Tomlabs » Cajón de sastre http://tomlabs.com El blog de un iconoclasta, explorador y interest-driven learner. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:07:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Collocations: Desperately, Pain, Wise, Run http://tomlabs.com/2011/11/30/collocations-desperately-pain-wise-run/ http://tomlabs.com/2011/11/30/collocations-desperately-pain-wise-run/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:34:09 +0000 Tomlabs http://tomlabs.com/?p=1308 Continue reading →]]> Desperately

  • Desperately ill
  • Desperately busy
  • Desperately keen
  • Desperately in love with SB

Pain

  • Acute pain
  • Sudden pain
  • To relieve the pain
  • To put up with pain: to accept sb/sth that is annoying unpleasant without complaining // TOLERATE

Wise

  •  Wise decision
  • To be older and wiser
  • A wise guy (informal)
  • To be wise after the event: (often disapproving) to understand sth, or realize what you should have done, only after sth has happened

Run

  •  Run a business
  • To run smoothly
  • Buses run regularly
  • To run for political office

 

]]> http://tomlabs.com/2011/11/30/collocations-desperately-pain-wise-run/feed/ 1 Collocations http://tomlabs.com/2011/07/24/collocations/ http://tomlabs.com/2011/07/24/collocations/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:58:58 +0000 Tomlabs http://tomlabs.com/?p=1236 Some example of collocations:

- serve a notice
- settle out of court
- claim the moral high ground
- within my rights
- rules are rules
- be lenient on

]]> http://tomlabs.com/2011/07/24/collocations/feed/ 0 Unless in zero and first conditional sentences http://tomlabs.com/2011/07/13/unless-in-zero-and-first-conditional-sentences/ http://tomlabs.com/2011/07/13/unless-in-zero-and-first-conditional-sentences/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:29:11 +0000 Tomlabs http://tomlabs.com/?p=1211 Continue reading →]]> Unless means if not and it usually has a negative meaning. Unless is often used in zero and first conditional sentences

1. Zero conditional
- Unless + present simple (condition clause) + present simple (result clause)
- In zero conditional sentences, the negative form can be expressed using cannot.

Ex: You can’t play WoW unless you buy the software.

2. First Conditional
(Unless + present simple) + (will/won’t + present simple)

 

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Relatively
Particularly
Extremely
Immensely
Utterly

 

]]> http://tomlabs.com/2011/07/13/english-intensifiers-really/feed/ 0 Inglés memo http://tomlabs.com/2011/06/18/tareas-para-el-verano/ http://tomlabs.com/2011/06/18/tareas-para-el-verano/#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:47:47 +0000 Tomlabs http://tomlabs.com/?p=1159 Continue reading →]]> 1. Ver las series en inglés de:
- Naruto (150/220)
- Naruto Shippuden (0/87)
- Criminal Minds (0/5)

2. Leer los siguientes libros:
- Frankenstein DONE WL
- The Woman in White DONE WL
- Dracula DONE
- Gothic Short Stories DONE WL
- The Great Gatsby
- The Last of the Mohicans
- Vanity Fair
- Wuthering Heights
- Of Mice and Men
- Through a Glass, Darkly.

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]]> http://tomlabs.com/2011/05/08/bassano/feed/ 0 DNS Alice y DNS OpenDNS http://tomlabs.com/2010/04/22/dns-alice-y-dns-opendns/ http://tomlabs.com/2010/04/22/dns-alice-y-dns-opendns/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:34:52 +0000 Tomlabs http://tomlabs.com/?p=1069 DNS Alice

Gruppo 1
212.216.112.112
212.216.172.62
Gruppo 2
194.243.154.62
195.31.190.31

DNS OpenDNS

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

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2. Se ven en la Red más video que en la TV.

3. Retorno publicitario muy alto.

]]> http://tomlabs.com/2009/11/13/tuenti/feed/ 1 Este blog cierra http://tomlabs.com/2009/01/02/este-blog-cierra/ http://tomlabs.com/2009/01/02/este-blog-cierra/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:56:06 +0000 Tomlabs http://tomlabs.com/?p=853 Este blog cierra hasta el 6/4/2009

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