VERBOS SEGUIDOS DE -ING, INFINITIVO CON TO, INFINITIVO SIN TO Y CON AMBOS

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

VERBS + -ING

admit can´t help* can´t stand carry on consider delay deny enjoy fancy finigh give up go on hate imagine involve

keep on like love mind miss postpone practise put off risk spend stop suggest

INFINITIVE WITH TO

agree to aim to appear to arrange to attempt to be able to can´t afford to can´t wait to claim to decide to deserve to expect to fail to forget to happen to have (got) to help to*

hope to learn to manage to need to* offer to plan to pretend to promise to refuse to remember to* seem to teach to tend to threaten to try to* want to would like to

INFINITIVE WITHOUT TO

can may might must sould had better would rather let make (except + passive: we were made to run in PE.)

GERUND or INFINITIVE WITH NO CHANGE OF MEANING

begin start continue intend bother NORMALLY: we do not use -ing after -ing: It´s starting to rain. It´s starting raining.

VERBS WITH -ING OR INFINITIVE WITH TO WITH CHANGE IN MEANING

REMEMBER + INFINITIVE → you remember first, then you do it. Remember to lock the door. Remember to post the letter. -ING → you do sth, then you remember it. I could remember driving along the road just before the accident.

FORGET + INFINITIVE → you didn´t remember to do sth. -ING → you did sth and you won´t forget it.

TRY INFINITIVE → make an effort to do sth. I tried to study the night before the test. -ING → experiment to see if sth works. Try looking for the keys in your pockets.

REGRET INFINITIVE → I´m sorry that I have to say/inform/tell... we regret to inform you that we are unable to offer you the job. -ING → I did it and now I´m sorry about it. I now regret saying what I said.

FCE MODELO DE EXAMEN

Cambridge tiene un nuevo modelo de examen de FCE.


http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams/first/

MODELO DE EXAMEN FCE FOR SCHOOLS

A continuación tenéis un enlace a un modelo de examen de FCE for Schools, es decir, sólo pueden presentarse a éste los menores de edad.


http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/images/cambridge-english-first-for-schools-handbook-2015.pdf

TRADUCCIONES B2

1. ¿Dónde te gustaría vivir?
• Where would you like to live?
2. ¿Cuál es tu olor favorito?
• What´s your favourite smell?
3. Cuál es el peor trabajo que has hecho?
• What´s the worst job you´ve done?
4. Cómo te relajas?
• How do you relax?
5. Qué es lo que te mantiene despiert@ por la noche?
• What keeps you awake at night?
6. Cuándo lloraste por última vez?
• When did you last cry and why?
7. Qué es lo que te deprime?
• What makes you depressed?
8. Cuanto antes lo hagas, más fácil será.
• The sooner you do it, the easier i will be.
9. Cuanto más frío hace, más ropa necesitas llevar.
• The colder it is, the more clothes you need to wear.
10. No soy bueno practicando deporte.
• I am not good at doing sport.
11. Siento no escribir antes.
• Sorry for not writing earlier.
12. Espero escuchar de ti pronto.
• Hope to hear from you soon / looking forward to hearing from you soon.
13. María siempre está de buen humor.
• Mary si always in a good mood.
14. Peter es bueno dando consejo a la gente debido a su conocimiento y experiencia.
• Peter si good at living people advine because of his knowledge and experience.
15. Tengo dolor de garganta.
• I have a sore throat.
16. Peter tiene naúseas.
• Peter feels sick
17. Mary se siente mareada.
• Mary feels dizzy.
18. Peter tiene fiebre.
• Peter has flu.
19. He cogido un resfriado.
• I´ve caught a cold.

Traducciones para A2

SPANISH

1. ¿Qué día es hoy?
2. ¿Qué días tienes clase de inglés?
3. ¿A qué hora empieza y acaba la clase?
4. ¿Qué hora es ahora?
5. ¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?
6. ¿Cuál es el número de tu casa?
7. ¿Dónde vive María?
8. ¿A qué se dedica María?
9. ¿María fuma?
10. John trabaja en el extranjero.
11. A John le gusta la buena comida.
12. John se ríe mucho.
13. John toca el piano.
14. John vive en Londres.
15. John hace ejercicio.
16. John se relaja por la noche.
17. Él viste muy bien.

ENGLISH

1. What day is it today?
2. What days do you have your English class?
3. What time does the class start and finish?
4. What´s the time now?
5. When is your birthday?
6. What´s the number of your house ?
7. He Works abroad.
8. He likes good food.
9. He laughs a lot.
10. He plays the piano.
11. He lives in London.
12. He does exercise.
13. He relaxes at night.
14. He dresses very well.

DIFERENCIAS ENTRE LITTLE / A LITTLE Y FEW / A FEW

Los cuantificadores little / a little y few / a few siempre nos confunden.

Los cuatro indican que la cantidad que estamos expresando es pequeña.

PUNTOS GRAMATICALES PARA LA SUPERACIÓN DEL PET

A continuación os detallo los puntos gramaticales indispensables para superar con éxito el nivel B1 tanto para PET como para EOI:

• Present Simple and adverbs of frequency.
• Present Simple and present continuous.
• Present Perfect and past simple.
• Past simple, past continuous and past perfect.
• Used to.
• The future.
• Modal and semi-modal verbs.
• Requests and offers.
• Advice and suggestions.
• Passive
• Verbs followed by -ing and/or infinitive.
• Conditional sentences: First, second and third conditional.
• Interrogatives.
• Reported speech.
• Nouns, pronouns and determiners: Articles, personal pronouns and possessives, countable and uncountable nouns, quantifiers, relative pronouns, relative clauses.
• Adjectives and adverbs: comparatives and superlatives; sequencers: first, then, next, before, after; too and enough.
• Prepositions of time and place.
• Connectives: because, as, since, but, although, while, so, when, until, before, after, as soon as, so/such (that).