UNIT 4 - THE SECRET TO HAPPY LIFE

VOCABULARY

Share, modern, traditional, bring up, break up, couple, nowadays, date, marry, regularly, argument, blame, meanwhile, imagine, close, relative, apologize, forgive, inquiry, quality.

PRESENT SIMPLE VS CONTINUOUS

CONTINUOUS → At the moment right now
S + V + ING
S + TO BE + NOT + ING

SIMPLE → Action that are made regularly
-S
Don’t

Doesn’t

REPORTED SPEECH

Today → That day
Tomorrow → The following day
Yesterday → The day before

Adverbs of place changes:

Here → There

1. PRESENT SIMPLE:

+ She said they often met friends in London at the weekend.

- She said Julie didn't like going out much

2. PRESENT CONTINUOUS:

+ He told me she was coming to the party.

- He told me he wasn't going out.

3. PAST SIMPLE:

+ He told me they had visited Japan.

- He told me he hadn't gone out at the weekend.

4. PRESENT PERFECT:

+ She said they had eaten in a lot of different restaurants.

- She said she hadn't met Richard before.

5. FUTURE:

+ She said she would stop smoking on Tuesday.

- She said they wouldn't be able to arrive early.

6. WH- QUESTIONS:

+ She asked me who the woman in the red dress was.

+ She asked me where John worked.

IDIOMS

A blessing in disguise. → something that seems bad or unlucky at first.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. → If a group's members are in perpetual disagreement, the group will eventually cease to exist

STATE VERBS

NO Pres cont

+ Pres. Simple

Need

Want

Understand

Believe

Agree

Belong

BOTH POSSIBILITIES

Think

P.S → Think, Opinion

P.C → Thinking, Choice

Be

P.S → Permanent state

P.C → Behaviour new

Have

P.S → Possess

P.C → Experience