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Important Quotations Explained in Death of a Salesman

1. "And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ’Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?"

Willy poses this question to Howard Wagner in Act II, in Howard’s office. He is discussing how he decided to become a salesman after meeting Dave Singleman, the mythic salesman who died the noble “death of a salesman” that Willy himself covets. His admiration of Singleman’s prolonged success illustrates his obsession with being well-liked. He fathoms having people “remember”... Continue reading "Key Quotes in Death of a Salesman: Analysis" »

Missing Words

Each question has one word missing:

1. Where do you come from?
2. Where and when were you born?
3. Do you live in a house or a flat?
4. Why are you studying English?
5. Which foreign countries have you been to?
6. What did you do yesterday evening?
7. What are you going to do after this lesson?

Adjectives and Adverbs

• Mexican life is so hard.
• Can you walk slowly, please?
• Real Madrid is playing badly.
• Please, listen carefully.

Much (Uncountable) and Many (Countable)

• How much soda do we have left?
• How many students do you know?
• I have much money in the bank.
• How many children are there in the classroom?
• How much time do we have left?

Should and Shouldn't

• I've got a sore throat, so I should drink water.
• I've got the flu, so I shouldn't go to school.
• I've got diarrhea, so I

S13B

• a) shatter
• b) offspring
• c) carrier
• d) malodorous

Sentence Transformations

• a) Passengers will be given a “quiet zone” without any extra cost.
• b) If airlines suggest that they should be segregated from other passengers, parents will get angry.
• c) Is it necessary for adults to learn to live with child passengers?
• d) Children will be banned by Malaysian Airlines from the top deck of A380 aircraft.

X12A

• a) makes a living
• b) risk
• c) confiscating
• d) inconvenienced

Sentence Transformations

• a) Patrick Smith, who is a pilot, writes for the online magazine Salon.com.
• b) Some people asked if crews empty the contents of the toilet over people’s houses.
• c) If you concentrate on these irrelevant things, you are wasting time and resources.
• d) More attention is required

A-C Vocabulary Definitions

account (n)

When you keep your money in a bank, you have a bank account.

appearance (n)

What someone or something looks like.

axe (n)

A heavy stick with a sharp piece of metal on the end, used for cutting down trees.

burial (n)

Burying; putting a dead body in a grave in the ground.

cage (n)

A box or a place with bars for keeping wild animals.

chemical (n)

Liquid or solid things used in or made by chemistry.

client (n)

Someone who pays another person (e.g., a lawyer, a builder) to do a job for them.

confession (n)

Saying that you have done something wrong.

courtyard (n)

An unroofed open space surrounded by walls or buildings.

D-M Vocabulary Definitions

dose (n)

How much medicine you take at one time.

drug (n)

A chemical mixture that can

English Grammar Cheat Sheet

Verb Tenses

Present Simple

Use: routines, permanent situations

Form:

• verb + -s (third person singular)
• do/does + not + verb (negative)
• Do/Does + subject + verb? (question)

Present Continuous

Use: actions happening right now, actions happening in the future (arranged)

Form: am/is/are + verb + -ing

Present Perfect

Use:

• Actions that started in the past and continue in the present
• Actions completed in the past, but we don't say when
• Recent past actions

Form: have/has + past participle (-ed)

Present Perfect Continuous

Use:

• Actions that started in the past and have not finished
• Actions that happened repeatedly in the past and have an effect in the present
• To say how long an action has been in progress

Form: have/has + been + verb + -ing

Past

BASE FORM PAST SIMPLE PAST PARTICIPLE

Be Was/were been ser o estar beat beat beaten golpearbecome became become llegar a ser

bend bent bent doblarbet bet bet apostarbite bit bitten picarbleed bled bled sangrarblow blew blown soplarbreak broke broken romperbring brought brought traerbuild built built cronstruirburn burnt/burned burned quemarbuy bought bought comprarcatch caught caught cogerchoose chose chosen elegircome came come venircost cost cost valer preciocut cut cut cortardig dug dug excavardo did done nacerdraw drew drawn dibujardream dreamt/dreamed ... soñardrink drank drunk beberdrive drove driven conducireat ate eaten comerfall fell fallen caerfeed fed fed dar de comerfeel felt felt sentirfight fought fought

4Match a word from A with a definition from B.

1       Creature A living animal or person

2       Hell  place where bad People are punished when they die

3       Hound  kind of dog

4       Marsh Very wet, soft ground

5       Moor  Open, rough, windy Land without trees

5Fill in the gaps using creep, faint, hunt, mark, sink. Careful: sometimes you need to Change the form of a word

a   ‘If Animals or men go into the marsh, they will sink Into it and die.’

b   ‘The People say it’s the Hound of the Baskervilles, which is calling for something To hunt and kill.’

c   ‘Why Had she nearly fainted when I told her             about the letter?’

d   ‘The Fog was creeping up from the marsh towards the House.

Essential English Vocabulary

• Boom: Explosión
• Hairstyle: Estilo de pelo
• Look: Aspecto
• Fashion: Moda
• Peace: Paz
• Icon: Icono
• Craze: Locura
• Birth: Nacimiento
• Death: Muerte
• Gadget: Dispositivo
• Invention: Invención
• War: Guerra
• Protest: Protestar
• Dance hall: Salón de baile
• Bad language: Mal lenguaje
• Big skirts: Grandes faldas
• Driving license: Carné de conducir
• The flu: La gripe
• Upset: Disgustado
• Operation: Operación
• Treatment: Tratamiento
• Suffering: Sufrimiento
• Clone: Clon
• Transplant: Transplante
• Development: Desarrollo
• Prevention: Prevención
• Experiment: Experimento
• Discovery: Descubrimiento
• Cause: Causa
• Research: Investigación
• Cure: Curas

Irregular Verbs List

• Bet: Apostar
• Bite, bit, bitten: Morder
• Bleed, bled: Sangrar
• Blow, blew, blown: Soplar
• Break, broke, broken: Romper
• Bring,