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Tip No. 12 Verbos Irregulares

diego — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:11:59 +0000

En un intento por facilitar su estudio, hemos clasificado los verbos irregulares más comunes de acuerdo a como cambian en forma según el tiempo pasado simple o pasado participio.

Al igual que en español en inglés hay muchos verbos irregulares. Como analogía, un verbo regular en español sería por ejemplo “Estudiar”, cuyo pasado participio es “Estudiado”. Un verbo irregular en español sería “Decir”, pues su pasado participio no es ~~“Decido”~~ sino “Dicho”.

Las Columnas van en éste orden:

Forma Simple, Pasado Simple, Pasado Participio y Español.

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diego — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:27:02 +0000

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Mad World – Gary Jules

diego — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:54:04 +0000

Nothing Else Matters – Mettalicca

diego — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:25:49 +0000

Tip No 11. Cómo Hacer Preguntas Correctas en Inglés

diego — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:44:32 +0000

Para ello usamos verbos auxiliares , por ejemplo “WILL”, se usa al principio de la frase para preguntar acerca del futuro simple, luego el sujeto del que usted habla, y finalmente un verbo; asi una frase simple en inglés:

WILL you play? = ¿Jugarás?

Lo siguiente lo hace muy simple,

Se usa el mismo auxiliar para todos los sujetos en la mayoría de los casos.

WILL no es excepción, otros ejemplos:

WILL Janeth come? = ¿Vendrá Janeth?

WILL they call? = ¿Ellos llamarán?

WILL she be promoted? = ¿Ellá será promovida?

Otros verbos auxiliares que se usan para todos los sujetos son: CAN (Poder), COULD(Podría), SHOULD(Deber)…

Veamos ejemplos

Should I turn on the A/C? = ¿Debería yo encender el aire acondiciado? (Una formar de ofrcerse a un favor; Should I…)

Can I help you? = ¿Puedo ayudarle?

Could you please repeat? = ¿Podría usted por favor repetir?

Happy Birthday Pyramid at the Louvre!

sprachgefuhl — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:59:48 +0000

BIENVENIDO!

diego — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:43:26 +0000

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Behaviorism: is that it?

ana — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:02:58 +0000

“Behaviorism also called the learning perspective

(where any physical action is a behavior), is a

philosophy of psychology based on the proposition

that all things which organisms do — including acting,

thinking and feeling — can and should be regarded

as behaviors. This school of psychology maintains

that behaviors as such can be described scientifically

without resource either to internal physiological

events or to hypothetical constructs such as the mind”.

Everyone has heard the term behaviorism, right? If not, let me explain it with my own words: behaviorism is one the most well-known / famous / classical schools of psychology that says that our whole thinking, acting and feeling process can be quantified, proved and divided into many little behaviors (stimuli- response). This school is the responsible of the typical struggle of psychology to be considered a science.

I could spend days and days talking about the theoretical aspects of behaviorism, but my concern is something different… I wonder if ALL of our psychological processes can be divided into little-quantifiable-scientific-technical behaviors. Can we sort of “predict” behavior if we manipulate every possible variable?

First, a little background: behaviorism general premises are that all of our actions are conditioned somehow, classically or operationally. Classical conditioning conditions stimuli to natural reactions; for example, we have Pavlov’s famous experiment with the dogs: whenever they heard a bell they salivated, because every time he would feed the dogs, he rang the bell first. Operational conditioning is the one in which we “operate” on the environment to obtain something. For example, if I cheat in a quiz and I get an A+, probably I’ll do it again and again to get the same positive outcome.

We also have the “black box” term, making reference to the airplanes black box (this little box in which all the airplane’s operations are registered) and used as an analogy to say that all the psychological processes are compared to a black box; in behaviorism, theorists only take into account the following:

Stimuli à Black box (mind) à Response

Easy, right? Behaviorists are only interested in the thing that causes behavior, and the following outcome; whatever happens in between (that is, let’s be honest, the difficult part!) they simply don’t care! Maybe that is why, nowadays, being 100% absolutely behaviorist is considered obsolete, and this psychological school is now paired with other kind of schools, such as the Cognitive Psychology. With this, we have the new and moderns kind of therapy “Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy”, in which the therapist and the patient try to identify all the “thinking” factors around the problem and see which thinking process is the one that causes the problem; then, they try to change this so-called “cognitive dissonances”.

So, what do you guys think about this? Do you think our behavior – thoughts – actions can be reduced to a simple black box symbol?

12 brain/mind learning principles

diego — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:19:04 +0000

The structure of our methodology takes into account the theories of Brain Learning developed by the Claine Learning Center

Welcome to Sprach!

“The 12 brain/mind learning principles were first published in Educational Leadership in 1989 to explain how people learn naturally. They provided the foundations for what was called brain based learning.

We now call them systems principles of natural learning. They are based on the fact that natural learning is biological as well as psychological, and that every aspect of a human being – including body, emotions, mind, social relationships and physical context is involved in learning. The principles were developed by synthesizing and integrating research from many different disciplines, ranging from neuroscience to cognitive psychology.

They show that there are acutally several different types of learning, and different types of learning outcomes. There are differences, for instance, between:

learning from experience that produces a “feel” for things and results in performance knowledge.

The principles were developed in much more detail, with implications for teaching, in the Caines’ best selling book Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain (ASCD, 1991). The principles have been used extensively throughout the world, at all levels of education, ranging from the classroom to distict offices to universities to serving as foundational material for state documents.

The problem is that the education system pays almost no attention to how natural learning works, and so it relies on some very limited capacities (like memorization) but overlooks almost everything else that is going on in a student’s world.

Educators need to know how people learn naturally. Our brain/mind learning principles provide that foundation. They are true to the research while expressed in a form that is practical and easy to understand.

The principles are summarized in the wheel at the top, right hand side of the screen. They are expanded and explained in the free downloads. And a more in depth explanation and reference to research can be found in our books and other publications.”

By the Caine Learning Center: http://www.cainelearning.com/files/Learning.html

Relaxing Courses In Mexico City.

diego — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:45:30 +0000

Some interesting courses at casa del lago, Keep an eye on what’s coming each semester. Enjoy! DR