HAVE OR HAVE GOT?

HAVE is a verb that has some peculiarities:

1 - It's the auxiliary verb in perfect tenses:

I have been living here for 20 years.

She hasn't been to the United States.

Have you ever been abroad?

In these cases it's the auxiliary verb to make negatives and questions.

2- In the present tense and to express possesion, relationships or illnesses, we can use HAVE, as any other verb or HAVE GOT. So we can either say:

I have a car or I've (have) got a car.

She doesn't have or She hasn't got a car.

[See image above for more examples]

3- In the rest of cases, HAVE is like any other average English verb, to make negative and questions you must use the appropriate auxiliary verb.

I always have breakfast at 7, but she doesn't have breakfast.

You don't have to come home early.

Did you have a bike when you were young?

They didn't have a party last Saturday.

DESCRIBING CLOTHES

MODAL VERBS: EXPRESSING PERMISSION

Above, modal verbs used to ask for permission. Below possible ways to give it.

MODAL VERB: MAY/MIGHT

MODAL VERB: SHALL/SHOULD (OUGHT TO)

MODAL VERB: CAN vs COULD vs BE ABLE TO

These charts show the different concepts behind modal verb CAN/COULD, and distinguishes the confusing uses between them. Concept: Ability, Possibility, Permission and Request. Uses: Present/Past, Poltiness/Informal

APRIL FOOL'S DAY: THE HISTORY

Once again it's 1st April, so it's April Fool's Day, a traditional day for jokes and pranks. Do you know why? Here's a video that explains the history of this day:

Video:

PIONEER'S BIOGRAPHY TEMPLATE [7th CW]

PIONEER'S NAME: MARIE CURIE
by student's name(s): John Smith

Pioneer's photo

Text of PIONEER'S BIOGRAPHY.
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MODAL VERB: MUST ('MUSTN'T' vs 'DON'T HAVE TO')

CONFUSING MODAL VERBS

On this post we're going to distinguish the use of modal verbs in pairs that can be confusing. For the basics on modal verbs click to this previous post HERE.

1) Distinguishing MAY & CAN.

2) Distinguishing WILL & WOULD:

3) Distinguishing MUST & SHOULD:

4) Distinguishing between modal verbs meaning PROBABILITY:

5) Distinguishing between modal verbs meaning PERMISSION:

6) Distinguishing MUST from semi-modal HAVE 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.

BrE/AmE DIFFERENCES IN CLOTHES & TRANSPORT VOCABULARY

!!! BASIC MISTAKES

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Here are some of the basic mistakes you shouldn't be making and that I usually mark with exclamtion marks !!! in your writings and exams. Always check to correct any of these mistakes before handing in your exercises.

PREPOSITIONS + GERUND (-ING)

Another basic rule you should remember:

PREPOSITIONS + GERUND (-ING form).

For the complete information, go HERE.

For exercise-practice, go to previous post HERE.

TRUCKS / LORRIES

Another post devoted to vehicles/means of transport. Today it's TRUCKS (as known in AmE -American English) or LORRIES (as known in BrE -British English).

More on different types of VEHICLES.

SOME CLIPS FROM "SUFFRAGETTE", THE FILM.

Some more clips from the "Suffragette" film.

Video "NEVER GIVE UP":



Video "THAT'S FOR TODAY":

Video "WE WILL WIN":

SAINT PATRICK'S DAY 2016

Another Saint Patrick's Day, the day when everything turns green and everyone is Irish.

Remembering the day, we link you to previous post on this blog to celebrate Ireland, the Irish and the green.

LINK HERE.









Video "Destination Ireland":

SUFFRAGETTES IN THEIR OWN WORDS, QUOTES & SPEECHES [7th CW]

Continuing with Emmeline Pankhurst and the suffragettes. Here's a post which collects some of her most remarkable quotes and her famous speech "Freedom or Death" (1913). And lines from the "Suffragette" film dialogues.

Video "FREEDOM OR DEATH", Emmerline Pankhurst:

Link to the complete speech @ TheGuardian:

Great speeches of the 20th century: Emmeline Pankhurst's Freedom or death

"I am here as a soldier who has temporarily left the field of battle in order to explain what civil war is like when civil war is waged by women."

"Now I want to say to you who think women can't succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote."

["FREEDOM OR DEATH", Emmerline Pankhurst.]

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Video trailer 1 of the film "Suffragette", where the lines below appear:

[Lines below taken from dialogues of the film "Suffragette" (2015) Trailer nº1.]

- "We meet Mondays & Thursdays, if you're interested..."

- "You're a suffragette, Ms Ellyn."
- "I consider myself more as a soldier"

"As Mrs Pankhurst says, 'it's deeds, not words that will get us to vote'."

"For 50 years we have laboured peacefully to secure the vote for women. We've been ridiculed, battered and ignored."

"All my life, I've done what men told me. Well, I can't have that anymore"

"I ask the women in Britain to rebelion."

"We break windows, we burn things 'cause war is the only language men listen to."

"We're in every home, we're half the human race, you can't stop us all. We will win."

"And never surrender. Never give up the fight."

Video trailer 2 where the lines below appear:


[Lines below taken from dialogues of the film "Suffragette" (2015) Trailer nº2]
- "You work at the Glass House Laundry...?"
- "I was born there... Part time from when I was 7, full time from when I was 12..."

"What would the vote mean for you?"

- "Votes for women. Power is in your hand"
- "No one cares, love."
- "Some of us do..."

"All my life, I've been respectful. Done what men told me."

- "You're a wife. My wife... That's what you're meant to be"
- "But I can't have that anymore..."

"Never underestimate the power we, women, have to define our own destinies. We have been left with no alternative, defy this government." "Vote for women!"

"We shall cut into the heart of communications..."

"Rules mean nothing to me, I've had no say in making the law."

- "We will stop you."
- "What you're gonna do? Lock us all up? We're in every home. We're half the human race. You can't stop us all."

"We do not want to be law-breakers. We want to be law-makers."

"The only way is forward."

"I'm worth no more, no less than you."

"We will win."

"Never surrender. Never give up the fight."

[Colour code: In red - suffraggettes speaking. 
In blue - Emmeline Pankhurst speaking.
In black - men speaking.]