TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE. SUPERMOON

TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE. SUPERMOON

HARVEST FESTIVAL

Harvest Festival

Every year in UK it is celebrated a Harvest Festival in schools and churches. Do you know why?

Harvest Festival is a celebration of the food grown on the land. 

Thanksgiving ceremonies and celebrations for a successful harvest are both worldwide and very ancient. In Britain, people have given thanks for successful harvests since pagan times. They celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating churches with baskets of fruit and food in a festival known as 'Harvest Festival', usually during the month of September.

Harvest festivals are traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumn equinox (about September 23). In two years

HOMOPHONES

HOMOPHONES

There are some words that have the same pronunciation, they are 

called HOMOPHONES

/hɪə/            here,  hear

/rɑɪt/           write,  right

/wɛə/          wear,  where

/si:/             see,  sea

/ɑɪ/              I,  eye

/ɚɛ/             there,  their

/nəʊ/           know,  no

/bɑɪ/            buy,  by

/fɔ:/             four,  for

/tu:/             too,  two

/ɑʊə/           hour, our

/sʌn/           sun, son

SUFIJOS PARA FORMAR SUSTANTIVOS EN INGLÉS

FORMAR NOMBRES CON SUFIJOS

Para formar nombres a partir de verbos, se puede añadir sufijos TION y MENT

To adop adoption

To decorate decoration

To argue argument

To advertise advertisement

Para formar nombres a partir de adjetivos, se puede añadir sufijos ITY y NESS

Creative creativity

Responsible responsability

Happy happiness

Empty emptiness

Lo mejor es consultar el diccionario, porque al añadirlos se producen cambios ortográficos se producen cambios ortográficos en algunos casos.

LOCH NESS MONSTER

NESSIE

Nessie, the Loch Ness monster. Is famous all over the world. It was first reported in the 14th century

 

but became famous in 1934 when Dr. H.K. Wilson took a photograph in the lake.

Some people say that it is a fish, others a reptile and others think she is a dinosaur that has survived in

an underwater cave in the Scotyish lake.

Millions of tourists come to see Nessie every year and 4000 people claim they have seen it.

NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

Here is a brief guide to the “rules” by which English newspaper headlines are written:

The article and the verb to be are omitted.

The present tenses are used to describe something which has happened, is happening, or happens repeatedly.

When the present continuous is used, the auxiliary verb to be is omitted.

To refer to the future, the infinitive with to is used.

Passive sentences are written without their auxiliary verbs.

There are a number of words which are specifically used in headlines (e.g. quit is often used instead of resign)

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IMAGE AND PICTURE

PICTURE AND IMAGE

PICTURE

A visual representation of something, such as a person or scene, produced on a surface, as in a photograph, painting, etc

IMAGE

An image of an object, person, scene, etc, in the form of a print or slide recorded by a camera on photosensitive material. It is also a mental representation.



THE KISS IN TIMES SQUARE

THE KISS IN TIMES SQUARE

 

V-J Day in Times Square is a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt Alfred that portrays an American sailor kissing a woman in a white dress on Vitory over Japan DayVictory  (V-J Day) in Times Square in New York City, on August 14, 1945. The photograph, taken with a Leica IIIa camera, was published a week later in Life magazine among many photographs of celebrations around the United States. Eisenstaedt was photographing a spontaneous event that occurred in Times Square as the announcement of the end of the war on Japan was made by U.S. President Harry S. Truman at seven o'clock.

The photograph is known under various titles, such as V-J Day in Times Square, V-Day, and The Kiss.

Because Eisenstaedt was photographing rapidly changing events during the celebrations he did not have an opportunity to get the names and details. The photograph does not clearly show the faces of either person involved in this embrace and several people have claimed to be the subjects. The photograph was shot just south of 45th Street looking north from a location where Broadway and Seventh Avenue converge. Soon after ward, throngs of people crowded into the square and it became a sea of people.

Edith Shain wrote to Eisenstaedt in the late 1970s claiming to be the woman in the picture. In August 1945, Shain was working at Doctor's Hospital in New York City as a nurse when she and a friend heard on the radio that World War had ended. They went to Times Square where all the celebrating was and as soon as she arrived on the street from the subway, the sailor grabbed her in an embrace and kissed her. She related that at the time she thought she might as well let him kiss her since he fought for her in the war. Shain did not claim that she was the woman in the white dress until many years later when she wrote to Eisenstaedt. He notified the magazine that he had received her letter claiming to be the subject

George Mendonça of Newport, Rhode Island, on leave from the USS The Sullivans (DD-537), was watching a movie with his future wife, Rita, at Radio City Music Hall when the doors opened and people started screaming the war was over. George and Rita joined the partying on the street, but when they couldn't get into the packed bars decided to walk down the street. It was then that George saw a woman in a white dress walk by and took her into his arms and kissed her, "I had quite a few drinks that day and I considered her one of the troops—she was a nurse."[In one of the four pictures that Eisenstaedt took, Mendonça claims that Rita is visible in the background behind the kissing couple.

In 1987, George Mendonça filed a lawsuit against Time Inc. in Rhode Island state court, alleging that he was the sailor in the photograph.

TYPES OF HUMOR

TYPES OF HUMOR

Black humor: Humor dealing with the unpleasant or dark side of life (death, people's problems)

Practical humor: A joked played on someone to embarrass them and amuse others.

Dry humor: Amusing without appearing to be so, quietly ironic.

Satire humor: Showing the foolishness or evil of a person, organisation or practice, in an amusing way.

Racist humor: Showing dislike or intolerance of people of different races.

Sexist humor: Unfairly dismissive of the opposite sex; showing them as stupid or inferior.

Sick humor: Unnaturally, unhealthily cruel or morbid, this kind of humor is unsophisticated, often quite juvenile and offensive.

Slapstick humor: Humorous acting that depends on fast, sometimes violent actions.

Dirty humor: Concerned with sex, sometimes in an unpleasant way.

THE PERSEIDS

THE PERSEIDS

The Perseids are a prolific meteor showwer associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle. The Perseids are so called because the point from which they appear to come, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The name derives in part from the word Perseides, a term found in Greek mythology referring to the sons of Perseus.

The shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity between 9 and 14 August, depending on the particular location of the stream. During the peak, the rate of meteors reaches 60 or more per hour. They can be seen all across the sky; however, because of the shower’s radiant in the constellation of Perseus, the Perseids are primarily visible in the Northern Hemisphere. As with many meteor showers the visible rate is greatest in the pre-dawn hours, since more meteoroids are scooped up by the side of the Earth moving forward into the stream, corresponding to local times between midnight and noon.

ARTÍCULO DETERMINADO CON NOMBRES PROPIOS

USO DEL ARTÍCULO DETERMINADO CON NOMBRES PROPIOS EN INGLÉS

Lo habitual es no utilizar el artículo determinado con nombres propios

Mr. Ward

Dr. Smith

Mrs. Rowlie

California

Wales

Spain

Charles

Pero hay excepciones

Títulos

The Duke of Wellington

The King of Spain

The Prince of Wales

Mares

The Atlantic

The Pacific

The Mediterranean

Cordilleras

The Pyrenees

The Alps

The Himalayas

Ríos

The Mississippi

The Avon

The Nile

The Thames

Islas

The Falklands

The Canaries

The Bahamas

Al referirse a determinado grupo

The Smiths

The Wards

Al referirse a alguien que sobresale

The Geoffrey Archer

The Callas

Al referirse a una obra de arte

The Picasso

The Rubens

Nombres comunes convertidos en propios por importancia

The National Gallery

The Big Ben

The British Museum

ADVICE AND ADVISE DIFFERENCE

ADVICE Y ADVISE

ADVICE: Es el sustantivo, significa "consejos", pues el singular es A PIECE OF ADVICE, significa "un consejo"
Dar un consejo es: TO GIVE A PIECE OF ADVICE
Seguir un consejo es: TO TAKE A PIECE OF ADVICE

TO ADVISE:  Es el verbo, significa aconsejar.

ARTÍCULO INDETERMINADO O INDEFINIDO EN INGLÉS

A O AN

• EL ARTÍCULO INDETERMINADO O INDEFINIDO (EN INGLÉS)
  
  El artículo indeterminado en inglés (A,An) es invariable en género, esto significa que se utiliza en masculino y en femenino indistintamente.
  Carece de plural, de modo que para indicar la idea de "unos", "unas" se utiliza el adjetivo indefinido "some".
  Se usa A (pronunciado / ə / delante de palabras que empiecen por consonante, a book, a pencil, a brush.
  Se usa AN (pronunciado /ən/ delante de palabras que empiecen por vocal o por h muda , an actor, an umbrela, an hour.
  Pero se usa A delante de palabras que empiezan por u pronunciada /ju:/, a university, a unión, a uniform
  

INSTAGRAM

INSTAGRAM

Instagram, founded in 2010, derived its name from the combination of “instant camera” and “telegram.” Starting with one million monthly users, the photo-sharing app found itself with 100 million uploaded photos by July 2011 and 10 million users in September of that same year. In April 2012, the company announced passing the 30 million user mark. That same month, Facebook took note of Instagram's growth and bought the app for $1 billion, its third largest acquisition to date. From that point on, use of Instagram skyrocketed. It reached 80 million monthly users after the acquisition and nearly doubled that to 150 million monthly uses by the end of 2013. 

THE CAVERN

The Beatles’ final Cavern Club show

After nearly 300 performances at Liverpool's Cavern Club, at 3rd. August 1963 was The Beatles' final show at the venue. The Beatles were paid £300, which was quite a bit of money then, and the audience was restricted to 500. The admission price was 10 shillings. All the staff had to be paid, and the other groups on the bill too, there was no profit that night.

Tickets for the final show had gone on sale at 21 July at 1.30pm, and sold out within 30 minutes.

The show lasted from 6-11.30pm. Also on the bill were The Escorts, The Merseybeats, The Road Runners, Johnny Ringo and the Colts, and Faron's Flamingos.

NOMBRAR UNA CALLE EN INGLÉS

VOCABULARY

CAN YOU TELL ME YOUR ADDRESS?

Es muy curioso lo que pasa en Londres con los nombres de las calles. Cambian a la menor curva que aparece, pero si la curva es muy pronunciada mantiene el nombre. Por otro lado hay infinidad de palabras que definen a una calle, dependiendo del tamaño y localización. Aquí van algunas de ellas.

STREET

VALE

HILL

ROAD

VIEW

PLACE

TERRACE

MEWS

GATE

CRESCENT

PROMENADE

AVENUE

BROADWAY

RISE
WALK
LANE
PATH
WAY

ARCH
GROVE

ALLEY

PARK

GARDENS

 

 

IDIOMS

IDIOM

TO BUMP INTO: Encontrarse con alguien por casualidad

They were glad to bump into each other there.

COMPOSITION (WRITING)

COMPOSITION (WRITING)

 

COMPOSITION (WRITING)

PARA DAR UN PUNTO DE VISTA

In my opinion....................................

In my view.............................................

Personally..........................................

As far as I am concerned...................

From my point of view......................

The first thing that comes to my mind when I think about.....................

PARA EXPRESAR REALIDADES

 

As a matter of fact........................

In fact............................................

Actually.........................................

PARA DAR EJEMPLOS

For example.....................................

For instance......................................

Such as..............................................

PARA EXPRESAR ALGO DE OTRO MODO

That is................................

In other words..................................

PARA ESTABLECER UN CONTRASTE

However..............................................

Nevertheless........................................

On the other hand................................

Although...............................................

In spite of.............................................

Despite.................................................

PARA AÑADIR INFORMACIÓN

Apart from this....................................

Moreover.............................................

In addition............................................

PARA EXPRESAR CAUSAS O RESULTADOS

Because of this.......................................

For this reason........................................

That is why..............................................

Therefore.................................................

As a result of............................................

Consequently............................................

So..............................................................

PARA MODIFICAR LO QUE ESTAMOS DICIENDO

 

At least............................................................

In particular.....................................................

More or less....................................................

Above all........................................................

Basically.........................................................

PARA CONECTAR EL TIEMPO

First of all.......................................................

Next................................................................

In the meantime..............................................

After that.........................................................

Finally.............................................................

While..............................................................

In the end........................................................

PARA FINALIZAR

In short...........................................................

In conclusion..................................................

On the whole..................................................

To sum up.......................................................



IDIOMS

IDIOM

 

"I ACED MY TEST",

 

Significa que has hecho un examen brillante

 

 



WHO STOLE THE COOKIES FROM THE COOKIE JAR?

WHO STOLE THE COOKIES FROM THE COOKIE JAR?

Se trata de un juego de niños que es muy útil para mejorar la pronunciación.