HAPPY EASTER

 

QR CODE

QR CODE

It is an array of black and white squares. Typically used for storing URL or other informationfor reading by the smart phone.

QR CODE means: "Quick response Code"


                                    

MAUNDY THURSDAY

Me ha preguntado Graciela la traducción de "Jueves Santo"

MAUNDY THURSDAY

Maundy Thursday commemorates Jesus Christ's institution of the Eucharist during the Last Supper, which is described in the Christian bible. Maundy Thursday remembers Jesus Christ's institution of the Eucharist during the Last Supper.

MAUNDY THURSDAY es la traducción de Jueves Santo

POSSITIVE THINKING

POSSITIVE THINKING

If you get "NO" as an answer, remember "NO" means "Next opprotunity"

CORONA VIRUS' VOCABULARY

CORONA VIRUS' VOCABULARY

Vocabulario médico relacionado con el coronavirus:

• Asymptomatic:: asintomático
• Ache : dolor
• Antibiotics : antibióticos
• Benign: benigno
• Body: cuerpo
• Breast: pecho
• Breathing: respiración
• Breathing difficulties: dificultades respiratorias
• Capacity: capacidad
• Care: cuidado
• Carrier:  portador
• Chemist’s / Pharmacy: farmacia
• Congenital: congénito
• Confinement: confinement / enclouser
• Contagious: contagioso o infeccioso
• Contact tracing:  rastreo de contactos
• Constipation: constipación
• Coronary: coronario/a
• Cough: tos
• COVID-19: CoronaVurus Disease
• Dehydrated : deshidratado
• Density: densidad
• Diagnosis: diagnóstico
• Diagnose: diagnosticar
• Diarrhea: diarrea
• Diet: dieta
• Digestive: digestivo
• Disease: enfermedad
• Disorder: trastorno
• Dose: dosis
• Droplet: gota
• Drugs: medicamentos
• Emergency: emergencia
• Energy: energía
• Fatality: fatalidad, tasa de mortalidad
• Feces: heces
• Fever: fiebre
• Flu: gripe
• Fluids: fluidos
• GP (General Practicioner): médico de cabecera
• Gastrointestinal: gastrointestinal
• Guts / intestines: tripas
• Heal: sanar
• Health: salud
• Healthy: saludable
• Heart: corazón
• Illness: enfermedad
• Incubation period: periodo de incubación
• Infection: infección
• Injection: inyección
• Inmunity: inmunidad
• Isolation: aislamiento
• Lump: bulto
• Lungs: pulmones
• Medicine: medicina
• Muscles: músculos
• Muscular: muscular
• Numb: adormecido, que no sientes nada
• Nurse: enfermero
• Oral: bucal
• Organs: órganos
• Organic: orgánico
• Outbreak, break out: brote, estallar
• Pain: dolor
• Pain killer: calmante, analgésico
• Pandemic: pandemia
• Patient: paciente
• PCR test: prueba PCR
• Phase: fase
• Pneumonia: neumonía
• Pregnancy: embarazo
• Prescription: receta médica
• Pressure: presión
• Protocol: protocolo
• Pulmonologist: neumólogo
• Quarantine: cuarentena
• Ribs: costillas
• Saliva: saliva
• Screening: revisión
• Secretion: secreción
• Side effects: efectos secundarios
• Sore: doloroso
• Surgery: consultorio médico
• Superspreader
• Swallow: tragar
• Swelling: inflamación
• System: sistema
• Symptoms: síntomas
• Temperature: fiebre, temperatura
• Test: examen
• Thermometer: termómetro
• Transmission: transmisión
• Treatment: tratamiento
• Vaccine: vacuna
• Virus: virus
• Vomit: vómito
• Zoonotic: zoonótico

BORRÓN Y CUENTA NUEVA

BORRÓN Y CUENTA NUEVA

Hay dos frases que se utilizan para indicar que nos olvidamos de lo que pasó y empezamos de nuevo.

BORRÓN Y CUENTA NUEVA: "To turn over a new leaf."

PASAR PÁGINA: "To move on" o" to get over her or him"

CONTRACCIONES EN INGLÉS INFORMAL

CONTRACCIONES EN INGLÉS INFORMAL

 GONNA (GOING TO)  

  I'm gonna have a bath

  WHATCHA (WHAT ARE YOU?

  Whatcha talking about?

  WANNA (WANT TO)

  I wanna go to the party

 GIMME (GIVE ME)

 Gimme your money

GOTTA (GOT TO)

I have got to clean

INNIT (ISN'T IT)

That's great, init

DUNNO (DON'T KNOW)

Dunno, ask him

LEMME (LET ME)

Lemme call you back

 

 

PALM SUNDAY

 PALM SUNDAY

It's a solemn date where Chrsitians pay their respects to Jesus and reflect on the sacrifices he is said to have made. Palm Sunday is also a great time for Christian parents to involve their children in church worship with songs, activities and facts.

 

AYUDA EBAU

Ya me han preguntado varios estudiantes si ayudo con la preparación de la EBAU.

La respuesta es Sí. Cualquier parte del examen de inglés. Corrijo "Composition", explico gramática, vocabulario.

Seguir adelante y estudiar todo lo que se pueda.

WRITING (FRASES ÚTILES)

WRITING (FRASES ÚTILES)

"It is about time"
Ya es hora (seguido de un verbo en pasado)
It is about time you found a job

"It is no good" 
No vale la pena (seguido de un verbo en gerundio)
It is no good buying this paper, it is very expensive.

"In case"
Por si
I carry an umbrella in case it rains

"Had better"
Sería mejor (seguido de verbo en infinitivo)
 You’d better study or else you’ll fail

FRIENDS

FRIENDS

 

TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY

TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY

It is said when you feel that someone has made a bad situation worse by doing something else to upset you. 

La traducción es "Para colmo"

They told me that I was too old for the job, and then to add insult to injury, they refused to pay my expenses.

MAKE UP SOMETHING

MAKE UP SOMETHING at a different time because you can't do it at the expected time.

MAKE UP SOMETHING es un phrasal verb que se puede traducir como compensar o recuperar

Example:

She left work early and made up the time by staying late the next day

I DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL

I DON'T LIKE IT AT ALL

PEOPLE WHO LIVE A HUNDRED

PEOPLE WHO LIVE A HUNDRED

People who live to a hundred are often asked what their secret is to a long life. Some say it’s love. Some say it's the power of positive thinking. Others say that laughter is the key. Few would say it's being bitten repeatedly by poisonous snakes. 

ACME

ACME

• The dictionary definition is: "the top", or "the highest point", or just "perfection". 
• This is straight from Greek. 
• Apparently some early business school textbooks liked to use Acme as a business name in some of their examples.
• There's a story that the business school uses is an acronym, standing for "A Company Manufacturing Everything". This is probably false etymology.
• Sears-Roebuck used Acme as one of their in-house brand names in the early 1900s, 
• Warner Brothers apparently took the name from Sears and used it for the mail-order company in the cartoons.

Celebrate Epiphany

Celebrate Epiphany

January 6, which is 12 days after Christmas in the Gregorian calendar, marks not only the end of the Christmas holidays but also the start of the Carnival season, which climaxes with Mardi Gras. In some European countries, such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, children dress as the three kings and visit houses. In their roles as the kings, or wise men, they sing about the Jesus’ birth and pay homage to the “king of kings”. They are rewarded with praise and cookies.

CONSTABLE

CONSTABLE

A constable is a person holding a particular office, most commonly in criminal law enforcement. The office of constable can vary significantly in different jurisdictions. A constable is commonly the rank of an officer within the police. Other people may be granted powers of a constable without holding this title.

THE THREE WISE MEN

THE THREE WISE MEN

Legends are told about them and they have been given names. This is how they are often described:

• Gaspar (or Caspar), who has brown hair and a brown beard (or no beard!) and wears a green cloak and a gold crown with green jewels on it. He is the King of Sheba. Gaspar represents the Frankincense brought to Jesus.
• Melchior, who has long white hair and a white beard and wears a gold cloak. He is the King of Arabia. Melchior represents the Gold brought to Jesus.
• Balthazar, who has black skin and a black beard (or no beard!) and wears a purple cloak. He is the King of Tarse and Egypt. Balthazar represents the gift of Myrrh that was brought to Jesus.

NEW YEAR'S CONCERT

NEW YEAR'S CONCERT

It has long been a Philharmonic tradition at the New Year to present a program consisting of the lively and at the same time nostalgic music from the vast repertoire of the family of Johann Strauss and its contemporaries. These concerts not only delight the audiences in the Musikverein in Vienna, but also enjoy great international popularity through the worldwide television broadcast, which now reaches over 90 countries.