"If I were you..." by Alba Muñoz

Top financial tips

• Update your course and university details with Student Finance as soon as possible after securing a place through clearing, and send through any supporting evidence.
• Don’t assume your finance is sorted. If you haven’t received a letter from the loans company saying it is, check.
• If you’ve applied for finance online, quickly send back the signed declaration, which agrees to the terms and conditions of applying for student finance, to avoid delays.
• Remember, you won’t receive any finance until you register – and physically attend – university.
• Decide what your costs and income are likely to be and draw up a budget.
• Bear in mind that paying your rent is more of a priority than the student union’s tequila night.
• In fact, it’s more of a priority than anything else.
• But don’t forget Christmas, or the TV licence, or contents insurance, or the cost of your housemates’ birthdays.
• Work out early in the term whether you’re going to need a part-time job and certainly before you run out of money to pay the bus fare to get to it.
• If you’re struggling, ask for help. The earlier you get support the less likely it is your finances will get out of control.

This is a text from the journalistic web "The Guardian" and it belongs to the article How to manage your finances at university. The expressions related to advice are underlined and in this case, it is used the infinitive form of the verbs to give the advice.

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I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch. I read all I came to read and then I began to study diseases, generally, turning the leaves idly.

I came to typhoid fever, read the symptoms and discovered I must have had it for months without knowing it. Cholera I had with severe complications and diphtheria I must have been born with. I was relieved to find that Bright’s disease I had only in a modified form and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. The only disease I could concludeI had not got was housemaid’s knee.

I sat and pondered. I thought what an interesting case I must be from a medical point of view. I was hospital in myself. All students need do would be to walk round me and after that take their diploma.

I tried to feel my heart. I could not feel my heart. I think now that it must have been there all the time, and must have been beating, but cannot account for it.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man, I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

(After "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome)

This is a page from the english learning blog englishstandards.blogspot.com.es and this excerpt belongs to the entry Examples of modal verbs in texts and dialogues. You can find the modal verbs underlined.

In this four weeks of the course I have been studying for my subjects (in english), making my english language homework, but also reading two books: "Deadly Harvest" written by Carolyn Walker and "You were not born to suffer" written by Blake D. Bauer. Also I have been watching one of my favourite series "Orange is the new black" in the original score.