This blog is aimed at providing information about the in-house English program tailored by the MARITIME LANGUAGE CENTER for ASSOCIATED STEAMSHIP AGENTS. It will help students stay in touch with each other. They will enrich their language skills through reading, interaction and video watching. The MLC will answer questions and comments that students may have regarding the program.
This exercise allows you to practice your listening skills. Play the video to listen to the song and complete the spaces with the correct words. Send your answers through comments.
LA ISLA BONITA BY MADONNA
[Spoken]Como puede ser verdad?
Last night I dreamt of San Pedro, Just like I'd never gone, I knew the. A young girl with eyes like the desert. It all seems like, not far away.
[Chorus:] Tropical, the island breeze. All ofwild and free. This is where I long to be. La isla bonita. And when the samba played, Thewould set so high, Ring through my ears and sting my, Your Spanish lullaby.
I fell in love with San Pedro. Warm wind carried on the, He called to me. Te dijo te amo. I prayed that the days would last. They went so fast.
[Chorus]
I want to be where thewarms the sky, When it's time for siesta You can watch them go by. Beautiful, no cares in this world. Where a girl loves a boy, And a boy loves a girl.
Last night I dreamt of San Pedro. It all seems like, not far away.
"Fish and chips" is deep-fried fish in batter with deep-fried potatoes, and a popular take-away food. Fish and chips is originally from the United Kingdom, but also very popular in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and some coastal towns of the Netherlands and Norway; and also increasingly so in the United States and elsewhere. For decades it was the dominant (if not the only) take-away food in the United Kingdom.
The fried potatoes are called chips in British and international usage; and while American English calls them french fries, the combination is still called "fish and chips". (Potato chips, an American innovation, are a different potato-derived food, and are known as crisps in the United Kingdom.)
Fish and chips have separately been eaten for many years – though the potato was not introduced to Europe until the 17th century. The originally Sephardi dish Pescado frito, or deep-fried fish, came to Netherlands and England with the Spanish and Portuguese Jews in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The dish became popular in more widespread circles in London and the south-east in the middle of the 19th century (Charles Dickens mentions a "fried fish warehouse" in Oliver Twist) whilst in the north of England a trade in deep-fried "chipped" potatoes developed.
It is unclear when and where these two trades were merged to become the fish and chip shop industry we know today. The first combined fish and chip shop was probably the one opened in London by Joseph Malin in 1860.
During World War II, fish and chips were one of the few foods that were not rationed in the UK.
COMPREHENSION QUIZ
Read the statements carefully.Then, choose True or False.Below you will find an option to make “comments”.Please, send your answer there.
Principio del formulario
1. Fish and chips are popular only in England. True. False.
2. Americans call "French fries" what British call "chips". True. False.
3. Americans call "chips" what British call "crisps". True. False.
4. The potato was introduced to Europe in the 18th century. True. False.
5. The dish became popular in the 19th century. True. False.
6. The first fish and chip shop was opened in the 19th century. True. False.
7. Fish and chips were not eaten during World War II. True. False.
