STUDYING AND LEARNING
Some pieces of advice
- Pay attention during the lessons, keep quiet and ask any doubt.
- Do the homework everyday (That's doing all the exercises in the workbook about the stuff seen in class)
- Study and do not take anything for granted as if you already know all about everything because you have that feeling that you have heard all these lines before.
- During the test: read more than once the instructions or the enunciate of the exercise. until you understand them.
- Check spelling twice, specially the spelling rules for –ing, -ed, -s/es endings.
Let’s
move on!
PARTS OF A SENTENCE
When dealing with words we should, have to, must and ought
to take into account what "kind of word” it is.
- A verb? Its tense (present, past or future)? Its form (-ing, -ed, -s/es)?
- A noun? Singular or plural? Countable or uncountable?
- An adjective?
- An adverb?
- A preposition?
- A pronoun?
- A link?
UNIT 1
VOCABULARY
Remember that the position of any word in the sentence will
always be of great help.
Well, and if you have studied/learnt
the VOCABULARY in any unit, especially the words related to the topic, there
will be NO PROBLEM.
Let’s take a look at some of the new ones:
drive, infatuation, which are nouns
lavish, outrageous, spoilt and overwhelmed
which are adjectives.
You will know that you know these words only if you can use them in a sentence. TRY!
trend / willing / instant / straight / passerby / crew / pursued / crowd emerged / fiancée / heiress / wealthy / gossip / notorious / tabloid
GRAMMAR
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS AND PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS
(PLUS ALL THE REST SEEN BEFORE)
Have/has + been + V-ing
He estado haciendo/llevo haciendo hasta ahora
Had + been + V-ing
Había estado haciendo/llevaba haciendo
Time expressions and other clues may help for these and other tenses.
Check the chart!
If the words given are in order the only objective is to put the verb in the right tense and according to the instructions plus other tenses you should know when an how use them.
I / study / since / January > I have been studying since January
By the time he arrived the band had been playing for an hour
Sue first felt ill two weeks ago. She didn’t go to the doctor until yesterday >
By the time Sue went to the doctor she had been feeling ill for two weeks
Lily was afraid to go on the motorway for about a year after she had started driving > Until she had been driving for about a year Lily was afraid to go on the motorway.
By the time Sue went to the doctor she had been feeling ill for two weeks
Lily was afraid to go on the motorway for about a year after she had started driving > Until she had been driving for about a year Lily was afraid to go on the motorway.
SUFFIXES
As I had told you before, and so many times, the kind of word we need to use depends on the position in the sentence. Suffixes imply “kind of word” too.
