File ristretto preparazione esame B2 Inglese

Usi di "will"

Certainty in the future

Suppositions, doubts and personal opinions: I don’t think he will come.

Making predictions

About the future: It’ll cost a lot of money to fix.

Some predictions are about the present: That’ll be Katie shouting.

Conditional sentences

Willingness and offers

I’ll give you a lift to the hotel.

Intentions and decisions

When I go and see Marie, I think I’ll take her some flowers. Decisions, intentions and plans. We use will when the decision is immediate and be going to when we have already made a plan.

Promises

I’ll be there for you. Don’t worry.

Requests and invitations

(Also with shall I / shall we?) Will you pass me the salt?

Commands

Will you be quiet, please!

General truths

Something the speaker thinks is generally true.

Modal verbs

Can, would, may, could, might, will, should, must.

Conditionals

• If I had won the lottery, I would be rich. But I didn't win the lottery in the past and I am not rich now.
• If I were rich, I would have bought that Ferrari we saw yesterday. But I am not currently rich and that is why I didn't buy the Ferrari yesterday.

Wish

Vorremmo che fosse diverso

I wish things were different, but this is the way they are.

Dream for the future

I wish I were lying on a beach now. (I’m sitting in the office.)

Regret

I wish I hadn’t quit my job two years ago.

Lamentarsi

I wish it would stop raining. It’s been three days!

Relative pronouns

Which, that, who, whom, whose, when, where.

Important thing

Once we tell the question to someone else, it isn’t a question anymore. So we need to change the grammar to a normal positive sentence. This is important also for questions like: where, when, why and how. Remember also that now we don’t use anymore say and tell as reporting verbs, but ask.

When you write an essay

It should be well organised with an introduction and an appropriate conclusion, and should be written in an appropriate register and tone. An essay is an opinion writing with which we analyse a topic, a situation or an issue from different points of view, providing different arguments and expressing our opinion about it.

Features that an essay should have

• Purpose: What we usually do with an essay is to analyse and assess a topic, situation or issue which, in some way, is interesting or controversial.
• Tone and style: Given that you’re writing about a serious or controversial issue, an essay is written in a formal style, so we must stick to an objective tone and style. Our language must be formal, thus avoiding words that are simply too common or generic (e.g., things, stuff, get, etc.) and contractions (e.g., can’t).