ni2 25/4/13

Homework: grammarbank p. 152 (should have).

Be about to: estar a punto de...

fill up 

phrasal verb

1 if a container or place fills up, or if you fill it up, it becomes full

fill something ↔ up

Shall I fill the car up (=with petrol)?

They wanted me to pay for a new ticked.

 make a fuss/kick up a fuss (about something)

to complain or become angry about something, especially when this is not necessary:

Josie kicked up a fuss because the soup was too salty.

I don't know why you're making such a fuss about it.

We wouldn’t have got lost if the organisers had given us better directions.

We wouldn’t have got lost if we had been

given better directions by the organisers.

My dad had told me the truth.

I had been told the truth (and even though, I went wrong).

Would’ve called....had had

Would’ve come...had known

Hadn’t left...wouldn’t have tripped

Had paid..wouldn’t have crashed

would have caught...wouldn’t be

geek [countable]

informal someone who is not popular because they wear unfashionable clothes, do not know how to behave in social situations, or do strange things [= nerd]:

a computer geek

computer-literate

able to use a computer:

Nowadays, all graduates are computer-literate.

user-friendly

easy to use, understand, or operate:

a user-friendly guide to computing