English for All

You are going to watch the video of a native speaker twice and answer the questions below. Where does his surname come from? _______________________________. What might be his surname? _____________________________. Vocabulary  2. Now, you are going to look up the following words in your dictionary related to the information of  the Tom's family. -To trace - A Saxon name - The crest of the family - On the font of the church  - The Normans Answers 1) It comes from Durham, North East of England. 2) It supposes to be Elstob, because in one part he said he wanted to know more about Elizabeth Elstob, a family member that seemed to be a poetic famous woman.  2) SOURCE :  "Cabridge Dictionary". TRACE :   to find someone or something that was lost.  to find the origin of somthing. CREST : the top or highest part of something. FONT : a large container in a churc

Write a story based on the following idea. Your story must contain between 200 - 250 words. At a Chinese restaurant, your character opens his fortune cookie and reads the following message: "Your life is in danger. Say nothing to anyone. You must leave the city immediately and never return. Repeat: Say nothing to .....       It was a boiling and humid summer day and I was almost arriving at a Chinese restaurant to see my best friends. We used to have a regular catch-up twice a month. However, it had been the first time we visited a Chinese restaurant.         After an hour of intensive flavours and great talk, a Chinese woman came near to us offering fortune cookies. She suggested; It's on the house!. She advised us not to share the message so as to avoid the bad luck but it was impossible for me.         When  I read the message, my face stunned, my whole body paralyzed and many thoughts came to my mind as a flash.         How could I react to such a terrib