To cause something Have Make Get Have + base verb The causative of have is used when you are comissioning or paying someone to do something. Example: I will have the painter paint my house. Make + base verb The causative of make is used when you are forcing someone to do something. Example: I…
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¿Qué son y para qué sirven? La respuesta sencilla es: Question tags son unas preguntas cortas que se hacen al final de oraciones en inglés para que el interlocutor (la persona con la que hablamos) compruebe o descarte la información de la oración expresada. Ahora vamos a explicar más en detalle para ayudarte a comprender…
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Es difícil ignorar el dominio del idioma inglés en este mundo globalizado. Aunque se estima que solo hay 360 millones de hablantes nativos, un total de 1600 millones lo hablan como primer, segundo o tercer idioma. A lo largo de los siglos, el inglés se ha convertido en un «idioma puente» que ha crecido paralelamente al…
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Supermarkets are using new technology to make shopping for grocery items fast and easy for shoppers. In many U.S. supermarkets there are self-service “checkout lines”. In these lines, there are no cashiers, and customers scan the grocery items they want to buy. To scan something, the customer moves it over a glass scraeen on the…
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Luis Miramontes Chemist, Luis Miramontes co-invented the contraceptive pill. In 1951, Miramontes, then a college student, was under the direction of Syntex Corp Ceo George Rosenkranz and researcher Carl Djerassi. Miramontes wrote a new procedure for the synthesis of the progestin norethindrone, the active ingredient for what would become the oral birth control pill. Carl Djerassi,…
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It can come as a surprise to many people in the U.K. and U.S. that speaking more than one language is the norm rather than the exception. In prehistoric times, most people belonged to small linguistic communities, and spoke several languages to trade with, and marry into, neighbouring communities. Still today, remaining populations of hunter-gatherers…
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By: Alonzo Ruíz In the past, people shopped for fruits, vegetables, bread and meat at small food stores and at open markets. Before there were refrigerators, it was difficult to keep food fresh for a long time, so people shopped almost every day. Life today is very different from the past. Refrigerators keep food fresh…
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You can use like to… 1. To say something is similar He acted like he were in his way. 2. To say “approximately” I’snt he like 80 years old? 3. To highlight something They were like totally blocking the doors. 4. To report what someone said They were like, “What’s your problem?” 5. To give…
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While traditional methodologies such as the audio-lingual and direct methods still offer useful elements, they’re clearly outdated in the modern classroom. The communicative approach, which was in vogue in the late ’90s, is still widely considered as the latest advancement in modern language teaching. Most TESOL/TEFL training programs still live and swear by it. However, it has…
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Seguro que has escuchado mil veces que la mejor manera de aprender inglés es estar totalmente sumergidos en el idioma, completamente rodeados dondequiera que estemos. Hemos reunido los diez mejores métodos para aprender inglés de manera gratuita, y que supondrán que el aprendizaje del idioma sea más rápido y mucho más divertido. El listening (la…
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