Inglés para Principiantes: Vocabulario, Phrasal Verbs, Gramática y Medidas

Vocabulario y Expresiones en Inglés

Property Boom

Property boom: a furnished studio apartment, a period cottage, a barn conversion, a basement flat, an unfurnished warehouse conversion.

Abreviaturas:

• N/S: non smoker
• pcm: per calendar month
• inc: included (incluido)
• sat: satellite
• min: minimum
• GCH: Gas Central Heating

Vocabulario: block (bloquear), amenities (comodidades), character (personaje), detached (separada), lease (arriendo), mains gas (gas central), open plan (living + dining + kitchen juntos).

Stages of Life

Stages of life: child (niño), the elderly (la vejez), teenager/adolescent (adolescente), toddler (niño pequeño de 1 a 2 años), OAP (old age pensioner), youth (juventud).

Vocabulario: be born (nacer), be brought up (criarse), be buried (sepultar), change (cambiar), gain (ganancia), get married (casarse), grow up (crecer), leave (dejar), pass away (fallecer), retire (retirarse, jubilarse), settle down (instalarse), start (empezar), thirties (treintas).

Secuencia: infancy > childhood > adolescence > middle age > adulthood > old age

Talking About the Future

Talking about future:

Will

Se usa para hechos futuros comprobados, predicciones, decisiones instantáneas, ofertas y promesas (I think, I'm sure...).

Example: I will be 21 in June.

Going to

Se usa para planes a futuro y predicciones basadas en lo que pasa ahora.

Example: Tony is going to take us to Angelmo.

Present Continuous

Se usa para acuerdos y para hablar de planes ya acordados (seeing the doctor).

Example: I'm meeting Alicia for drinks tonight and Harry and Chelsea are coming round for dinner.

Present Simple

Se usa para horarios o eventos con hora fija.

Example: The bus leaves at 2:15 p.m. and the match starts at 3 p.m.

Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal verbs:

• put up with something/somebody = tolerate
• set something up = establish (a business)
• hold something/somebody up = delay
• do something up = renovate
• own up (to something) = confess
• get somebody down = depress
• cut down on something = reduce
• put something down to = attribute
• put somebody down = criticise
• look down on somebody = think that you are superior to

Non-Metric Measures

Length (longitud)

Length: 1 inch (in) = 2.54 cm | 12 inches = 1 foot (ft) = 30.48 cm | 3 feet = 1 yard = 0.914 metres | 1 mile = 1.609 kilometers.

Weight (peso)

Weight: 1 ounce (oz) = 28.35 grams | 16 ounces = 1 pound (lb) = 0.454 kilograms | 14 pounds = 1 stone (st) = 6.356 kilograms (people's weight) | 1 ton = 1.016 kilograms.

Volume

Volume: 1 pint (pt) = 0.568 litres | 8 pints = 1 gallon = 4.546 litres.

Verb Patterns

Verb + -ing form

Verb + ing form: admit, advise, avoid, can't bear, can't help, carry on, consider, delay, dislike, deny, enjoy, envisage, fancy, feel, finish, give up, have difficulty, like, imagine, intend, it's no good, it's not worth, justify, keep (on), mind, practise, propose, put off, recollect, recommend, risk, stop, spend time, suggest.

Verb + infinitive (to)

Verb + infinitive (to): allow, ask, command, dare, enable, encourage, expect, forbid, force, get, inspire, invite, order, permit, persuade, remind, request, teach, tell, trust, urge, warn, want, wish, would like, would prefer.

Verb + object + base form

Verb + object + base form: help, make, know, let, notice.

Verb + object + infinitive

allow, ask, command, dare, enable, encourage, expect, forbid, force, get, inspire, invite, order, permit, persuade, remind, request, teach, tell, trust, urge, warn, want, wish, would like, would prefer.

Verb + object + past participle

get, have.

Verb Patterns: Resumen

Verb + -ing

admit, advise, avoid, can't bear, can't help, carry on, consider, delay, dislike, deny, enjoy, envisage, fancy, feel, finish, give up, have difficulty, like, imagine, intend, it's no good, it's not worth, justify, keep on, mind, practise, propose, put off, recollect, recommend, risk, stop, spend time, suggest.

Verb + infinitive

agree, ask, beg, dare, decide, expect, fail, happen, hope, manage, mean, offer, prepare, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, want, wish, would like, would prefer.

Verb + object + infinitive

allow, ask, command, dare, enable, encourage, expect, forbid, force, get, inspire, invite, order, permit, persuade, remind, request, teach, tell, trust, urge, warn, want, wish, would like, would prefer.

Verb + object + base form

help, make, let, know, notice.

Verb + object + past participle

get, have.