8A - Should I stay or should I go?
Quick questionnaire:
Do you think you’re good at learning languages?
Is there anything about learning English that you’re bad at?
Do you think listening to pop music is good for your english?
Are you afraid of going to places where you don’t speak the language?
What english-speaking countries are you most interested in?
Which towns or cities in your country are full of tourists in the summer?
What tourist attractions is your country famous for?
Are people in your country usually nice to tourists?
Do you get angry with tourists who don’t try to speak your language?
Are people in the capital city very different from people in the rest of the country?
Practical English - At the pharmacy.
I’ll just spit out some vocabulary you might use when going to a pharmacy, or talking about sickness.
| I feel ill. | Me siento enfermo. |
| I have a headache. | Tengo dolor de cabeza. |
| I have a cough. | Tengo tos. |
| I have a flu. | Tengo gripe. |
| I have a temperature/fever. | Tengo temperatura/fiebre |
| I have a bad stomach. | Tengo dolor de panza. |
| I have a stomach ache. | Tengo dolor de panza. |
| I have a cold. | Tengo un resfrío. |
Should is used for multiple things, but the most common is:
Giving Advice: We can use Should to give advice and make suggestions to do something or express that something is a good idea.
- You should try this dessert, it’s so delicious!
We can use Shouldn’t, which is the contraction of should + not, to give advice and make suggestions not to do something or express that something is a bad idea.
- This dessert is too sweet, you shouldn’t even try it, or else you’re gonna pall.
(Small tangent, “Pall” means “Empalagar”, and “Gonna” is a contraction of “Going to”, used in spoken english, there are a bunch like this one, “Wanna” is “Want to”, “Gotta” is “Going to”, “Ain’t” is “be or have not”)
We can use Should + Have + Past Participle to make suggestions about something that has already happened in the past.
- We Shouldn’t have drunk coffee before going to bed.
Obligation: We can use should in the meaning of be supposed to or be expected to to give orders or advice but not in a strong way.
- You should study harder.
Note: We can use ought to/ought not to instead of should/shouldn’t. There is no difference between them, although ought to is less common and more formal than should.
- You ought to study harder.
Get is one of the most common verbs in English, mainly because it has many different meanings and there are also many phrasal verbs with get.