. . Usually I learn the correct pronunciation of new words, listening to the pronunciation (if I'm watching a movie or listening to a song, or simply talking to someone) of who's speaking. I don't know anything about phonetic symbols, simply because no one of my teacher has spell out them to me before now. I'll be happy to use these symbols since now, because I've found them very useful to learn on your own the right pronunciation if you have no chance to talk with a mother tongue.
In this lesson we have learn that choosing the right tense, is not only a matter of grammatical rules. Talking about the Time aspect, we can see that present tense can also refer to a future situation, and past tense to a present or future situation. We can look at some other aspect in the chart:
We must consider:
- THE NATURE OF THE ACTION OR EVENT _Looking at the context, the duration of the action, if it's completed or not, usual, planned, relationship between the events inside the "story."
- HOW THE SPEAKER SEES THE EVENT _For ex. if the speaker is neutral and just report the event we would probably choose a Simple form, while if he express feeling we should choose a Continuous form., if he takes an istant decision (simple) of if he's talking about something in program, organized (continuous).
- THE NATURE OF THE VERB _Some verbs are used naturally in the simple form, like Stative verbs (to express states, possession, senses, mental activity, qualities). Dynamic verbs (that express activities, goings-on events, momentary, transitory) are used naturally in continuous form, also if some of them like the ones expressing habits (live, work) should be used in simple form. Others like the Punctual ones can't have duration (ex. to fire) so in continuous form they express repetition.
: . I often go to the cinema, but it's not easy to find places where you can also watch at original language movies. When I can, I try to watch movies (and especially musicals) in original language, because I think they loose much of their pecularity due to translation and dubbing process. When I watch movies or series at home (many of them related to justice or crime), I watch them as much as possible in english with the aid of subtitols. Without subtitols you can focus better on identifing the meaning of the matter, while with them you can concentrate more on pronounciation and phrase structure.
"Madness of dustbin jails - by Lord Chief Justice, October 8, 2006, Observer"
vocabulary: - CONCERN, vtr. preoccuparsi/riguardare/concernere/interessare ____________n. preoccupazione/interesse _Concern oneself with = preoccuparsi di _As far as I am concerned = per quanto mi riguarda
- GRIM (GRIMMER, GRIMMEST), adj. arcigno/accanito _Grim reality = triste realtà _Grim reaper = la morte _Grim faced = dal volto tetro
- OVERSPILL, n. eccedenza _Overspill housing development = città satellite _Overspill population = popolazione in eccesso
- CONSTABLE, n. agente (di polizia) _Chief constable = capo della polizia
- MELTDOWN, n. fusione del nocciolo nucleare/ un disastroso o rapido sviluppo di una situazione
- ESTATE, n. tenuta/patrimonio/quartiere residenziale _Estate duty = tassa di proprietà _Council estate = complesso di case popolari _Fourth estate = quarto potere
- UNDERFUNFING, n. finanziamento insufficiente
- COMPEL, vtr. costringere _Be compelled = essere costretto/sottomesso
- SERVE A COMMUNITY ORDER - COMMUNITY PENALTY - NON CUSTODIAL SENTENCE - TO JAIL SOMEONE - SHIPPING SOLICITOR - PETTY OFFENCES ________________________________________________________ a deeper look: Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales was, historically, the second-highest judge of the Courts of England and Wales, after the Lord Chancellor. However as a result of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, which removed the judicial functions from the office of Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice is now the head of the judiciary of England and Wales. He is also the presiding judge of the Criminal Division of the Court of Appeal. Until the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 came into force in 2006, the Lord Chief Justice was also the head of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court. There is now a separate post of President of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, currently held by Sir Anthony May.
Under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005, the Lord Chief Justice is now to be chosen by a specially appointed committee, convened by the Judicial Appointments Commission.
Originally, each of the three high common law courts - the King's Bench, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Court of the Exchequer - had its own Chief Justice. That of the Exchequer Court was styled as the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and that of the Common Pleas was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, leaving the head of the King's (or Queen's) Bench to be known simply as the Lord Chief Justice. Although the Court of the King's (or Queen's) Bench had existed since 1234, the title of chief justice was not used until 1268. In the intermediary period, one of the justices would be considered the senior judge, and hold a position similar to that later held by the chief justice. The courts, however, were combined in 1875, creating a single Lord Chief Justice of England.
The suffix "and Wales", now found in statutes and elsewhere, was unilaterally appended by Lord Bingham between 1996 and 2000. There is also a Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. The Lord Chief Justice's equivalent in Scotland is the Lord President of the Court of Session, who also holds the post of Lord Justice-General in the High Court of Justiciary.
The first Lord Chief Justice to act as head of the judiciary after the Lord Chancellor relinquished that role was Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, who succeeded Lord Woolf on October 1, 2005.
The current Lord Chief Justice is Lord Judge, who took over the role of Lord Chief Justice on 1 October 2008 following the promotion of Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers to the position of Senior Law Lord.
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