今週の復習

Vocabulary

・grab：
(v.)to take hold of something or someone suddenly and roughly
・eat out：
(phrv.)to eat in a restaurant
・stay out late：
(phrv.)to not come home at night, or to go home late
・catch up with：
to meet
・fairly：
(adv.)more than average, but less than very
・hit：
(v.)to arrive at a place or position
・formerly：
(adv.)in the past ≒previously
・original fittings：
original interior
・retro feel：
old style vintage
・when the clock hits midnight：
when it’s 12 am
・hunger strikes：
(n.)a period when someone such as a prisoner refuses to eat, usually to show strong opposition to something
・eatery：
(n.)a restaurant
・carry on：
(v.)to continue
・crash out：
(phrv.)to go to sleep very quickly because you are very tired
・urban：
(adj.)city
・cosmopolitan：
(adj.)containing or having experience of people and things from many different parts of the world≒big city
・trendy：
(adj.)modern and influenced by the most recent fashions or ideas
・look smart：
look atractive or good
・impress：
(v.)to cause someone to admire or respect you

activity

・PLAY
➡conpetitions or an activity with a ball

・DO
➡individual activities and martial arts

・GO
➡go somewhere to do an activity

Grammar

Present Simple

・Routines/Habits (always, sometimes, teo times a week…)
・Timetable (time, in three hours…)
・Facts/States that don’t change
・Permanent actions
・Future in time clauses (until, as soon as, when, before, after…)

Present Continuous

・Temporary situations (limited time:a couple of months)
・State that is gradually changing
・Annoying situations (always, forever)
・Action in progress now or around now (now, in this moment)
・Temporary routines/habits (limited time:these days, recently…)
・Future arrangements (something the we already know will happen)

Stative verbs

stative verb cannot be in a countinuous tense.

・emotions
love, like, hate, dislike, mind, prefer, forgive

・senses
smell, taste, sound, look, seem, feel

・understanding
understand, remember, forget, believe, know

・possession/unchanging qualities
belong, have, cost, take, weigh

When verbs (senses/understanding/possession) are -ing form, it means action. (not state)

Gerunds

・after preposition
・as a subject or object of a sentence
・after some verbs (enjoy, dislike, finish)

Infinitives

・after adjectives
・to give a reason for doing something
・after question words (who, what, how…)
・after some verbs (hope, would like, need)

Gerunds or Infinitives

・stop doing
-to stop with an activity

・stop to do
-to stop to do something

・remember doing
-looks back in the past, memory

・remember to do
-looks into the future

・forget doing
-looks back in the past, memory

・forget to do
-lookes into the future

・try doing
-to test something

・try to do
-to do something that is not easy (and you usually fail)