vocabulary units 1,2,3
Finish the sentence:
I'm out of breath because___________
I've been running for a long time
How do we say cobrar una miseria in English?
get paid peanuts
John began playing football five years ago.
John_____________________________
John has played football for five years.
John has been playing football for five years.
Complete with a relative pronoun.
Twenty volunteers, most of _________ were women, collected the money for the charity.
whom
A synonym of improve is _____________
boost, make better, upgrade, better
A synonym for the adjective responsible is __________
reliable
I fell down the stairs because it was dark.
If it ___________________________________
If it haden't been dark, I wouldn`t have fallen downstairs.
The past form of can when it expresses possibility is _______
can have + past participle
Write a synonym for die and a synonym for faint.
pass away.
pass out
If you discover someone doing something bad at the moment, what expresion do we use in English?
catch someone red-handed
Change into the passive voice in two different ways.
Soldiers have been teaching them how to use weapons.
They have been being taught how to use weapons.
How to use weapons has been taught to them.
Translate into English:
Soy un empleado responsable en quien se puede confiar.
I'm a reliable employee on whom you can rely.
I'm a reliable employee you can rely on
When a lot of people go to the cinema to see a film so a lot of tickets are sold, we can say that that film is a _____________
box-office hit
When a worker gets ill for more than a week, a doctor gives them a ___________________ to be able to stay at home recovering.
sick leave
Rewrite the sentencence with the word given in brackets.
People consider this restaurant to be a good place to meet. (thought)
This restaurant is thought to be a good place to meet.
It is thought that this restaurant is a good place to meet.
Rewrite the sentence without changing the original meaning.
It wasn't necessary to shout.
You____________________
You needn't have shouted.
You didn't need to shout.
You didn't have to shout
When we make someone be aware of something, we are ____________________________
raising their awareness.
When two people are always together acting and thinking in the same way, we use this expression to describe them.
thick as thieves
Se sabe que se está enviando ayuda humanitaria a Ucrania desde España
Humanitarian aid is known to be being sent to Ucraine from Spain.
It is known that humanitarian aid is being sent to Ukraine from Spain.
Rewrite the sentence using a modal without changing the original meaning.
Ther's no doubt that he's guilty
He must be guilty