Mod. 5:1: Can't buy you love
A fool and his money are soon parted | Time is money | Money is the root of all evil |
If you look after the pennies, the pound will look after themselves | Money doesn't grow on tree
| The person who said the money can't buy happiness, didn't know where to shop
| they should share the bill | Whoever | misguided | wad of cash | research | can put the smile back | windfall | throughout | involved | enabling | alas | utter | average | altogether | u-shaped pattern | survey | raise | person’s background | step | I'm deeply in love | I'm after his money | whereas | somehow
wads of cash = large amount of money
windfall = money received unexpectedly
lottery = a game in which you buy tickets to try to win money
unheritance = money which you receive from someone who has died
in the money = having a lot of money
making do = managing to survive on the money you have
means = the money you have to live on
I'd love to be professional piano
Corrige las siguientes frases
- Error: I like read much, my favourite magazine is "El Jueves"
I like reading a lot, my favourite magazine is 'El Jueves'
After verbs expressing ‘likes and dislikes’ we use a gerund. - Error: That's amazing because in 20 minutes can change your own humour!
That's amazing because in twenty minutes your own humour can change!
Spanish allows sentences without a subject or sentences with the subject after the verb.
English is different; every sentence must have a subject before the verb. - Error: He change his face when I am serious.
He changes his faces when I am serious
We need third person singular ‘s’. - Error: That is because I prefer usually and natural situations.
That is because I prefer usual and natural situations.
We need an adjective here to talk about a noun ‘situation’. - Error: I like very much Spanish humour
I like Spanish humour very much
Order is important in English the Direct object must be next to the verb. - Error: They know what are they going to eat or what leisure activity are they going to do.
They know what they are going to eat or what leisure activity they are going to do
This is not an actual question it is a reported speech so the order must be SUBJ + VERB. - Error: Sheldon hadn't social skills, he easily gets angry.
Sheldon didn't have social skills, he easily gets angry
‘hadn’t’ is an auxiliary, the verb ‘to have’ needs an auxiliary here. - Error: I liked Eugenio’s humour, his jokes was amusing.
I liked Eugenio's humour, his jokes were amusing
We cannot use 3rd person ‘was’ with ‘his jokes’, it’s a plural subject. - Error: ... but I asked my husband if he could to tell me one for you.
... but I asked my husband if he could tell me one for you
Modals are always followed by an infinitive without to. - Error: It's fun to see or listen to the stories of them lives, for example…
It's fun to see or listen to the stories of their lives, for example...
‘them’ is an object pronoun, not a possessive. We need ‘their’.
• El verbo 'can' no utiliza nunca el 'to', ni delante ni detrás.
• Los adverbios de frecuencia siempre va entre sujeto y el verbo, usually, often, generally
Can't buy you love
In my opinion, I think that a couple in love is the best option to live a plenty and happy life. Love gives you the possibility of sharing a lot and the simplest things take an extra value.
However, life is too complex to have only one way of living it. I know that life is like a wheel and sometimes you are up and the other you are down. Everybody must live depending on the circumstances of their lives.
I have a friend who lost his job, he is in a difficult situation and he always says that if his wife goes away with her lover, he will go with them, well it's a joke. So live and let live everyone as they wish.
If you can live without love, this is no problem because you can find other ways of being happy, travelling, shopping, working, pets, hobbies, even being happy with a person you don't love at all but he or she may give you other things that you need in that moment.
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