SAXON GENITIVE (EL GENITIVO SAJÓN)

SAXON GENITIVE (EL GENITIVO SAJÓN)

En inglés podemos expresar posesión de muchas formas:
- Con verbos que indiquen posesión: have, own, belong...
- Con determinantes posesivos: my, your, his, her, our, their...
- Con pronombres posesivos: mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs...
o con una estructura llamada Genitivo Sajón.

El Genitivo Sajón se utiliza cuando una persona tiene o posee algo. La estructura se basa en poner la persona en primer lugar seguida de un apostrofe y una "s" y después lo que posee.
          E.j. El perro de Mary      Mary's dog
                El coche de my padre     My father's car
                La casa de su amigo       His friend's house
Cuando el nombre del poseedor está en plural y termina en -s, entonces sólo añadimos un apostrofe.
          Ej. La clase de los alumnos       The pupils' classroom
Pero si el nombre del poseedor está en singular y termina en -s, entonces se añade el apostrofe y la "s".
          E.j. El libro de Carlos         Carlos's book

Cuando el poseedor no es una persona sino una cosa, entonces utilizamos la estructura con "of".
          E.j. Las ventanas de la casa          The windows of the house
                Las páginas del libro               The pages of the book

EXERCISES
- Fill in the gaps ex1
- Order the sentences ex2
- ' or 's ex3

Halloween

It’s Halloween time!

Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. The day is often associated with orange and black, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o’-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating , wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

Watch This is Halloween from The Nightmare Before Christmas and complete the reading comprehension below it.



Click on the following link to download the exercise and try and fill in the gaps: This is Halloween from the Nightmare Before Christmas.

Check the key if in doubt.

And what about you? Take these tests to check if Halloween may turn you into: a werewolf? or maybe a witch?

Tell us about your experience!!

ADJECTIVES FOR DESCRIBING PERSONALITY

50 adjectives to describe the personality
in English and Spanish.

English	Spanish
ambitious	ambicioso
annoying	pesado
argumentative, quarrelsome	discutidor
bad-tempered	malhumorado
big-headed	creído, engreído
bitchy	de mala leche, venenoso;
brave	valiente
cantankerous	cascarrabias
carefree	despreocupado
careless	descuidado, poco cuidadoso
cautious	prudente, cauteloso, cauto;
charming	encantador
cheerful	alegre, jovial;
conceited, full of oneself	presumido
conservative	conservador
conventional	convencional
cowardly	cobarde
crazy, nuts	loco, chiflado
cruel	cruel
dull, boring	soso, aburrido
flirtatious	coqueta
friendly	amigable, simpático, agradable
generous	generoso
hard-working	trabajador
honest	honesto
kind	amable
laid-back	tranquilo, relajado
lazy	perezoso, vago
loyal	fiel
mean	tacaño
modest	modesto
moody	de humor cambiante
naive	ingenuo, inocentón
naughty (children)	malo, travieso (niños)
open-minded: narrow-minded:	de actitud abierta, sin prejuicios de mentalidad cerrada, intolerante;
pious	piadoso
polite	cortés, educado
proud	orgulloso
reliable: he’s a very reliable person	fiable, confiable: es una persona en la que se puede confiar
self-confident: to be self-confident	seguro de sí mismo: tener confianza en sí mismo
selfish	egoísta
sensible	sensato, prudente;
sensitive	sensible
shy - introverted	tímido, vergonzoso - introvertido
strict	estricto, severo, riguroso
stubborn	terco, testarudo, tozudo
sympathetic (understanding)	comprensivo
talkative	conversador, hablador
trustworthy	digno de confianza
two-faced	falso
weird	raro, extraño

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House and furniture

Here you have  a link to several vocabulary exercises on those topics
- Interlex group is formed by a pannel of teachers  designing games and exercises for secondary students.
- In learning chocolate you are going to find vocabulary with the possibility of listening to the pronunciation of the word; have a look at it, but I hope most of the words are going to be known by you.
- And here you have an exercise on partitives.

Back to school

 In this unit (7), we are learning vocabulary about  school.

How do you say “goma”, ” borrador”, tijeras” etc… in English? Let’s revise the vocabulary of school supplies.

Then, visit a well-known public boarding school in UK Eton school and find out about it.