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Esta semana vamos con otra traducción centrado en la recurrente diatriba de si el aprendizaje del inglés es fácil o no. Espero vuestras opiniones.
Empecemos por la canción de la semana, de nuevo, de los 80', que hay mucho jovenzuelo por estos cursos:
Y ahora, a trabajar:
CÓDIGOS DE COLORES:
AZUL: Traducciones.
ROJO: Aspectos gramaticales.
VERDE: Aspectos culturales.
NARANJA: Estructuras concatenadas
MORADO: Traducción y sinónimos, antónimos, etc.
Amarillo: Palabras con trampa.
Os dejo una plantilla para que, sobre la marcha, podáis ir completando con sinónimos, antónimos, etc y los significados. Espero que os sea de utilidad. Pinchad aquí para descargarla.
A language teacher's personal opinion
Every day I see 1) advertisements in the newspapers and on buses 2) claiming that 3) it is easy to learn English. 4) According to these advertisements, with very little effort on student's part, she will 5) be able to speak the language 6) fluently in three months or 7) even ten days. There is often a reference to Shakespeare or Charles Dickens 8) to encourage her even more. When I see advertisements like this, I don't know 9) whether to 10) laugh or 11) to cry. 12) If it were 13) as easy to learn English as they say, I 14) would have to look for 15) another job, because 16) very few qualified teachers would be needed. But a large number of pleople must 17) believe these ridiculous 18) claims, 19) or else the advertisements would not appear.
1) Language point of paramount importance in this paragraph: conditional sentences, type 2: ‘If it were…’
20) It is natural for students to be attracted to methods that will teach them 13) as quickly and efficiently and cheaply as possible. But 20) it is difficult for anyone to explain in simple language why one method is 21) better than another, and 22) it is no use 23) pretending that 24) anyone has discovered a perfect 25) way of teaching English in every possible situation. Some experts even 26) argue that there are 13) as many good methods of teaching a language as there are good teachers, because 27) every teacher is an individual with his 28) own personality. 29) No doubt this is true 30) to a certain extent, but it is not very 31) helpful to students.
2) Language point of paramount importance in this paragraph: ‘It is no use + ing’
For a long time people believed that 32) the only way to learn a language was to 33) spend 34) a great deal of time in a country where 35) it was spoken. Of course 36) it is clear that students who go to England to learn English have a great 37) advantage over 38) others, but a large number of students cannot 39) afford to do 40) so. Some students go to the opposite extreme and think they can teach 41) themselves at home with dictionaries. But 42) it is wrong to assume that 43) each word in English has a precise equivalent in another language and vice versa, and it is impossible for 44) any translation method 45) to provide students with the natural forms of a language in 46) speech, 47) let the students 48) alone produce good pronunciation and intonation.
3) Language point of paramount importance in this paragraph: relative clauses: ‘Students who go to…’
There is another relevant point 49) worth mentioning here. 50) It will be helpful if there are other students around us who can practice with us in real situations, talking to 51) each other about real life in real language.
4) Language point 52) of paramount importance in this paragraph: Use of ‘worth + ing’
Texto tomado de ‘Acceso a la Universidad para mayores de 25 años’
Os deseo un magnífico fin de semana y puente de Todos los Santos, pero cuidado con los buñuelos, que suben el azúcar, y lo repito.
Saludos.
P.S: Y para todos aquellos a los que todavía les guste celebrar nuestras tradiciones y no las importadas llenas de vampiros desdentados, os dejo un enlace para poder disfrutar de la lectura de Don Juan Tenorio.
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