Vocabulari i gramàtica d'anglès: diners, temps i estil indirecte
Vocabulari: diners i economia
Allowance: paga, prestació
Balance: saldo (del compte)
Begging: demanar diner
Debit card: targeta de dèbit
Donate: donar
Fortune: fortuna, molt diner
Income: ingrés, salari
Live on: viure, mantenir-se
Repay debt: pagar el deute
Savings: estalvis
Small change: calderilla, sueltos
Wealthy: ric, que té molt diners
Vocabulari: temps i retards
Bad timing: mal moment
Buy (some) time: guanyar temps
Deadline: data d'entrega, data límit
Get down to: començar a
Held up: aturat
On hold: en espera
On schedule: a temps, a la data prevista
Overdue: endarrerit, atrasat
Put off (postpone): posposar
Queuing: fer cua
Rescheduled: canviar el dia
The next day: l'endemà
Lateness: retard
Temps verbals
Present Simple (eat, eats) → Past Simple (ate)
Present Continuous (am/is/are + eating) → Past Continuous (was/were + eating)
Past Simple (ate) (-ed o irregular) → Past Perfect (had eaten) (had + pp)
Present Perfect (have/has + eaten) → Past Perfect (had eaten)
Past Perfect (had eaten) → Past Perfect (had eaten)
Past Continuous (was/were + eating) → Past Perfect Continuous (had been eating)
Present Perfect Continuous (have/has + been eating) → Past Perfect Continuous (had been eating)
Past Perfect Continuous (had been eating) → Past Perfect Continuous (had been eating)
Future (will eat) (will + infinitive) → Would eat (would + infinitive)
Can → Could
Must / Have to → Had to
May / Might
Expressions de temps i lloc
today → that day
tonight → that night
yesterday → the day before
last week → the week before
a month ago → the month before
tomorrow → the next day
next week → the following week
here → there
this → that
these → those
Verbs frasals
Pay for something: a credit card / cash
Pay by: pagar amb
Pay a bill: pagar una factura
Pay for lunch: pagar el dinar
Pay in: pagar en
Break into: entrar a robar
Come into: accedir a alguna cosa
Get by: arreglar-se, tenir prou de alguna cosa
Put aside: deixar de banda
Run up: dirigir-se corrent cap a alguna cosa
Take out: treure
Estil indirecte: preguntes
Preguntes de sí/no
Ex: "Do you like pizza?", she asked me
→ She asked me if I liked pizza (subject + verb + complements)
"Did you go to the cinema yesterday?", John asked me
→ John asked me if I had gone to the cinema the day before
"Have you studied for the exam?", she asked John
→ She asked John if he had studied for the exam
Preguntes amb paraula interrogativa (Wh-)
Ex: "Where do you live?", she asked me
→ She asked me where I lived (Wh-word + subject + verb + complements)
"Why didn't you go to the party?", John asked Mark
→ John asked Mark why he hadn't gone to the party
Estil indirecte: ordres
Ex: "Be quiet", the teacher ordered
→ The teacher ordered us to be quiet (TO + infinitive)
"Bring the books tomorrow", the teacher told us
→ The teacher told us to bring the books the following day
Negatiu: "Don't use your mobile in class", the teacher told us
→ The teacher told us not to use our mobile in class (NOT TO + infinitive)
Estil indirecte: suggeriments
Paraules clau: Let's, What about, Why don't we…
Ex: "Let's go to the cinema", she suggested
→ She suggested going to the cinema (gerund: verb + ing)
→ She suggested that we go to the cinema (that + subject + infinitive)
"What about travelling to NY next summer?", John asked me
1. John asked me about travelling to NY the following summer
2. John asked me whether we could travel to NY the following summer