Phrasal Verbs, Vocabulary, and Grammar Rules

Phrasal Verbs

FROM: happening. Wait FOR. Apply FOR a job. Run AWAY from home. Give UP smoking. Get ON with your sister. Break UP with your friend. Put ON weight. Figure OUT a solution. Come DOWN with a cold. Succeed IN math. Argue WITH a friend. Drop OUT of school. Speak UP at a meeting. Based ON a novel. Get AROUND by bus.

Vocabulary

Strenuous: cansat. Proper: correcte. Holy place: lloc tancat. Path: camí. Treacherous: traicionero. Shine: brilliant (glow). Sacred: santo. Protect: protegir. Very pleased: emocionant. Damage: daño. Be worth: valer la pena.

Owner: propietario. Path: camí. Refuse: desperdicios. Surrounding: rodeándola. Request: solicitud. Proper: apropiado. Stay behind: quedarse atras. Treacherous: traicionero. Come back: vuelve. Attempt: intento. Disturbing: perturbador. Find out: descubrir. Effective: eficaz. Management: administra.

Harmless: inofensivo. Necessity. Disastrous. Laziness. Factual. Effective. Destruction. Breakable. Significance. Frustrating. Ownership.

Suffixes

• -tion: qualification
• -sion: conclusion
• -ment: management
• -ness: happiness
• -ance: allowance/endurance
• -ence: experience
• -ship: relationship
• -ity: celebrity
• -al: illegal
• -able: comfortable
• -ible: incredible
• -ous: furious
• -ive: attractive
• -ing: boring
• -ed: bored
• -ful: successful
• -less: homeless

Common Mistakes

Places as: such as. 2.500: 2,500. ….: etc. Despite of: in spite of. Didn’t: quitalo. (): quitalo. __: quita coma. Despite tal tal: despite the fact that. HOWEVER, Due to: due to the fact that. ,BUT,SO.

Verb Tenses

Present Perfect Simple

have/has + past participle – Her English has improved since she joined EF classes. (te ha afectado en el pasado algo q sucede ahora)

Past Perfect Simple

(empieza y acaba en el pasado) Had + past participle – I had studied in India last year.

Present Perfect Continuous

Have/has + been +ing – They have been talking for 3 hours - ell estuvieron hablando 3h.

Past Perfect Continuous

Had + been +ing – I had been studying for 2 years when I went to London – había estado estudiando durante 2 años ingles cuando fuí a londres.