martes, 17 de julio de 2012

 
Keep me posted  
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Neil: Hello, I'm Neil. Examples I don't know what time they're arriving, but I'll keep you posted!
Keep me posted on how things go in your new job!
I kept them posted on what was happening.
Helen: I hope Neil's keys find their way home. Hello?
Neil: Hi, it's Neil.
Helen: Neil! Any news?
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Neil: Well, someone posted my keys back to me.
Helen: Great!
Neil: But they put them through the letterbox!
Helen: Oh no, so you've got your keys back, but now you're locked out!
Neil: And I'm stuck! I tried to get through a window but I don't fit. I'm half-in, half-out. Thank goodness, help must be arriving.
Police: Don't move!
Neil: Does it look like I can move?
Police: Hands on your head!
Helen: Oh dear, it sounds like someone called the police – they probably thought Neil was a burglar.
Neil: But, this is my house!
Police: Is it indeed?
Helen: I'd better leave you to explain yourself now. But do keep me posted Neil!
Neil: Keep you posted! How am I going to do that if I'm locked up? Arrested for for breaking into my own house!
Helen: Bye

Helen: And I'm Helen. How are you Neil?
Neil: Not good.
Helen: What's wrong?
Neil: I posted my house-keys.
Helen: You posted your house-keys? Let me guess, you dropped them in the letterbox by mistake.
Neil: Yes, I got mixed up. Instead of putting a letter in, I put my keys in.
Helen: Oh dear.
Neil: But I have my address attached to my keys, so maybe they'll end up getting posted back to me.
Helen: Yes, you might get them posted back to your house or you might get burgled, now that someone has your address as well as your house-keys.
Neil: Oh no, thieves might get into my house! I'd better go and wait outside to see what happens.
Helen: Okay, good luck.
Neil: I'll keep you posted. See you later!
Helen: Neil will 'keep me posted'. That doesn't mean he's going to put me in the postbox – even though he's obviously a bit confused about what should or shouldn't go in postboxes! It means he will keep me informed, he will tell me what happens. Listen to some examples:




The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on Earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species.[1] The concept of the natural environment can be distinguished by components:
The natural environment is contrasted with the built environment, which comprises the areas and components that are strongly influenced by humans. A geographical area is regarded as a natural environment.
It is difficult to find absolutely natural environments, and it is common that the naturalness varies in a continuum, from ideally 100% natural in one extreme to 0% natural in the other. More precisely, we can consider the different aspects or components of an environment, and see that their degree of naturalness is not uniform.[2] If, for instance, we take an agricultural field, and consider the mineralogic composition and the structure of its soil, we will find that whereas the first is quite similar to that of an undisturbed forest soil, the structure is quite different.
Natural environment is often used as a synonym for habitat. For instance, when we say that the natural environment of giraffes is the savanna.

Importance of english







Actually, everybody, who faces the professional and laboral work, has to feel very close to the difficulties of English. The technology, science and advances of the world, shows us this “foreign” language as an element for the construction of an excellent life-project, giving positive support  to the people who are interested in a language that nowadays  the Universal Language.importance of english 
Computers, Electronic, and health world require English. Most of the theories are written and spoken in English, even more when the globalization phenomenon has come and shorter distances require that everybody speaks the same language that allows communication and the elaboration of new perspectives and ideas full of diversity of thoughts and multiple intelligences, English will be there.
What I have said before, is not unkown for many people, so I just want to make a call for students to love and feel motivation for English, knowing that for some of us it is hard its learning; “How bored is English” it’s heard by the streets, but there are more advantages for people who speak English than for people who don’t know how to speak or write this Language.


he Parts of Speech

Traditional grammar classifies words based on eight parts of speech: the verb, the noun, thepronoun, the adjective, the adverb, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection.
Each part of speech explains not what the word is, but how the word is used. In fact, the same word can be a noun in one sentence and a verb or adjective in the next. The next few examples show how a word's part of speech can change from one sentence to the next, and following them is a series of sections on the individual parts of speech, followed by an exercise.
Books are made of ink, paper, and glue.
In this sentence, "books" is a noun, the subject of the sentence.
Deborah waits patiently while Bridget books the tickets.
Here "books" is a verb, and its subject is "Bridget."
We walk down the street.
In this sentence, "walk" is a verb, and its subject is the pronoun "we."
The mail carrier stood on the walk.
In this example, "walk" is a noun, which is part of a prepositional phrase describing where the mail carrier stood.
The town decided to build a new jail.
Here "jail" is a noun, which is the object of the infinitive phrase "to build."
The sheriff told us that if we did not leave town immediately he would jail us.
Here "jail" is part of the compound verb "would jail."
They heard high pitched cries in the middle of the night.
In this sentence, "cries" is a noun acting as the direct object of the verb "heard."
The baby cries all night long and all day long.
But here "cries" is a verb that describes the actions of the subject of the sentence, the baby.
The next few sections explain each of the parts of speech in detail. When you have finished, you might want to test yourself by trying the exercise.
Written by Heather MacFadyen

martes, 29 de mayo de 2012


Medio ambiente

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Ambiente natural.
Por medio ambiente se entiende todo lo que afecta a un ser vivo. Condiciona especialmente las circunstancias de vida de las personas o de la sociedad en su vida.1 Comprende el conjunto de valores naturales, sociales y culturales existentes en un lugar y en un momento determinados, que influyen en la vida del ser humano y en las generaciones venideras. Es decir, no se trata sólo del espacio en el que se desarrolla la vida, sino que también comprende seres vivos, objetos, agua, suelo, aire y las relaciones entre ellos, así como elementos tan intangibles como la cultura[cita requerida]. El 5 de junio se celebra el Día Mundial del Medio Ambiente.