EJERCICIOS ADULTOS MONTEQUINTO 31/3/16

EJERCICIOS ADULTOS MONTEQUINTO 31/3/16

TIME EXPRESSIONS - BEFORE, AFTER, UNTIL, AT, ON, IN, THEN

1) Paul and Sheila always walk their dog _____  going to bed

2) I always brush my teeth _____  meals

3) I never go shopping  _____Saturdays because it's always crowded

4) _____ June the weather is always lovely here

5) Please no music  _____10 pm

6) I wake up   _____7 o'clock, ____ I take a shower and  I have breakfast.  ____ going out I kiss my children goodbye and  ____9 o'clock I arrive at the office

7) Are you coming after dinner or _____? I don't know, Mum.I have a lot of things to do  ____Monday: do the ironing, ____clean the flat and ____ do the washing-up

8) You must wait _____ lunch is ready, then you can go out

9) When is your birthday? Is it  ____March? No, it's ____ June,  the 6th

10) I don't like going out  ____the evening. It's dangerous

11) My baby daughter can't sleep  ____night so I'm always tired  in the morning!

EJERCICIOS ADULTOS DOS HERMANAS 15/3/16

EJERCICIOS ADULTOS DOS HERMANAS 15/3/16

1. Transform these sentences into a yes or no question
2. He loves this town.
   
3. They like soccer.
   
4. She can drive a lorry.
   
5. They are nice.
   
6. They went to the swimming pool.
   
7. She wastes her money on jewelery.
   
8. He decided to leave his wife.
   
9. She wakes up early.
   
10. They should revise their lessons.
    
11. He was born in this town. 
    

EJERCICIOS B1 DOS HERMANAS 15/3/16

EJERCICIOS B1 DOS HERMANAS 15/3/16

ANIMAL EMOTIONS

You may love your pet, but does your pet love you? Most animal lovers claim that animals definitely experience emotions. Many stories are told of older dogs who become jealous when a new dog (or a baby) arrives home. For many years, however, scientists did not agree that animals experienced emotions; these behaviours, they said, were simply physiological reactions to external stimuli. But now new research is beginning to confirm that animals may have feelings much like ours.

Recent studies have shown that many animals, including chimpanzees, dogs, horses, rats and birds, experience emotions similar to human jealousy, grief and love. Fear has also been widely observed by scientists, perhaps unsurprisingly, since this emotion helps in survival. Biologist Samuel Gosling claims that dogs exhibit four dimensions of personality: affection, sociability, emotional stability and “competence”, a combination of intelligence and obedience. These are similar to the categories of human personality generally found in basic psychological tests.

Other studies have shown that when a recording of dogs’ “laughter” is played to other dogs, they start to play with each other, and rats who “laugh” frequently seem to be popular among other rats, offering further proof of emotions among animals. In addition, animals respond to anti-depressant drugs and this proves that their brain chemistry, which is affected by the drug, must be similar to ours. Experts believe that their emotions must therefore be similar, too.

However, if animals really do have human-like emotions, there are some serious issues to consider: how fair is it, for example, for humans to keep animals in cages, or use them for pharmaceutical testing?

1.TRUE OR FALSE?

1. Animal lovers believe that dogs can be jealous

2. Scientists are beginning to believe that animals have got feelings

3. Only humans experience both positive and negative emotions

4. Dogs often “laugh” when they see other dogs playing

EJERCICIOS B1 DOS HERMANAS 10/3/16

EJERCICIOS B1 DOS HERMANAS 10/3/16

1.Lee el texto y responde a las preguntas.

Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig) colloquially St. Paddy's Day or simply Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day that celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 387–493), the most commonly recognised of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on 17 March.

The day is a national holiday of Ireland, a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland. In United Kingdom (excluding Northern Ireland), Australia, New Zealand and Montserrat it is widely celebrated, while in the United States it is a public holiday.

St. Patrick's feast day was placed on the universal liturgical calendar in the Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding in the early part of the 17th century, although the feast day was celebrated in the local Irish church from a much earlier date. St. Patrick's Day is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The feast day usually falls during Lent. The church calendar avoids the observance of saints' feasts during certain solemnities, moving the saint's day to a time outside those periods. St. Patrick's Day is very occasionally affected by this requirement. Thus when 17th of March falls during Holy Week, as in 1940 when St. Patrick's Day was observed on 3 April in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March. St. Patrick's Day will not fall within Holy Week again until 2160 - when it will fall on the Monday before Easter.

Who is St. Patrick?

St. Patrick was born as Maewyn Succat during the fourth century in Britain. His parents were very wealthy. His father was also a Christian deacon for tax incentive reasons. When Maewyn was about sixteen his family and their home was attacked by Irish raiders. Maewyn was kidnapped and forced to become a slave working as a shepherd in County Mayo in Ireland. It was during his time as a slave that he turned to God. He had a dream one night to escape the next day and travel back home to Britain. The next day he did just that and travelled the 200 miles back home to Britain. Once he returned, Maewyn had another religious dream. An angel told him to become a missionary and spread Christianity back in Ireland. He then spent the next fifteen years training to become a priest and chose Patrick as his Christian Saint name.

In 432 AD he went back to Ireland as a priest. He tried to convert the Irish people from a Pagan polytheistic religion that worshipped the sun and the moon to Christianity. He also created and taught at many schools along Ireland's west coast. One of his teaching methods included using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity (the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit) to the Irish people. After nearly thirty years of teaching and spreading God's word he died on March 17th 461 AD. Soon after his death the country of Ireland decided to remember his death with a day of his own and thus St. Patrick's Day was born.

Wearing of green

Originally the color associated with St. Patrick was blue, not green. However over the years the color green and its association with St. Patrick's day grew. Green ribbons and shamrocks were worn in celebration of St Patrick's Day as early as the 17th century. He is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish, and the wearing and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the day. Then in 1798 in hopes of making a political statement Irish soldiers wore full green uniforms on March 17th in hopes of catching attention with their unusual fashion gimmick. The phrase "the wearing of the green", meaning to wear a shamrock on one's clothing, derives from the song of the same name.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the  Wikipedia article "Saint Patrick's Day". You can explore more on the Wikipedia website. The text and the images are used here only for educational purposes.

Questions about the text

1. Saint Patrick's Day is only celebrated in Ireland.

True.

False.

We don't know.

2. In 1940 it was celebrated during Holy Week.

True.

False.

We don't know.

3. Saint Patrick's family was very poor.

True.

False.

We don't know.

4. Saint Patrick was a priest and a teacher.

True.

False.

We don't know.

5. Saint Patrick used a shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity.

True.

False.

We don't know.

EJERCICIOS ADULTOS MONTEQUINTO 10/3/16

EJERCICIOS ADULTOS MONTEQUINTO 10/3/16

1. Lee el texto y responde a las preguntas.

Carolina writes an email to her friend about work:

"Hi Cristina, I am sorry I haven’t called you for so long. How are you? How is your new apartment? I have been very busy at work. I arrive at the office at 7 am and leave at around 6:30 pm. I just get half an hour for lunch and a five-minute break in the morning and in the afternoon. I am very tired when I get home so I just eat, watch some television and go to bed. In the office, I am on the phone all day, listening to customer complaints and entering them into our computer system. At the end of the day I have to write a summary of all the calls I received during the day and give my boss a status on the complaints that are not yet resolved. I do not know how much longer I can do this. I need a vacation, or even better, I need another job! I’ll call you this weekend.

Carolina”

Q1: At what time does Carolina usually arrive at the office?

Q2: At what time does she leave?

Q3: What does she do almost all day at work?

Q4: What does she have to give her boss at the end of each work day?

Q5: Does it seem like she likes her job?

EJERCICIOS ADULTOS DOS HERMANAS 8/3/16

EJERCICIOS ADULTOS DOS HERMANAS 8/3/16

Translate:

Jacob takes the ladder and leans it against the tree. He starts to climb up and tries not to look down. He cannot believe he is doing this. His neighbor’s cat climbed up the tree in front of the house and cannot climb down. Now normally, Jacob would not offer to rescue a cat in a tree. He is afraid of heights, ladders and cats. But his neighbor, Anita, is gorgeous and rescuing her cat would be the perfect way to be a hero and get her attention.

He is almost there. The ladder begins to shake and he looks down and realizes how high he is. He looks at his beautiful neighbor and decides that it is not worth it. He screams loudly “HELP!!! I’M FALLING!!!” The cat suddenly jumps from the tree onto his head. They both fall to the ground and the cat runs to her owner. Anita runs to Jacob, who is lying on the ground.

“Thank you so much”, she says. “That was very heroic! I hope you are not hurt.”

“It was nothing”, he whispers. “By the way, if it’s not too much trouble, would you be so kind as to call me an ambulance?”

Ejercicios de Adultos Montequinto 7­/3/­16

Ejercicios de Adultos Montequinto 7­/3/­16

 Mi nombre es Sangeeta. Tengo 11 años. Vivo en Nueva Delhi, India con mi padre, madre, dos hermanos y tres hermanas. Mis abuelos también viven con nosotros.

En la India, la familia es muy importante. Es común tener abuelos, tías, tíos y/o primos viviendo en la misma casa. Mis tías, tíos y primos también viven cerca. Nos vemos a menudo.

Mi hermano mayor es programador de computadoras. Ahora mismo, él está en Australia. Su compañía lo envió allá por un año. Todos lo extrañamos mucho. Le escribimos cartas cada semana. Yo quiero que él venga a casa pronto.

Ejercicios B1 Dos Hermanas 7/3/16

Ejercicios B1 Dos Hermanas 7/3/16


Sheffield Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in the north of England. The population of the City of Sheffield in 2002 was estimated at 512,242. It has grown, from its industrial roots to encompass a wide economic base and is now the third largest city in England, the fourth largest in Great Britain, and the only one in South Yorkshire.

The city boundaries of Sheffield include a significant area of the countryside which surrounds the main urban region. One third of Sheffield is within the Peak District National Park (no other English city has a national park within its boundary), and Sheffield is generally recognized as England's greenest city, containing 150 woodlands and 50 public parks.

Sheffield is largely unparished, but Bradfield and Ecclesfield have parish councils and Stocksbridge has a town council.

The present boundaries were set in 1974, when the former county borough of Sheffield merged with Stocksbridge urban district and part of Wortley Rural District.

EJERCICIOS DE ADULTOS DOS HERMANAS 1/3/16

EJERCICIOS DE ADULTOS DOS HERMANAS 1/3/16

1.    He speaks French pretty ________. 
  bad
  badly

2. The movie we saw was pretty ________. 
  bad
  badly

3. Our cat was lying around ________
  lazy
  lazily

4. Robert is a very ________ person.
  lazily
  lazy

5. Her room was ________.
  bright
  brightly

6. Her room was ________ decorated.
  beautiful
  beautifully

7. I love your apartment! It's so ________.
  colorful
  colorfully

8. He keeps his room ________.
  clean
  cleanly

9. Our neighbors are always ________. 
  helpfully
  helpful

10. You can ________ get there from here.
  easy
  easily

2.     1. I was ________ with my test results. 
  happy
  happily

2. I miss her ________. 
  terrible
  terribly

3. Mark is the most ________ person I know. 
  honestly
  honest

4. The test was very ________.
  simple
  simply

5. They explained it to me ________.
  clearly
  clear

6. It was ________ of him to buy his mother flowers.
  thoughtfully
  thoughtful

7. I ________ don't know.
  honestly
  honest

8. The band was ________.
  loudly
  loud

9. I'm glad that you're ________. 
  safely
  safe

10. He goes to this bar ________.
  regularly
  regular