does not happen.

To pull out: to make sby/sthg move away from sthg or stop being involved in it.

Break: a short period of time when you stop what you are doing and rest, eat, etc.

To hit it off with sby: (informal) to have a good friendly relationship with sby.

Background: the details of a person’s family, education, experience etc.

Walk of life: a person’s job or position in society.

To suit: to make sthg appropriate for sthg/sby.

Backpack: rucksack.

Buzz: (informal) a strong feeling of pleasure, excitement or achievement.

To tag along: to go somewhere with sby, especially when you have not been asked or invited.

To strike up: to begin a friendship, a relationship, a conversation, etc.

To rough it: (informal) to live in a way that is not very comfortable for a short time.

To pamper: (sometimes disapproving) to take care of sby very well and make them feel as comfortable as possible.

Spa: a place where water with minerals in it, which is considered to be good for your health, comes up naturally out of the ground; the name given to a town that has such a place and where there are, or were, places where people could drink the water.

Facial: a beauty treatment in which a person’s face is cleaned using creams, steam, etc. in order to improve the quality of the skin.

To go off: to leave a place, especially in order to do sthg.

Steady: developing, growing, etc. gradually and in an even and regular way. Constant, regular.

Ready for CAE p 112. CouchSurfing. Extra Website

The glaring limitation of most social networks is that by the end of the day, you're still staring at a computer screen. Have you really made friends if you've never actually spent time with them? CouchSurfing is different because it's only incidentally a social network. At the heart of its community is a social bargain: host a couch surfer as he or she backpacks through your country, and another couch surfer will host you. For the young and intrepid, CouchSurfing is a way to travel cheaply, gain life experience and make friends the old-fashioned way: face to face.

Ready for CAE p 112. Photosynth. Extra Website

In the history of photography, the leap from film to digital was a breakthrough as profound as the move from black-and-white to color. Photosynth is the first photo site that really capitalizes on that shift, with a new way to look at pictures. Instead of arranging photos in a traditional album, the site finds relationships among pictures and digitally composites them to create an immersive 3-D photo environment called a "synth."

Ready for CAE p 112. Cruise Ship Disaster. Extra Listening

1.    The owners of a _____________Italian cruise liner say a significant human error was made by the captain.
2.    The ___________________has risen to 5.
3.    Francesco Schettino is in police custody. He could have been to blame for the Costa Concordia _________________.
4.    The owners say that the captain made _______________________ resulting in serious consequences.
5.    The Costa Corcordia _____________today, ____________, __________, ___________ the Tuscan coastline.
6.    As we drew closer it seemed less real, less______________.
7.    The ________________of the top deck tennis court is now the _____________.
8.    The ___________________ are _________________against the ______________wall.
9.    And here, the violent ________________where the water flooded in.
  

KEY
1.    Capsized. Capsize: / kæpˈsaɪz /if a boat capsizes or something capsizes it, it turns over in the water.
2.    death toll (the number of people killed in an accident, a war, a disaster, etc. E.g. The death toll has now risen to 200.)
3.    running aground (if a ship runs/goes aground, it touches the ground in shallow water and cannot move. E.g. The oil tanker ran/went aground off the Spanish coast. Aground (adjective) [not before noun] e.g. they plan to refloat the ship now aground on the island of Stroma.)
4.    errors of judgement. Judgement: the ability to make sensible decisions after carefully considering the best thing to do. E.g. The accident was caused by an error of judgement on the part of the pilot.
5.   
A.    lay beached (to come or bring something out of the water and onto the beach. E.g. He beached the boat and lifted the boy onto the shore. A beached whale (= one that has become stuck on land and cannot get back into the water).
B.    Stricken (seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation. E.g. She raised her stricken face and begged for help. We went to the aid of the stricken boat. Whole villages were stricken with the disease. He was stricken by a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday.)
C.    Stuck. (Stick, stuck, stuck) unable to move or to be movedThe wheels were stuck in the mud.This drawer keeps getting stuck.She got the key stuck in the lock.I can't get out—I'm stuck.
D.    Scarring. Scar something: to spoil the appearance of something. E.g. The hills are scarred by quarries (canteras).Battle-scarred buildings.
6.    Plausible (/ˈplɔːzəbl/ reasonable and likely to be true. Creíble, convincente, verosímil. E.g. Her story sounded perfectly plausible. The only plausible explanation is that he forgot.)
7.   
A.    Baseline (a line marking each end of the court in tennis)
B.    Waterline (the level that the water reaches along the side of a ship. Línea de flotación)
8.   
A.    Sunloungers. Sunlounger (a chair with a long seat that supports your legs, used for sitting or lying on in the sun)
B.    Slammed. Slam: to put, push or throw something into a particular place or position with a lot of force. Golpear. She slammed down the phone angrily. He slammed on the brakes (= stopped the car very suddenly).
C.    Partition (a wall or screen that separates one part of a room from another. E.g. a glass partition. Partition walls.
9.    gaping hole. Gape: /ɡeɪp/to be or become wide open. E.g. a gaping hole/mouth/wound.

Ready for CAE p 112. Outerspace Journey. Extra Listening

Here you have a video with lyrics of the original Galaxy Song as sung by Eric Idle from Monty Python's Meaning of Life, with graphics from NASA of flying through the universe. Believe it or not, all of the statistics in the lyrics are accurate. Turn up the sound. This clever piece originated in Australia. It is so very well done most folks don't realize how much info he is sharing! This tip came to us via Ally O'Brien. Thank you Ally. Enjoy Your Journey everybody....!!!