Week 28: May 4th-10th

Unit 5D: English in Action (instructions)

• ex. 1 p. 44
• ex. 2
• ex. 3a

Notes from Monday May 4th

What would you do if you couldn't drive anywhere?

IF-CLAUSE past simple (can)

MAIN CLAUSE conditional tense

If I lived near the station, I would be able to go to work by train (can)

2nd conditional - unreal hypothetical situations

If I were (was) tall and slim, I would be a model

I didn't have (not =) I hadn't got

with a good salary - WELL-PAID

I would ask him to help me to paint the wall

If you were in my shoes

if there WEREN'T so so many cars, there WOULDNL'T BE so much pollution

THERE BE

IT IS RAINING

IF IT WASN'T RAINING WE WOULD BE ABLE TO GO FOR A WALK

CUANDO TENIA 5 AÑOS SABIA TOCAR EL PIANO

...... I could play the piano (a skill)

LA SEMANA PASADA PUDE CONSEGUIR/COMPRAR DOS ENTRADAS AL CONCIERTO A PESAR DE QUE HABIA MUCHA GENTE

I was able to buy 2 tickets although there were a lot of people (it happens once and there is an obstacle that makes it difficult)

when I was young I could drive

during the storm I was able to drive up the mountain

could + skill / verbs of perception

if you saw your partner with someone else, What would you do?How would you react?

If you had done your homework, we would go for a walk

break paper =

tear tore torn

BREAK

break down

a herd of schoolboys

a herd of Japanese visitors

to crack

to smash

Mrs Potts

(the little cup) chip (it's chipped)

to crash

Notes from Tue May 5th

look after it

pick it up

you don't have to run / rush/hurry

either of them will do

that will do

THE ENVIRONMENT

we are going to ___LAUNCH_____ a campaign in order to RAISE (people's) awareness about t....

to pour

it's pouring with rain

whe poured out all that I had told her about my divorce

empty the kettle of water

empty the water

a cuppa

CUP of TEA (PA pi PA)

DIP - DUNK

SLUM DUNK

TEA BREW

TEA POT

CRASH

TEAR TORE TORN

A TEAR

CRACK

WHISK

BEAT

FRYING PAN

BOILING

TURN IT OVER

FLIP IT OVER

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wallet

would you take my wallet to the police station if you found it on the street

if I had found a good job, now I would have money

Grammar: Should

• p. 49
• p. 127

Notes from Wed May 6th

misbehave

MIS-behav-IOUR

MIS= wrong

-IOUR= noun

OVERparenting causes MISbehavIOUR.

OVER= excessive

COLLOCATIONS

shoplifting (=stealing sth from a shop)

pickpocketing

to pick

to rob and to steal

to steal= to take away

to rob: to strip so from sth that belongs to them

I have been robbed (of my phone)

My phone has been stolen (from me)

the shop has been robbed

(A place) has been burgled

to burgle= to force your entry and steal things inside that place

we take the rubbish to the wheelie bin

litter = scattered (assorted) rubbish (cans, peelings, plastic packaging, ...)

to speed = to drive over the speed limit

break the law

offence= petty crime

crime is not a murder

crash

to crash (to enter a party without an invitation) to gatecrash

a car crash

pop corn

he's lying

hit / kill

if you drive too fast / if you speed you might kill / hit a pedestrian

if driving faster was allowed,there might be more accidents / there would be more accidents

would - hypothesis

might - hypothesis

may - might

the droppings

the waste

politicians embezzle money from the public coffers

lots of Mexican immigrants were smuggled into USA and Trump built a "beautiful wall"

SPEEDING

SHOPLIFTING

PICKPOCKETING

EMBEZZLING (to embezzle) / corruption

PHISHING

SMUGGLING/

trafficking

JURY - JUROR

(guilty or not guilty)

a trial (at Court)

RUN-AWAY JURY (Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman)

TO SUE (TO TAKE TO COURT)

A LAWSUIT

BLACKMAIL

BRIBE

TRIAR GENT ELL POT CONTROLAR

CHOOSE/WHO/CAN CONTROL

BE RESPONSIBLE FOR STH

TO BEAR WITNESS TO

TO BE ANXIOUS ABOUT

turn a blind eye (=to look away)

the person in charge

Notes Thu May 8th

f I didn't take so long to prepare the dessert, I wouldn't tell my mom to bake/make/prepare it (herself)

if she/he wasn't /weren't doing the homework, I would ask him to help me to paint the wall

If you were me/ If you were in my shoes, Wouldn't you give me some advice?

an advice (U)

if there weren't so many cars, there wouldn't be so much pollution

cheeky

did you turn a blind eye?

spare the rod and spoil the child

too lenient? permissive

if they communicate....

ticket inspector = the conductor (which is not the driver)

BREAK

a car (the engine) breaks down

a car (the body) crash

glass smashed

when somebody crashes (gatecrashes) a party (....)

to get onto? into?

bus/train/taxi/car

public means of transport - onto

private - into

dropping the packaging / wrapping

rubbish and litter

litter: people leave traces/trail /waste behind usually scattered

to the wheelie bin

they are speeding (to drive over the speed limit)

overtake

ourselves

one another

each other

He fell behind everyone else / he ran behind everyone else in his studies

but at the end he overtook the rest of the class

to rob and to steal

to steal (= to take away without permission)

to rob someone: to steal sth that belongs to them

to burgle: to break into a place and steal the things inside, you ransack the house

my house has been burgled

my house has been broken into

to shoplift

to pickpocket

MISbehavIOUR

MIS = wrong

MISUNDERSTANDING

MISTAKE

CRIME (is not MURDER)

(breaking the law) (serious crimes)

(petty crimes) OFFENCES

EARN THEIR LIVING

DECEIVING YOURSELF

BACKBITING

PUT A POSITIVE SPIN ON STH

what do you think you SHOULD do?

the problem to sort out / to solve

I would threaten her to report her to the police

should + (to) infinitive (personal)

ought + to infinit (gererally accepted moral response)

you should be wearing a helmet

you coulnd't / can't be hungry

what should I do if my car was stolen?

that man must be the one who robbed Peter

that must be the man who stole Peter's wallet