A new week, a new chance to keep working!
How was your weekend, students? He de decir que la gran mayoría está respondiendo muy bien al trabajo telemático, y estáis motivados en casa estudiando. Seguid así y ya veréis que la recompensa llegará muy pronto. En inglés, se dice "you´ll be reaping the rewards of success soon"
Comenzamos con un documento que os he elaborado sobre VOCABULARY ABOUT HEALTH AND ILLNESS, ¿qué queremos obtener de este documento? que seáis capaces de enriquecer vuestro vocabulario a la hora de hablar de salud, hablar de diferentes enfermedades, síntomas y sobre todo incluir en vuestros writings y speakings (del futuro) estos términos para demostrar que vuestro inglés es variado.
Ill and sick are both adjectives that mean ‘not in good health’. We use both ill and sick after a verb such as be, become, feel, look or seem:
I was ill for a time last year, but I’m fine now.
Nancy looks ill. I wonder what’s wrong with her.
I felt sick and had to go home at lunchtime.
We can use sick before a noun but we don’t normally use ill before a noun:
She’s been looking after a sick child this week, so she’s not at work.
Not: … an ill child …
Note that to be sick means ‘to vomit’ in British English. In American English it means more generally ‘to be unwell’.
Entonces, si un inglés te dice I FEEL SICK, quiere decir que tiene un problema de estómago y seguramente...GANAS DE VOMITAR
Por esa razón I´m sick / I´m ill en British English no es un sinónimo
También , trabajaremos un poco de #WORDFORMATION.
Para algunos alumnos/as, no vosotros ;), una de las complicaciones de la parte del #UseOfEnglish en Selectividad, es la parte de wordformation. Si recordáis, en clase, lo practicábamos con cuadros donde habia que completar para VERB/NOUN/ADJECTIVE/ADVERB
Trucos para formar las palabras
Las palabras se forman de varias maneras como la derivación (la que se aplica a ésta prueba: ejemplo la palabra “aburrir” Bore -verbo- y “aburrimiento” Boredom -sustantivo-) o la composición, otra técnica muy común (como el adjetivo “desagrabale”, off-putting, o “niño de 10 años” que en inglés se combina en una sola palabra a 10-year-old).
Como en la prueba nos concierne el primer método, vamos a analizar las diferentes formas de derivación en inglés.
SUFIJOS para formar SUSTANTIVOS (se añaden al final de la palabra)
tion / -sion: es el más frecuente, indica un estado o acción, proceso, etc. Es fácil de recordar ya que es semejante al castellano. Varios ejemplos podrían ser: examination (examinación), relaxation (relajación), expansion (expansión).
er: significa la persona que realiza una actividad o acción derivada de un verbo: to design (diseñar) se convierte en designer (diseñador). De ahí tenemos otras como: interviewer (entrevistador), plumber (fontanero), employer (empleador).
ee: significa la persona que recibe una acción derivada de un verbo. Comparando con los ejemplos de arriba tendríamos: interviewee (entrevistado), employee (empleado, trabajador), appointee (persona asignada), addressee (destinatario), enrolee (inscrito).
ment: parecido a –tion, indica resultado o acción de algo. Por regla general las palabras que llevan –ment, en castellano acaban en –miento o -mento como movement (movimiento), department (departamento), momento (momento), development (desarrollo), assessment (evaluación, del verbo assess), punishment (castigo, del verbo punish, castigar), embarrasment (vergüeza). La formación de palabras con -ment no suele dar problemas porque te sale intuitivamente.
- ence/-ance: una acción o estado. Por ejemplo: preference (preferencia), allowance (del verbo allow, permitir, allowance es una prestación), assistance (asistencia referente a ayuda, no participación)
- dom: un estado o condición. Sufijo típico anglosajón. Seguro que ya conoces kingdom, reinado, o freedom, libertad, aunque hay otras como boredom (aburrimiento) o wisedom (sabiduría). No suelen predominar tanto los sustantivos con la terminación -dom, así con que te sepas éstos te va a servir.
- al: señala el proceso o estado de algo. Por ejemplo: proposal (propuesta), arrival (llegada).
- ship: indica habilidad, estado o condición. Ejemplos clásicos serían friendship (amistad), citizenship (ciudadanía), relationship (relación), censorship (censura).
- cy: indica condición o estado. Urgency, urgencia.
- ness: condición o estado de algo. A raíz de algunos adjetivos, como dark, sad o mad, tenemos darkness (oscuridad), sadness (tristeza) o madness (locura).
WRITING PRACTICE
1) Do animals contribute to make our lives easier and better? Explain
2) People usually live longer. Explain the reasons of this phenomenon
In general, people are living longer now. Discuss the causes of this phenomenon. Use specific reasons and details to develop your essay.
ResponderEliminarIt is a well-known the fact that during the years the society has undergone a major change, specially in the world of science.
A number of key issues arise from this evolution; one question, which, I usually ask myself is What would have happened if they hadn't discovered so many things? Of course, we must thank all the scientists for their great work. On the one hand,
we have all these discoveries that have changed our lives, a great example of this is the discovery of penicillin, an antibiotic against bacteria therefore it's interesting to be able to help people without any commitment
On the other hand, we can observe from the beginning of the discoveries, that scientists developed an enormous capacity to develop new techniques and improvements for the development of human life. Nevertheless, we still have a long way to go because we have not yet found the cure for all the diseases that unfortunately exist in our world. If I had the ability to work in a laboratory discovering vaccines every day, I would do it. I love being able to help and above all save lives. An example of this evolution is the disease that is today in the world, called coronavirus, although the advantage is that they are studying a vaccine to be able to get out of it. Scientists are the basis for evolution, without them there would be nothing.
To sum up, speaking personally, we have come a long way since the last few years, although we have to keep fighting we must fight for those people who need it.
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an antibiotic against bacteria therefore it's interesting to be able to help people (try not to translate in a literal way FROM SPANISH TO ENGLISH)
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ResponderEliminarDo animals contribute to make our lives easier or better?
ResponderEliminarit is universally acknowledged that animals are the most important species for our lives. They make our life easier and better.
First thanks to animals, peolple can be fed and get all necessary nutrients. For example, cows give us milk and meat, chickens give us eggs, goats give us cheese ..etc. Not only that, some animals like dogs, cats, fish are also pet animals and they make our lives easier. One of the examples is the dogs that are bred to help blind people. Also there are people who are lonely and having pets can make them happy.
Before our modern world, in particular in prehistory, people could survive environmental impacts like cold, storms, snow...etc, using the skins of the animals they hunted.
For these reasons, all animals are important for our survival and also for theirs, even though we do them more harm than good.
Better than in other ocassions! welldone!
EliminarA few years ago people didn´t live as long because there wasn´t cure for many illnesses, they also fed on what there was, because the economy was bad and there were not as many things as now.
ResponderEliminarFor a few years, medicine has been advancing and yhe cure of many diseases has been discovered, as well as antibiotics and vaccines. This makes us now people live longer because there are many people who get sick and can be cured, also the advancement of technology has been very good, because before, there weren´t so many advances in the machines they used to operate.
On the other hand, the food that people had a few years ago wasn´t healthy because there wasn´t money, they ate what they harvested or what they could pay. Now it is different because the economy has improved and we have more resources.
In conclusion people usually live longer because everything has improved and this is very good because our health is better.
Idania Molina González
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ResponderEliminarDo animals contribute to make our lives easier and better? Explain
ResponderEliminarNowadays animals are very important in our society, they are considered pets and they do the life much better.
On the one hand I can say that these animals are incredible because they know us a lot of, they feel with us and more important are that they do our life easier and better. Furthermore when one person can be alone, the pets can do a lot of company, besides the dog accompanying a blind person, these animals are the life of this person, and they help her and save her life
On the other hand, people who have a pet when they want go somewhere they can´t because have a pet is an obligation, you have taken care and sometimes you think that is better haven´t a pet also when you take a long time with a pets, you are sad if something happens.
To sum up I haven’t doubt that the pets do our life easier and better but also think that the pets are an obligation because you take care and can´t go somewhere.
Esmeralda Salvador Cabrerizo 2BC
People usually live longer. Explain the reasons of this phenomenon
ResponderEliminarNowadays people can live more time than the people who lived before, there are a lot of reason of this.
On the one hand the science isn´t the same, the science has now grown a lot of in this last decade due to new inventions, medicines and improvement in the world. Furthermore people have more studies and they know more things than before, people before didn´t know anything.
On the other hand people before haven´t a lot of money and the cannot buy everything they wanted, besides they don’t know what is good and what is bad because they had no knowledge of anything, however nowadays we all know what is good and bad for our health.
To sun up people usually live longer due to development of science and people´s knowledge today
Esmeralda Salvador Cabrerizo 2BC
People usually live longer. Explain the reasons of this phenomenon
ResponderEliminarIt is a well-know fact that at the present day people live longer. This is because science advances every day.
As we know, every person can name a few diseases that caused deaths. For example during the plague millions of people died. Moreover, there are millons of diseases that can be cause of death like AIDS, cancer...etc. For this reason the scientists have discovered and created medicines that help people to live longer.
In comparison, in the past people dind't have medical expertise, and that is why people lived less. They used only plants, flowers, insects..etc like medicines.
From my point of view, people can live longer thanks to the science and with more time, the treatments will exist for most diseases.
PEOPLE USUALLY LIVE LONGER. EXPLAIN THE REASONS OF THIS PHENOMENON.
ResponderEliminarIt is completelu true say that people today in our world live longer than the past. I think are too many the factors behind it. For example the advances of medical science and the healthy style life.
First of all, the advances of medical science and the healthy style life contribuyed to it. It has great beneficial effect on people health. For example, the vaccines prevent many diseases. In addition, the advancement in medicine has necessary to invention many types of medications.
In other hand another important reason is that has prolonging the lives of people is healthy life style. The people must be obligated to consume healthy food. However, we are getting it. Never must forget the importance of perform exercise. Nowadays is more common to see people of all ages doing sports on the street.
To sum up, people nowadays live longer than before. That is firstly because of medical technology development and people opt for healthy life style.
LUCÍA GARCÍA EBERHARDT
ResponderEliminar2) In general, PEOPLE are living longer now. Discuss the causes of this phenomenon. Use specific reasons and details to develop you essay.
People are living longer now, that's true, and as simple as that sounds, the issue is remarkably complex. And what's the reason for this? What things have changed and what things have enabled us to live longer? What has improved? The food sector, technical intervention, the environment?
There have been significant technological developments in the past couple of decades, developments both in the technological field, as in the field of public health, and also in the area of social policy and economics. And actually, there have be taken measures to ensure peaceful social coexistence. Admittedly, living a longer, healthier life can mean staying active longer.
Those retiring now are better educated and are living longer, healthier lives than those in previous generations. This makes sense. Better public health measures have been introduced in the mid-nineteenth century, including cleaner drinking water, better sanitation and, latterly, widespread use of vaccines, began to decrease the number of deaths in early and middle life, leading to an increase in overall life expectancy through to the mid-twentieth century.
During the twentieth century, improved agricultural technologies assured a reliable food supply, so people grew bigger and healthier. Scientific consensus holds that during most human evolution ,life was short. However, we cannot fall into the error of confusing life expectancy and life span.
It's scientifically proven that human’s life span hasn't changed. Furthermore, we are running out of innovations for improved quality of life.
Finally, we all know that there are also new health tools for epidemic prevention and control, more and better drugs for rare diseases and so on. For all that, life expectancy has strikingly increased, cures are available or foreseen for many diseases, and health care has improved dramatically.
DO ANIMALS CONTRIBUTE TO MAKING OUR LIVES EASIER AND BETTER? EXPLAIN
ResponderEliminarThat animals contribute to making our lives easier and better is a fact that we all know.
On the one hand, we can highlight the importance of pets. They are incredible animals that make us feel better. They also keep us company when we are alone and can help reduce depression.
However, having a pet can be a big responsibility. It can be a disadvantage when we are traveling.
On the other hand, we must remember the importance of animals in general on the planet. Animals are part of the food chain and keep ecosystems in balance. All animals have an essential role on the planet. Furthermore, we use most animals for food.
In conclusion, I believe that all animals contribute to making our lives easier and better. In spite of having a pet in your home it can be a great responsibility that not everyone knows how to assume.
DO ANIMALS CONTRIBUTE TO MAKING OUR LIVES EASIER AND BETTER? EXPLAIN
ResponderEliminarFor the great majority of people is true that animals are one of the best way to distract and in a way, if you have a pet you will improve your state of mind.
First of all, let us try to understand, why are the animals so important? For a long years, people who lives in countries, used certain animals to transport merchandise, in this century aniamls were like cars. Fortunately, Little by Little this finished. We musn´t forget how importants pets to daily days. It is reasonalbe to think that pets need many things, nevertheless, if you love animals, you won´t any problema to bring up one. Pets are animals how helps you to feel better, her company can even heal a depression. It is a well-known fact the prhase “dog is the best Friend of human”.
On the other hand, animals meals is too important to health. It contains large proteins; feed properly includes eating red meat, fish of various kinds, etc. For this reason animals are one of the basis that people are healthy. Animals bring a lot of things, one example of this is the honey, milk of the cows or egs, all of them necessary for healthy eating. Of course, furthermore to the food, animals bring manure to the environment, required to the field.
To sum up, with this all in mind, animals are essential for the functioning of life, without them many things would not be possible, we must take care of them and teach people not to abandon them.
DO ANIMALS CONTRIBUTE TO MAKING OUR LIVES EASIER AND BETTER? EXPLAIN
ResponderEliminarIt is universally acknowledged the importance of animals, apart from contributing benefits in some aspects, they also make life easier and better.
Almost everyone has ever had a pet in their life and it is evident that they require cares and they have a series of responsibilities.It is very likely that there are many people who don´t like animals or haven´t pets. But on the other hand, they bring a lot of company and love in addition to entertainment.
Also from those benefits they also provide many more such as in the field of food, in addition to being part of the food, another fact that we mustn´t forget is that many products that are included in our daily diet are provies products of different animals.
From my point of view, animals facilitate and improve our lives since throughout history we have always benefited from them in one way or another, so it can be said that animals they continue to make life easier for us.
Nerea Cobo Martínez
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EliminarPEOPLE USUALLY LIVE LONGER. EXPLAIN THE REASONS OF THIS PHENOMENON.
ResponderEliminarIt is a well known fact that as time passes, everything has evolved and many of these changes can be seen today, especially in many aspects of science.
People now live longer, but why is this? It is evident that our current life is not the same as that of our ancestors. On the one hand, there are many inventions that have facilitated our work and this means that we can have a better quality of life. On the other hand, advances in science and medicine have been fundamental for the existence of antibiotics and new knowledge about diseases or other things that allow greater security.
In conclusion, people now live longer due to the evolution that medicine has undergone, which gives us a better quality of life.
Nerea Cobo Martínez