Week 4: If I were you
-Website where I found some pieces of advice, and one fragment I chose:
"The point is not that you should act arrogantly or as if entitled, but that, if you act as if you have value in the world, others are more likely to treat you that way. In the hetero world, this means letting the guy pursue you. Which is to say, not calling too much or being too accommodating to his needs. Conversely, if he fails to call, hold your head high and walk away. Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I still think that, in the early days of a relationship, the onus falls on the opposite sex."
-Website page, and text in which I found modal verbs:
“Last week my wife suggested we should have a weekend break: Barcelona, or perhaps Prague. After a few minutes on my computer I was able to book fl ights and a hotel, then print out airline tickets and a hotel voucher – all done in less than half an hour. Nothing surprising about that, you might say. But then I suddenly remembered how things were different when I was a child. If my parents wanted to go away they couldn’t just use the Internet – because there was no Internet. Well, of course it existed, but ordinary people weren’t able to use it, it was only used by a few universities and some government agencies. No, they had to phone a travel agent or drive into town and go to a travel agency.”
-I was able to: is used to talk about an achievement that was done with difficulty.
-Might say: is used to speculate about the present in this case.
-Couldn’t just use: is used to express prohibition in the past.
-Weren’t able to: is used to talk about something that could not be done in the past.
-Finally, some activities I have done this last 4 weeks to improve my english are: doing the activities from the gramar and vocabulary books; watching movies in its original versión, such as "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" and "Sierra Burguess is a Loser"; and I have been reading a book called "Murder Maker".
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