189. Los usos de la palabras "ONE Y ONES"

I like this one for me







Los pronombres "ONE y ONES" se usan con adjetivos

Ejemplos:
-This bed is perfect for me, but I think you need a bigger one  = Esta cama es perfecta para mi, pero tu necesitas una más grande
- It´s too expensive to fix my laptop, so I bought a new one  = Es demasiado caro arreglar me portátil, así que me compré uno nuevo
-Don´t buy the green apples. Buy the red ones  = No compres las manzanas verdes. Compra las rojas
-The red one looks good on you  = La roja te sienta bien

También se usa "ONE o ONES" con estos adjetivos:
THIS = ESTE / ESTA
THESE = ESTOS / ESTÁS
THAT = ESE / ESA / AQUEL
THOSE = ESOS / ESAS / AQUELLOS / AQUELLAS

Ejemplos
- I like this one  = Me gusta este
- We want these red ones  = Queremos estas rojas
- I would like that one  = Me gustaría aquel
- Those ones aren´t that good  = Aquellos no son tan buenos
- Don´t buy that small one  = No compres ese pequeño

También se usa "ONE"como pronombre
- One must think of the consequences  = Uno debería pensar en las consecuencias
- The one on the right  = El de la derecha
- It´s my last one  = Es el último que me queda
- One thing you must remember is not to arrive late  = Una cosa
 que debes recordar es no llegar tarde

También se usa detrás de "WHICH" = cual
Ejemplos
- I have three bicycles. Which one you want to use?  = Tengo tres bicis. ¿Cual quieres usar?
- You have intervied five people. Which one shall we hire?  = Has entrevistado cinco personas. ¿Cual de todos contratamos?
- Which ones are you interested in?  = ¿En cuales estas interesado?

Expresiones con "ONE"
- One by one = uno a uno
- She´s one in a million = Es única
- That´s my one hope = Es mi única esperanza
- It does make one think  = Le da que pensar a uno
- Peter has drunk one too many  = Ha bebido de más

Escucha como pronuncio las frases en ingles

Translation exercise(see solution below)
1. Dime cual te gusta más
2. No me gusta este
3. Y esos son demasiado caros
4. El último que tenía se rompió
5. Nos gusta el azul
6. ¿Cual te gustaría comprar?
7. ¿Compramos este?
8.  No se cual me hablas
9.  Tenéis que entrar uno a uno
10. Sabes muy bien que eres única
11. Este es el último que me queda
12. Me encantan los que están a la izquierda
13. No tengo ni idea cual es el mío
14. Los que están en la mesa son míos
15.  Me gustan aquellos
16. ¿Cuales son las mejores?
17. Me gustan estas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwpXrIjsKnw

It´s time to move your body. Listen to "I´m a wild one" by Iggy pop

Well
I'm just out of school like a real
Real cool

Gotta dance like a fool
Got the message
That I've gotta be a wild one
Oh yeah
I'm a wild one.
Gonna break loose
Gonna keep a movin' wild

Gonna keep a swingin'
Baby
I'm a real wild child.

Gonna meet all my friends
Gonna have myself a ball

Gonna tell my friends
Gonna tell them all
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsty.com/iggy-pop-real-wild-child-wild-one-lyrics.html ]
That I'm a wild one
Oh yeah
I'm a wild one.
Gonna break loose
Gonna keep a movin' wild

Gonna keep a swingin'
Baby
I'm a real wild child.

I'm a real wild one
And I like wild fun

In a world gone crazy everything seems hazy

I'm a wild one
Oh yeah
I'm a wild one.
Gonna break loose
Gonna keep a movin' wild

Gonna keep a swingin'
Baby
I'm a real wild child.

I'm a wild one
I'm a wild one

I'm a wild one
Oh baby
I'm a wild one!
Gonna break loose
Gonna keep a movin' wild

Gonna keep a swingin'
Baby
I'm a real wild child. 

Translation solution

1. Tell me which one you like the best
2. I don´t like this one
3. And those ones are too expensive
4. The last one I had broke
5. We like the blue one
6. Which one would you like to buy?
7. Shall we buy this one?
8. I don´t know which one you´re talking about
9. You have to go in one by one
10. You know very well that you´re one in a million
11. This is the last one I have left
12. I love the ones which are on the left 
13. I have no idea which one is mine
14. The ones on the table are mine
15. I like those ones
16. Which ones are the best?
17. I like these ones

188. Do you think you are healthy?

Do you think you are a healthy person? Being healthy can mean different things for people.

What does health mean for you?

Read the sentences below and choose seven sentences you most agree with:

1. To live to be ninety years old

2. Walking fast and not be out of breath

3. Not taking many medicines

4. To have the ideal weight for your height

5. To do some kind of exercise, running, swimming, walking or playing a sport

6. You feel happy to be alive when you wake up in the morning

7. You don´t have many aches and pains

8. You like to eat the Mediterranean diet, eating a lot of fruit, nuts, vegetables and fish

9. Not to smoke

10. Not to have much stress

11. To be happily married

12. Practically never going to the doctor

13. To sleep eight hours at night

14. To have a hobby that makes you happy

15. Drinking a glass of wine for dinner or a beer

16. Go to bed early

17. Make love

18. Don´t worry, be happy

20. Read a lot 

Well.....which 7 sentences did you choose?
Expressions

- be out of breath  = quedarse sin aliento

- wake up = despertarse

- aches and pains = achaques

- go to bed  = acostarse

- a lot  = mucho

Listen to this very nice song by Nina Simone " Feeling good" = Sentirse bien

187. More funny things

It´s really interesting how many funny signs there are!!

And here is a very funny video about the most interesting and perhaps the most used word in English.

Do you know what is the word?
What the "F"......is going on?

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Dl1i656Ja2I?rel=0

And Pink sings "Fucking perfect"

186. "Simply walking"...a bilingual poem

Simply walking 

Simply walking

thinking to myself

as I walk along the street 

People going everywhere

I wonder where in such a hurry

So many people walking in the street

I need to often look at my feet

to make sure I´m still alive

Then suddenly someone smiles at me

making me so happy
because someone really sees me

Halleluja.. I am alive

Then I feel the bright sun in the sky

How it penetrates me

leaving me a lasting trace

So I then decide to walk to the beach

to sit on the sand

and be away from so many people

and the traffic in the city

Looking at the calm sea

watching the seagulls flying over me

Feeling so happy this very moment

Breathing the fresh sea breeze 

getting up to walk along the sand

leaving footprints 

Simply walking

thinking to myself

Another beautiful day to live and love

feeling the sun high above

What a wonderful world

as the sun´s rays

go through my body

Walking barefoot along the seashore

impacts me to my very core

copyright alanmoliner 2015

Simplemente andando

pensando a mi mismo

mientras ando por la calle

Gente yendo por todas partes

Me pregunto a donde con tanta prisa

Tanta gente caminando por la calle

A menudo necesito mirar mis pies

para asegurarme que aún sigo vivo

De pronto alguien me sonríe

Me hace tan feliz

porqué alguien realmente me ve

Halleluja...si estoy vivo

Entonces siento el sol brillante en el cielo

Como me penetra

dejándome un rastro duradero

Así que decido en ese momento andar a la playa

para sentarme sobre la arena fresca

para estar lejos de tanta gente

y de tanto trafico en la ciudad

Mirando la mar en calma

Mirando las gaviotas volando sobre mi

Sintiendome tan feliz en este preciso momento

Respirando las brisa fresca del mar

levantándome para andar por la arena

dejando huellas 

Simplemente andando

pensando a mi mismo

Otro día hermoso para vivir y amar 

Sintiendo el sol en lo alto

Que mundo mas maravilloso

Mientras los rayos del sol

atraviesa mi cuerpo

Simplemente andando descalzo por la orilla del mar
me impacta en lo más profundo de me ser

Listen to this nice song 'Walking on sunshine'

185. Jack - A short story

Es muy importante leer en inglés para aprender vocabulario y expresiones.
Anotar las palabras en un cuaderno pequeño y hacer tu propio diccionario.

Hacer diferentes apartados:
-Verbos
-Vocabulario
-Tiempos verbales
-Frases hechas / expresiones
-Verbos compuestos / "Phrasal verbs"


Jack woke up to the sound of the wind. He had left the window slightly open because it helped him breathe better.
He opened his eyes and the room was moving around and around, so he closed his eyes 
in order to to see anything and get dizzy.
Jack couldn´t remember how he got home. All he remembered was that he had gone out with his friends to a party, and everybody was drinking a lot. 
It was impossible to remember how many beers and gin tonics he had drunk.

He opened his eyes again, and suddendly he felt his body rise from the bed and float practically touching the ceiling all throughout the house ending up in the living room and gently falling on his huge couch. 
This always happens to him when he has a hangover.
He never has a headache. His body simply becomes very light and floats around the house.
He has to be very careful not to have the terrace window completely open.
One time last summer he arrived home rather drunk, but he hadn´t realized the window was completely open.

As it was so hot, he had layed down on the couch in the living room and fell asleep. 
He found himself floating high above the sea when he opened his eyes.
Luckily it was in the early morning and nobody was at the beach yet, so he made himself float to the beach and continue sleeping on the soft cool sand.
Jack isn´t quite sure why this happens to him, but he has a feeling he knows why. 

In fact, it all started when he was sixteen and he drank his very first beer. 
He and his friends were having a party on the beach in Malibu. It was a warm night and there was a full orange moon. He remembered that he had only drunk three beers.
When he woke up, all his friends were sleeping on the sand, but he was floating above the sea far away from the beach, so nobody could see him.
The strangest thing was that it wasn´t the Pacific ocean, but the beautiful quiet Carribean sea.
He gently floated down and when he was about two meters from the surface, he dived into into the blue transparent water.
Later he went for a walk along the warm soft sand, realizing he was the only person that was leaving footprints on the sand.

Jack isn´t sure why this happens to him, and especially when he drinks beer.
Lately though, he has been having dreams of the time he fell off his surfboard when he was a kid.
Jack loves surfing and he´s been doing it since he was ten. One very windy day he decided to grab his board and head for the beach.
The waves were at least twenty feet tall. A perfect day for surfing and there was nobody around.
As he was surfing the perfect wave, he saw something move in the water. He lost control and fell, being sucked in by the enormous wave.
When he woke up, he was floating high above the water.

Now that Jack is twenty seven, things have changed. He doesn´t have to drink so many beers anymore. He only needs to drink a bottle of his favorite beer which is Guniess, go to sleep and wake up floating in the sky above.
The best thing is that aside from just floating, he can now fly anywhere in the world by simply thinking where he wants to go.
He floats like a cloud and flies as fast as he wants. If he wants to go faster, he uses the wind.
One of his favorite places he loves to travel is Oahu, Hawaii and surf the giant waves.

Story by Alan J. Moliner




Vocabulary:
Woke up = despertó
Had left  =  había dejado
Moving around and around  = dando vueltas
In order to = para poder
Get dizzy = marearse
Had drunk  = había bebido
Gone out = salido
Ending up = terminado
Couch = Sofá
Hangover = resaca
Headache = dolor de cabeza
Drunk = borracho
Layed down = tumbado
Yet = todavia
Realizing = dándose cuenta
Grab = coger
Head = dirigirse
Sucked in = succionado
So many = tantas
Anywhere = cualquier parte
Loves  = encanta

The Corries sing "Over the sea to skye"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1CTxa-FuKc

184.) Insert the missing word 1. (intermediate)

This is a good way to make you think in English and remember vocabulary words and expressions

See if you can remember the correct word to write in the gaps. (See solution below the song)

Traveling to 1.) ...............corners of the world 2.)..................easier and easier.
We live in a global village, 3.)..................how well do we know and understand 4.)...................other?
Imagine you 5.).....................arranged a meeting at four c´clock. What time 6.)......................you expect your foreign bussiness colleagues 7.)........................arrive?
If they´re German, they´ll be bang 8.).........................time.
If they´re American, 9.)......................probably be 15 early.
If they´re Spanish, it´s ´10.).................... they won´t arrive on time, perhaps 10 minutes late.
When the European Community began to increase 11.).......................size, several guidebooks appeared giving 12.) .....................on international trade.
At first, many people 13.)..........................this was a joke, especially the British, 14.).......................seemed to assume that the widespread understanding of their language 15).....................a corresponding understanding of English customs.
16.)....................soon they had to change their ideas, 17.).....................they realized that they had a lot to learn 18.)........................how to behave with their foreign business friends.
The British are happy to have a business lunch and discuss matters 19.).....................a drink during the meal.
The Japanese prefer 20.).....................talking about work while eating.
Lunch is a time to relax and 21.).................to know one another, and they rarely drink at lunchtime.
The Germans like to talk business before dinner. The French like to eat first and talk 
22.).................... .
23)..........................of your jacket and rolling up your sleeves is a sign of getting down to work in the United States.
The Japanese have perhaps the 24.).................rules of social and business behaviour.
Seniority is very important, and a younger man should never be sent to complete a
25.)..................deal with an older Japanese man.


Velvet underground sings "Who loves the sun"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmR8ljko3gg

Lyrics
Who Loves the Sun 
Who loves the sun 
Who cares that it makes plants grow 
Who cares what it does 
Since you broke my heart 
Who loves the wind 
Who cares that it makes breezes 
Who cares what it does 
Since you broke my heart 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Not everyone 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun 
Who loves the rain 
Who cares that it makes flowers 
Who cares that it makes showers 
Since you broke my heart 
Who loves the sun 
Who cares that it is shining 
Who cares what it does 
Since you broke my heart 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Not everyone 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun 
Sun 
Sun 
Sun 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Not everyone 
Pa Pa Pa Pa 
Who loves the sun

Solution:

1. all   2. gets   3. but   4. one / each   5. have   6. should   7. to   8.on   9. they´ll   
10. likely

11. in   12. advice   13. thought   14. who   15. meant   16. Very   17. as   18. about

19. over   20. not   21. get   22. afterwards   23. Taking  24. strictest   25. business

183. FUNNY SIGNS

It is funny what people write. Here are some examples

                                            I like this song called "CARE" by Hudson Taylor

182.) Bilinguals are smarter

"SMART": ( adjetivo) = LISTO / INTELIGENTE / AGUDO / ELEGANTE 

This is an interesting question. Are bilinguals smarter?
In fact, what does it mean to be smart! Well, there is a car called "SMART". Is this an intelligent car?
Do you think bilingual or trilingual people are smarter because they use their brain more or in a different way?

Well, read this interesting article and decide for yourself.

 

 

 By YUDHIJIT BHATTACHARJEE

SPEAKING two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it 1. ) turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age.

This view of bilingualism is remarkably different from the understanding of bilingualism through much of the 20th century. Researchers, educators and policy makers long considered a second language to be an interference, cognitively speaking, that hindered a child’s academic and intellectual development.

They were not wrong about the interference: there is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are 2.) finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles.

Bilinguals, for instance, seem to be more adept than monolinguals at solving certain kinds of mental puzzles. In a 2004 study by the psychologists Ellen Bialystok and Michelle Martin-Rhee, bilingual and monolingual preschoolers were asked to sort blue circles and red squares presented on a computer screen into two digital bins — one marked with a blue square and the other marked with a red circle.

In the first task, the children had to sort the shapes by color, placing blue circles in the bin marked with the blue square and red squares in the bin marked with the red circle. Both groups did this with comparable ease. Next, the children were asked to sort by shape, which was more challenging because it required placing the images in a bin marked with a conflicting color. The bilinguals were quicker at performing this task.

The collective evidence from a number of such studies suggests that the bilingual experience improves the brain’s so-called executive function — a command system that directs the attention processes that we use for planning, solving problems and performing various other mentally demanding tasks. These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving.

Why does the tussle between two simultaneously active language systems improve these aspects of cognition? Until recently, researchers thought the bilingual advantage stemmed primarily from an ability for inhibition that was honed by the exercise of suppressing one language system: this suppression, it was thought, would help train the bilingual mind to ignore distractions in other contexts. But that explanation increasingly appears to be inadequate, since studies have shown that bilinguals perform better than monolinguals even at tasks that do not require inhibition, like threading a line through an ascending series of numbers scattered randomly on a page.

The key difference between bilinguals and monolinguals may be more basic: a heightened ability to monitor the environment. “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you in the same way that we monitor our surroundings when driving.” In a study comparing German-Italian bilinguals with Italian monolinguals on monitoring tasks, Mr. Costa and his colleagues found that the bilingual subjects not only performed better, but they also did so with less activity in parts of the brain involved in monitoring, indicating that they were more efficient at it.

The bilingual experience appears to influence the brain from infancy to old age (and there is reason to believe that it may also apply to those who learn a second language later in life).

In a 2009 study led by Agnes Kovacs of the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, 7-month-old babies exposed to two languages from birth were compared with peers raised with one language. In an initial set of trials, the infants were presented with an audio cue and then shown a puppet on one side of a screen. Both infant groups learned to look at that side of the screen in anticipation of the puppet. But in a later set of trials, when the puppet began appearing on the opposite side of the screen, the babies exposed to a bilingual environment quickly learned to switch their anticipatory gaze in the new direction while the other babies did not.

Bilingualism’s effects also extend into the twilight years. In a recent study of 44 elderly Spanish-English bilinguals, scientists led by the neuropsychologist Tamar Gollan of the University of California, San Diego, found that individuals with a higher degree of bilingualism — measured through a comparative evaluation of proficiency in each language — were more resistant than others to the onset of dementia and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease: the higher the degree of bilingualism, the later the age of onset.

Nobody ever doubted the power of language. But who would have imagined that the words we hear and the sentences we speak might be leaving such a deep imprint?

Vocabulary - Two phrasal verbs

1. Turns out  = resulta ser
2. Finding out = Averiguando

Here is a video showing why bilinguals are smarter

Listen to the Rolling singing esta canción que mola "I can´t get no satisfaction" with Spanish subtitles