Monday, 28th May 2018

TODAY IN CLASS:  

-Comentario sobre los writings que me han enviado y que he corregido: Usamos ever y never en inglés, en las preguntas y negaciones. Las palabras ever y never se usan para hablar de las frecuencias de las actividades y, como en otros casos (some y any, por ejemplo), elegimos una u otra dependiendo del tipo de frase :

>Never = nunca – se usa para negar.

>Ever = alguna vez – se usa para preguntar.

No hay realmente una versión afirmativa. Para dar una idea positiva de la frecuencia, usaríamos un adverbio de frecuencia (always, sometimes, often,...)

-Terminar corrección Document 09400 about Reported Speech

-Corrección FCE Macmillan, Workbook, Page 58 & 59: reading, ejercicio de vocabulario

1.achieve   2.components   3.cramped   4.cruises   5.steering   6.launch site   7.bumped against   8.crises   9.ran out of   10.exhausted   11.slackened off   12.picked up

-Corrección FCE GOLD / Open Cloze / Page 99 / Unwelcome freedom

-Corrección Word Formation / FCE MACMILLAN /Page 37

E-mail is such a (0) PAINLESS way to write letters. I´ve never found it easy to	PAIN
put pen to paper, not even to say “thank you” for presents sent by (1) THOUGHTFUL	THOUGHT
relatives. They must have thought I was so (2) UNGRATEFUL.	GRATITUDE
Now there´s no stopping me! I type away (3) ENDLESSLY on my computer, all types of messages	END
to all types of people. E-mail has all the benefits of a word  (4) PROCESSOR and	PROCESS
none of the tedious (5) DISADVANTAGES of writing by hand. It´s better than the letter	ADVANTAGE
because you can edit it, quickly and (6) EFFORTLESSLY, and it´s instant like the phone	EFFORT
but without the need to talk! And sending and e-mail is so (7) WONDERFULLY fast: just	WONDER
press the button and it´s gone. By contrast, the Web is (8) EXTREMELY overrated(=sobreestimado)	EXTREME
and sometimes so slow that it´s (9) IMPRACTICAL. What´s more, Web sites are not	PRACTICAL
updated and a lot of the information is (10) USELESS. I think it´s a joke in that respect – and not a very good one.	USE

VOCABULARY: you should check Quizlet!

PHONETICS:

above /əˈbʌv/, ache /eɪk/, although /ɔːlˈðəʊ/,air
/eə/,  autor /ˈɔːθə/, blood /blʌd/, captain /ˈkæptɪn/, carbohydrate /ˈkɑːbəʊˈhaɪdreɪt/, caught /kɔːt/, dessert /dɪˈzɜːt/,downpour /ˈdaʊnpɔː/, flood /flʌd/,hold
/həʊld/, jewellery /ˈdʒuːəlrɪ/, minute /ˈmɪnɪt/, mountain /ˈmaʊntɪn/, private /ˈpraɪvɪt/, roughly /ˈrʌflɪ/, scene /siːn/, sew /səʊ/, sure /ʃʊə/, tired /ˈtaɪəd/, variety /vəˈraɪətɪ/women/ˈwɪmɪn/, won /wʌn/, vulture /ˈvʌlʧə/

HOMEWORK:

-FCE MACMILLAN COURSEBOOK / Word formation / Page 57 / “A changed person”

-FCE MACMILLAN COURSEBOOK / Transformations / Page 57

INFINITIVE OR GERUND:

Infinitive: afford, agree, allow + object + to infinitive (allow me to go), appear, ask, begin (in non-continuous tenses, you can either use a gerund or an infinitive), begin (in continuous tenses, with infinitive), claim, decide, demand, expect, forget, hesitate, hope, intend, learn, manage, mean, need, offer, persuade, plan, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, try, wait, want, would like, would prefer.

Gerund: admit, allow, avoid, begin (in non-continuous tenses, you can either use a gerund or an infinitive), can´t stand, consider, deny, discuss, don´t feel like, doesn´t / don´t mind, hate, enjoy, imagine, involve, keep, like, look forward to, love, mention, miss, need, practice, prefer, quite like, recall, recommend, regret, risk, spend, stop, suggest, understand,

Bare infinitive: had better, make, modal verbs, would rather, help

ADJECTIVE ORDER:

Opinion + size + age + shape + colour + pattern + material + nationality

NON-ACTION VERBS:

Agree, be, believe, belong, depend, forget, hate, hear, know, like, love, mater, mean, need, prefer, realize, recognize, remember, seem, suppose

ADVERBS TO BE USED:

·I strongly believe that…

·It is generally agreed that…

·To do something exceptionally fast / slow / carefully,…