Expressions I Flashcards
If I have some old trousers and I use them only for clean my bike, that’s…
That’s the only use I use them for
When I should practice more but I’ve practiced just a little bit
- I don’t ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
- I haven’t ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
- practice as much as I should
- practiced as much as I should
When I want to use an umbrella that is not mine I ask…
Can I borrow an umbrella?
Ask her if you can borrow ten dollars from her, say please
Can I borrow ten dollars please?
If something doesn’t work from the beginning
It has never worked
To shut with force and noise
Slam
If something deserved your effort
It was worth it
If you’re driving and you want to warn any danger you…
Honk the horn
hɑŋk) (hɔrn
Ask her if he seen to be in a good mood
Does he seen to be in a good mood?
To diminish the differences between two things
Bridging the gap
ˈbrɪʤɪŋ ðə gæp
If you had an abrupt cessation of consuming something you can use
I stopped something cold turkey
Ask her if you have some milk left in the refrigerator
Do we have any milk left in the refrigerator?
- When it’s the last week on her vacation (with there)
- When it’s the next to last week on her vacation (with there)
- There is one week left on her vacation
- There are two weeks left on her vacation
When it’s the last week on her vacation (with have/has)
She has one week left on her vacation
My Uncle’s son
My causin
My brother’s children
My nephiew and niece
(ˈnɛfju) (nis)
(ˈnɛfjuz) (ˈnisɪz)
If I give my girlfriend a ring she would be my…
Fiance (fiˈɑnˌseɪ)
I know I should to do it… but I ___ ___ ___
But I haven’t done it
When she has an strict meal plan tell her to follow it
Stick to your meal plan
Bogotá is 2,640 metres above sea level that is…
Altitude (ˈæltəˌtud)
A place to camp is a…
Campsite
If you live close to the supermarket, so the supermarket is…
Near me
I have a lot if pencils, if you want some you want…
Some of them
If everybody heard about something (With have)
Everybody has heard about
If something takes more time but you don’t really have time
That takes more time than I really have
Tell him you were own a ps1
I owned a ps1
aɪ) (oʊnd) (ə
If something is perfect for you
It suits me
In this period of time _______ three Presidents.
There have been
Until now
So far
When you know something but you don’t know if that changed recently, you would say…
As far as I know…
Ask him if that’s the use for that
Is that what that’s for?
When the nurse took your blood you went…
for bloodwork
You can go to the gym and do cardio and…
Weight lifting
weɪt ˈlɪftɪŋ
- Use this word to express what you would like to happen:
- ____ he’ll come around
- ___ Mary wouldn’t be too angry with him
Hopefully
Believing that something will happen the way you want it to (Negative + Past)
I wasn’t very hopeful
Something started a little bit after the last 12 months
It started just over a year
If they’re in brazil because they left their origin country last night
They left for brazil last night
When you find out something
I learned
Ask a question with who (to do something in the past)
___ ___ this?
The answer would be
___ ___ that
- Who did this?
- She did that
Who / Whom (her his)
Whom (hum)
This big device to clean clothes
Washing machine
ˈwɑʃɪŋ) (məˈʃin
You recently got to this new home
I just moved here
ʤʌst
If I had known… (go with you)
I would have gone with you
I never would have caught the cheese flavor… (you say to me)
if you hadn’t said to me
If my girfriend had fallen down… (be terrible)
It would have been terrible
What do you get watching rap battles?
I get goosebumps (gusbʌmps)
This place where you cook bread is
Oven
ˈʌvən
If you want to tell that you were with 3 friends…
There were four of us
Run out (You, your girlfriend) (Energy) (Past)
We ran out of energy
Run out (You, your girlfriend) (Water) (In this moment)
We’re running out of water
Ask her the duration of that movie (with do and last)
How long does that movie last?
If you’re motivated and you don’t want to (bored - something)
I don’t want to get bored of it
If you’re in your bike and suddenly you’re on the floor, that was because…
I fell down
- If a tree was born ___ its branches never straighten
- Not straight, bending, curved
Crooked (krʊkt)
2 types of bikeways
Bike path, Bike lane
baɪk pæθ), (baɪk leɪn
If you’re in your office and you left you’re bike at home
I didn’t bring my bike
If you’re at home and you left computer in the office
I didn’t bring my computer home
Tell him your girlfriend got home with something for you
My girlfriend brought me something
brɔt
Do you know something? (You don’t know) (With even)
Not even the basics
Tell her that in addition to programming, you design
As well as program, i design
In addition to
As well as
If you don’t have any doubt
I’m pretty sure
You were talking to your friend 29 minutes, How long were you talking with him?
For about 30 minutes
You were working 3 minutes ago and now you’re on the street
I just got off of work
If you are back at home, you only have 1 minute there and you were in some place
I just got back from somewhere
Not being productive, not focusing too much (ˈfoʊkəsɪŋ)
Slacking off
Something has many things that your mind can assimilate
I pick up so much from it
If you want to take advantage of your free time
To make the most of my free time
Ask who is the owner of the pen
Whose pen is it
Store with nails, hammer, etc
Hardware Store
You’re on your bike going up… You are on a…
- Steep street
- Steep slope
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
You’ve been all day at home, Nevative outside
I haven’t been outside all day
She was in wrong place, it’s dangerous (Should)
She shouldn’t have gone there
It’s 11 and you’re still at home (One hour late) (Leave)
I should have left at 10
It’s been 3 hours and your boss ask you for some emails
- See
- Read
- One on more than one
- I haven’t seen it yet
- I haven’t seen them yet
- I haven’t read it yet
- I haven’t read them yet
We are two, We weren’t…
Neither of us
We are two, We are….
Both of us
We are three, We weren’t…
None of us
We are three, We were…
All of us
Ask him for a glass of water
Can I have a glass of water?
- Happen (past - perfect)
- I didn’t know ___ ___ ___ until (ənˈtɪl) someone told me
What had happened
What do you have to do when the water is here?
1 - I go out from the apartment
2 - ?
3 - I take the water
4 - I go back to the hall with the water bottle
5 - ?
2 - I go down the stairs
5 - I go up the stairs
Tell her you got to chie like a tourist, now you’re still here
I stayed here
The better I know her, ___ ___ I like her
The more
If you’re cleaning your floor with this stick, so you’re using your ___ ___ ___
broom to sweep
I got a ___ the last week in the beach (Sun color)
Tan
- In winter you have to turn on your…
- Wood ___
stove
- To desist from
- Please, Don’t ___ ___
Give up
Used for introducing what you want to tell someone, especially when you are pleased or excited about it
Guess what!
- This is the correct way
- Use should (it)
- This ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
is how it should be
Compare
- In comparisson with
- Copared to (kəmˈpɛrd)
- You can’t form or devise (a plan or idea) in your mind
- I can’t ___
I can’t conceive
- Feeling or causing someone to feel uncomfortably confined or hemmed in by lack of space.
- The opposite of spacious
Cramped (kræmpt)
- Put your back against the floor
- I ___ ___ ___ ___floor
I lay down on the floor
When you have your back against the floor
I am lying down
You make soup in a
Pot
You make fry potatoes in a
Pan
The table has four
Legs
Some chickpeas come in a box and some come in a…
Can
- You use this word to introduce a subordinate clause which contains a statement which makes the main clause of the sentence seem surprising or unexpected
- ___ it was very muddy, the football game went on
Although
- You have 5 minutes left to get off of work
- Use future
- In 5 minutes my work day ___ ___ ___
In 5 minutes my work day will be over.
It, Sense, Negative
It doesn’t make any sense
If you study, you’ll learn
If you don’t, you won’t
___ Is something that some one else can gets, always
Disease
___ is something that someone else may not get
Illness
She can listen to the pressure cooker’s sound because she is near the kitchen and…
I’m further the kitchen than she is
Gatherers gather…
(ˈgæðərərz) (ˈgæðər)…
fruits
Prohibited words…
- Course words
- Cursing
- cussing
Do you live in chile? - Yes… (Have/Has, 5, Moving)
It’s been 5 years since I moved here
The bag you put on your bike
Saddlebag
What the health ___ me
brainwashed
Piece of paper to clean your mouth while eating
Napkin
- Causing or feeling uneasy embarrassment or inconvenience. He had put her in a very ___ position
- Difficult to use, do, or deal with:
- I always feel ___ when I’m with Chris
Akward
I haven’t ___ ___ ___ ___ in five years. (Again in Veneuela)
Been back to Venezuela
- You’re about to finish it
- ( Have / has ) Almost
I’ve almost finished it
If you live in the second floor
Nobody lives under this floor
If you don’t use yeast, the bread
doesn’t rise
When you finished your breakfast 1 minute ago
- I just ate breakfast
- I just had breakfast
Queen (Relation) Elizabeth and Canada, (Ask her)
What does the Queen have to do with Canada?
Tell her you were on your bike but now you’re next to your bike
I got off the bike
to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible exten
Mumble
To ___ somebody, e.g. a team, a friend, a rival
Beat
You’re outside the gym, tell her that you went out recently
I just left the gym
You stopped building a puzzle (Use two expressions)
- I surrenderd
- I gave up
- You had a lot of thing to understand but lately you completed that
- I ___ what I ___ ___
I understood what I was missing
Those dogs let a lot of poop on the ground
They did their business on the ground
That idea… 🤯 (Past)
blew my mind
Use rather in a question, coffee or tea?
Would you rather have coffee or tea?
Preffer
Rather (ˈræðər)
Someone ask you something but you don’t want (Rather / Negative)
I would rather not.
- When did your friend become vegan?
- (Adapt / Lifestyle)
When she saw me adopt this lifestyle
Be the property of
- The vehicle didn’t ___ to him
- The puppy ___ to my sister.
- That doesn’t ___ to you
Belong
- If you say that something happens ___ ___ ___ something else happens, you mean that it happens immediately after the other thing.
- As soon as
- As soon as relations improve they will be allowed to go
Laundry, cleaning floors, washing dishes
Houseworks
Tell her that he wasn’t fired, the boss…
laid him off
Tell her the material of those tables
they are wooden
This is the first time that you see them
Your friend - I hadn’t seen them…
You - (Use never and either)
I had never seen them before either.
Tell her about the people you know and their bikes in the parking
I know people whose bikes have been stolen
There are riders and drivers, the people walking are:
Pedestrians
pəˈdɛstriənz
What’s the name of this thing to change direction? cars, bikes
- Steering wheel
- Handlebars
You got to chile from peru…
In the nick of time
Is it a business trip or a… (Not placer) ?
leisure (ˈlɛʒər)
What’s La vega?
A street market
She is asking you for your chikpeas, tell her they’re black
I burned them.
You’re in the hall wainting for the elevator with your dirty clothe, so you’re going…
To the top floor
I’m using my phone as a…
Hotspot
This place where there are dead animals on sale
Butcher shop (ˈbʊʧər ʃɑp)
Tell her your phone is not good… (Sometimes it stops working)
Sometimes it breaks
Empanadas are made with
Dough (doʊ)
You ___ lucky (In the past, for something good)
Got
Are you going to stay? (Without going)
No, I’m not staying.
Pronounce this: Close the door and put on the clothes
Those words sound similar (Close and Clothes)
Ask her the duration of that movie (with going and last)
How long is the movie going to last?
We have a list of things we want for our birthdays, in this way we can ___ the ___ of each one
Meet expectations
This phrase is used for emphasizing that a particular situation will remain the same no matter what happens.
I’m determined to prove my innocence ___ ___ that means going to the highest court in the land.
Two answers:
- even if
- Even though
The dog has four
Paws (pɔz)
