Unit 3A: PROBLEMS

Unit description

This unit deals with everyday problems. Learners will listen to a voice-mail message in which a woman asks her friend to do her a favor because her car has broken down. They will listen to and take part in a dialogue in which a couple are commenting on the meal they received in a restaurant, and will read a story about a woman getting ready for a party she doesn’t want to go to. The grammar section deals with the Past Perfect Simple.

Contents

1. Past perfect simple  2. Vocabulary: Attending a party

1.    Past Perfect Simple

PASADO PERFECTO: SIMPLE USO:  Se utiliza para enfatizar que un hecho aconteció antes que otro (conectado mediante conjunciones como WHEN y BEFORE) o en el modo indirecto, cuando el "verbo informante" está en pretérito y la afirmación o idea "original" estaba en pretérito o presente perfecto. También utilizamos el pretérito perfecto para interrumpir un relato (en pasado) con una referencia a algún momento anterior (antes de que empezara el relato): EJEMPLO: "I went home. I was very tired and I wanted my supper. But when I arrived I couldn't get into my house because I had left the key in my office!" FORMA: AFIRMATIVO [SUJETO + HAD... + Past Participle.[V3]..] HAD NOT/HADN'T EJEMPLOS: "She had just arrived when he came in." "We had already eaten by the time she arrived." "The opera had just begun when we arrived." "I had never been in love until I met you!" VOZ REPORTADA [TIEMPO PASADO + (THAT) + PASADO PERFECTO] EJEMPLOS: "I thought (that) you had already seen this." "She said (that) she had never met me before."

2. Vocabulary: Attending a party