Vocabulario y gramática de inglés: adjetivos, prefijos negativos, phrasal verbs y tiempos verbales

Personal qualities

Adjetivos de cualidades personales: pleasant-unpleasant, patient-impatient, intelligent-unintelligent, honest-dishonest, polite-impolite, popular-unpopular, sociable-unsociable.

Negative prefixes

Los prefijos negativos se añaden a un adjetivo para expresar su significado contrario: logical-illogical, legal-illegal, correct-incorrect, friendly-unfriendly, regular-irregular, possible-impossible, emotional-unemotional, sympathetic-unsympathetic, sincere-insincere, practical-impractical, honest-dishonest, responsible-irresponsible, patient-impatient, agreeable-disagreeable, sensitive-insensitive.

Phrasal verbs

Make off with

Robar y huir rápidamente con algo: steal and hurry away with.

Make up

Inventar: invent.

Make out

Lograr ver o distinguir algo: manage to see something.

Make up for

Hacer algo para corregir una situación: do something to correct a situation.

Vocabulary

• Critic: crítico
• Flop: fracaso
• Blockbuster: éxito de taquilla
• Screenwriter: guionista
• Epic: épica
• Producer: productor
• Comedy: comedia
• Tragedy: tragedia
• Animator: animador

Tiempos verbales

Past simple

Se forma con VERB + ed o con verbos irregulares.

Ejemplo: You called Debbie.

Past continuous

Se forma con was/were + present participle.

Ejemplo: I was watching TV when she called.

Used to, be used to y get used to

• Be used to: estar acostumbrado a + -ing
• Get used to: acostumbrarse a + -ing
• Used to: solía + infinitivo

Television programmes

• Drama-documentary: a film based on real events.
• Comedy programmes: amusing programmes which make you laugh.
• Nature programmes: programmes about wildlife, plants, the environment.
• Current affairs: discussion programmes about important political events happening in the world at the moment.
• Reality shows: programmes made for entertainment which are based on real people or situations.
• Game shows: programmes in which people compete for prizes.
• Soap operas: events and problems in the lives of the same group of made-up characters.
• Chat shows: famous people talking informally about various topics.

Más vocabulario

• Boring: aburrido
• Give: dar
• Fed up: harto, chato
• Favourite: favorito
• Keen: entusiasta, aficionado
• Stand: soporte
• Job: trabajo por el que se recibe un pago regular
• Career: serie de trabajos en un área profesional particular
• Habit: algo que se hace regularmente
• Custom: tradición o forma aceptada de hacer algo

Humour, laughter, intention y purpose

Humour: lo que hace que algo sea gracioso o divertido.

Laughter: sonidos que indican que algo te parece gracioso.

Intention: lo que planeas hacer.

Purpose: razón para hacer algo.