I need to do the laundry tonight.

When I was
a teenager, my mother made me do the
laundry every week. I really don't like doing
the laundry. It takes so much time.

My friend Tomas avoids the whole thing.

He has a laundry service do his laundry.
He just drops his things off in the morning
and picksthem up at night.

My friend Karla does the laundry every week,

but then she gets her husband to put the
clean laundry away. I like that arrangement.

These sentences use the causatives make, have, and get.

Causatives express the idea that one person causes another to do something.
The causatives make, have, and get have slightly different meanings.

The causative make means oblige or force.

❖ The sentence:
means she required
me to do it; it was
an obligation.

❖ Notice the sentence structure:

We use make + an object (like me)
+ the base form of a verb (like do).

EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT OBJECT PRONOUNS:

The causative have means instruct or ask.
❖ The sentence means
he instructs the
laundry service to do
his laundry.

❖ Notice the sentence

structure:
❖ We use have
+ an object (like a
laundry service)
+the base form of a verb
(like do).
The causative get means cause or persuade.

❖ The sentence means

Karla needs to ask her
husband or persuade
him to do the chore.

❖ Notice the sentence

structure:
We use get
+ an object (like her
husband)
+ aninfinitive (like to put).

Look at these other examples.

❖ Notice that we use

the base form of
the verb with the
causatives have
and make
❖ but we use the
infinitive with the
causative get.
Audio: Lv3 U3 L1: Speaking: Offer a solution 2
 Audio: Lv3 U3 L2: Vocabulary: Services

Dry-clean a suit Repair shoes Frame a picture

Deliver a package Lengthen a skirt Shorten a skirt

Print a sign Copy a report

 My motorcycle is making an
unusual noise. I'm having it
looked at later today.

We use the passive causative to talk about arranging services – such as repair,
painting or delivery.

For example:

“I'm having it looked at” means that I've arranged for the garage to lookat it.

Notice the sentence structure: The passive causative uses:

a form of have + an object (like it) + a past participle (like looked).
We can say I'm having it looked at later
today or I'm getting it looked at later
today.
Have and get have the same meaning in
this sentence.

Remember: In the passive voice, we can

use a by phrase when the information is
important. For example, I can say:

Here are some other examples:

Audio: Lv3 U3 L2: Speaking: Discuss how long
a service will take 1

Audio: Lv3 U3 L2: Speaking: Discuss how long

a service will take 2
Audio: Lv3 U3 L3: Reading: Interview: Ask a Dry Cleaner
When we want to express enthusiasm in a sentence with an intensifier, we put extra
stress on the stressed syllable in the intensifier.

Listen:
We normally stress only the
adjective.
To express enthusiasm, we put
strong stress on both the intensifier
and the adjective.

Listen to the difference in the audio Lv3 U3

L2 Pronunciation example:

Lv3 U3 L2 Pronunciation Example.mp3 (Línea de comandos)

Look at this sentence with the intensifier
very:
Listen to the difference in the audio:
Lv3 U3 L2 Pronunciation Example 2.

Lv3 U3 L2 Pronunciation Example 2.mp3 (Línea de comandos)

Listen to how we express enthusiasm with the audio:

Lv3 U3 L2 Pronunciation Example 3 Lv3 U3 L2 Pronunciation Example 3.mp3 (Línea de comandos)

Now listen and repeat:

Audio: Lv3 U3 L3: Pronunciation: Emphatic
stress to express enthusiasm
 Audio: Lv3 U3 L4: Vocabulary: Planning
and running an event

Send out the announcements Set up the room Set up the projector

Put up the sings Check the sound system A microphone / a mike

A handheld mike A lapel mike Hand out the agenda

A handout
Introduce the speaker, A podium
Introduce the guest
Audio: Lv3 U3 L4: Listening: Listen to people
plan an event