Conditional Songs

If I never had a cent I would be poor.

If it hadn't been or Cotton-Eye Joe I would have been alone all my life.

If my true love were gone I would look for another love!

If I get locked up tonight I will cry.

If I can't have youi I will fight for you until the end.

If you go don't come here another time again.

If you don't know me by now I'm sorry for you.

If I knew you were coming I would have stayed here.

If I were a boy I would treat women very well.

If you leave me now you will be very happy.

Relative sentences

Here you are a link with relative sentences. Click here.

A big truth

SUBJECT AND OBJECT QUESTIONS – KEY

SUBJECT AND OBJECT QUESTIONS – KEY:

1)

1. OBJECT

2. SUB

3. OBJ

4. OBJ

5. SUB

6. SUB

2)

What did Henry send me?

What made her feel sad?

Who cheated on the exam?

What do they need to find?

Who went on holiday to Paris?

Who is looking after the baby?

What did they ask me?

Who had an accident?

3)

What made you angry last night?

What did they see?

Why do they like going to the library?

Who looked after the cat?

Who did you phone yesterday?

Who goes out with him?

What do people do at the weekend?

Who caught the 10:30 train?

4)

What did you cook for dinner yesterday?

Who did Helen meet at the weekend?

Who gave the man money for food?

Who did Paul dream of last night?

What type of film did you like?

What happened after they left?

Why did Sue need a pair of scissors?

5)

Who is 44? Mrs Andrews / How old is Mrs Andrews? 44

Who does John visit every Saturday? Mary

Who discovered America? Columbus

What happened? Something strange

Who does Mary help every day? Her mother

Who reads a book after lunch? Dave

Who has a shower in the morning? Somebody

Who is my aunt visiting next Saturday? Us

Who does Mary love? Burt

Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare

Who gave me this key? Susan

What did Henry give me? Something

Who does Tom meet every day? His girlfriend / Who meets his girlfriend every day?

What fell on the floor? Something

What does this word mean? Something.

Great videos to learn the irregular verbs!!

I wish/If only - Modals - So/Neither do I - KEY!!!

Click here for the I wish / If only exercises

And here for the So/Neither and Modals ones.

Comparatives/Superlatives

Click here to download

English through songs: Past simple

Peace Day at the City Hall. 30th January 2013.

Merry Christmas videos!!!

End of year?

GERUND AND INFINITIVE - KEY

Answer to the exercises of the worksheet about gerunds and infinitives:

1. eating

2. to go

3. having

4. getting up

5. to cook

6. going

7. to buy

8. to buy

9. not doing

10. being

11. being

12. living

13. to buy

14. to do / doing

15. going

16. to work / working

17. to smoke

18. to play

19. to study

20. to learn

21. going

22. living

23. to go

24. visiting

25. to go

26. Smoking

27. to rain/raining

28. having

29. learning

30. to study

31. having

32. worrying

33. being

34. going

35. to send

36. going

37. to have

38. smoking

39. studying

40. being dyed – to go

41. talking

42. to post

43. to make

44. failing

45. going

46. to go

47. Reading

Writing tips

One of the best ways to improve your WRITING is to do much READING.

Obviously, you should have some good vocabulary and some basic understanding of the grammar rules, but the next step is to READ.

It's priceless. You get to see vocabulary and grammar in action. You also see the typical collocations.

Now, collocations are very important. A collocation is a combination of words that is used together frequently. It's actually a common phrase.

For example:

"Commit a crime" is a typical combination of words in English. You could say "make a crime," and it wouldn't be incorrect, but many people tend to use these words together. So "commit a crime" is a collocation.

Here are some more examples of collocations:

Fully aware ("We are fully aware of the problem.")

Do homework ("I will do my homework later.")

Give a speech ("He gave a very good speech at the conference.")

There are many many collocations in English. And the better you use them, the more natural your English becomes.

So how can you know the collocations of English? How can you write naturally and clearly?

READ. Eventually you will get the hang of it (= know how to do it right). You will be familiar with more vocabulary, and see more grammar in action (how it is actually used).

That will make a world of a difference to your writing :)

Education is...

Big truth!

Widening English Exam - 1st Bacalaureate - 1st Term

Grammar:
- Verb tenses: Present simple, present continuous, present perfect
- Questions: Indirect, Subject, Object, Yes/no, Question tag
- Infinitive + to

Vocabulary:
- Vocabulary unit 1 New Framework 4
- Get + adjective
- Castle 01x01, 01x02, 01x03
- Illnesses
- How to start a conversation
- Halloween vocabulary (crosswords)
- Character/appearance

Translations:
- Listening SB 8 (Reference guide book)
- Ahora tú (blog)
- Children's Rights

Pasos a seguir para traducir un texto del inglés al castellano

Por la globalización y gracias a las nuevas tecnologías, cada vez se reciben más documentos en inglés que necesitan traducción. Debido a esta gran demanda, existen traductores, tanto automáticos (Google Traductoro Babel-fish, online ambos) como humanos, que se dedican a esta labor, pero ¿Qué pasos se deben seguir a la hora de traducir un texto en inglés?
1. Leer todo el texto
Es importante leer todo el texto antes de empezar a traducir. No se debe leer el primer párrafo y comenzar con la traducción, pues se pueden traducir incorrectamente conceptos que se clarifican con posterioridad en el texto.
Durante la fase de lectura se deben detectar los problemas que se encontrarán después al traducir, aunque no se debe buscar todavía solución para ellos: palabras que no se entiendan, estructuras complicadas, dobles sentidos, etc.
2. Documentarse
Una vez se ha leído todo el texto y sabiendo la temática con la que está relacionado, si es pertinente se debe buscar contenido similar en la web para descubrir cuáles son los términos más utilizados en ambos idiomas.
3. Comenzar a traducir
Después de la lectura y de la documentación, se puede empezar a traducir; sin embargo, no se debe hacer palabra por palabra (como hacen los programas automáticos de traducción) sino que es más importante captar el sentido de la frase y pasarla al español sin hacer calcos de estructuras en inglés.
Algunos problemas frecuentes que tienen lugar por traducir palabra por palabra son los siguientes:
Abuso de pasivas, que en inglés se usan mucho pero en español no.
Uso de los pronombres en español cuando son innecesarios.
Empleo de giros u expresiones calcadas del inglés que en español resultan artificiales.
En este paso se deben buscar las palabras desconocidas, no sólo en diccionarios bilingües (Wordreference.com, por ejemplo) sino también en monolingües para captar perfectamente el sentido de la palabra (Merriam-webster.com, por ejemplo).
4. Revisar la traducción
Es muy importante revisar las traducciones, pues suelen escaparse fallos fácilmente detectables.

Además, si se deja reposar la traducción unos minutos, horas o días, las estructuras extrañas y que suenan artificiales serán más fáciles de detectar.
Traducir no es fácil, especialmente dependiendo del texto, pero siendo organizados y siguiendo esta metodología la traducción tiene muchas posibilidades de ser un éxito.

Widening English Exam - 1st Term (2nd Bac)

New Framework 4:

Unit 5:

Pages 42, 43
- Vocabulary - Headline, reports...
Page 44
- Vocabulary: Using the internet
- Preferences: I'd rather read a book than go to the cinema
Page 45
- Vocabulary: The four most influential blogs
Page 46:
- Vocabulary: Breaking news...
Page 47:
- Conjunctions of purpose/reason
Page 48:
- Vocabulary: News (ex. 4 page 49)
Page 53:
- Used to/get used to/be used to

Castle:
Vocabulary episodes 1, 2 and 3 (season 1)

IT words:
asap, lol...

Translations:
- Bluetooth
- Angelina Jolie's letter (Malala)
- Ahora tú (song)

Illnesses: vocabulary

Blog:
- The Beatles (50th Anniversary)
- Media manipulation
- Halloween power points

Passive voice:
- Causative
- Impersonal

Happy Halloween!!!

With my students of 2nd Bacalaureate