1P Review BAS2

First Partial Review

English - Basic 2

Skills

Vocabulary

Grammar

Contents

Reading and Listening Skills - Efficiency

Simple Present Generalities

Simple Past Generalities

Verbs in Past - Regular & Irregular forms

Questions in Simple Past

Habits in the Past - Used to & Would

State vs Action verbs

Present Perfect

Companies

Older life

Quick Quiz

(WH-) DO/DOES (NOT) + SUB + VERB (BASE) + COMP

SUB + DO/DOES + NOT + VERB (BASE) + COMP

SUB + VERB (BASE) + COMP

• For repeated or regular actions (habits).
• For facts or generalizations.
• For future facts or actions set by a timetable.
• To express state, feelings, possession or things that happen inside our head.

Usage

Simple Present Generalities

SUB + DID + NOT + VERB (BASE) + COMP

Quick Quiz

(WH-) DID (NOT) + SUB + VERB (BASE) + COMP

SUB + VERB (IN PAST / REGULAR OR IRREGULAR) + COMP

• For a completed action in the past.
• For actions in the past that don't repeat.
• For a list of consecutive actions in the past.
• For completed actions in the past with specific time.

Usage

Simple Past Generalities

Quick Quiz

It is also important to remember that if the question has the verb BE in past - was / were - the answer should have the verb BE also. The same applies if the answer has was / were, then the question also needs was / were.

• How many people . . .
• How old . . .
• How tall . . .
• Which of these . . .
• And WHO does not always need the auxiliary

Please remember that each question word gives a different kind of complementary answer. Also, some question words have more than one word before the auxiliary:

INFORMATION QUESTIONS: Questions that need more complete ideas to be answered. They give details. Where did she go?

YES/NO QUESTIONS: Questions that can be answered with yes or no: Did Karla study last Sunday?

Questions in Simple Past

To get information about something, we need to ask questions. The information you will get depends on the question you make.

Quick quiz

Used to & Would

Examples:

• eat, walk, learn, grow, sleep, talk, write, run, read, become, go.

• Describe things that happen in time.
• They have a start and end.
• They represent the subject "moving" or "doing" something.

Action Verbs

Examples:

• have, consist, believe, think (opinion), disagree, own, hate, like, smell, taste, wish, cost.

• They refer to a state or condition that is static or unchanging.
• Verbs of "existing", perception or congnition are usually state verbs.

State Verbs

Quick quiz

State vs Action Verbs

SUB + HAVE/HAS + NOT + VERB (PARTICIPLE) + COMP

Quick Quiz

(WH-) HAVE/HAS (NOT) + SUB + VERB (PARTICIPLE) + COMP

SUB + HAVE/HAS + VERB (PARTICIPLE) + COMP

• To talk about experiences when we don't mention a specific time.
• To talk about a period of time that started in the past and continues until now.

Usage

Present Perfect Generalities

• dreams
• inspiration
• motivation

• gymnastics
• health
• sports
• family
• work
• travel
• relationships
• hobbies
• home

Being old

Key words

• import (reg. v.)
• a branch (noun)
• increase (reg. v.)
• expand (reg. v.)
• go public (phrase/v.)
• demand (noun / reg. v.)

Company History

Key words

• When reading or listening, focus on what you know rather than what you don't.
• Preview! Any extra information on the text, pictures, questions, they can all help you guess the topic. This activates your mind to recall everything you know about the topic.
• Trust yourself! You probably know more than you think. Forget about translations and start using your english.

Efficiency

Looking at the "big picture"

• Irregular verbs: They have different forms in each tense. Ex: write, wrote, written. Some verbs have similar past and participle families, but the best way to learn them is memorize and use them.

Apart from categorizing them in states and actions, verbs can also be regular and irregular. This responds to their form in the different tenses; present, past, participle.

Practice irregular verbs with flashcards

Verbs

Regular and Irregular Verbs

• Regular verbs: To make a regular present verb a past verb, just add -ed to the end of verb. Same for its participle form. Ex: work, worked, worked.