UNIT 7

7A TECHNOLOGY
7B WANT IT, NEED IT
Professor Harold Salgado

Vocabulary

a printer (inkjet laserjet)

a mouse
a monitor
a scanner
a keyboard
a screen
speakers
a memory stick / a flash drive
hard disk
AIO
laptop / desktop

Ability

We use these phrases to talk about things you can do now:

We use these phrases to talk about things we cant do now:

manage to do something
be quite/very/really good at doing something
can do something
find something quite/very/really easy to do
know how to do something
be able to do something
be useless at doing something
havent/hasnt got a clue how to do something
find somenthing quite/very/really difficult to do
be no good at doing something

We use these phrases to tal about ability in the past :

Wasnt/werent /was/were able to do something

Could/couldnt do something

+ infinitive

+ infinitive with to

+ verb+ing

be able to
could
can

havent got a clue how

manage
have no idea how
find something
easy/difficult
know how

be useless at
be quite/very/really
good at

TIP! We use manage to talk about something you are able to do,
but is difficult.
TIPS! We can also say be brilliant/great/excellent/not bad at and
be hopeless/bad/terrible/awful/rubbish at
We can also use a noun or pronoun after be good at/be useless
at, etc. (Im really useless at football but Jordan is brilliant at it.

Second Conditional

We use the second conditional to talk about

imaginary situations. We often use it to talk
about the opposite of what is true or real.

If my car had a GPS, life would be much easier.

(my car doesnt have a GPS)

The second contidional talks about the

present or the future.
The if clause can be first or second in the
sentence.
If clause
Main clause

If + past simple

Would/wouldnt + infinitive

If clause

Main clause

If + subject + Past Simple,

subject + would/wouldnt +
infinitive

If my car had one life would be so much

easier.
If we didnt have it at home, I wouldnt
get any sleep at all.

Tips! We can say If I/he/she/it/was or If I/he/she/it were in the

second conditional.
* We can use could + infinitive to talk about ability (I could
buy a car, if I had the money)

Listening