Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and exercises for English for Baccalaureate

Mastering English Irregular Verbs

This comprehensive list provides essential irregular verbs in English, including their base form, past simple, past participle, and Spanish translation. Master these verbs to improve your English fluency and grammar.

Verbs Starting with 'L'

• Lose - lost - lost - perder

Verbs Starting with 'M'

• Make - made - made - hacer
• Mean - meant - meant - significar
• Meet - met - met - conocer

Verbs Starting with 'O'

• Overcome - overcame - overcome - superar

Verbs Starting with 'P'

• Pay - paid - paid - pagar
• Put - put - put - poner

Verbs Starting with 'Q'

• Quit - quit - quit - dejar

Verbs Starting with 'R'

• Read - read - read - leer
• Ride - rode - ridden - montar
• Ring - rang - rung - sonar
• Rise - rose - risen - elevarse
• Run - ran - run - correr

Verbs

Choosing the Right Career Path

Facts and Considerations

1. True: Choosing a career path is often a confusing and stressful experience.
2. True: You can begin by choosing a career that fits well with your skills.

Common Questions

1. Why is it difficult? It's challenging because, without experience, you don't know what a job truly involves, and careers can be unpredictable.
2. What should you look for? You should aim for a career you are good at and one that you will genuinely want to do.

Key Vocabulary

• Confusing
• Fits
• Reach
• Venture

Sentence Fragments and Answers

1. are motivated
2. best, have ever read
3. for, about
4. where
5. to choose a job she loved

Navigating the January Sales

Facts and Considerations

1. True: Consumers who visit shops are rewarded with discounts of up to 80%.
2. True: Online

Travel Vocabulary

T

Tend

Definition: To be likely to happen.

Example: Europeans tend to stay longer in Hawaii than...

Promote/Promotion

Definition: To help something to develop or increase.

Example: Our latest promotion of package holidays...

Thundery

Definition: Characterized by thunderstorms; stormy.

Example: Periods of rain with thundery showers.

Toll

Definition: A fee charged for the use of a road, bridge, etc.

Example: A toll bridge.

Tour

Definition: To travel to different places in the same journey.

Examples:

• The Japanese group wishes to tour around Europe for two weeks.
• The program includes a guided tour around the Kennedy [Space Center].

Touristy

Definition: Full of tourists and the things that attract tourists. (Used to show disapproval.)

Example: Benidorm...

1. The following sentences do not make sense. Correct them by replacing each word in bold with a word in bold from a different sentence.

1. I signed the contract yesterday.
2. Go overseas to help yourself to some cake.
3. There was nothing unusual about the performance. It was very ordinary.
4. Mike has been to many different countries. He has travelled worldwide.
5. I like to go overseas to remote places.
6. The meal was very satisfying. I am full.
7. My best friend lives nearby, so I can walk to her house.
8. My friends and I traded clothes with each other.

2. Replace the words in bold by forming a new word with a prefix. Then add a sentence that reflects the meaning of the first sentence.

1. I think your idea is impossible. It won't work.
2. I dislike this hotel. It hasn't got

Home alone 4 is a very funny film that you can watch with your family.

Writing Task Report

Your college has been asked to accept a group of 50 students from another country for two weeks. Your principal has asked you to write a report. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of accepting this group? What would you recommend?

The main purpose of this report is to determine if accepting a group of 50 students from another country for two weeks would be worthwhile. To prepare for this report, I visited a college near my district and inquired about this type of program.

All interviewees believe that this kind of initiative would be fantastic for our college, as it presents an opportunity that few people can experience.

Advantages of Accepting the Group:

1. It's a great opportunity to meet new people and discover their

Case 3: Ronald F. Torbay and Edyth

Ronald F. Torbay is a wary man who changed his name and presents himself as a "romantic, infatuated salesman on a leave of absence." He targets Edyth, a middle-aged, shy woman he met in a hotel. Edyth attended boarding school and was previously monopolized by her ill father. She is described as annoying, vindictive, triumphant, threatening, and touchy. She maintains a reticence over her monetary affairs and shows an embarrassing interest in his job.

The Plot and Setting

Ronald acquires an income to earn a living despite his flaws. The setting is a South England Villa that he hired in a suburban street with square yards during September. His previous subjects include Mary (who had a hysterical honeymoon) and Dorothy...

Chapter 3: Early Sydney and The Rocks

1. What do we learn about the early white inhabitants of Sydney?

   We learn that the early white inhabitants of Sydney survived storms and had a community of miners in England. Later, many died from disease.

2. Why were only the minor criminals sent to Sydney and not the murderers?

   Because England wanted to expand its Empire and needed people to populate a new country. Since murderers and villains could not govern a new country, they sent minor criminals instead.

3. Who lived in Australia before the arrival of the English and how were they treated?

   (No answer provided in original text)

4. What was The Rocks known for in the 19th century and what happened to it in the end?

   The Rocks was known by that name because it was made