Final English Exam
Final English Exam
Final English Exam
Maria Escandell
Final english exam:
Grammar:
Verb tenses:
Present tenses:
● Present simple: acción que la sueles hacer cada dia
+ S + verb present/s (I play/She plays)
- don’t/doesn’t + verb present (I don’t like surfing/She doesn’t like surfing)
? Do/does + s + verb present (Do you usually sing?/Does she usually sing?
● Present continuous: acción echa en el mismo momento
+ S + am/is/are + verb + ing (I am working in this project now)
- S + am/is/are + not + verb + ing (She is not working at the moment)
? Am/is/are + s + verb + ing (Is she going to the park now?)
● Present perfect simple: acciones completadas en el pasado, contar cuántas veces
hacemos algo.
+ S + have/has + verb in participle (I have studied a lot, she has seen that movie twice)
- S + have/has + not + verb in participle (She hasn’t finished the book yet)
? Have/has + s + verb in participle (Have you already studied?)
Past tenses:
● Past simple: acciones completadas en el pasado.
+ S + verb in the past (I studied for the exam yesterday)
- S + didn’t + verb in present (She didn’t study for the exam)
Edició
? Did + s +amb
verb l'aplicació Documents
in present (Did you study for the exam?)
Feu canvis, deixeu comentaris i compartiu els
● Past continuous:
fitxers acciónper
amb altres usuaris que sucede al
editar-los enmateix
un momento en específico en el pasado.
+ Stemps.
+ was/were + verb + ing (I was studying yesterday at 5 o’clock)
- S + was/were + not + verb + ing (She wasn’t texting at midnight)
? Was/were + s + verb + ing (Were they reading a book yesterday?)
NO BAIXA L'APLICACIÓ
● Past perfect simple: se utiliza cuando estamos hablando del pasado y queremos
referirnos a algo que sucedió todavía antes.
+ S + had + verb in participle (I had eaten a lot)
:
+ S + had + verb in participle (I had eaten a lot)
- S + had + not + verb in participle (I hadn’t cooked pasta)
? Had + s + verb in participle (Had you cooked pasta?)
● Past perfect continuous: una acción que empezó en un tiempo concreto del
pasado y continuó hasta otro punto concreto del pasado o hasta que tuvo lugar otra
acción.
+ S + had + been + verb + ing (She had been working for 2 hours)
- S + had + not + been + verb + ing (I hadn’t been cooking since 10 years)
? Had + s + been + verb + ing (Had you been cooking for all your life?)
Future tenses:
● Will (future simple):
Uses:
1. Instant decision: Ok! I’ll open the door.
2. Promises, offers and requests: I promise I will help you
3. Prediction based on your personal opinion: I think will study Art next year
● Be going to:
Uses:
1. Prediction based on evidence: Look at the cars! They’re going to crash
2. Plan or intention: I’m going to study Art next year.
● Present continuous:
Arrangements (day+time): I’m having a coffee with a friend tomorrow at 5p.m
● Present simple:
Timetable/horario: The film starts tomorrow at 5 p.m.
● Future continuous:
WILL + BE + V. ING
Action in progress at a point in the future: Tomorrow at 6p.m I will be taking a coffee
with Susan.
● Future perfect:
WILL + HAVE + V. P. PLE
An action that will be finished at a point in the future: Tomorrow by 5p.m. I will have
slept for 3 hours.
Always that appears BY.
Modal verbs:
Probability and certainty:
100% → must
50% → might/could/may
0% → can’t
Prohibition:
Mustn’t/can’t
Don’t have to/don’t need to → no necessity
Perfect modals:
MODAL + HAVE + V. PAST PARTICIPLE
Conditionals:
Zero conditional:
form: IF + PRESENT SIMPLE, PRESENT SIMPLE
use: facts
ex: if you mix red and blue, you get purple.
First conditional:
form: IF + PRESENT, WILL + BARE INFINITIVE
use: probable situations in the present or future
ex: you will go as long as finish, have finished your homework
Second conditional:
form: IF + PAST, WOULD + BARE INFINITIVE
use: 1. advice
2. improbable situations
ex: if i were you, i would take a taki. It's raining! I would travel more if I had more free time.
Third conditional:
form: IF + PAST PERFECT, WOULD + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE
use: regret, past action which didn’t happened
ex: if i had answered the phone, I would have talked to the POPE.
Reported speech
Tenses:
present simple → past simple
present continuous → past continuous
present perfect → past perfect
past simple → past perfect
past continuous → past perfect continuous
past perfect → past perfect
am/is/are going to → was/were going to
will → would
can → could
may → might
must → had to
Questions:
- Yes/No questions:
IF + SUBJECT + VERB
ex: do you read a lot? → Cristina asked me if I read a lot
- Wh- questions:
WH- + SUBJECT + VERB
ex: How often do you read? → Cristina asked me how often I read
Reflexive pronouns
- myself
- yourself
- herself
- himself
- itself
- ourselves
- yourselves
- themselves
Passive voice: to describe what happens to something or someone. → use by to say the
agent, but it’s not necessary if it’s not important in the context.
- The dishwasher was invented in 1886. → agent is unimportant
- My car has been stolen → agent is unknown.
Impersonal passive:
Show general or expert opinion. Formal language with verbs that show “knowing” and
“thinking”.
Ex: It was thought that the Earth was flat.
Relative clauses
Relative pronouns:
which → thing
who (m) → person
when → time
where → place
whose → possession
that → things and persons
Relative clauses:
- Defining:
No commas
Specific (essential information)
We can use that
We can omit the pronoun when it’s not the subject
Ex: The man who I saw last night was wearing a blue jacket.
- Non-Defining:
Commas
Extra information
No that
We can’t omit the pronoun
Ex: The man, who I saw last night, was wearing a blue jacket.
- Subject questions:
Formed by using the question word as the subject of the sentence instead. We don’t
use the auxiliary verb and we don’t invert the word order.
Ex: Who loves Joe? Bella loves Joe.
Who does Joe love? Joe loves Bella.
Vocabulary:
Invention and discovery
- adapt → adaptation
- design → designer
- create → creator → creation
- develop → developer → development
- discover → discoverer → discovery
- inspire → inspiration
- innovate → innovator → innovation
- invent → inventor → invention
- observe → observer → observation
- replace → replacement
- research → researcher
- revolutionize → revolutionary → revolution
Prefixes:
- anti-social
- international
- micromanage
- microwave
- misplace
- multi-layered
- multi-talented
- overworked
- pro-technology
- reuse
- rewrite
- undergraduate
Adjective order
- opinion
- size
- physical quality
- shape
- age
- colour
- origin
- material
- type
:
- type
- purpose
Entertainment nouns
- album
- audience
- bestseller
- blockbuster
- boxoffice
- charts
- director
- genre
- hit
- reader
- romantic comedy
- series
- stream
- talent show
- track
- tv show
- viewer
- viral video