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An introduction to modal verbs, money vocabulary and a phrasal verb test. Reza finally gets a credit card, Craig doesn’t know what ‘moradores’ are and there are strange sounds coming from the neighbour’s flat.
Feedback from Thelma:
Hola …… me encanta escucharlos, su metodología de enseñanza es muy buena para mi, soy hondureña y hace mucho deseaba escuchar un programa como este. Yo les doy cinco estrellas, estoy de aprendiendo muchas cosas con ustedes.
Les comento que he visitado Belfast, Dublín y Maynooth, me gusto mucho sus moradores son personas gentiles, visite varios lugares incluyendo los Pubs….jijijijiji
Gracias por todo lo que comparten y abrazos para ambos.
Thelma Cabrera
Gramática: MODAL VERBS – An introduction
We spoke about can and can’t in episode 7.
Los verbos modales en inglés (modal auxiliary verbs) son:
can, could – poder, saber
may, might – poder
will, would – querer
shall, should – deber
must – deber
ought to – deber
A veces, ‘need‘ (tener que) y ‘dare‘ (atreverse), también tienen las mismas características gramaticales de los verbos modales.
• No añaden la ‘s’ en la tercera persona del singular del presente.
– She must know his telephone number. – Ella debe saber su número de teléfono.
X She musts know…. X
• Forman la interrogación, la negación, las respuestas cortas y las llamadas ‘preguntas coletilla‘ (tag questions), sin utilizar el auxiliary ‘do’.
– Can you speak Spanish? – ¿Puedes hablar español?
X Do you can….. X
• Forman la negación añadiendo el not.
– I cannot go on Friday. – No puedo ir el viernes.
• Admiten contracciones.
cannot = can’t
could not = couldn’t
might not = mightn’t
will not = won’t
would not = wouldn’t
shall not = shan’t (inglés británico)
should not = shouldn’t
must not = mustn’t
ought not to = oughtn’t to
• Los verbos modales no tienen el infinitivo, por lo que no pueden estar precedidos de ‘to’.
X to can X X to might X
• Van seguidos de infinitivo sin ‘to’, con exepción de ‘ought’
– I must buy some milk – Debo comprar leche.
X I must to buy…. X
– We can leave at seven. – Podemos marcharnos a las siete.
X We can to leave…. X
• Los verbos modales no tienen el participio pasado ni el participio presente. Sólo tienen una o dos formas y carecen de la mayoría de los tiempos.
X musting X X musted X
Vocabulary Corner: MONEY
a wallet / a purse / a handbag
cash point / a cash machine / a hole in the wall (colloquial) (UK) / ATM (USA)
to take (draw) out money / to withdraw (sacar dinero) – to make a withdrawal
a note (UK) / a bill (USA) (un billete) – a coin (una moneda)
foreign currency (dollar, pound, yen, euro)
credit card (you can buy things ‘on credit’ and pay in the future) / debit card (you must have the money in your account)
cashback – getting cash from a shop or supermarket when you buy something.
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Phrasal verbs: Guess the phrasal verb:
have a good relationship with = get on with
reduce the quantitiy of = cut down on
see socially, romantically on a regular basis = go out with
tolerate = put up with
stay at the same level as = keep up with
finish/have no more of = run out of
Estudiar más phrasal verbs con el CD Get Ahead with Phrasal Verbs de Mike Hardinge, recomendado por La Mansión del Inglés. Haz click aquí para saber más.
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Hola es la segunda vez que me dirijo a vosotros…..una pregunta, ¿cual es la diferencia entre, ought, must, o should?
tambien comentaros que “moradores” lo usan más en Suramérica que en España, aquí decimos como bien habéis dicho en el podcast “habitantes” o “lugareños” (de lugar = place) , pero recordad que en América muchas veces hablan más correcto que aquí en España.
I’m improving my English very much, thanks to you, when I’ll get money, I’m gonna buy your CD’s but now i’ts impossible. I’m unemployed.
THANK YOU
Hi Rafael. It’s good to hear from you again. Reza and I are going to speak more about modal verbs like should, must etc in the future. We will explain all the modal verbs in detail in future episodes. Thanks for listening.
Thanks for writing Rafael. I have put ‘ought to’, ‘must’ and ‘should’ on the list to speak about in a future podcast. I’ll pass it to Reza so that he can prepare an explanation. I think many people have problems with these three modal verbs.
Hi, Reza and Craig. I am from Peru, but in this moment I am living in Australia. My native language is spanish and now I am learning English, that’s interesting.
Thank you for your help, I listen very often your postcasts and I like how you explain all subjects.
Sorry for my mistakes in this messages.
Can you speak about Tenses? How I know when I use the correct tenses in my speaking o writing? Thank you so much for your answer.
Hi Gabriela,
Thank you for your message. We will speak about verb tenses in a future episode. Is there any particular verb tense that you make mistakes with? It will be difficult to speak about ALL the different tenses in one podcast episode.
It’s wonderful to have listeners from Peru and I hope you are having a good time in Australia. It’s one of my favourite countries and I have good friends in Sydney.