miércoles, 20 de diciembre de 2017
lunes, 18 de diciembre de 2017
2NA Noise: A Human History
Prof David Hendy presents a 30-part series exploring the role of sound, and listening, in the past 100,000 years of human history
domingo, 17 de diciembre de 2017
2NI Slow food
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our food choices affect the world around us.
jueves, 14 de diciembre de 2017
2NA Arcimboldo
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe artʃimˈbɔldo]; also spelled Arcimboldi) (1526 or 1527 – July 11, 1593) was an Italian painter best known for creating imaginative portrait heads made entirely of objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish, and books.
martes, 12 de diciembre de 2017
2NI Articles
The definite article the is the most frequent word in English.
We use the definite article in front of a noun when we believe the hearer/reader knows exactly what we are referring to.
We use the indefinite article, a/an, with count nouns when the hearer/reader does not knowexactly which one we are referring to:
Police are searching for a 14 year-old girl.
2NA Writing an article
TINDER, EDARLING, MEETIC. HOW COULD PEOPLE IMAGINE 30
YEARS AGO THAT THESE PLATFORMS WOULD BE THE MOST SUCCESSFUL WAYS FOR DATIING?
Basically,
dating changes along the time have been related to technology development, but
to social evolution as well. Thirty years ago, ordinary people did not have access
to dating webpages or to Apps, basically because they didn’t exit yet.
By the end of
the 80s, in Spain, moral and lifestyle thoughts were still changing, from a
strict catholic morality to a more open-minded and laissez- faire way of life.
This land of changes didn’t happen in general, and some people who said to themselves:
“Who am I? The one that I want to be or the one the others are expecting me to
be?”, had to pay the consequences.
Catholic beliefs,
such as family sacredness, would lead a woman or a man to find themselves in a
marriage, in a home, having children, putting family before themselves, and now
many of them are thinking: “how did I get there?”
All that has
been altered enormously nowadays. If
Jean meets John maybe it’s just for fun, or meeting a new friend, not thinking
about marrying or starting a family.
How and where
we can find our partner has also changed. Three decades ago it was usual that
only young people (20-35) were allowed to date someone to try to find a husband
or a wife, and the usual places were your workplace, among your friends or at a
party.
These days,
teenagers, divorcees, widows, and pensioners are welcomed to find their
soulmates, while the concepts of ‘seize the moment’, ’doesn’t matter if this
will last forever, just have fun today’ and ‘don’t mind about tomorrow’, rule
social beliefs. And, even old-school ways of meeting new people are still
working, new ones have revolutionized
the system of dating.
The Internet
and TV have become the new matchmakers. Dozens of webpages boast themselves as
able to find your perfect match, even if they live far away from you. TV
programmes that broadcast intimate dates and spread secret information about you…That’s the price
of love! and Apps that have become a
huge catalogue of women and men , as if it was a supermarket where you should
sell yourself as the best product someone could buy.
Definitely,
people keep playing the game of love. Some is a serious way, some just for fun.
And that’s the point; maybe you should first think about why you are looking
for a date. Because of your loneliness? Your boredom? Or just because you actually want to share
your life with someone special? Think about it next time you go on a date.
A. B 2NA EOI PALENCIA
lunes, 4 de diciembre de 2017
2NA More history
Visit 101 of Edinburgh's most treasured objects and step into our city's history, brought together to celebrate Scotland's Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology. #Edinburgh101
http://edinburgh.org/101#object25
http://edinburgh.org/101#object25
martes, 28 de noviembre de 2017
2NA About history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JFw8M4PBUI
The historical period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas are docudramas, which attempt an accurate portrayal of a historical event or biography, to the degree that the available historical research will allow. Other historical dramas are fictionalized tales that are based on an actual person and their deeds, such as Braveheart, which is loosely based on the 13th-century knight William Wallace's fight for Scotland's independence.
lunes, 27 de noviembre de 2017
2NI Comparatives and superlatives
Comparative adjectives are used to compare differences between the two objects they modify (larger, smaller, faster, higher).
Superlative adjectives are used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality (the tallest, the smallest, the fastest, the highest). They are used in sentences where a subject is compared to a group of objects.
lunes, 20 de noviembre de 2017
2NI About transport and travel
THE BICYCLE MAKES sense in cities. With rising urbanization, our cities need modern mobility solutions, and moving around on two wheels proves time and again that it can offer results.
2NA About childhood
I’ve got a physical disability and I’m severely dyslexic so you would think both those things would have worked against me as a child, but actually they didn’t. I have a mum who didn’t make an issue out of it, instead she focused on the joyful aspects of childhood in a very simple, creative way. She told me there was nothing I couldn’t do. So I rode a horse when I was two despite having just one hand to hold the reins. I went to France on my own when I was nine and America when I was 11.
lunes, 13 de noviembre de 2017
2NI Changing your life
In this funny and interesting TED talk Alistair tells us that our unconscious mind operates at 100,000 miles per second and our conscious mind operates at 100 miles per second. So despite your best efforts to change your negative behavior or habit, your unconscious mind had had the decision to continue 7 seconds before your conscious mind attempts to change.
2NA Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl said, "If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
miércoles, 8 de noviembre de 2017
2N About money
Would you hide your cash in an offshore tax heaven?
A massive leak of more than 13m files reveals the hidden wealth of some of the world’s richest people including sports stars, celebrities and heads of state. The Paradise Papers show how complex schemes set up in offshore islands can help the super-rich avoid billions in tax.
martes, 7 de noviembre de 2017
2NA About English language
David Crystal is fascinating, fastidious and full of knowledge on the subject of English spelling – though a little hard on Dr Seuss
Will English Always Be the Global Language?
There is no official definition of "global" or "world" language, but it essentially refers to a language that is learned and spoken internationally, and is characterized not only by the number of its native and second language speakers, but also by its geographical distribution, and its use in international organizations and in diplomatic relations. A global language acts as a “lingua franca”, a common language that enables people from diverse backgrounds and ethnicities to communicate on a more or less equitable basis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kvs8SxN8mc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kvs8SxN8mc
jueves, 2 de noviembre de 2017
2NA More about work
What
really changes in our society when machines do most of the work?
Many of us have grown up with the
belief that a strong work ethic is a positive thing, and that by contrast idle
hands are the devil's playthings. According to Professor Andrew Hussey, that
argument makes very little sense.
2NI Present Perfect
The present perfect tense refers to an action or state that either occurred at an indefinite time in the past (e.g., we have talked before) or began in the past and continued to the present time (e.g., he has grown impatient over the last hour). This tense is formed by have/has + the past participle.
martes, 31 de octubre de 2017
2NA Discourse markers
miércoles, 25 de octubre de 2017
2NA Hard work
One employee said: "Not receiving breaks is one of the cons you get pretty used to", while another said: "Unsociable work hours, most of which are spent working alone."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/07/04/10-worst-companies-work-uk-according-employees/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OuG2b7V2sU
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jul/28/cosmetics-companies-mica-child-labour-beauty-industry-india-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OuG2b7V2sU
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/jul/28/cosmetics-companies-mica-child-labour-beauty-industry-india-
2NI Future forms
We have different ways of talking about the future. We often use going to (+ infinitive), the present continuous (to be + -ing) or will (+ infinitive). The structure we use depends on the function of what we want to say, whether we are talking about arrangements, plans, predictions, etc.
lunes, 23 de octubre de 2017
2NA Robot ethics
Prof. Alan Winfield is Director of the UWE Science Communications Unit as well as a leading roboticist. He is the author of Robotics: A Very Short Introduction.
jueves, 19 de octubre de 2017
2NA What I'm really thinking
The Guardian runs a weekly series called What I'm really thinking where people in different jobs or situations reveal their true feelings.
2NA What jobs will still be around in 20 years?
Robots will take over the more repetitive tasks in professions such as law, with paralegals and legal assistants facing a 94% probability of having their jobs computerized. According to a recent report by Deloitte, more than 100,000 jobs in the legal sector have a high chance of being automated in the next 20 years.
miércoles, 11 de octubre de 2017
2NA Profile
Taylor Swift is a multi award winning, platinum selling American singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, before moving to Nashville, Tennessee at age 14 to pursue a career in country music.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b091s2z6
viernes, 6 de octubre de 2017
Kazuo Ishiguro wins 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017 has been awarded to English author Kazuo Ishiguro who, according to the Swedish academy, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.
miércoles, 4 de octubre de 2017
2NI Innovative new products coming from bakeries
Much of this hybrid hysteria started with the Cronut, a clever croissant-donut creation that launched in New York in 2013. Come 2016, people are still lining up at the Dominique Ansel Bakery about an hour before it opens to collect the gluttonous snack, with the bakery enforcing a strict Two-Cronut per customer limit.
2NA Friday Kahlo
The Mexican artist Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) is now regarded as one of the most significant artists of the twentieth century.
martes, 3 de octubre de 2017
We're not eating our roast dinners
We’re eating less meat. It seems the traditional joint of roast meat is seeing the biggest drop in sales. Over the last year in the U.K. not only have we tucked into 157 million fewer of them, but the retail analyst Kantar Worldpanel say the roast no longer features in the U.K. top five favourite meals.
miércoles, 13 de septiembre de 2017
Giant portrait of toddler peers over US-Mexico border wall
A photo of a giant toddler stands in Mexico and peers over a steel wall dividing the country from the United States.
The boy appears to grip the barrier with his fingers, leaving the impression the entire thing could be toppled with a giggle.
A French artist who goes by the name JR erected the cut-out of the boy that stands nearly 65 feet (20 metres) tall and is meant to prompt discussion of immigration
martes, 12 de septiembre de 2017
Cambridge considers typed exams as handwriting worsens
The increasing illegibility of students’ handwriting has prompted Cambridge University to consider ending 800 years of tradition by allowing laptops to replace pen and paper for exams.
Academics say that students are losing the ability to write by hand en masse because of their reliance on laptops in lectures and elsewhere.
viernes, 8 de septiembre de 2017
Artist donates part of BP prize money to Greenpeace in oil sponsorship protest
Henry Christian-Slane, an artist from New Zealand, won the BP young artist award at the National Portrait Gallery for a painting of his partner Gabi. The high profile prize, which was chosen out of 2,580 entries, came with £7,000 prize money, which was presented by BP’s chief executive Bob Dudley.
martes, 5 de septiembre de 2017
Film review: Victoria and Abdul
Judi Dench returns as Queen Victoria in a comedy about the monarch and her Indian servant that is commercial and unchallenging.
lunes, 4 de septiembre de 2017
Teachers ‘£5,000 a year worse off under Tories’
With millions of children returning to school this week after the summer holidays, teaching unions said the marked decline in salaries was one of many factors causing an ever more serious recruitment crisis .
domingo, 3 de septiembre de 2017
As flood waters rise, is urban sprawl as much to blame as climate change?
Climate scientists agree that extreme rainfall will increase as the world warms. Other researchers argue that poor urban infrastructure and the rapid, unchecked sprawl of cities on to marshlands and other places that usually absorb excess rainwater have led to flooding.
miércoles, 30 de agosto de 2017
The princess myth: Hilary Mantel on Diana
Diana should be as passe as ostrich plumes: one of those royal or quasi-royal women, like Mary of Teck or Wallis Simpson or the last tsarina, whose images fade to sepia and whose bones are white as pearls. Instead, we gossip about her as if she had just left the room. We still debate how in 1981 a sweet-faced, puppy-eyed 20-year-old came to marry into the royal house. Was it a setup from the start? Did she know her fiance loved another woman? Was she complicit, or was she an innocent, garlanded for the slab and the knife?
martes, 29 de agosto de 2017
Lita Cabbellut
"I do not see ugly people," says Cabellut. "I paint different people. I paint people in whom you need to find the real beauty behind the skin. I have a weakness for underdogs, and one part of me will always stay with them. What drives me is the portrait of the human being, of you, of me, of us."
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36580311
http://www.litacabellut.com/
http://www.litacabellut.com/
domingo, 27 de agosto de 2017
Eighties Fashion Designers
The eighties are considered one of the most experimental periods in British style history, but trends weren't limited to massive shoulder pads with sizeable hair to match. It was in this era that people expressed themselves in any way they wanted and, at the heart of it all, was a celebration of the individual.
martes, 22 de agosto de 2017
Edinburgh's floral clock
Edinburgh’s world-famous floral clock, one of the star attractions of Princes Street Gardens, honours the 200th anniversary of The Scotsman this year.
miércoles, 16 de agosto de 2017
I don’t mean to ruin your holiday, but Europe hates tourists – and with good reason
We claim that travel opens our eyes to the world – and it does, a little. But it also requires closing them. We have to turn a blind eye to much of what we see to enjoy ourselves. Sometimes it is big things such as poverty and unemployment. Mostly, though, we have to ignore the hordes of people just like us, all of whom want what we want: the authentic tapas, a glimpse of an older way of life, a sight that we can put on Instagram.
lunes, 14 de agosto de 2017
Edinburgh's 101 Objects
Visit 101 of Edinburgh's most treasured objects and step into our city's history, brought together to celebrate Scotland's Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology. #Edinburgh101
sábado, 12 de agosto de 2017
First Venice and Barcelona: now anti-tourism marches spread across Europe
With the continent sweltering under a heatwave nicknamed Lucifer, tempers have been boiling over, too, as a wave of anti-tourism protests take place in some of Europe’s most popular destinations. Yet, as “tourism-phobia” becomes a feature of the summer, the World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has defended the sector, calling on local authorities to do more to manage growth in a sustainable manner.
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