martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013

Grammar: Too - Enough

  • too + adjectives/adverb + to-infinitive (negative meaning = more/less than what is needed)
The oven is too expensive to buy. (We can't buy it, it's very expensive).

Did you boy a new fridge? No, it was too big.

This microwave is too complicated.





  • adjetive/adverb + enough + to-infinitive/noun + enough (positive meaning; as much as wanted/needed)
This mixer is easy enough to use. ( It's very easy to use. I can use it easily.) 

We have enough money to buy this iron. (We can afford to buy it).


Did you cook dinner? No, there was enough food from last night.







Grammar: Some - Any - A lot of - Much - Many.

Countable nouns are nouns we can count.

An/one apple - two apples

I eat a lot berries.

How many berries do you eat?

  • too many (more than needed)
  • a lot of/lots of
  • some/a few not many/very few
  • not any. 


Uncountable nouns are nouns we cannot count. 

(some) rice.                    (NOT: one rice, two rices)

I drink a lot of milk.

How much milk do you drink?
  • too much (more than needed)
  • a lot of/lots
  • some/a little
  • not much/very little
  • not any

Cabo San Lucas in the 50's

Cabo San Lucas, commonly called Cabo, is a city at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula, in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. Cabo San Lucas together with San José Del Cabo is known as Los Cabos.

In the fifties, Los Cabos was a very desert place. It  has no hotels, yatchs or tall buildings. 
Here is always be present the fishing. In the 1917 the Americans built a floating platform to catch tuna, but ten years laters they founded the Compañía de Productos Marinos S.A. In this years, this company continued working and it was the main source of employment of the population.
The famous marine didn't was in there. Cabo was a really clean and full of beautiful beaches. 

Here are some pictures about Cabo few years ago:


Partial view of what is now San Lucas Navy in 1951.


Old fish packing where generations worked in Cabo San Lucas.


martes, 24 de septiembre de 2013

Space

Saturn

Gas giant.
Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. It is 766 times the size of Earth. This means that, on a clear night, you can see it with the naked eye -incredible when you learn the planet is 746 million miles away!-
The planet is a gas giant because it is mostly hydrogen, although it may have a small rocky core. Beneath the "surface" the hydrogen is liquid and it is extremely hot.

Three facts about saturn:
  • Saturn has a brown-yellow color.
  • It has rings very thin and it's 766 times the size of Earth.
  • It is the second largest planet and you can see it with the naked eye.

Grammar / Conditional Type 1

If + simple present -> will + base form of main verb
If  you study for your exam, you will pass the course.
If  Laura make cupcakes, i will be happy.

Use: to talk about a possible situation in the present or future.
You will going to pass the course if you study for your exam.

Note: Unless = if not.
Unless you start to study for your exam, you will pass the course.
If Laura doesn't make cupcakes, i will be sad.

Grammar / Conditional Type 0

Use to express a general truth or a scientific fact. In this type of conditional, we can use when instead of if.
When the if-clause precedes the main clause, we use a comma to separate the two clauses.

Example:
If Laura goes to bed late, she wakes up in a bad mood.
If Lesli meets new people, she is usually quiet and shy.
If i don't do my homework, i'm going to fail.
If i dont clean my room, i can't go out on weekend
If you heat water, it boils or When you heat the water, it boils.


The Water Cycle

When the sun is out, it heats the water in the oceans. When the sun heats the water in the oceans, there is vapor. When vapor rises into the air, ir forms clouds. When water droplets in clouds get too heavy, it rains. When it rains, the water runs off the ground or into lakes and rivers.