Vocabulary and Grammar Practice

At a restaurant:

waiters: lay the table, take an order, recommend a dish, carry a tray, serve customers, pour the wine

customers: book a table, order food, try the wine, send something back, ask for the bill, leave a tip. food, plate, dish, meal, course

DIY and repairs:

change, drill, mend, put together, put up, set up, sew, stick, tie

Looking after yourself:

have your hair: bleached, curled, dyed, put up, straightened have: a blow-dry, a perm, a shave, a treatment, a trim, highlights

equipment: an exercise bike, a running machine, weights, a rowing machine, a cross-trainer, a yoga mat exercises: do sit-ups, do press-ups, do stretches, do aerobics, do spinning, do yoga/pilates manicure, pedicure, facial, massage, waxing, fake tan

helmet, archer, arrow, bow, shield, fought, defeated, succeeded, invaded, killed, crowned, retreated, destroyed

Abbey, Castle, Cathedral, Palace, Tower memorize. remind, recall

Modal verbs:

ability +/-, present/past (can, could, be able to), Probability present (can 100%-could70%, may50%, might.no idea), Permission +/-, present (can.friends-could.respect.-may.formal), Advice(recommendation) +/- present (should, ought to), obligation + present/past (must.law-have to(had to)-need to(needed to), lack of obligation(no obligatorio) - .present/past (don’t have to, don’t need to(don’t-doesn’t-didn’t), prohibition - present (musn’t), certainty(certeza) +/- present (must, can’t)

Have something done: have+object+past participle(tercera columna)

im am staying with some friends because i am having my house painted (my house/paint)

Have you had your teeth whitened recently? (your teeth/whitened)

Pasiva: to be(conjugado)+tercera columna

ej. someone will attend you later: you will be attend to later

i don’t remember Jack giving me the tickets. I don’t remember being given the tickets

the company employs 5 people: 5people are employed by the company.

Reported speech: verbos a pasado

ej. Ana exclaimed “we have had too many prohibitions”

The young lady said “ i did not make such a mistake”

She said “we’ll go and get some food”

If i don’t win this game, i will retire “Kasparov said”

Relative clauses/pronouns

Defining: who+that, whom+that, whose / which+that, whose(with), when, where, why

the house whose door is blue is the one...

Non defining (,__,): who, whom, whose / which, whose(of with)

*who: the person who i’m talking to is my father

whom: the person to whom i’m talking is my father