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ENGLISH ON THE BRIDGE

Your attention please!

The UEM LAB Reporters are here!

INSTANT INTERVIEWS

ON THE BRIDGE

Cross at your own risk! Watch out !

We want to talk to YOU in ENGLISH!

Some Advice:..........STOP!... Talk to us!..... Practice your English!

That's why we're out there in the sun, in the rain, in the snow!

Note:

England, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the USA

We hope a lot of you got to English-speaking countries this summer. We did.

Rod took his UEM LAB logo to Derwent Water in the Lake District, Cumbria, England.

Victor, a professor in electronics and communications, sent a photo from Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Cristina and Victoria visited Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland.
Maybe some of you did too!

From Scotland we received photos from Lorraine, "A couple of adorable highland cows having an evening snack! And St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh during the famous Festival.

León, a professor in the business school, sent this from the Rodgers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The US is well represented, "from sea to shining sea". Here's Megan in front of her parents' house in Pennsylvania and in Washington, D.C. with the Lincoln Memorial in the background.

Kelly was in D.C. too with her Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Sisters.

I went to California and then over the Sierra Nevada Mountains to visit old mining towns way out in the Nevada desert. Here's our rented car, a hybrid, at (el puerto de montaña)Sonora Pass. Altitude: 9,674 feet

Amy crossed the Atlantic Ocean and half of the Pacific this summer. Here she is on the TEACUP ride at Disneyland, AND at Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii !

If your photos are not available here, check the UEMLAB web page.
https://portal.uem.es/portal/page/portal/UEMLAB/PHOTO%20ALBUM/PHOTO%20ALBUM%202009-2010/UEM%20LAB%20REPORTERS%20around%20the%20world

Wendy

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"Summertime, and the livin' is easy" WAS easy!

George Gershwin's "Summertime"---- Have you heard this song? Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, Janis Joplin, Scarlett Johnsson and many other recording artists in between have sung it. SUMMERTIME? Doesn't your summer vacation seem like a long time ago?

Sit back, close your eyes and listen to this song for a couple of minutes.

What were YOU doing in the summertime? I'll be attaching more of YOUR pictures in the next few days. Keep sending them in.

Megan says it looks like Paris, but it's really Las Vegas!

Eva,who studies business adminisstration, (ADE) reports that she was in Alicante, her hometown.

Yes, the UEM LAB logo appeared on the beach in Cuba.

Here's Ilene , relaxing in Menorca.

Emilio sent this photo from Tenerife.

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Where were you this summer?

Here's the first edition of the map: UEM LAB REPORTERS around the world!

Alba Bueno and Javier Tejero, 2nd year medical students, were checking out the map when I took these photos this morning.

Come down to the UEM LAB in Building A to see the map yourselves. You'll see that many of you sent photos, some from as far away as Japan and Brazil. Others came from Hawaii, California, Pennsylvania and Washington DC, There were several from England and Ireland and Germany. And many from SPAIN: El Escorial and Madrid, Alicante and Tenerife.... Viva España!

You still have a chance to participate. Send your photo with the UEM LAB logo to wendy.frankel@uem.es

See you on the bridge!

No! No! Not in San Francisco. On the UEM bridge!

Wendy

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Disembarkation Card: SPAIN

Disembarkation Card: SPAIN

Welcome back! You’ve probably been off traveling to other countries this summer. Or maybe you were just relaxing at home. You’ve met new people and visited old friends and family. The ports, airports, train stations and bus stations were crowded. Maybe you heard other languages at the beaches and museums, pubs and restaurants. You might even have attempted to practice your ENGLISH!

Have you ever thought about the documents the tourists have to fill out when they come to our country? Here’s a copy of the declaration what was handed out this year. Notice that it is in Spanish, English, French and Arabic. Do you speak all those languages? Do you speak at least 2 of them?
Print out the form. Scratch out the Spanish. Then go back and fill in the card. Is it easy?

Vocabulary:
Welcome: bienvenido
Crowded: llena de gente
Languages: idiomas
Attempted: Intentado
Fill out: rellenar
Hand out: repartir
Scratch out: tachar

Look at those lovely phrasal verbs!!!!! Welcome back to school.

--Wendy Frankel

Disembarkation Card: SPAIN

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Numbers: Why are they written 1,2,3...?

When we were in school we learned to recite our numbers: "1,2,3...." Then we learned to write them down, and finally we learned to spell them. We also learned Roman numerals.

The question is: Why do the numbers look as they do? Watch this demonstation and you'll learn how the Arabic numbers were created. What is the logic behind the shapes? There must be a good reason a 2 looks like a 2, right? Well, it's simple and creative. And logical too. The numbers have lasted as they are, for the most part, for thousands of years.

Living in 2 countries, I've always had problems with the 1 and 7. You know that in Spain there is a line through the middle of the 7. That's the way the Arabic 7 was originally written. In the US our 7 looks like your 1. I had a big problem with my bank recently because I filled out a transfer form with the 7 written without the cross through it, and the teller typed in a 1 in place of the 7. We didn't discover the problem until he tried to send the transfer for the 3rd time, each time saying that the account didn't exist!

http://comunidad.uem.es/blogfiles/shakespeare/numbers.pps

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