Grammar of Senac Intensive Intermediate
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| show | auxiliary verb + subject + verb | Does he smoke? // Did we win? // Have they arrived
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| [1.1] Question Forms (2/3): Object Questions (structure & exemple) | question word + auxiliary verb + subject + verb | show 🗑
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| [1.1] Question Forms (3/3): Subject Questions (structure & exemple) | question word + verb + object | show 🗑
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| [1.2] Simple Present # Present Continuous | (1) Something is always or generally true, habits, routines. // E.g. He looks happy // He doesn't look happy // Does he look happy? | show 🗑
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| show | (1) Finished actions, events ou situations in the past | (2) An action or a situation in progress at a particular time in the past
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| show | They are not usually used in the continuous forms. (1) ATTITUDE VERBS: love, like, want, prefer (2) THINKING VERBS: believe, know, remember, understand, mean, imagine (3) SENSE VERBS: see, hear, sound, seem, appear [...] | [...] (4) BELONGING VERBS: own, possess, belong to, have, contain, include. //// Some of them can be used in the continuous forms when they describe actions. E.g. I'm seeing Phil tonight, we're having a party, 'm thinking of going to college.
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| show | Introducing a question: Could I ask a question? // There are a couple of things I'd like to ask about. // Can I ask you about that? // I have a question. | Introducing an option: For me, (the most important thing is)... // I'd have to say... // In my opinion... // One thing I'd like to say is the...
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| [2.1] Present Perfect # Simple Past | (1) TIME UP TO NOW. Actions that happened in your life before now. // These are often general experiences. // It isn't importante exactly when these happened. // We often use "ever" and "never". // [...] | show 🗑
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| [2.2] Narrative Tenses (1/3): Simple Past | show | [...] // When BEFORE or AFTER is used, it's already clear which action comes before the other, so we can use the Simple Past instead of the Past Perfect: She lived in London for 5 years before she moved to NY.
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| [2.2] Narrative Tenses (2/3): Past Continuous | Use Past Continuous to Background information for a story and use Simple Past to main events). // Often the past continuous is interrupted by another action (simple past): I was talking WHEN the phone rang. // | show 🗑
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| show | Use to make it clear that one action happened before the other.: I didn't have money because i had lost my wallet. // Often use with "thinking verbs": When I got to the school, I realized I'd left my books at home. // [...] | [...] // When BEFORE or AFTER is used, it's already clear which action comes before the other, so we can use the Simple Past instead of the Past Perfect: She lived in London for 5 years before she moved to NY.
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| [2.3] Telling a story (1/2): Beginning the Story # Describing what happened # Ending the Story | show | (2) Well, ... // Anyway, ... // Before long, ... // So, ... // And, then, all of sudden, ... // The next thing I knew, ...
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| show | (1) So, what happened? // What did you do? // What happened next? // Really? | (2) I don't believe it! // Oh, no. // Oh, dear. // How embarrassing! // That's really funny. // You must be joking. // Yes, I know.
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| [3.1] The Future (Plans) | (1) Present Continuous (2) Be going to (3) Will (4) May/might | show 🗑
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| [3.2] The Future (Predictions) | show | (1) There is an evidence (2) You usually use "I think" or "I hope" (3) less certain (4) negative: be unlikely to
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| [3.3] Dealing with Misunderstanding (1/2): Saying | (1) Saying you didn't hear something: I didn't catch any of that | show 🗑
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| show | (3) Asking someone to explain something more clearly: What exactly do you mean? / Do you mean to say ...? | (4) Asking someone to repeat something: Can you say that again? / Could you repeat the last part/name/thing you said?
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| [4.1] Obligation: Have to # Don't have to # Must # Mustn't # Should # Shouldn't # May # Mayn't | show | (5) advice, suggestion (6) negative advice, suggestion (7) permission (8) negative permission
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| [4.2] Past habits: Use to & Would | When we talk about things that happened in the past but don’t happen anymore we can do it in different ways.: (1) "Used to" + infinitive (2) "would" + active verbs. It's not possible to use with state verbs. | show 🗑
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| [2.1] Preposition of time: in # on # at | show | (1) morning, 2010, (2) Christmas Day, Easter Day, the 4th of July (3) 12 o'clock, Christmas (the long holiday),
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| [1.2] Colocattions: do # get # go # take | show | (3) exercise, becoming (4) transportation, receiving, responsibility
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| show | happened (1) immediately after the other thing (2) at the same time (3) at some point in a period of time | (4) continuous up to that point and then stops (5) happened previously
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| [4.2] Extreme adjetives (1/4) (diference with Gradable adjetives) | (1) you can have different degrees or levels of that quality. For example, the weather can be a little cold, rather cold, very cold, or extremely cold. | show 🗑
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| [5.1] Comparative: one-syllable adj # two-syllable adj ending in -y # two syllable & longer adj | show | (2)-y changes to -i +er = easier, friendlier (3) +more/less <adj> than = more important than
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| show | (1.1)the +est = the cheapest, the fastest (1.2) ending with CVC double final C = the biggest (1.3) ending with -e add -st = the largest | (2)-y changes to -i + the -est = the easiest, the friendliest (3) +the most/least = the most important
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| [5.1] Comparative/Superlative: irregular adjetives | (1) good - better - the best (2) bad - worse - the worst | show 🗑
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| [5.1] Ways of Comparing (common expressions): Similar # big difference # small difference | (1) It's EXACTLY THE SAME AS the one we had // It's VERY SIMILAR somewhere I lived // He's NOT AS tall AS I expected. | show 🗑
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| [5.1] Using Superlatives (common expressions) | (1) It's BY FAR THE MOST delicious meal I've ever eaten (2) t's ONE OF THE MOST beautiful place in the world | show 🗑
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| [5.2] Question tags: rules | show | (1) use the opposite (2) use to be or auxiliary verb according to the item (3) on simple present the verb changes no 3rd of singular (4) use the pronoun in the end of question (5) // Use contractions
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| [5.3] Polite Requests | (1) Could you... carry this bag for me? (2) Could you tell me... the way of the hotel? (3) Do you know... what time the stores open? | show 🗑
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| [5.3] Response to Polite Requests | show | (3) (-) I'm afraid, I can't // I'm sorry, I can't (4) (would you mind...) (+) No, of Course not. (+) Yes, I'm sorry. // sure
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| [5.2] Word Building: Adjetives (1/4) | show | (1)painful (2) messy (3) profitable (4) poetic (5) useless / useful
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| [5.2] Word Building: Adjetives (2/4) | show | (1) quickly (2) biological (3) hopeful / hopeless(4) creative (5) peaceful /peaceless (6)
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| show | (1) response (2) thank (3) effect (4) hair (5) homeless | (1) responsible (2) thankful / thankless (3) effective (4) hairy (5) home
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| show | (1) explode (2) love (3) main (4) carre (5) knowledge | (1) explosive (2) lovable (3) mainly (4) careless / careful (5) knowledgeable
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| [5.2] Word Building: Nouns (1/6) | show | (1) competition (2) running (3) employment (4) immigration (5) weakness (6) creativity
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| [5.2] Word Building: Nouns (2/6) | show | (1) education (2) loneliness (3) smoking (4) pollution (5) stupidity (6) agreement
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| show | (1) happy (2) relax (3) instruct (4) sensitive (5) improve (6) laugh | (1) happiness (2) relaxation (3) instruction (4) sensitivity (5) improvement (6) laughing
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| [5.2] Word Building: Nouns (4/6) | show | (1) responsibility (2) depression (3) imagination (4) kindness (5) eating (6) entertainment
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| [5.2] Word Building: Nouns (5/6) | show | (1) payment (2) imitation (3) heavyness (4) skating (5) informality (6) direction
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| [5.2] Word Building: Nouns (6/6) | (1) achieve (2) quote (3) dance (4) fit (5) promote (6) secure | show 🗑
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| [6.1] Word Building: Adjetives II (+ed / +ing) (1/1, it was 5) | (1) annoy (2) relax (3) frighten (4) worry (5) embarrasse | show 🗑
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| [4.2] Extreme adjetives (2/4) | show | (1) wonderful, amazing, great (2) enormous, giant, huge (3) delicious (4) freezing
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| [4.2] Extreme adjetives (3/4) | show | (1) awful, terrible (2) tiny (3) bolied (4) exausted
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| [4.2] Extreme adjetives (4/4) | (1) angry (2) interesting (3) pretty (4) difficult | show 🗑
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| [6.1] Multi-word verbos (1/X) | show 🗑
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| [6.1] Conditionals (1/5): Zero | show | (1) If plants don't have water, they die. (2) Ice melts when You heat it.
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| show | [Real] Real conditional of possible situation. // Form: if/when + simple presente + "," + will/could/might + verb. // Use IF when you are not sure. Use WHEN for situations which you know will happen. // UNLESS is "if not" | (1) If I pass my exam, I'll have a party # When I pass my exam, I'll have a party. (2) I'll go straight to the restaurant unless you call me first.
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| show | [Real] (1) If you sit in the sun, you get a sunburn. => A general situation. "You" means anyone or people in general | (2) If you sit in the sun, you'll get a sunburn => I'm talking to you (personally) about will happen today.
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| [6.2] Conditionals (4/5): 2nd | show | (1) If I were a boy, I'd be a better a man. (2) If she were the President, she'd make a lot of changes. (3) If you passed the test, would you go to the college? (4) Would you help me if I paid you?
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| [7.1] Presente Perfect: Simple vs Continuous (1/2): Common meanings | show | Often, A little diference (especially for verbs such as live, work, teach, study). Ex.: I've lived here for years (maybe I'm not here anymore) # I've been living here for years (I still live here)
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| [7.1] Presente Perfect: Simple vs Continuous (2/2): Emphase | (1) enphasize the result. // Use with STATE VERBS | show 🗑
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| show | (1) Present: Can / am/is/are able to | (2) Past: Could / was/were able to
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| [7.2] Present & Past Ability (2/2); Particular Moment | show | (4) Use MANAGE to show that an action is/was difficult: I usually manage to finish my work on time // Do you manage to see the grandchildren regularly?
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| [Cicle 2] Another / Other / Others | show | Plural: (2) + noun (3) the complement was said before
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| [ . ] Conditionals (5/5): 3nd | show |
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| [8.1] Articles (1/3): a/an | (1) - The first time something is mentioned / Before singular nouns (she's watching a movie) / with jobs (I'm a doctor) | show 🗑
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| show | (2) when there's only one something / when it has been mentioned before / with superlatives / some phrases with preposition (in the morning | with seas, oceans, rivers and country names that are plural or use extra words like "States" / before the name of some areas (the coast of..., the south of...) / wit some definition expressions (the first, the only)
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| [8.1] Articles (1/3): No articles | show | .
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| [8.1] Quantifiers (2/2): much # many # too # enough | show | .
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| [8.1] Quantifiers (2/2): few # little# bit# lot # lots | show 🗑
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| [8.2] Relative Clauses (1/2): Restrictive | show 🗑
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| [9.2] Active Voice # Passive Voice | show | .
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| [10.1] Reported Speech (1/2) | show 🗑
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| [10.2] Verb Patterns (1/2) | show | .
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| [10.2] Verb Patterns (2/2) | show | .
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| [6.1] -Ing/-ed adjetives (1/2) | show 🗑
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