B2, FEBRUARY TESTAna Mena

VOCABULARY- politics-politician-policy- rise /raiz/ (intransitive) - Raise /reiz/ (transitive)- economical - economic- between (only 2) - among - especially – specially (+ adjectives: specially made for you)- in the end (finally) – at the end of ...- beside (preposition) – besides (adverb)- the same as – different from - -ed / -ing adjectives

GRAMMAR- lack of subject : I think is ....

- Double subject: people that they enjoy ...

- third person singular

- generalising: the children or children?

- Concord subject-verb:

the majority / number of + plural noun + sing verb

A majority / number of + plural noun + plural verb

Both + plural verb

Either / neither + sing or plural verb

- Countable –uncountable nouns:

A large amount / deal of + uncountable nouns

A large number of + plural nouns

Half of + plural nouns /uncount. nouns

- Another (+ sing. Nouns) – other (+ plural nouns) – the other (both)

- Active or passive?: an only child brings up differently or an only child is brought up differently?

- Personal reference: People ...they ...their....theirs / someone ...they ....their ....theirs

- Verb patterns: -ing or to inf?

- Used to + inf / be used to + ing / get used to + ing

- Singular nouns: must always be preceded by a determiner (article, possessive, demonstrative,...): We only asked our father for money on some occasions, for example on birthday

- Prepositions

- Expressing purpose: to + inf or for + -ing?

PRONUNCIATION

- Stress- Isolated phonemes- Endings