ENGLISH COMPONENT

ICFES TEST

La prueba de inglés esta conformada por 55 preguntas

de selección múltiple con única respuesta, las cuales
están distribuidas en 7 partes.
Parte 1: Identificación de lugares.
Parte 2: Vocabulario.
Parte 3: Conversaciones.
Parte 4: Textos incompletos.
Parte 5: Comprensión de textos.
Parte 6: Comprensión de textos.
Parte 7: Textos incompletos.
Analizando las últimas pruebas se
observa que los temas más
recurrentes fueron:
-Tiempos: Pasado simple, presente simple, pasado
progresivo y presente progresivo.
-Verbos auxiliares: To be/To do.
-Comparativos y Superlativos.
-Formas no personales del verbo.
 Simple past
AFFIRMATIVE: SUBJECT+ VERB+ ED+COMPLEMENT.

EXAMPLE:

-I danced salsa yesterday.

*TAKE CARE ABOUT IRREGULAR VERBS*

-He ate pasta yesterday.

Rules to conjugate a verb in simple past.
-Si el verbo termina en “E” se añade una “D”
Bake – Baked

-Si el verbo termina en consonante+Y cambiamos la “y” por “i” y

agregamos “ed”
Carry – Carried

- Si el verbo es de una silaba y tiene la forma C+V+C doblamos la última

consonante y agregamos “ed”
Stop- Stopped

-Si el verbo termina en vocal más “y”, solamente vamos a agregar “ed” al
verbo. 
Play- Played
 Simple past
NEGATIVE: SUBJECT+ DID NOT+ VERB+ COMPLEMENT

EXAMPLE:

-I did not dance salsa yesterday

-He didn´t eat pasta yesterday

 Simple past
INTERROGATIVE:DID+SUBJECT+COMPLEMENT+?

EXAMPLE:

-Did i dance salsa yesterday?

-Did he eat pasta yesterday?

 Simple present
AFFIRMATIVE:SUBJECT+VERB(S)+COMPLEMENT.

EXAMPLE:

-I play soccer

*TAKE CARE ABOUT THIRD PERSON*

-He plays soccer

Special cases with third person

-Para los verbos acabados en "-o","-sh", "-ch" , "-ss", "-x" ,

"-z", "-y" se añade "-es" en lugar de "-s para la 3ª persona
del singular".
Third person examples.
 Special case “ies”.
-Los verbos acabados en "-y" cuando la "y" no es
precedida de una vocal, forman la tercera persona en
"-ies".

EXAMPLE:
Verbo en infinitivo Tercera persona Significado
To occupy He occupies El ocupa
To study She studies Ella estudia
 To take into account
 -Si la "-y" es precedida por una vocal, la tercera persona
se forma con una "-s”.

EXAMPLE:

Verbo en infinitivo Tercera persona Significado

To buy He buys El compra
 Simple present
NEGATIVE:SUBJECT+DO(ES)+NOT+VERB+COMPLEMENT.

EXAMPLE:

-I do not like Avocado-I don´t like avocado.

-He does not like Avocado- He doesn´t like avocado.

*Nobody likes avocado*

 Simple present
INTERROGATIVE: DO(ES)+SUBJECT+VERB.

EXAMPLE:

-Do you like avocado?

-Does she like avocado?

Esto es para preguntas cerradas, las llamadas “Yes/No

questions”.
 Simple present
-La estructura de las preguntas abiertas (es decir aquellas que
tienen partícula interrogativa) es:

INTERROGATIVE PARTICLE+DO(ES)+SUBJECT+VERB

EXAMPLE:

-Why do you like avocado?

- When do you eat avocado?

*Don´t eat avocado*

 Past progressive
AFFIRMATIVE:SUBJECT+AUX+VERB+ING+COMPLEMENT

EXAMPLE:

-I was working yesterday

-We were dancing last night

AUX: WAS/WERE
 Past progressive
NEGATIVE:SUBJECT+AUX+NOT+VERB+ING+COMPLEMENT

EXAMPLE:

-I was not working yesterday.

-We were not dancing last night.

 Past progressive
INTERROGATIVE:
AUX+SUBJECT+VERB+ING+COMPLEMENT+?

EXAMPLE:

-Was i working yesterday?

-Were we dancing yesterday?

 Present progressive
AFFIRMATIVE:SUBJECT+TO/BE+VERB+ING+COMPLEMENT

EXAMPLE:

-She is eating avocado

-I am playing soccer
 Present progressive
NEGATIVE:
SUBJECT+TO/BE+NOT+VERB+ING+COMPLEMENT

EXAMPLE:

-She is not eating avocado

-I am not playing soccer

 Present progressive
INTERROGATIVE:
TO/BE+SUBJECT+VERB+ING+COMPLEMENT+?

EXAMPLE:

-Is she eating avocado?

-Am i playing soccer?

 Use of auxiliary verbs
BE HAVE DO
Am Has Does
Is Had Did
Are Havig Doing
Be Had Done
Being Have Do
Was
Were

Been
Link to find a short explanation
about auxiliary verbs.

https://es.slideshare.net/jralmenar/ud-los-verbos-auxili
ares-en-ingls-42978780
Non-personal forms of the verb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOZCmgzniAk
IN-ON-AT
COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES