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Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep (en Twitter).
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En este texto vamos a trabajar oraciones interrogativas, presente simple, presente perfecto y continuo; pasados regulares e irregulares, adjetivos con preposiciones -aim at/to-, preposiciones -until-, enlaces -so, entre otros aspectos.
Tenéis enlaces a videos, apuntes, ejercicios, diccionarios, referencias culturales, etc.
MINDFULNESS
Mindfulness is a meditation technique aimed at focusing the mind on the present moment. A report published this week anaylising data involving 3,000 thousands participants suggests mindfulness can help alleviate feelings of stress and increase the quality of life. The study also shows measurable improvements of up to 20% in symptoms of anxiety and depression. So, what is mindfulness and how does it work? Unlike mantra meditation, which involves focusing concentration on a particular word or sound, mindfulness aims to achieve a relaxed, non-judmental awareness of your thoughts, feelings and sensations.Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep #ingléspagsypau (en Twitter).
¿Cómo debe ser un buen líder? ¿Qué cualidades debe tener? ¿Cómo debe hacerse respetar? Veamos:
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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.
Esta actividad está cogida prestada de https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/upper-intermediate-b2/cultural-expectations-and-leadership a quienes les doy las gracias por hacer público su trabajo y ayudarnos tanto.
Actividad previa a la lectura:
'Gabriela worked for a multinational company as a successful project manager in Brazil and was transferred to manage a team in Sweden. She was excited about her new role but soon realised that managing her new team would be a challenge.
Despite their friendliness, Gabriela didn't feel respected as a leader. Her new staff would question her proposals openly in meetings, and when she gave them instructions on how to carry out a task, they would often go about it in their own way without checking with her. When she announced her decisions on the project, they would continue giving their opinions as if it was still up for discussion.
After weeks of frustration, Gabriela emailed her Swedish manager about the issues she was facing with her team. Her manager simply asked her if she felt her team was still performing, and what she thought would help her better collaborate with her team members. Gabriela found her manager vague and didn't feel as if he was managing the situation satisfactorily.
What Gabriela was experiencing was a cultural clash in expectations. She was used to a more hierarchical framework where the team leader and manager took control and gave specific instructions on how things were to be done. This more directive management style worked well for her and her team in Brazil but did not transfer well to her new team in Sweden, who were more used to a flatter hierarchy where decision making was more democratic. When Gabriela took the issue to her Swedish manager, rather than stepping in with directions about what to do, her manager took on the role of coach and focused on getting her to come up with her own solutions instead.
Dutch social psychologist Geert Hofstede uses the concept of 'power distance' to describe how power is distributed and how hierarchy is perceived in different cultures. In her previous work environment, Gabriela was used to a high power distance culture where power and authority are respected and everyone has their rightful place. In such a culture, leaders make the big decisions and are not often challenged. Her Swedish team, however, were used to working in a low power distance culture where subordinates often work together with their bosses to find solutions and make decisions. Here, leaders act as coaches or mentors who encourage independent thought and expect to be challenged.
When Gabriela became aware of the cultural differences between her and her team, she took the initiative to have an open conversation with them about their feelings about her leadership. Pleased to be asked for their thoughts, Gabriela's team openly expressed that they were not used to being told what to do. They enjoyed having more room for initiative and creative freedom. When she told her team exactly what she needed them to do, they felt that she didn't trust them to do their job well. They realised that Gabriela was taking it personally when they tried to challenge or make changes to her decisions, and were able to explain that it was how they'd always worked.
With a better understanding of the underlying reasons behind each other's behaviour, Gabriela and her team were able to adapt their way of working. Gabriela was then able to make adjustments to her management style so as to better fit the expectations of her team and more effectively motivate her team to achieve their goals.
Saludos.
Actividades de comprensión:
Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep #ingléspagsypau (en Twitter).
Vamos hoy con un texto con el que vamos a pensar un poco sobre cómo está nuestra querida Tierra, a la que debemos tratar un poco mejor, y que nos va a servir también para aprender vocabulario y poner en práctica nuestras destrezas lectoras.
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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
Creo que hoy vamos a comenzar con una tarea de vocabulario para que resulte más fácil hacer la traducción y hacerse una idea de qué trata el texto:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/advanced-c1/the-state-of-the-world |
Vamos al surco:
'If your view of the world comes from watching the news and reading newspapers, you could be forgiven for lying awake at night worrying about the future. Apparently, rising violence and population rates mean humans are both killing each other in ever larger numbers and being born at rates the world's resources can't sustain. To make matters worse, all the wealth is concentrated on a handful of people in the world's richest countries. People in low-income countries live in poverty while the West gets richer. Depressing, isn't it?
But do the statistics support our negative world view or is the world actually improving?
Let's take global population first. It's around 7 billion now, in line with figures predicted by the UN in 1958. By the year 2100, the same experts predict it will be around 11 billion. But did you know that 11 billion is probably as high as that number will get? The rate of increase will slow down in the second half of this century thanks to falling birth rates today.
Falling birth rates? Yes, that's right.
In the last two centuries, improvements in technology and health meant fewer children died young, fuelling rapid population growth. These large families produced even more children who survived into adulthood and had their own children. But with the wider availability of contraception in the 1960s, the global average number of babies per woman has declined from six babies per woman to as low as two.
The biggest factor in child mortality is poverty. And while it's still true that only 20 per cent of the world takes about 74 per cent of the world's income, 60 per cent of the world now falls into a middle-income group, with 11.6 per cent – the smallest amount of people in history – still living in conditions of extreme poverty. If the majority of the world's people have money, international aid could realistically achieve the UN target of eradicating poverty by 2030. As poverty goes down, life expectancy goes up, birth rates go down because parents can expect their existing children to survive, and the global population stabilises.
As for news stories that make us think the world is an increasingly violent place, there is cause for some optimism too. Between the end of World War II and 1990, there were 30 wars that killed more than 100,000 people. Today there are still civil wars, but countries are mostly co-existing more peacefully than in the past. However, terrorism has shot up in the last few years and, since World War II, wars have killed many more civilians than soldiers. Even for civilians, though, the statistics are not all bad. Although deaths are nine times more likely to be a result of violent crime than political conflict, the global murder rate fell slightly, from 8 per 100,000 people in 2000 to about 5.3 in 2015.
Of course, none of this means the world is perfect, and whether you personally are affected by war and poverty is often down to the lottery of where you're born. Also, we still face huge problems of our own making, particularly environmental ones like global warming, and wealth and natural resources need to be distributed more fairly. But not all the news is bad news, whatever the TV and newspapers might say'.
Saludos.
Tareas:
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/skills/reading/advanced-c1/the-state-of-the-world |
Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep #ingléspagsypau (en Twitter).
De nuevo, vuelvo a recurrir a nuestros amigos del British Council, a quienes les doy las gracias por su ayuda, para poner en práctica vuestros 'reading skills' y aprender mucho vocabulario.
https://www.blablacar.es |
El texto de hoy lleva por título 'The sharing economy' y, de nuevo, es un tema de rabiosa actualidad, pues vivimos en una época en la que, por diversos motivos, vamos de blablacar en blablacar, por ejemplo. Y algún motivo habrá para ello, innit?
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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
Vamos al surco:
'If we look around us at the things we have purchased at some point in our lives, we would no doubt notice that not everything we own is being put to good use: the thick woollen coat which we thought looked trendy despite the fact that we live in a tropical country, the smartphone that got put away when we bought ourselves the newest model, the car that only gets used at the weekends, or even the guest room in our house that somehow got turned into a storeroom.
Those underutilised items may seem useless to some, but could be an asset to others. With the advent of the internet, online communities have figured out a way to generate profit from the sharing of those underused assets. Using websites and social media groups that facilitate the buying and selling of second-hand goods, it is now easier than ever for peer-to-peer sharing activities to take place. And this is known as the sharing economy.
These democratised online platforms are providing a chance for people to make a quick buck or two. To give an example, busy parents previously might not have bothered with setting up a stall at the local market or car boot sale to sell their children's old equipment, but with online marketplaces, parents are now able to sell on those hardly worn baby clothes that their children have outgrown and the expensive pushchairs and baby equipment they have invested in, so as to put some cash back into their pockets.
Businesses have also caught on to the profitability of the sharing economy and are seeking to gain from making use of those underutilised resources. A business model that has rapidly risen in popularity sees companies providing an online platform that puts customers in contact with those who can provide a particular product or service. Companies like Airbnb act as a middleman for people to cash in on their unused rooms and houses and let them out as lucrative accommodation. Another example is Uber, which encourages people to use their own personal cars as taxis to make some extra cash in their free time.
This move towards a sharing economy is not without criticisms. Unlike businesses, unregulated individuals do not have to follow certain regulations and this can lead to poorer and inconsistent quality of goods and services and a higher risk of fraud. Nevertheless, in the consumerist society we live in today, the increased opportunities to sell on our unwanted and underused goods can lead to a lesser impact on our environment.'
Saludos.
Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep #ingléspagsypau (en Twitter).
Vamos otra semana más, con otro texto con el que vais a reciclar vocabulario ya trabajado, además de ser de los temas habituales en las pruebas: medioambientales, cuidado de la naturaleza y similares.
De nuevo, es un texto extraído de un artículo del periódico The Washington Post, y que podéis leer entero para aprender más vocabulario aquí.
The Washington Post. Democracy dies in Darkness |
You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter.
Is a new global food crisis coming?
In an interview this week, Maximo Torero Cullen — chief economist at the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization — told me the answer is: Not yet, but we could be on the brink. The world is witnessing an increase in localized and conflict-driven food crises, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. But across the globe, the food price surges of recent months are still not as bad as the two critical spikes sparked by weather, biofuel production and surging Asian demand in 2007-2008 and 2011-2012.
That doesn’t mean we won’t get there. Because of the pandemic, global hunger shot up by an estimated 118 million people worldwide in 2020, jumping to 768 million people, the most since as far back as 2006. The number of people living with food insecurity — or those forced to compromise on food quantity or quality — surged by 318 million, to 2.38 billion.
As vaccination rollouts lag in the developing world, Cullen told Today’s WorldView that he fears the slower economic recoveries in low- and medium-income nations could worsen the food insecurity picture further in 2022.
How did the pandemic change the nature of global food insecurity, and how is the problem evolving?
The major drivers before covid-19 were conflict, and climate and economic downturns. Lockdowns and covid-19 have exacerbated those problems.
But what is new are two things: One is the significant recovery plans and inflation we are seeing as the U.S., China and other countries create excess demand, which has affected, of course, prices because of their demand for commodities. The competition for containers has exacerbated the situation, making transportation costs higher.
The other element is fertilizer prices and scarcities. Countries like Bolivia that used to export to Peru, for instance, are exporting much, much less. An incredible shrinkage. Russia has put some export limits on fertilizers. China produces one-quarter of the fertilizers in the world, but now they are also importing. So the pressure on that sector is a different than we’ve faced before.
Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep #ingléspagsypau (en Twitter).
NOTA: Cuando ese sufijo -ing se añade un verbo, se traduce de dos maneras, como os voy a poner en estos ejemplos.
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1. 'The shoemaker is dyeing the brown boot to make it look like new again'.
'El zapatero está tiñiendo la bota de color marrón para que quede como nueva otra vez'.
2. 'The shoemaker has been dyeing the boot for nearly one hour'.
'El zapatero ha estado tiñendo la bota durante casi una hora'.
3. 'The shoemaker was dyeing the boot with a special coloring dye'.
'El zapatero estuvo tiñendo la bota con un tinte especial'.
En estos casos, -ing se añade al verbo para indicar que 'algo está pasando'.
4. 'People all over the world have been dying because of the Chinese covid for more than now years now'.
'Mucha gente de todo el mundo se ha estado muriendo por culpa del covid que vino de China.'
NOTA: Es importante no confundir los verbos 'dye' y 'die' que no se parecen en nada.
Por otra parte, se puede añadir -ing a un verbo para que sea el sujeto de una frase, como por ejemplo:
4. 'Dyeing shoes, boots and leather objects in a very specialized technique'.
'Teñir zapatos, botas y otros objetos de piel es una técnica muy especializada'.
En esa frase, 'Dyeing' /'Teñir' es el sujeto, y lo vamos a traducir no por 'tiñiendo...' sino por 'teñir...'
5. 'Smoking is not very good for your health, but many people still do it'.
'Fumar no es bueno para la salud, pero mucha gente todavía lo hace'.
6. 'Studying after working is a very tough task, but most of my students do it'.
'Estudiar después de trabajar es una tarea muy dura, pero muchos de mis alumnos lo hacen'.
7. 'Yawning and blinking is unavoidable thing to do in lessons at night'.
'Bostezar y parpadear' es algo inevitable en las clases nocturnas'.
Os he preparado un cuadro con los principales cambios que se realizan en la morfología del verbo y que os podéis descargar en pdf aquí.
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Saludos.
Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep #ingléspagsypau (en Twitter).
Good morning, my dearest students.
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Buenas tardes.
Hoy, tarde de feria, hemos estado trabajando uno de los textos incluidos en la Plataforma Moodle, en concreto, la tarea 1.2, Banksy. La dejo aquí para aquellos que no habéis podido venir a clase o bien trabajáis desde casa.
Ha surgido un debate con respecto a una de las frases de verdadero o falso. Y hasta ahí puedo leer. Que cada cual justifique su respuesta a tenor de lo expresado en el texto. Y al ganador, una cerveza 0,0 por San Lucas.
No nos compliquemos la vida, que es complicada per se.
¡Feliz Feria de San Lucas!
Pincha en este enlace para descargarte el texto.
Saludos y hasta el martes 19 de octubre.
Y la música de hoy es para... Mecano.
Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP #inglésipep #ingléspagsypau (en Twitter).
Good morning, my dearest students.
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Esta vez, vamos a traducir algo totalmente diferente, con el objetivo de aprender mucho vocabulario nuevo, repasar estructuras un poco más complicadas y descubrir qué son los viajes Erasmus, que espero vosotros disfrutéis en un futuro no muy lejano.
¿Sabíais que hay más dinero de becas Erasmus+ disponible para Formación Profesional -Vocational Training- que para Universidades?
Al final del texto, tenéis un crucigrama con el que podéis repasar vocabulario de este texto, pero las palabras están en español, por lo que debéis buscarlas en inglés en este texto.
¡Ánimo!
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1) Importante en este párrafo: though: ver este enlace.
16) Still not 17) wholly recovered from the effects of the pandemic, with a 18) hefty price in lives, we have started to come out of our homes, not fully 19) aware of the horrendous consequences this epidemic has had 20) among us.
2) Importante en este párrafo: among: ver este enlace.
Erasmus+ projects, 21) needless to say, have also been 22) largely affected, 23) both in terms of teachers that have been infected -24) therefore, lots and lots of mobilities have been cancelled or postponed, 23) and projects that may have lost its 25) purpose by now. Obviously, these effects are not relevant when compared with lives that, disgracefully, have been lost, as well as all the painful suffering it 26) involves.
3) Importante en este párrafo: both...and. Pincha este enlace.
28) However, we must regain our spirit and strength and start putting in motion next year's mobilities and projects, being perfectly conscious that The bug might or will strike again. What the 29) outcomes will be, nobody knows, not even if we will have a second chance 30) at all.
4) Importante en este párrafo: verbos modales: must, might, will. Pincha este enlace.
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But 31) let's talk shop. After nearly 160 contributions to this humble blog, written by families, students and teachers from 6 different countries, with more than 62.000 visits from more than 90 countries all over the world, 32) the latest one from 33) Bangladesh, most of the teachers operating behind this blog consider that 34) it is high time we 35) stockpiled as much feedback from our followers and friends all over the world as possible. 90) Luckily, this blog has grown into something more than just a 36) mere collection of articles about Erasmus+ mobilities and 37) an array of analysis and considerations about teaching and learning techniques, plus other turbulent 38) Willy Fog-like adventures over a period of 5 years.
Year after year, we have realized that many of our young students are 39) astounded, even 40) astonished to see how many readers, followers from so many different countries in all the continents we have, they simply can't believe it, 41) nor can we, honestly. It is the perfect definition of 42) flabbergasted I would say.
5) Importante en este párrafo: uso de 'It's high time we...: Pincha en este enlace.
Little by little, a sense of community started to 43) flourish and 44) bloom, the fruits of which we are enjoying now. Like a 45) vanished 46) handloom in a quiet, 47) gloomy room, 48) steadily and rhythmically 49) weaving its colorful cloths, this blog has 50) woven a different kind of 51) fabric, a puzzle of 52) yearning dreams, this time the fibers being the energy, time and illusions of dozens of educators from many contrasting places, 53) yet 54) dim like the forgotten loom, yet shining like a sunny day after a rainy night in Bangladesh.
6) Importante en este párrafo: el uso de 'would rather': pincha este enlace.
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Viajeros de una semana cualquiera en el blog. @mmolpor |
Thus, what seemed to be just a traditional logbook with no other purpose, seems to be now a powerful, vivid teaching resource, specially for the youngest students. 65) As a matter of fact, whenever we 66) address them to know why they enjoy reading about their teachers' trips 67) abroad, the most recurrent reply is that they are not used to seeing their teachers traveling abroad to study, to learn, to take notes, to 'make exams', to make oral presentations in other languages, in short, to 68) behave like real students.
Sometimes, some of them have 69) boldly 70) dared ask if we have 71) misbehaved or if we have 72) yawned or even if we have been 73) fiddling around with our mobile phones while the teacher was explaining this or that brainy 74) state of the art teaching technique. 75) Food for thought, isn't it?
Feedback from teachers from other countries is 76) paramount for us to 77) carry out an effective analysis of the impact of our work of dissemination, 78) if at all, and because of that, we invite you all to send us your opinions, to share with us why you spend some of your precious time reading our blog, particularly those of your from other continents, what you find useful and interesting.
79) By so doing, we can continue 80) hammering and 81) welding this community of teachers that will surely contribute to benefit from each other's experiences.
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82) As I have described 83) above in the title of this entry, our work here 84) seems to have helped 85) forge a community of 86) wrought iron Erasmus+ teachers 87) worldwide. 88) What else could we 89) aim for?
See you next week!
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Y la canción de esta semana, otra de los 80' de los clásicos, por Queen.
NOTE: you can download the whole text by clicking here.
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