Natale - Grammatica - Test

Recap Your English!
What do you remember? & what have you learnt?

Il test si basa sulla capacità di comprensione delle lezioni e dei podcast. Ogni domanda prevede una risposta esatta.
Alla fine del test verrà visualizzato il risultato comprensivo delle risposte esatte.
Did you answer all 6 questions correctly?
Do you need to listen to the podcast again & brush up your English?

Natale - Frasario - Test

Recap Your English!
What do you remember? & what have you learnt?

Il test si basa sulla capacità di comprensione delle lezioni e dei podcast. Ogni domanda prevede una risposta esatta.
Alla fine del test verrà visualizzato il risultato comprensivo delle risposte esatte.
Did you answer all 6 questions correctly?
Do you need to listen to the podcast again & brush up your English?

Natale - Vocabolario - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some essential English on a British Christmas and their traditions.
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some useful, English Christmas vocabulary, you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
So let’s start!

Natale - Vocabolario - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some essential English on a British Christmas and their traditions.
Before starting, let me first explain that you’ll be listening to some useful, English Christmas vocabulary, you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
So let’s start!

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Natale - Vocabolario

Impara con questa lezione le espressioni legate alle festività natalizie e al Capodanno.

Christmas Eve is the 24th of December. “Eve” is old English for “Evening,” so it means the night before Christmas (when young children believe Father Christmas comes down their chimney with presents).

Christmas Day is the 25th of December, and a traditional celebration for Christians, who believe that Jesus Christ was born on this date.

Boxing Day is the 26th of December and a public holiday. The boxes after which this day are named are charity or “alms boxes”, which were opened on the day after Christmas and the money inside was given to the poor. Nowadays Christmas boxes are given to tradesmen, who come to your home such as milkmen and dustmen.

New Year’s Eve is the 31st of December.

New Year’s Day is the 1st of January.

Advent Calendar – Advent is the 4 weeks before Christmas. An advent calendar is a piece of cardboard, with 24 (or 25) windows to open, when these cardboard windows are opened, there is a Christmas picture and often a sweet inside them. Children use them to count the days until Christmas day.

Mistletoe has a special place in British Christmas celebrations. You hang up a branch in the house. Although many people just demand a celebratory kiss under the mistletoe, you are meant to pick one berry for each kiss.

Christmas Crackers – These are a cardboard tube covered in coloured paper, and containing a small present, a joke and a paper hat. Crackers are pulled apart by two people (each holding one end) at Christmas parties. They make a loud noise as they break open.

Natale - Grammatica - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning the past simple tense and some useful Christmas vocabulary.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning how to form the past simple tense
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to people reminiscing about past festive times.
So Let’s start!

Natale - Grammatica - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning the past simple tense and some useful Christmas vocabulary.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning how to form the past simple tense
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to people reminiscing about past festive times.
So Let’s start!

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Natale - Grammatica

In questa lezione capirai quali sono i diversi usi del past simple.

The Past Simple:

We use the “Past Simple” to talk about past actions, when:

1. It is a past action and we say when it happened.
   e.g. I went to London 2 days ago.
2. It is a past action and it was done in finished time.
   e.g. I visited my uncle last week. ( Last week OR a finished time period.)
3. It is a past fact.
   e.g. Italy won the world cup in 2006.
4. It is a historical fact e.g. Messina had a big earthquake in 1908.

How is the Past Simple formed?

FORM:

• Affirmative: Regular verbs: subject + verb +ed e.g. walk => walked, cook => cooked etc.

  If a verb ends in “y” then the past simple form is: subject+verb+ied e.g. hurry => hurried, study => studied

  However there are a lot of irregular verbs, which if you want to speak English properly, you must learn:
  e.g. go => went, do => did, eat => ate, etc.

• Negative: All verbs: subject + didn’t + verb e.g. I didn’t go to work yesterday.
• Interrogative: All verbs: did+ subject + verb+ object? e.g. Did you have a nice day?
  Where did you go last night?
  What did you do yesterday?

Natale - Lettura - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning about the biggest party in the world.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English expressions; you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information about how the Scottish celebrate New Year’s Eve, or rather Hogmanay.
So let’s start!

Natale - Lettura - Podcast

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning about the biggest party in the world.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful English expressions; you’ll then hear a short explanation of these words, followed by an example of how they are used.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to information about how the Scottish celebrate New Year’s Eve, or rather Hogmanay.
So let’s start!

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Natale - Lettura

Leggi attentamente e scoprirai come si festeggia il 31 Dicembre in Scozia.

What is Hogmanay?

Hogmany is the name for the party celebrated on the 31st of December in Scotland. In fact New Years’ Eve in Edinburgh, is the biggest party in the world.
However, if you want to enter the city for the party, you need a ticket, and if you want to book a hotel for this event, you may have to book a year or more before.

Hogmanay is celebrated on New Year's Eve, every year. Usually in a most exuberant fashion in Scotland as hundreds of thousands of revellers (festaioli) take to the streets to see in the New Year (festeggiare il Capodanno). In the cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh it has become a huge ticketed festival.

Celebrations start in the early evening and reach a crescendo by midnight. Minutes before the start of New Year, a lone piper plays, then the bells of Big Ben chime at the turn of midnight, lots of kissing, and everyone sings Auld Lang Syne. And then there is more kissing. Elsewhere in Scotland, particularly in more remote parts, customary first footing and Scottish dances, or ceilidhs (pronounced "kayli"), take place. For centuries, fire ceremonies -- torch light processions, fireball swinging and lighting of New Year fires -- played an important part in the Hogmanay celebrations. And they still do.

Adapted from wikipedia.com.

Natale - Frasario - Trascrizione

Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some seasonal greetings for Christmas and the New Year.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be listening to some useful seasonal greetings.
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to two people, having some festive fun in London.
So let’s start!