Condicionales en inglés: tipos 1, 2 y 3 con ejemplos y vocabulario informático
Condicionales
1º Tipo de condicional
IF + Present Simple / WILL + INFINITIVE (If it rains tomorrow, we will go shopping)
IF + PRESENT CONTINUOUS (If you are waiting for the bus, you will have to join the queue)
IF + PRESENT PERFECT (If you have finished, I will ask for the bill)
IF + MODAL + INFINITIVE (If I can afford it, I will buy a new car)
IF … / IMPERATIVE (If you are chatting with Martin, tell him I am doing my homework)
IF … / PRESENT SIMPLE (If you heat ice, it turns into water)
IF … / CAN, MUST + INFINITIVE (If the fog gets thicker, the flight might be put off)
2º Tipo de condicional
IF + SIMPLE PAST / WOULD + INFINITIVE (If we didn't have English lesson, we would go to the playground)
IF + PAST CONTINUOUS (If my car was working, I would drive you to the station)
IF + MODAL + INFINITIVE (If I could afford it, I would buy a new car)
IF … / COULD, MIGHT + INFINITIVE (If I had a compass, I might find the way out)
3º Tipo de condicional
IF + PAST PERFECT / WOULD + HAVE + PARTICIPLE (If he had studied, he would have passed his exams)
IF … / COULD, MIGHT + HAVE + PARTICIPLE (If we had gone to the party, we could have met Brad Pitt)
Notas gramaticales
- Past Perfect: se forma con had más el verbo en -ed o, si es irregular, su participio.
- Simple Past: en afirmativa se forma con el verbo en pasado (-ed en los regulares); en negativa e interrogativa se usa did / didn't.
Vocabulario de informática
- browser: navegador
- CD burner: grabadora de CD
- device: dispositivo
- digital camera: cámara digital
- GPS
- hacker
- headphones: auriculares
- home page: página de inicio
- iPod
- laptop: portátil
- memory: memoria
- mouse: ratón
- MP4 player
- Palm Pilot
- scanner: escáner
- search engine: motor de búsqueda
- software
- USB flash drive: unidad flash USB
- virus
- webcam: cámara web
- website: sitio web
Verbos
- copy: copiar
- crash: chocar
- direct: dirigir
- disturb: molestar
- download: descargar
- reset: restaurar
- transfer: transferir
Expresiones
- computer-literate: conocimientos informáticos
- user-friendly: fácil de utilizar
- virtual-reality: realidad virtual
- wi-fi
- access information: acceso a la información
- click on an icon: hacer clic en un icono
- go online: ir en línea, conectarse
- highlight part of a text: resaltar parte del texto
- insert a disc: insertar un disco
- make a backup copy: hacer una copia de seguridad