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¡Bienvenidos al ciclo lectivo 2025! Soy la profesora Yazmin Medina y conmigo cursarán la materia Inglés correspondiente al 2° año del Secundario.
Datos de la asignatura:
Nivel: Secundario Básico
Escuela: Instituto Juan Bautista Alberdi
Curso: 2°
Asignatura: Inglés
Docente: Prof. Yazmin Medina
FAMILIAS: ante cualquier consulta que tengan sobre la dinámica de trabajo de la materia, comunicarse con preceptoría.
Tel: 11-6878-2060 Correo: yohana.delapiaza@institutoalberdi.org
¿Porqué es 'inglés' un idioma universal?
El inglés se ha convertido en el idioma universal y es además, el idioma más hablado en el mundo. Por este motivo miles de personas deciden estudiar inglés como segundo idioma ya que poseer un buen conocimiento y entendimiento del inglés solo te traerá ventajas tanto a nivel personal como profesional.
El hecho de que el inglés sea la lengua más hablada en el mundo, nos sirve como justificación para determinar la importancia del inglés en el mundo globalizado. Partiendo de esta importante aclaración, no creemos que te falten razones para estudiar inglés y más con las herramientas que tendrás durante este ciclo lectivo. Con esfuerzo y dedicación vas a perfeccionar esta segunda lengua
PRESENT SIMPLE:
Present simple: uses
General truths and facts
We use the present simple to talk about general facts that are always true and permanent about the world:
Ten times ten makes one hundred. (10 x 10 = 100)
There is always a holiday on the last Monday in August in the UK.
Time passes very quickly when you get older.
We use the present simple to talk about general facts that we think are true and permanent at the present time:
I really love my job.
Mrs Clare doesn’t teach me but she teaches my sister.
Do you live in Glasgow? My cousin lives there too.
Spiders don’t frighten me.
Martha does what she wants. No one tells her what to do.
Regular and habitual events
We use the present simple to talk about regular or habitual events. We often use always, often, usually, sometimes, never and other frequency adverbs for regular and habitual events:
How do you get to work? Do you get the bus?
I read every night before I go to sleep.
We always have a holiday in the summer. We never work in August.
We usually fly to France when we go. Lorea doesn’t like the ferry. It makes her feel sick.
Instructions and directions
We use the present simple when we are giving instructions or directions. We often use ordering words, such as and, first and then with this use of the present simple:
[giving directions]
You take the train into the city centre and then you take a number five bus. You don’t get off at the museum. You get off at the stop after the museum.
[giving instructions before a test]
So what you do is … you read the questions first and then you write down your answers in the box. You don’t write on the question paper.
ise, when I get paid.
I agree with everything you say.
We also use the present simple in a similar way in formal statements and in business or legal communications:
I attach the original signed copies for your records.
On behalf of the Society, and particularly those involved in medical work, I write to thank you for your kind gift of £20,000 … (more formal than I’m writing to thank you …)
Timetables and plans
We use the present simple to talk about events that are part of a future plan or timetable:
The lesson starts at 9.30 tomorrow instead of 10.30.
Lunch is at 12.30. Don’t be late.
What time do you land? (talking about a flight at some time in the future)
They don’t start back to school until next Monday.
We can also often use will in these sentences, with no change in meaning:
The lesson will start at 9.30 tomorrow instead of 10.30.
See also:
Present simple after when, before, etc.
We use the present simple for future reference in subordinate clauses after words like when, before, as soon as, if and whether:
I’ll call you when I get there.
Not: I’ll call you when I’ll get there.
Don’t forget to ring before you go.
Not: Don’t forget to ring before you’ll go.
They hope to move in to the new house as soon as they get back from Australia next month.
Not: … as soon as they’ll get back from Australia next month.
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Events at the time of speaking
We use the present continuous to talk about events which are in progress at the moment of speaking:
A:
What time’s dinner?
B:
I’m cooking now so it’ll be ready in about half an hour.
She’s pressing the button but nothing is happening.
Temporary states
We use the present continuous to talk about temporary states which are true around the moment of speaking:
Her mother’s living with her at the moment. She’s just come out of hospital.
Who’s looking after the children while you’re here?
Repeated temporary events
We use the present continuous to describe actions which are repeated or regular, but which we believe to be temporary:
I’m not drinking much coffee these days. I’m trying to cut down.
She’s working a lot in London at the moment. (She doesn’t usually work in London.)
Change
We use the present continuous to talk about a gradual change:
They’re building a new stand at the football ground.
Maria, 37, is getting better and doctors are optimistic she will make a full recovery.
Recent evidence suggests that the economic situation is improving.
Regular unplanned events
We often use the present continuous with words like always, constantly, continually and forever (adverbs of indefinite frequency) to describe events which are regular but not planned, and often not wanted:
My wife, she’s always throwing things out. I like to keep everything.
I’m constantly spilling things.
Plans and arrangements
We use the present continuous to refer to the future when we talk about plans and arrangements that have already been made:
We’re moving to Cambridge in July.
Sarah isn’t taking Rory to football training later. She hasn’t got the car tonight.
Aren’t you playing tennis on Saturday?
PAST SIMPLE:
Definite time in the past
We use the past simple to talk about definite time in the past (often we specify when something happened, e.g. yesterday, three weeks ago, last year, when I was young):
Did you watch that film yesterday?
He left at the end of November.
When they were young, they hated meat.
See also:
Single or habitual events or states
We use the past simple to talk about single or regular (habitual) events or states in the past.
Events that happened once
He fell off his bike and his friends took him to a doctor.
She ran out and she phoned my brother.
Events that happened more than once
They travelled to Italy every summer and always stayed in small villages on the coast.
As children, we played all kinds of games on the street.
States
She looked a bit upset.
Did you feel afraid?
When we use the past simple to refer to habitual events, the meaning is similar to used to:
I did a lot of travelling when I was younger. (or I used to do a lot of travelling when I was younger.)
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The past simple with no time reference
Sometimes there is no time expression when the past simple is used. This happens especially when we know the time:
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa. (From our general knowledge, we know that Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa a few hundred years ago.)
Compare
Do you know Grace? She was in my class at primary school.
Do you know Grace? She was in my class at primary school in the 70s.
Past simple without a definite time reference: both speakers know when this time was and do not need to say it. They know each other well.
Past simple with a definite time reference: the speaker is not sure if the listener knows when she was at primary school.
COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE
Comparative adjectives compare one person or thing with another and enable us to say whether a person or thing has more or less of a particular quality:
This car is more expensive than my last one.
Superlative adjectives describe one person or thing as having more of a quality than all other people or things in a group:
Joe used to be the slowest runner in the class.
Click on a topic to learn more about comparative and superlative adjectives.
Comparison: adjectives (bigger, biggest, more interesting)Comparison: clauses (bigger than we had imagined)Comparison: comparisons of equality (as tall as his father)As … as
WILL
Affirmative form
Will comes first in the verb phrase in a statement (after the subject and before another verb). It is often contracted to ’ll in informal situations:
The next Olympic Games will be in London.
I’ll give you a call at about 6 o’clock.
Will cannot be used with another modal verb:
You will be obliged to sign a contract before starting employment.
Not: You will must sign a contract … or You must will sign a contract …
Will can be followed by have to or be able to:
You’ll have to let me know when it arrives.
She will be able to live nearer her parents if she gets the job.
See also:
Negative form
The negative form of will is won’t. We don’t use don’t, doesn’t, didn’t with will:
They won’t tell us very much until January.
Not: They don’t will tell us very much until January.
We use the full form will not in formal contexts or when we want to emphasise something:
I’ll carry her but I will not push a pram.
See also:
Question form
The subject and will change position to form questions. We don’t use do, does, did:
Will you be home earlier tomorrow?
Will I be able to take this brochure home with me?
Will the number be in the phone book?
Not: Does the number will be in the phone book?
We can use will and won’t in question tags:
You won’t forget to take the cake out of the oven, will you?
It’ll take quite a long time to get there, won’t it?
GOING TO
Going to: present continuous
We use the present continuous form of the verb go + preposition to + noun phrase to talk about movement in relation to a place or a person in the present:
Are you going to Maggie’s party tonight?
I’m going to the shops. Do you want anything?
Going to: future
We can use a present form of be + going to + the base form of a main verb to talk about the future. We use it for plans and intentions, predictions and commands:
I’m going to buy a new car next week. (plan or intention)
You’re not going to do all this in an hour. There’s just too much to do. (prediction: the speaker can see how much there is to do)
I’m telling you, you’re going to do it. You don’t have a choice. (command)