VOCABULARY

3rd TERM EXAM

Personality adjectives: extroverted/shy, cheerful/moody, honest/deceitful

Clothes and fashion: design, style, materials and useful verbs
stripy (with stripes), skin-tight, woollen (made of wool), to fit, to suit, to try on
Compound adjectives (adj+noun+-ed) to describe appearance/personality
narrow-minded, thick-skinned, big-headed, short/long-sighted, good-natured
Noun formation: adjective+suffix (-ment/-ion/-ness) to express feelings
amusedamusement, frustratedfrustration, kindkindness
Be careful with spelling changes! satisfiedsatisfaction, lonelyloneliness
News and press: verbs, people, other related nouns
publish, print, relate, journalist, press photographer, headline, tabloid, biased
Idioms: at first hand, till all hours (of the night), from time to time
Adverbs of manner to describe how an action is done

adjective+ly: traditionally, suddenly, carefully, emotionally, silently

Be careful with spelling changes! happyhappily, enthusiasticenthusiastically

adverbs with the same form as the adjective: fast, straight

Agent nouns: verb/noun+suffix to say a person who does something
cyclist, politician, blogger, translator, servant, student

False friends: rare/uncommon, pretend/intend (to), sympathetic/friendly

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GRAMMAR
(Please revise ALL verb tenses we have studied; these grammar points are
VERY easy if you dont confuse the verb tenses in their structure!)

Conditional sentences
o First conditional: If + present simple, future simple (will + infinitive)
The speaker thinks its POSSIBLE and PROBABLE in the future:
If you buy me the cinema ticket, Ill watch that film with you.
Unless = If not:
Unless you buy me the cinema ticket, I wont watch that film with you.

o Second conditional: If + past simple, conditional simple (would + infinitive)

The speaker thinks its POSSIBLE in the present/future, but IMPROBABLE (imaginary):
If I ate healthier, I wouldnt get ill so many times!
When the verb in the past simple is TO BE, the situation is IMPOSSIBLE+IMPROBABLE:
If she were(*) a celebrity, perhaps she would send me an autographed photograph
(*in this special case we use were even with the first/third person singular)

o Third conditional: If + past perfect, conditional perfect (would have + past participle)
The situation is IMPOSSIBLE and IMPROBABLE because it didnt happen
(hypotheses about the past, regretting something we did, telling somebody off):
If they hadnt missed the bus, they would have arrived on time.
We can invert the sentences WITHOUT the comma: Ill go with you if it doesnt rain.

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Passive voice

(check the blog for help with verbs in activepassive transformations:

https://englishful.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/the-passive-voice-introduction)
o We use it in English to give emphasis to the person/thing/etc. that suffers the action
(the direct object in the active voice), putting in at the beginning of the sentence.

o If the person who does the action (the agent in the passive voice) is relevant, we use
by + ______ after the verb in the passive voice.
ACTIVE VOICE:
The police arrested those thieves yesterday.
PASSIVE VOICE:
Those thieves were arrested yesterday.
ACTIVE VOICE:
George R. R. Martin is going to finish the next Game of Thrones novel before Christmas.
PASSIVE VOICE:
The next Game of Thrones novel is going to be finished by George R. R. Martin before Christmas.

Causative passive:

have/get something done when someone does something for us

That technician repaired my laptop I had/got my laptop repaired

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WRITING
Adding information: linkers of addition
in addition, also, whats more, too, as well
Saying what happened and why: linkers of reason and result
because (of)*, as, since, so, consequently, therefore, as a result/consequence (of)
Be careful! because + complete sentence; because of + noun phrase
Adding interest using a variety of adjectives, verbs, adverbs of frequency,
modifiers (e.g. adverbs of manner or quantity) and linkers
Writing about the appearance and personality of a famous person
Writing a summary of a longer text