Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Exercises on English Word Order 2

Questions 2


Ask for the subject (in bold print). Use 'who' (for people) or 'what' (for everything else).

  1. Gareth speaks English. → Who speaks English?
  2. Mandy plays the guitar. → Who plays the guitar?
  3. John is from Australia. → Who is from Australia?
  4. Our room is on the second floor. → What is on the second floor?
  5. You will meet them next week. → Who will meet them next week?
  6. My bike is blue. → What is blue?
  7. The show started early. → What started early?
  8. My computer doesn't work. → What doesn't work?
  9. Her brother went to Canada last year. → Who went to Canada last year?
  10. Your friends don't like pizza. → Who doesn't like pizza?

Exercises on English Word Order

Questions 1

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Arrange the words to make questions.

  1. do / a dog / you / have → Do you have a dog?
  2. you / coffee / do / like → Do you like coffee?
  3. speak/ she / English / does → Does she speak English?
  4. he / can / dance - Can he dance?
  5. play / at / you / the weekends / do / tennis → Do you play tennis at the weekends?
  6. go / last night / out / you / did → Did you go out last night?
  7. on / they / holiday / are → Are they on holiday?
  8. him / she / did / the truth / tell / why → Why did she tell him the truth?
  9. on / they / holiday / are → Are they on holiday?
  10. she / Australia / from / is → Is she from Australia?

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

The London Dungeon

  1. The London Dungeon liesin the oldest part of London - in an old subterranean prison (that's what the word Dungeon stands for).
  2. The museum takes its visitors on a journey through England's bloody history.
  3. It demonstrates the brutal killings and tortures of the past.
  4. You can experience for example how people died on the Gallow or during the Plague of 1665.
  5. The Dungeon also shows scenes of Jack the Ripper or the beheading of Anne Boleyn, who was one of Henry VIII’s six wives.
  6. The atmosphere at the Dungeon is really scary - nothing for the faint-hearted.
  7. While you are walking around the Dungeon, watch out for creepy creatures - the Dungeon employs actors to give its visitors the fright of their lives.
  8. The actors, dressed as monsters, ghosts or executers, are hiding in the dark corners of the Dungeon and then suddenly jump out and grab one of the visitors.
  9. And the horror does not end at the exit of the exhibition.
  10. Have you ever eaten a pizza with fingers and eyeballs on it?
  11. Well, if you fancy that kind of food, you will love the meals at the Dungeon restaurant.
  12. The museum wants to provoke, shock, educate and delight.
  13. And this it does extremely well.
  14. Since its opening in 1975, the Dungeon has attracted many visitors from all over the world.
  15. Besides the regular opening hours, the Dungeon sometimes also opens at night.
  16. If you have enough money and nerves of steel, you can book the Dungeon for parties, conferences or charity events at night.
  17. And on 31 October, a frightfully good Halloween Party takes place(i) at the Dungeon every year.

Tenses Active and Passive

Hadrian's Wall

Fill the gaps with the correct tenses (active or passive voice).

  1. In the year 122 AD, the Roman Emperor Hadrian visited his provinces in Britain.
  2. On his visit, the Roman soldiers told him that Pictish tribes from Britain's north had attacked them.
  3. So Hadrian gave the order to build a protective wall across one of the narrowest parts of the country.
  4. After 6 years of hard work, the Wall was finished in 128.
  5. It was 117 kilometres long and about 4 metres high.
  6. The Wall was guarded by 15,000 Roman soldiers.
  7. Every 8 kilometres there was a large fort in which up to 1,000 soldiers found shelter.
  8. The soldiers watched over the frontier to the north and checked the people who wanted to enter or leave Roman Britain.
  9. In order to pass through the Wall, people had to go to one of the small forts that served as gateways.
  10. Those forts were called milecastles because the distance from one fort to another was one Roman mile (about 1,500 metres).
  11. Between the milecastles there were two turrets from which the soldiers guarded the Wall.
  12. If the Wall was attacked by enemies, the soldiers at the turrets ran to the nearest milecastle for help or lit a fire that could be seen by the soldiers in the milecastle.
  13. In 383 Hadrian's Wall was abandoned .
  14. Today Hadrian's Wall is the most popular tourist attraction in northern England.
  15. In 1987, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Technical Reading (Traduccion)

Las ondas de radiofrecuencia se usan para tranportar frecuencias de ondas de radio a largas distancias mediante el aire. Las señales de audio pueden ser combinadas con las ondas de radiofrecuencia de ta manera que varíe la amplitud del portador. Las señals de audio pueden ser combinadas con las de radiofrecuencia. Esto nos da una onda de amplitud modulada.
En las ondas de la frecuencia modulada, la señal de audio es combinada con la onda portadora de radiofrecuencia.

El diagrama de bloques de radio mostrado en la fig3 anterior. El sintonizador seleccionado requiere una onda de radiofrecuencia tomadas de las antenas. La onda radiofrecuencia seleccionada es amplificada y transmitida al detector, el cual separa la modulacion de audio de la señal portadora de radiofrecuencia. La frecuencia amplificada de audio, luego amplifica la señal de audio para hacerla fuerte y poder sacarla por el altavoz.

Un tipico sintonizador de radio consiste en un inductor y una resistencia conectada en paralelo. El tamaño de la inductancia de la bobina de la antena puede mantenerse en una pequeña barra de hierro.

Las ondas de radiofrecuencia alimentadas por el sintonizador causan la oscilacion del circuito. La impedancia del circuito es la mas pequeña, y las oscilaciones y la frecuencia mas grande y en particular la frecuencia mas conocida de la frecuencia resonancia. Esta frecuencia es determinada por los valores de la inductancia y la resistencia. Pero usando una resistencia variable, el circuito podra modular la frecuencia de radio requerida, y seleccionar el dipo de onda de radiofrecuencia y del amplificador.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Language Work II

Actions in Sequence:
Describe how a radio deals with a radio signal. Base your description on the chart below.

First, an aerial receives weak RF signals, then the RF tuner selects the requierd RF wave and rejects others. Next RF amplifier amplifies the selected RF wave. Following that, the detector (demoluator) separates the audio modulation from the RF carrier wave and recovers signal's original modulation voltages. At the same time, AF amplifier amplifies the audio signal. Finally, the loudspeaker converts the audio signal into sound.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Third day practice

TRADUCCIO LANGUAGE WORK I


A menudo la señal electrica es transportada a lo largo del cable. Un microfono convierte la señal sonora en una corriente electrica que varia. Esto puede ser usado para modular en otro caso constantes voltajes desde una fuente de tension, por ejemplo una bateria. Los aplificadores amplifican la señal, la cual puede viajar por un altavoz que produce la copia original del sonido.

Una forma de que una señal de sonidos se puede transmitir entre dos lugares está a lo largo de los tubos de cristal especiales llamado fibras óptica. La señal desde el microfono modula en otro caso la constante del rayo laser. Esta luz atraviesa la fibra optica. Un detector de cambios de luz entra la corriente electrica. Esta corriente es aplificada para reproducir la copia de sonidos en un altavoz.


OTHER EXERCISE ABOUT PREPOSITIONS: ENGLISH - SPANISH


That involves dividing the radio wave carrying a signal 1) into two components, one of which vibrates up and down, while the other moves from side 2) to side.

When nothing interferes with them, the radio waves used 3) by mobile phones travel 4) to a straight line (known as a "line 5) sight").

In a city, though, buildings get 6) into the way and cause the signals to scatter. The task of distinguishing the two polarised signals 7) from each other is then too hard, because the different versions of the two components of the signals ar coming at you 8) to all directions.

Shows that adding a third antenna 9) to the formula can exploit the complexity caused 10) by scattering, rather than simply suffering it.

Radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation. In a line-of-sight signal, the electric and magnetic components of the wave travel at right angles 11) by one another. That means only two states of polarisation are possible. But scattering means that various versions of the same signal arrive 12) to the receiver at different angles.

The consequence is that adding a third antenna 13) of both the transmitter and the receiver permits each electric polarisation state to be used to carry a signal. 14) To demostrate that this idea is not pie-in-the-sky, the team built a prototype sensitive 15) in the electric components. They used it to transmit an image of a Joan Miró painting, sending the red, green and blue parts of the picture simultaneously 16) from different polarisation states.

Eso implica el dividir de la onda de radio que lleva una señal 1) en dos componentes, uno de los cuales vibra hacia arriba y hacia abajo, mientras que el otro se mueve desde la cara 2) al lado. Cuando nada interfiere con ellos, las ondas de radio utilizan 3) por el recorrido 4) de los teléfonos móviles) una línea recta (como la “línea 5) vista”). En la ciudad, los edificios consiguen dispersion de señales. La tarea de distinguir las dos señales polarizadas 7) una es demasiado dura, porque las diversas versiones de los dos componentes de las señales vienen hacia ti 8) a todas las direcciones.

Esto demuestra que añadiendo una tercera antena 9) al fórmular pueden explotar la complejidad causada por la division, mas bien simplemente sufriéndolo.


Las ondas de radio son una forma de radiación electromágnetica. En una señal de la línea los componentes eléctricos y magnéticos de la onda viajan perpendicularmente 11) una por otra.

Eso significa que solamente dos estados de polarización son posibles. Pero la dispersión significa que varias versiones de la misma señal llegan 12) al receptor por diversos ángulos. La consecuencia es ésa que agrega una tercera antena 13) del transmisor y el receptor permite que cada estado de polarización eléctrico sea utilizado para llevar una señal. 14) Al demostra que esta idea no es descabellada, el equipo construyó un prototipo sensitivo 15) en los componentes eléctricos. Lo utilizaron para transmitir una imagen de una pintura de Joan Miró, enviando las partes rojas, verdes y azules del cuadro simultáneamente 16) de diversos estados de polarización.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Second day (2)

What are the main steps in the transmission of information ?

The main steps in the transmission are,
First: The transmitter send a message (transducer).
Second: The message goes throught channel.
Third: The message arrives to de receiver (destination).

In what type of communicacion is the human mind not directly involved in real time? How are human decisions limited in this situation?

What are the three basic elements of a communication system?

Transmitter, message receiver.

What is the purpose of the transmitter?

The tranmitter must send by the channel the codified message trought the channel to the receiver.

What is the channel?

The channel is where we can transmite information.

What is the purpose of the receiver?

The receiver must be able to decoder the information or the message transmitted by the transmitter.

Second day

Today, we're going to translate a text discuted in class
discuss

Hoy, las comunicaciones acceden a nuestra vida diaria de maneras diferentes, que son muy faciles de pasar por alto en multitud de facetas. El telefono sobre las manos, las radios y las tv en nuestras salas de estar, los ordenadores en nuestras oficinas y casas, y nuestros periodicos son capaces de proporcionar comunicaciones rapidas para todo el planeta. Las comunicaciones proporcionan la orientacion de los barcos en alta mar, aviones en vuelo, cohetes y satelites en el espacio. La comunicacion a traves de un telefono sin hilos para el conductor de un coche pueda mantener en contacto la oficina o lejos de casa. La comunicación mantiene la prevision del tiempo informando las condiciones, medidas con una multitud de sensores. De hecho, la lista de aplicaciones se ven implicadas en el uso de las comunicaciones, de un modo u otro es casi interminable.


La parte mas fundamental, la comunicacion implica la transmisión de la información desde un punto a otro a traves de una serie de procesos, descritos aqui:

- La generacion de un patron o de una imagen en la mente de un autor.
- La descripcion de esa imagen, con cierta medida de precision, por un sistema de simbolos auditivos o visuales.
- La codificacion de esos simbolos forman parte de la transmision sobre un medio fisico interesado.
- La transmision de los simbolos encriptados hacia el destino deseado.
- La decodificacion y reproduccion de simbolos originales.
- La recreacion de

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

First practical class

Presentation

Hello people !

Today we created a NEW BLOG ||| It's simple ||| At this blog we can see the contents of every days class.

The exercises that we have done today are of verbal times. Finished time, Unfinished time or Present Time.

One exercise:
- Some time ago, the new owners announced a new strategy for growth.
- ... in fact, over the last few years it has dropped further.
- ... it now stands at just 180, nearly 20% less than ten years ago.
- Over the same period we have invested heavily in new plant and equipment.
- As an indicator, last year we spent nearly 1 million on new vats.
- It may surprise you to know that 10 years ago Westwood had no marketing department.
- In 1985, we recruited Pamela Taylor as Marketing Manager.
- ... and since then she has built her department into a major force in the company.

Another exercise
Complete these sentences. Use the time expression to help you choose the correct tense of the verb: past simple, present perfect, or present simple.
a. Some time ago, we sold (sell) the company.
b. Recently, we've invested (invest) a lot in new equipment.
c. The current head count stands (stand) at 280.
d. Since last year, we has increased (increase) our PR budget.
e. In 1985, he retired (retire) from the company.

VOCABULARY:
Since then -- desde entonces
you're all aware --> ser consciente de algo

MY COMMENTARIES:
Past Simple (Is used to indicate finished time).
She joined the company in 1994
Irregular verbs buy - bought catch - caught teach - taught

Present perfect (Is used when the time is unfinished or not stated).
He has resigned.
They have retired.
He's just started.
They've already left.

Present Simple (Is used to report on current status).
He is retired now
It stands.
He lives.



Today we have made four exercices, first we watch a video and others listening.
I'll go home early because Barça plays Champions League with Liverpool.

Bye, see you !!