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Helena Christensen & Portrait Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Capture™ – Episode 7 LISTENING ACTIVITY
I suggest that you read the vocabulary list below before watching the video.
VOCABULARY
Hitch – hiking: to get a ride in a passing vehicle by holding out your arm with your thumb up as you stand on the side of the road.
Scope: the area or amount covered, reached, or viewed.
Ex. Romance questions are beyond the scope of the language forum.
Standstill: a condition in which all movement or activity has stopped.
Ex. This is an emergency, but the negotiations are at a virtual standstill.
Creepy: strange or scary : causing people to feel nervous and afraid.
Ex. This is the creepy stalker woman from the surveillance video.
To broom: to sweep the floor with a broom.
To kick in: to start to have an effect or to happen.
Ex. The effects of the tranquilizer should begin to kick in within a few minutes.
Harsh: cruel or unkind.
Ex. She was quite harsh with the kids. She should be nicer to them.
Guarded: very careful about giving information, showing feelings, etc.
Vocal: expressing opinions and complaints in a public and forceful way.
Ex. Residents became vocal in their opposition to the plan.
To blow up: to make a photographic enlargement of.
Dull: boring, not exciting or interesting.
To tear up: to damage, remove, or effect an opening in.
Mind-blowing: extremely exciting or surprising.
Ex. The special effects in this film are pretty mind-blowing.
Goosebumps: small bumps on your skin that are caused by cold, fear, or a sudden feeling of excitement.
Downloadable PDF file: Helena Christensen & Portrait Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Capture™ Ep. 7 – VOCABULARY
Fill in the gaps in the following sentences:
- Helena Christensen: I ____________________ around the world when I was about 18-19 years old and I think my interest and passion for photography probably started on that trip. And then almost immediately that trip ended my _______________ _________________ started and so then I got to see the world.
- Voice-over: I’ve had the rare opportunity to meet many amazing photographers who moved through the different _________________ to create powerful images.
- Mark Seliger: I’m here with Mary Ellen Mark photojournalist and portrait photographer ___________ work has changed, I think, the _________ of modern photography.
- Mark Seliger: It was very ________________ to me because there was photojournalism but there was also this very ____________ and creative way that images were presented.
- Mary Ellen Mark: Magazines were like ______________ for me, they gave me this amazing opportunity to do my own work.
- Helena Christensen: When I’m behind the camera I seem to stop breathing because I get so ______________ by the moment. It’s almost like everything just came to a standstill.
- Mary Ellen Mark: The guy that ran the ______________ … We called him doctor death.
- Helena Christensen: You know what is strange about this photo? I don’t even know where I took it and the negative was ______________ together with a piece of paper so when I _______ it ____________ obviously all that white stuff which looks like ice on a window […].
- Helena Christensen: We don’t live in these areas so we are not ______________ the same ways. When you are in it, you feel it in a way that’s inexplicable.
- Helena Christensen: And it was one of those moments when you are like … your adrenaline … just … you know … __________ ________, because you’re like … oh, this is one of those.
- HelenaChristensen: It’s very harsh as Mary Ellen was saying. People are very ______________, more and more.
- Helena Christensen: That’s kind of what I feel you do with your portraits. You get the ___________ essence of these people no matter of how they are dressed up, no matter how they’re made up. You go right through to the _____________ of them.
- Mary Ellen Mark: When you are working with an actor you have to __________ control.
- Mary Ellen Mark: I think I have so much stronger pictures. For some reason, that picture became an ____________ picture.
- Helena Christensen: It’s very important and I feel with contact sheets which we are now losing because no one ever get contact sheets back anymore and sits with 24 or 26 images. But now that I _______ __ _____ at my old contact sheets, I see something completely different in some of the photographs that I would have never even … you know … been the least excited about maybe fifteen years ago …I’m now … Why didn’t I __________ this up?!?
- Mary Ellen Mark: Right when I was taking that picture the ____________ of the high school walked in … I thought he was gonna like throw me out … But he didn’t.
Downloadable PDF file (without answers):Helena Christensen & Portrait Photographer Mary Ellen Mark Capture™ – Episode 7 FILL IN THE GAPS
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Test your knowledge of present and past tenses – Intermediate level
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IELTS preparation – Quiz on confusing words
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English4Gamers – Episode 3 – Super Mario Bros (Listening comprehension)
In this episode, we play again Super Mario Bros. At the beginning, there is a vocabulary list – you can find a printable version below -with all the words you will hear and maybe you don’t know. During the episode, you will have to answer some questions. If you have any suggestions, write them in the comments below. I know I have to speak louder ;-). We filmed this weeks ago, now I’m a bit better (at least, I hope so). If you just want to watch the video, without testing your knowledge, click here: Episode without the quiz.
Downloadable PDF – Vocabulary list: Vocabulary list – English4Gamers – Episode 3 – Super Mario Bros
Future tenses – quiz for FCE
Downloadable PDF file (without answers):FCE Preparation – Test your knowledge of future tenses
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Listening activity – English4Gamers
Watch the first episode of English for gamers and fill in the gaps with the missing words
- A: You are the good gamer […] you __________________.
- A: He ____________________ . I _____________ like ten times.
- R: I didn’t get the ____________ score. That’s ________.
- A: So, this is a _________ of cake.
- R: With the flower you can _________________ fire.
- R: You have ____________ the second controller.
- R: Can you say it? Restart? That ____________ like Richard.
- R: You are too ____________ you can’t break it _____________ now.
- A: I _____________ my ________________. […] I would like you _____________ me when there is a mushroom somewhere maybe.
- R: Time is running ___________.
- A: These creatures are blue. What’s the __________________?
- R: There is no light so it’s all in ___________________.
- R: On the sides of the ______________ the game doesn’t exist. So if you go ____________________, you can’t go back.
- R: How do you say it? The ______________ on the back of the turtles?
- A: You _______________________ fun of me.
- A: Okay guys, __________ _____ it for today. So … See you next week!
Downloadable PDF file: Episode 1 – English4Gamers – Fill in the gaps
Answers: Episode 1 – English4Gamers – Fill in the gaps – Answers
Past simple vs past continuous
Fill in the gaps with the past simple or past continuous form of the verbs in brackets
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I ______________ (walk) home when I ______________ (meet) Maria.
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John __________________ (wait) for me when I ________________ (arrive).
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I haven’t seen Andrew for ages. When I last _________________ (see) him, he ___________________ (try) to find a job in Dublin.
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He _________________ (read) the newspaper when the phone _______________ (ring).
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I _________________ (make) a sandwich when Mike _______________ (arrive).
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We ________________ (not go) out because it ________________ (rain).
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When I was young, I _____________ (want) to be a doctor.
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He usually wears sandals but when I last ______________ (see) him he _________________ (wear) boots.
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My brother ______________ (see) you in the park two days ago. You__________________ (play) football with Stuart.
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While I _________________ (work) in the garden, I _________________ (hurt) my back.
Correct answers:
1) was walking; met.
2) was waiting; arrived.
3) saw; was trying.
4) was reading; rang.
5) was making; arrived.
6) didn’t go; was raining.
7) wanted.
8) saw; was wearing.
9) saw; were playing.
10) was working; hurt.
Downloadable PDF – past simple or past continuous – quiz with answers
“To apologise” – What does it mean?
You can apologise:
– to someone
He apologised to his colleagues.
– for something
She apologised profusely for the damage she had caused.
– for doing something
They apologised for accusing her falsely.
– to someone for something
I must apologise to Jasmine for my lateness.
– to someone for doing something
He apologised to his wife and children for losing his temper.
“Apologize” – by Timbaland ft. One Republic
I’m holding on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground
And I’m hearing what you say, but I just can’t make a sound
You tell me that you need me then you go and cut me down, but wait
You tell me that you’re sorry, didn’t think I’d turn around, and say (that)
“It’s too late to apologize (it’s too late).”
I said, “It’s too late to apologize (it’s too late).”
I’d take another chance, take a fall, take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat, but it’s nothin’ new (yeah)
I loved you with a fire red, now it’s turning blue, and you say,
“Sorry,” like the angel heaven let me think was you, but I’m afraid…
“It’s too late to apologize (it’s too late).”
I said, “It’s too late to apologize (it’s too late).”
“It’s too late to apologize (it’s too late).”
I said, “It’s too late to apologize (it’s too late).”
I said, “It’s too late to apologize,” yeah (too late)
I said, “It’s too late to apologize,” yeah (too late)
I’m holdin’ on your rope, got me ten feet off the ground
A game on this song: LyricsTraining
An article on Wikipedia on spelling differences between British and American English: American and British English Spelling Differences.
PDF version for teachers (printable): To apologise
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
Do you know the origin of this celebration? If you don’t, watch this video and find out more about this topic!
VOCABULARY
TO WONDER = to have an interest in knowing or learning something; to think about something with curiosity.
TO MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS => This phrase is used as an INFORMAL and often somewhat IMPOLITE way to tell someone to stop watching or asking about something that is private.
BEHOLD! (interjection)= look!; see!
TO BUMP= to collide with; to hit against an object in a sudden and forceful way.
WHATEVER (slang)
PILGRIM= a person who makes a journey, often a long and difficult one, to a special place for religious reasons.
Photo credit: Peter E. Lee / Foter.com / CC BY-NC
SETTLEMENT= a place where people have come to live and where few or no people lived before.
FARMER= a person who operates a farm or cultivates a land.
Photo credit: jaci XIII / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA
HARVEST= the season when crops are gathered from the fields or the activity of gathering crops.
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