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Unit 1 English Notes: Vocabulary
Unit 1 English Notes: Vocabulary
MONEY IDIOMS:
Tighten one’s belt → You must spend your money carefully because there is less available.
Born with a silver spoon in your mouth → A person who is born into a very rich family.
Money laundering → Hide sources of money obtained illegally so that it looks legitimate.
Be hard up → If you are hard up, you have very little money.
On the house → Something which is on the house is offered free of charge. (Cortesía de la casa)
At all costs → You want something regardless of the expense, effort or sacrifice involved.
Made of money → A person who is very rich and can buy whatever they want.
Make ends meet → If you have very little money, it is hard for you to make ends meet.
GRAMMAR
Present tenses:
Present Simple:
Present Continuous:
Present Perfect:
Subject + auxiliary + verb present participle -ing (I have been playing basketball)
Past tenses:
Past Simple:
Past Continuous:
Past Perfect:
Subject + had + been + present participle -ing (I had been playing basketball)
Subject + modal verb + verb Subject + modal verb + have + verb in past participle
Modal Verbs:
Can (Puedo) Would (Me gustaría)