UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA FACULTAD DE PERIODISMO Y COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL CÁTEDRA DE INGLÉS PERIODÍSTICO Clase teórica 1-A Vocabulario y estructuras básicas Estructura de la frase nominal FRASE NOMINAL INDICADORES verbo preposición (determinante) + (adjetivo/s) + SUSTANTIVO conjunción pronombre relativo signo de puntuación Ejemplos 1. The ramshackle hut in the woods … 2. These interesting news reports come from UPI. 3. Printed and news broadcasting media, computers and videos … 4. An account, an event or a problem that is published always expresses our views. 5. An account, an event or a problem (that) we publish always expresses our views. Estructura completa de la oración (circuns- (circuns- (comple- (circuns- + SUJETO + + VERBO + (objeto/s) + + tancial) tancial) mento/s) tancial) Ejemplos 1. Roger Federer hits a return to Lukas Lacko. 2. Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo vies for the ball with Thomas Ujfalusi. 3. Rafael Nadal leaves court to have a dispute with ATP Supervisor Tom Barnes. 4. England’s captain Nick Easter lifts the Six Nations trophy at a hotel. 1 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA FACULTAD DE PERIODISMO Y COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL CÁTEDRA DE INGLÉS PERIODÍSTICO Clase teórica 1-B Vocabulario y estructuras básicas Vocabulario ▪ (mass) media; television, radio, newspaper, magazine; journalist, reporter, reviewer, critic, columnist, editor; freelance. ▪ newspaper; tabloid (newspaper), broadsheet; popular press, quality press; come out, be published; daily, weekly, monthly; circulation, local/home news, foreign/interna- tional news; business news, sports news, news report, article, (news) story, feature (article/story), lead (story), column, editorial, review, weather forecast, cartoon (strip), comic strip, horoscope, crossword, letters page, letters to the editor, (classified) ad, advertisement; supplement; headline, heading, subhead, subheading, lead, dateline, byline; flag, masthead, nameplate. ▪ radio/television/TV program/show; news broadcast, the news, documentary, sitcom, situation comedy, soap opera, drama series, detective series, serial, game/quiz show, talk/chat show, sports program, music program, variety show, weather forecast, cartoon, commercial, infomercial; television/TV set, remote (control), home theater, antenna, aerial, satellite dish, dish antenna. Siglas y acrónimos ▪ BBC/B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Corporation), CIA/C.I.A. (Central Intelligence Agen- cy), FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation); AM (amplitude modulation), FM (frequency modulation); a.m./am/A.M./AM (ante meridiem), p.m./pm/P.M./PM (post meridiem). ▪ OAS (Organization of American States), U.K./UK (United Kingdom), U.S./US (United States), U.S.A./USA (United States of America); M.P./MP (member of Parliament), P.M./PM (prime minister); A.D./AD (anno Domini), B.C./BC (before Christ). Ejemplos 1. This is a weekly, first-class magazine and that is a monthly, medical journal. 2. These are home tabloids and those are foreign broadsheets. 3. He’s a senior journalist. She’s a 23-year-old photographer. They both work for The Times. 4. The BBC World Service broadcasts throughout the world. 5. I can pick up broadcasts from Moscow on my radio. 2 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA FACULTAD DE PERIODISMO Y COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL CÁTEDRA DE INGLÉS PERIODÍSTICO Clase teórica 2-A Vocabulario y estructuras básicas Formas verbales con -ing ▪ Se forman de las siguientes maneras: • añadiendo simplemente -ing al infinitivo: fly, flying; learn, learning; play, playing; start, starting; • quitando la e final de los infinitivos terminados en una sola e y añadiendo -ing: give, giving; have, having; make, making; write, writing; • duplicando la consonante final de algunos infinitivos y añadiendo -ing: begin, beginning; get, getting; run, running; stop, stopping; • reemplazando la ie final de los infinitivos terminados así por y y luego añadiendo -ing: die, dying; hie, hying; lie, lying; tie, tying; vie, vying. ▪ Se pueden traducir como: • gerundios (solo en los tiempos continuos, con el verbo be o cuando este está tácito): Mary is playing tennis; • sustantivos: The meeting is at 10 o’clock; • adjetivos: The smiling child leads an easy life; • infinitivos: They like staying in bed till late in the morning; • cláusulas subordinadas (generalmente introducidas por que): The man driving the bus is my brother. Ejemplos 1. Rafael Nadal thanks the crowd after beating Bernard Tomic. 2. Speaking at a press conference, Nadal says he is far from Federer’s Slam record. 3. Thousands of fans line up against the balcony railing to watch Rory McIlroy. 4. Guillermo Barros Schelotto receives the jersey with his name at Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata’s training ground. 3 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA FACULTAD DE PERIODISMO Y COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL CÁTEDRA DE INGLÉS PERIODÍSTICO Clase teórica 2-B Vocabulario y estructuras básicas Cognados ▪ Cognados: dos o más palabras de distintas lenguas que poseen el mismo origen etimo- lógico y una morfología similar, aunque presentan una evolución fonética distinta y no comparten necesariamente el mismo significado. ▪ Cognados transparentes: comparten el mismo significado en las lenguas en cuestión: altitude/altitud, biology/biología, contradiction/contradicción, discrimination/discrimi- nación, engineer/ingeniero, example/ejemplo, language/lengua, port/puerto, region/re- gión, science/ciencia, student/estudiante, university/universidad y sus derivados. ▪ Falsos amigos: poseen significados distintos en la configuración actual de las lenguas en cuestión (por diferir en su evolución histórica): actual/actual, balloon/balón, carbon/car- bón, discuss/discutir, fabric/fábrica, lecture/lectura, library/librería, minute/minuto, poli- cy/policía, sensible/sensible, sympathetic/simpático y sus derivados. ▪ Falsos amigos parciales: comparten una parte de su significado en ambos idiomas, pero difieren en otra: assume/asumir/suponer, casual/casual/informal, conference/conferen- cia/congreso, demonstration/demostración/manifestación, faculty/facultad/claustro do- cente, figure/figura/cifra, paper/papel/periódico/ponencia. ▪ Falsos cognados: dos o más palabras de distintas lenguas que, por su morfología o pro- nunciación, parecen guardar cierto parentesco, pero que no tienen ninguna relación entre sí, ya que no poseen el mismo origen etimológico (la similitud de significado en ciertos y raros casos es una mera coincidencia): have/haber, much/mucho, pan/pan, pie/pie. Distintas acepciones de una palabra ▪ They’re having a garden party on Saturday. We went to a birthday party last night and to an anniversary party on Friday. ▪ He’s a supporter of the Democratic/Communist/Labour/ruling/opposition party. We met the party leader on Friday. The conference is only for party members. ▪ A search party found her the next day. It was a small rescue party. There is a big party of tourists in the park. A party of Japanese businessmen visited the factory last week. ▪ The two parties are having difficulty agreeing. ▪ Members also benefit from third-party insurance. ▪ They want to party all the time. 4 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA FACULTAD DE PERIODISMO Y COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL CÁTEDRA DE INGLÉS PERIODÍSTICO Clase teórica 3 Presente simple y continuo 1. Franck Ribéry does not want to leave Bayern Munich and insists his row with Arjen Robben is now in the past. 2. Argentina striker Diego Milito says he has no intention of leaving Inter Milan, despite his mixed season with the Italian club. 3. Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates his semifinal victory against Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina at the Indian Wells ATP tennis tournament. 4. Miami Heat’s Dwyane Wade reacts after missing the last shot attempt for the Heat in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinal against the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday in Miami. 5. Australia captain David Pocock is a doubt for next week’s Rugby Championship clash against New Zealand after injuring his knee in a 27-19 loss to the same opponents on Saturday. 6. Toyota’s driver Giniel de Villiers, from South Africa, and co-driver Dirk von Zitzewitz, from Germany, compete in the fifth stage of the 2012 Argentina-Chile-Peru Dakar Rally between Chilecito and Fiambala in Argentina. 7. England’s Ross Fisher reacts after sinking a birdie putt at the eighteenth hole during the second round of the Dubai World Championship golf tournament in Dubai. 1. Controversial Italian forward Antonio Cassano is edging nearer the exit door at Real Madrid, according to the Spanish press. 2. Lionel Messi is facing a lawsuit for fraud over roughly 4 million euros in unpaid taxes. 3. The world No. 1 is a man with a lot on his plate. Novak Djokovic is trying to win his first French Open, complete his collection of all four majors and move up yet another rung on the list of all-time Grand Slam champions. And as usual, he’s not backing away from his ambitions. 4. Serena Williams is aiming to overtake fellow American Chris Evert as the oldest No. 1 in women’s tennis. 5. The Grizzlies are having an outstanding season with 42 victories overall and 11 in the past 13 home games. 6. Kobe Bryant is getting a day of treatment on his sprained left ankle in hopes of staying on the court to continue the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff push. 5 UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA FACULTAD DE PERIODISMO Y COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL CÁTEDRA DE INGLÉS PERIODÍSTICO Clase teórica 4 Pasado simple 1. New signing Adem Ljajić earned and converted a penalty for Roma in added time. 2. Paulinho scored his first Premier League goal in stoppage time Sunday as Tottenham broke through Cardiff’s resistance to win 1-0. 3. Marco Höger scored against the run of play for the home side in the 30th, when he got a slight touch with the back of his head to Jefferson Farfán’s free kick. 4. River Plate’s Manuel Lanzini scored with a header after only 45 seconds and Santiago Silva equalized in the 39th minute before a sellout crowd at Boca’s La Bombonera stadium. 5. Ronaldinho added a Copa Libertadores title to his collection of honors as Brazil’s At- lético Mineiro defeated Paraguay’s Olimpia in a penalty shootout to win the continen- tal club championship on Wednesday.