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TENSES:

-simple present (do/does, have/has + got) 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)

-future:

will + verb (instant decisions, promises, predictions)

to be + going to + verb (based on evidence)

simple present as future (scheduled events): what time does the plane leave? It leaves at half past six.

present continuous as future: What are you doing tomorrow, I´m having lunch with my mother

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

future continuous (will + be + verb ing) / ACTION IN PROGRESS): by this time tomorrow, I´ll be traveling to
Paris.

future perfect (will + have + past participle / ACTION FINISHED): by november, I´ll have finished school

other future forms: I´m about to do this, to be on the point of doing something

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, started in the past but still continues (if + past simple + would/could/might)

third: if I had seen tom, I would have called you.

PAST PERFECT would,could,might + have + past participle

PERFECTIVE (to put the modal verb in the past)

-Unreal situation in the past

-Regrets (If i had done my homework i would have gone to the party)

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

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 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 the improve make smth

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

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

WISHES: annoyance → I wish you would stop talking

PRESENT WISH: simple past PAST WISH: could have, past FUTURE WISH: could, past
perfect continuous
I wish you: were here, didn't
stay He wishes he had stayed in I wish you could come to the
London longer party tomorrow

I wish were coming to the party

with me next week

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

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 worthwhile: worth the time, money or effort to lose face: to be humiliated

pigeonhole: classify buzz: excitement

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

VOCABULARY UNIT 2:

DRESSED UP : dress in smart or formal clothes."just wear whatever's comfortable—you don't need to dress up"

LIVE UP TO : If someone or something lives up to what they were expected to be, they are as good as they were
expected to be.

THINK UP: phrasal verb of thinkuse one's ingenuity to invent or devise something."Nick went away to think up an
alternative plan"

CONJURE UP : to present to the mind; evoke or imagine he conjured up a picture of his childhood.

END UP: to reach or come to a place, condition, or situation that was not planned or expected The book
ended up in the trash. He didn't want to end up like his father. She ended up a rich woman.

GIVE UP ON : to stop trying to improve the condition of (someone) He has gotten in trouble many times, but
his parents have never given up on him. Please don't give up on me.

remote: far unspoilt: has not been damaged by people

awestruck: feel impressed or admired faint hearted: shy

bounce off: talk to someone about something and qualification: skill

exchange ideas
opt out: avoid
be over the moon: to be very happy
top up: add to an ammount
get along with somebody: have a good/bad
allowance: money given regulary to a person
relationship
lack: don´t have something
tedious: boring

binge watch: to watch a series for many hours

📌 ——————————————————————————————————————travel vocabulary
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book in advance global warming

prebook flood

departure (the time when the plane leaves) foreign visitors (extranjeros)

arrival (arriving) passport

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 flight attendant (crew) make a reservation

connecting flight keep a record (of your trip)

delayed one way / round trip (pasaje de ida o vuelta)

abroad (en el extranjero) accommodation (a place to stay)

day trip / excursion journey (by land)

local environment voyage (by sea)

VOCABULARY UNIT 3:

practice makes perfect: doing an activity regularly pave the way: to make it easier for something or
is the way to become good at something. someone to follow (allanar el camino)

set the alarm (go off = explode, ring, expired food) pack my bag

pilot scheme: experiment used to test an idea to be sold on something: to be enthusiastic about
something
to catch up with
drawback: disadvantage
kind of (kinda → informal): almost
get rid off: throw
made up of
not only, but also
leisure: free time
responsible FOR
lawn (the floor of the tenis field)
don´t step on the grass
litter (street trash)
busking (street performances/ street art)
neither…nor: ni esto ni lo otro, siempre verbo
positivo heat wave

secluded: hidden resigned

sense of rely on: trust

specialised in cope with: deal with

-It is the first time + present perfect SUGGEST:

eg: It is the first time I have seen this film -ing

-It was the first time + past perfect -that I should start
eg: It was the first time he had eaten fish -that he go (without the s)

countable nouns: sing and plural (eg: chair, person, people, desks) few chairs

uncountable nouns: always singular (coffee, water, tea, advice, (a piece) news)
singular verb: there is some water (much, a lot of, a little)

cleft sentence: when you give enfasis (what i hat, what they don't appreciate, what she doesn´t understand)

definite article “the” - indefinite “a”, “an” - zero article: plural nouns, uncountable nouns

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