General Knowledge
We use this tense to talk about daily routines, facts, habits, scheduled events and generalizations/stereotypes
Present tense
How do you say:
A que hora te levantas en la mañana?
What time do you get up in the morning?
To be aware of a possible danger
Watch out
Be careful
Excited/eager or worried/anxious
To have ants in one's pants
We use it to say we have an ability, we know how to do something and also to express request/permission
Can
Tense used when you have already made a plan in the future
To be going to
How do you say:
No me mata la comida italiana
I'm not all that crazy about Italian food
tolerate or endure something.
Put up with
The best or the worst part of something
The icing on the cake
The cherry on top
We use them to talk about past routines
Would
Used to
We put it with a preposition and/or adverbs to create a new one
Phrasal verb
Say in English:
Muchísima satisfacción fue sentida por mi
A great deal of satisfaction was felt by me
To recover from a situation or illness
Get over
When someone is very popular due to their way of communicating with people
Social butterfly
Used to express something is an obligation or required by law
Must/Have to
We use this structure to focus the attention on the action
Passive voice
Me llevaste allá la última vez que vine de visita, y me intoxiqué
You took me there last time I visited, and I got food poisoning
It is used to say that you are happy that something is going to happen.
To look forward to
Describing a lazy person
Couch potato
Use to give out friendly advice and personal opinion
Should
Group of words which have a different meaning when used together from the meaning of each individual word.
Idiom/s
Say:
Yo puedo asegurar es un monstruo como un mamut
I can assure it's a mammoth-like monster
To no longer keep something or someone and dispose of them
To get rid of
To concentrate and think about something
To put your thinking cap on
We use it to give urgent advice with bad consequences
Had better