Gramática Inglesa

Common mistakes in English. Do you speak Spanglish?

Prepositions in English: he goes home on Friday.

How well do you do with PREPOSITIONS?

In every language they are difficult because they seem so ARBITRARY!!

Remember:

on Friday = the day of the week
on the 4th of September = the day (again!)
on my birthday = the day (again!)
in March = the month
in 2016 = the year
in spring = the season
at Christmas
on Chrtistmas day = the day (again!)

at the weekend = in Britain they say at
on the weekend = in the USA they say on

¡Cuidado con este error en inglés!

Preparar el First Certificate Exam: Tucos

Una casa bonita en el campo para preparar el First Certificate con la frase PEOPLE LIVE

Usa esta frase para preparar el First in English

OTHER PEOPLE LIVE IN DIFFERENT HOUSES.

Uno de los errores que hacen los alumnos en el First Certificate, es con la palabra PEOPLE.

Recuérdate que la palabra PEOPLE es plural, el plural de PERSON.

Así que hay que utilizar verbos en plural, al igual que con cualquier otro nombre plural.

Es un hábito muy difícil de cambiar para mucha gente que habla español, porque la palabra GENTE es singular.

People LIVE in houses.
People GO to work.

People WANT to have a good life.

¿Sabías que es muy difícil para los que hablamos inglés aprender a utilizar los verbos correctamente con GENTE? ¡Es cierto! Tendemos a decir LA GENTE SON … ¿Suena horrible? Los errores con PEOPLE suenan fatal en inglés, también.

¡Esperamos que este truco os ayude a preparar el First!

Otros trucos aquí:
BY THE YEAR 2025 THERE WILL BE

NOW IN ENGLISH

One of the most common mistakes students make in the written and oral First Certificate Exams is with the noun PEOPLE.

Remember that the word PEOPLE is plural, the plural of PERSON.

So you have to use plural verbs, just like with any other plural noun.

It’s a very hard habit to break for many Spanish speakers, because the word GENTE is singular.

Did you know that it is very difficult for English speakers to learn to use singular verbs with GENTE? It’s true! We tend to say LA GENTE SON… Does that sound AWFUL to you? Well. mistakes with PEOPLE sounds awful in English, too.

We hope this hint will help you prepare the First Cert Exam!

Preparar el FIRST CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH. Grammar

BY THE YEAR 2050, THERE WILL BE ROBOTS IN OUR HOUSES.

Muchas veces, en el examen del First Certificate, pueden preguntar tu opinión sobre la vida en el futuro.

Te puede venir bien esta gramática inglesa para preparar el First:

BY THE YEAR…. THERE WILL BE….

Unos ejemplos:

By the year 2025, there will be a shortage of water in many countries.
By the year 2020, our homes will be automated.
By the year 2030, we will eat plastic food.

Oh dear! Let’s have something more optimistic!!

By the year 2025 there will be no more wars.
By the year 2020 everyone will have enough food to eat.
By the year 2022 there will be free wifi everywhere.

¿Puedes decirlo? Puedes preparar el First pensando en qué cosas puedes decir con para demostrar que tienes dominio de una buena gama de estructuras y de vocabulario.

Más ayudas para preparar el First Cert aquí:

PREPARAR EL FIRST CERT

¡suerte!

Tag questions in English

GRAMÁTICA INGLESA

ERROR EN INGLÉS

TAG QUESTIONS

RIGHT They live in Chicago, right?

RIGHT They live in Chicago, don’t they?

WRONG They live in Chicago, isn’t it?

WRONG They live in Chicago, no?

We have mentioned in previous posts that, unfortunately, you can’t just put no?at the end of the sentence in English. Sorry!

So what can you do?

Learn tag questions: do you? have they? will he? But these are tricky and if you don’t need to learn them for an exam, frankly, don’t bother.
Some people solve this problem by saying right? or yeah? at the end of the sentence. Just don’t do it too much because it can be irritating.

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Common Mistakes in English. Do you speak Spanglish?

I have a job interview tomorrow!

GRAMÁTICA INGLESA

ERROR EN INGLÉS

WRONG That’s a good news!

WRONG That’s a good new!

RIGHT That’s good news!

Wow! A lot of confusion with this word, “NEWS“!!

The word “NEWS” is singular and non-countable. That means it is NEVER PLURAL and you can NEVER HAVE ONE OR TWO OR THREE!

Oh dear, what does that mean?

It means even if you are talking about one thing only, it’s still GOOD NEWS. NOT a good news and NOT a good new. Never!

You can say “some news” or “a piece of news“.

Here are some more examples with the word “news”:

I saw it on the news last night.
Have you heard the news?
I heard some interesting news.
Listen to this piece of news!

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Do you speak Spanglish? #10

GRAMÁTICA INGLESA

ERROR EN INGLÉS

Common mistakes for Spanish learners of English:

WRONG: It happens to me the same.
RIGHT: The same thing happens to me.

*Ohhhhhh…. How many times have I heard this one? Too many!
In English, just one subject for the verb please!

Verb = happens
Subject = the same thing
No place for “it”!

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Barbie look requires you to have something done

GRAMÁTICA INGLESA

Today let’s have a look at some English grammar that many Spanish speakers have difficulty remembering.

“Have something done” is the structure we use to say that another person does the work for us. Most people have their hair cut, or their teeth straightened, but in advertising, they take it to an extreme!

Women especially, but men too, are under more and more pressure to conform to certain standards of “beauty”. The Barbie look is pushed at us from TV shows, shampoo ads, shoe ads, reality shows, you name it!

Don’t you think it’s time we said “STOP!”?

Watch this video and see just how much the Barbie look requires you to have something done!

Here are some phrases using the grammatical structure to have something done.

She has her face made up.

She has her hair done.

She has her eyes enlarged.

She has the shape of her face changed.

She has her legs lengthened.

She has the color of her skin changed.

She has her neck stretched.

She has her hair dyed.

She has her identity obliterated!

What do you think about the Barbie look?