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Urban Legends. The Warehouse Madrid Upper Intermediate Class. Pass on. To pass on a message is to tell somebody a piece of information that another person has told you. Can you pass on to Jos é Maria that we have #3 for homework tonight?. Make up. Invent an excuse, explanation, story, etc
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Urban Legends The Warehouse Madrid Upper Intermediate Class
Pass on • To pass on a message is to tell somebody a piece of information that another person has told you. • Can you pass on to José Mariathatwehave#3 for homework tonight?
Make up • Invent an excuse, explanation, story, etc • He made up an excuse for being late to class. • He told her he couldn’t date her anymore because he was moving to another city. I could tell he’d made it up when I didn’t see any moving boxes in his house.
Turn out • Happen in a particular way or have a particular result, which is often unexpected: I wasn’t looking forward to the evening, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. • I wasn’t looking forward to the event, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. • It turns out he wasn’t lying. He really didn’t cheat on the exam. He must have studied a lot!
Run over somebody with something • Hit somebody with something while you are driving and knock them to the ground: • Have you ever run over an animal? • I’ve run over a cat before.
Go off • Explode • The bomb went off at exactly 6:30. • Man, he really just went off on his boss! He really hates his boss!
Run away • Leave a place quickly because you are frightened or don’t want to get caught. • The thief took the bag and ran away. • She ran away from home when she was 16.
Work something out/ work out something • Understand or find the answer to something by thinking about it. • It took me ages to work out the answer to question 3.
Take off • Leave the ground and begin to fly • The plane took off an hour late. • The academy is finally taking off.
Knock somebody out/ knock out somebody • Hit somebody hard so that they become unconscious. • The mugger hit the man so hard that he knocked him out.
Come round • Become conscious again after being knocked out: • When he cam round, he couldn’t remember anything.
Past Simple • For completed actions in the past. These tell the main events of the story in the order that they happened. • One day, one of the sailors went for a drive in the outback and accidentally ran over a kangaroo.
Past Continuous • For a longer action that was in progress when another (shorter) action happened: • While the sailor was taking some photos, the kangaroo came round.
Past Continuous • Background information that isn’t part of the main story • In 1987 the world’s best sailors were competing the in the America’s Cup yacht race off the coast of Fremantle.
Which happened first? • While they were flying at 25,000 feet, one cow broke free and started running around inside the plane. • What was the action already in progress? • What are the shorter actions?
Past Continuous • When two longer actions are happening at the same time: • While I was watching TV, Steve was making dinner.
When, while, as • WhenI was talking to Angel, José María walked in. • WhileI was taking a shower, the phone rang. • AsI was just leaving, someone rang the bell.
Past Perfect Simple • Action that was completed before another action in the past. • Eventually the pilot of a Russian transport plane told the police what had happened.
Past Perfect Continuous • Longer action that started before another action in the past (probably up to this past action) • The beat had been sailing in calm waters when a cow fell from the sky.
A few years ago, Robert Monaghan from Ballymena in Northern Ireland, had a very bad day. • He was crossing the road near his home when a van hit him. • While he was getting to his feet, another car ran him over and then drove away. • Some people who had been walking past stopped to help Robert. • They had called an ambulance and helped him to his feet. • When the ambulance arrived, everyone stepped back – everyone except Robert, who didn’t realize what everyone had been waiting for and was run over by the ambulance.
I knew that Rory had been trying to find a job for ages. • My brother called while I was watching football. • Robin and Cecilia weren’t going out together for very long when he proposed to her. • When I got home, I realized that I had left my mobile at work. • By the time that others arrived, we had already been waiting for over two hours. • While Angela was walking home she met an old old school friend that she hadn’t seen for years.
