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INGLES PARA PROPOSITOS ESPECIFICOS

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LECTURAS SUGERIDAS:
Lectura Nº 1: ESP: English for Specific Purposes

ESP: English for Special Purposes

Recent world events have underscored the need to increase understanding and to improve communication among all citizens. An international exchange of ideas is essential in areas ranging from the environment (global warming and the thinning ozone layer) to medical research (genetic engineering and equitable distribution of modern drug therapies) to the educational challenges and community development.

To meet these communication needs, more and more individuals have highly specific academic and professional reasons for seeking to improve their language skills: for these students, usually adults, courses that fall under the heading English for Special Purposes (ESP) hold particular appeal.

ESP programs focus on developing communicative competence in a specific field, such as education, science or technology.

Some courses prepare students for various academic purposes, specially for research in graduate studies. Some universities offers courses that emphasize training in public speaking skills and uses videos to improve teaching and lecturing styles. Others prepare students for work in fields such as law, medicine, engineering, tourism or graphic design.

Many courses now focus on the Internet, how to use its vast web of information for academic or professional purposes, and what ethics and conventions govern the use of that information.


Lectura Nº 2: Community Development

Community development, informally called community building, is a broad term applied to the practices and academic disciplines of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of local communities.

Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people by providing these groups with the skills they need to effect change in their own communities. These skills are often concentrated around building political power through the formation of large social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must understand both how to work with individuals and how to affect communities' positions within the context of larger social institutions.

Professionals aim to support the efforts of people in finding their own solutions rather than imposing solutions. When communities work together to improve their own lives, the result is a permanent strengthening of the community and renewed hope for the future. Community Development expresses values of fairness, equality, accountability, opportunity, choice, participation, mutuality, reciprocity and continuous learning. For this reason, the principles of Participation, Empowerment and Sustainability are promoted.

Participation

It means that the people themselves are involved in identifying the problems they face, determining ways to overcome them, designing realistic plans to achieve these goals, and carrying them out. Solutions devised and fulfilled by the people in need are far more likely to prove successful than those imposed from outside.

Empowerment

From participation grows empowerment. People who truly participate in their own development are permanently strengthened. They get better incomes and projects help to improve the skills and the experience of those involved. The project should also help build up more self-confidence, hope, dignity and strength in the participants.

Sustainability

Participation and empowerment seek to ensure that projects bring lasting change which will strengthen people's ability to fend for themselves and improve their lives long after the project has ended. Therefore, another key principle is sustainability. It’s a long-term approach that seeks to understand and respect local conditions.

Ejercicios:

Lectura Nº 3

The Adjectives
Forma, Posición y Orden

FORMA:

1.) Los adjetivos en ingles solo tienen una forma, usada con el singular y el plural:
An old man old men
An old woman old women
An old car old cars
Excepto los adjetivos demostrativos: This-That (Esto- aquello) These-Those (Esos-aquellos)

2.) Cuando un sustantivo es usado como un adjetivo, no tiene una forma plural. Compare:
Two hours a two-hour film
Three weeks a three-week holiday

POSICION Y ORDEN:

1.) POSICION

a. Un adjetivo puede ser ubicado en dos lugares en la oración
i. Antes de un sustantivo:
A Young man.
An empty house.
New shoes.
A nice girl.

ii. Después de los verbos be, look, appear, seem, feel, taste, smell, sound, (entre otros) cuando se describe el sujeto de una oración:
He is young
The house looks empty
The soup smells good
These shoes are new
She seems confident

b. Algunos adjetivos (asleep, alone, alive, awake, afraid, ill, well) pueden ser ubicados después del verbo pero no antes de un sustantivo:
He is asleep. (NO an asleep man) or A sleeping person
He is alive or A living person
They are ill or Sick children.
They are well or Healthy people
It is afraid or A frightened animal.

c. En expresiones de medida, el adjetivo normalmente viene después del sustantivo que denota medida:
He’s eighteen years old.
I’m 1.80 meters tall.

2.) ORDEN:
Cuando se usan dos o más adjetivos juntos, los adjetivos de “opinión” (eg. interesting, beautiful) normalmente van antes de los adjetivos que denotan “hechos” (eg. new, blue):
An interesting new film
A beautiful blue dress

3.) Cuando dos o más adjetivos que denotan “hechos” vienen antes de un sustantivo, normalmente van en el siguiente orden:
TAMANO + EDAD + FORMA + COLOR + ORIGEN + MATERIAL + PROPOSITO + SUSTANTIVO
A small rubber ball (TAMANO + MATERIAL)
A young Spanish woman. (EDAD + ORIGEN)
White leader running shoes (COLOR + MATERIAL + PROPOSITO)

EJERCICIOS:
Como podemos llamar a estas personas y cosas. Ver 2.)
a. A child who is four years old. A four-year-old child.
b. A journey which takes six hours. A six-hour journey.
c. A concert which lasts for two hours.______________________________________
d. A man who is fifty years old. ___________________________________________
e. A delay which lasts for twenty minutes.____________________________________
f. A letter which has ten pages.___________________________________________
g. A meeting which lasts for two hours.______________________________________

Cuáles de estas palabras son adjetivos:
a. You look tired. Yes, I don’t feel very well.
b. It’s a very long book.
c. Were you late for work today?
d. You seemed sad. Is something wrong?
e. The boss sounded angry when I spoke to him on the phone.
f. He’s a shy person. He feels embarrassed when he meets people.

Coloque las palabras en el orden correcto:
a. Is/a/generous/Kate/woman. Kate is a very generous woman.
b. Look/very/Simon/angry/did/? Did Simon look very angry?
c. Children/the/are/asleep._____________________________________________
d. Very/city/is/Sydney/modern.__________________________________________
e. Bridge/long/is/55km/the._____________________________________________
f. Development/community/interesting/subject/is/an.__________________________

Coloque los adjetivos en el cuadro debajo del encabezado correcto:
Short, plastic, Italian, beautiful, sports, ugly, square, leather, red, German, small, Young, White, writing, curly, large, middle-aged

OPINION - TAMANO - EDAD - FORMA - COLOR - ORIGEN - MATERIAL - PROPOSITO
Horrible - - - short - - - -old - - - round - - grey - - English - - - -glass - - - - shopping

Reordene las siguientes oraciones
a. A (fat/short) man. A short fat man.
b. A (middle-aged, tall) woman.__________________________________________
c. Two (white/small/paper) cups. ________________________________________

d. A (young/handsome) doctor.__________________________________________
e. A pair of (leather/expensive/black) shoes._________________________________

DESARROLLO COMUNITARIO

Key Concepts (Conceptos Clave)

RECURSOS WEB:
Diccionario y Traductores
Verbos



Vocationally Oriented Language Learning




PRODUCCIONES DE LOS PARTICIPANTES

Videos


Creations




The Artists




Inglés Zapateao

Títeres Bilingües






Adjectives

PRESENTACION ENGLISH

Lectura Nro 2: Ejercicios