Condicionales en Inglés, Verbos Modales de Consejo y Vocabulario Temático

Condicionales en Inglés

Zero Conditional

Estructura: If + Present Simple, Present Simple (se utiliza para hechos generales, leyes científicas o verdades absolutas).

Ejemplos:

• If you cut yourself, you bleed.
• If I drink too much coffee, I can't sleep at night.
• When the sun goes down, it gets dark.

First Conditional

Estructura: If + Present Simple, Will + infinitivo (situaciones reales o muy probables en el futuro).

Nota: Cuando hay un verbo modal (como might, can, could o la perífrasis be able to), se utiliza para expresar posibilidad o hablar de una manera más educada.

Ejemplos:

• If I stay at home tonight, I will watch series.
• If it doesn't rain tomorrow, we'll go to the beach.
• When I finish work, I'll call you.

Verbos Modales para Consejos y Recomendaciones

Should

Significa "debería". Después de should se coloca directamente el verbo en infinitivo sin "to".

• Afirmativa (+): You should be careful with the hammer.
• Afirmativa (+): We should go to the beach this weekend.
• Negativa (-): You should not stress over that.
• Interrogativa (?): Shouldn’t you ask your parents first?

Ought To

Equivale a "debería", pero su uso es más formal.

• Afirmativa (+): David ought to study every day.
• Afirmativa (+): You ought to be at home. It’s late.
• Negativa (-): Marta ought not to come; she is ill.
• Negativa (-): You oughtn’t to drive if you have drunk.
• Interrogativa (?): Ought Peter to come to the wedding?

Had Better

Indica una advertencia o algo urgente que se debe cumplir (traducible como "más vale que" o "sería mejor que").

• Negativa (-): That had better not be what I think it is.
• Negativa (-): If they were not, they had better not start with it.
• Afirmativa (+): Well, for your sake, you had better be right this time.
• Afirmativa (+): After seven months of looking round, it had better be.
• Interrogativa (?): Had we better wait for the teacher?
• Interrogativa (?): Had I better report the robbery?

Glosario de Vocabulario

Salud y Términos Generales

• Diagnose: Subject to a medical analysis.
• Habits: Put a habit on / A settled or regular tendency or practice.
• Treatment: Medical care.
• Monitor: To observe or track something.
• Medication: Drugs or substances used to treat conditions.
• Patients: A person who requires medical care.
• Motivate: Give an incentive for action.
• Advice: Recommendations.
• Turn to: Support / To become / To rely on someone.

Unit 8: Idiomas, Sociedad y Preservación

• Acquire: To gain or develop a skill, habit, or knowledge over time.
• Bilingual: A person who can speak two languages.
• Policy: A rule or official plan made by an organization.
• Disappear: To take away completely so that something ceases to exist or be seen.
• Linguist: A person who studies languages.
• Dominant: More powerful or important.
• Generation: A group of people born and living at the same time.
• Endangered: At risk of no longer existing.
• Extinct: No longer existing.
• Eventually: After a period of time.
• Preserve: To keep something safe or protect it.
• Replace: To take the place of something.