Monday, December 21, 2009
A Catalan Christmas
A very funny video with Stephen Fry about some eschatologic Catalan traditions, namely, the 'Caga Tió' (The Shit log) and 'El Caganer' (The Crapper).
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Online SpellChecker
Here is a website with a useful tool for improving your texts in English:
http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/
http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/
Saturday, December 12, 2009
About last class
Let's have a look at some words and phrases that we looked at in class:
The word 'after'can be a preposition, and it's used as follows: After + NP (sintagma nominal = noun or pronoun)
e.g. after the meal/ the rain/the summer/that...
It can also be an adverb, with the same meaning as 'afterwards', and in that case, nothing follows:
e.g. She came back a few days after
And, finally, it can be a conjunction and i's followed by a sentence (Subject + Verb, etc.):
e.g. She came back a few days after I left
Finally, some words and ideas we discussed explained in wikipedia:
sympathy (noun), to sympathise (verb), sympathetic (adj.)
Compassion (noun), compassionate (adj.)
Remember that the latter has a positive connotation in English
The word 'after'can be a preposition, and it's used as follows: After + NP (sintagma nominal = noun or pronoun)
e.g. after the meal/ the rain/the summer/that...
It can also be an adverb, with the same meaning as 'afterwards', and in that case, nothing follows:
e.g. She came back a few days after
And, finally, it can be a conjunction and i's followed by a sentence (Subject + Verb, etc.):
e.g. She came back a few days after I left
Finally, some words and ideas we discussed explained in wikipedia:
sympathy (noun), to sympathise (verb), sympathetic (adj.)
Compassion (noun), compassionate (adj.)
Remember that the latter has a positive connotation in English
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