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Essential English Vocabulary

Personality Vocabulary (English to Spanish)

• Innocence → Inocencia
• Sensitivity → Sensibilidad
• Shy → Tímido/a
• Self-conscious → Cohibido/a
• Confident → Seguro/a de sí mismo/a
• Frustration → Frustración
• Assertive → Asertivo/a
• Nervous → Nervioso/a
• Defensive → A la defensiva
• Openness → Apertura
• Aggressive → Agresivo/a
• Impatient → Impaciente

Actions and Gestures Vocabulary

• Wave → Saludar con la mano / Agitar la mano
• Catch their eye → Llamar su atención / Cruzar miradas
• Hold hands → Tomarse de la mano / Agarrarse de la mano
• Interrupt → Interrumpir
• Apologize → Disculparse / Pedir perdón
• Answer your mobile phone → Contestar el móvil / teléfono
• Kiss → Besar
• Touch → Tocar
• Shaking hands → Dar la mano

English Vocabulary Review

Adjective Opposites and Translations

Work and Employment Vocabulary

Key terms related to employment:

• Dismissal/Firing: be dismissed/sacked, be made redundant, be out of work
• Leaving/Starting:

INTELIGENCIAS MÚLTIPLES:

1. Linguistic intelligence: the ability to use words effectively.
2. Logical/mathematical: the capacity to use number and reason effectively.
3. Visual-spatial: the capacity to recognize form, space, color, line…
4. Bodily/kinesthetic: the ability to use the body to express ideas and produce things.
5. Musical: the ability to recognize and perceive musical forms.
6. Interpersonal: to interact with the mascot, teacher or other students.
7. Intrapersonal: the ability of self-knowledge and self-understanding.
8. Naturalist: the ability to recognize and categorize plants, animals and other objects in nature.

COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT)

It began in Britain in the 1960s. Characteristics: Language is used for communication. Hymes defines communicative...

Professional Profile: Hans Fiser

Full name: Hans Fiser
Occupation: Engineer
Employer: Farmakon
Leisure activity: Scuba diving

Background Information

• Origin: Germany
• Current Workplace: Farmakon International
• Tenure: 8 years
• Daily Responsibilities: Designs, builds, and tests robots for packing lines.

Curriculum Vitae: Hans Fiser

1. Robotics Engineer
2. Designed, built, and tested 7 pilot robots for packing lines
3. Farmakon International GmbH
4. Pharmaceutical manufacturing
5. Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics
6. Robotics
7. University of Applied Sciences, Germany
8. Apprentice technician

Professional Profile: Reme Gomez

Name: Reme Gomez
Present job: Junior technician
Years in present job: 4 years
Years in apprenticeship: 3 years
Qualification: Certificate of junior technician competence
When

Communication is the exchange of information (ideas, desires..) between two or more people for different reasons and by different means.

Elements communication process: sender, receiver, message, channel, code and context. ^{Additional elem: affective component, age, interlanguage. Proposed pattern for any lesson: warm-up, presentation, practice, production. Listening: Pre-listening, during-, post.}

^{3 strategies to speaking: questions and answers, instructions and directions, interviews.}

^{Theater is important: Concentration is so difficult for kids. They need to make associations through their senses / Theater normally reflects pupils interests and world.}

Stories are important: Enjoyment and fun. Pupils need to be motivated to learn. / Real context....

1. Cognitive principles.

They relate mental and intellectual functions.

1. Automaticity

Efficient second language learning involves a timely movement of the control of a few language forms into the automatic processing of a unlimited number of language forms.

2. Meaningful learning

Meaningful learning will lead toward better long-term retention than rote learning.

3. Anticipation reward

Human beings are universally driven to act by the anticipation of some sort of rewards — tangible or intangible, short term or long term — as a result of the behaviour.

4. Intrinsic motivation

The most powerful rewards are those that are intrinsically motivated within the learner.

5. Strategic investment

Successful mastery of the second language will be due to a learner’s own personal

Special Events: Purpose and Goals

Special events encompass rituals, presentations, performances, and celebrations designed to commemorate specific occasions and achieve social, cultural, or corporate goals.

Government Perspective on Events

Governments utilize event strategies to guide their involvement, prioritize initiatives, and facilitate decision-making. They establish dedicated spaces for public events and often integrate these events with national anniversaries and celebrations. Key objectives include staff training, network development, and public communication.

Levels of Government Involvement

• National Government: Organizes major celebrations of national significance, international political and economic events (e.g., Commonwealth events)

Gun Control

The Debate on Teachers Carrying Guns

After the incident that happened in Florida last February, Donald Trump proposed that teachers should carry guns in schools. Is this the best solution?

I think it is one of the worst ideas he could have suggested. Both teachers and students could be affected, regardless of age, as it depends on the individual's mindset.

Despite the occurrence of many crimes like this, I cannot understand why some people support the sale of weapons.

Nevertheless, there are people who are beginning to speak out against it, and this is a positive development.

The Need for Stricter Gun Laws

The first step we should take is to ban the sale of weapons worldwide. If we achieve this, things will change.

Feminism

The #MeToo Movement

This...

Listening Comprehension Answer Key

General Topics

• Are insects the future of food? 1.C, 2.A, 3.D, 4.B, 5.B, 6.B, 7.A, 8.A
• Does handwriting have a future? 1.D, 2.C, 3.C, 4.B, 5.D, 6.C, 7.B, 8.D
• Salvador Dalí's cookbook: 1.D, 2.C, 3.A, 4.C, 5.A, 6.D, 7.B, 8.C
• Interview with a scriptwriter: 1.B, 2.B, 3.B, 4.C, 5.C, 6.A, 7.D, 8.C
• Food in space: 1.B, 2.D, 3.C, 4.A, 5.C, 6.C, 7.D, 8.B
• Building for a better world: 1.A, 2.A, 3.C, 4.C, 5.B, 6.D, 7.A, 8.C
• An interview with a champion: 1.B, 2.B, 3.B, 4.C, 5.C, 6.D, 7.A, 8.C
• Telepathy: 1.C, 2.D, 3.B, 4.D, 5.C, 6.D, 7.C, 8.A
• Hearing dogs: 1.A, 2.B, 3.D, 4.C, 5.B, 6.B, 7.C, 8.D
• Do schools destroy creativity? 1.D, 2.C, 3.B, 4.D, 5.D, 6.D, 7.A, 8.A
• Are we alone in the universe? 1.C, 2.D, 3.A, 4.C, 5.A, 6.A, 7.D, 8.A
• The

English-Spanish Vocabulary Lists

Unit 1: Travel and Nature

• Accommodation
• Achieve: conseguir
• Awareness: conciencia
• Bee: abeja
• Bored
• Break the ice
• Colorful: colorido
• Crowded: lleno de gente
• Desert
• Deserted
• Eel: anguila
• Encounter: encuentro
• Excited
• Exotic
• Face
• Fence: valla
• Flat: llano
• Foreign: extranjero
• Get off: bajarse
• Get up
• Give up: darse por vencido
• Go abroad
• Goal: objetivo
• Guide
• Guided tour
• Hiking
• Hilly
• Hire: contratar
• Hostile
• Impressive
• Isolated: aislado
• Journey
• Landmark: punto de referencia
• Lively: animado
• Local
• Make reservation
• Mountain
• Noisy
• Peaceful
• Rafting
• Rappelling
• Remote
• River
• Rocky
• Route
• Run out of
• Rural
• Sandy
• Scenery: paisaje
• Set off: salir
• Show up
• Steep
• Take off
• Tired
• Travel arrangements
• Turn back
• Unpredictable
• Urban
• Warn
• Watch out: tener cuidado

Unit 2: Accidents and Survival

• Accident
• Alive: