Loan words

Now, find another word in English which is not English and explain it to the class.

Tell: The word

Where it comes from

Meaning and how it is used.

Revision. Sept 2019

For my Bachillerato Students, a web with lots of revision activities. Just click on the links:

1º Bachillerato

2º Bachillerato

Revision Bachillerato

A few things to revise

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Trabajo final

Watch this video on reported speech

Punctuation and internet signs

Seal attacks with octopus

Seal and octopus

Click on the link to read a shocking piece of news, and don’t miss the vídeo!

Gerunds and Infinitives

Listen up and fill the songs with the correct verb form.
GERUNDS

1. As subject of sentences:

            Ex:       Living in London is expensive.

                        Seeing is believing.

2. After phrasal verbs:

            Ex:       I look forward to hearing from you.

3. After prepositions:

            Ex:       She had only one job since leaving school.

                       I’m tired of waiting for him.

4. After certain verbs:

            ADMIT              AVOID              CONTINUE       CONSIDER                   DELAY                         DENY               ENJOY             FANCY             FINISH                          FORGIVE                     HATE               INVOLVE          LOVE               MISS                            SUGGEST

5. With possessive:

            Ex:       Mary insisted on Arthur’s helping.

                       Will you excuse my leaving?

6. After some expressions:

            – IT’S NO USE / IT’S NO GOOD

                       Ex:       It’s no use worrying about it.

                                   It’s no good trying to persuade me.

·        IT’S (NOT) WORTH

                       Ex:       Do you think this book is worth reading?

·        HAVE DIFFICULTY (IN)

                       Ex:       Some people have great difficulty in reading and writing.

·        A WASTE OF TIME / MONEY

                       Ex:       It’s a waste of time reading that book

                                   It’s a waste of money buying things you don’t need.

·        SPEND / WASTE (TIME)

                       Ex:       I spent hours trying to repair the clock.

                                   He wastes a lot of time day-dreaming.

·        GO + Activities and sports

                       Ex:       We always go cycling at the weekend.

·        CAN’T STAND

                       Ex:       I can’t stand getting up early on Sundays.

·        CAN’T HELP

                       Ex:       It was so funny that I couldn’t help laughing.

·        FEEL LIKE

                       Ex:       I don’t feel like staying at home. Let’s go for a walk.

            – BE / GET USED TO

                       Ex:       We are used to having a shower before breakfast.

                                   I couldn’t get used to driving on the left, so I always used public transport.

INFINITIVES

A – BARE INFINITIVE OR INFINITVE WITHOUT TO

1. After modals and auxiliaries:           CAN                 COULD             DO                   MAY                                        MIGHT              MUST              SHALL              SHOULD           WILL     WOULD

2. After            MAKE   Ex:       My parents make me tidy my bedroom before I leave for school.                            LET      Ex:       They won’t let you use your mobile.

                                              

3. After            HAD BETTER                Ex:       You’d better phone him.

                       WOULD RATHER          Ex:       I’d rather not see him.

B – TO  INFINITIVE

1. After some verbs:

AFFORD           AGREE             APPEAR / SEEM                       ARRANGE        ASK      CHOOSE          DECIDE            EXPECT           FAIL                 HELP                HOPE               LEARN             MANAGE          PLAN               PRETEND         PROMISE         REFUSE           TEND               THREATEN       WANT  

Ex:       Arthur managed to find a seat.

            We hope to start tomorrow.

            They expect to have the tickets tomorrow.

            He promised to obey.

2. Verbs followed by OBJECT + TO INFINITIVE

            ADVISE             ALLOW             ASK                 ENCOURAGE               EXPECT                       HELP                INVITE              ORDER            REMIND                       TEACH

            TELL                WARN              WANT

            Ex:       Do you want me to help you?

                       He asked me to turn up the radio.

3. After adjectives and some adverbs.

            Ex:       I’m sorry to say I’ve lost the ticket.

                       The singer was delighted to see so many people.

                       Cans are easy to open.

4. After TOO and ENOUGH.

            Ex:       He’s too young to drive.   /   He’s not old enough to drive.

                                  

INFINITIVE OR  -ING FORM

A – With no change of meaning

            BEGIN              BOTHER           CONTINUE       DISLIKE            ENJOY             HATE               LIKE                 LOVE               MIND                PREFER            START

• NOTE: The verbs LOVE, LIKE, HATE, PREFER when used in the conditional are followed by TO  INFINITIVE.

            EX:       Would you like to come with me?

                       I’d love to come with you.

B – With change of meaning

            * TO INFINITIVE usually refers to an action in the present or future.

            * - ING FORM usually refers to an action in the past.

            FORGET / REMEMBER + TO INFINITIVE: (for necessary actions. The remembering is before the action.)

                                   I must remember to post the letters. It’s important.

                                   The clothes are still dirty because I forgot to switch on the machine.

            FORGET / REMEMBER +  -ING FORM: (For memories of the past. The action is before the remembering.)

                                   I remember posting the letter. I posted it on Friday morning.

                                   I’ll never forget flying on the Grand Canyon. It was wonderful.                               

            REGRET:         I regret to say that your advice was wrong. (To be sorry for something you are doing)

He regrets having made fun of her in front of the children. (To be sorry for something that

happened in the past.)

            STOP:              I’ve stopped smoking. (The activity stops.)

                                   I stopped for a few minutes to rest. (Gives the reason for stopping)

            TRY:                I’m trying to run this computer program. (To attempt something, to do your best.)

I tried clicking on the box, but it didn’t work. (To do something that might solve a problem, an

experiment, to see if it works.)

C – the verbs of sensation:      SEE      FEEL    HEAR   and       WATCH  take the infinitive without TO or the ING form. The infinitive implies that the action is complete. SMELL is always followed by the ING form.

                                            He saw her drive down the road.

                                            She saw him shouting as she was driving away.

                                            Can you smell something burning?

Enlace a exámenes de selectividad

En el enlace encontraréis en .zip todos los exámenes de años anteriores y las orientaciones de inglés:

Orientaciones inglés

Selectividad. Todas las pruebas.
Y una página con los últimos exámenes:
Lallena's page

Os dejo aquí también el enlace a la web del Departamento de Orientación, donde encontraréis información sobre grados y demás temas de interés:

Web orientación

Os dejo aquí también el enlace a la web del Departamento de Orientación, donde encontraréis información sobre grados y demás temas de interés:

Web orientación

Deliveroo.

Deliveroo? A new way of business has gone too far?

Read and answer: What is Deliveroo?
                               Why is it causing trouble?
                               Do you think the food is the same no matter where cooked? Why?

Facebook, thumbs up, or down?

Read the text and discuss about Facebook and / or social networks.

NFL and Trump

NFL and Donald Trump

The President did it again. Read the piece of news and answer the questions:
-Why did Stevie Wonder support the NFL players? How?
-What did Trump say and why?
-What is your opinion on the issue?

Soluciones selectividad

TATTOOS:

http://melophea.blogspot.com.es/2015/10/tattoos-pau-2015-andalucia-resuelto.html#axzz48SYLH18q

EDUCATION HELPS BRAIN AGAINST DEMENTIA CHANGES

http://melophea.blogspot.com.es/2012/08/education-helps-brain-against-dementia.html#axzz48SYLH18q

TOO POSH TO PUSH MYTH

Wish clauses

WISH CLAUSES

Wish y if only pueden usarse de la misma forma. If only con frecuencia se usa para dar más énfasis al deseo o lamento.

FORMA	USO	EJEMPLOS
Wish + would / Could + Verb	Normalmente hace referencia al futuro. Queja sobre el presente o deseo de cambio.	- I wish he could be here tomorrow. - I wish she wouldn’t drive so fast. - I wish it would stop raining.
Wish + past simple	Lamento sobre una situación presente.	- I wish I knew her phone number. (I’m sorry I don’t know her number) - I wish Peter were / was here now. (Both forms are possible)
Wish + past perfect	Lamento sobre una situación pasada.	-I wish I hadn’t spent all my money. (I’m sorry I spent all my money) - If only I hadn’t eaten so much cake. (I really feel ill because I ate too much cake.)

And some exercises:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/if.htm

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences

http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/upper-intermediate/zero-first-second-third-conditionals

Relative clauses

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/relative-clauses

We use relative clauses to give additional information about something without starting another sentence. By combining sentences with a relative clause, your text becomes more fluent and you can avoid repeating certain words.

How to Form Relative Clauses 

Imagine, a girl is talking to Tom. You want to know who she is and ask a friend whether he knows her. You could say:

A girl is talking to Tom. Do you know the girl?

That sounds rather complicated, doesn't it? It would be easier with a relative clause: you put both pieces of information into one sentence. Start with the most important thing  – you want to know who the girl is.

Do you know the girl …

As your friend cannot know which girl you are talking about, you need to put in the additional information  – the girl is talking to Tom. Use „the girl“ only in the first part of the sentence, in the second part replace it with the relative pronoun (for people, use the relative pronoun „who“). So the final sentence is:

Do you know the girl who is talking to Tom?

Relative Pronouns 

relative pronoun	use	example
who	subject or object pronoun for people	I told you about the woman wholives next door.
which	subject or object pronoun for animals and things	Do you see the cat which is lying on the roof?
which	referring to a whole sentence	He couldn’t read which surprised me.
whose	possession for people animals and things	Do you know the boy whosemother is a nurse?
whom	object pronoun for people, especially in non-defining relative clauses (in defining relative clauses we colloquially prefer who)	I was invited by the professor whom I met at the conference.
that	subject or object pronoun for people, animals and things in defining relative clauses (who or which are also possible)	I don’t like the table that stands in the kitchen.

Subject Pronoun or Object Pronoun? 

Subject and object pronouns cannot be distinguished by their forms - who, which, that are used for subject and object pronouns. You can, however, distinguish them as follows:

If the relative pronoun is followed by a verb, the relative pronoun is a subject pronoun. Subject pronouns must always be used.

the apple which is lying on the table

If the relative pronoun is not followed by a verb (but by a noun or pronoun), the relative pronoun is an object pronoun. Object pronouns can be dropped in defining relative clauses, which are then called Contact Clauses.

the apple (which) George lay on the table

Relative Adverbs 

A relative adverb can be used instead of a relative pronoun plus preposition. This often makes the sentence easier to understand.

This is the shop in which I bought my bike.
→ This is the shop where I bought my bike.

relative adverb	meaning	use	example
when	in/on which	refers to a time expression	the day when we met him
where	in/at which	refers to a place	the place where we met him
why	for which	refers to a reason	the reason why we met him

➡️ How to use them and when they can be omitted:

Relative adverbs

Defining Relative Clauses 

Defining relative clauses (also called identifying relative clauses or restrictive relative clauses) give detailed information defining a general term or expression. Defining relative clauses are not put in commas.

Imagine, Tom is in a room with five girls. One girl is talking to Tom and you ask somebody whether he knows this girl. Here the relative clause defines which of the five girls you mean.

Do you know the girl who is talking to Tom?

Defining relative clauses are often used in definitions.

A seaman is someone who works on a ship.

Object pronouns in defining relative clauses can be dropped. (Sentences with a relative clause without the relative pronoun are called Contact Clauses.)

The boy (who/whom) we met yesterday is very nice.

Non-Defining Relative Clauses 

Non-defining relative clauses (also called non-identifying relative clauses or non-restrictive relative clauses) give additional information on something, but do not define it. Non-defining
relative clauses are put in commas.

Imagine, Tom is in a room with only one girl. The two are talking to each other and you ask somebody whether he knows this girl. Here the relative clause is non-defining because in this situation it is obvious which girl you mean.

Do you know the girl, who is talking to Tom?

Note: In non-defining relative clauses, who/which may not be replaced with that.

Object pronouns in non-defining relative clauses must be used.

Jim, who/whom we met yesterday, is very nice.

How to Shorten Relative Clauses? 

Relative clauses with who, which, that as subject pronoun can be replaced with a participle. This makes the sentence shorter and easier to understand.

I told you about the woman who lives next door. – I told you about the woman living next door.

Do you see the cat which is lying on the roof? – Do you see the cat lying on the roof?

Selectividad. Orientaciones

http://www10.ujaen.es/conocenos/servicios-unidades/sga/tramites/acceso/selectividad


http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/innovacioncienciayempresa/sguit/paginas/distrito/examenes_sel_m25/criterios_selectividad/directrices_y_orientaciones_lengua_extranjera_(ingles)_2015_2016.pdf

http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/innovacioncienciayempresa/sguit/g_b_examenes_anteriores.php

Reported speech exercises

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-reported-speech.php

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/reported-speech

http://www.ejerciciosinglesonline.com/exercises-and-theory/grammar-exercises-and-theory/reported-speech/

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.report2.p.htm

Reported Speech

Smell, shops, and idioms of the senses

Idioms on Senses

Here are samples of idioms which are related to the human senses. Their meanings are included.

Sense of Taste

A Taste Of Your Own Medicine
– When you are mistreated the same way you mistreat others.

Bite Your Tongue
– To avoid talking.

A Still Tongue Keeps a Wise Head
– Wise people don’t talk much.

Sense of Smell

Smell A Rat
– To detect somone in the group is betraying the others.

Smell Something Fishy
– Detecting that something isn’t right and there might be a reason for it.

Sense of Touch

A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush 
– Having something that is certain is much better than taking a risk for more, because chances are you might lose everything.

Sense of Hearing

Actions Speak Louder Than Words
– It’s better to actually do something than just talk about it.

Lend Me Your Ear
– To politely ask for someone’s full attention.

Pick up your ears
– To listen very carefully.

Van Gogh’s ear for music
– Tone deaf.

Sense of Sight

Apple of My Eye
– Someone who is cherished above all others.

Keep An Eye On Him
– You should carefully watch him.

Turn A Blind Eye
– Refuse to acknowledge something you know is real or legit.

Smello-retail: shops using scent to keep hold of customers

Retailers are increasingly using secret smells to ensure customers stay in their shops as long as possible and part with their money. 

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"Lotus Flower", a floral smell with hints of moss, has been revealed as the most popular scent by the Canadian company that has pioneered the technology. "Enchanted apple", which has accents of musk, is the second most popular. 

The company is now working with over 20,000 different shops in Britain to help them use sound as well as visual media, such as in-store television, to boost their sales. And its latest weapon is scent "for attracting a customer's loyalty and love of your brand". 

Mood Media, a Canadian company, which is listed on the London stock market, has already created scents for Habitat, the furniture shop, Timberland, the outdoor clothing retailer and Guess, a fashion chain. 

It is confident that its other clients, including many of the High Street clothes shops, gyms, banks, hotels and medical centres will start to use the perfumes, which are pumped out through the air conditioning units. 

Lorne Abony, the chief executive, said: "If a shop smells bad, a customer will walk out. It's as simple as that. The longer you can get a customer to stay in the store, the more likely they are to buy. 

"We've proved from our work in America that using the smell of grass cuttings in a DIY store, for example, encourages people to think about buying gardening equipment. 

"It's also about brand identity so a Timberland store in North America smells the same as one in Europe." 

Supermarkets have for a long time directed the ventilation units from their in-store bakeries – pumping out the smell of fresh loaves and pastries – to the entrance in order to entice in customers. But the use of artificial smells is in its infancy. "You have to be careful and subtle, so that most customers don't even notice it, except from on a subconscious level," said Mr Abony. 

Studies in Britain have shown that playing German music in the wine aisle of a supermarket encourages consumers to pick German wines, while playing French music encourages them to pick up French wine. 

"The science behind smell on consumer behaviour is in its infancy," said Mr Abony. "But we think it has an impact, making consumers more relaxed." 

He predicted that it would not be long before banks started using smell technology. Mr Abony said: "We haven't worked out the smell of money, but when we do, we know we'll be onto something." 

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