Hi everyone, I invite you to practice your English listening skills and enjoy my video podcast. In this episode I talk about what food I would choose, rice or bread. Which do you prefer? Let me know in the comments :)


What's Your Opinion?

What's your opinion? Rice or Bread

Podcastin kahdeksannessa jaksossa pohdin työelämää kolmekymppisten näkökulmasta. Ylen artikkelin mukaan työlle asetetut odotukset ja vaatimukset ovat muuttuneet nuorten sukupolvien myötä. Tuore väitöstutkimus osoittaa, että etenkin nuoret naiset toivovat työltään merkityksellisyyttä. Onko työhyvinvoinnilla merkitystä?

Mainitsemani artikkeli Millenniaaleille työhyvinvointi on uusi normaali – irtisanoutunut kolmekymppinen: ”Miksi työpaikka on niin pyhä, ettei sieltä voisi lähteä?” https://yle.fi/a/74-20013804 

Suomea for you

8. jakso: Työhyvinvointi


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Alright, let’s start from the basics. Why do we need conditionals? It’s super simple. We use them to talk about some conditions. Here are a couple of examples: We will go to the cinema, if you buy these tickets. Or vice versa ‘We won’t go to the cinema, if you don’t buy these tickets. 
There are 4 types of conditionals and today’s podcast is devoted to “zero and first conditional”.
Okay, guys. Zero conditional. We use it to talk about some facts, rules or laws.
“Snow melts, when it is hot”, “if you violate the law, you are punished”
How do we make it? Super simple. Our sentence consists of 2 parts: clause and main part, both of them are written in present simple. The clause part always contains if or when.
 Let’s take a look again.
“If you don’t work, you don’t get money”
I am about to leave you a couple of exercises in the quiz to practice.

Alright, the first conditional is about FUTURE. Yes, guys, and this is when a lot of students make mistakes. Let’s take a look at the examples.
“If you pass your exams, you will enter the university”
“If I don’t have enough delights, I will go to the supermarket to purchase them”

How do we make it?
In the main part we have Future Simple, in the clause one we, again, have present simple. 
The main mistake is when you use Future Simple instead of Present Simple. Try to remember that here, after ‘if or when” we don’t use the future. (Sometimes we do, but we’ll talk about it later)

“If I don’t exercises, I’ll never achieve a strong body”
“You will never find a good job, if you don’t look for it,”

And of course, I’ve prepared a good exercise for you to practice.

I hope it was useful, it was nice to share this info with you. Feel free to book lessons with me. Thank you and see you later!




Excellent at English with Kate K

Conditional sentences(zero and 1st)

Hay dos tipos de extranjeros: los que ya vivieron este momento... y los que lo van a vivir. Estás en una reunión, alguien se acerca para saludarte, vos extendés la mano y, de repente... ¡zas! Un beso en la mejilla. Durante dos segundos nadie sabe qué está pasando. Bienvenido a la Argentina.

Argentina en carne propia

Episodio 16: Bienvenido a Argentina… ahora vení que te doy un beso!! :D jajaja!!

Bienvenidos al podcast "aprende español hablando". En este séptimo podcast, aprenderemos varias expresiones relacionadas con el clima a través de ejemplos fáciles y prácticos.

Aprende español con Manu

Séptimo episodio de expresiones idiomáticas. El clima.

What is your favourite dessert?

Can you describe what your favourite dessert looks like? 

*Whoops! I meant to say "macaroons" instead of "maroons" (haha) 

(phrasal verb) to top it off 
= the 'finishing touch' or the 'final stage'

Luke's English Sessions

Ep 1. What is your favourite dessert? 

Aprendemos los distintos tipos de antonimia y cómo muchas palabras funcionan en escalas de significado, permitiendo contrastes precisos y matizados.

La raíz del significado

Ep. 5: Antonimia y escalas de significado

CHISTES MEXICANOS

PÉREZ.

From fast-food counters to Michelin-starred restaurants, the hamburger is much loved in the Western diet, but where did it come from?

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a hamburger as both "ground beef" and "a sandwich consisting of a patty of hamburger" on a bun. Although these might be the simplest forms of a hamburger, the sandwich is often eaten with other things added, such as lettuce, cheese, sauces and even other meats.

But this popular food didn't start out with all the extras. In fact, it's thought that one of the earliest forms of the hamburger was closer to a steak tartare — raw minced steak mixed with egg.

While a recipe from the Roman Empire suggests the earliest version of this meal, some believe that it came from Mongolian horsemen, who would place beef under their saddles while riding, so that by the end of the day it was tender enough to eat raw.

However, others say these riders placed meat under their saddles only to help heal their horses' sores, and any meat prepared this way would be too dirty to be edible.

A later version is thought to have come from the German city of Hamburg, where chefs around the 17th or 18th century cooked minced beef with onions and breadcrumbs. This came to be known in English as the "Hamburg steak," and made its way to the US during the 19th century, where it was later called the "hamburger."

Although it isn't known who first thought to put this minced meat on bread, adding a bun made the hamburger popular as a sandwich in the US. The first fast-food hamburger chain — named White Castle — was opened in 1921, and still sells its famous square-shaped hamburgers to this day.

Now, hamburgers can be found worldwide thanks to popular American fast-food restaurants such as McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's. In 2012, PBS reported that an estimated 50 billion hamburgers are eaten in the US alone every year.