Grammar: irregular verbs

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Y el último trabajo que subimos hoy para repasar es el que más os gusta, que lo sé yo, y no es sino el de nuestros amados verbos irregulares😂😂😂😂😂

Aquí os dejo un vídeo para repasar, para empezar:

Vamos a usar diversos recursos que aparecen en Internet para ello, todos con ejercicios cortos, sencillos y pensados para repasar de manera muy práctica.

Suerte:

Vamos primero con la maravillosa aplicación wordwall, en la que podéis encontrar más de 26 millones, sí, millones, de ejercicios de todo tipo. 

irregular verbs match-up

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Irregular verbs, an interactive worksheet by cakmak
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Irregular Past Participles crossword, an interactive worksheet by Loop
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Simple Past Tense (Regular-Irregular Verbs), an interactive worksheet by Teacher_Farahah
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Past Simple or Past Continuous, an interactive worksheet by jecika
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Irregular Verbs Quiz, an interactive worksheet by jajayaja
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Grammar: oraciones complicadas en inglés. Contrast clauses /Oraciones adversativas 1

Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP 

Vamos ahora a por un poco de gramática, o más bien a aprender vocabulario relacionado con palabras que usamos para unir tanto frases para formar textos como partes de frases para formar frase más complejas. ¡Vaya follón! 

Todo es para no decir que vamos a revisar los nexos que necesitamos para formar oraciones subordinadas o textos complejos. Quedaos con la explicación que más os guste.

Hay infinidad de páginas en la red que podemos usar para trabajar este amplio tema pero mire usted por dónde, hoy vamos a echar mano de los recursos de la página CREA.

Pero antes de nada, veamos este magnífico vídeo que nos explica a la perfección como usar algunas:

Linking words of contrast in English.

Vamos a por ello y vamos a ver un pequeño gráfico que resume qué tipo de frases vamos a trabajar.

Vamos a traducir la palabra 'clause' por 'oración' para no complicarnos la vida, y lo demás:

1) Contrast: contraste o adversativas.

2) Reason: razón o causales.

3) Time: tiempo o temporales.

4) Purpose / final: finalidad o por qué hacemos algo.

5) Consecutive: consecutivas o lo consecuencia de algo que hemos hecho.

Y más adelante:

6) Comparativas.

7) De lugar.

8) Condicionales (ya estudiadas, ¿recuerdas?😎😎

Vamos a centrarnos en los nexos -o enlaces (los muy modernos pijjis los llaman ahora 'transitional elements' para complicaros la vida)- que se usan en cada tipo de oraciones y sus significados:

1) Oraciones adversativas:

https://edea.juntadeandalucia.es/bancorecursos/items/f2dbd927-242c-4bc1-a7c6-5a2d85f79402/1/viewscorm.jsp?.vi=file

https://test-english.com/staging03/wp-content/uploads/contrast.purpose.reason.png

Y ahora, vamos a Internet para hacer este ejercicio interactivo 'whose link' is here: (cuyo enlace está aquí).

https://www.liveworksheets.com/pp2206891so

Y en este otro enlace vamos a hacer cuestionarios 'online' breves y sencillos.

Saludos.

Reading comprehension: Iraq violence: 'Many dead' in Kirkuk police HQ attack. Oraciones pasivas

Buenas tardes, estimada familia IPEP.

Vamos ya a por la primera semana de febrero, con el covid todavía llevándose vidas de Españoles, ayer más de 400. Descansen en paz. Pero nosotros, a trabajar, que es nuestra obligación.

Hoy toca un texto muy sencillo con el que vamos a seguir trabajando las oraciones pasivas, que son las más usadas en los textos periodísticos serios, no en 'sálvame' y cosas similares:

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.

Iraq violence: 'Many dead' in Kirkuk police HQ attack

Imagen en Flickr de Rob Sheridan bajo CC

At least 16 people have been killed as a suicide bomber and gunmen attacked a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police say.

Officials said militants had tried to seize the compound after a bomb exploded at the gates, but were unsuccessful. A police chief was hurt. No group has said it carried out the attack.

Kirkuk is ethnically mixed, and at the centre of a dispute between Baghdad and the Kurds over oil and land rights. Two weeks ago at least 10 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on the offices of the Kurdish Democratic Party in the city. Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda have been blamed for much of the recent violence in Iraq. However, there has been a relative calm in recent days.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles-espanol/compound

The attack took place at around 09:15 local time (06:15 GMT) in the centre of Kirkuk. "I saw a vehicle stop at the checkpoint at the main entrance, and the police started checking it," eyewitness Kosrat Hassan Karim told the AFP news agency. "Suddenly, a loud explosion happened, it was terrifying."

Two militants reportedly dressed in police uniforms and armed with guns, grenades and suicide vests rushed the main gate of the headquarters after the bomb was detonated. One was killed immediately by police. They tried to dismantle the other's suicide vest but were unsuccessful, so they shot him dead, reports said.

At least 80 people were injured including local police chief Brigadier Sarhad Qader, whose condition is described as stable. First reports said the death toll had been as high as 30. The attack caused massive damage to nearby buildings. Traffic in the city centre was stopped, and offices in the area were evacuated.

With its massive oil reserves, Kirkuk is the most bitterly contested of Iraq's disputed territories. It houses a mixture of Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles-espanol/house?q=houses

The Kurds want to incorporate it into their largely autonomous region, while Arabs and Turkmen oppose any change to its current status, ruled directly from Baghdad. Correspondents say militants often exploit differences between the Iraqi and Kurdish security forces by launching deadly attacks in the city.

👉👉👉👉Ejemplos de oraciones en pasiva:

1) At least 16 people have been killed as...

Al menos, 16 personas han sido asesinadas mientras que...

2) A police chief was hurt. 

Un jefe de policía resultó herido.

3) ... at least 10 people were killed in...

Al menos 10 personas murieron en... /resultaron muertas en...

4) Sunni insurgents linked to al-Qaeda have been blamed for...

Se ha culpado a los insurgentes Sinies relacionados con Al-Qaeda por...

5) ...after the bomb was detonated. 

...después de que la bomba fuese detonada

6) One was killed immediately by police.

Uno resultó muerto inmediatamente por la policía.

7) 80 people were injured including local police...

80 personas resultaron heridas incluidos policías locales...

8)...whose condition is described as stable.

cuyo estado se describe como estable.

9) Traffic in the city centre was stopped, 

El tráfico en el centro de la ciudad fue detenido,

10) ...and offices in the area were evacuated...

... y las oficinas de la zona fueron evacuadas.

Saludos.

Grammar revision: Question words 2.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Vamos a seguir repasando la formación de oraciones interrogativas, hasta que este tema quede totalmente dominado. 

Os dejo un par de gráficos con las partículas interrogativas más comunes y con un diagrama del orden de las preguntas en inglés, y tras ello, una ficha que no tardaréis más de 5 minutos en completar.

Mucho ánimo.

Question words: ¿qué palabra debo usar?

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Vamos a repasar las oraciones interrogativas de nuevo, que os vais a encontrar varias preguntas similares en vuestro examen, no me cabe la menor duda.

Venga, vamos a completar las siguientes oraciones de esta sencilla ficha. No tardarás más de 5 minutos.

Saludos.

Reading comprehension: NATO sends more ships, fighter jets to Eastern Europe.

 Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Vamos de nuevo con uno de los temas más candentes en la actualidad, asunto que está soliviantando todas las grandes cancillerías del mundo, puesto que las consecuencias pueden ser terribles. ¿Se´está repitiendo lo que ocurrió en Checoslovaquia en 1938, cuando las grandes potencias occidentales sucumbieron ante Hitler por mor de una paz que no llegó?

De nuevo, es un texto extraído de un artículo del periódico The Washington Post, y que podéis leer entero para aprender más vocabulario aquí.

Veamos:

NATO sends more ships, fighter jets to Eastern Europe as Russia masses troops on Ukraine border.

MOSCOW — The tense conflict over Ukraine shifted further into full crisis mode Monday amid growing fears that tens of thousands of Russian troops massed near Ukraine might soon be on the move.

NATO said it would send additional ships and fighter jets to Eastern Europe. That followed reports that the Biden administration was considering sending thousands of U.S. forces as well as armaments to reinforce NATO allies in Poland and the Baltics and imposing new export controls aimed at damaging strategic Russian industries.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was watching NATO’s moves and President Vladimir Putin was “taking measures to ensure that our security and our interests are properly protected.”

And Western nations began taking the kind of dramatic steps reserved for the eve of anticipated armed action.

Britain ordered some diplomats and their families to leave Ukraine, a day after the United States ordered families of diplomats to leave Kyiv and authorized nonessential diplomatic staff to leave. The State Department also cautioned American citizens to consider leaving Ukraine, with U.S. officials warning that an attack could happen “at any time.”

NATO said Monday its members are “putting forces on standby and sending additional ships and fighter jets to NATO deployments in eastern Europe, reinforcing Allied deterrence and defense as Russia continues its military build-up in and around Ukraine.”

“Unfortunately, we live in such an aggressive environment. Unfortunately, we are all reading reports that NATO is making certain decisions,” Peskov said. “This is the reality in which we exist.”

Russia has continued to rapidly scale up its military presence near Ukraine and in Belarus to unprecedented levels in recent days, according to military analysts. As Russia massed forces near Ukraine, it made a series of sweeping demands to the United States and NATO last month, including that Ukraine be barred from joining the alliance, a condition that NATO officials ruled out. Diplomatic talks have failed to resolve the crisis.

Russian officials have repeatedly denied any plan to invade Ukraine and asserted that Russia has a right to move troops and hold military exercises on its own territory. Russian and Belarusian officials have announced joint military exercises in Belarus next month, raising Western fears of a possible ground attack on northern Ukraine from Belarus, and Russian military officials announced a naval exercise involving 20 vessels from the Baltic Fleet.

“I welcome Allies contributing additional forces to NATO,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement. “NATO will continue to take all necessary measures to protect and defend all Allies, including by reinforcing the eastern part of the Alliance.”

Peskov blamed the United States and NATO for the escalation of tensions over Ukraine, accusing them of stoking “informational hysteria” against Russia. He complained of “lies and fakes” coming from Western officials.

“I want to draw your attention to the fact that all of this is not happening because of what we, Russia, are doing. It is all happening because of what the United States [and] NATO are doing and because of the information they are spreading,” Peskov told journalists.

He said the West’s “provocative hysterical actions” have also caused uncertainty and pessimism in global markets.

Peskov also accused Ukraine of boosting its forces along the line of contact that divides Kyiv-controlled Ukraine from two unrecognized separatist republics, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic. The regions, backed by Russia, split from Ukraine in 2014 after Moscow annexed Crimea. The resulting conflict in eastern Ukraine, which has killed more than 13,000 people, continues.

The threat of a Ukraine attack against the regions was “now very high,” Peskov claimed.

European Union president Ursula von der Leyen on Monday announced 1.2 billion euros ($1.35 billion) in emergency aid to help Kyiv meet financing needs “due to the conflict.”

Despite the escalation, the bloc’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said Monday that E.U. countries would not scale back staffing at embassies or send diplomatic families home.

“We are not going to do the same thing because we don’t know any specific reasons,” Borrell told journalists before a meeting of E.U. foreign ministers that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was due to join online, Reuters reported. “Negotiations are going on,” Borrell added.

Members of the 27-member bloc have been split on what sanctions should be on the table and whether to send defense weapons to Ukraine.

German officials Monday ruled out any change to Berlin’s decision not to supply Kyiv with defensive weapons but Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Berlin was working with Washington and E.U. members on potential joint sanctions should Russia invade.

To be continued. 

Saludos.

Grammar revision: question with How?

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Vamos ahora a revisar un aspecto gramátical que a veces da problemillas y es el us de la partícula interrogativa 'How' acompañada de otras palabras, o no.

https://lamenteesmaravillosa.com/51-preguntas-sin-respuesta/

Tienes un test de 10 preguntas por resolver para repasar bien este apartado de gramática que es uno de los contenidos de tu examen: saber hacer preguntas en inglés.

Este material está cogido prestado de Cambridge University Press, a quienes doy las gracias por hacerlo público.

¡Suerte!

https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/A2_How_questions.htm

Saludos.

Reading comprehension: Agriculture in Australia.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Vamos ahora a leer y completar un texto con 8 palabras que os dejo a continuación. El texto trata sobre la agricultura, otro de los grandes problemas del mundo en la actualidad, motivo por el que es conveniente revisar vocabulario sobre este tema para ir bien preparados para vuestro examen.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Australia/@-
36.1046206,60.2744922,3z/data=!4m5!3m4!1
s0x2b2bfd076787c5df:0x538267a1955b1352!8m2!3
d-25.274398!4d133.775136

Una de los preguntas del examen bien podría ser similar a esta, así que pónganle mucha atención.

👉👉Palabras que debéis usar: 

systems, famous, irrigation, unlikely, recent, producers, electing, majority.

Saludos.

Reading comprehension: Social networks.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Encarando ya la última semana de enero, vamos a trabajar con un texto sobre el uso de aplicaciones y redes sociales, uno de los grandes temas favoritos de los examinadores.

Para hoy, he acudido a un texto de nivel B2 facilitado por Cambridge University Press, a quienes doy las gracias por hacer público su material

https://lapublicidad.net/el-covid-19-saca-el-lado-mas-humano-de-las-rrss/

Vamos a ello:

Social networks

Business applications
Social networks connect people at low cost; this can be beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact base. These networks often act as a customer relationship management tool for companies selling products and services. Companies can also use social networks for advertising in the form of banners and text ads. Since businesses operate globally, social networks can make it easier to keep in touch with contacts around the world. 

Medical applications
Social networks are beginning to be adopted by healthcare professionals as a means to manage institutional knowledge, disseminate peer to peer knowledge and to highlight individual physicians and institutions. The advantage of using a dedicated medical social networking site is that all the members are screened against the state licensing board list of practitioners. The role of social networks is especially of interest to pharmaceutical companies who spend approximately "32 percent of their marketing dollars" attempting to influence the opinion leaders of social networks. 

Languages, nationalities and academia
Various social networking sites have sprung up catering to different languages and countries. The popular site Facebook has been cloned for various countries and languages and some specializing in connecting students and faculty. 

Social networks for social good
Several websites are beginning to tap into the power of the social networking model for social good. Such models may be highly successful for connecting otherwise fragmented industries and small organizations without the resources to reach a broader audience with interested and passionate users. Users benefit by interacting with a like-minded community and finding a channel for their energy and giving. 

Business model
Few social networks currently charge money for membership. In part, this may be because social networking is a relatively new service, and the value of using them has not been firmly established in c

ustomers' minds. Companies such as MySpace and Facebook sell online advertising on their site. Hence, they are seeking large memberships, and charging for membership would be counter productive. Some believe that the deeper information that the sites have on each user will allow much better targeted advertising than any other site can currently provide. Sites are also seeking other ways to make money, such as by creating an online marketplace or by selling professional information and social connections to businesses. 

Privacy issues
On large social networking services, there have been growing concerns about users giving out too much personal information and the threat of sexual predators. Users of these services need to be aware of data theft or viruses. However, large services, such as MySpace, often work with law enforcement to try to prevent such incidents. In addition, there is a perceived privacy threat in relation to placing too much personal information in the hands of large corporations or governmental bodies, allowing a profile to be produced on an individual's behavior on which decisions, detrimental to an individual, may be taken. 

Investigations

Social network services are increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations. Information posted on sites such as MySpace and Facebook, has been used by police, probation, and university officials to prosecute users of said sites. In some situations, content posted on MySpace has been used in court.

Ejercicios de comprensión lectora: elige la respuesta correcta en cada párrafo:

 

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_reading.htm

Grammar revision: estilo indirecto o reported speech.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Llegamos ya casi al final de los puntos gramaticales 'complicados' de vuestro temario, el archipopularmente conocido como 'estilo indirecto', que no es sino una versión 'posh' o muy elegante de 'la vieja del visillo', y ahora veréis por qué. 

Ejercicios:

1) Pincha este enlace: https://www.ejerciciosinglesonline.com/new-exercises/ex1-estilo-indirecto-reported-speech/