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Good Question! 🙂
- Go to any of the units of the videotutorial course: https://profesornativogratis.com/elcurso/
- I’m taking Unit 2.4 (How to describe people: Be vs. Have) as an example.
- Can you see the link? Click here, and the pdf. will open in another window.
- You can download and print it. It goes with the videotutorial and the listening exercises.
It’s active: Somebody (a subject) is painting the house.
It sounds better in passive: You don’t know / don’t care who is painting. What is important is that:
THE HOUSE IS BEING PAINTED.
This is Passive. The active form would be:
(The Government/The army?) has sent more soldiers to Iraq every day.
It’s a good example of why the active is better than the passive – you don’t need to know who is sending. You want to put the emphasis of the sentence on the soldiers.
The person listening would suppose:
Sentence 1: They are not dating yet. The father is worried about the possibility.
Sentence 2: They are dating. The father doesn’t like the present situation.
Siento decirte que me llega tu mensaje demasiado pronto. Es verdad que estoy pensando en ofrecer un servicio de correción de textos en Inglés, y espero poder lanzarlo en el verano, pero ahora mismo estoy a tope con el fin de curso, examenes de Cambridge, las clases, todo…
Disculpas!
La verdad es que es algo que tengo en mi lista de ‘quehaceres’, aunque hasta el verano dudo que tenga tiempo para hacerlo, asi que te comento lo basico:
Los correos, tanto formal e informal, tienen un lenguaje mas conversacional. No tienen que tener una formula especifica como las cartas formales.
Eso dicho, en los correos de negocios, por ejemplo, no hay que usar contraciones: ‘I would’ en lugar de ‘I’d’, etc. Luego podras usar la misma lenguaje de una conversación entre desconocidos: ‘Could you…?’ ‘I’d rather…’ etc. El principio del correo sería ‘Hello (name)’ y el final, ‘Regards, (tu nombre)’
En informal, puedes escribir igual de como hablas:
‘Hi Sam:
How are you doing? D’you want to come to the cinema tonight? Let us know if you’re free.
See you!
(name)
In family, you can replace ‘see you’ with ‘Love’ (your mum, granny…)
Have a look at this selection: letters, essays, argumentative and descriptive compositions…
https://profesornativogratis.com/category/how-to-write/
It’s a bit too much to explain in one or two paragraphs. I’ll just give you some examples and then tell you where to go for more practice:
THE PAST FORM IS ONLY USED FOR AFFIRMATIVE SENTENCES:
John GOES to the cinema – John WENT to the cinema
I LIKE the film – I LIKED the film
NEGATIVE SENTENCES AND QUESTIONS: USE ‘DID’ + INFINITIVE:
I DON’T eat meat – I DIDN’T eat meat
DOES Sarah study? – DID Sarah study?
EXCEPTIONS: ‘BE’
I AM sad – I WAS sad
ARE you at work? – WERE you at work?
The cat IS old – The cat WAS old
“German is spoken in Germany” (‘…by people’ is unnecessary, as it gives no extra information).
There’s very little difference between ‘make’ and ‘have’ in these cases, although the tone is not the same. You can HAVE a decorator paint your living room (or: GET him to paint your living room) but he probably wouldn’t like it if you MADE him paint, because it’s more like ordering or obliging someone to do something. If your son spills coffee on the floor, you can MAKE him clean it…
Claro que si, o por lo menos mostrarte a donde puedes ir para entender – ¿que te entra?
That’s a very general question, but I’ll try…
First, types of houses-
Detached: Separate from other houses.
Semi-detached: Separate on one side, connected on the other.
Terraced: Connected on both sides in a row of houses, unless it is an ‘End of Terrace’
Cottage: Small country house (like in fairy tales)
Flat: One of a number of residences which share the same block.
Apartment: A smaller version of a flat.
Condo: A flat on two floors.
Bungalow: A house with no stairs, only one floor.
Chalet: A wooden house, usually for holidays only.
Now, furniture:
Click here for the mini-class!
…and a unit of the course dedicated to this: ¿Que haces en casa?
There are cars IN the street
I train AT the gym, although it is also correct to say ‘IN the gym’ though not as common.
Hi…..
Do you want me to check this to see if it’s OK? Grammatically, there aren’t any problems – but you have to include punctuation, as well as the capital letters at the beginning of the sentences.
Sorry – could you give me some examples of what confuses you?
Very nice story…… (?)