PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS

Watch this video to learn the difference between the past simple and the past continuous

PASSIVE VOICE

Grammar notes on passive voice are already available in the following two links:

1.Passive Voice 1

2. Passive Voice 2

GRAMMAR NOTES ON CONDITIONAL SENTENCES

Grammar notes on conditional sentences are available here. Below these lines you will also find a simple but useful chart to understand the main verb tenses used in conditional sentences.

FUTURE TENSES EXERCISES AND ANSWER KEY

Click here and you will find a PDF file with a lot of different web links to prepare your Monday's grammar test.
Besides, you can find an Answer Key for yesterday's grammar and vocabulary exercises.
I hope you find them useful!

REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS

Grammar notes on reflexive pronouns are already available in the following link:

1. Reflexive Pronouns

FUTURE TENSES, GRAMMAR FILES

Grammar notes are already available in the following links.

1. Future tenses

2. Future Continuous and Future Perfect

I hope you find them useful!

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY EXERCISES

You can prepare next Monday's test with these exercises. Here you can find some additional grammar exercises and their Answer Key. Besides, you can find some vocabulary exercises here and their Answer Key. 
Finally, I also include an Answer Key for yesterday's grammar and reading exercises.
I hope you find them useful!

THE STORY OF EVERYONE, SOMEONE, ANYONE AND NO-ONE

There was an important job to be done and Everyone was sure that Someone would do it.

Anyone  could have done it, but No-one did it.

Someone got angry about that because he thought that it was Everyone’s job.

Everyone thought that Anyone could do it, but No-one realised that Everyone wouldn’t do it.

It ended up that Everyone was angry with Someone because No-one did what Anyone could have done!

This is a different way to explain and understand indefinite pronouns. Here you will find some grammar notes if you prefer a traditional explanation. 

INTENSIFICADORES DE ADJETIVOS

Utilizamos los intensificadores (+ + +) para añadir fuerza, para intensificar el significado de los adjetivos. 

Por otra parte, podemos utilizar lo que conocemos como mitigadores (+/++)  para reducir, disminuir o moderar el significado del adjetivo al que se refieren.

Uso y significados

+ (un poco)	­­+ + (bastante)	+ + + (muy)
A little	Rather	very,
slightly	pretty	really
a bit	quite	extremely
	fairly

- You must be a little crazy to do such a thing.

- The film was quite funny and I enjoyed it. 

- I am really interested in politics.

Intensificador	Significado
a little	Un poco
slightly	Un poco. ligeramente
a bit	Un poco, algo
rather	Bastante
pretty	Bastante
quite	Bastante
fairly	Bastante
very,	Muy
really	Muy,  (-ísimo)
extremely	Sumamente,  (-ísimo)

EASILY CONFUSED WORDS

REMEMBER AND REMIND

Los verbos remember y remind pueden causar confusión, sobre todo al traducirlos al castellano, pero no deberíamos tener problemas al utilizarlos si tenemos en cuenta una serie de aspectos.

Hay dos aspectos importantes en los que debemos fijarnos:

1. Para traducir acordarse de sólo podemos hacerlo con remember. Así, podemos sustituirlo por recordar sin que varíe el significado

Debes recordar cerrar la puerta / Debes acordarte de cerrar la puerta

You must remember to close the door.

2. Usamos remind con una persona, es decir, si quieres usarlo debe haber un alguien y se puede descartar “to remember”.

Os recordamos que está prohibido fumar.

We remind you that smoking is forbidden.

Observa como contrastamos los dos verbos en estas dos oraciones similares, pero muy distinta

A) They don’t remember her address. (no se acuerdan de su dirección)

B) They don’t remind me her address (no me recordaron su dirección)

ACHIEVE, MANAGE AND REACH

Estos tres verbos son fácilmente confundibles si los traducimos como alcanzar, pero hay pequeños matices en su uso que hacen que los traduzcamos de distinta manera para saber cuándo hay que utilizarlos.

1. Achieve: Lo utilizaremos cuando queramos decir que algo se obtiene, se consigue o se logra con esfuerzo o dificultad.

My sister hopes to achieve all her goals

(Espera alcanzar o conseguir sus objetivos)

We achieved a great deal for our workers.

(Alcanzamos, conseguimos un gran acuerdo)

2. Manage: Expresamos la idea de lograr, “ser capaz de “, “poder”.

We managed to find a beautiful place to camp

(Fuimos capaces de encontrarlo)

Do you manage to connect the speakers?

(¿Eres capaz de conectarlos?)

3. Reach: Con este verbo expresamos que se consigue llegar a algún lugar complicado.

They reached the shore through the storm.

(Llegaron a la orilla, alcanzaron la orilla)

Please, bring me the ladder. I can’t reach the shelf

(No llego a la estanteria, no alcanzo)