AIRPORT TRAVEL TIPS

 Now there, as we're about to start our trip to Germany, it's good to remember how to move around at airports.

TACKLING BULLYING

 

Bullying can be a big problem, schools are places where bullying sometimes appears. Here's a video where people who have experienced bullying say how they felt and how they tackled the situation.

Video "I'VE EXPERIENCED BULLYING":

TIPS FOR A SAFER INTERNET BY YOUTUBERS & TWITCH STREAMERS ON SAFER INTERNET DAY 2022

 Today's Safer Internet Day 2022, here's a video with some tips to be safer when you're surfing the internet given by some YouTubers. Listen and follow their advice.

Video SAFER INTERNET:

PRACTICING ADVICE

 

- More situations for advice:

1) I always feel tired and have no energy to do anything.

2) My clothes are all starting to get too tight.

3) I lost my pet 3 days ago and still can't find it.

4) I was working on my computer and it all went black and I lost all my data and documents.

5) I don't like my job but I am having trouble finding a new one.

6) One of the women who I work with hates me and is spreading horrible gossip about me.

7) I smoke too much and want to quit but every time I try I get really sick.

8) I don't want to go to college but my parents expect me to.

9) My brother is moving to a dangerous village in Africa and I don't want him to go because I'm scared of him.

10) I like a boy/gril who doesn't know and I'm too shy to ask how they feel.

11) One of the people I work with is making me crazy. they are always around and they are so loud.

12) I'm so bored and nothing seems to interest me or seem fun.

13) I'm having a hard time going to sleep at night.

14) I feel very lonely and like no one likes me.

15) My best friend spends too much money on clothes and never has enough to do anything with us.

16) I want to buy a new black berry now or real soon but don't have enough money.

17) I failed a really important exam and now don't think I can graduate.

GIVING ADVICE WITH "HAD BETTER" vs "SHOULD" / "OUGHT TO"

 

"HAD BETTER" also written "'D BETTER" is used to express strong advice. Below the difference with "SHOULD" and "OUGHT TO"

ASKING & GIVING ADVICE. [CONFUSING 'ADVICE' vs 'ADVISE']

EXCEPTION: "IF I WERE..."

IF I WERE... Remember that only in conditional sentences it's possible to use WERE with I, HE, & SHE, because this is the remainder of an old-fashioned Subjunctive form of verbs in English, which no longer exists.

IF I WERE... is also a structure used to GIVE ADVICE.

CONFUSING USES: 'WILL', 'WOULD', 'SHALL' & 'SHOULD'

MODAL VERB: SHALL/SHOULD (OUGHT TO)

MODAL VERB CONCEPTS

About to start checking on modal verbs and their uses and concepts, from today on there are going to be a series of posts devoted to the topic: MODAL VERBS.

Remember the basics:

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS:

1-Each verb has its different concept meaning or function. (Look at the chart above)

2- These verbs aren't conjugated. 
No "-S" in the third person singular present.  He can swim. (Not: *He cans swim)
They lack some verb forms, which are covered by semimodals of a similar meaning.
  He had to leave. (Not *He musted leave. Must doesn't have a simple past form)
  He will be able to do it. (Not *He will can do it. Can doesn't have a future form)
[Semi-modal verbs that are used instead of the modal are:
HAVE TO for MUST (obligation)
BE ABLE TO for CAN (ability)
BE ALLOWED TO for CAN, MAY (permission)]

3- They work as auxiliary verbs in the NEGATIVE and QUESTIONS.
  Can I open the window? No, you can't open the window, it's cold.

4-  These verbs are always followed by INFINITIVE WITHOUT TO.
  He can swim. (Not * He can to swim)
Except OUGHT TO.  You ought to go to the doctor's.

5- PERFECT MODALS: past modal verb+HAVE+Past Participle refer to the past.
She hasn't arrived yet. She might have missed the bus.
You failed the exam. You should have studied more.

All the posts about modal verbs with the tag Modal Verbs.