1:What's your name? | 2:How are you? | 3:Can you help me? | 4:Left, right, straigh ahead | 5:Where are they? | 6:What's the time? | 7:What's this? What's that? | 8:I like it very much | 9:Have you got any wine? | 10:What are you doing? | 11:Can I have your name, please? | 12:What does she look like? | 13:No smoking | 14:It is on the first floor | 15:Where’s he gone? | 16:Going away | 17:Buying thing | 18:Why do you like it? | 19:What Do You Need? | 20:I sometimes work late | 21: Welcome to Britain |22: Who is that? |23: What Would you like to do? |24: How can we get there? |25: Where is it? |26: What’s the date? |27: Whose is it? |28: I enjoy it |29: How many and how much? |30: What have you done? |curso de inglés
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Unit 2: How are you?. Explicaciones
1. como saludarse
- How are you?
- Good morning. How are you?
- Hi John! How are you?
- I’m fine, thanks.
- Fine, thanks.
- Very well, thank you.
| más informal | más formal |
- Hello, Mary. How are you?
- Fine, thanks. And you?
- Fine, thanks.
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- Hello, Ms Lewis. How are you?
- Very well, thank you. How are you?
- Very well, thank you.
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2. formas de dirigirse a la gente. revisión
Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, preceden siempre al apellido.
- How do you do, Mr Brown?. y no
How do you do, Mr
En caso de matrimonio solo se necesita decir el apellido una sola vez:
En las tiendas, hoteles... para dirigirse a los clientes es frecuente usar “sir” y “madam”
- How are you, sir?
- Goodbye madam.
Los ingleses, más formales que los americanos, tienen como manera más educada de saludar a alguien a quien no conocen por primera vez la expresión “How do you do?” a la que se responde con “How do you do?”
- How do you do, Mr Smith.? I’m George Robinson.
- How do you do, Mr Robinson?
3. como presentar a otras personas
This is…+ nombre
- This is Ben.
- This is my boy-friend, John.
- This is my girl-friend, Jane.
- This is my wife, Betty.
- This is my husband, Frank.
This is no se puede contraer
4. como enterarse del nombre de una persona.
Who’s that?.
- That’s Barbara.
- It's Barbara.
Is that John Green?
- Yes, it’s John Green.
- No, it isn’t.
- Yes, it is (la respuesta corta yes, it is no se puede contraer)
5. this y that
| this | that |
| este, esta, esto | ese, esa, aquel, aquella, aquello |
- Is this your coat? (el que habla podría tener un abrigo en la mano)
- Is that your coat? (el que habla señala un abrigo que se encuentra en el perchero, alejado de él)
This y that también se utilizan al contactar por teléfono:
- Is that 21658? (¿Es ese el 21658?)
- No, this is 21685 (no este es el 21685)
6. it
A diferencia de los pronombres
he (el) y
she (ella), que se refieren a personas el pronombre
it (el, ella, ello) se refiere normalmente a animales o cosas.
Otros usos de it
Para referirse a personas: se puede usar it cuando se pregunta o se dice quien es una personas siempre que quede claro a quien nos referimos.
- Who’s that?. Is it his wife?.
- No. It isn’t. It’s his girl-friend.
- Who’s that? Is it her husband?
- Yes, it’s her husband.
En respuestas cortas: Se utiliza it sustituyendo a this o that.
- Is this your computer?
- No, it isn’t. It’s my television. (nunca
No, this isn’t)
- Is that your daughter? Yes, it is. (nunca
Yes, that is)
Para evitar la repetición de sustantivos:
- My name’s Tracy Word.
- How do you spell Tracy Word?
- How do you spell it?
7. adjetivos posesivos singular. repaso
What's your name?
My name is Tracy Word.
| pronombre sujeto | adjetivo posesivo |
| I
you
he
she
it
| my
your
his
her
its |
my father, my mother, your son, your daughter, its mother.
his father, his mother, his house.
her father, her mother, her house.
its father, its mother, its house.
8. el genitivo sajón ('s)
She his girl-friend.
- She his Bill’s girl-friend.
He is her boy-friend.
- He is Tracy’s boy-friend.
John: Who is Ben?
Tracy: Ben is my brother.
- Ben is her brother.
- Ben is Tracy’s brother.
- Tracy is his sister
- Tracy is Ben’s sister.
Solo se coloca la ‘s detrás del último nombre:
- Tracy and Ben’s mother.
- Tom, Dick and Harry’s friend.
9. como evitar la repetición de nombres
- That is Betty. Betty is Frank’s wife.
- That is Betty. She is Frank’s wife.
- Is that Tracy Wood?
- No, it’s Tracy Wood mother.
- No, it’s her mother.
- His name’s Bob Kent. Bob Kent’s address is…
- His name’s Bob Kent. His address is…
10. los miembros de la familia
| familiares más cercanos | familiares más lejanos |
- Husband
- Wife
- Father
- Mother
- Daughter
- Son
- Brother
- Sister
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- Aunt
- Uncle
- Grandmother
- Grandfather
- Niece
- Nephew
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12. direcciones
| Nombre
Número de la casa y nombre de la calle
Localidad
Código postal
País
| Mr John Green
7 London Rood
Wyford
WY35PF
England |
13. formas interrogativas “how”, “who”, “what”
- How are you?
- How do you spell…?
- Who’s that?
- What’s your name?
- What’s his address?
- What’s his telephone number?
