Tuesday, February 13, 2018

NI2 13/2/18

knackered /ˈnækəd $ -ərd/ adjective British English spoken informal 
1 extremely tired SYN exhausted

a while
a period of time, especially a short one
 It takes a while to recover from the operation.
in a while
- Mr Thomas will be with you in a while.
for a while
- At last, he could relax for a while.

I didn’t expect the conference to be so interesting, but it was absolutely fascinating.

He got sunburnt
To take a risk


no /nəʊ/
adjetivo
1 En los casos en que en inglés se usa no delante de un sustantivo, en español se suele aplicar la negación al verbo:
 There are no tickets left.
 No quedan entradas.
 He has no time to help.
 No tiene tiempo para ayudar.

CONDITIONALS

1ST – plans (sth possible)
If it’s sunny, we’ll go on a picnic.
We’ll go on a picnic If it’s sunny.

If we go to the sales, we could / may find a bargain.

If water reaches a hundred degrees, it boils.

2nd – hypothesis

If I were rich, I would buy a Ferrari.
I would invite him if he was nicer.

3rd – regrets

If I had called her, we could / would / might have solved our problems.
We would have won the match if we had played as a team.

Ex. 8
If + subject + past perfect
Could & would + present perfect

Ex. 9

1d, 2e, 3a, 4f, 5g, 6b

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