TRAVELLING: PHRASAL VERBS

Dear students,

In this post I want to give you some useful links to work with vocabulary in unit 8 which is about travelling.🚂🚗🌍

As we have seen in class, there are some phrasal verbs that natives use a lot when they travel. Hopefully, you will learn them and use them in your trips!

Get away - to leave to go somewhere often for a break or holiday.

Set off- to start a journey
Look forward to + ing - to be excited about something that is going to happen.
Take off - when an aircraft leaves and begins to fly
Check in - to register at a hotel or airport.
Check out - to leave and pay for your stay at a hotel
Look around - to look at what is near you, in your area.
Get back/Go back -to return.

Drop off - to take someone to a place and leave them there
Pick up - to go and fetch someone from a place and take them somewhere else
Get in - when a plane arrives on an airport
Get away - to leave to go somewhere for a break or holiday
Get on - to climb on board

Get off- to leave a train, bus, plane...
Speed up - to increase speed
Hurry up - to rush and not waste time

Practise these phrasal verbs here: LINK and here: LINK

Here you have a document with three short exercises and their answers. LINK

GERUND OR INFINITIVE?

Dear students,

Today we are going to study when to use gerunds and infinitives in English. It is worth mentioning (merece la pena mencionar) that even when we use a gerund, we are would translate it as an infinitive in Spanish. 

Here you have the Prezi, just in case you want to have a look at it: PREZI

Let's start!

GERUNDS                                                                                                                                  

• As the subject of the sentence: 
• Smoking is bad for your health. (Fumar es malo para la salud).💀
• After prepositions:
• Matt is very good at cooking (A Matt se le da bien cocinar).🍗🍝🍮
• I'm thinking about going to Rome in summer. (Estoy pensando en ir a Roma en verano).
• He is responsible for teaching English (Él es el responsable de enseñar inglés).📚
• After verbs of liking and disliking (like, dislike, hate, enjoy, detest):
• I like playing football. (Me gusta jugar al fútbol)⚽
• I hate cooking. (Odio cocinar)🍟🍔
• After certain expressions:
• can't stand/bear (no poder soportar): 
• I can't stand losing you (No puedo soportar perderte)💔
• can't help (no poder evitar): 
• I can't help loving with you (No puedo evitar quererte)😍
• be worth (merecer la pena) 
• It's worth seeing (merece la pena verlo)🎥
• feel like (tener ganas, apetecer) 
• I feel like eating pizza! (Me apetece comer pizza)🍕
• be used to (estar acostumbrado) 
• I am used to reading in English (estoy acostumbrado a leer en inglés)📖
• get used to (acostumbrarse): 
• I don't get used to waking up early (no me acostumbro a madrugar) 😴
• look forward to (estar deseando) 
• I look forward to seeing you soon (Estoy deseando verte)😎
• Mind (importar):
• Do you mind reading the text? (¿Te importa leer el texto?)📘
• After certain verbs:
• ADMIT (admitir)
• ADVISE (aconsejar) 
• AVOID (evitar)
• CONSIDER (considerar)
• DENY (negar)
• IMAGINE (imaginar)
• KEEP (seguir, continuar)
• PREFER (preferir)
• RECOMMEND (recomendar)
• SUGGEST (sugerir)

INFINITIVE WITH TO                                                                                                                   

• After adjectives or adverbs:
• This book is difficult to read (este libro es difícil de leer)
• She drove too fast to see the red light. (Conducía demasiado rápido para ver que estaba en rojo)🚗🚦
• After certain verbs:
• AFFORD (permitirse)
• ASK (pedir, preguntar)
• BEG (rogar)
• DECIDE (decidir)
• DESERVE (merecer)
• HESITATE (dudar)
• HELP (ayudar)
• HOPE (esperar)
• LEARN (aprender)
• MANAGE (arreglárselas)
• NEED (necesitar)
• PLAN (planear)
• PRETEND (fingir)
• PROMISE (prometer)
• REFUSE (negarse a.rechazar)
• WANT (querer)
• REMIND (recordar)
• After an object (tell, advise, warn, promise, teach, order, invite,forbid, permit, encourage...):
• I want you to study harder.(quiero que tú estudies más)
• She promised me to call me soon. (me prometió que me llamaría)📞

BARE INFINITIVE (INFINITIVE WITHOUT TO)                                                                     

• After modal verbs
• can, must, should, ought to, may, might, have to...
• After certain MAKE and LET:
• I made him change his mind (Hice que cambiara de opinión)
• Let it go⛄
• After would rather (preferir)
• I'd rather go to the mountain (Preferiría ir a la montaña).🌄

VERBS FOLLOWED BY GERUND AND INFINITIVE WITH A CHANGE OF MEANING   

Some verbs can be followed by a gerund or an infinitive with to. However, the meaning is different.

• REMEMBER
• Remember + gerund: Significa que te acuerdas de algo que ha sucedido en el pasado:
• I remember studying for hours when I was at school (Recuerdo que estudiaba durante horas cuando estaba en el colegio)
• Remember + infinitive: Significa que te acordaste de hacer algo que tenías que hacer:
• I remembered to bring your book, thank you! (Me acordé de traerte el libro, ¡gracias!)
• FORGET
• Forget + gerund: Olvidarse de algo que sucedió en el pasado:
• I will never forget visiting New York (Nunca me olvidaré de haber visitado NY)
• Forget + infinitive: Olvidarse de hacer algo que tienes que hacer, en el pasado o en el futuro:
• Oh no! I forgot to lock the door! (¡Oh no!¡Me olvidé de cerrar la puerta!)😰
• Don't forget to lock the door (no te olvides de cerrar la puerta)

• REGRET
• Regret + gerund: Arrepentirse de algo del pasado:
• I regret not telling her that I love her! (¡Me arrepiento de no haberle dicho que la quiero!)
• Regret + infinitive: Arrepentirse de algo que va a suceder (normalmente se traduce como "sentir" algo):
• I regret to tell you that we are having an exam tomorrow (siento decirte que tenemos examen mañana)
• STOP
• Stop+ gerund: dejar de hacer algo para siempre:
• I stopped smoking (Dejé de fumar)
• Stop talking! (¡Deja de hablar!)
• Stop + infinitive: dejar de hacer algo para hacer otra cosa:
• I stopped to watch TV (dejé de hacer lo que fuera para ver la tele)📺

Here you have a web where you can do lots of exercises online: LINK

And here you have worksheets with the answers to practise:

Worksheet 1

Worksheet 2

Worksheet 3

Worksheet 4

Worksheet 5

Worksheet 6

Worksheet 7

Worksheet 8

Worksheet 9

EVALUACIÓN DOCENTE

Como cada trimestre, toca hacer evaluación de la práctica docente. Por favor, pincha en tu curso y completa el formulario. Te llevará 5 minutos y a mi me sirve para mejorar. GRACIAS.

1º Bachillerato A

1º Bachillerato B

2º Bachillerato

PASSIVES

Dear students,

Today we are going to speak about passives. 

Links to the Prezi presentations:

Prezi 1 (class)
Prezi 2 (video)

We use the passive voice when the performer of the action is not relevant. The important thing is the action, not the subject.

To write passive sentences, we need a SUBJECT+ TO BE+ P.PARTICIPLE (+BY+ AGENT).

Let's see some examples:

We look at the TENSE (tiempo verbal) and we "give" it to the verb to be. Then, we take the main verb (in this case "write"), and we use the past participle (-ed for regular verbs; 3rd column for irregular verbs). You can get a copy of this grammar worksheet here.

PRESENT SIMPLE Students study English	English is studied (by the students)
PRESENT CONTINUOUS Students are studying English	English is being studied (by the students)
PAST SIMPLE Students studied English	English was studied (by the students)
PAST CONTINUOUS Students were studying English	English was being studied (by the students)
PRESENT PERFECT Students have studied English	English have been studied (by the students)
PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS Students have been studying English	English have been being studied (by the students)
PAST PERFECT Students had studied English	English had been studied (by the students)
PAST PERFECT CONTINUOUS Students had been studying English	English had been being studied (by the students)
FUTURE SIMPLE Students will study English	English will be studied (by the students)
GOING TO Students am going to study English	English is going to be studied (by the students)
FUTURE CONTINUOUS Students will be studying English	English will be being studied (by the students)
FUTURE PERFECT Students will have studied English	English will have been studied (by the students)
CONDITIONAL Students would study English	English would be studied (by the students)
CAN Students can study English	English can be studied (by the students)
MUST Students must study English	English must be studied (by the students)
SHOULD Students should study English	English should be studied (by the students)

PASSIVE WITH TWO OBJECTS:

When we have a DIRECT object AND an INDIRECT object, native speakers prefer to put the INDIRECT object as the subject of the passive sentence. The rest remains the same as in a "normal" passive.

They gave me a present  →  A present was given to me → I was given a present.


IMPERSONAL PASSIVE

For verbs of thinking and saying we can write an impersonal passive. We need to write IT as the subject of the passive.

They say he is very good-looking.→ It is said that he is very good-looking.

We can also write the subject of the second sentence as the subject of the passive and then use one of the four types of infinitive forms:

They say he is very good-looking.
→ It is said that he is very good-looking.
→ He is said to be very good-looking.

IDEA OF PRESENT OR FUTURE: present infinitive (to be/to play/to study)
IDEA OF PRESENT OR FUTURE (CONTINUOUS): (to be playing/to be studying...)
IDEA OF PAST: perfect infinitive (to have been/ to have played/to have studied)
IDEA OF PAST (CONTINUOUS): (to have been playing/ to have been studying...)

HAVE/GET SOMETHING DONE

When we talk about a service performed for us, we use the structure HAVE/GET SOMETHING DONE. Note that get is more informal.

We use the verb HAVE/GET in the appropriate tense, then the thing and then the verb in the PAST PARTICIPLE.

Te has cortado el pelo (pero has ido a la pelu): You had your hair cut.
Me van a pintar la casa: I am going to have my house painted.
Me arreglaron el coche la semana pasada: I had my car fixed last week.


PRACTICE:

active to passive 1
Active to passive 2
Passives with two objects
Impersonal passive
Impersonal passive 2
Passives
Have something done
Have something done2

Here you have the video I have recorded with such love for you, specially for Bader 😂

See you in class!

Natalia

MODAL VERBS

Dear students,

here you have the link to the Prezi presentation and the video with explanations in Spanish:

modal verbs presentation

Please, for next week you must download this document because we are going to use it in class. You don't have to print it, with you mobile phones is enough.

Worksheet modal verbs


I also attach some worksheets to review modal verbs, they include the answers so I think it is good practice,

can, could, be able to

may, might, could

must, have to, need to, ought to, should

perfect modals

review modal verbs


Natalia