Study Your Vocabulary Words with Their Definitions of Unit 1 and 2

COLEGIO FLORESTA

3RD GRADE

ENGLISH GUIDE 1ST PERIOD

MISS ANA LUEHGUIN

Vocabulary.

STUDY YOUR VOCABULARY WORDS WITH THEIR DEFINITIONS OF UNIT 1 AND 2.

1.- The science that studies animals.______

2.- The science that studies living things.______

3.- The science that studies people’s handwriting.______

4.- Made the effort to do something.______

5.-Been received or accepted.______

COMPOUND NOUNS.

These compound nouns are formed by putting two nouns together.

1.- The first thing you should do when you get in a car is fasten your ______.

2.- Can you describe four different ______on motorway?

3.- Does your local ______sell things other than fuel?

4.- We’ve been in this ______for an hour and we haven’t moved more than 500 metres.

5.-The ______is 50 kilometres per hour in many European cities.

SUFFIXES.

The suffixes can change the meaning and part of speech of the root word use.

ful=makes use an adjective and positive.

ly=forms an adverb.

less= makes use an adjective and negative.

ness=forms a noun.

able=makes use an adjective expressing ability. It means that it can be used in some way.

er=makes use a noun and a person with a job or role. Somebody who uses something.

1.- I really like this sofá. It’s extremely ______( comfort)

2.- Beckham is probably one of the most______football players in Britain. (fam)

3.- It´s really ______to be able to speak another language.(help)

4.- This is a really ______book. I’m sure you will like it too. (enloy)

5.- Let’s go sailing! It’s a perfect day for it, the sun is shining and it’s not too ______. (wind)

PAST TENSES.

Past Simple= describe finished actions or situations in the past. Say that one thing happened after another.

Past Continuous= talk about activities in progress at a moment in the past. Describe scenes in a story or description.

An activity in progress when another, shorter activity happened or interrupted it.

Present perfect simple= an experience in someone’s lifetime, without saying the exact time when the event occurred. What is significant is the actual experience, not when it happened.

Recent events which have a result in the present.

Actions or situations that began in the past but continue in the present.

Actions finished very recently.

Present perfect continuous= is used in a similar way to the present perfect simple. The continuous emphasize the process and duration of an action.

Past perfect simple= talk about actions that happened before another action or actions in the past. It gives importance to the completion of an activity.

Past perfect continuous= to talk about actions that happepned before another action or actions in the past. It gives importance to the duration of an activity.

Future activities in the past= was about to….. was going to…. Was + ing form, would.

Sometimes when we are talking about the past, we want to talk about something that was in the future at the time. Something which had not happened and perhaps did not actually happen in the end.

1.- There you are! At last we ______(wait) for you for hours.

2.- I ______(not go)to the lecture this morning because I______(forget) to set my alarm clock.

3.- When you ______(phone) me last night I______(strug) with my English homework.

4.- I ______(go) for a coffee. Do you want to come?

5.- Leo ______(have) a headache because he ______(play) his computer game for four hours.

MODAL VERBS.

OBLIGATION, PERMISSION, PROHIBITION, ADVICE AND CRITICISM.

Have to=obligatory or necessary ( imposed )

Don’t have to=not obligatory or necessary.

Must= rules, regulations and obligations. ( internally )

Mustn’t= prohibitions.

Need to= obligatory or necessary.

Don’t need to/needn’t= not obligatory or necessary.

Can= permission.

Can’t= refuse permission.

Should,shouldn’t, ought to, had better (not)= give advice and recommendations.

Had better= do something because it’s a good idea.

Ought to/ had better= less common in negative and question forms.

Be allowed to=permission to do.

Be supposed to= expected to behave in a particular way, especiallly according to someone in authority.

Had to = obligatory or necessary.

Didn’t have to=were not obligatory or necessary.

Needed to=were obligatory or necessary.

Didn’t need to=were not obligatory or necessary, and so we didn’t do them.

Needn’t have + past participle= were not obligatory or necessary but we did them.

Wasn’t/weren’t allowed to= past prohibitions.

Couldn’t= were prohibited or not posible.

Should/ought to have, shouldn’t have + past participle= criticize past actions or to say that they were a mistake.

SPECULATION, DEDUCTION, POSSIBILITY AND PROBABILITY.

Must= 90% something is true.

May, might, could, may not , mightn’t= 50% possibility that something is true or not.

We can add well after may, might and could= in affirmative. There is a stronger possibility.

Can/ can’t= 90% something isor not true.

1.- You only ______be fifteen to be able to drive.

2.- They feel they ______passed.

3.- You ______be sixteen to get a provisional driving licence.

4.- Many teens______learn to drive so that they can help out with work.

5.- Sixteen years olds ______to carry other teen passengers.

MAKE, TAKE AND DO.

DO= tends to be used when there is an idea of work.

MAKE= tends to be used when there is an idea of creativity or construction.

TAKE= it can mean receive, show or a synonymous with make.

1.- When did you last ______a mistake in English?

2.- The actor has ______a formal apology for his behaviour.

3.- It doesn’t ______any harm to be polite.

4.- Which household chores do you hate ______at home?

5.- It’s difficult to get a good mark if you don’t ______an interest in the subject.