For those of you reading this lesson on the day it was published, today is the Fourth of July. In many countries, it's just another day of the month, but in the United States it is a federal holiday. The date is the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when the American colonies declared that they were no longer under the control of Great Britain.
One of the most important holidays in the United States is Independence Day or the Fourth of July. We can also say "July fourth," but when we're talking about that holiday we traditionally say "the Fourth of July."
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Many people in the United States celebrate this holiday with a variety of traditional activities. Let's take a look at a few of these today.
It's high summer with warm weather on the Fourth of July, so people often celebrate the holiday by going picnicking and even boating, if there is a lake nearby.
You can have a picnic, there's a lake to take boats out on.
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Cold beer in a cooler and meat cooked on a barbecue are also Fourth of July holiday traditions, but some iced tea or lemonade for the kids and teetotalers, and some vegan sausages for the vegetarians have become traditional too!
Not to mention a cooler for the beer, and the meat for the evening barbecue.
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Traditional Fourth of July picnic salads include potato salad, pasta salad, and a variety of fruit salads.
Then, I'm going to prepare a little salad of cherry tomatoes.
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But even more for its amazing flavor, no Fourth of July picnic would be complete without a fresh, ripe watermelon!
Watermelon, for its beautiful color...
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The highlight and grand finale of a good Fourth of July is, however, the inevitable fireworks:
It started at seven and ended at one with an amazing fireworks display!
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Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and study the captions in the videos above to get a better idea of the contexts in which they are used. Happy Fourth of July to all of you, wherever you may be!
Summer is on its way, and if you are lucky, you may have a garden in your yard that you can take care of. To do that, it may help if you know the names of the gardening tools that you may need. Let's take a look today at some of the English names of some standard gardening tools.
This is what parts of Australia looked like before the European settlers arrived with their axes and saws.
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An ax is used to chop through the trunks of trees and large branches. The word is made plural by adding "-es" for "axes." Sometimes the singular word is written as "axe," which is grammatically correct, but perhaps a bit old-fashioned. "Ax" is also a verb, "to ax." Thus you can ax a tree down, or you can cut a tree down with an ax.
A saw is used to cut through the trunks of trees and large branches. The plural form is, as you see in the example above, "saws." You can also use "to saw" as a verb. Thus you can saw a tree down, or you can cut a tree down with a saw. A saw that is especially made for cutting branches is called a "pruning saw."
I rake the leaves with a rake.
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A rake is a gardening tool with a long, usually wooden handle. It has a wide metal fork with hooked ends that allow you to gather leaves and yard debris, much as you sweep with a broom. As you see in the example above, "to rake" is a verb and a "rake" is a noun.
We helped with hands and wheelbarrows, shovels and sweat.
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People have to shovel their driveways and sidewalks in front of the house.
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A shovel, also called a spade, also usually has a long wooden handle. Its end is a triangle-shaped flat metal piece that is used to dig holes in the ground or move dirt, sand, and even snow. As you see in the second example, "to shovel" is also a verb.
A wheelbarrow is a cart with one wheel in front and stands in the back that is used to carry dirt, sand, and other similar things. There is no verb derived from "wheelbarrow," and usually its usage is "to push a wheelbarrow."
And anyone who laid it on with a trowel...
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A trowel is similar to a shovel, but much smaller. It works well for making small holes to put potted plants into the ground. The phrase "to lay it on with a trowel" is also an idiom, or saying, that means "to exaggerate."
People have lawn mowers and they mow the lawn.
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A lawn mower is a machine used to cut the grass or lawn. Some of them are manual and require a lot of force to push them by hand. Most lawn mowers today have electric or gasoline motors, and some even have powered wheels. There are also lawn mowers called "riding lawn mowers" that you can sit on and drive.
Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and study the captions in the videos above to get a better idea of the contexts in which references to these garden tools have been made. You can also go to this site and see a long list of different kinds of gardening tools.
Es posible viajar sin dominar bien el inglés, pero hoy en día, conocerlo es esencial para poder moverse por el mundo con más independencia.
Quien es un gran aficionado a los viajes, debe conocer los términos ingleses más comunes del turismo, por lo tanto, es bueno que memorice al menos el vocabulario básico.
¿Cuántas veces has hecho el booking de una habitación de hotel o fuiste al check-in del aeropuerto? Hablamos de situaciones ordinarias en las que el idioma inglés funciona como lingua franca, esto es, lengua universal.
Veamos algunas palabras fundamentales en inglés relacionadas con el tema vacacional:
Holidays o vacations
En inglés americano, vacation se utiliza con más frecuencia y tiene el mismo significado que holiday en inglés británico. Aunque vacation también se utiliza en el inglés británico para referirse principalmente a los descansos de las clases en las universidades, mientras que holiday es utilizado por los estadounidenses para referirse a los días festivos.
Easter, like other holidays, has become very commercial,
La Pascua, como otras festividades, se ha vuelto muy comercial,
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Why don't you go on a vacation? -I could go to Hawaii.
¿Por qué no te vas de vacaciones? -Podría ir a Hawái.
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Travel, trip or journey
El sustantivo travel es un sustantivo incontable que adopta el significado genérico de viaje. Un ejemplo: I love to travel. Del mismo modo, travel, utilizado como verbo, se emplea para referirse a un viaje de larga distancia.
I'm now ready to travel to Amsterdam.
Ahora estoy lista para viajar a Amsterdam.
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Trip se usa para definir un trayecto con un propósito concreto, viaje por placer o por negocios. I have a three-day trip to the high mountains.
Hi, I want to take a trip to the Grand Canyon.
Hola, quiero hacer un viaje al Gran Cañón.
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Journey puede definirse como una parte de un trip.
The journey starts from our refrigerated warehouses in Brussels and Bordeaux.
El viaje comienza en nuestros almacenes refrigerados de Bruselas y Burdeos.
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También se usan las palabras voyage para hablar de un viaje muy largo, o también tour para describir un journey con muchas etapas, tales como, por ejemplo, las giras artísticas o una competencia ciclística.
Sightseeing.
Significa ir de turismo, visitar los puntos turísticos de una ciudad, de un pueblo.
Se usa acompañado del verbo go (ir), go sightseeing y coloquialmente con el verbo
do (hacer) al que se le debe agregar la palabra some (algo)
After doing some of the sightseeing stuff in Dublin
Después de hacer algunas de las cosas de turismo en Dublín
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Aprendizaje adicional.
Yabla está concebido como ese cuaderno de trabajo que te prepara para el momento de hacer un viaje. El viaje de aprendizaje que es Yabla es también el inicio de tus próximas aventuras en contextos angloparlantes. Chequea nuestros videos relativos al tema de Holidays/Vacations y alístate para disfrutar de esos días.
With most English nouns, you simply add an "s" to make the noun plural. The singular word for "noun" is "noun," and if you want to describe more of them, you just add an "s" to make it plural: "nouns." Sometimes there are irregular plurals with no "s," such as the singular "man" becoming the plural "men."
However, there are a number of nouns in English which cannot really be counted and are never used in plural form with an "s" ending. These are called mass nouns (or sometimes "uncountable nouns"). The Oxford Dictionary describes a mass noun as "a noun denoting something that cannot be counted (e.g. a substance or quality), in English usually a noun which lacks a plural in ordinary usage and is not used with the indefinite article."
Children often make the mistake of adding "s" to mass nouns, which is cute but also shows that it's not so easy to understand their usage. "Mommy, look at all the sheeps!" and "I really like to eat spaghettis!" are cute, but unfortunately grammatically incorrect!
You have a sheep and a hippo? -Yeah.
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A herd of bighorn sheep ends up blocking traffic on their way to a better grazing ground.
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"Sheep" is a mass noun and there is no such word as "sheeps": One sheep, two sheep, three sheep.
They can play chess, if they wish.
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The noun "chess" is not used in a plural sense at all. You can have "games of chess," "chess sets," or "chess boards," but in these cases, "chess" is being used as an adjectival describer and the nouns being described are the plurals.
Would you like to sample our vegan bacon?
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The only way to suggest "bacon" in singular form is to combine it with other descriptions such as "a piece of bacon" or a "little bit of bacon."
All spaghetti spoons have a hole in the bottom.
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With "spaghetti" too, you can have "lots of spaghetti" but not "spaghettis."
Thank you for showing your support for women's rights.
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You may see the word "supports" with an "s" in verb form, as in "Prince Harry supports women's rights." You also see it in a different meaning for the noun, such as "the steel supports for the building." But when you are talking about the kind of support that means you are giving approval, comfort, or encouragement to someone or something, then it's always a mass noun.
Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and study the captions in the videos above to get a better idea of the contexts in which mass nouns have been used. You can also go to this site and see a long list of mass nouns.
La construcción del vocabulario es clave para muchos de los estudiantes de idiomas. Además de aprender de los nativos aspectos fonéticos, quien aprende un idioma como el inglés puede preparar su repertorio recabando expresiones populares, jerga, interjecciones, lo cual ayudaría a hacerlo inteligible ante sus interlocutores. Se trata de un proceso activo en el que cada elemento que se adquiera representa una ventaja.
Por ello, hemos pensando en compartir contigo expresiones cotidianas y palabras que son muy usadas en el día a día de los países de habla inglesa.
Comencemos…
Para decir que “tenemos mucha hambre”, podríamos decir: we are very hungry. No obstante con el verbo starve sonaría mucho más natural.
We were actually genuinely starving. -Right.
De hecho estábamos genuinamente muriéndonos de hambre. -Correcto.
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Si queremos decir que algo es cursi poco original y hasta un poco ridículo podemos usar el
adjetivo cheesy
My favorite holiday movie is, uh, and it sounds so cheesy,
Mi película navideña preferida es, eh, y suena tan cursi,
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Otra característica usual de la lengua inglesa viene representada por las llamadas reduplicaciones que consisten en repetir una palabra o añadir otra que suene muy parecida. Por ejemplo. tenemos easy peasy que quiere decir muy fácil
Easy peasy, ooh, so breezy!
¡Super Fácil, ooh, tan relajado!
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Y si hablamos de phrasal verbs (aquí te explicamos qué son), el verbo hang out es sin duda uno de los más populares
I'm glad we got to hang out again.
Me alegro de que hayamos vuelto a salir.
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Y para culminar por esta lección, un dúo siempre presente en la cotidianidad del inglés. Nos referimos a yeah, como versión moderna y enfática de “sí” junto a no worries, que literalmente significaría “nada de preocupaciones” pero que la mayoría de las veces puede traducirse como “por favor” o “de nada”.
Yeah, um, no worries, just here for the show.
Sí, no te preocupes, solo aquí para el espectáculo.
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Esperamos haber despertado tu interés sobre este tipo de expresiones cotidianas, las cuales seguramente ampliaremos en lecciones sucesivas.
Aprendizaje adicional
La tecnología de Yabla está enfocada en el aprendizaje activo hacia el vocabulario: jugar con palabras, memorizarlas, escucharlas, repetirlas, asociarlas con hablantes e imágenes. Luego, si quieres ser capaz de recordar activamente y sacar esas palabras cuando las quieras, no sólo recordarlas cuando te las pidan, tienes que escribirlas, usarlas. Todas esas actividades están ampliamente garantizadas con Yabla.
English, like many languages, uses a lot of idioms referring to animals. Let's continue from Part I and take a look today at some more English animal expressions.
We're dying like flies down here!
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The more common phrase is "dropping like flies," and probably comes from people having seen many dead flies on window sills, which gave the impression that they die in large numbers. The phrase usually means that many people have gotten sick or are dying.
We'd get together and horse around a little bit and sing.
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The phrase "to horse around" probably comes from seeing horses play, and means "to fool around." Another common related phrase with a similar meaning is "to indulge in horseplay."
Everything is fast paced in a rat race.
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The term "rat race" probably comes from seeing rats run a long way to try to get a small piece of food. Wikipedia describes "rat race" as "an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit." In American English, "getting out of the rat race" means to quit a stressful job and pursue a less hectic means of employment.
I wouldn't say it was a wild goose chase...
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A "wild goose chase" is a fool's errand, or an attempt to pursue something that is hopeless. It probably comes from wild geese being difficult to catch.
The King James Bible is the book that taught us that "a leopard can't change its spots," that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," that "a wolf in sheep's clothing" is harder to spot than you would imagine, and how annoying it is to have "a fly in your ointment."
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This caption addresses four common animal sayings. "A leopard can't change its spots" means that it's impossible or very difficult for a person to change their character. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" means that you shouldn't risk what you have if you might lose it seeking additional gain. It can also mean you should be satisfied with what you have. "A wolf in sheep's clothing" suggests somebody who is pretending to be a friend, but is in fact an enemy. Lastly, "the fly in the ointment" means that something unexpected has caused something to go wrong. It's also a warning that something may seem too good to be true.
Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and study the captions in the videos above to get a better idea of the contexts in which they have been used. You can also go to this site and see some other English phrases that use animals.
To get funciona como auxiliar cuando va seguido del participio pasado de otro verbo, y sustituye a to be en el lenguaje informal para formar la voz pasiva.
Es empleado con frecuencia cuando refiere algo negativo, y se le llama get-passive, que funciona casi exactamente igual que el be-passive. Este uso es bastante recurrente y se ha convertido en un rasgo distintivo del inglés moderno.
Un par de ejemplos:
Got paid
Before this was a job, before I got paid
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Get started
And, uh, let's go ahead and get started.
Y, eh, sigamos adelante y empecemos.
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To get funciona también como auxiliar cuando se le combina con un adjetivo, este es un uso que ya mencionamos, se puede usar en el sentido de llegar a ser, estar. El verbo llegar algunas veces se puede sustituir por el verbo to become.
Get angry
But I get angry baby, believe me
Pero me enojo nene, créeme
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Get married
Yeah. -But I never thought that we would get married.
Sí. -Pero nunca pensé que nos casaríamos.
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Para muchos estudiantes de inglés probablemente no haya otro verbo que cause tanta confusión como el polifacético to get. Tiene solo tres letras y una pronunciación muy sencilla, pero esconden mil usos diferentes que confunden incluso a los nativos.
Esperamos haberte ayudado a identificar sus principales posibilidades.
Aprendizaje adicional
Escuchar atentamente una canción o a un hablante nativo en cualquier video de Yabla revela el uso de get de las más diversas maneras. Además, puedes abrir cualquier diccionario y divertirte viendo sus innumerables acepciones
English, like many languages, uses a lot of idioms referring to animals. You may have heard the English expression "as hungry as a horse" (very hungry) or "monkey see, monkey do" (when somebody copies somebody else). What these expressions have in common in all languages is that they refer to some quality that is associated with a specific animal in that culture: Horses eat a lot of food and monkeys can be mimics—always compared to humans, of course. Let's take a look today at some English animal expressions.
All of the sudden, one of the orcas made a beeline in this direction.
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Similar to the English expression "as the crow flies"—meaning the fastest way between two points is a straight line—the phrase "to make a beeline" means "to go quickly" or "to go directly." Speaking of bees:
Leave me the birds and the bees.
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The phrase "to know about the birds and the bees" means "to have received education about sex," but it is often used as a general metaphor for sex. And now we're on to birds:
I killed two birds with one stone!
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This expression fortunately has nothing to do with actually killing any poor birds, but means "to get two (or more) things done at once." There's also another somewhat similar idiom, "better a bird in the hand than two in the bush." This means it is better to actually have something real than risk losing it by trying to get something better. Speaking of birds again:
Well if he wants to play chicken, this rooster ain't backing down.
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The phrase "to play chicken" means to play a dangerous game to see who is bravest. A famous movie used this as part of its plot: In the film Rebel without a Cause, the actors James Dean and Corey Allen "play chicken" by racing cars towards the edge of a cliff to see who will dare to stay in the car the longest before jumping out. Spoiler alert: it doesn't end well!
At that moment, the witch realized that there was something fishy, and started yelling at her.
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The usual expression is "something fishy is going on," and it means that something about a person or a situation is suspicious or not as it appears. It probably comes from the fact that even though a fish at the market may look fine, it smells bad if it is no longer fresh.
Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and study the captions in the videos above to get a better idea of the contexts in which they have been used. You can also go to this site and see some other English phrases that use animals.
Los phrasal verbs son unas herramientas estupendas para aumentar la fluidez en inglés. Los hablantes nativos las utilizan todo el tiempo para expresarse de maneras diferentes. Puedes aprenderlas igual que el vocabulario. Un phrasal verb combina un verbo normal con un adverbio o una preposición para crear otro verbo con significado completamente nuevo.
Al estudiar los phrasal verbs, es necesario entender primero que han de ser abordadas en conjunto y no por sus partes constituyentes. La preposición o adverbio presente en el phrasal verbal no tiene traducción literal en solitario.
Veamos solo tres ejemplos de get como phrasal verb.
Get on without my guy
Prosigo sin mi chico
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En este ejemplo, el verbo get no tiene el significado de recibir ni de agarrar, pues ahora está enlazado con la preposición on que tiene el significado de "en", "sobre", etc. Por lo tanto, es importante observar el contexto en el que se inserta la frase verbal para realizar la traducción más adecuada pues get on también puede tener varios significados. Del ejemplo se puede entender que la cantante sigue hacia adelante con su chico.
But I need to get it down on paper
Pero yo necesito ponerlo por escrito
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En este ejemplo, el verbo get está acompañado de la preposición down que significa abajo. Una vez más, el contexto aquí es determinante. Get down on your paper significa escribir o imprimir algo físicamente en papel. Es una frase muy coloquial, lo cual es una característica relevante de los phrasal verbs.
perhaps I wanted to get away from this place more than anyone.
quizás yo quería alejarme de este lugar más que nadie.
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Se usa get away para decir que te vas de un lugar o evento. Puedes también alertar a la gente de que se aleje de algo o de alguien. También puedes utilizar esta frase verbal para hablar de tomar unas vacaciones o un día de fiesta. Tal vez puedas decirle a la gente que te vas a alejar por un tiempo cuando planeas hacer un viaje.
El verbo to get tiene muchísimas aplicaciones, y de seguro será uno de tus aliados más cercanos cada vez que te toque expresarte en inglés.
Aprendizaje adicional
Get on, get down y get away son solo tres de las decenas de phrasal verbs que contienen al verbo to get. Hemos tomado solo una acepción de las posibles para cada uno de ellos. Entonces, te sugerimos consultar el diccionario gratuito de Yabla para que te enteres de los múltiples significados de estos tres phrasal verbs y además los escuches con diversos acentos en fragmentos de videos auténticos de la biblioteca de Yabla.
Yabla published a Happy Valentine's Day lesson some years ago, but we've added a lot of new videos since back then that discuss the holiday, so here is Part II of the series! You may have heard about Valentine's Day, but you may not know that much about it if it wasn't celebrated where you grew up. In primarily English-speaking countries, Valentine's Day is often celebrated by giving your loved one a valentine's card, flowers, or chocolates. In the United States and the United Kingdom, it takes place on February 14th every year, but is not an official public holiday.
I hope people will be around to watch even though it's Valentine's Day.
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We too hope that you will read this lesson, even though today is Valentine's Day. (Sorry if you are late in reading this!)
Every woman wants a date on Valentine's Day.
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That is simply not true: some people prefer to be alone. And besides, just as many men want dates too. The above video is actually a comedy, and it's against Valentine's Day, preferring to call it "Desperation Day." Anyway, it's okay to feel any way you want to about it!
And today is Valentine's Day here. -Today is Valentine's Day. That is true. Happy Valentine's Day, everybody.
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Indeed, happy Valentine's Day to you, too. Celebrate it any way you like or not at all. That's the great thing about this holiday, it's strictly optional. Unless, of course, you're in a relationship, and then it's best if both of you agree!
And what's your plan for Saint Valentine's Day?
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Yes, that can be a troubling question if you are single and worrying about it. Best not to worry about things though, just have a good time with some similarly single friends or just ignore the holiday altogether! Note that sometimes, as above, the holiday has the saint's name included in it, which you occasionally see. If you choose to be critical of Valentine's Day, it's reassuring to know that there were three Saint Valentines, and nobody is even really sure which saint the holiday was named for!
Note that "Valentine" is written with the first letter capitalized when it's a proper noun, such as "Valentine's Day," a person's name like "St. Valentine," or a band name like "My Bloody Valentine." But when you write about the type of card known as "a valentine" or ask somebody to "be your valentine," then it's always written lowercase.
Further Learning
If you're a bit skeptical about the holiday, watch the How I Met Your Mother episode on Yabla English. But if you're feeling more supportive, watch the Valentine's Day movie trailer. Either way, we at Yabla wish you all a happy Valentine's Day!
El verbo get funciona como verbo principal. Es un verbo irregular, lo que quiere decir que presenta diferentes formas al conjugarse: presente get, pasado got y participio gotten.
Pertenece a la lista de los diez verbos más usados en el inglés: be (ser o estar), have (tener) , do (hacer), say (decir), make (hacer), go (ir), know (saber), take (tomar), see (ver).
En particular, en el inglés estadounidense, se utiliza más a menudo have para decir “tener”, mientras que en el inglés británico se utiliza más a menudo la forma have got.
Have you got time for a cup of tea, Grandpa Pig?
¿Tienes tiempo para una taza de té, Abuelo cerdo ?
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El significado de get es muy variado:
-Entender (un mensaje, un texto): I get what you mean (Entiendo lo que quieres decir),
And to get a better understanding about Covid-19
Y para entender mejor el Covid-19
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-Recibir (un objeto, un email): You will get a box from us. (Recibirás una caja de nosotros)
-Agarrar, recoger (una persona, un objeto, un taxi): They will get you at the airport. (Te recogerán en el aeropuerto)
You're a lifesaver, Mick! I'll go and get her.
¡Eres un salvavidas, Mick! Iré a traerla.
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Otras posibles traducciones al español son las siguientes:
-Golpear, alcanzar: The ball got me in the face (La pelota me golpeó/alcanzó en la cara)
-Llegar a un sitio: We got to Madrid in the afternoon. (Llegamos a Madrid en la tarde)
-Comprar: She gets a new dress (Ella compra un nuevo vestido)
-Contraer (enfermedad): They got the flu (contrajeron la gripe)
-Cambio de un estado: (contextura, temperatura): It's getting cold (se está poniendo frío)
-Ganar (un regalo en un sorteo, o en el sentido de “ganar más dinero” o también “ganar peso)): Workers should get more (Los trabajadores deberían ganar más)
-Molestar: Doing the homeworks on weekends gets to him (Hacer las tareas en el fin de semana lo molesta)
This can make all the difference for communities who get a significant proportion of their total calories from wild honey
Esto puede marcar la diferencia para las comunidades que obtienen una proporción significativa de sus calorías totales de la miel silvestre
Subtítulos 37-38, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council How honeyguide birds talk to people
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Aprendizaje adicional.
Es muy importante recordar la conjugación del verbo get, según la persona que habla, cuántas personas hablan y el tiempo en el que se habla (hoy, ayer, mañana). Presta atención sobre estos cambios del verbo get en los próximos videos que disfrutes en Yabla.
Happy New Year! A New Year's resolution is a tradition that, according to Wikipedia, is common in the Western World. People make promises to themselves to "continue good practices, change an undesired trait or behavior, accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their life at the start of a new year."
It's the first day of 2019. -We should do New Year's resolutions.
Caption 2, New Year's Resolutions: Lele Pons & Hannah Stocking
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Often friends and family will discuss their resolutions for the upcoming year.
My New Year's resolution is to just keep going at the gym.Caption 7, Ashley Tisdale: Happy New Year!
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This resolution will probably be easier to keep, since she has been going to the gym already and it´s just a matter of continuing to go.
Every day, I am gonna do one thing I have never done before. That, my friends, is my New Year's resolution.
Captions 9-11, New Year's Resolutions: Friends
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This, on the other hand, might prove difficult. It may be hard to even think up practical things that you've never done before. Even more likely, you'll just forget your resolution because of regular routines!
All right, my New Year's resolution is to learn how to play guitar.
Caption 29, New Year's Resolutions: Friends
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This too may prove to be difficult, since learning to play a musical instrument requires a lot of time and patience.
I don't really make any New Year's resolutions anymore because I learned early on that when I did, I never really followed through with the resolution.
Captions 2-4, Ashley Tisdale: Happy New Year!
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According to statistics, most people fail in their resolutions. Apparently, you are more likely to achieve your goal if you take smaller steps towards achieving it, rather than trying to make a large change in one go.
Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and watch the "New Year's Resolutions" episode of Friends, it's pretty funny! And if you have made a New Year's resolution (or plan to), be sure you try to accomplish it in small steps rather than all at once— you'll be more likely to attain your goal. Best wishes in the new year from all of us at Yabla!
Como se lee en el título, el verbo get es una palabra con la que puedes decir lo que quieres en inglés; es un vehículo útil para expresar lo que gustes, muchas veces incluso, de manera más sintética que con otros verbos. Get es uno de los diez verbos más usados en la lengua inglesa con sus decenas de formas y significados, ya sea como verbo simple, como verbo compuesto o como auxiliar. Cada una de estas facetas del verbo get, será detallada por separado en lecciones posteriores.
A modo de introducción, demos un vistazo general.
-En principio, get funciona como un verbo usual. En el habla cotidiana del Reino Unido se le presenta junto al verbo to have pero en forma pasada got
I have got two sisters (Tengo dos hermanas)
-Generalmente, se usa en el sentido de obtener, recibir, experimentar algo físico, un fenómeno corporal (hambre, frío, fiebre, etc)
Get a spoon to add the mashed bananas to the mixture,
Coge una cuchara para añadir el puré de plátanos a la mezcla,
Subtítulo 5, Michele from Down Under Banana Bread - Part 2
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I get the fever when I hear that song
Me da fiebre cuando escucho esa canción
Subtíulo 10, Alexandra Stan & INNA feat. Daddy Yankee We Wanna
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-Otro uso muy común de get es el relacionado con el significado de comprender:
It's my body. Get it? Not me.
Es mi cuerpo. ¿Lo entiendes? No yo.
Caption 14, Prince Ea I Am NOT Black, You are NOT White
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-Puede significar también llegar a un sitio, alcanzar un sitio:
Now, get home, dog. Get on home. Go on!
Ahora, ve a casa, perro. Ve a casa. ¡Anda!
Subtítulo 5, Karate Kids, USA The Little Dragons - Part 10
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-Cuando se emplea junto a un adjetivo adquiere como significado volverse, llegar a ser, ponerse.
Ooh, this could get messy
Oh, esto puede ponerse complicado
Subtítulo 17, Alanis Morissette Hands Clean
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Del mismo modo, get es un multi-words verb (verbo de varias palabras), eso quiere decir que se mezcla con preposiciones, adjetivos y adverbios dando origen a verbos compuestos, por ejemplo: get off, get ready, get started. Los verbos compuestos suelen confundirse con las llamadas colocaciones, las cuales equivalen más a expresiones cotidianas que juntan a un verbo y a otra palabra, es decir, son frases funcionales como por ejemplo, make an effort (hacer un esfuerzo), be right (tener razón), set the table (poner la mesa) y tantas otras. Pero la combinación del verbo get con otra palabra genera un verbo de dos componentes con otro significado. Un ejemplo más común: si a get le agregamos el adverbio up (arriba) obtenemos el verbo levantarse.
it would be far easier just to get up, walk outside of your house,
Sería mucho más fácil levantarse y salir de la casa,
Subtítulo 16, BBC Comedy Greats Michael McIntyre on Google Earth
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Por último, una característica idiomática de get es que también puede funcionar de manera semejante a un verbo auxiliar. Con get se forman oraciones en voz pasiva, formuladas frecuentemente con el modo imperativo. Para traducirlo al español se pueden emplear los verbos ser, estar, tener y volverse.
So don't get discouraged, OK?
Así que no te desanimes, ¿de acuerdo?
Subtítulo 52, Austin Reed Guitar tutorial
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Aprendizaje adicional
Get es un verbo de uso frecuente, así que abundan sus ejemplos en la biblioteca de videos de Yabla inglés. De ahora en adelante, presta atención a los diferentes contextos y situaciones en los que se utiliza el verbo todoterreno get.
A few lessons ago, we discussed the names of classical music instruments in English. Let's take a look today at the English names of some of the most common musical instruments used in pop music.
We already discussed the piano in the classical instruments lesson, but there are also a number of other kinds of keyboard instruments that are used in pop music. As a general term, they are simply called keyboards. A person who plays keyboards is a keyboardist.
I spoke with Andrew, who plays keyboards in INXS.
Caption 26, INXS: Pat Monahan about recording Beautiful Girl
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The Hammond organ is a popular vintage organ that is still much-loved in pop and jazz music. Other popular electronic organs from the 1960s, which were produced cheaply by companies such as Farfisa in Italy and Vox in the UK, are often referred to as electronic organs.
Scott Ellaway, who is now a successful conductor, loves to come here and play the organ.
Captions 19-20, Euromaxx city: A Visit to Oxford, England
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Another popular keyboard instrument that began to be widely used in the 1970s is the synthesizer. It's often referred to casually as a synth.
Because the synth especially really grounds it into a modern sound.
Captions 54-55, Making Tracks: Stu Cullen and Samuel Blair's Musical Journey
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Probably the most important instrument in rock music, especially in heavy metal and punk rock music, is the electric guitar. Generally, a person who plays guitar is called a guitar player or a guitarist. In some bands, there is a rhythm guitarist, who mainly just plays chords, and a lead guitarist, who usually plays the guitar solos.
In the film, we see Queen's lead guitarist, Brian May.
Caption 29, Bohemian Rhapsody: Six Facts about the True Story
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On the bottom end of the harmonic spectrum, we find the bass guitar or electric bass, and the acoustic upright bass, also called a contrabass. A person who plays bass is called a bass player or a bassist.
My main instrument is bass guitar.
Caption 11, Bee and Flower; Interview
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Let's look now at the beat, an important element in most forms of pop music, with the drums at the forefront. A person who plays the drums is a drummer or a percussionist.
My dad's an incredible percussionist.
Caption 10, Bruno Mars: Electronic Press Kit
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I bet Garth Brooks would take you as a drummer next time he tours.
Caption 68, Ask Jimmy Carter; Interview with Phil Collins
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Of course, brass instruments have always played a role in pop music, but the most common horn in pop music is probably the saxophone. A person who plays the saxophone is a saxophone player or saxophonist. The trumpet is also a popular horn instrument, and it's played by a trumpet player.
Trumpets were all screaming, saxophones were blaring.
Captions 17-18, The Rolling Stones: Living In A Ghost Town
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Let's not neglect a major aspect of pop music that makes it possible to play so loudly: the amplifier. There are amplifiers made especially for specific instruments, such as a guitar amplifier, a bass amplifier, and a keyboard amplifier. Vocals, horns, and other acoustic instruments are usually amplified through a microphone, or just "mic" (pronounce like the name "Mike") for short. All of these instruments are usually amplified on larger stages through a PA system. This term is an abbreviation of "public address system," as they were originally developed for speaking to large crowds.
Try turning a quarter of an inch closer to the microphone, please.
Caption 5, Ask Jimmy Carter: Interview with Angelina Jolie
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Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and watch the videos above relating to musical instruments. You can also search for the names of the instruments and find other videos. Find a tandem partner in your class and make up some sentences in English using these musical instrument words, then compare what you both came up with.
La navidad de los Estados Unidos, sus símbolos y sus productos ya forman parte de la cultura global. En muchos países la navidad made in America convive con las tradiciones locales. La Navidad al estilo estadounidense suele ser el mayor producto económico para muchos países del mundo, ya que las ventas aumentan drásticamente en casi todos los sectores durante ese período.
Con todo, la Navidad en Estados Unidos es al mismo tiempo una celebración que reúne a las familias y a los amigos en torno a los buenos deseos, la esperanza y la prosperidad.
Christmas is a major holiday in the US and in other places, too.
Navidad es una festividad importante en los Estados Unidos y en otros lugares también.
Subtítulo 3, Holidays and Seasons with Sigrid Sights and Scents at Christmastime
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Al otro lado del mar, Inglaterra también tiene un espíritu navideño que comienza en noviembre, cuando se encienden los primeros adornos en las ciudades y los niños escriben sus cartas a Papá Noel, también llamado Father Christmas en Inglaterra. Los adultos, en cambio, tienen la tradición de escribir tarjetas de Navidad para enviarlas a la familia y los amigos. A los estadounidenses les gusta pasar la Nochebuena con sus familias, mientras que los británicos van a los pubs (bares) a beber y a compartir con los amigos.
Hello, and what are you going to do on Christmas Day? We're gonna have a big log fire going
Hola, ¿y qué vas a hacer en Navidad? Vamos a tener una gran fogata
Subtítulos 23-24, Christmas in London People
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On the twelfth day after Christmas, we have to take down all the decorations and the tree, or else it's bad luck for the New Year.
En el doceavo día después de la Navidad, tenemos que quitar todas las decoraciones del árbol, si no es mala suerte para el Año Nuevo.
Subtítulos 47-48, Christmas Traditions in the UK
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Mientras que en Europa es habitual celebrar la Nochebuena, en Australia está más aceptado reunirse el día de Navidad (25 de diciembre). Todas las tradiciones navideñas, todos los mitos y leyendas de la Navidad y todos los recuerdos navideños se construyen en torno al frío, pero Diciembre en Australia es verano así que hablamos de una Navidad calurosa.
La Navidad se ha convertido en una fiesta internacional asociada con la renovación de propósitos de vida; días para compartir con la familia y los amigos.
Merry Christmas!
¡Feliz Navidad!
Subtítulo 5, Dare Jessie J Christmas Special
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Aprendizaje adicional
Inventa algunas frases sobre cosas que deseas a partir frases como "I wish you...." o “we wish you”.... Busca más ejemplos de uso en Yabla Inglés para conocer mejor los diferentes contextos en los que se utiliza la frase.
In last month's October edition of the Yabla English Lesson, we discussed the Performing Arts, one of which is music. Let's take a look today at the English names of some of the most common musical instruments used in classical music.
The piano is one of the main instruments in western musical traditions, and many musicians who specialize in other instruments and singing are often required to learn some basic piano skills. This is because of the piano's large range, from deep bass to high treble, which allows it to cover all of the ranges used by orchestral instruments. The piano is also important for musical composition, and many works for orchestra have been composed using the piano. A person who plays the piano is called a pianist or a piano player.
Well, when I write songs, I sometimes will write it on a piano.
Caption 27, Bee and Flower: Interview
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Warren Beatty's a good pianist.
Caption 71, Chevy Chase: talks about his acting life
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The violin also has another common name in English: the fiddle. This term is usually more casual and used especially in country, folk, and bluegrass music. A person who plays the violin is called a violinist or a fiddler.
Good. Did you mind if I play the violin? -No, go right ahead.
Caption 10, Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Cunningham Heritage
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So, I picked up an instrument that was called the fiddle.
Caption 17, Sigrid: An American in Italy
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Of the remaining bowed string instruments, the viola is played by a viola player. The cello, actually short for "violoncello," is played by a cellist. The double bass—also called the upright bass or acoustic bass—is the deepest of the string instruments. It's played by a bassist, or double bass player, upright bass player, etc.
I'm Jasmine Beams. I'm from Milwaukee and I play viola.
Caption 9, Making Tracks: Dewayne Everettsmith & Jasmine Beams musical journey
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I grew up playing the cello.
Caption 10, Justin James: Booking Submission Video
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And did you take bass lessons when you were young?
Caption 12, Bee and Flower: Interview
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The highest of the woodwind reed instruments are the clarinet and the oboe. The clarinet is played by a clarinetist and the oboe by an oboist, although "clarinet player" and "oboe player" are fine too. The deepest is the bassoon, played by a bassoonist, or bassoon player.
I play the clarinet. -I play the bassoon.
Caption 8, Making Tracks: A musical journey inspired by Australia
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I played the oboe in middle school band.
Caption 85, Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt: Answer the Web's Most Searched Questions
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There are also several non-reed woodwind instruments such as the flute and the recorder. A flute player is called a flutist (or flautist), and a recorder player is called just that.
When I was a girl, I studied flute like many girls,
Caption 36, Sigrid: An American in Italy
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And so I started playing recorder.
Caption 44, Sigrid: An American in Italy
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Of the brass instruments, the most commonly used are the trumpet and the French horn. The players of these instruments are a trumpeter (or trumpet player) and a French horn player. In the lower registers there's also the tuba, played by a tuba player.
Oh, yes, yes, practice trumpet every day.
Caption 23, They Might Be Giants: The Seven Days Of The Week
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Lastly, the main percussion instruments used are the marimba, the snare drum, and the timpani. The person in the orchestra playing these instruments is called a percussionist.
We know where the certain snare-hits are.
Caption 27, OK Go - Needing/Getting: Behind The Scenes
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Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and watch the videos above relating to musical instruments. You can also search for the names of the instruments and find other videos. Find a tandem partner in your class and make up some sentences in English using these musical instrument words, then compare what you both came up with. In next month's lesson, we'll talk about the different kinds of musical instruments used in pop music!
En una famosa charla TED del 2013 el lingüista John McWhorter explica que, a pesar de las críticas, los mensajes de texto y sus derivados no son plagas modernas contra el lenguaje.
Según McWhorter, escribir mensajes de texto ha llegado a convertirse en lo que él llama fingered speech (habla con los dedos). Por tanto, al igual que no nos preocupamos por las mayúsculas y la puntuación cuando hablamos en persona, los mensajes de texto también son una forma de lenguaje hablado con una composición muy informal, con sus propias reglas, estructura y vocabulario.
Entonces, además del inmenso número de acrónimos, de las abreviaturas y de los emojis, los verbos en inglés ocupan un lugar importante en la jerga de las redes sociales. Basta pensar que se utilizan a diario al menos 10 palabras inglesas adaptadas a cada idioma: googlear es el equivalente del verbo to google y lo mismo sucede con tag, link, post, chat, tweet, whatsapp, screenshot, instagram, entre otras.
So I start googling it, and I'm like, "Honey, this looks like a bungee jump."
Entonces comienzo a buscarlo en Google, y digo como: "Cariño, esto se parece a un salto de benji".
Subtítulos 20-21, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Kaley Cuoco Felt Like a Bachelor Contestant
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What's the one habit you wish he'd give up? Let's see. -McDonald's. -The tweeting.
¿Cuál es el hábito que deseas que él dejara? Veamos. -McDonald's. -El tuiteo.
Subtítulos 40-41, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump Talk Raising Children In White House
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Al mismo tiempo, conviene un término clave en las redes sociales: el hashtag. Un hashtag es una palabra clave o una frase utilizada para describir un tema o un tópico, que va inmediatamente precedida por el signo numeral (#). Los hashtags pueden ayudarte a encontrar temas de interés. Por ejemplo, "Yabla" podría ser el hashtag #Yabla, y también #Yablaingles. Uno es un nombre, un concepto, y el otro es una búsqueda más específica a partir de aquel.
the three Ps, right? Easy. [only flush Pee, Paper, and Poo. hashtag three Ps]
Las tres Ps, ¿correcto? Fácil. [Solo descarga pipí, papel y popó. Numeral tres Ps]
Subtítulo 19, TEDxBristol Why Plastic Pollution is Personal | Natalie Fee - Part 4
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Las redes sociales desempeñan un papel indispensable en el fomento del aprendizaje de una segunda lengua al proporcionar una amplia gama de materiales auténticos, tal como lo son los videos de la biblioteca de Yabla. Los idiomas son fenómenos humanos, y como tales, dinámicos, cambiantes y contextuales. Como el mismo McWhorter ha escrito: “...todas las lenguas están y han estado siempre en un estado de transformación continua, todo lo que vemos en una lengua hoy es el resultado del cambio".
Facebook and Twitter are social media.
Facebook y Twitter son redes sociales.
Subtítulo 52, The Alphabet the Letter C
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Aprendizaje adicional.
Ve a Yabla inglés y mira los vídeos anteriores relacionados con las redes sociales que actualmente están de moda. Of course! Para mantenerte al día sobre nuestras novedades y ventajas, Yabla también está en las redes sociales. Búscanos en Twitter y en Instagram: haz click aquí Instagram Yabla inglés
Last month we started learning about different kinds of Visual Art: architecture, ceramics, conceptual art, drawing, painting, and sculpture. Let's continue today with the Literary Arts and the Performing Arts.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines literature as "writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest." This does not usually include news journalism or technical writing, but usually includes poetry, drama, and fiction and non-fiction prose. A person who creates literature is usually called an author, a dramatist or playwright, a poet, or simply a writer.
By the year 2050, the whole literature of the past will have gone.
Captions 1-2, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: BBC TV Movie
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The author Dave Eggers wanted to have a location that was accessible from the streets.
Captions 14-15, Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.: Learn about this fun shop in Brooklyn, NY!
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The next category of types of art is the Performing Arts. Merriam-Webster defines this as "types of art (such as music, dance, or drama) that are performed for an audience."
Dance as an art form, simply defined as "the art of dancing," is usually referring to contemporary dance and ballet, but may include figure skating, synchronized swimming, and some forms of gymnastics. A person who designs a dance performance is called a choreographer.
The inspiring story of a boy's struggle against the odds to become a ballet star.
Captions 20-21, Visit London: Top 10 London Musicals
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I came to America to become a professional dancer.
Caption 3, Another 7.4 Earthquake: Hits Japan
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Music is described by Merriam-Webster as "the art or skill of creating or performing music," although Wikipedia describes it more interestingly as "an art form whose medium is sound and silence, occurring in time." A person who performs music is a musician (or named after the instrument they play, such as a pianist, violinist, or guitarist). A person who writes music is called a composer or songwriter.
So you write music as well, as in literally "write music?"
Captions 36-37, Bee and Flower: Interview
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This is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He was an Austrian musician and composer.
Captions 9-10, English Grammar in Use: Past Simple
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The last form of the performing arts is theater, defined by Merriam-Webster as "dramatic representation as an art or profession." Clearly, this extends beyond works performed in theaters to all forms of acting, which may also include any of the other performing arts of dance and music. Although theater and filmmaking encompass many kinds of work, the main performing artist is called an actor or actress, though it is usually best to refer to all genders of such performing artists simply as actors.
You're a repertory theater actor, you're expected to do everything.
Caption 14, Ask Jimmy Carter: Interview with Richard Gere
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Further Learning
Go to Yabla English and watch the videos above relating to art forms and professions. Find a tandem partner in your class and make up some sentences in English using these art words, then compare what you both came up with.
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