Sorry!

How embarrassing!!!

Globish

This is what I prepared for class:

Hello Again

FALSE FRIENDS

I'm not the only one who complains about the bad use of false friends when translating from English into Spanish.
There are more authorized voices and with more audience than me who are also fed up with such bad translations as the ones we can see in papers, magazines, television and news in general.
Javier Marias in EL PAIS SEMANAL gave a very long and interesting list of some of these so popular 'FALSE FRIENDS'.
You can read his list here:
"Sirva como ejemplo modesto la proliferación de falsos amigos, y eso que hay diccionarios para prevenirnos contra ellos. Obviamente, hay redactores de este diario (y por supuesto de otros) que ni los tienen ni los consultan, porque aún no se han enterado de que en inglés "extravagant" nunca significa "extravagante", sino "derrochador" o "despilfarrador"; de que "fastidious" es "puntilloso" o "meticuloso"; de que "dramatic", en bastantes contextos, no es "dramático", sino "espectacular"; de que "bizarre" no equivale a nuestro "bizarro", sino, como en francés, a "extraño" o incluso "estrafalario"; de que "to abuse" es "insultar" o "maltratar" muchas más veces que "abusar"; de que "anxiety" no significa "ansiedad", sino "angustia" (hace poco un crítico de Babelia se congratulaba de que por fin se hubiera traducido "fielmente" el título de una obra que contiene esa palabra, cuando precisamente ahora se ha traducido mal); de que "a stranger" no es "un extraño", sino "un desconocido" o el viejo "forastero" de las películas del Oeste; de que "miserable" quiere decir "desdichado"; de que "to remove" no es "remover", sino "quitar" o "sacar"; de que "ingenuity" e "intoxication" no son lo que parecen, sino "ingenio" y "embriaguez", y así decenas de casos más, que no se dan sólo en el inglés.

Here we are, AGAIN!!!

So this is it!! Here we are again. Back to school and back to hard life.
Try to be positive about all the new things you'll have to face in these first weeks of the school year. You'll get used to them soon. I do promise!!

See this video to have an idea of the things you'll learn in the English class this year. I'm sure this subject is going to be interesting and attractive for you and sometimes even funny. ;-)

Have a great summer!

It was great to have met and worked with you this year. Enjoy your summer and don't forget to pay a visit to this blog from time to time. Practise your English and find time to do a little work if you want to see yourself in this pic next year!

Graduación 2º Bachillerato - IES Padre Manjón - May 2009

Alba by LAzaro

Alba - The Pink Girl
My friend said to me that her name was Alba H. and she was 16 years old. She told me that she had been born in Granada, and she lived in a flat with her parents and her sisters, who were older than her. She said that she had one cat and two birds.

She said some interesting things about herself, like she loves colour pink or she loves shopping. She told me that her favourite food was pasta and rice and she liked dancing and going out with her friends.

The person she respected the most was her father and with her mother she had a bad relationship. She explained that she didn't like dishonest people.

She said that the last book that she had read was “Miguel y la cabra traidora” and finally she told me that she was very happy with her life.