Gramática básica del inglés y ejercicios

PROPAEDEUTICS PROGRAM FOR TRANSLATORS

1. Verb Tenses:
• Simple Present
• Simple Past
• Simple Future
• Present Progressive
• Past Progressive
• Future Progressive
• Present Perfect
• Past Perfect
• Future Perfect

2. Spelling Rules:
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• IE/EI
• Final e
• Words ended in y
• Doubling the last consonant
• Words ended in s, sh, ch, x, and w3. Active/Passive Voice (direct and indirect forms)
4. Comparatives and Superlatives
5. Gerunds and Infinitives
6. Relative Clauses

BERLITZ SCHOOL OF INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS

EVALUATION PLAN

GROUP: MALAGA
PERIOD: PROPAEDEUTICS
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

Students will be evaluated on different skills (writing, reading, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, etc) and through a variety ofactivities.
1- Continuous evaluation (60% of the final grade):
2- Final Project (40% of the final grade)

Continuous evaluation:
- Class-work (12 in-class exercises)
- Homework (10 exercises)
- Writing (2 Essays)
- Reading and comprehension (5 readings)
- Tests (2 short tests)

Final Project:
The Final Project is comprised of a written paper and an oral presentation, which will bedue on weeks 15 and 16. Students must select a topic of their interest in order to prepare their presentations. Selection of topics must be done within the first four weeks.

Oral Presentation (10 points):
- Students will be given a maximum of 15 minutes to give their oral presentation.
- A five minutes Round of Questions will be allowed.
- Students can use any supporting material they mayconsider helpful.

Written Presentation (10 points):
- Students may present their paper written by hand or computer.
- Students must leave a double space between lines for corrections.
- There is no limitation as to the extent of the paper.

An encouraging word for you:
This course may be a joyous and relaxing exercise in life; make the best of it.
We are here to learn and to betterunderstand the extraordinary world of Language.
Enjoy the wonderful journey and always remember: There are no obstacles in the process of learning, but those we build before ourselves.

Good luck to you all!

TENSES

SIMPLE PRESENT

The simple present is used:
• to express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:
I smoke (habit); I work inLondon (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)

• to give instructions or directions:
You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.

• to express fixed arrangements, present or future:
Your exam starts at 09.00.

• to express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
He’ll give it to you when you come next Saturday.Examples:

For habits

He drinks tea at breakfast.
She only eats fish.
They watch television regularly.

For repeated actions or events

We catch the bus every morning.
It rains every afternoon in the hot season.
They drive to Monaco every summer.

For general truths

Water freezes at zero degrees.
The Earth revolves around the sun.
Her mother is Peruvian.

For instructions ordirections

Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.
You take the No. 6 bus to Watney and then the No. 10 to Bedford.

For fixed arrangements

His mother arrives tomorrow.
Our holiday starts on the 26th March.

With future constructions

She’ll see you before she leaves.
We’ll give it to her when she arrives.

Simple present, third person singular

Note:
• he, she,it: in the third person singular the verb always ends in –s:
he wants, she needs, he gives, she thinks.

• Negative and question forms use DOES (=the third person of the auxiliary ‘DO’) + the infinitive of the verb.
He wants. Does he want? He does not want.

Verbs ending in –y: the third person changes the –y to –ies:
fly flies, cry cries

Exception: if there is a vowel before the...