Adjetivos en inglés para describir personas y cosas

Adjetivos en inglés - Recursos educativos en inglés - Vocabulario en inglés

En inglés, los adjetivos se comportan de manera diferente a los adjetivos en español. Las dos diferencias importantes que hay que recordar son las siguientes:

• Los adjetivos en inglés son invariables.
• Los adjetivos ingleses se colocan antes del sustantivo (excepto en casos excepcionales).

Los adjetivos son invariables

Sí, en inglés, los adjetivos se escriben siempre de la misma manera. Esto significa que NO concuerdan con el sustantivo.

Por ejemplo:

• El coche es rojo --> los coches son rojos. (en español el adjetivo se pone en plural).
• The car is red --> The cars are red. (el adjetivo no cambia).

Como puedes ver, el adjetivo en inglés se escribe exactamente igual, tanto si el sustantivo está en plural como en singular.

Los adjetivos se colocan antes del sustantivo

Por ejemplo, no se dice: You have hair brown, sino más bien: You have brown hair. Tienes pelo castaño. Aquí el adjetivo "brown" se coloca antes del sustantivo "hair".

Otros ejemplos:

A red car, y no a car red.
A huge airplane.
A thin person.
etc.

Sin embargo, si se coloca por sí solo después de un verbo, como en la frase escrita anteriormente: "the car is red". Se dice que el adjetivo es un atributo y en este caso se coloca después del sustantivo. De hecho, en este caso, la colocación es similar a la del español, por lo que no es demasiado complicado. (El coche es rojo, de nuevo el adjetivo está después del sustantivo).

En la mayoría de las frases, los adjetivos se colocan antes del sustantivo, y se llaman epítetos.

Estos dos puntos son los más importantes de recordar. Si quieres ir un poco más lejos, sigue leyendo:

Algunos adjetivos son sólo atributos. En general, califican una condición física o un estado mental. Como son atributos, se colocan después del sustantivo. Por ejemplo, esta categoría de adjetivos incluye palabras como :

afraid (ej: The boy is afraid.)
ashamed (ej: You should be ashamed!)
fond (ex: I am not fond of this cake.)
etc.

Otros adjetivos son sólo epítetos, por ejemplo cuando se usa un sustantivo, pero con una función adjetival:

a metal desk. El sustantivo metal se utiliza aquí como adjetivo.
an attention disorder. El sustantivo atención se utiliza como adjetivo.
a plastic container. (un recipiente de plástico).

Algunos adjetivos se forman a partir de un sustantivo añadiendo una terminación (llamada sufijo). Por ejemplo:

Child peut donner childish.
Smile peut donner smiley.
Hair peut donner hairy.
Smell peut donner smelly.
etc.

Otros adjetivos se componen de dos elementos que pueden ser sustantivos, adverbios, adjetivos, etc. Por ejemplo:

A three-legged dog = un perro de tres patas
A good-looking girl = una chica guapa/ bonita
A home-made cake = un pastel casero
etc.

Por último, cabe señalar que cuando los adjetivos se refieren a una nacionalidad, siempre van con mayúscula, a diferencia de lo que ocurre en español. Por lo tanto, se escribe American, French, English, African, European, etc.

Adjetivos calificativos

Fat - gordo/a/as/os
Thin - delgado/a/as/os
Tall - alto
Short - bajo
Young - joven
Old - viejo
Strong - fuerte
Weak - débil
Poor - pobre
Rich - rico
Pretty - bonito, guapa (se usa más con mujeres y objetos)
Beautiful - precioso, preciosa (se usa más con mujeres y objetos)
Handsome - guapo (se usa con hombres)
Elegant - elegante
Nice - agradable, simpático
Horrible - horrible
Ugly - feo
Awful - espantoso
Intelligent - inteligente
Clever - listo
Silly - tonto
Boring - aburrido
Exciting - divertido, emocionante
Funny - gracioso, raro

Adjetivos (Estados)

Hot - caliente
Cold - frío
Hungry - hambriento
Thirsty - sediento
Sad - triste
Happy - feliz
Excited - divertido, excitado (está divertido, excitado)
Exciting - divertido, excitado (que divierte, que excita)
Bored - aburrido (está aburrido)
Boring - aburrido (que aburre)
Tired - cansado
Ill - enfermo
Angry - enfadado

Recuerda también:

Fine - muy bien
Very well - muy bien
Thank you - gracias
Thanks - gracias

Adjetivos para describir objetos

Big - grande
Small - pequeño
Fast - rápido
Slow - lento
Wide - ancho
Narrow - estrecho
New - viejo
Old - viejo
Long - largo
Short - corto, bajo
High - alto (sólo cosas)
Low - bajo (sólo cosas)

My car is small and your car is big.

A bicycle is slow and a motorbike is fast.

Ejercicios

Escribe los antónimos:

Fat

Short

Old

Weak

Poor

Ugly

Horrible

Stupid

Sad

Empareja los antónimos:

small	wide
slow	big
narrow	high
short	fast
low	long

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Adivinanzas en Inglés - Riddles in English

Riddles for Kids - Recursos educativos en inglés

Adivinanzas en inglés. Ideal para aprender inglés, con el vocabulario, practicando la pronunciación y mucho más, de una manera divertida.

Acertijos en inglés con respuestas

I’m your uncle’s brother,
But I’m not your uncle.
What am I?

Your father

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What is black when it’s clean and white when it’s dirty?
A chalkboard

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What gets bigger when more is taken away?
A hole

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I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for five minutes. What am I?
Your breath

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My hands are black,
My face is pale.
My head is hanging on a nail.
What am I?

A clock

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It is on your head,
And under your hat.
What is it?

Your hair

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What is always in front of you but can’t be seen?

The future

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There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What color are the stairs?

There aren’t any—it’s a one-story house.

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What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?

A promise

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What goes up but never comes down?

Your age

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Riddle: I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can’t touch me or catch me. What am I?
Your shadow

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What has many keys but can’t open a single lock?
A piano

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What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Your right elbow

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A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn’t get a single hair on his head wet. Why?

He was bald.

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It is round and yellow,
It is like a ball of fire.
It rises in the east,
It sets in the west.
What is it?

The sun

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I can fly but I haven’t got wings.
What am I?

Time

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I always come down,
But never go up.
What am I?

The rain

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Tall and thin,
Red within,
Nail on top,
And there it stops.
What is it?

A finger

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I am between mountain and valley.
What am I?

The word “and”

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What has to be broken before you can use it?

An egg

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What has one eye, but can’t see?
A needle

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What has many needles, but doesn’t sew?
A Christmas tree

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What has hands, but can’t clap?
A clock

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What has one head, one foot and four legs?
A bed

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

A candle

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What month of the year has 28 days?

All of them

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What is full of holes but still holds water?

A sponge

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What question can you never answer yes to?

Are you asleep yet?

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What three numbers, none of which is zero, give the same result whether they’re added or multiplied?

One, two and three

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Three doctors said that Bill was their brother. Bill says he has no brothers. How many brothers does Bill actually have?

None. He has three sisters

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Two fathers and two sons are in a car, yet there are only three people in the car. How?

They are a grandfather, father and son

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A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.” How many daughters does he have?

Three: A blonde, a brunette and a redhead

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A girl has as many brothers as sisters, but each brother has only half as many brothers as sisters. How many brothers and sisters are there in the family?

Four sisters and three brothers

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If you’ve got me, you want to share me; if you share me, you haven’t kept me. What am I?

A secret

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I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?

A map

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The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?

A coffin

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What goes through cities and fields, but never moves?

A road

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What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?

Silence.

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A man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?

The river was frozen.

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What can fill a room but takes up no space?

Light

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If you drop me I’m sure to crack, but give me a smile and I’ll always smile back. What am I?

A mirror

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What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

Short

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A word I know, six letters it contains, remove one letter and 12 remains. What is it?

Dozens

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You see me once in June, twice in November and not at all in May. What am I?

The letter “e”

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Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What is it?

The letter “r”

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World Obesity Day - 4 March

4 March is World Obesity Day. Globally, the number of people affected by overweight and obesity has almost tripled since 1975.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) "13% of the world's adult population is now obese, and 17% of children are overweight or obese.

Overweight and obesity, a global epidemic

Although overweight and obesity were once thought to be exclusive to high-income countries, they are now rapidly increasing in low- and middle-income countries, especially in urban areas. As a result, the WHO now considers obesity to be a global epidemic. It is predicted that by 2030 almost 40% of the world's population will be overweight and one in five will be obese. Obesity is a major risk factor for a number of diseases. Its increasing prevalence is a major health problem worldwide, including in most European and industrialised countries (WHO 2018). The root cause leading to weight gain is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and calories expended. Overweight and obesity, and the associated non-communicable diseases, are thus largely preventable.

Our environment shapes individual choices

However, obesity is a complex and multifactorial disease. Its onset and establishment are the result of individual factors, but also of the wider environment - built environment (housing), school, work, advertising, etc. - which conditions our eating habits and our levels of physical activity and sedentary behaviour.

Recent developments in our societies have made our environments unhealthy because they encourage low levels of physical activity, high levels of sedentary behaviour and excessive consumption of energy-dense foods. They are therefore described as obesogenic.

The emergence and development of the obesity epidemic has coincided with:

• a sharp increase in the proportion of high-calorie foods and beverages rich in fat, simple sugars and salts in the food supply;
• and, in parallel, changes in our lifestyles (rapid urbanisation, changes in the world of work) have led to a decrease in physical activity levels and an increase in sedentary lifestyles.

Making the healthiest choice the easiest choice

In the face of the current obesity epidemic, there is an urgent need to make our environment healthier to help each individual make the healthiest and most sustainable choices. The involvement of all sectors of society is key to changing our environments and making the healthiest choice the easiest in terms of accessibility, availability and price. This challenge relies primarily on political and societal choices in health, agriculture and education.

Healthy eating and regular physical activity to prevent overweight and obesity

Overweight and obesity and the associated non-communicable diseases can be largely prevented by

• limiting the consumption of energy-dense, high-fat and/or high-sugar foods (e.g. sugary drinks, highly processed foods);
• increasing the consumption of fruit and vegetables (F&V), pulses, whole grains and nuts;
• regular physical activity (30 minutes per day for adults).

A recent review confirms the hypothesis that Mediterranean-type diets reduce the risk of obesity in adults.

Key figures :

Globally (WHO):

• In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults (39% of the population) were overweight, of whom 650 million were obese (13%). More than 340 million children and adolescents (5-19 years) were overweight or obese
• In 2019, 38 million children under 5 were overweight or obese.

What is obesity?

Overweight and obesity is an abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat in the body that poses a health risk. They are major risk factors for several diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal disorders and some cancers. Obesity-related diseases cause the death of at least 2.8 million people each year (WHO). Obesity is thus a complex and multifactorial disease. Among the risk factors identified: genetic predisposition, perinatal exposure, socio-economic determinants, behaviour, but also environment.

The fundamental cause of weight gain is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and expended. This energy balance is influenced by behaviour via a whole series of determinants:

• It can vary according to the accessibility of various foods in different distribution and catering venues.
• The level of physical activity can be influenced by the accessibility of sports facilities, green spaces, and transport and land-use infrastructure.

How to celebrate World Obesity Day?

You could have a general check-up with a nutritionist, attend a sporting event, learn much healthier food recipes or create a daily workout routine that can benefit you during the week.

You can also motivate others to have a healthier lifestyle by posting photos on your social media with messages that motivate them to stay on the healthy path and using the hashtag #WorldObesityDay.

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Fathers Are Wonderful People - Father’s Day poems

Poesías en inglés día del padre - Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Fathers Are Wonderful People!

Fathers are wonderful people,
Too little understood,
We do not sing their praises,
As often as we should.

A father struggles every day,
To live up to his image.
As protector and provider,
The hero of the scrimmage.

Perhaps that is the reason,
We sometimes get the notion.
That fathers are not subject,
To the thing, we call emotion.

If you look inside a father’s heart,
Where no one else can see.
You’ll find he’s sentimental,
And soft as he can be.

Fathers are just wonderful,
In a million different ways.
They merit loving compliments,
And accolades of praise.

The only reason Dad aspires,
To fortune and success.
Is to make his family proud of him,
And bring them happiness.

Just like our heavenly Father,
He’s a guardian and a guide,
The person we can count on,
To always take our side.

Thanks so much to Marina. for sending in this poem

Recursos y materiales gratis en inglés, para el día del padre.

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Boy and Father - Carl Sandburg - Father’s Day poems

Poesías en inglés día del padre - Recursos Educativos en Inglés - Poems in English

Boy and Father

The boy Alexander understands his father to be a famous lawyer.
The leather law books of Alexander’s father fill a room like hay in a barn.
Alexander has asked his father to let him build a house like bricklayers build, a house with walls and roofs made of big leather law books.

The rain beats on the windows
And the raindrops run down the window glass
And the raindrops slide off the green blinds down the siding.

The boy Alexander dreams of Napoleon in John C. Abbott’s history, Napoleon the grand and lonely man wronged, Napoleon in his life wronged and in his memory wronged.
The boy Alexander dreams of the cat Alice saw, the cat fading off into the dark and leaving the teeth of its Cheshire smile lighting the gloom.

Buffaloes, blizzards, way down in Texas, in the panhandle of Texas snuggling close to New Mexico,
These creep into Alexander’s dreaming by the window when his father talks with strange men about land down in Deaf Smith County.
Alexander’s father tells the strange men: Five years ago we ran a Ford out on the prairie and chased antelopes.

Only once or twice in a long while has Alexander heard his father say ‘my first wife’ so-and-so and such-and-such.
A few times softly the father has told Alexander, ‘Your mother . . . was a beautiful woman . . . but we won’t talk about her.’
Always Alexander listens with a keen listen when he hears his father mention ‘my first wife’ or ‘Alexander’s mother.’

Alexander’s father smokes a cigar and the Episcopal rector smokes a cigar, and the words come often: mystery of life, mystery of life.
These two come into Alexander’s head blurry and grey while the rain beats on the windows and the raindrops run down the window glass and the raindrops slide off the green blinds and down the siding.
These and: There is a God, there must be a God, how can there be rain or sun unless there is a God?

So from the wrongs of Napoleon and the Cheshire cat smile on to the buffaloes and blizzards of Texas and on to his mother and to God, so the blurry grey rain dreams of Alexander have gone on five minutes, maybe ten, keeping slow easy time to the raindrops on the window glass and the raindrops sliding off the green blinds and down the siding.

By Carl Sandburg

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World Wildlife Day - 3 March

What is World Wildlife Day?

World Wildlife Day is an international day that was established by the UN in 2014 and every year on 3 March is dedicated to raising public awareness about wildlife and the dangers of global wildlife trafficking.

Why is this day so important?

World Wildlife Day is an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of wildlife and to raise awareness of the many benefits that its conservation brings to people. It also raises awareness of the need to combat the decline in wildlife numbers which has economic, social and environmental impacts.

What is the theme of World Wildlife Day?

The theme changes every year. The 2018 theme was big cats, the 2019 theme was aquatic life and the 2022 theme was sustaining all life on earth.

Year 2022 "Recovering Keystone Species for Ecosystem Restoration": aimed at raising awareness of the current status of endangered and critically endangered wildlife species.

How to celebrate World Wildlife Day?

Learn more about wildlife and see how you can help. This can include raising awareness, participating in events, organising campaigns and using the World Wildlife Day logo wherever possible.

Main threats to wildlife

There are currently multiple factors that threaten the conservation of various species of wild flora and fauna, most of which are caused by human activity and climate change. This generates negative and high-impact economic, environmental and social consequences.

Some of the threats to the planet's wildlife are the following:

• Poaching, overfishing and species trafficking.
• Degradation, fragmentation and destruction of wildlife habitats.
• climate change
• Greenhouse emissions.
• Exploitation and overexploitation of natural resources.
• Indiscriminate felling of trees.
• Disappearance of ecosystems.
• Use of chemical treatments to increase the growth of conifers.
• Proliferation of invasive species in habitats other than their original geographical distribution.

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International Hearing Day - 3 March

Every 3rd March is International Hearing Day. This day is all about hearing loss and focuses on its causes, consequences, prevention and harmful noise levels. Here are some clarifications and explanations.

What is International Hearing Day?

International Hearing Day puts the spotlight on hearing loss. This issue needs to be addressed in order to better prevent damage and combat its effects. Hearing is the most important sense for all communication. It enables, for example, participation in general conversations and daily activities. Hearing loss or deterioration therefore has an impact on everyday life. On International Hearing Day, a large number of organisations concerned with the subject are devoting even more time to hearing loss and hearing protection worldwide.

The causes of hearing loss

People experience hearing problems at three points in their lives: when they are born, when they are exposed to loud noises and when they grow old. About 10% of the Belgian population suffers from tinnitus, a permanent ringing in the ear. This problem frequently occurs in young people, usually when they are exposed to noises that exceed 80 decibels, for example when listening to music with headphones or at parties or festivals.

But it is not only young people who are affected. The passing of a high-speed train, the taking off of an aeroplane or the hustle and bustle of a classroom can also cause hearing damage. However, the most common hearing problems are related to old age. People are often unaware that they have hearing problems, or have been living with them for too long. On average, people with hearing loss wait 7 years before seeking help, which is very harmful to hearing. This is why it is very important to have your ears checked regularly, especially from the age of 50 onwards... From this age onwards, you should have your hearing tested every year.

World Hearing Day is a reminder of the following:

• Good hearing and communication are important at all stages of life.
• Hearing loss (and associated ear diseases) can be prevented through preventive measures such as protection from loud sounds, good ear care practices and immunisation.
• Hearing loss (and associated ear diseases) can be treated when detected at the right time and appropriate care is obtained.
• People who are at risk of hearing loss should have their hearing checked regularly.
• People with hearing loss (or related ear diseases) should seek the care of a health care professional.

In 2022, the campaign slogan is "For a lifetime of hearing, listen carefully! The aim is to educate about the importance of taking care of your hearing and not exposing it to loud noise, which is one of the causes of hearing loss. Related hashtags to post on social media are: #safelistening #worldhearingday #hearingcare.

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