English stuff, Kiwi stuff, Colombian stuff, lot´s of stuff
Monday, December 28, 2015
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Daily bread 12/24/2015
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More End-Of-Year Collections Of Great Infographics | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
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Language Training Services and Courses in London and the UK for businesses
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Make It Your Business: 7 Great Websites for Business English Students
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Campaña sobre realismo mágico espera atraer más turistas a Colombia - YouTube
Monday, December 21, 2015
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Friday, December 18, 2015
Daily bread 12/18/2015
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The 2015 Travel Photographer of the Year – in pictures | Travel | The Guardian
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In Colombia, youth dream big under the big top | The City Paper Bogotá
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Wild Orca Always Swims Right Up To The Kayaking Friend He's Known For Years
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BBC Learning English - Course: lower intermediate / Unit 4 / Session 3 / Activity 1
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Colombia’s economy grew the most this year among South American countries – Latin Correspondent
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Daily bread 12/17/2015
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Angular 2 hits beta and it's a big deal for the future of the Web
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Study shows Colombia slipping on English proficiency | The City Paper Bogotá
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Skydiving dogs keep their cool under pressure in Colombian Air Force | New York Post
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Finance Colombia Brasil’s Rapiddo Takes Stake in Colombia’s Mensajeros Urbanos - Finance Colombia
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
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Daily bread 11/24/2015
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Your guide to reading the world | ideas.ted.com
"Read one book from every country on earth in one year"
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For Colombia's indigenous peoples, 'invasion' never ended | The City Paper Bogotá
"Kogi, Arhuaco and Wiwa"
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BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English / What makes us laugh?
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Daily bread 11/11/2015
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From the ESL Grammar Files: Everything You Need to Know about Teaching Gerunds
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What Is a Gerund?
Simply put, a gerund is the –ing form of a verb acting as a noun in a sentence.
- When a verb is in its gerund form, it refers to the activity rather than the action.
- The process of doing something rather than the actual doing.
- Gerunds can function as subjects or objects in a sentence.
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Swimming is a good form of exercise for the elderly. (The gerund is the subject of the sentence and refers to the activity of swimming not a specific person’s action of swimming.)
She enjoys swimming in the ocean. (The gerunds is the object of the verb and refers to the general activity rather than a specific moment of movement.)
- Infinitives are also verbs used as nouns, but infinitives are the simple form of the verb preceded by the word to. Infinitives can also be used as the subject or object of a sentence
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To live is the greatest gift. (Infinitive as subject)
I want to live life to the fullest. (Infinitive as object of the verb)
- are two forms of one word serving the same purpose in English (verbs acting as nouns)
- gerunds refer to specific, concrete, and/or real actions. Infinitives, on the other hand, expresses actions that are unreal, abstract, or those that might happen in the future.
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Subject
While both infinitives and gerunds can be used as the subject of a sentence, gerunds tend to sound more natural.To copy is the greatest form of flattery. (sounds stilted and formal). Copying is the greatest form of flattery. (sounds more natural)
- certain verbs that take gerunds as objects (admit, consider, deny, discuss, dislike, enjoy, keep, quit, miss, mind, practice, and understand)
- others that take infinitives (agree, ask, demand, deserve, forget, happen, learn, manage, need, prepare, want, and wish).
- Other verbs can be followed by either (begin, can’t stand, hate, intend, like, love, plan, prefer, and remember).
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Only Gerunds Can Function As the Object of a Preposition
They were talking about going to New York City. (Not: they were talking about to go to NYC.) She won an award for cleaning up the city. (Not: she won an award for to clean up the city.)
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Pumarosa.com Escuela Bilingue Interactiva Gratuita para estudiantes de habla hispana
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The Best Mobile Apps For English Language Learners | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
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Daily bread 11/07/2015
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Learning JavaScript Design Patterns
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- Reusing patterns assists in preventing minor issues that can cause major problems in the application development process. What this means is when code is built on proven patterns, we can afford to spend less time worrying about the structure of our code and more time focusing on the quality of our overall solution. This is because patterns can encourage us to code in a more structured and organized fashion avoiding the need to refactor it for cleanliness purposes in the future.
- Patterns can provide generalized solutions which are documented in a fashion that doesn't require them to be tied to a specific problem. This generalized approach means that regardless of the application (and in many cases the programming language) we are working with, design patterns can be applied to improve the structure of our code.
- Certain patterns can actually decrease the overall file-size footprint of our code by avoiding repetition. By encouraging developers to look more closely at their solutions for areas where instant reductions in repetition can be made, e.g. reducing the number of functions performing similar processes in favor of a single generalized function, the overall size of our codebase can be decreased. This is also known as making code more DRY.
- Patterns add to a developer's vocabulary, which makes communication faster.
- Patterns that are frequently used can be improved over time by harnessing the collective experiences other developers using those patterns contribute back to the design pattern community. In some cases this leads to the creation of entirely new design patterns whilst in others it can lead to the provision of improved guidelines on how specific patterns can be best used. This can ensure that pattern-based solutions continue to become more robust than ad-hoc solutions may be.
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IELTS Juice | Weekly Lessons | Let's practice this common IELTS reading question type
Friday, November 6, 2015
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Daily bread 10/20/2015
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Colombia's middle class forced to tighten belt
- slows down
- picks up
- accelerating from
- dropped by
- decrease in
- at the higher end of the career ladder
- inflate
- increased by
- rapid drop
- fall in the price of
- deceleration of
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How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Monday, October 19, 2015
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Daily bread 10/10/2015
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IELTS Juice | Weekly Lessons | Who speaks at IELTS speaking session
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Twist - definition of twist by The Free Dictionary
- 8. An unexpected change in a process or a departure from a pattern, often producing a distortion or perversion: a twist of fate; a story with a quirky twist.
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Daily bread 10/07/2015
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Managing across cultures | The Economist
- corporate culture is the key to success in the next wave of global mergers and acquisitions
- president and CEO of Nissan and Renault
- Nov 18th 2005
- An Oldie, but a goodie. Still applies today...perhaps, more than ever.
- acquire and absorb
- courtship
- synergies
- the motivation of individual employees and their ability to collaborate in teams
- cordial
- The news
- met with scepticism
- latent
- corporate culture is the key driver
- motivated employees
- maintain the best features of existing cultures while promoting necessary evolution
- a new global imperative: diversity
- we have embraced English as a language that allows us to communicate effectively with each other and with customers
- Gender
- We must make space for women
- Generational transition
- promotion and compensation based on merit not seniority
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Teaching expats new tricks – The Bogota Post
- Pursuing a career
- Teaching expats new tricks
- Pursuing a career
- note the typical collocation
- a whole host of
- hurdles
- sorting out
- persevere
- held three jobs
- know a lot of Spanish
- enough Spanish to get by,
- the exception not the rule
- on the fly.
- listened to Spanish constantly
- lend itself to
- immersing yourself in the language
- contacts
- build a network
- expats
- lookout for free language learning opportunities
- www.elempleo.com
- research the major companies
- Face to face contact
- studying at one of the universities
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