jueves, 21 de marzo de 2013

she´s like thre wind

SHE'S LIKE THE WIND
(ELLA ES COMO EL VIENTO)





She's like the wind through my tree.
(Ella es como el viento a través de mi árbol.)

She rides the night next to me.
(Ella pasa la noche junto a mí.)

She leads me through moonlight
(Ella me lleva a través de la luz de la luna)

only to burn me with the sun,
(sólo para quemarme con el sol,)

she's taken my heart,
(ella ha conquistado mi corazón,)

she doesn't know what she's done.
(ella no sabe lo que ha hecho.)



[Chorus:]
[(Coro:)]

Feel her breath on my face,
(Sentir su aliento en mi cara,)

her body close to me,
(su cuerpo cerca de mí,)

can't look in her eyes,
(no poder mirarla a los ojos,)

she's out of my league.
(ella está fuera de mi alcance.)

Just a fool to believe
(Soy un tonto al creer)

I've anything she needs,
(que tengo todo lo que ella necesita,)

she's like the wind. //
(ella es como el viento. //)



I look in the mirror and all I see
(Miro al espejo y todo lo que veo)

is a young old man with only a dream.
(es un joven anciano con un sólo sueño.)

And I'm just fooling to myself
(Y sólo estoy engañándome a mí mismo)

that she'll stop the pain,
(que ella terminará con mi dolor,)

living without her I'd go insane.
(viviendo sin ella me volvería loco.)



[Repeat Chorus]
[(Repetir coro)]



Feel your breath on my face,
(Sentir tu aliento en mi cara,)

your body close to me,
(tu cuerpo cerca de mí,)

can't look in your eyes,
(no poder mirarte a los ojos,)

you're out of my league.
(tú estás fuera de mi alcance.)

Just a fool to believe
(Soy un tonto al creer)

-just a fool to believe-
(-soy un tonto al creer-)

she's like the wind
(ella es como el viento)

Just a fool to believe
(Soy un tonto al creer)

-just a fool to believe-
(-soy un tonto al creer-)

she's like the wind...
(ella es como el viento...)



{Tema de la Película: Dirty dancing.

she´s like the wind

lunes, 11 de marzo de 2013

finance


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Finance vocabulary





People who work in finance



a teller / a bank teller / a cashier:

a person who works behind the counter in a bank and who deals with customers

You have to queue up and then go to ask the teller if you want to withdraw a big amount of cash.

a manager / a bank manager:

a person who manages the staff in a bank and who interviews customers when they want a special service (for example, a loan or overdraft)

Tim went to see the bank manager because he wanted a business loan.

a financial adviser:

a person who gives you advice about how to invest your money or on the best ways to save money

His grandmother gave him £1000 so he went to see a financial adviser to hear her recommendations about what to do with it.



Banking products and services



a savings account:

an account in a bank which earns interest for customers who save with the bank

I've had a savings account since I was 16.

a joint account:

a bank account that more than one person share together

We have a joint account for the household bills but we have separate savings accounts.

a credit card:

plastic (uncountable, informal):

a small plastic card which can be used to buy goods and service. The money is taken from you at a later time when the credit card company sends you a bill

I don't know how I'd survive without my credit card. I always have to put a few things on plastic in the week before pay-day.

ATM / cashpoint:

(short for automatic teller machine). A machine that lets you withdraw money from your bank account. ATMs are usually in banks, as well as in other places, and are open 24 hours a day

I'll just go to the ATM and get some money and then I'll meet you at the restaurant.

She got some money out of the cashpoint to pay for lunch.

PIN:

(short for personal identity number) a secret number which you can use with your credit card or bank account card to take money from an ATM

The police officer told me that using 1234 as my PIN was stupid because it's the first number a thief would try if my cards got stolen.

Finance verbs and adjectives:



borrow:

get something (here, money) from someone which must be repaid at a later time

I had to borrow a lot of money when I bought a new car last year.

lend:

give money which must be repaid at a later time

The bank lent him £10,000 so he could improve his kitchen.

save:

keep money rather than spending it

She always saves at least 10% of her salary. She says she's saving it for when she is older.

invest:

put money into something to make a profit

She invested in personal computers in the early 80s and is very rich now.

withdraw:

take money out of an account

I need to go to the bank at lunchtime and withdraw some cash to pay for my holiday.

overdrawn (adj):

having taken more money out of your bank account than the account actually has (usually you have to agree this arrangement with the bank before you take the money out)

He's always overdrawn by the end of the month. He never saves anything.

Vocabulary



reliable

dependable, if a person is reliable you can believe they will do the things they promise to do

proposal

plan or idea

I'll get back to you

I will contact you

balance

the amount of money you have in a bank account, or the amount you owe on a credit card bill





lunes, 11 de febrero de 2013

Varied Winners at Grammy Awards

Varied Winners at Grammy Awards


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11 DE FEBRERO, 2013



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The Grammys spread the love.

Fun., whose anthemic and semi-dark jam "We Are Young" dominated the charts in 2012, won song of the year. Gotye's massive and oddball pop hit, "Somebody I Used to Know," picked up record of the year. And folk-rockers Mumford & Sons won album of the year for their platinum-selling "Babel."

The Black Keys dominated the rock category, while Jay-Z and Kanye West did the same in the rap area. But the pop, country and R&B categories were a reflection of the top four honors, with no single act dominating. Winners in those categories ranged from Adele to Paul McCartney, Carrie Underwood to the Zac Brown Band, and Usher to Miguel.

The various winners of the night were hard to predict. Mumford & Sons won album of the year, though the band lost best Americana album to Bonnie Raitt.

The night's most memorable performance was the tribute to Levon Helm, which featured Elton John, Mumford & Sons, T Bone Burnett and the raspy vocals of Mavis Staples and Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes.

martes, 11 de diciembre de 2012

Radamel 'The Tiger' Falcao is on prowl for Atletico Madrid


Radamel 'The Tiger' Falcao is on prowl for Atletico Madrid

  

Falcao has proved to be a perfect addition to the cash-strapped club this season.





 
Atletico Madrid fans have reason to cheer with Falcao justifying the club's overhaul, writes Andy Mitten
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  • Spanish football teams
  • The Primera Liga table does not make uncomfortable reading for everyone in Madrid.
  • Real Madrid are sixth, eight points behind Barcelona after just six matches, but Atletico, in second, have won five and drawn one.
  • Atletico also won the European Super Cup by hammering the European champions Chelsea, following on from their second Europa League triumph in three years in May.
  • It gets better. Unbeaten in 18 games in all competitions, Atletico boast the league's top scorer, the Colombian Radamel Falcao, football's most in-form centre-forward.
  • Atletico have fielded great forwards before: Fernando Torres, Sergio Aguero, Diego Forlan in recent times alone, but Falcao is scoring at a quicker rate than them all.
  • Atletico have also become accustomed to losing those talents, though they have not been slow to reinvest. Aguero was sold for €48 million (Dh227.9m) and they reinvested €40m of that into Falcao, 26. It looked good business from the start.
  • A thigh injury kept the player fans call "The Tiger" out of Sunday's game at winless Espanyol, but his teammates ground out a 1-0 victory against a backdrop of angry home fans.
  • If a top team can win tough away games without their best player then it could be the hallmark of a title winning side.
  • But fans would do well to not get carried away. Atletico have not won the league since their 1996 league and cup double and success for Spain's third best-supported team this season would be a top-four finish, especially as their wage bill is less than a quarter of those spent by the big two.
  • What makes their run remarkable is that they have done it while the club have been forced to make cutbacks on the uneven slope that is Spanish football. Since that Falcao signing, they have sold more top players and loaned more players in than they have signed.
  • Thanks to being run in a short-sighted and unpredictable manner for much of the last three decades, Atletico have brought much of their problems and debts on themselves, so it is a great credit to the coach Diego Simeone, who took over in December, that they are excelling on the pitch.
  • sports@thenational.ae
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  • Atletico Madrid fans have reason to cheer with Falcao justifying the club's overhaul, writes Andy Mitten
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jueves, 29 de noviembre de 2012

LOS PRONOMBRES

Los pronombres en inglés pueden clasificarse en: personales (o nominales), acusativos, indefinidos, posesivos, relativos y recíprocos. Los pronombres son palabras que señalan o sustituyen a otras que normalmente ya se han nombrado.




Pronombres Personales I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they

Pronombres Acusativos me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them

Adjetivos Posesivos my, your, his her, its, our, your, their

Pronombres Posesivos mine, yours, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs

Pronombres Reflexivos myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, …

Pronombres Indefinidos anyone, someone, nobody, everybody, anybody, …

Pronombres Relativos that, who, whose, which, whom

Pronombres Recíprocos each other, one another