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18 nov 2021

Grammar test online: conditional sentences type 3. Oraciones condicionales tipo 3.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Buenas tardes. Deja ya la cervecilla y venga, vamos a ver cuánto recuerdas de lo que hemos estudiado esta semana en clase. ¡Suerte!

foto @mmolpor. De chipirones.

16 nov 2021

English grammar: possessive pronoun

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Volvemos a encontrarnos preguntas con los pronombres posesivos. Tres en concreto en el último examen. Y siguen dando problemas, de modo que volvemos a repasarlos. Os dejo enlaces a varias páginas para hacer ejercicios online, que es lo más rápido y productivo, así como un par de cuadros. De nuevo, le doy las gracias a los autores de dichas páginas, que siempre cito, por el buen trabajo que realizan.

Empezamos con un gráfico en el que tenemos varios de los pronombres que más se usan:

https://ingresoinglesffha.wordpress.com/2018/02/05/pronouns/


Ahora nos centramos en la cuarta columna: mío, tuyo, suyo, nuestro, vuestro, suyo: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs.

Un par de ejemplos y 6 ejercicios del magnífico blog de Elena Vázquez: (https://ourbasic1.blogspot.com/2010/03/possessive-pronouns.html#comment-form) para ver cómo se usan:


Y ahora, ejercicios: venga, a practicar.

Exercise 1 Complete the sentences with a possessive pronoun
Exercise 2 Change the sentences so that they have a possessive pronoun. There is an example.
Exercise 3 Complete the sentences with a possessive pronoun
Exercise 4 Choose the correct answer
Exercise 5 Complete the sentences  
Exercise 6 Complete the sentences according to the person in brackets.

See you next week!

Voicing plurals: plurales irregulares.

https://www.revistaoxigeno.es/somos-sostenibles/lobos-para-frenar-el-despoblamiento-rural_53894_102.html

Buenas tardes, familia #ingléspagsypau #inglésipep.

Durante la primera clase de hoy, martes 16 de noviembre, que hemos dedicado a corregir el modelo de examen de junio, nos ha surgido el tema de los plurales irregulares de palabras que terminan en 'f' o en 'fe'. Hemos analizado algunos ejemplos. 

Os dejo ahora unos apuntes sobre este tema para que profundicéis en él y os aprendáis las palabras de la tabla de abajo.

Si buscáis en Google, esto es lo que os aparece:

The -s plural ending is pronounced like /z/ after voiced sounds. This means that if the ending of the noun is voiced - if you can feel your larynx vibrate at the end of the noun you pronounce - it has the /z/ sound. Some examples are: dads, moms, boys, girls, rooms, dogs, schools, days, years, lives.

Si nos vamos a la Inglés.fm, cuya visita os recomiendo (gracias señores autores) nos encontramos un cuadro maravilloso:

Plurales irregulares – terminan en ‘f’ o ‘fe’

Cuando los sustantivos plurales e irregulares terminan en ‘f’ o ‘fe’ los cambiamos por ‘v’ o ‘ve’ antes de añadir la ‘s’.

Ejemplos:

Singular inglésPlural inglésSingular españolPlural español
WolfWolvesLoboLobos
LifeLivesVidaVidas
ThiefThievesLadrónLadrones
KnifeKnivesCuchilloCuchillos
ShelfShelvesEstanteEstantes
HalfHalvesMitadMitades
LeafLeavesHojaHojas
WifeWivesEsposaEsposas
ElfElvesElfoElfos
DwarfDwarvesEnanoEnanos

En este enlace -a los que les doy las gracias por su magnífico trabajo- podéis practicar la formación de todo tipo de plurales online, así que venga, a practicar: 

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=723

Aquí hay otro enlace genial: Por favor, hacedlo para no equivocarse el día en el examen con preguntas tan sencillas. 

https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/The_plural_of_nouns/singular_and_plural_nouns_tl3586ja

Y para aquellos que queráis saber más, esto es lo que vemos en la página TELFPEDIA, cuyo enlace os dejo aquí: https://teflpedia.com/Voiced_plural:

Voiced plural

Three wolves - the voiced plural of wolf.

voiced plural is a plural formed by adding the plural -s suffix but with pronunciation changes; the final sound is voiced from a unvoiced consonant to an voiced consonant, and the plural -s suffix is pronounced /z/. This frequently happens to English words ending /f/ voicing to /v/, less commonly in those ending -th /θ/ voicing to /ð/ and with the word "house" /haʊs/ which ends /s/ voicing to "houses" /haʊzɪz/.

Pronunciationeditedit source

Ending in -feditedit source

There are several of these, enough that this is a semi-regular change: e.g. calf-calves, dwarf-dwarves, elf-elves, half-halves, hoof-hooves, knife-knives, leaf-leaves, life-lives, loaf-loaves, scarf-scarves, self-selves, sheaf-sheaves, shelf-shelves, thief-thieves, turf-turves, wharf-wharves, wife-wives, wolf-wolves, etc. And compounds based on these words, e.g. housewife-housewives.

"Roof" is generally pluralised as roofs but may be pronounced /ru:fs/ or /ru:vz/ - though this may be written rooves it's considered non-standards.

This doesn't apply to words ending -ff.

Ending in -theditedit source

These are irregular in pronunciation only, as the English digraph th represents both /θ/ and /ð/ sounds.

e.g. truth-truths, mouth-mouths.

Ending in -seditedit source

House-houses, and compound words ending -house change.

The plural of spouse is spouses, pronounced /ˈspaʊ.sɪz/ (regular) /ˈspaʊ.zɪz/ (irregular-voiced). However, the plural of grouse /ˈgraʊs/ is grouses /ˈgraʊ.sɪs/ (regular). Note other words ending -ouse /aʊs/ tend to be either (1) irregular (e.g. mouse, louse) or (2) pronounced with /-z/ e.g. blouse.


See you tomorrow!

Reading comprehension: Advertising and television.


foto de @mmolpor de la Cafetería Lazcano,
Mirasierra, Madrid.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

¿Es todo tan rico, apetecible y verdadero como nos presenta la publicidad? Veamos qué nos dicen en el texto que os dejo esta semana, de un NIVEL ALTO, para aprender mucho vocabulario y repasar muchas estructuras gramaticales, pero principalmente:

1) Relativos, de nuevo.
2) Pasivas.
3) 'To have something done'.

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.

ADVERTISING AND TELEVISION

When the 1954 Television 1) Act made it 2) mandatory for the different television companies to see that any advertising they carried 3) conformed to the ITA's Principles of Television advertising, Parliament in effect was creating two 4) quite separate 5) standards of advertising. This double standard has continued 6) ever since.


7) On the one hand is television advertising, 8) every piece of which is 9) scrutinized 10) beforehand by a central committee and 11) compelled to  12) comply with an increasingly 13) demanding 14) set of rules, the 15) infringement of which could 16) lead to direct action by the Government. And 17) on the other hand is the rest of advertising with no 18overall scrutiny of individual advertisements, an 19) undemanding code and responsibility to an authority 20) whose expenses the industry pays and whose members it 21) appoints.


👉👉 Grammar point of paramount importance in this paragraph: relativos: whose y which. 


It should be emphasized that this double standard is not 22) merely theoretical. In practice it appears even more clearly in the contrast between the 23)  leisurely operation of 24) 'self-discipline' in advertising 25) as a whole and the precise and often 26) very tough way the programme companies' censoring committee 27) deals with the commercials 28) which are submitted to it. 29) At first sight this censoring committee 30) looks like 31) yet another of those 32) ad hoc creations which British 33) media 34) owners have  been in the habit of 35) setting up to 36) enforce their own views of the standards of the advertising they accept. 37) In itself it has no legal obligation to censor anything. (Under the Television Act it is the Independent Television Authority which is 38) ultimately responsible for seeing that the legal minimum for commercials is 39) actually imposed, just 40) as each of the eleven independent television contracting companies in the country has no obligation to see that any commercials it 41) broadcasts conform to it.)


But in practice it was found that 42) the only way of 43) making sure 44) that they did conform was for the separate companies 45) to join forces 46) to vet all television commercials centrally and to impose a single standard of interpretation for the 47) whole country. The copy committee of the Independent Television Companies Association was the organization set up to do it and at present deals with just over seven thousand separate television commercials a year.


👉👉44): That they conformed was...: Ver: uso de 'do' o 'did' enfático aquí.


The Independent Television Authority has the last word over any 48) disputed or particularly difficult decisions, and also sees all 49) projected commercials before they are finally accepted. This participation of the Authority in the work of scrutinizing commercials has recently been 50) stepped up after criticisms that the programme companies were being left too much freedom in the work of 51) censorship. But 52) in fact the day-to-day work of scrutinizing commercials continues to be done by the ITCA, and 53) however anomalous the idea may seem of 54having 55) the bulk of the censoring done by the same people who are trying to sell television time to the advertisers, it is hard 56) to fault the efficiency with which they have done their work.


👉👉54) '(...) of having the bulk of the censoring done...': Ver 'to have something done' aquí.

👉👉Grammar point of paramount importance here: oraciones pasivas como las siguientes que enumero a continuación:

1.- It should be emphasized that: Se debería enfatizar el hecho de que...
2.- It was found that...: Se descubrió que...
3.- Before they are finally accepted: Antes de que por fin se aceptaran...
4.- Criticisms that the companies were being left too much freedom: Ante las críticas de que a las empresas se les daba demasiada libertad...
5.- The work of scrutinizing commercials has recently been stepped up after...: La tarea de revisar anuncios se ha visto reforzada después de que...
6.- Scrutinizing commercials continues to be done by...: Todavía se siguen revisando los anuncios por parte de...

See you later, dear folks!

10 nov 2021

Dos modelos de exámenes reales de junio de 2021 para PAGS


Buenas tardes, familia #ingléspagsypau #inglésipep.

Enfilando la puerta del IPEP, me encuentro con un grupo de vosotros que, como todas las tardes, decís un buenas tardes, maestro que alegría el atardecer, hoy soleado. Además, uno me dice, contento y casi sin creérselo, que por fin los amos del cortijo han publicado en la página  de Formación Profesional Andaluza los modelos de exámenes de inglés de esta última convocatoria.

Y cierto es, de modo que aquí los tenéis para que los podáis descargar, puesto que esta misma tarde empezaremos a revisarlos en la clase de 8 a 9.

Tras revisarlos con calma, os puedo asegurar que vamos por buen camino con el trabajo duro que estamos haciendo.

Recordad que es 'of paramount importance' que obtengáis la máxima nota posible, y con esa meta en la cabeza fue con la que empezamos a trabajar, y así seguiremos. Con el máximo esfuerzo, las más altas miras y expectativas y el máximo rigor, para que logréis vuestros ambiciosos objetivos.

Vamos, a por ello.


Primer modelo: Opción A, segunda lengua extranjera inglés: Pincha aquí.




Segundo modelo: parte común lengua extranjera inglés. Pincha aquí.




RESPUESTAS DE LOS TESTS:

Nº 1:
1.- A
2.- C
3.- A
4.- A
5.- D
6.- B
7.- B
8.- A
9.- D
10.- D
11.- C
12.- D
13.- C
14.- D
15.- C
16.- D
17.- C
18.- B
19.- D
20.- B
21.- B
22.- B

Nº 2:
1.- D
2.- D
3.- A
4.- A
5.- B
6.- C
7.- A
8.- B
9.- D
10.- D
11.- A
12.- C
13.- A
14.- C
15.- D
16.- A
17.- B
18.- A
19.- D
20.- A
21.- A
22.- C

Saludos.


ESPA I: material sobre el tema 2.2 El ser humano y los procesos migratorios.

 Hola, familia ESPA 1. Bienvenidos al blog del IPEP para mis asignaturas. Hasta hoy lo he usado para los estudiantes de la lengua de Shakespeare, pero es el momento de empezar a darle más utilidad.


De nuevo os tengo que dar las gracias por las participaciones en las clases de ayer 9 de noviembre. No paráis de sorprenderme. Enhorabuena. Así da gusto ir a trabajar, aunque sean las 9 de la noche. 

Os dejo, como os prometí, la presentación que vimos ayer sobre las emigraciones. He modificado algunos aspectos y he incluido un par de diapositivas más con temas que comentamos, para clarificarlos.

Por favor, leed el punto '6. Soluciones' porque hay algo que debéis hacer para antes del martes próximo. Podéis entregármelo en mano o por el correo este, como vos gustéis.

Saludos y ánimo, que quedan solo dos temas para el Roscón de Reyes. 

Os he enviado la presentación por el foro de novedades, porque no me deja hacerlo por aquí. De todas formas, he dejado un enlace aquí para descargarlo de este blog: Pincha aquí para descargarlo.

Saludos.

3 nov 2021

Cómo usar 'that, who, which, whose, why...' Oraciones de relativo en inglés, Exercices and key.

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Foto de @mmolpor
The solitary poplar, whose shade spread all over the stoned square, dominated the entire village.'


Buenas tardes.

Durante la clase de hoy, con el fútbol en las pantallas de algún móvil que otro de fondo -sabia decisión- hemos corregido 3 fichas de ejercicios de relativos, tal y como estaba previsto. 

Ya damos por cerrado este bloque de contenidos hasta más adelante, puesto que ya hemos explicado, profundizado con creces en cómo se forman este tipo de oraciones llamadas de 'relativo', tanto explicativas -las que llevan las comas-, como las especificativas.


Os dejo las respuestas de la ficha nº 11, para unir frases, que es lo más probable que os encontréis en vuestros exámenes.

👉Picha aquí para descargarla.







1. Mary's father, who was a carpenter, collected fossils.

    Mary's father, who collected fossils, was a carpenter.

2. Mary had a younger bother whose name was Joseph.

    Mary had a younger bother who was called Josep.

3. The Martínez lived in Josefa Regis, which is a tiny village in the south coast.

4. Mary, who was fascinated by fossils, found a Rex.

    Mary. who found a Rex, was fascinated by fossils.

5. She also discovered a Tiranosaurus Minimus, which died 50 million years ago.

6. The Duke of Buckingham, who was very rich, bought the fossils for 150 pounds.

     The Duke of Buckingham, who bought the fossils for 150 pounds, was very rich.

7. Mary also found lots of smaller fossils, which were bought by museums all over the world.

8. Mary, who was a very famous duchess, was visited by the King of Saxony.

    Mary, who was visited by the King of Saxony, was a very famous duchess.

9. Crossford, which is miles from here, has only two hundred inhabitants.

    Crossford, which has only two hundred inhabitants, is miles from here.

10. The person who /that made the arrangements was Karen.

11. Mr Perkins, who could not hear the phone ringing, is bit deaf.

      Mr Perkins, who is a bit deaf, could not hear the phone ringing.

12. Mandy, whose name was not on the list, was not very pleased.


👉Pincha para descargar el ejercicio Ficha nº 5: 







Nota: en los casos en los que se puede no usar el relativo -porque detrás tiene un sujeto- pondré las respuestas entre paréntesis. 

  1.  The girl ...(whom /who/that )............ you were speaking to is my cousin Mary.

  2.  My cousin Mary, ...whom.......... you were speaking to just now, has a great admiration for your work.

  3.  This house, ...which........... was built over a hundred years ago, is still occupied by the same family.

  4.  The house ...(that /which)........... my grandfather built over a hundred years ago is still standing.

  5.  His close friend, Frank Martin, with ...whom............ he had been associated all his life,  

 eventually was known to be a famous thief. 

  1.  His close friend, Frank Martin, the man ..(that /who.)............. he had been associated all his life,  

 eventually was known to be a famous thief.

  1.  Sally is the girl ..whose............ horse I was telling you about.

  2.  Sally, .....whose............ horse won the race last Saturday, is thinking of entering it for the   

 Derby.

  1.  Do you know the street ...where........ he lives?

  2.  Descartes Street, ...where......... I live, was name after the philosopher.

  3.  Was that the day ...when........ it rained all morning?

  4.  The year 1914, ...when............. the First World War broke out, marked the end of nineteenth century values.

  5.  Have you any idea of the reason ....why.......... these things happen?

  6.  She resigned because of her bad health, ....which.......... made it impossible for her to do her job properly.

  7.  His daughter applied to enter the university ...where........... he had studied years ago.

  8.  His daughter applied to enter the University of Cambridge, ....where.......... he had studied himself.

  9.  At the time .....when.......... I met her, she was an artist.

  10.  At that time, .....when............ I first met her, she was an artist.

  11.  I expect employees to give me a reason ....why........... they are late.

  12.  I was late because of the bus strike, .....which............ made it necessary for me to take the underground.

  13.  The town .....where.......... I grew up has changed in recent years.

  14.   Granada, ....where............ I grew up, has changed in recent years.

  15.   In 1957, ......when.......... my brother was born, I was still living here.

  16.   I was still living there ...when.......... my brother was born.



    👉Pincha aquí para descargar el ejercicio Ficha nº 4:








    1. USE WHO, THAT, WHICH OR WHOSE TO COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES


    1. Whales and dolphins both make sounds....which........in some ways resemble a language.

    2. People.......who.......... work with dolphins are surprised at how intelligent they are.

    3. One scientist.....who...........has studied dolphins carefully is John Lilly.

    4. He was the director of an institute...which..............became famous for its research.

    5. Carl Sagan is a man.....whose............interests go beyond astronomy.

    6. Another man.....whose.........work with chimpanzees has become well known is Roger Fouts.

    7. Fouts,.....who...........has studied the behaviour of other animals, taught us a sign language.

    8. Fouts taught us the sign language....which...........is used by deaf people in America.

    9. 'Deaf' is the word used in English for someone.....who............is unable to hear.


    In which of the above sentences can you also use 'that'?


    In which sentence can you only use 'who' and not 'that'?



    2. COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH  "WHAT-THAT- WHICH"


    1. That’s the dog.....which /that..........bit me.

    2. He has broken his left hand,......which.........is the one he writes with.

    3. This is not.....what...........I want.

    4. Don’t tell me.....what......... to do.

    5. I have got something....that /which.........might interest you.

    6. They called him Philip,....which....... in Ancient Greek means "love of horses".

    7. He did everything.........that........ was asked of him.

    8. He called me a liar,......which..............made me furious.

    9. .......What............... I do in my free time is none of your business.

    10. He writes a lot of poems.......that /which...............nobody ever reads.

    11. He drives at 100 mph,...which.........is dangerous, not only for him, but for other people  too.

    12. Have you seen......what.............my son has done to the car?


      See you next week.

      Your teacher.

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