Grammar

• Verb to have-”tener”
Forma larga Contraída Negativa Interrogativa
I have I’ve I don´t have do I have?
You have You’ve You don’t have do you have?
He has He´s He doesn´t have does he have?
She has She´s She doesn’t have does she have?
It has It´s It doesn’t have does it have?
We have We´ve We don’t have do we have?
You have You´ve You don’t have do you have?
They have They´ve They don’t have do they have?

Este verbo necesita auxiliar para preguntar y negar.

• Cardinal numbers
1 one
2 two 21 twenty-one
3 three 22 twenty-two
4 four 30 thirty
5 five 40 forty
6 six 50 fifty
7 seven 60 sixty
8 eight 100 a/one hundred
9 nine 200 two hundred
10 ten 1.000 a/one thousand
11 eleven 10.000 ten thousand
12 twelve 100.000 a/one hundred thousand
13 thirteen 1.000.000 a/one million
14 fourteen
15 fifteen En inglés los miles se separan con comas. En español con
16 sixteen puntos. Los decimales, en Inglaterra se separan con puntos,
17 seventeen mientras que en España con comas.
18 eighteen
19 nineteen
20 twenty
• Ordinal numbers
1st first 20th twentieth
2nd second 21st twenty first
3rd third 30th thirtieth
4th fourth 40th fortieth
5th fifth 50th fiftieth cambian” y” por “i”
6th sixth 60th sixtieth
7th seventh 70th seventieth
8th eighth 80th eightieth
9th ninth 90th ninetieth
10t' tenth 100th hundredth
11th eleventh 101st hundred and first
12th twelfth 200th two hundredth
13th thirteenth 1000th thousandth
14th fourteenth 10.000 ten thousandth
15th fifteenth 100.000th one hundred thousandth
16th sixteenth 1.000.000th one millionth
17th seventeenth
18th eighteenth
19th nineteenth
• Prepositions of time-dates

• On-días de la semana: On Mondays

Fechas completas: on 25th of July 1971
• In- estaciones del año: in summer
meses: in January
partes del día: in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening
años: in 2020
• At-at weekends: los fines de semana
at night-es la única parte del día con at
festividades: at Christmas, at Easter( en Pascua)
horas: at 6:00
• Excepciones: On Christmas Day, On New Year’s Day: aún siendo festividades van
con on y no con at.
 DAYS OF THE WEEK MONTHS OF THE YEAR
Sunday January August
Monday February September
Tuesday March October
Wednesday April November
Thursday May December
Friday June
Saturday July

• La fecha se puede decir de dos maneras: 1st of January o January, 1.

• En el Reino Unido se escribe como en Europa: 31/12/2020 pero en Estados Unidos
lo normal es mm/dd/aaaa: 12/31/2020.
• How to construct a sentence in English

Es fundamental mantener un orden al colocar las palabras en una frase:

SUJETO + VERBO + COMPLEMENTOS
En ese sentido la lengua inglesa no es tan flexible como el castellano.
Hay algunas excepciones como cuando damos órdenes:

• The imperative tense in English

Nunca utilizamos sujeto en las frases imperativas:

Open the door !( no sería correcto decir: “You open the door”)
Don’t open the door! Si queremos dar una orden negativa.