Intermediate – Stative Verbs

Doc. Fiorella Zuñiga Rojas

Excuse me teacher. Could you repeat that, please ?
Disculpe profesor. ¿Podría repetir esa parte?

How do you say _________ in Spanish/English ?

Como se dice ________ en español/inglés.
Intermediate – Modals of Present
Possibility
Doc. Fiorella Zuñiga Rojas
Modals of Present Possibility
Modals of Present Possibility
Modals of Present Possibility

• It might be the best leave it tomorrow.

• We must ever help others to learn, so, we
can be better in all we know.
• My sister may be sick
• Oscar's car might be broken
• That smartwatch could be a success in sales.
• Our neighbors might not be at home.
• These books may not be interesting for you.
• Marla couldn't be on time for the class.
• Good books can't be short.
• Larry might be busy, he didn't answer my messages.
• My roommate can't be at the church, he's not a religious man.
• This movie has many positive reviews, it can't be bad.

 
Modals of Present Possibility
Modals of Present Possibility
Intermediate – Quantity Expressions
Doc. Fiorella Zuñiga Rojas
 Quantity Expressions
It answers the
Is a word
 tells the amount of questions, “How
An expresión of quantity something much?” or “How
Group of words many?”

• Modify a noun
• Are used to express:
• Describe the amount, or
- A positive idea: I read all the e-mail messages.
number , of somenthing.
-A negative idea: I read none of the e-mail messages.
• Are used with Count Nouns or
with Non-Count Nouns.
Quantity Expressions NOTE:
All is used
Positive Expressions after a
With Count Nouns Examples With Non- Examples Personal
Count Object
Nouns Pronoun
All (of) • I read all the e-mail All (of) I read all the news. - I want it all.
messages in my Maria .
- She bought
It is used before nouns box. I buy all the things
an pronouns with the • I do all the for them all.
meaning of: exercises of my
“todo/toda/todos/todas” homework.

Of

The preposition “of” is All of potatoes are in All potatoes are in the
used as long as the the refrigerator fridge
name is preceded by a :
-Article
-Possesive Adjective All of us are going to
the cinema.
Quantity Expressions
REMEMBER
-Object Pronouns after the verb.
Example:
You don´t like me
They hate us

-Object Pronouns after a prepositions

I don´t want to listen to her.
We play with them.

-Subject Pronoun before the verb.

She watches TV.
You sleep Eight hours.

-Adjective Pronoun before the noun.

This is my book.
It´s not our house.
Quantity Expressions
Positive Expressions
With Count Nouns Examples With Non- Examples
Count
Nouns

Most Most
-I read most of the e- -I read most of the
It is used before nouns mail messages. news.
with or without adjective
before.
Means : “La mayor parte
de”. “La mayoría de “.
-Most of the British
It is used when it is Tourists prefer the
followed by a personal beach.
object pronoun
-I phoned al my
Friends but most of
them were away.
Quantity Expressions
Positive Expressions

With Count Nouns Examples With Non- Examples

Count
Nouns
A lot of A lot of
-We’ve got lots -That’s a lot of
It is used with plural of things to do.  money.
countable nouns and -There weren’t a lot
with singular .The´ll be a lot of your of choices
uncountable nouns for Friends there.
affirmatives , negatives
and questions.

QUESTIONS:

-Can you hurry up? I don´t have a lot of time.

-Are there a lot of good players at your tennis
club?
-Have you eaten lots of chocolate.
Quantity Expressions
Positive Expressions

• I bought half a kilo of flour.

• He ran half a mile this morning.
Half •
•
I will be back in half a minute.
Half the people have already left.
• Half of an apple isn't very much lunch.
It is used when
• Did you use half my sugar?
preceded by articles
• I will need half of the flour for my cake.
(an ,a and the) or by
• I earned half of that money last summer.
a Pronoun
• I spent half that time on my project.
possessive.
• I've invited half my friends to the party.
• I've used up half of our eggs.
• You wasted half your money on that!
• Half of us are going.
• He scolded half of you but he let the rest
off.
• You couldn't find half of them?
Quantity Expressions
Positive Expressions

Some (of)

• Used to mean “a Little” and “a •Can you lend me some money until

few” tomorrow?
•I must withdraw some money from the
• Used with both countable and bank.
uncountable nouns •Lyn sent some pictures from the
• . wedding.
• Used with countable nouns,nouns •He has bought some tropical fruits.
are plural. • Would you like some more tea?
• Could I have some milk, please?
• Used with uncountable nouns, They • Do you want something to eat?
are always singular. • Some of my friends live in Paris.

• We can use some in questions

when offering/requesting:
Quantity Expressions
Positive Expressions
None (of)
• It means “nadie” “ninguno”.
• It used with object pronouns.
• It used with this and the.
• It used in replies.
• None of my family are rich. - Nadie
de mi familia es rica.
• None of his friends have a car.
- Ninguno de sus amigos tiene coche.
• None of them went with her.
- Ninguno de ellos le acompañó.
• None of the keys opened the drawer.
- Ninguna de las llaves abrió el cajón.
• None of us have seen the movie.
- Ninguno de nosotros ha visto la
película.
•“How much milk have we got?” -
“None”
Quantity Expressions
Quantity Expressions
Quantity Expressions
Quantity Expressions