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UNIT 1

[1.1] How to study UNIT 1?

[1.2] What… like?

[1.3] It

[1.4] Present simple

[1.5] Present continuous

[1.6] Past simple

[1.7] Present perfect

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1.1. How to study the UNIT 1?

Para estudiar esta unidad debes seguir los siguientes pasos:

1. Consulta la Guía del alumno (páginas de la 6 a la 12). En esta guía encontrarás un

guión que te permitirá organizar el material que debes estudiar.

2. Estudia el Manual del alumno (páginas de la 16 a la 23).

3. Escucha del Self study CD 1 las pistas de la 1 a la 23 y del CD Listen and speak

las pistas de la 1 a la 5.

4. Después practica con los ejercicios correspondientes.

1.2. What … like?

Presente

What

‘s

are

the weather

the people like?

It’s cold and cloudy.

They’re friendly.

Pasado was

were

the weather

the people

It was freezing.

They were very nice.

Se utiliza “What + be + nombre + like?” Para preguntar cómo es algo.

Debes darte cuenta de la diferencia entre be like donde like es una preposición y el

verbo like.



1.3. It

Se utiliza it para hablar de la hora, días y fechas, distancias y el tiempo:

La hora

What time is it? It’s five past nine. ¿Qué hora es? Son las nueve y cinco.

What time is it? It´s a quarter to twelve. ¿Qué hora es? Son las doce menos cuarto.

Los días y las fechas

What day is it? It’s twenty second of July. ¿Qué día es? Es veintidós de julio.

What day is it? It’s Wednesday before holiday. ¿Qué día es? Es miércoles antes de

vacaciones.

Las distancias

How long is it from your house to the school? ¿A qué distancia está tu casa del colegio?

It’s less than one kilometer. Hay menos de un kilómetro.

It’s twenty kilometers to get to the funfair. Hay veinte kilómetros hasta llegar al parque

de atracciones.

El tiempo

Does it rain a lot in winter? ¿Llueve mucho en invierno?

It’s a sunny day, perfect to go to the beach. Hace un día soleado, perfecto para ir a la

playa.

Is it windy? It’s very windy. ¿Hace viento? Sí hace mucho viento.

1.4. Present simple

Se utiliza el presente simple para hablar de lo que ocurre con regularidad, cada día,

cada semana, cada año, etc. Además de para expresar verdades generales: “The water

boils at 100ºC”.



Es importante que recuerdes que para formar frases afirmativas con el verbo en

presente simple, debes añadir una s al formar el verbo en la tercera persona del

singular:

Frases afirmativas Frases negativas

I

You

We

They

work.

I

You

We

They

don’t

work.

He

She

It

works.

He

She

It

doesn’t

Después de una pregunta, en las respuestas cortas se utiliza el verbo auxiliar:

Do you work? Yes, I do. No, I don’t.

Does he work? Yes, he does. No, he doesn’t.

Las reglas gramaticales para formar la tercera persona del singular de los verbos son

las mismas que para formar el plural de los nombres:

Ortografía

He reads The Times. + s

The film (it) finishes at 9.00 o’clock. + es

She studies biology. Consonante + y ies

1.5. Present continuous

Se utiliza el presente continuo para referirse a algo que está ocurriendo en el

momento en el que se está hablando:



Afirmativas Negativas

I ’m I ’m not

studying.

working.

You ‘re You ’re not

He

‘s

He

isn’t She She

It It

We ‘re

We aren’t

They They

Después de una pregunta, en las respuestas cortas se utiliza el verbo auxiliar:

Am I

studying?

Yes, I am. No, I’m not.

Are they Yes, they are. No, they’re not.

Is she Yes, she is. No, she’s not.

No olvides que para la formación del gerundio debes seguir las siguientes reglas:

Infinitivo Verbo acabado en -ing Ortografía

Cook

Try

Cooking

Trying + ing

Dance Dancing e + ing

Swim Swimming 1 vocal + 1 consonante

doble consonante

A continuación tienes una lista de verbos que NO SE UTILIZAN EN PRESENTE

CONTINUO, sino que siempre se escriben en presente simple:

like prefer love hate want need know

mean understand believe remember forget depend



1.6. Past simple

Se utiliza el pasado simple para hablar de acciones que empezaron y terminaron en

el pasado.

En el pasado simple la tercera persona del singular no varía y la forma irregular de

los verbos solo se utiliza en las frases con sentido afirmativo.

Verbos regulares Verbos irregulares

I

You

He

She

It

We

They

lived in Turkey in 1980.

worked for IBM.

stopped working at 12.00.

studied law.

+ d

+ ed

+ ed

y ied

I

You

He

She

It

We

They

went to Greece in 1995.

had a meeting yesterday.

saw a film last night.



A continuación una lista completa de verbos irregulares:

Infinitivo

Pasado simple Participio Traducción Infinitivo Pasado simple Participio Traducción

Arise Arose Arisen Surgir, levantarse Come Came Come Venir

Awake Awoke Awoken Despertarse Cost Cost Cost Costar

Be/am, are, is Was /Were Been Ser / Estar Cut Cut Cut Cortar

Bear Bore Borne / Born Soportar, dar a luz Choose Chose Chosen Elegir

Beat Beat Beaten Golpear Cling Clung Clung Agarrarse

Become Became Become Llegar a ser Creep Crept Crept Arrastrarse

Begin Began Begun Empezar Deal Dealt Dealt Tratar

Bend Bent Bent Doblar Dig Dug Dug Cavar

Bet Bet Bet Apostar Do/does Did Done Hacer

Bind Bound Bound Atar, encuadernar Draw Drew Drawn Dibujar

Bid Bid Bid Pujar Dream Dreamt/Dreamed Dreamt/Dreamed Soñar

Bite Bit Bitten Morder Drink Drank Drunk Beber

Bleed Bled Bled Sangrar Drive Drove Driven Conducir

Blow Blew Blown Soplar Eat Ate Eaten Comer

Break Broke Broken Romper Fall Fell Fallen Caer

Breed Bred Bred Criar Feed Fed Fed Alimentar

Bring Brought Brought Traer, llevar Feel Felt Felt Sentir

Broadcast Broadcast Broadcast Radiar Fight Fought Fought Luchar

Build Built Built Edificar, construir Find Found Found Encontrar

Burn Burnt /Burned Burnt /Burned Quemar Flee Fled Fled Huir

Burst Burst Burst Reventar Fly Flew Flown Volar

Buy Bought Bought Comprar Forbid Forbade Forbidden Prohibir

Cast Cast Cast Arrojar Forget Forgot Forgotten Olvidar

Catch Caught Caught Coger, cazar Forgive Forgave Forgiven Perdonar



Infinitivo


Freeze Froze Frozen Helar Lose Lost Lost Perder

Get Got Got/Gotten Obtener Make Made Made Hacer

Give Gave Given Dar Mean Meant Meant Significar

Go/goes Went Gone Ir Meet Met Met Encontrar

Grow Grew Grown Crecer Mistake Mistook Mistaken Equivocar

Grind Ground Ground Moler Overcome Overcame Overcome Vencer

Hang Hung Hung Colgar Pay Paid Paid Pagar

Have/has Had Had Haber, Tener Put Put Put Poner

Hear Heard Heard Oír Read Read Read Leer

Hide Hid Hidden Ocultar Ride Rode Ridden Montar

Hit Hit Hit Golpear Ring Rang Rung Llamar

Hold Held Held Agarrar, celebrar Rise Rose Risen Levantarse

Hurt Hurt Hurt Herir Run Ran Run Correr

Keep Kept Kept Conservar Say Said Said Decir

Know Knew Known Saber, conocer See Saw Seen Ver

Kneel Knelt Knelt Arrodillarse Seek Sought Sought Buscar

Knit Knit Knit Hacer punto Sell Sold Sold Vender

Lay Laid Laid Poner Send Sent Sent Enviar

Lead Led Led Conducir Set Set Set Poner (se)

Lean Leant Leant Apoyarse Sew Sewed Sewed/sewn Coser

Leap Leapt Leapt Brincar Shake Shook Shaken Sacudir

Learn Learnt / Learned Learnt / Learned Aprender Shear Shore Shorn Esquilar

Leave Left Left Dejar Shine Shone Shone Brillar

Lend Lent Lent Prestar Shoot Shot Shot Disparar

Let Let Let Permitir Show Showed Shown Mostrar

Lie Lay Lain Echarse Shrink Shrank Shrunk Encogerse

Light Lit Lit Encender Shut Shut Shut Cerrar



Infinitivo


Sing Sang Sung Cantar Sweat Sweat Sweat Sudar

Sink Sank Sunk Hundir Sweep Swept Swept Barrer

Sit Sat Sat Sentarse Swell Swelled Swollen Hinchar

Sleep Slept Slept Dormir Swim Swam Swum Nadar

Slide Slid Slid Resbalar Swing Swung Swung Columpiarse

Smell Smelt Smelt Oler Take Took Taken Coger

Sow Sowed Sowed / Sown Sembrar Teach Taught Taught Enseñar

Speak Spoke Spoken Hablar Tear Tore Torn Rasgar

Speed Sped Sped Acelerar Tell Told Told Decir

Spell Spelt Spelt Deletrear Think Thought Thought Pensar

Spend Spent Spent Gastar Throw Threw Thrown Arrojar, tirar

Spill Spilt / Spilled Spilt / Spilled Derramar Thrust Thrust Thrust Introducir

Spin Spun Spun Hilar Tread Trod Trodden Pisar, hollar

Spit Spat Spat Escupir Understand Understood understood Entender

Split Split Split Hender, rajar Undergo Underwent Undergone Sufrir

Spoil Spoilt / Spoiled Spoilt / Spoiled Estropear Undertake Undertook undertaken Emprender

Spread Spread Spread Extender Wake Woke Woken Despertarse

Spring Sprang Sprung Saltar Wear Wore Worn Llevar puesto

Stand Stood Stood Estar en pie Weave Wove Woven Tejer

Steal Stole Stolen Robar Weep Wept Wept Llorar

Stick Stuck Stuck Pegar, engomar Wet Wet Wet Mojar

Sting Stung Stung Picar Win Won Won Ganar

Stink Stank/stunk Stunk Apestar Wind Wound Wound Enrollar

Stride Strode Stridden Dar zancadas Withdraw Withdrew Withdrawn Retirarse

Strike Struck Struck Golpear Wring Wrung Wrung Torcer

Swear Swore Sworn Jurar Write Wrote Written Escribir



1.7. Present perfect

El pretérito perfecto se forma con el verbo auxiliar have + el participio de pasado.

Se utiliza cuando no se dice con exactitud cuándo pasó algo y para hablar de forma

general de las experiencias pasadas; sin embargo, para hablar de forma concreta sobre

cuándo sucedió algo, se utiliza el pasado simple.

Frases afirmativas Frases negativas

I

You

We

They

‘ve

worked in France.

been to USA.

I

You

We

They

haven’t

worked in Italy.

been to Canada. He

She

It

‘s

He

She

It

hasn’t

En los verbos regulares el participio de pasado termina en –ed, igual que el pasado

simple, por ejemplo:

I worked – I’ve worked

Pero en los verbos irregulares la forma del participio suele ser diferente. Consulta la

lista de verbos irregulares de las páginas anteriores y presta atención a la tercera

columna.


UNIT 1 – Specially recommended

Specially recommended

Don’t miss… Good night, and good luck

Ficha técnica

Dirección: George Clooney.

País: USA.

Año: 2005.

Duración: 93 min.

Género: Thriller político.

Interpretación: David Strathairn (Edward R. Murrow),

Robert Downey Jr. (Joe Wershba), Patricia Clarkson

(Shirley Wershba), Ray Wise (Don Hollenbeck), Frank

Langella (William Paley), Jeff Daniels (Sigfried "Sig"

Mickelson), George Clooney (Fred Friendly), Tate Donovan

(Jesse Zousmer), Tom McCarthy (Palmer Williams), Matt

Ross (Eddie Scott).

Guión: George Clooney y Grant Heslov.

Producción: Grant Heslov.

Fotografía B/N: Robert Elswit.

Montaje: Stephen Mirrione.

Diseño de producción: Jim Bissell.

Dirección artística: Christa Munro.

Vestuario: Louise Frogley.

Estreno en USA: 7 Octubre 2005.

Estreno en España: 10 Febrero 2006.

Sinopsis

Buenas noches, y buena suerte se desarrolla durante los años 50 en lo que podría

denominarse el periodismo televisivo.

Edward R. Murrow está firmemente decidido a informar de la verdad más absoluta

sobre las tácticas y procedimientos del Senador McCarthy. Por supuesto, no resulta una

tarea fácil puesto que los patrocinadores del programa de radio See it now no están de

acuerdo con destapar las mentiras y artimañas del Senador en lo que se dio en llamar la

“caza de brukas comunista”.


UNIT 1 – Specially recommended

Aún así, el equipo de redacción de la ya célebre CBS, compuesto entre otros por Fred

Friendly y Joe Wershba (además de Murrow), dedice persistir en su empeño por sacar

la verdad a la luz; y después de sufrir incluso graves acusaciones que podrían costar la

carrera profesional del equipo, el esfuerzo se ve recompensado: el senador McCarthy es

por fin desposeído de su cargo al hacerse públicas sus estrategias, ilegalidades y

mentiras.

Visita la web oficial de la película:

http://wip.warnerbros.com/goodnightgoodluck/index1.html


UNIT 1 – + Information

+ Information

Giving an oral presentation

In this article (1999), according to the speaking consultant Lilyan Wilder, you can find

some advice about how to prepare an oral presentation. Once you’ve read the whole

text, apart from learning how to use all your body, the voice, the visual aids, etc., you

will also discover that practice is the most important way to learn.

You can also visit the web sites at the end of the article.

http://corporate.britannica.com/library/home/BSW_Oral_Presentation.pdf


UNIT 1 – VIP

VIP

Joseph Pulitzer

Joseph Pulitzer was born in Mako, Hungary on April

10, 1847, the son of a wealthy grain merchant of

Magyar-Jewish origin and a German mother who

was a devout Roman Catholic. His younger brother,

Albert, was trained for the priesthood but never

attained it. The elder Pulitzer retired in Budapest

and Joseph grew up and was educated there in

private schools and by tutors.

Early years Restive at the age of seventeen, the gangling 6'2" youth decided to become a soldier and

tried in turn to enlist in the Austrian Army, Napoleon's Foreign Legion for duty in

Mexico, and the British Army for service in India. He was rebuffed because of weak

eyesight and frail health, which were to plague him for the rest of his life. However, in

Hamburg, Germany, he encountered a bounty recruiter for the U.S. Union Army and

contracted to enlist as a substitute for a draftee, a procedure permitted under the Civil

War draft system.

At Boston he jumped ship and, as the legend goes, swam to shore, determined to keep

the enlistment bounty for himself rather than leave it to the agent. Pulitzer collected the

bounty by enlisting for a year in the Lincoln Cavalry, which suited him since there were

many Germans in the unit. He was fluent in German and French but spoke very little

English. Later, he worked his way to St. Louis. While doing odd jobs there, such as

muleteer, baggage handler, and waiter, he immersed himself in the city's Mercantile

Library, studying English and the law.

Beginning of a career

His great career opportunity came in a unique manner in the library's chess room.

Observing the game of two habitues, he astutely critiqued a move and the players,

impressed, engaged Pulitzer in conversation. The players were editors of the leading

German language daily, Westliche Post, and a job offer followed.


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Four years later, in 1872, the young Pulitzer, who had built a reputation as a tireless

enterprising journalist, was offered a controlling interest in the paper by the nearly

bankrupt owners. At age 25, Pulitzer became a publisher and there followed a series of

shrewd business deals from which he emerged in 1878 as the owner of the St. Louis

Post-Dispatch, and a rising figure on the journalistic scene.

Personal changes

Earlier in the same year, he and Kate Davis, a socially prominent Washingtonian

woman, were married in the Protestant Episcopal Church. The Hungarian immigrant

youth - once a vagrant on the slum streets of St. Louis and taunted as "Joey the Jew" -

had been transformed. Now he was an American citizen and as speaker, writer, and

editor had mastered English extraordinarily well. Elegantly dressed, wearing a

handsome, reddish-brown beard and pince-nez glasses, he mixed easily with the social

elite of St. Louis, enjoying dancing at fancy parties and horseback riding in the park.

This lifestyle was abandoned abruptly when he came into the ownership of the St.

Louis Post-Dispatch.

James Wyman Barrett, the last city editor of The New York World, records in his

biography Joseph Pulitzer and His World how Pulitzer, in taking hold of the Post-

Dispatch, "worked at his desk from early morning until midnight or later, interesting

himself in every detail of the paper." Appealing to the public to accept that his paper

was their champion, Pulitzer splashed investigative articles and editorials assailing

government corruption, wealthy tax-dodgers, and gamblers. This populist appeal was

effective, circulation mounted, and the paper prospered. Pulitzer would have been

pleased to know that in the conduct of the Pulitzer Prize system which he later

established, more awards in journalism would go to exposure of corruption than to any

other subject.

Failing health

Pulitzer paid a price for his unsparingly rigorous work at his newspaper. His health was

undermined and, with his eyes failing, Pulitzer and his wife set out in 1883 for New

York to board a ship on a doctor-ordered European vacation. Stubbornly, instead of

boarding the steamer in New York, he met with Jay Gould, the financier, and

negotiated the purchase of The New York World, which was in financial straits.


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Putting aside his serious health concerns, Pulitzer immersed himself in its direction,

bringing about what Barrett describes as a "one-man revolution" in the editorial policy,

content, and format of The World. He employed some of the same techniques that had

built up the circulation of the Post-Dispatch. He crusaded against public and private

corruption, filled the news columns with a spate of sensationalized features, made the

first extensive use of illustrations, and staged news stunts. In one of the most successful

promotions, The World raised public subscriptions for the building of a pedestal at

the entrance to the New York harbor so that the Statue of Liberty, which was stranded

in France awaiting shipment, could be emplaced.

More difficulties The formula worked so well that in the next

decade the circulation of The World in all its

editions climbed to more than 600,000, and it

reigned as the largest circulating newspaper in

the country. But unexpectedly Pulitzer himself

became a victim of the battle for circulation

when Charles Anderson Dana, publisher of

The Sun, frustrated by the success of The

World launched vicious personal attacks on

him as "the Jew who had denied his race and

religion." The unrelenting campaign was

designed to alienate New York's Jewish

community from The World.

Pulitzer's health was fractured further during this ordeal and in 1890, at the age of 43

he withdrew from the editorship of The World and never returned to its newsroom.

Virtually blind, having in his severe depression succumbed also to an illness that made

him excruciatingly sensitive to noise, Pulitzer went abroad frantically seeking cures. He

failed to find them, and the next two decades of his life he spent largely in

soundproofed "vaults," as he referred to them, aboard his yacht, Liberty, in the "Tower

of Silence" at his vacation retreat in Bar Harbor, Maine, and at his New York mansion.

During those years, although he traveled very frequently, Pulitzer managed,

nevertheless, to maintain the closest editorial and business direction of his newspapers.

To ensure secrecy in his communications he relied on a code that filled a book

containing some 20,000 names and terms.


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War years

During the years 1896 to 1898 Pulitzer was drawn into a bitter circulation battle

with William Randolph Hearst's Journal in which there were no apparent restraints on

sensationalism or fabrication of news. When the Cubans rebelled against Spanish rule,

Pulitzer and Hearst sought to outdo each other in whipping up outrage against the

Spanish. Both called for war against Spain after the U.S. battleship Maine mysteriously

blew up and sank in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898. Congress reacted to the

outcry with a war resolution. After the four-month war, Pulitzer withdrew from what

had become known as "yellow journalism".

The World became more restrained and served as the influential editorial voice on

many issues of the Democratic Party. In the view of historians, Pulitzer's lapse into

"yellow journalism" was outweighed by his public service achievements. He waged

courageous and often successful crusades against corrupt practices in government and

business. He was responsible to a large extent for passage of antitrust legislation and

regulation of the insurance industry.

1909- 1911

In 1909, The World exposed a fraudulent payment of $40

million by the United States to the French Panama Canal

Company. The federal government lashed back at The

World by indicting Pulitzer for criminally libeling President

Theodore Roosevelt and the banker J.P. Morgan, among

others. Pulitzer refused to retreat, and The World persisted

in its investigation. When the courts dismissed the

indictments, Pulitzer was applauded for a crucial victory on

behalf of freedom of the press.

In May 1904, writing in The North American Review in support of his proposal for the

founding of a school of journalism, Pulitzer summarized his credo: "Our Republic and

its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with

trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public

virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of

future generations."


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1912 – present

In 1912, one year after Pulitzer's death aboard his yacht, the Columbia School of

Journalism was founded, and the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded in 1917 under the

supervision of the advisory board to which he had entrusted his mandate. Pulitzer

envisioned an advisory board composed principally of newspaper publishers. Others

would include the president of Columbia University and scholars, and "persons of

distinction who are not journalists or editors."

Today, the 19-member board is composed mainly of leading editors or news executives.

Four academics also serve, including the president of Columbia University and the

dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. The dean and the administrator

of the prizes are non-voting members. The chair rotates annually to the most senior

member. The board is self-perpetuating in the election of members. Voting members

may serve three terms of three years. In the selection of the members of the board and

of the juries, close attention is given to professional excellence and affiliation, as well as

diversity in terms of gender, ethnic background, geographical distribution and size of

newspaper.

From:

www.pulitzer.org


UNIT 1 – Recording yourself

Recording yourself

About Pulitzer

Summarize the text about Joseph Pulitzer that you worked on the section before.

Record yourself answering the following questions:

¿Have you discovered something new about this important person?

Describe a few words you have learnt after reading his biography.

¿Cómo grabarte? Es muy sencillo, solo necesitas unos cascos con micrófono incorporado. En

el menú Inicio de Windows, deberás desplegar la pestaña Todos los programas, pinchar en

Accesorios, Entretenimiento y Grabadora de sonidos. Aparecerá en tu pantalla un menú muy

sencillo para que puedas grabar y escuchar tu voz. Una vez que lo tengas grabado (puedes hacer

las pruebas que sean necesarias) pincha en Archivo y guárdalo con extensión *.wav. Por

ejemplo: juan.perez_unit1.wav.


UNIT 1 – Exercises

Exercises

Language practice 1B

Vocabulario

1. Lee el texto sobre Dean Cain (página 26). Escribe frases emparejando los ítems de las

columnas:

1 Reporter a Letters, postcards, etc.

2 Make-up b An actor says these in a film

3 Lines c Journalist

4 Mail d Needing a lot of efforts

5 Hard e Actors wear this on their face

Presente simple

2. Lee el texto sobre Dean Cain (página 26). Escribe frases:

5.oo a.m. ________He wakes up____________________

5.10 a.m. _____________________________________

5.30 a.m. _____________________________________

6.30. a.m. _____________________________________

7.30. p.m. _____________________________________

8.30. p.m. _____________________________________

9.30. p.m. _____________________________________

10.00. p.m. ____________________________________

3. Escribe las palabras en el orden correcto para formar las preguntas:

Get up does what he time?

_What time does he get up?___________________________

Get how he does work to?

______________________________________________



Does he to gym when go the?

______________________________________________

Does often eat he rice how?

______________________________________________

Does do night at he what usually?

______________________________________________

Go bed what he does to time?

______________________________________________

Pronunciación

4. Destaca de alguna forma el verbo de cada grupo que tenga un sonido distinto:

GRUPO 1 Sleeps Wakes Washes Works

GRUPO 2 Plays Finishes Goes Leaves

GRUPO 3 Relaxes Watches Uses Lives

Acertijo

5. Añade dos palabras de cada serie

ONE two three ONCE

YESTERDAY SPRING

FIRST TUESDAY



Language practice 1C

Pasado simple

1. Completa el texto con los siguientes verbos en pasado:

Arrive Be Break Can’t Decide

Be Find Go Be (not) Have

Start (not) Stop Drive Rent

Two years ago I ______ camping in Scotland at the end of August with my wife and

three children. It was awful! We _______ a car from Heathrow and ______ there,

but our car ___ ____ down, and when we ____ ______ at the campsite it ______ _

dark.

The campsite _________ really full and we ________ _ sleep because it ___ ___

very noisy. During the night it _ ________ to rain and it ________ _____ for four

days. After three nights we _________ to go to the town. We _____ ___ a cheap

hotel, but they ________ any rooms. Finally we drove back to London and got the

next flight back to Spain.

2. Completa las preguntas:

A. Have a good holiday?

__Did you have a good holiday?____ ___________________

B. Yes, it was great.

A. Where / go?

______________________________________________

B. To Greece.

A. Where / stay?

______________________________________________

B. In a small hotel.



A. What / the hotel like?

______________________________________________

B. It was really nice, quiet and comfortable.

A. How long / stay?

______________________________________________

B. For ten days.

A. What / the weather like?

______________________________________________

B. Fantastic, hot and sunny every day.

A. What / the food like?

______________________________________________

B. Delicious.

3. Escribe las palabras en la columna correspondiente:

Incredible coach awful sightseeing delicious windsurfing

wonderful boat horrible plane sunbathing terrible

Transporte Actividad

Adjetivos positivos Adjetivos negativos

Incredible

Subraya la sílaba tónica en cada palabra



Language practice 1D

Participio pasado

1. Completa el cuadro:

Infinitivo Pasado Participio

make made

saw

played

meet

had

try

be

heard

gone

travel

Pretérito perfecto

2. Completa las preguntas y las respuestas: - So, Annabel, have you worked as a travel courier before? (work)

- Well, no, I haven’t, but I _____ ______ in a travel agent’s. (work)

- Good. _____ ______ ______ to Britain? (be)

- I _______ _______ to England, but I ______ _______ to Scotland, Ireland, or

Wales. (be, not be)

- ______ ______ ______ a lot? (travel)

- No, I haven’t, but I ______ ______ a lot of tourists. (meet)

3. Escribe frases sobre Annabel.

Travel courier

__She hasn’t worked as a travel courier_________



In a travel agent’s

___________________________________

England

___________________________________

Scotland

___________________________________

Travel a lot

___________________________________

Meet a lot of tourists

___________________________________

What’s it like?

3. Completa la estructura What’s like?

I’ve been to Thailand.

Really? What’s it like?_________ ______________

I’ve met Madonna.

Really? _________________________________

I met my girlfriend’s parents last night.

Really? _________________________________

I’ve worked with Pavarotti.

Really? _________________________________

I saw the new film Dracula yesterday.

Really? _________________________________

I’ve bought some new shoes.

Really? _________________________________



Acertijo

4. Lee el acertijo con ayuda de un diccionario:

You’ve often looked at me, but you’ve never talked to me.

You’ve washed me many times, but never in the bathroom.

You’ve dropped me, but you’ve never hurt me.

You’ve held me in your hand.

You’ve put me in your mouth.

You’ve seen your face in me.

What am I?



Grammar check UNIT 1

What … like?

1. Escribe las preguntas y emparéjalas con las de la columna de enfrente:

1 weather the like what’s?

What’s the weather like?_____

a It’s an interesting country.

2 like Thailand what’s?

______________________

b They were very clean.

3 the hotel what like was?

______________________

c It’s cold and foggy.

4 were like beaches the what?

______________________

d She’s very nice.

5 new what’s John’s girlfriend like?

______________________

e It was very comfortable.

It

2. Escribe frases sobre los dibujos:

It’s sunny

Repaso de los tiempos verbales

3. Escribe los verbos en el tiempo correspondiente:

Where (you work)?

___________________________



My sister (play) the guitar well?

___________________________

What time (he start) work every day?

___________________________

David’s in the bathroom. He (have) a shower.

___________________________

(he come) tonight?

___________________________

Where (you go) last night?

___________________________

I (get up) early this morning.

___________________________

I (not speak) to him yesterday

___________________________

What (you do) next summer?

___________________________

What a surprise! What (you do) here?

___________________________



El pretérito perfecto

4. Completa el cuadro:

Infinitivo Pasado Participio

Work worked worked

Be was /were

See seen

Go went

tried tried

Meet

5. Escribe las frases en pretérito perfecto. Utiliza contracciones.

You (meet) my wife?

__Have you met my wife?_________

They (not try) Indian food

___________________________

I (be) to Istanbul

___________________________

They (travel) a lot

___________________________

He (work) in a restaurant

___________________________

We (not see) her new flat

___________________________

Documents

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