Vocabulary about appearance and clothes

Appearance Clothes

Grammar practice

WOULD RATHER AND WOULD PREFER

Use the paper with the grammar functions I gave you last class to practice the use of would rather and would prefer :)

http://www.learnenglish-online.com/grammar/tests/ratherprefer.html
http://www.tinyteflteacher.co.uk/learning-english/grammar/exercises/would-rather.html
http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/would-rather-would-prefer-prefer
http://www.englishpedia.net/grammar-exercises/modals/modals-preference.html
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5494
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-49279.php

Homework 3

Reading Comprehension

Hello guys! Please read this article about difficult people and answer the questions.

1. What kind of people do you find difficult to deal with?Why?What personality traits might they have? Use the pictures in the article to help you.

TYPES: Wet blanket, know-it-all, space cadet, loose cannon, bossy-boots, cry baby.

TRAITS: Negative, knowledgeable, push, conceited, moody, critical, out of touch, infantile, unpredictable.

NOTE: FOR THIS QUESTION (QUESTION 1) YOU NEED TO LEAVE A COMMENT ON THE POST!!

2. Read again and choose the correct answer. Bring the answers to class to check. 

3.

MORNING GROUP

MORNING GROUP!

Hello guys! According to the episode of Game of Thrones we watched last class, I want you to comment on this post taking into account the following aspects:
1. What do you think was happening on the episode?
2. What do you think will happen on the next episode?

AFTERNOON GROUP

AFTERNOON GROUP

Hello guys! For this activity you are going to take into account the episode we watched last class.
I want you to write on a piece of paper the resolutions each one of the characters proposed for the new year.  For example.. Monica's new resolution will be to take more pictures of all her friends together. Remember to use the correct tenses to express future :) Bring the paper to class! 

prefix dominoes

Hi guys here you are the activity we worked on last saturday. Hope it's helpful for you!

FUTURE FORMS

Future continuous & Future perfect

 

The future continuous (will be + ‘ing’ form) and the future perfect (will have + past participle) tenses are used to talk about events in the future.

Future continuous

• Don’t ring at 8 o’clock. I’ll be watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
• This time tomorrow we’ll be sitting on the beach. I can’t wait!

We use the future continuous to talk about something that will be in progress at or around a time in the future.

• Don’t phone grandma now, she’ll be having dinner.
• The kids are very quiet. They’ll be doing something wrong, I know it!

These sentences are not about the future but we can use the future continuous to talk about what we assume is happening at the moment.

Future Perfect

• Do you think you will have finished it by next Thursday?
• In 5 years time I’ll have finished university and I’ll be able to earn some money at last.

We use the future perfect to say that something will be finished by a particular time in the future.

We often use the future perfect with ‘by’ or ‘in’

• I think astronauts will have landed on Mars by the year 2020.
• I’ll have finished in an hour and then you can use the computer.

‘By’ means ‘not later than a particular time’ and ‘in’ means 'within a period of time’. We don’t know exactly when something will finish.

• I promise I’ll have done all the work by next Saturday.

We don’t know exactly when he will finish the work – maybe Thursday, maybe Friday – but definitely before Saturday. 

PRACTICE…

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6672

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs26.htm

http://torroxenglishdepartment.blogspot.com/2012/02/future-continuous-and-future-perfect.html

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs28.htm

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-5110.php

Reading Exercise Homework 2

Hi Guys! I would like you to read this article and then for Saturday 22 we will check the exercises.

Activities

VOCABULARY

1. Complete gaps 1-8 with adjectives and nouns from the text. Then complete the verb column.

2. Complete the sentences with the correct words from the previous exercise (Exercise 1). 

3. Use the phrases in the box to make collocations with phrasal verbs from the article. (for the ones who don't know what collocations are click on this link http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/collocations.htm )

4. FOR THIS EXERCISE YOU NEED TO COMMENT ON THE BLOG WITH YOUR OWN IDEAS FOR EXERCISES 3,4,5 AND 6:

Find sentences 1 and 2 in the article and complete the gaps. What kind of pattern can you see? Then finish sentences 3-6 with your own ideas.

Tense usage

Here you have a website with explanation, functions and usages of all tenses. Hope it's useful for you.

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/tenses


PRACTICE...
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/language-course
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/zeitformen.htm
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-tenses.php#.Uv2JD_3L-5c
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html
http://theenglishcafe.blogspot.com/2009/11/exercise-mixed-tenses.html

Articles

The indefinite article - a

The indefinite article is the a is the same for all genders.
a boy, a girl, a cat

The indefinite article has no plural form.
a boy - boys

We use an if the following word starts with a vowel.

USES…

The definite article - the

The definite article the is the same for all genders in singular and in plural.
the boy, the girl, the cat, the computers. We use it to talk about things that have already been mentioned.

No article/Zero article

1. Do not use an article with countries, states, counties or provinces, lakes and mountains except when the country is a collection of states such as "The United States".

• He lives in Washington near Mount Rainier.
• They live in Northern British Columbia.
• They climbed Mount Everest.

2. we do not normally use an article with plurals and uncountable nouns to talk about things in general.:

• He writes books.
• She likes sweets.
• Do you like jazz music?
• She ate bread with butter in the morning.
  

EXTRA PRACTICE







http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/artikel.htm
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-articles.php#.UvRZiv1lO5c
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=4378
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/article_ex.htm
http://www.agendaweb.org/grammar/articles-beginners-exercises.html

Homework 1

Hello guys!!

This is a very simple exercise. You need to choose one of the two following videos and make a comment about what you think of them.