Chuletas y apuntes de Inglés de Formación Profesional

-My favourite food is chiken and burger

-The hamburguer are a traditional food of usa

-The main ingredients are:

-Hamburguer bun

-Chicken or beef

-Lettuce tomato onion and cocumber

-Ketchup and mustard  mayonnasse

-Hambueguer can be pur hased in many places,including restaurant and fast food places.

-Like the chicken burguer with fries is a very quick meal to.

-The burgers and chicken annd chips is a meed known around the world.

-In my opinion this food is fine ,but be careful with cholesterol

Hi .look i'm on vacation in spain valencia

I will participate in the tomatina festival held in velencia.

Tomatina festival in celebrated in tradition to the streets and last a whole day.

Valencia is a very nice city that has its beaches and aquatic museoms.

These days... Continuar leyendo "Foods" »

Chapter5

Phonology is essentially the description of the systems and patterns of speech
sounds in a language.
Phoneme is the single sound type which came to be represented by a single written symbol.
Phonemic distinctions in a language can be tested via pairs and sets of words.
A syllable must contain a vowel (or vowel-like) sound. The most common type
of syllable in language also has a consonant (C) before the vowel (V) and is
typically represented as CV. Technically, the basic elements of the syllable are
the onset (one or more consonants) and the rhyme. The rhyme (sometimes
written as rime) consists of a vowel, which is treated as the nucleus, plus any
following consonant(s), described as the coda.
When two words such as pat and bat are identical... Continuar leyendo "Linguistic" »

Chapter2

1 What kind of evidence is used to support the idea that language is culturally
transmitted?If a Korean baby(born in Korea)with korean's parents and he's adopted by english native spearks obligatorily baby grow up speaking english and not korean independent of characteristics inherited his or her natural parents
2 What is the difference between a communication system with productivity
and one with fixed reference?With productivity,the system can create new expressions,infinites.With fixed reference,there is a fixed number of signals in the system and each signal only relates to a particular object or ocassion.
3 Which property of language enables people to talk about the future?Dsiplacement:used to talk about the future.Productivity:capacity... Continuar leyendo "Linguistic" »

Essential Business English Phrases and Vocabulary

Key Phrases for Formal Correspondence

• At the earliest possible notice: A la mayor brevedad.
• Dear Mr. Franksen,: Seguido de coma, inicio de una carta formal a una persona conocida.
• Due to: Debido a.
• For: En este caso, conjunción causal (= because).
• Further enquiries: Posteriores consultas.
• Goods/cargo: Carga.
• Hereby I adjoin: Por la presente incluyo (= find enclosed...).
• Hoping to be of any help: Esperando serle de ayuda.
• I am writing to you with reference to: Le escribo al respecto de...
• I regret to tell you: Siento comunicarle (= I am sorry to tell you; ¹I am glad/happy to tell you).
• Inconsistencies have been detected...: Para señalar un error de la otra parte, mejor utilizar la voz pasiva.
• Invoice address:

Verbos con Infinitivo o Gerundio sin Cambio de Significado

• Begin, start, continue + to-inf/ -ing (nunca dos –ing seguidos)
• Advise, allow, permit, recommend, encourage + -ing (objeto/pasiva)
• It needs/ it requires/ it wants + -ing (hace falta)

Verbos con Infinitivo o Gerundio con Cambio de Significado

• Forget + to inf (olvidar hacer algo); forget + -ing (olvidar una acción pasada)
• Remember + to inf (recordar hacer algo); remember + -ing (recordar una acción pasada)
• Go on + to inf (pasar a hacer una acción cuando has acabado algo); Go on + -ing (acción continua)
• Mean + to inf (pretender); mean + -ing (significar/implicar)
• Regret + to inf (lamentar/ arrepentirse de algo que no tienes la culpa); Regret + -ing (lamentar haber hecho algo, tienes la culpa)

Home and Away

Gramática

Past Simple: La acción ocurre en el pasado y ya está terminada (2ª columna del listado de verbos irregulares o añadiendo -ed a verbos regulares).

Past Continuous: La acción se estaba desarrollando en el pasado y se interrumpe por otra acción más corta (Past Simple) (was/were + verbo-ing).

Past Perfect: Es una acción pasada que ocurrió antes que otra acción pasada (had + 3ª columna o -ed).

Verbos + Gerundio

Los siguientes verbos van seguidos de un verbo en gerundio (-ing):

• Spend (pasar)
• Need (necesitar)
• Recommend (recomendar)
• Avoid (evitar)
• Finish (finalizar)
• Enjoy (disfrutar)
• Keep (mantener)
• Stop (detener)

Verbos + Infinitivo

Algunos verbos pueden ir seguidos de infinitivo.

Verbos + Gerundio / Infinitivo

Algunos verbos pueden... Continuar leyendo "Inglés: Gramática, Verbos y Modales - Temas 6 y 7" »

1 With which of the four types of sources would you associate the quotation
from MacNeilage at the beginning of the chapter?a)The divine source:Language came from Saravasti wife of Brahma.b)The natural sound:language came from imitations of heard sounds.c)The physical adaptation source:language came from physical aspects distinct from other creatures.d)The genetic source:language came from inaneteness hypothesis.Babies are sign language users or gestual.Human are born with a special capacity for language.
2 What is the basic idea behind the bow-wow theory of language origin?the basic idea behind this theory is the natural sounds.Primitive words could have been imitations of natural sounds which men and women heard around them.
3 Why are interjections

1.The last natural disasters that have happened in different countries have highlighted the severe consequences that they have produced.

One of the most relevant news in the last months has been the earthquake in Haiti.

The international aid, has taken part in different countries through ONG's ?collected money, volunteers and government in general.

?Despite everything, the help does not arrive to all in the affected ones since the amount of sanitary material in proportion to the injured people is very reduced.

?Besides, it has been said that approximately 7000 people have stayed under debris in the capital and in the nearby zones.

2.Also, there are data that says that it should already be 40000 corpses buried in common pits.

The surviving population

Chapter6

The study of the origin and history of a word is known as its etymology, a term which, like many of our technical words, comes to us through Latin, but has its origins in Greek (´etymon original form + logia study of), and is not to be confused with entomology, also from Greek (´entomon insect).
Coinage
One the least common processes ofword formation in English is coinage, that is, the invention of totally newterms. The most typical sources are invented trade names for commercial products that become general terms (usually without capital letters) for any version of that product. Older examples are aspirin,nylon, vaseline and zipper; more recent examples are kleenex, teflon, tylenol and xerox. It may be that there is an obscure technical

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