miércoles, 29 de junio de 2011

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domingo, 19 de junio de 2011

Curso de inglés



Dicen que es un curso muy bueno!

- Gramática

Grammar for First Certificate of English:

PDF:
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CD1:
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Grammar of Advanced Certificate of English:

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FGRF5LKL

English Phrasal Verbs in Use.

PDF:
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Test your prepositions de Longman:

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Supplementary exercises for English grammar in use:

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- Writing

Real Writing level Advanced (Cambridge)

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- Vocabulario

English Vocabulary in Use Elementary:

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English Vocabulary in Use Pre & Intermediate:

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English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate & Advanced:

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- Pronunciación y fonética

English Pronunciation in Use:

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CD4:
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INSTRUCCIONES
A continuación le mostramos las preguntas que configuran su prueba de nivel.
El tipo de examen elegido se compone de 40 preguntas.
Las preguntas se le irán mostrando de diez en diez y en grado de dificultad creciente.
Al final de cada diez preguntas podrá continuar con las diez siguientes ó proceder inmediatamente con la calificación del examen.

A continuación le mostramos una pregunta de ejemplo:
Example question:
My name ______ Paul.
 me
 is      <----- Right answer
 are
 to
Las preguntas de su prueba de nivel comienzan ahora:
Question #1:
______ is my house.
 These
 This    
 those
 he
Question #2:
________he study english?
 Do
 Is    
 Does
 Has
Question #3:
How many tables are there in the class?
 there're one
 there are two    
 there is two
 it has one
Question #4:
He _________a big chocolate and nut cake.
 would like
 like    
 likes
 does likes
Question #5:
I'm going to Paris _____________ .
 yesterday
 last week    
 late
 next week
Question #6:
_________ is going to cook this cake?.
 Why
 How    
 Who
 When
Question #7:
I sepak Italian but .....................French.
 I'm not speaking
 I doesn't speak    
 I speak not
 I don't speak
Question #8:
Can he spell your name? Yes, ..........
 He do
 he can    
 I can
 he cans
Question #9:
Are you married? No, I________
 am no
 am not    
 aren't
 am
Question #10:
Does she _____ two children?
 has
 has got    
 have
 do
Question #11:
Your brother is ........................... than mine?
 intelligenter
 less intelligent    
 less intelligent than
 intelligent than
Question #12:
Kim and Fred_______ home
 are in
 are at    
 they are in
 they are at
Question #13:
I have _______money in my pocket.
 some
 any    
 a
 do
Question #14:
What time ______you have dinner?
 do
 does    
 have got
 has
Question #15:
Have you got a book?_________
 Yes, I have
 Yes, there're    
 Yes, It is
 Yes, I has
Question #16:
I_______ watch TV on Monday.
 not
 no    
 watchn't
 don't
Question #17:
Why ................ upset with me yesterday?
 was you
 were you    
 you were
 have you been
Question #18:
What are you doing .......... the moment? Are you working?
 at
 this    
 to
 in
Question #19:
Where ........... .............? In a village in London.
 does your uncle live
 lives your uncle    
 your uncle lives
 does live your uncle
Question #20:
We've got a new house. It's________ house.
 his
 their    
 my
 our
There wasn't _____in the park
 some people
 any people    
 anybody
 no people
Question #22:
Carry is______Hilary
 prettier than
 pretty than    
 so pretty as
 more pretty that
Question #23:
What time______dinner?
 does John have
 do John has    
 does John has
 John has
Question #24:
The picture on the left is_______in the exhibition
 most modern
 more modern    
 the mordener
 the most modern
Question #25:
Mary had_____money
 many
 fewer    
 any
 enough
Question #26:
Liz is from Edinburgh. She ..................... there all her life.
 lived
 is living    
 has lived
 lives
Question #27:
What''s_____phone number?
 Richard
 he''s    
 Richard''s
 his
Question #28:
"Do you like that shop?" Yes, I_____every week
 come there
 go there    
 go here
 come here
Question #29:
My favourite film is Cleo's Dream................. it four times.
 I'm seeing
 I see    
 I saw
 I've seen
Question #30:
Where______on Saturdays?
 do go John
 John goes    
 does John go
 John does go
Question #31:
I''ll be thirteen tomorrow,__________?
 won''t I
 will I    
 am I
 aren''t I
Question #32:
My brother was____all week
 at the home
 in home    
 in the home
 at home
Question #33:
Excuse me, where is_____cyber café?
 the nearest
 nearest    
 more near
 the most near
Question #34:
My trousers are _________expensive.
 enough
 much    
 a lot of
 too
Question #35:
Last Saturday____thousands of people on the beach
 there was
 it was    
 they were
 there were
Question #36:
My friend.......................... for me when I arrived.
 waited
 was waiting    
 has been waiting
 have waited
Question #37:
We haven't got ________bread.
 many
 a lot of    
 much
 a lot
Question #38:
"Whose is this house?" It's_________
 ours
 our    
 our one
 ours one
Question #39:
............................... you tomorrow? Yes, OK.
 Shall I phone
 Am I going to phone    
 Do I phone
 Did I phone
Question #40:
The reason___I'm writing is to tell you about the party
 for
 why    
 because
 as

martes, 14 de junio de 2011

Expressing Opinions


Expressing Opinions
  1. Expressing Opinions: These terms are used to introduce an
  2. opinion, either for or against: I think…… I feel…….. I believe……. As I see it…….. In my opinion……. As far as I'm concerned…… My point of view is that……. In my view…….. It seems to me that…….. I figure that……. From my point of view…….
  3. Agreeing with an Opinion:
  4. My view about this is positive. I agree with this idea. I agree completely with this idea. I agree partially with this idea. This idea is absolutely right. This idea is partially right. I couldn't agree more on this. I think this idea is good.
  5. Disagreeing with an Opinion:
I think this idea is impossible/impractical/bad.
I think this idea is possible, but……
I think this idea cannot be implemented.
I don't agree with this idea.
I think it is a bad idea.
I'm not sure that I agree with this idea.
The project is feasible, but…….
(The Division of English for Science and Technology,
Chulalongkorn University Language Institute)

domingo, 12 de junio de 2011

News from IT Conversations


Ray Kurzweil - A Conversation with Ray Kurzweil and Tim O'Reilly

Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil has spent most of his life imagining what the future might be like, and then inventing it. In this keynote from 2010, Kurzweil shares his vision of the future with Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. The interview begins with a discussion about the Blio, the future of digital publishing, and finally the Singularity. This interview precedes the September 2010 release of the Blio, a TTS-enabled, full-color, web-enabled eReader.
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Pete Kruckenberg - Apache/Perl vs. node.js

Pete Kruckenberg
As part of his work for the Utah Education Network, Pete Kruckenberg originally began a project using Apache and Perl. A few months into the process, his group chose to switch to node.js to complete the project. He speaks about why the change was made, including both the postive aspects, as well as some of the downsides of the new architecture. His technical discussion presents a useful example of a typical software project and how changes are sometimes made in the middle of the work.
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Bob Pearson - It's Not All About the Benjamins Anymore

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with WCG CTO and Media Officer, Bob Pearson, about how buying online has changed from E-Commerce to Pre-Commerce.
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David Duncan - When Family Circumstances Matter

Dr. Moira Gunn learns about the new science of longevity from Columnist and Author, David Duncan.
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Mike Olson - The Next Decade in Data Management

Mike Olson
There are several problems in current database systems, primarily analytics, data capture, and storage. These are not future problems, argues Cloudera CEO Mike Olson, but current struggles within both MySQL and the 'NoSQL' data systems that must be overcome before the industry can have clearly superior software. Mike Olson presents these problems within the context of MySQL's development and the industry's opportunities in the future market.
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Beyond Gamification: 7 Concepts to Create Compelling Products

Any Jo Kim
"Cutting through the hype," game designer and social architecture expert Amy Jo Kim breaks down the process of creating games. She presents 'gamification' and game design with target audiences in mind. The underlying goal, she stresses, is to know your audience and meet it's desires in terms of technology, fun, and trends. Whether your are a game designer or game player, you'll enjoy learning core principles of game design.
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Chih-Han Yu - Modules and Artificial Intelligence

Chih-Han Yu
Modular self-healing self-directing robots that can work together independently to achieve tasks... This sounds like something out of a Science Fiction film. Per Sjoborg talks with Dr. Chih-Han Yu of the Computer Science department at Harvard University about ground-breaking work inspired by biology. Dr. Yu discusses his work with mechanical locomotion and artificial intelligence, the future of robotics research, and experimental methods of building robots that can cope with uncertainty.
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Storyworlds: The New Transmedia Business Paradigm

Jeff Gomez
What is a Transmedia Producer? Although this new role was recently recognized by the Producer's Guild of America, many people are unaware of it. Jeff Gomez explains how a Transmedia Production works, weaving in examples from Avatar and other projects, he introduces the audience to a new creative phenomenon in our culture. Transmedia story telling is the process of conveying storylines to a mass audience through the artful, well-planned use of multiple media platforms.
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Norbert Riedel - Hospitals of the Future

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Baxter International Chief Scientific Officer, Norbert Riedel, about what hospitals will look like in the future.
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Ken Goldberg - Opinion Space

Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the emergence and power behind opinion space with craigslist Distinguished Professor of New Media at UC Berkeley, Ken Goldberg.
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How The Earthquake Can Jump Start Innovation In Japan

Lisa Katayama
With memories of the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami fresh in our minds, we hear Lisa Katayama deftly present her prediction that the 2011 earthquake will trigger a wave of innovation and reinvention. Katayama explores how the island of Japan and concerned people around the world used the Internet to cope and communicate in the aftermath. Pointing to signs of reinvention that are already noticeable, Lisa proudly declares Japan's willpower to overcome this crisis.
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Ismail Elshareef - Advertising Impact on Page Performance

Ismail Elshareef
At Edmonds, the car-shopping site, "ads are our bread and butter," says Ismail Elshareef, Director of Front-end Engineering. But they needed more speed. Elshareef set a goal to have load events firing in 1.5 seconds, while maintaining the same number of ad impressions and ad events on the page. The Edmonds team worked through multiple solutions for minimizing the load latency of ads, and optimized an ad loader they plan to share as open source.
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Michael Jackson - Robot seeking Drugs

Dr. Moira Gunn meets Dr. Michael Jackson, Vice President for Drug Discovery and Development at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute and learns about how massive robots are taking the drudge work out of looking for new drugs.
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Stephen Levy - How Google Shapes our Lives

Dr. Moira Gunn dives into the world of Google, learning how it is changing the world around us from the pages of In the Plex: How Google Thinks, works and Shapes Our Lives, from Wired Senior Writer, Stephen Levy.
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Bridging the Desktop-Mobile Web Divide Using the Social Graph

Dave Fetterman - Engineering Manager, Facebook
Dave Fetterman calls it a "match made in absolute heaven." The best social content is in the mobile world where things are actually happening. Social networks and mobile media are not just for users anymore, but are becoming channels for developers as well. Hear what is enabling this perfect storm of "mobile content" that is driving the way people interact with the web and each other.
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Jeffrey Johnson - Haiti: CrisisMapping the Earthquake

Jeffrey Johnson
After the earthquake in Haiti, a community of crisis mappers immediately began crowdsourcing open street maps in a way that has changed disaster response forever. Using an open source stack and simple collaboration tools to annotate image sets, usable maps were quickly put in the hands of rescue workers, allowing an unprecedented rapid response that saved lives. Many lessons, technical and operational, are shared on how to build and sustain momentum for rapid, meaningful data sharing that can dramatically impact relief efforts.
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Misha Angrist - Humans Being

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Duke University professor and author, Misha Angrist, about her new book, Here is a Human Being, where she dives into comprehensible explanations of the DNA of being human.
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Michio Kaku - Physics of the Future

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Science Channel host and author, Michio Kaku, about his new book, Physics of the Future: How Science will shape Human Destiny and our Daily Lives by the Year 2100.
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Tony Ralph - Display Ads and Page Performance

Tony Ralph
Are you experiencing slow load times on ad-supported pages? The optimization of display ad content is pretty well worked out, so frustrating delays are more likely to be the result of numerous HTTP requests related to two things: the complicated real-time ad-serving market and the tracking attached to ads in a market where advertisers are anxious to know ad effectiveness. But if viewers give up on waiting, that's all moot. Tony Ralph of Yahoo Ad Operations analyzes ads, identifies points of delay, and suggests standards.
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Jennifer Lynn Aaker - Creating Infectious Action

Jennifer Lynn Aaker
Imagine what it would be like to find out that your best friend had cancer; what would you do? In this keynote presentation about social media and social action, Jennifer Lynn Aker shares a touching story of what a small group of people did when they found out that their friends were dying, and how that changed the fate of leukemia patients from South Asia. Jennifer explains how the group achieved incredible results in a short time and shares the four keys to creating infectious action.
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Steve Kaldor - Once a Week Human Growth Hormone

Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Ambrx CEO, Dr. Steve Kaldor, about once-a-week human growth hormone.
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