Five more word transformations!? Wow! What great practice for my B2 First Use of English paper!
Yes! It's really good practice! My name is Toby, this is SMASH English, and here
are five more word transformations for the Use of English part of the B2 First Cambridge exam!
Remember for part four of the Use of English paper for the B2 First Cambridge exam
you will be given two sentences. You must make the first sentence mean the same as
the second sentence using between two and five words including the key word given.
If you cannot remember how to do this part of the B2 First Use of English paper
then watch my video all about how to do word transformations! It's really, really important.
Question One! Yeah! I cannot wait! I'm so excited! I didn't see my boyfriend because I was watching
SMASH English. Yeah, this is something that many boyfriends complain about. No they don't,
no they don't. But! I can pretend because this is Youtube and it's not real! In the first sentence
we are talking about the real past. I was watching SMASH English. This really happened. In the second
sentence we are talking about the unreal past. We know this is true because we have WOULD plus HAVE.
We use WOULD HAVE plus a PAST PARTICIPLE to talk about something that didn't actually happen
in the past. That's amazing, Toby! Thank you! Thank you so much! Our second sentence begins with
IF so we know that we need a conditional structure and we know we are talking about an imaginary past
so what conditional refers to an imaginary past? Is it the zero conditional, the first conditional,
the second conditional or the third conditional? The third conditional! Wow, Toby! That's my
favorite conditional! Yes it's my favorite too! Our result clause is already finished so we
must finish our condition clause. In the third conditional IF is always followed by the PAST
PERFECT and that gives us "if I hadn't watched SMASH English I would have seen my boyfriend".
We have used the negative form of the past perfect here because I did watch SMASH English and because
I did watch SMASH English I must make that imaginary and talk about what didn't happen so I
use the negative form of the past perfect because this is an imaginary past not the real past...
But! We still have a problem! The original sentence was in the past continuous
so I cannot use the past perfect. If I hadn't been watching SMASH English I would have seen
my boyfriend! Voila! Perfect! Oh yeah, and everything you need to know about the third
conditional can be found here! It's a really good video! You will learn a lot! Watch it!
Question two! Another one!? Awesome! She really wanted to watch SMASH English but she couldn't
because she was with her boyfriend. Yep, I'm sorry... I'm just a sad
and lonely little man. Here we have two sentences that are very similar
so let's eliminate the parts that are similar so we can focus on the things that we need to change.
First we have "She really" let's eliminate that because it's the same in both sentences. Then
we have "SMASH English but she couldn't because she was with her boyfriend" that's the same in
both sentences too so we can eliminate that as well. Now we just have "wanted to watch"
and our key word is FELT. Can you think of an expression with FEEL (the present form of FELT)
that means "want", "I want to do something". I feel... feel like doing something!
Amazing! I did that all on my own! Well done me! Remember, with FEEL LIKE we need the gerund.
Our verb here is WATCH so that becomes FEEL LIKE WATCHING but this is in the past so "She really
felt like watching SMASH English but she couldn't because she was with her boyfriend". What a
terrible problem to have! SMASH English is a human right! Oh and if you want to learn all about the
different uses of LIKE for the B2 First Cambridge exam then there's another video here! Bye!
Question three! This is the best day ever! He told me that if I watched SMASH English again he would
break up with me! Oh no! Let's eliminate! We can eliminate "he" because that's the same and we can
eliminate "SMASH English again". Remember though in the second sentence we have O,R that means
the grammar is slightly different for our second sentence and that is because we have the reporting
verb WARN as our key word. What is he doing? Is he telling the speaker to watch SMASH English
or is he telling the speaker not to watch SMASH English? He is saying don't watch SMASH English.
This person is warning his girlfriend. We use the reporting verb WARN to talk about
someone who is informing someone else of a possible danger. Here the danger is that the
boyfriend will break up with her and that's a terrible thing, a really terrible thing.
To use the reporting verb WARN we need WARN plus OBJECT PRONOUN plus TO plus INFINITIVE
or if we are talking about a negative sentence to tell someone not to do something WARN
plus OBJECT PRONOUN plus NOT plus TO plus INFINITIVE. So in this sentence that gives us
"he warned me not to watch SMASH English again or he would break up with me.". What a terrible man
that is! Jealousy is a terrible thing, especially if it stops you from watching SMASH
English! But you're not going to, are you? No! And I have a video all about every single reporting
verb you need to know for the B2 First Cambridge exam! Click the link there! And of course that's
never happened in real life... No boyfriend has ever been jealous of a girl talking to me because
for some reason they say that I'm not a threat to their relationship... They have no idea...
Question four. Wow! I'm learning so much! I cannot tolerate Toby anymore, he is an idiot!
Not true. None of these are true but this one especially! "I". Eliminate it! "Toby anymore,
he is an idiot". Eliminate it! We don't need it! So we need an expression with UP that means
"cannot tolerate". "I" is a subject and UP is a preposition but we don't have a verb!
That means we need a phrasal verb! I love phrasal verbs! Phrasal verbs! Yes!
Yes! Can you think of a phrasal verb with UP that means to tolerate? Yeah! Yeah! I can!
I can! Of course you can, Toby! Because you are very intelligent. The phrasal verb with UP that
means to tolerate is to PUT UP WITH. Remember the original sentence was "I cannot tolerate" so our
sentence is "I cannot put up with Toby anymore, he is an idiot". Every phrasal verb with put? Click!
Boom! Question 5! Already!? Oh no! I was persuaded by Toby to watch another SMASH English video!
So let's eliminate "another SMASH English video" because it's the same in both sentences. Now we
have "I was persuaded by Toby to watch". Our first sentence is passive but our second sentence starts
with "Toby" so we know it must be active. So let's change "I was persuaded by Toby to watch" into the
active form. Which is: "Toby persuaded me to watch another SMASH English video." But of course this
is not correct because we have not yet used our keyword! So let's replace PERSUADED with
GOT! Did you know that GET can also mean to PERSUADE? To GET SOMEONE TO DO SOMETHING means
to persuade someone to do something! Isn't that fantastic!? So our sentence is "Toby got me to
watch another SMASH English video". And now I'm gonna GET you to watch this SMASH English
video all about how to use GET for the B2 First Cambridge exam! Seriously it's a great video and
you are a great person! Probably... Maybe you're not? Maybe you're terrible? If you're terrible...
I don't care.... Why would I care? Pass the B2 First exam! That's all I care about! Your morality
is not important to me. I'm amoral... not immoral... amoral... without morality. No, no!
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