Apuntes, resúmenes, trabajos, exámenes y ejercicios de Inglés de Bachillerato

UNIT 4

• to go on vacation (to go on holiday)
• thrill (excitement)
• brave (courageous)
• to dive (to jump into water)
• skydiving (jumping from a plane)
• scuba diving (deep-sea swimming)
• to look for (to seek / sought / sought)
• to come with the territory (be a normal and accepted part of a situation)
• cave (large hole in the ground)
• injury (harm or damage)
• location (a place or position)
• narrow (not wide)
• to reach (get to)
• diver (someone who dives)
• to get stuck (be unable to move)
• to run out of (to have no more of)
• to collapse (to fall down)
• to trap (to catch)
• crucial (extremely important)
• in the event of (in case of)
• to delay (to cause to be late)
• ascent (a movement upward)
• depth (quality of being deep)
• caution (carefulness)
• unpredictable (impossible to foretell)
• current (a movement

Vocabulario de finanzas y economía en inglés

Términos generales

Marry up. Trophy wives. Commodity. Shattered dreams. Dropout.

To query: To ask or investigate on something.

Rearing: care.

Doomed to: To be sentenced.

At a stroke: At once, with a single action.

Juggling: Multitasking, dealing.

Collide: Crash, confronted.

High-flying: Successful.

Littered with: Filled with.

Sourest: Miserable.

Shoulder: To support.

To gather: To collect.

Money doesn't grow on trees.

To be tight-fisted.

It cost an arm and a leg.

To make ends meet: enough money to pay your needs.

To be in the red.

It's daylight robbery: have to pay far too much money.

To tighten one's belts: spend less money than you did before because you have less money.

Living beyond their means: Spending more... Continuar leyendo "Vocabulario de Finanzas Personales en Inglés: Dinero, Deudas y Economía" »

E-mail:

Hi Luis,

How are you doing? Thanks for your email. It's great to hear from you again.

Well, I wanted to tell you that I've just arrived from my summer camp and it was awesome. I spent almost 3 months in New Jersey, and life there is very different from California. I've been very busy since I came back, since I've been away a lot and had things to do, so I did not contact you before. I really enjoyed it. I met new people there. The weather was not the best, nothing like the weather of Almería, but anyway I had a lot of fun.

Why don't we go there next year? You should talk to your parents about it. I would be very happy if you could accompany me next year. We would spend time together and you could teach me how to play soccer. You're the... Continuar leyendo "Correo en Inglés sobre un Campamento de Verano y Redacción sobre Alimentación Saludable: Vocabulario y Estructuras" »

Phrasal Verbs en Inglés

Phrasal verbs o verbos frasales son combinaciones de un verbo con una preposición o adverbio que, juntos, adquieren un significado distinto al del verbo original.

Lista de Phrasal Verbs

• Ask for: pedir
• Break down: averiarse (un vehículo)
• Bring up: educar, criar, sacar a relucir
• Call off: cancelar, suspender
• Call on: pasar a ver
• Care about: preocuparse por
• Carry on: continuar
• Catch on: ponerse de moda
• Call up: llamar por teléfono
• Check in: facturar, registrar el equipaje
• Check out: pagar y marcharse
• Clean up: limpiar, arreglar, ordenar
• Come across: dar con, encontrar por casualidad
• Come apart: acrecentarse en pedazos
• Come down: bajar (los precios)
• Come off: desprenderse, soltarse
• Come on: ¡vamos!, ¡vamos!
• Come up with: proponer, sugerir
• Cut

Media Vocabulary

• Binge-watch → Maratón de series
• Box sets → Conjunto de temporadas / objetos relacionados
• Breaking news → Noticias de última hora
• Broadcast → Transmisión / emisión
• Catch-up TV → Ponerse al día con la televisión / TV a la carta
• Live stream → Transmisión en directo
• Scheduled programmes → Programas programados
• Status updates → Actualizaciones de estado
• Spoilers → Spoilers / adelantos
• Subscription streaming service → Servicio de transmisión por suscripción
• Service → Servicio
• Trending → Tendencia
• Tweet → Tuit

Prefixes

• Cooperate → Cooperar
• Demystify → Desmitificar
• Disappear → Desaparecer
• Disapprove → Desaprobar
• Ill-informed → Mal informado
• Misleading → Engañoso
• Misinformation → Desinformación
• Misjudge

Tiempos verbales en inglés

+Presente simple: - ? don't/doesn't + sujeto + verbo (infinitivo, 3.ª persona -s) (always, usually, often...)

+Presente continuo: - suj + isn't/aren't + verbo (-ing) | + suj + is/are + verbo (-ing) | ? Are/Is + suj + verbo (-ing) (now, at the moment, today, tomorrow...)

+Pasado simple: - suj + didn't + verbo (infinitivo) | + suj + verbo (-ed, 2.ª columna) | ? Did + suj + verbo (infinitivo) (yesterday, last week, days ago...)

+Pasado continuo: - suj + wasn't/weren't + verbo (-ing) | + suj + was/were + verbo (-ing) | ? Was/Were + suj + verbo (-ing) (last night, when, while, as...)

+Presente perfecto simple: - suj + haven't/hasn't + verbo (-ed, 3.ª columna) | + suj + have/has + verbo (-ed, 3.ª columna) | ? Have/Has +... Continuar leyendo "Tiempos verbales en inglés: tabla completa con fórmulas, pasiva, relativos, modales y condicionales" »

Prepositions

Accustom to, good at/for, play tricks on, evidence of, be sensitive to, be involved in, connected to/with, according to, seized with, terror of, disconnect from, result of, testify to, alarmed by, figures in, way to, faces with, activity in, put to, experienced by, haul through, characters in.

Past Modals

Structure: SUBJ + MODAL + HAVE + PP + O

We can use past modals to talk about:

Possibility

It might / might have been your parents who sent the flowers.

Logical explanation / certainty

It can't have been Maria who phoned before. It must have been Sarah.

Obligation

I ought to / should have finished his composition last night.

Lack of necessity

We needn't have got up so early.

A past condition

I would have finished the composition if I had had... Continuar leyendo "Gramática Inglesa: Preposiciones, Modales en Pasado, Condicionales, Voz Pasiva y Futuro" »

Vocabulario útil

• Agree: estar de acuerdo
• Alongside: junto a
• Ban: prohibición
• Behave: comportarse
• Bench: banco (parque)
• Besides: además / además de
• Blind: ciego
• Chat: charlar
• Cautious: precavido
• Dead: muerto
• Disturbing: perturbador
• Decrease: disminución
• Disabled: discapacitado
• Drop: descenso / caída
• Encourage: animar
• Fancy: gustar
• Furthermore: además
• Give right of way: ceder el paso
• Go down: bajar
• Huge: enorme
• However: sin embargo
• Injure: herir
• In slow-motion: a cámara lenta
• Lane: carril
• Main: principal
• Motorist: automovilista
• Most: la mayoría
• Nearly: casi
• Oncoming: que viene de frente
• Pledge: compromiso
• Plough into: estrellarse contra
• Poll: encuesta
• Prevent: evitar
• Prove: resultar
• Put out: publicar
• Pavement: acera
• Pedestrian: peatón
• Research: investigación
• Rate: proporción
• Remove:

Lista de Verbos Irregulares en Inglés

A continuación se detallan las formas del infinitivo, pasado simple, participio y la traducción al español de los verbos irregulares más comunes:

• Build - built - built: construir
• Bring - brought - brought: traer
• Buy - bought - bought: comprar
• Bite - bit - bitten (biting): morder
• Begin - began - begun: empezar
• Be - was / were - been (being): ser o estar
• Become - became - become: convertirse o llegar a ser
• Beat - beat - beaten: golpear / latir
• Break - broke - broken: romper
• Catch - caught - caught: atrapar o coger
• Cost - cost - cost: costar
• Cut - cut - cut: cortar
• Choose - chose - chosen: elegir
• Come - came - come: venir
• Dream - dreamt (dreamed) - dreamt (dreamed): soñar
• Draw - drew - drawn: dibujar
• Drive - drove - driven:

Conectores de contraste

• Although / Though / Even though + oración (aunque)
• Despite the fact that / In spite of the fact that + oración (a pesar de que)
• Despite / In spite of + nombre (a pesar de)

Expresar propósito

• To / In order to / So as to + infinitivo (para)
• Not to / In order not to / So as not to + infinitivo (para no)

Expresar razón

• As / Because / Since + oración (porque, como, puesto que)

Expresar resultado

• So + adjetivo + that + oración
• So + adverbio + that + oración
• Such a + adjetivo + sustantivo singular + that + oración

Estilo indirecto (Reported speech)

Cambios de tiempos verbales

• I see → I saw
• I am seeing → I was seeing
• I have seen → I had seen
• I saw → I had seen
• will → would
• can → could
• must → had to

Cambios de expresiones de