Thursday, November 28, 2013

Fwd: [eoi-english-2013-ni2b:28] Class summary for November 14th

Thanks, Almudena!  Watch out for spelling slips.

[1] Cuando van delante del nombre los adjetivos de más de una palabra se escriben con guión.

[2] Infinitivo de propósito

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From: GARCIACLEMENTE@telefonica.net <GARCIACLEMENTE@telefonica.net>
Date: Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Subject: [eoi-english-2013-ni2b:28] Class summary for November 14th
To: eoi-english-2013-ni2b@googlegroups.com


Hi everybody,

     I,m going to -talk +tell you about the -summary +class of last thursday, 14th of November.

  •      At the beginning of the class, we corrected +the/some exercises of the handout "Giving advice":
       Useful vocabulary and grammar to give -advices +advice or recommendations: Otherwise, other than, apart from
  1. We use otherwise (de lo contrario/si no) to show contrast with other option or idea:
                             I´d study more English if I were you. Otherwise, you´ll fall your English exam (This is not a metaphor)

       2.  We use other than that/apart from that/ otherwise to mean in addition something is not mentioned before:

               In Goya Street there is a good restaurant of tipical, -[good quality] +good-quality [1], Spanish food, other than that/ apart from that/ otherwise, you can go to Latina -[for eating] +[to eat] [2] a great short [???] of  aperitivos

Watch out!!! when you use other than or apart from, you have to talk about first thing what you talk before, I mean:
There are several hotels in town wich aren´t too expensive. apart from,  there´s a nice campsite on the outskirts. INCORRECT
There are several hotels in town which aren´t too expensive. apart from the hotels or apart form that,  there´s a nice campsite on the outskirts. CORRECT
        3.   You can  use apart from that (aparte de esto)/ other than that (además de esto) to join two parts of a sentence, you can´t use otherwise:
               You could go to Navacerrada to do sky +[. A] apart from doing sky, there is a great spa if you´d like relaxing.
  • Then, we did +the activities of Unit 02 "Track your feelings", pages 16 and 17, exercises 1, 2a, 2b, 3a and 3b, these exercises deal with "Describing how you feel", adjetives about feelings, these are some of -their +them:
awkward   UK: /ˈɔː.kwəd/ US: /ˈɑː.kwə`d/
an awkward situation una situación incómoda

relaxed: X is pronounced /ks/---- /rɪˈlækst/
I feel relaxed when I`m on holidays

stressed: SSED is pronunced /t/----/strest/
I feel stressed when holidays had just finished and depressed and upset too. (pronunciation of depressed is similar than stressed)



  • We can use -quantifying +quantifiers to emphasise meaning of adjetives using adverbs, for instance:

-estremely +extremely, hugely, dead =(completely), definitily, quite, rather, sligtly, not in the least, not at all.   I`m going to give some examples:

                             I'm dead sure =Estoy completamente segura
                             I'm not in the least worried =No estoy preocupada en absoluto
                             I`m not at all nervous= No estoy en absoluto nerviosa

  • Finally some vocabulary and expressions that we learned this day:

drill (n) taladro/ ejercicio, práctica/ instruccion (ejercito)
      a pronunciation drill

to drill (v) taladrar/educar, entrenar/ instruir (ejercito)
      He drilled the children in what they should say.

to claim: afirmar/reclamar/cobrar (vidas)
      she claimed that she had seen it= Ella afirmaba lo que había visto
      He claimed that he should get the first prize= El reclamaba que debía haber ganado el primer premio
      The hurricane claims ten lives= El huracan se cobra diez vidas

to reclaim= reclamar
      I`m going to the baggage reclaim to pick up my luggage.

It serves me right for not studyng more= me está bien empleado por no estudiar más

small hours (n)= the early hours of the morning, between twelve o'clock at night and the time when the sun rises
 She was up until the small hours of the morning trying to finish her homework

That`s all friends

Almudena



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