intermediate A - review for the written test

INTERMEDIATE A-CUTTING EDGE

Twilight Zone

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Listening exercises for pre-intermediate English

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Proficiency 1 - Unit 5

Proficiency One - Summary

A Vampire Thirsty and Puzzled

By MANOHLA DARGIS

Of all the morbid beauties in Tim Burton’s work,   “Dark Shadows,” is his  most pleasurable film in years. As Barnabas Collins, a young member of a wealthy family turned unwilling vampire, Mr. Depp has a face as white as chalk and long-fingered hands that skim the air like quick spiders. After 200 years of entombment, Barnabas awakes in 1972 and drinks in a world populated by monsters, living and dead, and lovingly adorned with Mr. Burton’s twisted signature.

It’s delightful to watch how Johnny Depp actor handles the vampire’s readjustment to the world of the living,  he mostly comes across like a visitor from another planet, more E. T. than Christopher Lee. Later, hiding from the sun under dark glasses, a charming hat and an umbrella — Stoker’s creation moves around in daylight, too,— Barnabas also suggests the later-life Michael Jackson.

Collin  returns to the now-dilapidated Collins family mansion, where, in the picturesque decay and scattered children’s toys — a nice suburban touch — he meets his living descendants, including the matriarch, Elizabeth (a wonderful Michelle Pfeiffer); her brother, Roger (Jonny Lee Miller); her teenage daughter, Carolyn (Chloë Grace Moretz); and Roger’s son, David (Gully McGrath), whose dark looks recall the evil child in the 1976 horror film “The Omen.” Barnabas, of course, fits right in with this freak show, even while remaining his own (dead) man.

Mr. Burton’s film resurrects an old television show that was partly inspired by the 1950s and ’60s vampire flicks produced by the British studio Hammer, which were in turn influenced by decades of fang-ster gore and glory.

 “Dark Shadows” isn’t among Mr. Burton’s most richly realized works, but it’s very enjoyable, visually rich and, despite its melancholic material and a sporadic tremor of violence, surprisingly effervescent.

It opens in the USA on May 13^th, 2012.

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Carrots, Eggs or Coffee Beans Movie: All of us at one time or another have experienced a difficult situation, had setbacks, or dealt with our share of disappointment. Most things that happen to us on a daily basis we can’t control but it is not what happens to us that matters but rather, how we choose to respond.Watch the video, while you study English learn a lesson and pass it on, whether in Portuguese or in English.

Answer Key to page 26 and Review - CAE

Crazy & Saints - Oscar Wilde

Crazy & Saints - Oscar Wilde

I choose my friends not by their skin or other archetype, but by the pupil.

They have to have questioning shine and unsettled tone.

I'm not interested in the good spirits or the ones with bad habits.

I'll stick with the ones that are made of me being crazy and blessed.

From them, I don't want an answer, I want to be reviewed.

I want them to bring me doubts and fears and to tolerate the worst of me.

But that only being crazy.

I want saints, so they daunt doubt differences and ask for forgiveness for injustices.

I choose my friends for their clean face and their soul exposed.

I don't just want a man or a skirt, I also want his greatest happiness.

A friend that doesn't laugh together doesn't know how to cry together.

All my friends are like that, half foolish, half serious.

I don't want foreseen laughter or cries full of pity.

I want serious friends, those that make reality their fountain of knowledge, but that fight to keep fantasy alive.

I don't want adult or boring friends.

I want half kids and half elderly.

Kids, so they don't forget the value of the wind blowing on their faces and elderly people so they're never in a hurry.

I have friends to know who I am.

Then seeing them as clowns and serious, crazy and saints, young and old, I will never forget that 'normalcy' is a sterile and imbecile illusion.

PRE-INTERMEDIATE B 

The most beautiful building in my town is  Do Carmo's cathedral, it is in the city centre, on Calçadão.The construction began in 1787.It was designed by a Portuguese artist.
   It is a big cathedral, it has a lot of spires and windows.
I have never gone in the cathedral, i don't know the view of the cathedral.It is free to go in it.
  By Mariana Accorsi Telles

The most beautiful building in my town in my opinion is Do Carmo's church.It is on calçadão and is in front of my house .
I don't know who designed it,but i know the style is gothic and i belive it was built in the last century.Inside this church it is incredibly beautiful with a lot of statues,frescos and monuments.We can have a view but just from the bell.
It's completely free,so everyone can go in.
By Caroline Dumont

The most beautiful building in the world is The Louvre Museum. It's located in France, in the centre of Paris.
It was designed by Felipi II, in 1190, a French designer.
It's an amazing building, with a hall in a pyramide format, all of its hall is made only with glass.
Inside there are a lot of statues, paintings, ornate carpets and a fantastic view from the windows, you can see the big and beautiful ceramics surroundings of the museum.
It's impossible to forget the most popular painting, Monalisa by Leonardo da Vinci. You don't pay anything just don't stay much time in the same room, because the rule is clear: few people in the rooms and don't forget to change rooms.  
By Junior.

- There isn't a view from Obelisco, since you can't go upstairs, but it's still kind of beautiful.
- Obelisco looks like a tower. It's completely white and you can see a very small window on the top. It's very large, although I don't know exactly how tall it is.
- Unfortunately, you can't go inside Obelisco.
- You can't go inside it, but it's free to see it from outside.
- Obelisco is very famous in Buenos Aires and people seem to like it. It's located in the most crowded street of the city. Around there, you can see incredibly expensive hotels and a theatre. If you walk behind Obelisco, you can visit Avenida Florida; this is where tourists buy souvenirs and go shopping.
- I don't know who designed Obelisco or when it was completed, but I guess it was made by an architect from Argentina, a long time ago.
(obelisco may be called NEEDLE in English)
By: Laura