Activity 7- Lourdes Desireé Colio Medina

The 5 units that I chose to work on were:

1. Second and third conditional:

Here I remembered in which situations to use each conditional and the structure
of each one. For example, the second conditional is used to talk about present or
future situations, to give advice, and for unlikely situations, but when you are
going to say something that has already happened you have to use the third
conditional.

Second conditional:
If + Past tense, Would/Wouldn’t + Verb (Base Form)

Third conditional:
If + Past Perfect, Would/Wouldn’t have + Verb (Past Participle)

2. Relative clauses:
This unit helped me to remember that we can have "defining relative clauses" and
"non-defining relative clauses".
We use the "defining relative clauses" to add essential information to a sentence.
• Who/that for people
• That/which for objects
• Where for places
• Whose for possession

Therefore, the 'non-defining relative clauses" add non-essential information.

• Who for people
• Which for objects
• Where for places
• Whose for possession

3. Verb patterns:
Personally, I have always had struggled with this subject. But in this unit I
remembered and I also learned some new things like for example when to use the
verb "stop" with an infinitive (When you interrupt an action to do another thing)
among other things. This unit gave me some advice to memorize which verbs are
followed by an infinitive or which by a gerund. And finally, I practiced with some
exercises and I realized that I had forgotten that the verbs let and make are followed
by an infinitive but without "to".
4. Confusing verbs:
In this unit, I practiced like the name of the unit says, how to use some "Confusing
verbs", at first impression they could be similar but they actually are pretty different.
Some things that this unit mention are for example the difference between the verbs
"say" and "tell", "speak" and "talk", when to use the verb start and that you can't
put a personal direct object after the verb "say/said".

• “Say” is used to talk about speech in general.

• “Tell” is used when you are informing or instructing and in certain fixed
expressions.
• “Speak” is used when you are referring to languages and to refer to physical
ability to speak.
• “Start” is used when you are setting something in motion like an engine.

5. Have/Get something done:

Finally, in this unit, I practiced the structure of the passive voice, the active voice,
have/get sentences, and when to use each one.

• Use have (or get) + object + past participle to say that you arrange for
someone to do something for you.
• Use the passive (object + be + past participle) when something happens that
you didn’t arrange.
• Use the active (subject + verb + object) when the subject does the action.