Aulaglobal es el lugar donde aprender inglés de forma práctica y divertida en Lorca, con profesores nativos anglosajones y españoles, todos ellos con titulación Universitaria.
Nuestros alumnos pueden comenzar su aventura de aprendizaje a los 4 años en nuesro Little Club y continuar hasta la obtención del nivel C1 de Inglés según el MCERL.
Centro preparador oficial de exámenes de Cambridge y preparador y examinador de Trinity. Nos encanta el inglés y disfrutamos impartiéndolo.
Blue Monday is a special day, for people to focus on doing good for each other. Not necessarily presents and cards, just little acts of kindness (or big ones, if you like).
It comes at a time when people might need a bit of cheering up: the gloomy, post-Christmas, back-to-work-and-school month of January. And of course, it had to be a Monday.
Blue Monday occurs on the 3rd Monday of January each year. In 2016, this will be Monday 18 January.
A couple of years ago the organisers of the day had a thought. Wouldn’t it be good to start a new tradition that encouraged people to do nice things for each other? This inspiration then lead to the formulation of a wider day of happiness, and so Blue Monday was born.
Blue Monday ideas should benefit others (a person, an organisation or even internationally) and will probably be something you wouldn’t normally do (but might do regularly from now on), voluntary (compulsory kindness doesn’t really count), thought up by those involved (there’s no formula or template) and fun and creative (for everyone involved).
As long as your event is safe and doesn’t put anyone at risk of physical danger or emotional upset, then you’re on the right track!
Many Blue Monday events are on a small scale and are quite personal. If you want to do something bigger then that’s great, but don’t forget to find out what you need to do in terms of risk assessments, insurance and any other important factors. The only limit to your event or activity is your imagination!
Hoy dedicaremos un rato a esos errores que más corregimos cuando nuestros alumnos escriben. Algun@ lo reconocerá como propio, lo importante es dejar de escribirlos 😉
1. People is - People en inglés es plural. Por tanto, se dice “people are” (aunque pienses "la gente es)
2.The people are - El “the” se elimina en nombres genéricos como people o cuando generalizamos. Por ejemplo:
Peple are intelligent (La gente es inteligente) / Men are tall (los hombres son altos)
3. Much (mucho/a para incontables) / Many (muchos/as para contables, reordar nuestro truco: la mano) / Very (muy).
Ejemplos: much water / many tables / she is very intelligent.
4. Los adjetivos van delante del nombre. Por ejemplo
Coche nuevo - new car (sería incorrecto decir “car new”)
5. Después de like, love y hate el verbo se escribe en gerundio, excepto si “love, like y hate” van en condicional. Por ejemplo:
I like singing (Me gusta cantar) / I would like to sing (me gustaría cantar).
6. Los verbos en ingles siempre llevan sujeto, aunque en español pueda quitarse porque se omita, en inglés no ( excepto las órdenes) Por ejemplo:
(Ellos) trabajan duro (they work hard) En español “ellos” puede quitarse, en inglés nunca.
7. Las fechas en inglés se dicen con la preposición “on”, al igual que los días de la semana. Por ejemplo:
El 5 de septiembre - On 5th September
El lunes / martes - On Monday / Tuesday.
8. Después de preposición el verbo en inglés se escribe en gerundio: prep +vb. Ing. Por ejemplo:
I earn money for eating (Gano dinero para comer).
9. “En casa” o “en mi casa” en inglés se dice “at home”. Por ejemplo:
I like eating at home (me gusta comer en casa / en mi casa)
10. Los adjetivos en inglés son invariables. No llevan plural. Por ejemplo:
They are very intelligent (nunca se podría decir intelligents).
11. Un deporte después del verbo “go” se expresa en – ing. Por ejemplo:
We usually go walking / They sometimes go running.
12. El comparativo de superioridad se puede formar añadiendo “–er” a los adjetivos cortos o escribiendo “more” antes de los adjetivos largos. Por ejemplo:
John is taller than James (nunca podríamos decir “more tall”)
John is more intelligent than James (nunca podría ser intelligenter)
13. El verbo “esperar” en ingles se expresa de varias formas:
- Tener esperanza (I hope you to win- espero que ganes)
- Esperar a algo o alguien (I am waiting for you- te estoy esperando)
- Esperar algo de alguien (I expect you to pass- espero que apruebes)
14. “Meet” significa “quedar” o “quedar con” y no es necesario añadir “with”(con). Por ejemplo:
I usually meet my friends at night (normalmente quedo con mis amigos de noche).
15.New year -año nuevo / Christmas EveàNoche Buena / New Year’s Eve - noche vieja
Y cuando estoy errores estén superados...corregiremos otros.
El inglés en Lorca es fácil si vienes a Aulaglobal: Inglés desde Primaria a Bachillerato. PET ( B1), FIRST(B2) de Cambridge.
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay celebrations begin with a massive torchlight parade. (
For most of the world December 31 is New Year’s Eve, but in Scotland it’s something much more important: Hogmanay.
So what is it, and why does it make Aberdonians set fire to stuff?
Hogmanay is a very big deal in Scotland. It’s the biggest day in the festive calendar, a celebration that makes Christmas Day seem very small indeed – and it’s like nothing else on Earth.
What is Hogmanay?
Hogmanay is what the Scots call their New Year’s Eve celebrations. The origins of the word are unclear – some say it’s a corruption of the Greek words for ‘holy month’, others that it’s of French origin – but the celebrations themselves go back centuries.
Where did Hogmanay come from?
Hogmanay’s origins are viking. Norse invaders celebrated the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, with wild parties in late December.
Those parties began to incorporate elements from the Gaelic Samhain winter festival, which celebrates the beginning of winter, and Yule, whose celebrations were known as ‘daft days’ in Scotland.
Like many annual celebrations, the end result is a mix of its various influences.
(Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Why is it such a big deal?
Because until very recently, Scots didn’t do Christmas. The party-loving Protestant Reformation effectively banned Christmas for 400 years, and Christmas Day didn’t even become a public holiday in Scotland until 1958 and Boxing Day didn’t become a holiday until 1974.
So while the rest of the world celebrated Christmas, Scots toiled. Their family get-togethers happened at Hogmanay instead.
How is it different from other New Year’s Eve celebrations?
It’s longer. Hogmanay starts on New Year’s Eve but continues throughout New Year’s Day and into January 2, which is a public holiday in Scotland.
While the rest of the UK is generally getting back to work on the 2nd, Scotland looks like that bit at the beginning of 28 Days Later when the streets are deserted.
How do Scots celebrate Hogmanay?
Most Scots party, but they also observe a number of traditions.
The most popular one is first-footing, where the first person to enter the house after midnight – ideally a tall, dark man – brings gifts such as food or coal. First-footing is supposed to affect the household’s fortunes for the coming year, so if your first visitor is a small blonde woman you’re stuffed.
Other traditions include cleaning the house before Hogmanay arrives, watching terrible TV programmes before the bells chime and singing Robert Burns’ poem, Auld Lang Syne.
That singing is accompanied by a mass linking of arms, and those arms are supposed to then cross each singer’s chest for the final verse. While most people know the first verse, the lusty singing tends to tail off in the second as people realise they don’t know most of the words.
Hogmanay in Edinburgh (Picture: Chris Watt)
What about big events?
Edinburgh’s Hogmanay is the biggie: it starts with a massive torchlit parade on the December 30, includes a huge fireworks display, has performances from musicians ranging from up-and-coming acts to pop stars and the odd superannuated rock group, and pulls a crowd from more than 60 different countries.
Other Scottish cities have big parties too, but Edinburgh’s one is the biggest. In 1996, it attracted more than 400,000 people, although subsequent years have been restricted to smaller (but still big) crowds for safety reasons.
Late December in Scotland. Isn’t that a terrible time to have an outdoor party?
Yes. Severe weather stopped the parties in 2003 and 2006.
This year’s forecast looks positively balmy by Hogmanay standards, though: it’s going to rain, but the rain shouldn’t be too cold.
Are there any weird traditions around Hogmanay?
In Stonehaven near Aberdeen the locals make balls of chicken wire, paper and rags, set them on fire and swing them around.
In South Queensferry, the ‘Loony Dook’ sees hungover Scots hurling themselves into the icy sea to raise money for charity.
And in Kirkwall, the ‘Ba Game’ is an enormous game of street football that can last anything from four minutes to five hours and feature as many as 350 players.
Loony Dook (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
How can I celebrate Hogmanay properly?
There’s no right way or wrong way to celebrate Hogmanay, but if you want to do what many Scots do you’ll have a nice meal with family and/or friends, plenty to drink – including whisky, of course – to toast the new year, and a steak pie for dinner the following day when you finally emerge from your bed.
Don’t forget a bottle of Irn Bru, too – Scots swear by it as a hangover
For millions of people Black Friday is the time to do some serious Christmas shopping --even before the last of the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone! Black Black is the Friday after Thanksgiving, and it's one of the major shopping days of the year in the United States -falling anywhere between November 23 and 29. While it's not recognized as an official US holiday, many employees have the day off -except those working in retail.
The term “Black Friday” was coined in the 1960s to mark the kickoff to the Christmas shopping season. “Black” refers to stores moving from the “red” to the “black,” back when accounting records were kept by hand, and red ink indicated a loss, and black a profit. Ever since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the Friday after Thanksgiving has been known as the unofficial start to a bustling holiday shopping season.
In the 1960's, police in Philadelphia griped about the congested streets, clogged with motorists and pedestrians, calling it “Black Friday.” In a non-retail sense, it also describes a financial crisis of 1869: a stock market catastrophe set off by gold spectators who tried and failed to corner the gold market, causing the market to collapse and stocks to plummet.
Why did it become so popular?
As retailers began to realize they could draw big crowds by discounting prices, Black Friday became the day to shop, even better than those last minute Christmas sales. Some retailers put their items up for sale on the morning of Thanksgiving, or email online specials to consumers days or weeks before the actual event. The most shopped for items are electronics and popular toys, as these may be the most drastically discounted. However, prices are slashed on everything from home furnishings to apparel.
Black Friday is a long day, with many retailers opening up at 5 am or even earlier to hordes of people waiting anxiously outside the windows. There are numerous doorbuster deals and loss leaders – prices so low the store may not make a profit - to entice shoppers. Most large retailers post their Black Friday ad scans, coupons and offers online beforehand to give consumers time to find out about sales and plan their purchases. Other companies take a different approach, waiting until the last possible moment to release their Black Friday ads, hoping to create a buzz and keep customers eagerly checking back for an announcement.
More and more, consumers are choosing to shop online, not wanting to wait outside in the early morning chill with a crush of other shoppers or battle over the last most-wanted item. Often, many people show up for a small number of limited-time "door-buster" deals, such as large flat-screen televisions or laptops for a few hundred dollars. Since these coveted items sell out quickly, quite a few shoppers leave the store empty handed. The benefit of online shopping is that you will know right away if the MP3 player you want is out of stock, and can easily find another one without having to travel from store to store. Also, many online retailers have pre-Black Friday or special Thanksgiving sales, so you may not even have to wait until the big day to save. So, there you have it - the Black Friday history behind the best shopping day of the year!
Thanksgiving is celebrated in the USA and Canada. In The USA, it is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November every year. The Canadians celebrate it on the second Monday in October. It is associated with giving thanks to God. In the beginning people expressed gratitude for the harvest they reaped. It used to be a religious holiday but now it has become a secular celebration.
The most important part of the celebration is the dinner which includes the customary turkey served with cranberry sauce, and pumpkin. A lot of business goes on during this holiday. For example, restaurants take advantage of the holiday to sell turkey dinners
Families and friends usually get together for a large meal or dinner during Thanksgiving and have a lot of fun. That's why, the Thanksgiving holiday weekend is considered one of the busiest travel periods of the year. Students are given a four-day or five-day weekend vacation. Thanksgiving is also a paid holiday for most workers.
If you continue driving when the traffic lights turn red, you jump the lights. It's very dangerous to jump the lights. No wonder he was stopped by the police.
fall off the back of alorry
Goods that have fallen off the back of a lorry are stolen goods. Judging by the price of that camera, it must have fallen off the back of a lorry!
make your way to
If you make your way to a destination, you manage to get there without difficulty. Don't worry. I'll make my way to your home from the station.
pedal to the metal
When you put the pedal to the metal, you accelerate or make something go faster. If I put the pedal to the metal I might get there on time.
any port in a storm
When you are in difficulty, any port in a storm refers to a solution you accept which in normal circumstances you would find unacceptable. The hotel was substandard, but it was a case of any port in a storm; all the others were full.
take for a ride
To take someone for a ride means to cheat or deceive them. I discovered he had charged me double the normal fee. He really took me for a ride!
road rage
Aggressive driving habits sometimes resulting in violence against other drivers is called road rage. A number of accidents today are a direct result of road rage.
middle of the road (MOR)
This term refers to anything moderate, unadventurous or inoffensive that avoids extremes and appeals to the majority of people. He's a successful middle-of-the-road entertainer. My mother wouldn't miss a show!
get show on theroad
If you manage to put a plan into action, you get the show on the road. OK, we've got all we need, so let's get the show on the road.
sail close to the wind
If you sail close to the wind, you do something dangerous or act just within the limits of what is legal or acceptable. He seems to invest his money well although he often sails close to the wind.
sail through
If you sail through something, for example a test or an exam, you succeed in doing it without difficulty. The English test was no problem for Pedro. He sailed through it.
shank's pony
If you go somewhere on Shank's pony, you have to walk rather than travel by bus, car, etc. It was impossible to find a taxi after the party, so it was Shank's pony for us!
ships that pass in the night
This expression refers to people who meet briefly and are not likely to meet again. The two men met one, like ships that pass in the night, and never met again.
live out of a suitcase
Someone who lives of a suitcase travels a lot, moving from place to place, and is therefore restricted to the contents of their suitcase. Sarah's job involves so much travelling that she lives out of a suitcase.
train of thought
A sequence of connected ideas is called a train of thought. I was considering the different options when the noise outside broke my train of thought.
hitch wagon to a star
Someone who hitches their wagon to a star has great ambitions and is very determined to reach their goal. At an early age she decided to hitch her wagon to a star and become famous.
on the wagon
Someone who is on the wagon is no longer drinking alcohol. No wine for me please - I'm on the wagon.
