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The Family

Palabras de uso más frecuente, relativas a la familia.

Otras palabras, de uso menos frecuente.

PERSONALITY ABJETIVES

Weather Expressions

Notes:

The written lesson is below.
Links to quizzes, tests, etc. are to the left.

Remember, an idiom is an expression that cannot be immediately understood by analyzing its literal meaning. A few examples of idioms in English are:

to "drive someone crazy"
to "lose it"
to be "raining cats and dogs"

Spanish also has many idiomatic expressions. Although their literal translations sound odd to English speakers, they sound perfectly natural to native speakers. Here is one example:

Idiom: Hace mucho frío

Literally: It makes much cold

True Meaning: It is very cold

In Spanish, there are a number of idiomatic expressions that employ the verb hacer (literal meaning: to do or to make), and are used to describe the weather.

¿Qué tiempo hace?
What's the weather like?
Hace frío.
It's cold.
Hace calor.
It's hot.
Hace viento.
It's windy.
Hace sol.
It's sunny.
Hace buen tiempo.
The weather is good.
Hace mal tiempo.
The weather is bad.
Hace fresco.
It's brisk.

Like the idioms that use tener, these idioms also contain a noun.

el frío
el calor
el viento
el sol
el tiempo

Because the idioms use nouns, they are modified by adjectives, not adverbs.

Hace mucho frío.
It's very cold.

There are also weather expressions that use the verb hay:

Hay niebla.
It's foggy.
Hay neblina.
It's misty.
Hay sol.
The sun is shining.
Hay luna.
The moon is out.
Hay relámpagos.
It's lightning.
Hay humedad.
It's humid.
Hay nubes.
It's cloudy.
Hay lluvias torrenciales.
It's pouring.
Hay un vendaval.
There's a windstorm.
Hay granizo.
It's hailing.
Hay lloviznas.
It's sprinkling.

Other weather expressions use the verb estar along with an adjective:

Está oscuro.
It's dark.
Está nublado.
It's cloudy.
Está lluvioso.
It's raining.

Other weather expressions simply use a single verb:

Llueve.
It is raining. or It rains.
From the verb llover (to rain)

Nieva.
It is snowing. or It snows.
From the verb nevar (to snow)

Truena.
It is thundering. or It thunders.
From the verb tronar (to thunder)

Llovizna.
It is drizzling. or It drizzles.
From the verb lloviznar (to drizzle)

Here are some common ways to ask about the weather:

¿Qué tiempo hace?
¿Qué clima hace?
¿Cómo está el clima en ...?
¿Cómo está el tiempo?
¿Cómo está el clima hoy?

The first practice exercise and test will cover ten of the most common and useful of these expressions:

¿Qué tiempo hace?
Hace frío.
Hace calor.
Hace viento.
Hay niebla.
Hay granizo.
Hay relámpagos.
Llovizna.
Nieva.
Llueve.

Likes and Deslikes

Para expresar que algo nos gusta, utilizamoslas siguientes frases:

I love... Me encanta(n)...

I like... Me gusta(n)...

I'm interested in... Me interesa(n)...

I'm fond of... Me gusta(n)......reading leer
 

Para expresar que algo no nos gusta utilizamos las siguientes frasses:

I hate...Odio

I dislike....No me gusta

I do not like... no me gusta

I am not interested in.. No me interesa 

Should and Shouldn't - Use 

Food, Drink and Restaurants

Home and Furniture

Object Pronouns

What are object pronouns?

An object pronoun, also called objective pronoun, functions as the object of a verb or preposition, as distinguished from a subject or subjective pronoun, which is the subject of a verb.

Examples:

• He begged her to live with him. (her is the object of the verb begged and him is the object of the preposition with)
• She told them the truth. (them is the object of the verb told)

Object pronouns are used instead of object nouns, usually because we already know what the object is.

• She's my friend. I really enjoy being with her.
• I like this film. I saw it last week.

Object Pronouns

Object pronouns in English are the following:

me, you, him, her, it, us, them

Object pronouns come after either a verb (e.g "like") or a preposition (e.g "to").

Examples:

• I like you but you don't like me.
• Do you really hate her?
• She loves sitting next to him.
• She always writes e-mails to us.
• He's talking to her about it.

 

Review:

Comparatives and Superlatives

En inglés cuando comparamos dos cosas usamos los adjetivos y sus tres grados: positivo, comparativo y superlativo. Aquí tienes algunos ejemplos.

Grados de los Adjetivos

Los adjetivos tienen tres grados de comparación.
Grado positivo, grado comparativo, grado superlativo:

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• John is tall, but Bill is taller than John.
  John es alto pero Bill es más alto que John.
• Jack is very tall. He is the tallest man in the team.
  Jack es muy alto. El es el hombre más alto del equipo.

Adjetivos Monosílabos - Formación del Comparativo y Superlativo

Adjetivos Bisílabos - Formación del Comparativo y Superlativo

Bisílabos terminados en: -y, -er, -le, -ow, (y otros muy conocidos)

Adjetivos Largos - Formación del Comparativo y Superlativo

Formación irregular de comparativos y superlativos

*further también significa "adicional" > further information: información adicional

Irregular Verbs