Five more B2 First Key word Transformations! Are you ready!? My name is Toby, this is SMASH English
and here are five key word transformation exercises for the B2 First Cambridge exam!
Hello? Hey, Bruce? Who's this? Yeah it's Toby you're boss, you
idiot! Yeah, I'm running late! Can you organize the equipment for the video? Oh yeah. Sure,
mate. Yeah, sure. Sure. Yeah don't mess this up.... Oh bloody hell! Question one.
Bruce can you organize the equipment in preparation for the video please?
Our keyword is UP. Toby asked _____ the equipment for the video. Here we have two things that we
need to change. We must change the direct speech into reported speech using the reporting verb
ASK and we must think of a phrasal verb that has the preposition UP and
means to prepare or organize something. Let's start with the reporting verb ASK.
Well who was Toby asking? Toby was asking Bruce. With ASK we need SUBJECT plus ASK
plus OBJECT PRONOUN plus TO plus INFINITIVE. So that gives us TOBY ASKED BRUCE TO.
We know that UP is a preposition...
yes. And we know it is part of a phrasal verb so we can put UP before our object: the equipment.
So then, can we think of a phrasal verb that means to prepare or organize? Toby asked bruce
to _____ up the equipment. SET UP. Yes! SET UP. Toby asked Bruce to set up the equipment
for the video. Marvellous! That was so much fun and what a great phrasal verb! SET UP! Phwoar!
That is my favorite phrasal verb! But did you know that there are many more phrasal verbs with SET
that you need to know for the B2 First exam and SMASH English has a video about all of them! Right
here! Every phrasal verb with SET that you need to know for the B2 First Cambridge exam! Click it,
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Jesus! Why am I doing this? What the hell do I pay them for? Jesus... Oh yes.
Sorry, Toby, uh I didn't manage to set up the equipment because... uh
oh christ... I was really busy. Busy? Bruce, busy!? I have set up all the equipment
for the video, I have done a word transformation exercise for the audience (who I love very very
much and who is going to subscribe) but you!? You've done nothing! Oh, hi Mr Toby! Um, I've
made you a tea! I know you're so stressed these days especially with Bruce around! Ugh... Bruce...
Monica, there are hairs in in the tea... Oh god, Monica! Your beard is out of control!
What is wrong with you! Um it's not my beard! I don't have a beard! How could it be my beard
if I don't have a beard!? Monica, seriously I think now is the the time to shave because this
is disgusting. Oh my god! Do I really have to explain this right now? Toby, if I do not have
a beard then it is not my beard hair okay!? I do not need this right now. God! Question two.
It definitely wasn't Monica's beard hair in the tea.
Our key word is HAVE. It _____ Monica's beard hair in the tea. She doesn't have a beard.
Here we are speculating about the past and we are talking about something that we are sure
did not happen. This means that we need to use past modals of deduction.
My favorite grammar! This means we must use a modal verb like MUST, MIGHT, COULD, MAY,
CAN'T, and COULDN'T plus HAVE plus THE PAST PARTICIPLE. To speculate about the past here
we are talking about negative certainty. We are sure that something did not happen.
We are sure that it was not Monica's beard hair in the tea. This means that we must use
CAN'T or COULDN'T. Remember with past modals of deduction we do NOT use MUSTN'T. No! No!
No! For negative certainty we use CAN'T or COULDN'T plus HAVE plus THE PAST PARTICIPLE.
Our verb in our original sentence was WAS. WAS is the past simple form of BE.
After COULDN'T or CAN'T HAVE we need THE PAST PARTICIPLE. The past participle of BE is BEEN
which gives us IT CAN'T or IT COULDN'T HAVE BEEN Monica's beard hair in the tea. That's the answer.
And as always SMASH English can help you with the grammar! We have a video... We? No I!
I do all the work! I have a video that I made for you about past modals of deduction! Right here!
Yes! Bruce seriously? Another beer? oh, Bruce, seriously? Another beer?
Question three.
Bruce is always drinking at work. It is so annoying. Our keyword is WOULD.
I ______ drink at work. What is the tone of the original sentence? What is the speaker
doing? Well the speaker is using the present continuous with the adverb of frequency ALWAYS.
If we do this it means that we are complaining. If someone is always doing something
it really annoys us. So we need to complain and we need to complain with the modal verb
WOULD. Can you think of a way to do this? We can use I WISH or IF ONLY. We know that we must use
I WISH here because we have the subject "I". So we cannot say if only... obviously... To complain
with I WISH using WOULD we say I WISH plus SUBJECT plus WOULD plus INFINITIVE. It's that easy. Wow!
We already have our infinitive here so this gives us I WISH BRUCE WOULD DRINK at work. Finished. No,
no, no! We are not finished! Because this changes the meaning! Bruce does drink at work. Bruce is
always drinking at work and this really annoys us! No! We are talking about an imaginary situation.
A great imaginary world in our head and in this imaginary world Bruce does not drink at work.
So we must use the negative form of WOULD. I WISH BRUCE WOULDN'T drink at work. Now we are finished!
And of course if you want help with I WISH and IF ONLY there is a video right here! And
if you want to know every single use of the modal verb WOULD for the B2 First Cambridge exam
I also have a video about that in the description! So go into the description and click on the links.
Click on all of the links! Have fun with the links! The links are there to be clicked...
Bruce! Oh my god, Bruce! Are you serious?
Excuse me! I have had a very stressful day, thank you very much! Bruce,
again apart from drinking what exactly have you done today!? Well, firstly I have...
Question four. Bruce continued to drink until he vomited. Our key word is SO. Bruce _____ he
vomited. Here we still have our subject bruce. What did Bruce do? Well, Bruce drank.
So let's put our verb there. Easy! Bruce drank. Past simple. Great!
Bruce drank a lot and we have the result: he vomited. So how can we use SO
to express that Bruce drank a lot and the result was that he vomited? We can use SO with
quantifiers such as MUCH, MANY, FEW and LITTLE. We cannot use countable quantifiers with verbs.
Bruce drank a lot so BRUCE DRANK SO MUCH he vomited. Now we need to think about how we
can link this action to the result. To connect this with the result we can use the word THAT.
BRUCE DRANK SO MUCH THAT he vomited. And of course if you want to learn more about the word SO and
how we use it and everything you need to know about SO for the B2 First Cambridge exam I have
a video about it! Right here! Click it! Goodbye! Oh my god! I cannot believe I am doing this! Toby,
why do I have to clean up this mess okay? I'm a beautiful 21st century woman okay? I should not
be cleaning, you pig! Because Monica, if I ask Bruce he will refuse and I'm the boss yeah? I'm
the boss! The boss does not clean vomit from the floor! The boss makes money! Two dollars a day...
But Toby he's just gonna do it again! This is not fair!
Do you know what isn't fair? Having a mouth full of beard hair! That's not fair either,
Monica! Do i complain? Yeah, Monica that was very rude of you actually.
You know what, Toby? I am done! Yeah, clean it yourself, you stupid dirty pig!
Question five. Monica left to find a new job. Our keyword is ORDER. Monica set ______
find a new job. This one is harder. We need to find another way of saying LEFT
TO. TO here is part of an infinitive of purpose. Why did she leave? She left TO find another job.
We need another way of saying LEFT TO. We have the verb SET again. This suggests that we need another
phrasal verb. We need a phrasal verb that means to leave or start a journey. So can you think of
any phrasal verbs with SET that mean to leave or start a journey? Do you have any ideas? If you do,
say them! No! Don't say them because I cannot hear you! This is a video! What are you doing,
you maniac? Instead just think about it. Phrasal verb with SET that means to leave
or start a journey. I will tell you the answer in three, two, one... SET OFF. Yes! SET OFF!
This gives us MONICA SET OFF. But why? Why did Monica set off? Well she set off to find a new job
but we cannot say she set off TO find a new job because we have our keyword and our keyword is
ORDER. Can you think a way of expressing infinitives of purpose with the word ORDER?
I can and I'm going to tell you! Monica SET OFF IN ORDER TO find a new job!
That was exciting! I feel excited now! Do you feel excited? So excited
that you're going to leave a comment and saying "Toby, you excite me!"...
IN ORDER TO is a linking expression and I know you are saying now to your computer screen (because
you are crazy) Toby please tell us more linking expressions! Well don't worry because right here
I have a video all about linking expressions! Especially how they apply to your essays!
Essays are important! We love essays! So let's get really good at writing them!
Well, Toby I think that video went quite well, don't you? Yes Bruce that went really well, didn't
it? Yeah... And with that we are finished. That was five more key word transformation exercises
for the B2 First Cambridge exam! If you liked the video don't forget to SMASH that like button,
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