LINKERS PARA MOSTRAR DIFERENCIAS

1. BUT, WHILE, WHEREAS
BUT
Como hemos visto anteriormente utilizamos ‘but‘ para mostrar una simple diferencia entre dos informaciones diferentes.
- The weather was cold but it didn’t rain.
- The latest Batman movie is exciting but very violent.
- My mobile phone has a camera but it is not very good.
WHEREAS, WHILE
Empleamos ‘whereas‘ con el significado de ‘mientras que’, y ‘while‘ con un significado diferente al ‘while‘ visto anteriormente (mientras que, pese a, a pesar de) en situaciones más formales.
- Flight BA101 leaves from London Gatwick, whereas/while flight BA 206 leaves from Stansted.
- While the food there is very good, it isn’t expensive.
2. ALTHOUGH, EVEN THOUGH, DESPITE, IN SPITE OF
ALTHOUGH, THOUGH, EVEN THOUGH
Utilizamos ‘although‘ (aunque), ‘though‘ (aunque, sin embargo) y ‘even though‘ (aunque, a pesar de que) para introducir en nuestras oraciones una diferencia que resulta sorprendente.
- Although it often rains in the summer, Britain has many popular holiday resorts.
- We enjoyed our holiday even though it rained.
- They’re great jeans, though they’re expensive.
‘Although‘, ‘even though‘ y ‘though‘ siempre van seguidos de oraciones completas, con su sujeto, verbo conjugado en algún tiempo verbal (presentes, futuros, pasados, etc) y no puede ir seguido solamente de sustantivos o gerundios.
- We liked our walk even though it rained.
- We liked our walk even though
bad weather.
De estos tres linkers, ‘though‘ es el más informal y puede ir tanto al principio de una oración, con el significado de ‘aunque‘, como al final de la oración, con el significado de ‘no obstante‘
DESPITE, IN SPITE OF
Estos dos ‘LINKERS’ significan ‘a pesar de‘ y pueden ir seguidos o bien de un sustantivo o bien de un gerundio.
- People usually enjoy themselves despite the bad weather.
- Despite its huge success, the website is quite difficult to use.
- I passed the exam in spite of not answering all the questions.
Existe una posibilidad para añadir tras estas dos ‘LINKING WORDS’ una oración completa con su sujeto, verbo conjugado y demás elementos. Para hacer esto debemos añadir tras ellas la expresión ‘the fact that‘.
- In spite of the fact that it rained, we enjoyed our walk.
3. HOWEVER, NEVERTHELESS
En un inglés más formal podemos utilizar ‘however‘ (sin embargo) y ‘nevertheless‘ (no obstante, sin embargo) para enfatizar una diferencia entre dos oraciones. Por lo general, para utilizar estas ‘LINKING WORDS’, las dos oraciones que pretendemos relacionar se dejan separadas por un punto. El ‘LINKER’ se suele poner tras el punto, en la segunda oración y separado por una ‘coma’ (,).
- Credit cards are very useful for travellers. However, the use of Bizum is growing rapidly.
- Egypt has very little rainfall. Nevertheless, farmers grow many crops using water from the River Nile.
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9. Our classes are designed for intermediate skiers. __________ we can provide one-to-one lessons for complete beginners.CorrectoIncorrecto
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although| but it | despite | even though | however | in spite of the fact | nevertheless | whereas | while it-
STRANGE FACTS
1. (0) Although the USA only has 5% of the world’s population, it uses 26% of the world’s energy.
2. The valleys near Ross Island in the Antartic are covered in snow and ice, (1) it hasn’t rained there for two million years.
3. Severe storms in the Atlantic are called hurricanes, (2) , severe storms in the Pacific are called typhoons.
4. The Amazon occupies only 1.5% of the worlds surface. (3) , it produces 20% of the earth’s oxygen.
5. The famous leaning tower of Pisa has never fallen over, (4) that it leans at an angle of almost four degrees.
6. (5) being 27 times smaller than the USA, Norway has a longer coastline.
7. (6) is inside just one country, Istanbul is in fact situated on two continents.
8. Now York is an American city. (7) , it contains more Irish inhabitants than Dublin – Ireland’s capital city.
9. The Atlantic Ocean is much smaller than the Pacific (8) has saltier water.
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Subject: Can you help?
Hi Nick,
This is just a quick email (0) because I want to ask you a favour. I think you told me that your friend William is now in the army, (1) is it the navy? Anyway, I’ve decided tht I want to join the army (2) I leave university next year (3) I’d like to talk to someone about it. (4) I’ve only met William once, I’m sure he’d be able to give me some really useful advice. He was (5) friendly that I think he’d be really easy to talk to. The problem is, (6) I met him I didn’t get his phone number. Can you give me his mobile number (7) give him my number (8) ask him to call me if that’s easier?Thanks!
Gavin
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(0)and| because
(1) or | either
(2) after | after that
(3) and | or
(4) Despite | Even though
(5) such | so
(6) when | whereas
(7) because | or
(8) in order | and
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THE GREAT STORM
(0) Although Britain is a place that rarely has extreme weather, there have been a few exceptions over the years. They include the great storm of October 1987. Dozens of people were (1) killed or injured and billions of pounds of damage was caused to buildings (2) properety. The bad weather began over the Bay of Biscay. (3) increasing in strength for a few days, this became a huge storm which started to move north. (4) , on the evening of 15 October it hit the English Channel. Neither the BBC (5) the Meteorological Office had predicted the storm earlier. (6) , when it arrived, nobody was prepared. Suddenly, in the middle of the night, hurricane winds (7) torrential rain swept over southern England.
London was badly affected (8) of the large number of tree-lined streets. The winds were (9) strong that thousands of trees were knocked over, falling on top of cars or buildings that were close to them.
(10) the storm there were power cuts as the high winds and falling trees destroyed electricity cables. As a (11) , many places were in complete darkness, which made things difficult for (12) the fire and ambulance services.
Surprisingly, even (13) there were hurricane force winds throughout the night, several people were copletely unaware of what was happening. They not (14) had to sleep through the storm, they didn’t even hear the falling trees crashing onto their cars on the street. Of course, as (15) as they woke up, they received the nasty shock.
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20. In the morning, we went down to the beach. __________ at the beach café.CorrectoIncorrecto