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Interchange 3 – Unit 6: That needs fixing.


General objective: describing problems, making complaints and discussing what needs fixing.

Part A: describe problems using nouns and past participles as adjectives.

En la parte A de esta lección, describiremos problemas utilizando pasado participio como adjetivo.

GRAMMAR FOCUS: describe problems with past participles as adjectives and with nouns.

First of all, let’s try to understand these vocabulary words to use when identifying and describing problems.

Verb Participle/adjective Noun


tear = rasgar / romper torn a tear
damage = dañar damaged some damage
chip = astillar chipped a chip
scratch = arañar/rayar scratched a scratch
crack = agrietar cracked a crack
dent = abollar dented a dent
stain = manchar stained a stain
leak is leaking a leak

When we identify a problem, we can use the following structures to describe the problem.

1- Rule with an adjective: subject + be + past participle as adjective.

The jeans are torn. The mug is chipped. The car is dented.

2- Rule with a noun: subject + have + noun OR there is/there are + noun

The coffee mug has a The car has a dent


The jeans have a
chip in it. in it.
tear in them.
Or Or Or

There is a tear in There is a chip in it. There is a dent in it.


them.

Notice that the two sets of sentences have more or less the same meaning (e.g., We can say that something is torn
or has a tear in it.

Nota: cuando un problem es continuo, tal como se presenta en la ilustración de abajo, este se describirá con el
presente continuo cuando utilicemos la regla 1, es decir, con “past participle”.

The water tank is leaking. Or The water tank has a leak in it.

There is a leak in the water tank.

Note: is leaking is the present continuous form.

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