Vocabulario y Gramática en Inglés: Apuntes Esenciales de las Unidades 1 y 2
UNIT 1
Adjetivos de Personalidad y Carácter
- Ambitious: ambicioso
- Considerate: educado
- Argumentative: le gusta discutir
- Conventional: se deja llevar (moda)
- Assertive: habla (seguro)
- Creative: creativo
- Calm: tranquilo
- Dedicated: trabajadora
- Eccentric: loco
- Immature: inmaduro
- Organised: organizado
- Outgoing: abierto (persona)
- Responsible: responsable
- Selfish: egoísta
- Sensible: sensible
- Serious: serio
- Sociable: sociable
- Stubborn: cabezota
- Unconventional: original (que no sigue la moda)
Usos de Wear
To wear: llevar puesto (jugar, comer, salir)
wearing: haber llevado puesto (-ando, -endo)
Patrones Verbales (Verb Patterns)
Seguidos de To
agree, arrange, ask, beg, dare, decide, expect, fail, happen, hope, manage, mean, offer, prepare, promise, pretend, refuse, seem, want, wish, would like, would prefer, help
Seguidos de -ing
admit, advise, avoid, consider, delay, dislike, deny, enjoy, fancy, feel, like, finish, give up, imagine, intend, keep, mind, miss, postpone, practise, propose, recommend, risk, spend, stop, suggest
UNIT 2
Vocabulario Financiero y Económico
- Afford: permitirse
- Extortionate: extraordinario / excesivo
- Budget: presupuesto
- Debt: deuda
- Expenses: gastos
- Allowance: propina
- Income: ingresos
- Mean: tacaño
- Save: ahorrar
- Well off: rico
- Careless: sin cuidado
- Bargain: oferta
- Management: organización
- Financial: financiero
- Repay: devolver el dinero
- Waste: gastar
- Dear: caro
- Hard up: corto de dinero
- Valuable: valioso
- Worthless: que no merece la pena
- Costly: caro
Gramática y Tiempos Verbales
- Second conditional: past simple, would + verbo (ej. if I had studied, I would have passed)
- Used to: solía (never used to). Usado con state verbs.
- Would: haría (would never). No se usa con state verbs.
- State verbs (Verbos de estado): emotion, possession, thought, others.
Repaso de Tiempos Verbales
- P.P.S (Present Perfect Simple): yo he jugado (ej. she has played tennis)
- P.P.C (Present Perfect Continuous): yo he estado jugando (ej. she has been playing football)
- Past P.S (Past Perfect Simple): yo había jugado (ej. she had played football)
- Past P.C (Past Perfect Continuous): yo había estado jugando (ej. she had been playing football)