analysing mistakes

1. B2, FEBRUARY TEST
Ana Mena

2. VOCABULARY
- politics-politician-policy
- rise /raiz/ (intransitive) - Raise /reiz/ (transitive)
- economical - economic
- between (only 2) - among
- especially – specially (+ adjectives: specially made for you)
- in the end (finally) – at the end of ...
- beside (preposition) – besides (adverb)
- the same as – different from
- -ed / -ing adjectives

3. GRAMMAR
- lack of subject : I think is ....
- Double subject: people that they enjoy ...
- third person singular
- generalising: the children or children?
- Concord subject-verb:
 the majority / number of + plural noun + sing verb
 A majority / number of + plural noun + plural verb
 Both + plural verb
 Either / neither + sing or plural verb
- Countable –uncountable nouns:
 A large amount / deal of + uncountable nouns
 A large number of + plural nouns
 Half of + plural nouns /uncount. nouns

4. - Another (+ sing. Nouns) – other (+ plural nouns) – the other (both)
- Active or passive?: an only child brings up differently or an only child is
brought up differently?
- Personal reference: People ...they ...their....theirs / someone ...they ....their
....theirs
- Verb patterns: -ing or to inf?
- Used to + inf / be used to + ing / get used to + ing
- Singular nouns: must always be preceded by a determiner (article,
possessive, demonstrative,...): We only asked our father for money on
some occasions, for example on birthday
- Prepositions
- Expressing purpose: to + inf or for + -ing?

5. PRONUNCIATION
- Stress
- Isolated phonemes
- Endings

6. PRONUNCIATION
- Stress
- Isolated phonemes
- Endings