giovedì 30 novembre 2006
Fitness - Vocabolario
Nella lezione di oggi troverai alcune parole relative all’attività fisica.
Healthy: in good physical and mental condition.
Fitness: the condition of being strong and healthy.
Exercise : (noun)physical activity that keeps you fit and healthy.
An exercise: a particular physical activity.
To exercise: (verb)to do some physical activity in order to stay fit and healthy.
To work out: to do physical exercise in order to keep your body fit.
Gym: a place where you can exercise by using special machines.
Weights: metal objects that you lift to make your muscles stronger.
Exercise bike: a bike that you use in a gym or at home, it has wheels, but it doesn’t move.
Sit-up: an exercise that you do in order to tone up the muscles of your stomach. You lie on your back and lift your arms and head, and stretch them over your knees.
Press-up: an exercise that helps your arms become stronger. You lie on your stomach and lift your body with your arms.
sabato 21 ottobre 2006
Fitness - Grammatica - Trascrizione
Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting survival English on how to use the verb “do”.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning when and how we use “do”
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to a dialogue at a gym.
So let’s start!
venerdì 20 ottobre 2006
Fitness - Grammatica - Podcast
Hello everybody! Welcome to the EnglishBlog. In this podcast, you’ll be learning some interesting survival English on how to use the verb “do”.
Before starting, let me first explain that the lesson is divided into two parts:
PART ONE: you’ll be learning when and how we use “do”
PART TWO: you’ll be listening to a dialogue at a gym.
So let’s start!
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giovedì 19 ottobre 2006
Fitness - Grammatica
La lezione di oggi ti aiuterà a capire le funzioni di DO.
Osserva queste frasi:
a) Do you go to the gym every day?
b) Do you do a lot of exercise?
c) How often do you do yoga?
Il verbo Do svolge una duplice funzione:
a) fa da ausiliare per i verbi deboli (tutti i verbi all'infuori di BE, dei verbi modali e di HAVE + participio passato)
b) è un verbo a tutti gli effetti , con il significato di “fare”, che troviamo anche in espressioni come do exercise, do yoga, do the shopping, do one's homework…
E' come se ci fossero due “gemelli”: DO e Do.
- DO è il gemello “forte”, che fa da ausiliare, ossia aiuta i verbi deboli nella formazione delle frasi interrogative e negative:
DO you go to the gym every day?
- Do è il gemello “debole” che, in quanto tale, deve farsi aiutare da DO per la formazione delle interrogative e delle negative:
DO you do a lot of exercise?
How often DO you do yoga?
Naturalmente ciò vale anche per il tempo passato:
Yesterday I went to the gym and I DIDN'T do my homework
DID you do athletics when you were at school?
