Curso de Inglés Avanzado Lección 1

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EJERCICIOS: Encontrarás espacios para completar los ejercicios directamente, con respuestas de texto o cuadros de selección entre opciones distintas, dependiendo del tipo de actividad. Los ejercicios a completar generalmente los distinguirás por su icono y por aparecer habitualmente en un color salmón.

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"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
Confucius

Read and listen to the following emails and answer the questions.

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1. Where is the writer of the email?

2. What is he/she doing there?

Check your answers.

Now complete the following questions and answers.

1. How long Jo in San Jose?

three months.
2. her new job?
No, enjoying work very much.
3. nervous during the first week?
Because a different job and she their software program before.
4. What time ?
At 6.30.
5. What recently?
A car.
6. What to do?
To drive on the right hand side of the road.
7. How long with Mike?
three weeks.
8. Where ?
In a bar near her office.
9. Where her tonight?
To a jazz bar.
10. tired?
Because .

Listen to check your answers.

Check your answers.

Now do the same with the following email.

1. Where is the writer of the email?

2. What is he/she doing there?

Check your answers.

Now complete the following questions and answers.

1. When Steve his second meeting?

Yesterday afternoon.
2. What they ?
The design, the packaging presentation and colour scheme.
3. How long in Beijing?
Monday
4. What inconveniences Steve’s company ?
Late delivery dates.
5. Who Steve about the late delivery dates?
Brad.
6. Who Steve just lunch with?
Chris.
7. What Chris to Sandra?
Her regards.
8. How long Chris to show Steve the night life in Beijing?
he arrived.
9. What Chris ?
Dinner with all the team followed by a nightclub.
10. What Steve before he leaves?
He’ll phone Chris

Listen to check your answers.

Listen to check your answers.

Check your answers.

Writing a formal email

Here are some formal expressions you can use when writing a formal email.

How to begin your email:
_ Thank you for your prompt reply.
- In reply to your email...
- Thank you for your email in which you...
- Many thanks for contacting us about....
- I am writing to inform you.... / I am writing to request... / I am writing to point out that... / I am writing in reference to... / I am writing to enquire about...

How to finish your email:
- Please, contact me again if you need any more information.
- Let me know if you need anything else.
- I look forward to seeing you/I look forward to hearing from you/I look forward to meeting you/I look forward to speaking to you/I look forward to receiving the information
- If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.

- Kind regards,
- Sincerely,.

Complete the verb tense table below with the following examples from the emails. Follow the examples.

I’ll phone you

~~I live close to the countryside~~

We had the second meeting yesterday

I’ll have been living here 6 months by then

Before that they’d been telling us

When I was singing karaoke

~~I’m learning to drive~~

I had never used their software program before.

I’ll have got to know all the best restaurants

I’ve been organising my new apartment

I’ve been here since Monday

I won’t be working at Christmas


	Simple	Continuous
Present
Past
Future
Present perfect
Past perfect
Future perfect

Check your answers.

Present Simple vs Present Continuous:

PRESENT SIMPLE
- Things which are always true (example: The Earth goes round the sun.)
- Permanent, or nearly permanent, situations (example: Pepito works for a software company.)
- Habits or things we do regularly (example: I drive to work)
- Future events which are part of a timetable (example: The train leaves at 11am.)
- giving instructions/directions (example: How do I get to the bank? - You go down this street and turn left at the next set of lights.)
- Telling stories in an informal style (example: So, this bloke goes into a pub, walks up to the bar and asks for a pint of milk! I couldn't believe it!)

PRESENT CONTINUOUS
- Things which are happening at the moment of speaking (example: Hurry up! Everyone's waiting for you outside the restaurant.)
- Temporary situations. Situations which are slowly changing. (example: Have you noticed that the weather's getting warmer?)
- Repeated actions and events around the moment of speaking: (example: Pepito's going out with a girl from work, but I don't think it'll last long.)
- Definite future plans (example: I'm meeting friends for a drink on Friday)
- To talk about people in pictures and photos (example: Two boys are playing football in a park and a young couple are kissing on a bench under a tree.)

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