What Makes Gambling So Addicting?

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Why We Need Zoos | Gabriela Mastromonaco | TEDxToronto

In Warmer Climate, A Luxury Cruise Sets Sail Through Northwest Passage

Arctic Is Warming At 'Astonishing' Rates, Researchers Say

You will hear five short extracts in which people are talking about visiting a zoo

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Janet Wilson, a young stand-up comedian

You will hear an interview with Janet Wilson, a young stand-up comedian

Audio: Track 10

Answers: 1. D 2.D 3.B 4. C .B 6.A

The decline of the bee population

You will hear Simon Dickson, who is a member of a wildlife organization, talking bout the decline of the bee population.

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Rule Would List All Chimps As Endangered, Even Lab Animals

List of Animal Sounds

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List of similes

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The Pros & Cons Of Zoos

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Laughter Is Good for Your Brain

Chiquito de la Calzada

Chiquito de la Calzada

What's So Funny? Exploring Humor

Your sense of humour reveals a lot

Your sense of humour reveals a lot

The Benefits of Humor

Vocabulary: Expressions with laugh

·         a barrel/bundle of laughs

·         a laugh a minute

·         Are you having a laugh?

·         be laughed out of court If you or your ideas are laughed out of court, people dismiss your ideas and do not take you seriously.

·         be laughing all the way to the bank

·         be laughing on the other side of (one's) face

·         be laughing on the other side of your face

·         be laughing out of the other side of (one's) mouth

·         be laughing up (one's) sleeve

·         be laughing your head off If you are laughing your head off, you are laughing a lot

·         be no laughing matter

·         burst out laughing

·         he who laughs last laughs longest

·         kill yourself laughing

·         Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone

·         split one's sides

Vocabulary: smile and laugh

guffaw n

(loud laughter)

carcajada

grin at [sb/sth] vi + prep

(smile broadly at)

chortle n

(gleeful chuckle)

chuckle vi

(laugh)

reírse entre dientes

snicker (US), snigger (UK) n

(snide laugh)

risita nf

snicker (US), snigger (UK) vi

(laugh snidely)

reír disimuladamente loc verb

sneer vi

(make scornful expression)

burlarse v prnl

smirk vi	(smile smugly, scornfully)	sonreír con suficiencia
		sonreír con superioridad

·           Jack guffawed at the comedian's joke.

·          Kate let out a nervous giggle.

·         Peter grinned as he stuffed the chocolate in his mouth

·         Emma told Gavin she was sorry, but he just sneered.

·         Whenever the teacher made a mistake, the children tried to hide their sniggers.

·         The children snickered when their classmate dropped his lunch tray.

·         At the bar, the rowdy men jeered at the loser of the fight.

·         Father chuckled at his own joke

·          She chortled with glee at the news.

·          Janet couldn't stand her boss, so she smirked when she heard he'd been fired.

Smile

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Gold advanced Listening

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