Thursday, April 25, 2013

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



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