Chuletas y apuntes de Inglés

Propiedades del lenguaje humano

Desplazamiento

Los seres humanos pueden referirse al tiempo pasado y futuro. Esta propiedad del lenguaje humano se denomina desplazamiento. Permite a los hablantes hablar de cosas y eventos que no están presentes en el entorno inmediato. De hecho, el desplazamiento nos permite hablar de cosas y lugares (por ejemplo, ángeles, hadas, Papá Noel, Superman, cielo, infierno) cuya existencia ni siquiera podemos estar seguros.

Arbitrariedad

En la arbitrariedad no existe una conexión natural entre una forma lingüística dada y su significado. Cada palabra o morfema implica únicamente un acuerdo convencional entre los hablantes nativos de una lengua determinada.

Productividad

Los seres humanos crean continuamente nuevas...

Collection of Opinion Essays on Modern Social Topics

Here are four well-structured opinion essays covering contemporary debates about technology, personal relationships, culture, and public institutions.

1. Have Mobile Phones Got a Positive or Negative Influence on People’s Lives?

Nowadays, most people use mobile phones, and I think they have a positive influence on our lives. First of all, mobile phones help us stay in touch with family and friends. We can call, text, or even video chat with them anytime. Also, phones are helpful for everyday activities like shopping, finding directions, or checking the news.

From my point of view, mobile phones can be distracting sometimes, but they still have many benefits. Some people say that phones make...

Listado Esencial de Verbos en Inglés

A continuación, se presenta un completo repertorio de verbos en inglés acompañados de su significado en español y sus formas verbales correspondientes:

• to play - jugar - played - played
• to be - ser o estar - am/is/are - was/were - been
• to need - necesitar - needed - needed
• to begin - empezar - began - begun
• to work - trabajar - worked - worked
• to live - vivir - lived - lived
• to study - estudiar - studied - studied
• to watch - ver/mirar - watched - watched
• to break - romper - broke - broken
• to bring - traer - brought - brought
• to listen - escuchar - listened - listened
• to build - construir - built - built
• to learn - aprender - learned - learned
• to buy - comprar - bought - bought
• to catch - atrapar - caught - caught
• to

MODALS

Can

• Expressa habilitat o capacitat.
• S'utilitza per fer peticions, donar i demanar permís.
• Indica possibilitat.
• Es fa servir per fer suggeriments.

Exemple: YOU can use my violin tonight. (Pots utilitzar el meu violí aquesta nit.)

Be able to

Té el mateix significat que can, però com que can només pot emprar-se en Present Simple, a la resta de temps verbals utilitzem be able to.

Can't

És la forma negativa de can.

• Expressa prohibició.
• Expressa deducció negativa o certesa que alguna cosa és impossible.

Could

• Expressa habilitat o capacitat en el passat.
• S'utilitza per fer peticions més educades que amb can.
• Indica possibilitat més remota que amb can.
• Es fa servir per fer suggeriments menys directes que amb can.

May / Might

Expressen possibilitat (...

Vocabulari anglès-català

• a needle in a haystack - una agulla en un paller
• accommodation - allotjament
• all the way - tot el camí
• atmosphere - ambient
• awesome - increïble
• back and forth - d’un costat a l’altre
• book in advance - reservar amb temps
• check in - registrar-se
• check out - pagar i marxar
• cliff - penya-segat
• college - facultat
• come across - trobar per casualitat
• drop - deixar anar
• end up - acabar
• eventually - finalment
• experience - experiència
• fall asleep - adormir-se
• far and wide - de tot arreu
• fare - preu
• find one’s way - orientar-se
• fixed price - preu fix
• for the time being - de moment
• forest - bosc
• get closer - acostar-se
• get in the way - destorbar
• go sightseeing - anar a fer turisme
• guided tour - visita guiada
• (someone’s) heart skipped a beat -

Vocabulari i Expressions en Anglès i Català

• Amazed / asombrat
• Be worth / valer
• Beat / donar cops
• Blow up / volar
• By heart / de memòria
• Deck / coberta
• Evidence / proves
• Fell over / ensopegar
• Fitted / encaixava
• Gathering up / recollir
• Greedy / cobdiciós
• Harmless / inofensiu
• Horse-drawn cab / cotxe de cavalls
• I'd better / seria millor
• Cheerful mood / bon humor
• Involved / implicat
• Made sense / tenia sentit
• Matches / coincideix amb...
• Misses / enyorava
• Monitoring / controlant
• Morgue / dipòsit de cadàvers
• Nastily / de manera desagradable
• Neatly / elegantment
• Patroness / protectora
• Regulations / reglament
• Release / alliberació
• Relieved / alleugerit
• Shivering / tremolant
• Slightly / una mica
• Smooth / suau
• Staring / mirant fixament
• Support / mantenir
• Swollen / inflades
• Target

Lista de verbos irregulares en inglés

A continuación encontrarás una lista de verbos irregulares en inglés con su forma base, pasado simple, participio pasado y significado en español.

Verbos irregulares de la A a la L

• lend / lent / lent: prestar
• let / let / let: permitir, dejar
• lie / lay / lain: tumbarse, echarse
• light / lit / lit: encender
• lose / lost / lost: perder
• make / made / made: hacer, fabricar
• mean / meant / meant: significar, querer decir
• meet / met / met: conocer a, reunirse con
• pay / paid / paid: pagar
• put / put / put: poner
• read / read / read: leer
• ride / rode / ridden: montar
• ring / rang / rung: llamar por teléfono
• rise / rose / risen: elevarse, alzarse
• run / ran / run: correr
• say / said / said: decir
• see / saw / seen: ver
• sell / sold / sold:

1. Essay: The Impact of Mobile Phones in Modern Society

Nowadays, mobile phones are essential in our society; more than 70% of the Spanish population has one or more than one mobile device. This reality entails both positive and negative consequences.

On the one hand, I believe that a mobile phone is something truly necessary because you can communicate with people who live far away or whom you cannot meet in person. In addition, these devices possess technology that offers the possibility of searching for information, streaming series, or accessing whatever content you want at any given time.

On the other hand, although they represent a great technological advance, they have caused face-to-face social life to decrease significantly. A clear example...