Final Test Review: Passages 1

Vocabulary: nonconformist disapproving

Apps amenable irrational
The cloud conventional resilience
download keep things in discretion
original/originality/origin perspective honesty
ation demoralized familiar with
innovative/innovation/in humiliated scared of
novate mystified non-judgmental
find solutions drive me up the wall keep your grades up
unfair stay awake

Grammar:
What is the difference between USED TO and WOULD when used for routines in the past?
Used to can be used with stative and non stative verbs. Would cannot be used
with stative verbs, only non stative.

Fill in the correct word(s) with used to, or BOTH if possible.

My family _both__ always take a vacation every year to Guanacaste when I was young.
My dad _both___drive the whole way. He _used to____ be so tired when we got there.
We _both__stay at the same little cabin on the beach every year. I remember that a family
_used to__live next to it and I __both__play with their kids in the pool that the cabin
__used to__ have.

Conditionals and Wishes

I can´t go to the U.S.A. (only if, unless) they give me the visa.

I´d quit my job (only if, even if) I found a better one.

We are going to the beach, (only if, even if) it rains. We already have the hotel reserved.

I would buy a new cell phone _only if____ it were really cheap.

-Make 3 sentences with EVEN IF, ONLY IF, and UNLESS for the following idea.
*Would you ever lie to your parents?
I would lie to my parents only if it was necessary to help a friend.
I wouldn’t lie to my parents even if you paid me a lot of money.
I wouldn’t lie to my parents unless it was to prevent them from hurting.

-Finish the wish with your own thoughts:

I wish I _I could have had a dog______ when I was younger.

I wish I ___were at the beach/were eating_____ right now.

I wish I ___could go to Italy_____ next year.

-Complete with the correct form of the verb

If only my professor _would assign_____ (assign) less work on Fridays.
I wish I ___had practiced______ (practice) the guitar more when I was a child.
I wish I _weren’t_____(no be) sick right now.
I wish my dad __would stop_____(stop) smoking eventually.
If only I __had taken_____(take) my class more seriously, I could´ve learned more.

Mixed conditionals: If + past perfect > would + verb

Complete the conditional

If I __had been_____(be) more careful on my motorcycle I ___wouldn’t have to ___ (no

have to) use a wheelchair now

If Lisa ___had remembered___ (remember) her keys, we __wouldn’t be trying___ (no try)
to break in now.

If Mark __hadn’t asked____ (not ask) for directions, we _would be lost___(lost) right now.

Keep or Stay or Both?

For me it's so hard to (keep/stay) awake in my Chemistry class. It's so boring!

I have to (keep/stay) my grades up because I´m not doing so well this semester.

Reduced relative clauses:

Rewrite the sentence in the reduced form
Someone who is interested in technology might love being an engineer.
Someone interested in technology might live being an engineer.

Anyone that has siblings, understands they can be a pain in the neck sometimes.
Anyone with siblings understands they can be a pain in the neck sometimes.

People who talk in the movies, ruin it for everyone!

People talking in the movies ruin it for everyone.
Contrasting and Exceptions:
combine the sentences using the phrases:
All teenagers are the same. Some teenagers are really responsible. (except for the fact
that)
All teenagers are the same, except for the fact that some teenagers are really responsible.

Taxis in the states are all yellow. Taxis in Costa Rica are red. (unlike)
Unlike taxis in the states,(which are yellow), taxis in Costa Rica are red.

My brother’s favorite food is arroz con pollo. My favorite food is pizza. (while)
My brother’s favorite food is arroz con pollo, while my favorite food is pizza.

Indirect Questions rewrite the sentences using indirect questions

Will taxes ever go down? (I wonder…)
I wonder if taxes will ever go down.

Why don’t more people go to the theater? (I’d like to know…)

I’d like to know why more people don’t go to the theater.

Why do some people insist on buying big SUV´s? ( I don´t get…)

I don’t get why some people insist on buying big SUV’s.

Future perfect /continuous

By next year, I __will have graduated_____ (graduate).
Before I leave Costa Rica, I hope _I will have visited__(visit) 20 different beaches.

Make a tag or negative question

It seems like students never study. (tag)
It seems like students never study, doesn’t it?
________________________________________________________________
There aren't enough police on the street (tag)
There aren’t enough police on the street, are there?
________________________________________________________________
This test is pretty hard (negative question)
Isn’t this test pretty hard?
________________________________________________________________
You would prefer to see a scary movie. (negative question)
Wouldn’t you prefer to see a scary movie?
________________________________________________________________
Error correction: correct the mistakes and explain WHY
I have always dreamed with traveling abroad.
about-we dream about subjects, not with them
I don’t know nothing about computers.
anything-can’t have a double negative in English
I would steal food unless it were a life or death situation.
only if-this explains the one condition that you would steal food
I have so many differents decisions to make.
different-we don’t put an “s” on adjectives in English
She wishes that he wasn´t so obsessed with video games.
weren’t-always use “were” in hypotheticals for every subject
I´m thinking in my family and how much I miss them.
about/of-it isn’t possible to think in something, we think about or of things.