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TENSES:
-simple present (do/does) or future → future scheduled events
-simple past (did) → the action started and finished
-past perfect (had + participle) → an action that happened before another one

-present perfect (have/has + past participle) → experience, when doesn´t matter, started and hasn´t
finished yet (since, just, yet)

-present perfect continous as future (have/has + been + verb “ing”) → i´m having...later at night,
complaining (since, for)

CONDITIONALS:

zero: universal truth, habits, favour, command, result of a situation or action (if/when + present
simple+ present simple)

first: real situation or future possibility (if/unless + present simple + will/won´t/might)

second: unreal situation, imaginary (if + past simple + would/could/might)

third: hypothetical situations in the past or regrets about the past (if + past perfect + would have +
past participle)

PASSIVE VOICE: the object becomes the subject (verb to be (any tense) + past participle)
-focuses on the action, not the person
-formal reports

-proceses, papers from science or medicine

DOER= the person who does the action

PHRASAL VERBS: words that have a different meaning together than in isolation (verb +
adverb/preposition)

make up put off take off add to get across

invent postpone leave improve make

the smth clear
be friends discouraged to make
ground
again a miss out
try out (plane)
feeling
compensate not
test company more
present in
extreme
smth
(succes)

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ADJECTIVES ENDING IN ED / ING :

-I´m interested in tenis -They are bored with the film -We are fascinated by his
abilities
-Tenis is interesting -The film is boring
-His abilities are fascinating

COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE:

1. double comparative → the sooner the better

2. irregular adjectives (comparative = compares two or more than two things)

comparative superlative

• good better (than) the best

• bad worse (than) the worse

• far further (than) the furthest

3. comparative (equality) → He is as tall as Mary

4. example → comparisons with adverbs (He works more efficiently)

5. too + adjective → He isn´t old enough to go out

VOCABULARY UNIT 1:

dull: boring reluctant: do something in a bad mood (he

was reluctant to call her)
nerve-racking: it makes me nervous
look forward to +ing / + noun: expect
leg it: hurry (eg: when the fire started
not / to be willing to do something: eager to do
moan: complain about something / whinge
something (strongly wanting)
overwhelmed: have a strong emotional affect
to lose face: to be humiliated
worthwhile: worth the time, money or effort
buzz: excitement
pigeonhole: classify
gut feeling: inner feeling / intuition

senses: touch / smell / taste / sight / sound

-In english adjectives don´t have gender or number

-All the words that are acting as adjectives are never plural

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