VOCABULARY

EXPERIENCES ABROAD

1. Be left on your own devices → allow someone to make their own decisions about what to do

2. Find people welcoming → people who are friendly to you when you arrive somewhere

3. Get a bit of a culture shock → feelings of uncertainty, confusion, or anxiety that people may got
when moving to a new place

4. Get a real feel for the place → to become familiar with a place

5. Get food poisoning → sickness caused by eating something that has been contaminated

6. Get off the beaten track → an unusual route or destination

7. Get robbed → to have something stolen

8. Go hiking → to walk a long distance especially for pleasure or exercise

9. Hang out → spend a lot of time with native people

10. Lie around a house all day → to hang around idly

11. See all the sights → to view noteworthy places, especially when visiting a place

12. Stay in a B&B → accommodation offered by an inn, hotel, or private home consisting of a room for
the night and breakfast next morning for one inclusive price

13. Stay with a host family → family that provides housing and food to someone, often students

14. Take a while to get used to the food → in the beginning a situation was strange or unusual but its
not anymore or will soon stop being strange because of a passage of time.

PHRASAL VERBS

Verb with 2 or more words (normally 2).

Verb + preposition
Not any verb with prep. Is a phrasal verb!

I look at the picture × (this don’t have a single meaning “mirar a”)

I look after my little brother ✔ (this alone have a meaning, in this case “cuidar”)

PHRASAL VERBS, OR NOT?

- Stand up
- Sit down
Not phrasal verbs
- Put away
- Clean up
- Make up → forgive each other
- Look up → search info. In a book
- Take after → look like someone
- Get on → have a friendly relation
- Tell off → renyar
- Look after → take care
- run into → meet someone accidently
- Pick up → collect
- Break down → stop working
- Queue up → wait in a line
- Come down to → are basically because
- Pulled up → car stopped by
- Turn out → was

GRAMMAR

USED TO, WOULD AND PAST SIMPLE

I used to go to school by bus / I would go to school by bus → 2 expressions that mean the same

SIMPLE PAST

To describe individual past events and situations (actions).

✓ I spent a week in Canada in 2022

? Did you spend a week in Canada?

× I didn’t spend a week in Mexico

WOULD + INFINITIVE
To talk about regular actions or habits in the past.

✓ I would walk to school every day when I was a kid

? Would you walk to school every day?

× I wouldn’t walk to school when it rained

USED TO + INFINITIVE

To talk about regular actions or habits in the past and past states*.

✓ I used to believe in Santa Claus

? Did you use to believe in Santa Claus?

× I didn’t use to believe in Santa Claus

PERMANENT ACTIONS IN THE PAST:

I used to live in New York 10 years ago ← is not a repeated action

 I would live in New York 10 years ago 

PERMANENT STATES IN THE PAST:

I used to like ice-cream as a kid

 I would like ice-cream as a kid 

*STATIVE VERBS

“Used to” can only be used with this verbs.

1- thoughts and options: agree, believe, doubt, guess. Imagine, know, mean, recognise, remember,
suspect, think, understand.

2- Feelings and emotions: like, dislike, hate, love, prefer, want, wish.

3- Senses and perceptions: appear, be, feel, hear, look, seem, smell, taste.

4- Possession and measurement: belong, have, measure, own, posses, weight.

Would → infinitive
‘d
Had → participle
USEFUL LANGUAGE

MAKING SUGGESTIONS

- If sports / sightseeing is their thing, then the best place to go is…

- If they want to experience a genuine local night out I’d suggest trying…

- If they’re only staying here for a short while, they should probably…

- If you ask me, the one place they really have to go is…

(Despres de suggest sempre va un verb amb -ing, despres de should va sempre infinitive)