Showing posts with label bachillerato. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bachillerato. Show all posts

Tuesday 26 May 2020

Consejos para el examen de selectividad


Aquí os dejo un enlace a uno de mis vídeos con consejillos para selectividad.




🍀Good Luck 🍀 and May the Force be with you! 💪🏻



Sunday 15 March 2020

REPASO 1º DE BACHILLERATO



Aquí os dejo un enlace a hojas de repaso de los temas vistos este trimestre. Eso, junto al acceso al libro virtual que os envié a través de María Madrid (1ºC)  y María del Mar (1ºB) es suficiente para estas dos semanas.



REPASO 1º BACHILLERATO


Dudas, al correo electrónico o via Google Classroom.

Take care and stay at home!!!!


Tuesday 4 February 2020

Jobs and job positions


There are a lot of abbreviations for top leadership positions that contain the words “Chief and Officer” in the title. It may be confusing to keep the players straight. It may help to explain that a corporate officer holds a management-level position, such as a President, Vice President, or General Manager. Other common positions include:
·         CEO – Chief Executive Officer – This person is the highest ranking corporate officer.  They are the head of management for an organization.  They report to the board of directors. They make high-level decisions about policy and strategy.  The people that report to the CEO include:  The CBDO (Chief Business Development Officer), CFO (Chief Financial Officer), COO (Chief Operating Officer), CMO (Chief Marketing Officer), CIO (Chief Information Officer), CCO (Chief Communications Officer), CLO (Chief Legal Officer), CTO (Chief Technology Officer), CRO (Chief Risk Officer), CCO (Chief Creative Officer), CCO (Chief Compliance Officer), CAE (Chief Audit Executive), CDO (Chief Diversity Officer), and CHRO (Chief Human Resources Officer).  Steve Jobs was an example of a top CEO.  To find out more about these other chief officer positions, click hereCheck out:  The Best Performing CEO’s in the World.
·         COO – Chief Operating Officer – This person is responsible for the day to day operations or an organization.  Not all companies have one.  In 2006 more than 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies did not have a COO.  This person may also be called the company’s President.  This person could be thought of as the second in command behind the Chairman or CEO.  An example of a top COO is:  Tim Cook was the COO for Apple before replacing Steve Jobs as CEO. Check out: List of Famous Chief Operating Officers.
·         CFO – Chief Financial Officer – This person manages the corporation’s financial risk.  They deal with data analysis, financial planning and record keeping.  Although they report to the CEO, they may also sit on the board of directors.  Peter Oppenheimer is Apple’s CFO.  Check out:  Bonus Babies . . . The Best Paid CFO’s.
·         CMO – Chief Marketing Officer – This person is the head of sales, product development and all things marketing-related.  The CMO can report to either the CEO or COO. Their job is to obtain growth through sales and marketing.  The CMO has become more commonly discussed in recent years.  Check out:  The Chief Marketing Officer . . . A new Boardroom Role.
·         CIO – Chief Information Officer – This person is the head of information technology.  They may report to the CEO, CFO or COO.  They must create strategic goals to increase information accessibility and manage integrated systems.  The CIO and CTO roles are often confused.  Check out:  What is the Difference Between CIO and CTO.
There may be other chief officers’ positions in other industries as well.  For example in hospitals there could be a CMO (Chief Medical Officer), a CNO (Chief Nursing Officer) and a CMIO (Chief Medical Informatics Officer).







Crazy Jobs Around The World You Won’t Believe Actually Exist
As kids, we've always been asked this question and our mad-cap answers answers have made our parents smile. But little did they know that most of what we said were actually full-fledged professions (there's even a job where you have to sleep).
Here's a list of 21 such crazy jobs across the globe that you will not believe exist:

1. Professional Pusher
Japan is indeed a hardworking nation. It makes sure that all its people reach work on time and that's why Japan has employed people to push others onto trains so that nobody's late for work. I love this country!

2. Rental Boyfriend
In Tokyo, if you have the money, finding a boyfriend is as easy as it gets. I don't really know what all the boyfriend will do, but it sure sounds fun. I'll be shifting to Tokyo the day the Japanese come up with the concept of 'Rental Girlfriends'.

3. Professional Stand-In-Liner
As long as there are queues in the world, Narabiyas (Japanese for stand-in-liners) will never be out of fashion. These freelancers will happily wait in long queues for you as long as you pay them some money.

4. Professional Sleeper
My first reaction when I came across this job was... Wow! You actually get paid to... Sleep! Professional Sleepers doze off while scientists conduct research on sleep disorders. This has to be undoubtedly the most comfortable job on the planet.

5. Wedding Guest
This is a part-time job in Japan where people double up as wedding guests. Don't believe me? Here's an ad. Ask a Japanese friend to translate and you'll know. Apart from the money, they also get free food.

6. Vomit Cleaner
Some roller coasters dip, rise and turn at such crazy angles that your breakfast is bound to come out the wrong way. Amusement park owners knew this fact and thus this job came into being.
Q. Why would anyone do this job? A. Free rides.

7. Deodorant Tester
You have a habit of poking your nose into other people's business. Well, these people poke their noses into other people's armpits to test the odour-fighting powers of deodorants. Now that's what you call a stinking job.

8. Water Slide Tester
All play and no work makes Jack a dull boy. Not in this case, because Jack's work involves a lot of playing in water. Water Slide Testers have to check all aspects of safety and make sure these rides are absolutely safe. There's always medical insurance for those who break a bone or two.

9. Paper Towel Sniffer
Paper towel manufacturers leave no stone unturned (loosely translated to leave no roll unsniffed) in ensuring that their rolls don't smell foul before, during and after use. How do they check for any unwanted smell after use? Gross!
10. Chicken Sexer
Sure, there are chics involved, but still there's nothing sexy about this job. A chicken sexer's job is to identify the gender of a baby chicken. That's about it.
11. Professional Cuddler
If you happen to be in Japan and are missing your girlfriend, just shell out some cash and you get to cuddle and sleep next to a Japanese woman. Just cuddle, mind you.

12. Pet Food Taster
Whoever came up with this job must be a true-blue animal lover or someone who likes to chew weird-tasting food. Do animals and humans have similar taste buds?
13. Professional Mourner
You'll need these mourners if nobody gave a damn about you when you were alive. It's sad that you won't be able to see them mourn for you because you'd be in the coffin.
14. Cuidacarro
You'll meet a cuidacarro when you park your car in Costa Rica. His job isn't as complicated as it sounds. All a cuidacarro does is watch your car when you are gone so that nobody steals it (unless he himself has taken a fancy to it).

15. Furniture Tester
As long as the furniture's not made of cactus, this job's pretty cool. You have to sit, wriggle and sleep on the furniture to asses its comfort. This job is so cool that it's weird.

16. Wrinkle Chaser
The name says it all. Wrinkle chasers make sure there are no creases on shoes when they are whisked out of the factory. Yeah, I said that right - shoes . How else do you think those high-heels look so classy?

21. Bicycle Fishers
Amsterdam is the most bicycle friendly capital city of the world. It's no surprise then that a lot of these two-wheelers end up in one of the canals, thus giving rise to another profession - the bicycle fisher. Each year Amsterdam fishes out around 14,000 rusty bikes from its waterways.



Friday 22 November 2019

A presentation with genially

You will have to create a presentation using Genially. For that, follow these links to get help.
The presentation should be about any aspect related to the environment.
Ask for help if you need any.

Click to see our genially about recycling


Genially tutorial

Web de ayuda para crear un Genially

Stages to do a Genially in class
  • Present a plan which shows clearly the staging of the activities that the students used to prepare the project (e.g. Stage 1. Choose topic and establish groups; 2) choose modality of Genially…)
1. First, we were dealing with the issue of environment and environmental problems so they decided to to a genially on how to recycle better.
2. The small groups looked on a suitable source of information, and they decided on an article each. As we don’t always have access to the computer room, they finally reached an agreement and decided to do something about recycling. 
3, For that, they were investigating on the different templates, as they did not have any previous experience on Genially and they chose a quiz. We also watched a tutorial which I uploaded on the blog.
4. Again in the small groups, they chose one question each (they are 20 students organised in 5 groups of 4 people). They also had to search for images and the way to write them for the quiz.
5. Then, one representative of each group was chosen as a spokesperson because they had to decide on common things such as the background, the same way to answer the questions, etc,
6. Finally, the representatives did the presentation while the rest of the groups decided on how to present it orally. Each group had to talk about why was everything chosen and how they reached agreements.
7. Last but not least, the spokespeople did the presentation in class and decided that every person in every group should go to other groups of the ESO and Bachillerato students to introduce their presentation,
  • Comment on how decisions were taken as to the grouping of students and timings of the process.
The decisions all had to be made within the groups and quite quickly, as we only had two hours in this particular subject to do it. There was a timer set on the computer and although it was quite stressful, they also learnt to organise their time better.

  • A sample of any additional materials you used (handouts, project planners etc.)

They also downloaded the best images they found. Some were from Genially, some were from the web, trying to choose free images.
  • Links to the projects realised by your students (you can choose the best ones to upload)

  • Video, Audio and/or photos of the presentations.
There was no video. Only the photographs seen in the presentation.
  • Lastly, do not forget to reflect on how the use of the tool has optimised your students’ learning experience and has helped you achieve the objectives. Would you change anything?
They were not aware of this type of interactive presentations with Genially and they quickly loved the idea of doing something with it. Again, as in the other activities in this course, the limited use of computers we have makes everything a little harder.

Friday 11 October 2019

Compound adjectives

Compound Adjectives



A compound adjective is sometimes called a hyphenated adjective. What are they?
Let's look at the following sentences:
  • I saw a man-eating alligator.
  • I saw a man eating alligator.
The first sentence contains a compound adjective.
The second sentence doesn't.
However the meaning of the two sentences are very different as can be seen in the picture below:
I saw a man-eating alligator.
We are describing the alligator. What type of alligator is it? It is one that eats men (or people).
I saw a man eating alligator. 
This sentence without the hyphen sounds like a man is eating an alligator. 
(man is the subject, eating is the verb, alligator is the object or thing that is being eaten).
As you can see, the hyphen (or lack of it) makes a big difference in the meaning of the sentence.
Before we explain in more detail why we put that hyphen between those two words in the first sentence, we need to do a quick review of Adjectives.

Compound adjectives

A compound adjective is an adjective that contains two or more words.
In general we put a hyphen between two or more words (before a noun) when we want them to act as a single idea (adjective) that describes something.
  • I live in an English-speaking country.
English-speaking is an adjective (used to describe the country). We use a hyphen to connect the wordEnglish with speaking to show that it is one adjective (or one idea).
This adjective with two words joined by the hyphen is called a compound adjective.
Some more examples of compound adjectives are:
  • Our office is in a twenty-storey building.
  • I have just finished reading a 300-page book.
  • He is a well-known writer.
There are many types of Compound Adjectives. Here is a list of the most common types:

Compound Adjectives + Periods of Time

When he have compound adjectives using numbers + a time period, that word referring to a time period is in singular form and is joined to the number with a hyphen.
  • I work eight hours every day --> I work an eight-hour day
  • I'm going on vacation for three weeks --> I have a three-week vacation
  • There was a delay of 5 seconds --> There was a five-second delay
Notice how we normally write the number as a word, not in numerical form.

Adverb + Past Participle

However when we have an Adverb + past participle, we put a hyphen between the two words to make it a compound adjective.
  • This is a brightly-lit room.
  • She is a well-known actress.
  • We live in a densely-populated city.

Noun + Past Participle

When we have a noun + past participle, we put a hyphen between the two words to make it a compound adjective.
  • We should start using wind-powered generators to cut costs.
  • I love eating sun-dried raisins.

Noun + Present Participle

When we have a noun + present participle, we put a hyphen between the two words to make it a compound adjective.
  • I bought some mouth-watering strawberries.
  • That was a record-breaking jump.

Noun + Adjective

When we have a noun + adjective, we put a hyphen between the two words to make it a compound adjective.
  • She is a world-famous singer.
  • This is a smoke-free restaurant.

Adjective + Noun

When we have an adjective + noun, we put a hyphen between the two words to make it a compound adjective.
  • It was a last-minute decision.
  • We watched the full-length version of the movie.

Adjective + Past Participle

When we have an adjective + past participle, we put a hyphen between the two words to make it a compound adjective.
  • That is an old-fashioned dress
  • Reptiles are cold-blooded creatures.

Adjective + Present Participle

When we have an adjective + present participle, we put a hyphen between the two words to make it a compound adjective.
  • She is a good-looking girl.
  • It left a long-lasting taste in my mouth.

Compound Adjectives with Proper Nouns

A proper noun is the name of something or someone (e.g. John, Susan Sanders).
Compound Adjectives made from Proper nouns don't need a hyphen though must have capital letters.
  • I bought the James Jackson tickets for us.
James Jackson is a compound adjective describing the tickets (What type of tickets? James Jackson tickets). Since the adjective is a Proper noun, we don't need a hyphen between the two names.

How do we know when to put a hyphen?

If you can use the word “and” between the two adjectives or words, then a hyphen isn't necessary.
  • She has a big blue book.
(Big and Blue are adjectives)
Can we say: She has a big and blue book. (Yes, it is possible)
  • He is a world famous singer
Can we say: He is a world and famous singer. No, it doesn't sound correct so we need a hyphen to join the words world and famous.
Also, look at the following:
  • It's an old coal-mining town
Notice how we didn't put a hyphen between the word old and coal. If we had have done that, we would have been referring to old coal, as in coal that is old. We want to emphasis that the town in old and not the coal.
Here we can say it is old and a coal-mining one.

Adverbs and Compound Adjectives

Adverbs modify a verb.
  • She walks slowly.
How does she walk? Slowly. Slowly is an adverb that modifies (or describes) the verb.
Adverbs can also be used to modify an adjective.
  • It is very hot today. (Very is an adverb)
  • She is extremely intelligent. (Extremely is an adverb)
Notice how we do not put a hyphen between an adverb and an adjective (not even before a noun).
  • It is a very hot day.
  • She is an extremely intelligent girl.

Saturday 21 September 2019

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.

Tuesday 3 October 2017

                                                                   ENGLISH VERB TENSES
Tense
Signal words
Use
Form
Examples affirmative
Examples negative
Examples interrogative

every day



·     something happens repeatedly
·     how often something happens
·     one action follows another
·     things in general
·     with verbs like (to love, to hate, to think, etc.)
·     future meaning: timetables, programmes





sometimes





always

I work.
I don't work.
Do I work?

Simple Present
often

usually
infinitive

he/she/it:
infinitive + s
He works.

I go.
He doesn't work.

I don't go.
Does he work?

Do I go?

seldom

He goes.
He doesn't go.
Does he go?

never





first ... then





now
·     something is happening at the same time of speaking or around it
·     future meaning: when you have already decided and arranged to do it (a fixed plan, date)

I'm working.
I'm not working.
Am I working?

Present Progressive
at the moment

Look!

be (am/are/is) +
infinitive + ing
He's working.

I'm going.
He isn't working.

I'm not going.
Is he working?

Am I going?

Listen!

He's going.
He isn't going.
Is he going?


Simple Past
last ...

... ago in 1990
yesterday


action took place in the past, mostly connected with an expression of time (no connection to the present)

regular:
infinitive + ed

irregular:
(2nd column of table of irregular verbs)
I worked. He worked. I went.
He went.
I didn't work. He didn't work. I didn't go.
He didn't go.
Did I work? Did he work? Did I go?
Did he go?





·     an action happened in the middle of another action
·     someone was doing sth. at a certain time (in the past) - you don't know whether it was finished or not

I was working.
I wasn't working.
Was I working?

Past Progressive

while

was/were +
infinitive + ing
He was working.

I was going.
He wasn't working.

I wasn't going.
Was he working?

Was I going?



He was going.
He wasn't going.
Was he going?

just






·     you say that sth. has happened or is finished in the past and it has a connection to the present
·     action started in the past and continues up to the present







have/has + past participle*

*(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)




yet




never




ever
I have worked.
I haven't worked.
Have I worked?
Simple Present Perfect
already

so far,
He has worked.

I have gone.
He hasn’t worked.

I haven't gone.
Has he worked?

Have I gone?

up to now,
He has gone.
He hasn’t gone.
Has he gone?

since




for




recently





all day

·     action began in the past and has just stopped
·     how long the action has been happening

emphasis: length of time of an action

I have been working.

He has been working.

I have been going.

He has been going.
I haven't been working.

He hasn't been working.

I haven't been going.

He hasn't been going.
Have I been working?

Has he been working?

Have I been going?

Has he been going?

the whole day

Present Perfect Progressive
how long
have/has + been +
infinitive + ing

since


for







Simple Past Perfect

already just never
·     mostly when two actions in a story are related to each other: the action which had already happened is put into Past Perfect, the other action into Simple Past
·     the past of the Present Perfect

had + past participle*

*(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)
I had worked. He had worked. I had gone.
He had gone.
I hadn't worked. He hadn't worked. I hadn't gone.
He hadn't gone.
Had I worked? Had he worked? Had I gone?
Had he gone?




I had been working.
I hadn't been working.
Had I been working?

Past Perfect Progressive
how long since
for

how long something had been happening before something else happened

had + been +
infinitive + ing
He had been working.

I had been going.
He hadn't been working.

I hadn't been going.
Had he been working?

Had I been going?




He had been going.
He hadn't been going.
Had he been going?


·     predictions about the future (you think that sth will happen)
·     you decide to do sth. spontaneously at the time of speaking
·     main clause in type I of the Conditional sentences


I'll work.

I won't work.

Will I work?


He'll work.
He won't work.
Will he work?
will - future
will + infinitive





I'll go.
I won't go.
Will I go?


He'll go.
He won't go.
Will he go?




·     when you have already decided to do sth. in the future
·     what you think what will happen

I'm going to
work.
I'm not going to
work.
Am I going to
work?

going to - future

be (am/are/is) +
going to + infinitive
He's going to
work.
He's not going to
work.
Is he going to
work?


I'm going to go.
I'm not going to go.
Am I going to go?


He's going to go.
He's not going to go.
Is he going to go?





·     An action will be in progress at a certain time in the future. This action has begun before the certain time.
·     Something happens because it normally happens.

I'll be working.
I won't be working.
Will I be working?

Future Progressive

will + be + infinitive
+ ing
He'll be working.

I'll be going.
He won't be working.

I won't be going.
Will he be working?

Will I be going?


He'll be going.
He won't be going.
Will he be going?




I'll have worked.
I won't have worked.
Will I have worked?

Future Perfect Simple


sth. will already have happened before a certain time in the future
will + have + past participle*

*(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)

He'll have worked.

I'll have gone.

He won't have worked.

I won't have gone.

Will he have worked?

Will I have gone?



He'll have gone.
He won't have gone.
Will he have gone?




I'll have been working.
I won't have been working.
Will I have been working?

Future Perfect Progressive
sth. will already have happened before a certain time in the future

emphasis: length of time of an action


will + have + been +
infinitive + ing
He'll have been working.

I'll have been going.
He won't have been working.

I won't have been going.
Will he have been working?

Will I have been going?



He'll have been going.
He won't have been going.
Will he have been going?



·     sth. that might happen
·     main clause in type II of the Conditional sentences

I would work.
I wouldn't work.
Would I work?

Conditional Simple

would + infinitive
He would work.

I would go.
He wouldn't work.

I wouldn't go.
Would he work?

Would I work?


He would go.
He wouldn't go.
Would he work?







I would be working.
I wouldn't be working.
Would I be working?

Conditional Progressive
sth. that might happen

emphasis: length of time of an action

would + be +
infinitive + ing
He would be working.

I would be going.
He wouldn't be working.

I wouldn't be going.
Would he be working?

Would I be going?



He would be going.
He wouldn't be going.
Would he be going?





·     sth. that might have happened in the past
·     main clause in type III of the Conditional sentences

I would have worked.
I wouldn't have worked.
Would I have worked?


Conditional Perfect
would + have + past participle*

*(infinitive + ed) or (3rd column of table of irregular verbs)
He would have worked.

I would have gone.
He wouldn't have worked.

I wouldn't have gone.
Would he have worked?

Would I have gone?


He would have gone.
He wouldn't have gone.
Would he have gone?




I would have been working.
I wouldn't have been working.
Would I have been working?

Conditional Perfect Progressive
sth. that might have happened in the past

emphasis: length of time of an action


would + have + been
+ infinitive + ing
He would have been working.

I would have been going.
He wouldn't have been working.

I wouldn't have been going.
Would he
have been working?

Would I have been going?



He would have been going.
He wouldn't have been going.
Would he
have been going?

We sometimes use Continuous instead of Progressive. Some signal words can be found in more tenses. We did not list signal words in the future. Always remember what action is described.
Used colours:
blue infinitive                                           grey irregular verbs in the Simple Past                                      red negation
dark green auxiliary                                 purple past participle

orange ending                                           light green signal word