This document provides information on skills, jobs, modal verbs, and personal preferences. It lists skills like playing an instrument, speaking a foreign language, and driving a van. Common jobs are identified such as vet, police officer, farmer, and teacher. Modal verbs like can, could, would are explained in terms of present and past tense uses. Obligations with have to and no obligations with don't have to are defined. Personal preferences such as what one would or wouldn't like to be are discussed using conditional sentences.
2. SKILLS
Play an instrument
Mange money
Speak a foreign
language
Use software
Design a website
Make a video
Make arrangements
Compose music
Program a computer
Deal with people
Drive a van
Make arrangements
3. JOBS
Vet
Police officer
Farmer
Lawyer
Nurse
Mechanic
Accountant
Software
developer
Waiter /
waitress
Teacher
Shop assitant
Model
Tour guide
Designer
Doctor
Architect
4. CAN COULD WOULD
They all are modal verbs:
Same form for all the subjects
She /I / We can speak four languages
We dont use the auxiliaries DO/DONT
DOES / DOESNT in the negative form and
in questions
You cant lick your own elbow
She couldnt play the guitar when she was six
They are followed by an infinitive form
I would like to speak German
5. CAN CANT
CAN
First thing you must know is that
CAN is used in the present tense
I can speak three languages
She can play the violin and the piano
We cant be here after school
You cant take pictures inside school
6. COULD COULDNT
COULD
COULD is used in the past tense
I could touch my nose with my tongue
when I was six
She couldnt wait for you and she left
We could go to Paris last year
I couldnt walk when I was one year
7. Ride a bike
Use a computer
Speak english
Cook a meal
Use a mobile
Eat by yourself
Walk
Talk
Write
WHEN YOU WERE A
CHILD
WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU COULD
DO?
COULD YOU?
8. Ride a bike
Use a computer
Speak English
Cook a meal
Use a mobile
Eat by yourself
Walk
Talk
Write
NOWADAYS
WHAT CAN YOU DO?
CAN YOU?
9. REMEMBER
CAN
CANT
CAN I come to your party?
COULD
COULDNT
COULD you speak Chinese when you arrived to China?
WOULD
WOULDNT
WOULD you like something to eat?
10. HAVE TO DONT HAVE TO
HAVE TO/ HAS TO is used when there is an
obligation
We have to do our homework
She has to study that lesson for tomorrow
DONT HAVE TO / DOESNT HAVE TO is used
when there is no obligation
You dont have to come to school on Sundays
She doesnt have to answer that question
11. HAVE TO DONT HAVE TO
DO___ HAVE TO? / DOES ____ HAVE TO?
Do you have to study this afternoon ?
No , I dont
Does he have to answer that question?
Yes, she does
Where do you have to go after this lesson?
I have to go to room 345
12. HAVE TO DONT HAVE TO
It can also be used in the PAST TENSE (HAD
TO)
I had to get up early last Sunday
She didnt have to pay, I did it
Did she have to go to the dentist?
Yes, she did
13. Using the vocabulary of the unit (JOBS) think
what these people HAVE TO and DONT HAVE
TO do.
14. Vet
Police officer
Farmer
Lawyer
Nurse
Mechanic
Accountant
Software
developer
Waiter /
waitress
Teacher
Shop assitant
Model
Tour guide
Designer
Doctor
Architect
Have to Dont have to
Wear an uniform
Go to university
Be phisically fit
Be attractive
Speak English
Help people with
their problems
Get up early
Be good at Sciences
15. LIKES AND PREFERENCES
WOULD is the conditional tense in English.
Its contracted form is D
I would like a cup of tea
My mother would hate to see me cry
Hed prefer a shorter exam
WOULDNT is the negative form
You cant use it with love , prefer or hate
I wouldnt love to be famous
I wouldnt like to be famous
I wouldnt like a bigger house, mine is enough
16. IF YOU WERE ..
A rich man
A police man/woman
A doctor
Your English teacher
Invisible
Very strong ..
The President
The King
A famous singer.
A TV presenter.
I would like to have a big house
I wouldnt like to be Jorge Javier
Vazquez