Here you can find some exercises on Reported Speech (estilo indirecto):
You are very welcome to the blog for the 'English Language' component, part of the 'Comunicación' Subject at the CEPA 'Sierra Norte'. Here you will find information from your teacher relevant for the course, extra materials and resources related with your learning of the subject. I hope you may also enjoy it!
jueves, 14 de abril de 2011
Grammar: Quite and rather
I was quite sure. | Yo estaba completamente seguro |
It was quite different. | Era completamente diferente |
You are quite wrong. | Tú estás completamente equivocado |
I would rather drink water than coffee. | Yo preferiría agua antes que café |
I'd rather listen to pop music than classical. | Prefiero oír música pop que clásica |
He'd rather go by metro than walking. | El prefiere ir en metro que andando |
He is quite tall. | El es bastante alto |
He is rather short. | El es bastante bajo |
The weather is quite sunny. | El tiempo es bastante soleado |
The weather is rather chilly. | El tiempo es bastante frío |
The village was rather clean. | El pueblo estaba bastante limpio (nos sorprende, ya que normalmente está sucio) |
The student was rather attentive. | El estudiante estuvo bastante atento (algo que no es habitual en él) |
He is very strong. | El es muy fuerte |
He is quite strong. | El es bastante fuerte |
He is little strong. | El es poco fuerte |
Irregular verb list with meaning and pronuntiation
To have a brief list of Irregular Verbs with a complete pronuntiation of all the forms and the meanings, visit this site:
Irregular Verbs of English
Irregular Verbs of English
Easter Vocabulary - Vocabulario de Semana Santa
Easter Vocabulary
Autor: Alexandra Vraciu |
La lección de hoy la dedicaremos a practicar algunas palabras relacionadas con Easter (las Pascuas). He recojido palabras relacionadas con algunas de la tradiciones anglosajonas típicas de estas fechas, como por ejemplo el conejito de Pascuas (Easter bunny), que trae a los niños huevos pintados, golosinas y juguetes, o la caza o búsqueda de los Huevos de Pascua (egg hunt), durante la cual los niños buscan huevos de chocolate o huevos pintados escondidos en la casa o en el jardín, o la carrera de los Huevos (egg rolling), que consiste en tirar rodando unos huevos hervidos a lo largo de una pendiente para ver que huevo resiste hasta el final del recorrido.
Parece que la tradición del Conejo de Pascua se remonta a los antiguos germanos, que lo asociaban con la fertilidad y con valores ascendentes, por sus potentes patas traseras. Una leyenda cuenta que en abril o mayo, unos niños entraron en un granero y, tras ver salir corriendo a un conejo, encontraron un huevo, que pensaron que había puesto él. A partir de ahí se extendería el juego pascual alrededor del conejo y de los huevos.
Este ejercicio está pensado para aquellas personas que estudian inglés de nivel básico.
English pronunciation dictionary - Diccionario de pronunciaciones inglesas
Hola a todos. He encontrado un diccionario de pronunciación, para los que estéis interesados en mejorar vuestra pronunciación. Ponéis los altavoces o cascos e introducís el término cuya pronunciación quereéis conocer y le dáis a "submit". Os sonará la pronunciación de la citada palabra. El diccionario está en la página:
http://www.howjsay.com/
PD: También lo pondré en la lista de recursos de variado interés, en la parte inferior del blog.
http://www.howjsay.com/
PD: También lo pondré en la lista de recursos de variado interés, en la parte inferior del blog.
domingo, 10 de abril de 2011
La noche temática
Due to the anniversary on the 26th, April, of the Chernobyl disaster, TVE 2 at its progamming in 'La noche temática' has broadcasted (Saturday 9th April) two good productions. It's not an activity for our subject since it is not in English, but some of you have been doing activities related to the topic with me. This is some information that may be useful to know more and to be ready to have an informed oppinion. These two reports are very good quality ("La noche temática - La batalla de Chernóbil", and "La noche temática - La pesadilla de los desechos nucleares").
Anniversary of Yuri Gagarin - First human in space- and film about it
Yuri Gagarin's flight over the Earth will have its anniversary on April 13th.... There will be a film about it to show all the details, the problems and the happy end. You can get more information on the page: http://www.firstorbit.org/ where you'll find:
"On 12th April 2011 it will be 50 years to the day since Yuri Gagarin climbed into his space ship and was launched into space. It took him just 108 minutes to orbit Earth and he returned as the World's very first space man.
To mark this historic flight we have teamed up with the astronauts onboard the International Space Station to film a new view of what Yuri would have seen as he travelled around the planet.
Weaving these new views together with historic voice recordings from Yuri's flight and an original score by composer Philip Sheppard, we have created a spellbinding film to share with people around the World on this historic anniversary.
We have partnered with YouTube to host a special global premiere of the film on the 12th April."
"On 12th April 2011 it will be 50 years to the day since Yuri Gagarin climbed into his space ship and was launched into space. It took him just 108 minutes to orbit Earth and he returned as the World's very first space man.
To mark this historic flight we have teamed up with the astronauts onboard the International Space Station to film a new view of what Yuri would have seen as he travelled around the planet.
Weaving these new views together with historic voice recordings from Yuri's flight and an original score by composer Philip Sheppard, we have created a spellbinding film to share with people around the World on this historic anniversary.
We have partnered with YouTube to host a special global premiere of the film on the 12th April."
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