3rd TERM EXAMVOCABULARY

Personality adjectives: extroverted/shy, cheerful/moody, honest/deceitful

Clothes and fashion: design, style, materials and useful verbsstripy (with stripes), skin-tight, woollen (made of wool), to fit, to suit, to try on

Compound adjectives (adj+noun+-ed) to describe appearance/personalitynarrow-minded, thick-skinned, big-headed, short/long-sighted, good-natured

Noun formation: adjective+suffix (-ment/-ion/-ness) to express feelingsamusedamusement, frustratedfrustration, kindkindnessBe careful with spelling changes! satisfiedsatisfaction, lonelyloneliness

News and press: verbs, people, other related nounspublish, print, relate, journalist, press photographer, headline, tabloid, biased

Idioms: at first hand, till all hours (of the night), from time to time

Adverbs of manner to describe how an action is done

adjective+ly: traditionally, suddenly, carefully, emotionally, silentlyBe careful with spelling changes! happyhappily, enthusiasticenthusiastically

adverbs with the same form as the adjective: fast, straight

Agent nouns: verb/noun+suffix to say a person who does somethingcyclist, politician, blogger, translator, servant, student

False friends: rare/uncommon, pretend/intend (to), sympathetic/friendly

3rd TERM EXAMGRAMMAR

(Please revise ALL verb tenses we have studied; these grammar points areVERY easy if you dont confuse the verb tenses in their structure!)

Conditional sentences

o First conditional: If + present simple, future simple (will + infinitive)The speaker thinks its POSSIBLE and PROBABLE in the future:

If you buy me the cinema ticket, Ill watch that film with you.Unless = If not:

Unless you buy me the cinema ticket, I wont watch that film with you.

o Second conditional: If + past simple, conditional simple (would + infinitive)The speaker thinks its POSSIBLE in the present/future, but IMPROBABLE (imaginary):

If I ate healthier, I wouldnt get ill so many times!When the verb in the past simple is TO BE, the situation is IMPOSSIBLE+IMPROBABLE:

If she were(*) a celebrity, perhaps she would send me an autographed photograph(*in this special case we use were even with the first/third person singular)

o Third conditional: If + past perfect, conditional perfect (would have + past participle)The situation is IMPOSSIBLE and IMPROBABLE because it didnt happen(hypotheses about the past, regretting something we did, telling somebody off):

If they hadnt missed the bus, they would have arrived on time.

We can invert the sentences WITHOUT the comma: Ill go with you if it doesnt rain.

3rd TERM EXAM Passive voice

(check the blog for help with verbs in activepassive transformations:https://englishful.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/the-passive-voice-introduction)

o We use it in English to give emphasis to the person/thing/etc. that suffers the action(the direct object in the active voice), putting in at the beginning of the sentence.

o If the person who does the action (the agent in the passive voice) is relevant, we useby + ______ after the verb in the passive voice.

ACTIVE VOICE: The police arrested those thieves yesterday.

PASSIVE VOICE:Those thieves were arrested yesterday.

ACTIVE VOICE: George R. R. Martin is going to finish the next Game of Thrones novel before Christmas.

PASSIVE VOICE:The next Game of Thrones novel is going to be finished by George R. R. Martin before Christmas.

Causative passive:have/get something done when someone does something for usThat technician repaired my laptop I had/got my laptop repaired

3rd TERM EXAMWRITING

Adding information: linkers of additionin addition, also, whats more, too, as well

Saying what happened and why: linkers of reason and resultbecause (of)*, as, since, so, consequently, therefore, as a result/consequence (of)Be careful! because + complete sentence; because of + noun phrase

Adding interest using a variety of adjectives, verbs, adverbs of frequency,modifiers (e.g. adverbs of manner or quantity) and linkers

Writing about the appearance and personality of a famous person

Writing a summary of a longer text