EducaRed - Fundación Telefónica
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Ten years ago, everybody was getting home after work to a fixed answerphone and nobody ever left a message. Now, everywhere you look -on trains, on buses, in shopping centres, in restaurants, at wedding receptions- what a miracle! What a transformation! So many happy people talking away into their mobile phones. Connected at last! However, on some social occasions, from just a meeting of two friends to a funeral, mobile phones can be the enemy. They mean that people are not joining in, they're imposing, they're disrupting. It would have been better if they'd brought a book with them, which they could get on with quietly in a corner. SWITCH THEM OFF. Liberate yourself. The missed call won't be someone saying your house has burnt down. If you can't control yourself, "check" your phone out of sight of the others, in the toilets perhaps. It's perfectly obvious -but how often does it happen?- if you really have to either make or receive an urgent call during a social occasion, you should explain the situation to the others at the outset. When the time comes, remove yourself from the scene to deal with the call. Whatever you do, apologise. And now, here is an appeal to the good, too-silent majority. Don't put up with it. Don't suffer in silence. If you come across some rude mobile phone addicts, don't hesitate to interrupt and ask them to move away, to switch off. If they are passengers in your car, stop, ask them to get out, especially if it's raining. Complete the following sentences. Use the appropriate form of the words in brackets when given. a) The link between using (use) a mobile phone when driving and road accidents is well established and this is applied (apply) to all kinds of phone, including hands-free. Ayuda: Detrás de preposición (between), el verbo debe estar en gerundio (añadiendo -ing). En el segundo espacio, debemos emplear la voz pasiva del verbo (be+ past participle) ya que la oración carece de agente (persona que realiza la acción). Debemos utilizar el presente (is applied) ya que el verbo que aparece en la oración (is) está en presente. Nota: También sería posible introducir un modal en la estructura pasiva. En tal caso: can be applied / might be applied b) More technological advances have been (be) made in the last fifty years than in all previous centuries. Ayuda: La oración requiere el uso de pasiva (be + past participle) ya que carece de agente. Debemos utilizar el presente perfecto puesto que se refiere a una situación que comenzó en el pasado y que aún continúa. La oración comienza con un adjetivo que indica comparativo de superioridad (More), por lo tanto, el segundo espacio debe completarse con la partícula than. c) Charles, who is a mobile phone addict, can´t stand being away from his home. Ayuda: Estamos ante una oración de relativo explicativa (non-defining relative clauses). Puesto que el antecedente es Charles, una persona, el pronombre relativo que debemos utilizar es who. En el segundo espacio away from es una preposición que significa lejos de. Complete the following sentence to report what was said. d) Is there a mobile phone in your bag? - I asked the girl if / whether there was a mobile phone in her bag. Ayuda: Al convertir una pregunta en estilo indirecto, ésta se convierte en una oración afirmativa y por lo tanto el orden de las palabras se mantiene como una oración afirmativa. Estamos ante una pregunta de tipo yes/no (no comienza con un pronombre interrogativo y la respuesta sólo puede ser yes/no). En este tipo de preguntas, detrás del complemento (the girl) podemos utilizar las conjunciones IF o WHETHER indistintamente. El verbo en presente simple de la pregunta directa (Is there) se transforma en pasado simple (there was) en estilo indirecto. También debe cambiarse el adjetivo posesivo (your por her). |
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