Expresiones en inglés y tiempos verbales: vocabulario práctico con ejemplos

Expresiones idiomáticas en inglés

hang out: relax and have fun with friends / catch some rays: sunbathe, lie in the sun / enjoy a cup of joe: enjoy a cup of coffee / go window-shopping: looking in stores without buying anything / shoot some hoops: play basketball / chow down at a fast-food: eat in a fast food restaurant / paint the town red: time to party, red symbolizes fun / catch a flick: watch a movie / have the time of your life: best moment in the live / keep it low-key: relaxing, stay at home / chill out: calm down and relax.

Tiempos verbales

Present continuous: acción en ese momento (I'm working)
Past continuous: acción en mitad de otra acción (was working, estaba trabajando)
Present perfect: acción finalizada que conecta con el presente o continúa (have worked, he trabajado)
Present perfect continuous: acción pasada que acaba de terminar (have been working, he estado trabajando)
Past perfect: primero el past perfect, luego el pasado simple (had worked, había trabajado)
Future continuous: estaré trabajando (will be working)
Future perfect: tendré trabajado (will have worked)
Future perfect continuous: habré estado trabajando (will have been working)

Mi noche de fiesta en Lleida

The event that I will describe is about my party night in Lleida.

I decided to go to Lleida because last summer I made a bet with a friend who lives there. I lost that bet, so I had to go visit him. The party was on Thursday, and on Friday I took the AVE at 10 am. Forty minutes later I was in Lleida; the trip was really fast.

When we got there, we ate pizza and slept all day to get ready to paint the town red that night. At 11 o'clock, a friend of his came to pick us up and drove us to the biggest disco in town. The place was called Nuit, and it was huge and awesome. The music started, but it was all in Catalan, which I don't understand, so I thought it would be really boring. However, around 2 am, Spanish and English music started to play, and the night became much more entertaining from then on.

Lleida frente a Zaragoza

What I liked about Lleida is that the nightclubs are for people over 16 years old, while here in Zaragoza they are for people over 18. Next to the disco there was a café, where we went for lunch and to enjoy a cup of joe. At about 11 am we returned home. Finally, we all ended up dead tired, each one of us in his own house, sleeping until 6 o'clock in the afternoon.