Practice makes Perfect: junio 2019

viernes, 28 de junio de 2019

Homework by next Monday, July the 1st

Listen to a woman tell 3 different stories (The link below). Choose 1 of them and send its summary, a voice message (minimum 60 seconds), either to the WhatsApp group or the teacher.

Note: That woman asks some questions after the 2 first stories, obviously that's not necessary for the summary

http://blog.esllibrary.com/2010/09/29/grammar-stories-simple-past-tense/

Talking About A Career

Read And Listen The Following Job Interview To Complete Some Exercises on Page 99

Speaking Activity

Look for Some information about a famous Character And Be Ready To Share Some Relevant Aspects About That Character

An Awkward Moment

Listen to the following audio recording and identify:

People involved in the conversation and their background / The setting / The reason they were in that place / Dates /

In groups you are invited to retell the story and then upload that recording to the group.

We will listen to them next week.

More On Past Simple Stuff

Suggessted Reading & Listening Activity


Audio Files to Complete the Exercises Below

John Lenon

Key

Exercise 6.1 & 6.2

Key

Common Irregular Verbs

Pete's Life

Reading

Complete Exercise 2 From the Previous Reading with the following Audios
Barbara Gordon Claudia The One Who Killed Jeremy

miércoles, 26 de junio de 2019

Regular Verbs Exercises

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/past_simple-exercises.html

Regular Verbs Spelling

One Dark Night

Transcription Aunt

viernes, 21 de junio de 2019

1) Telling A Story

2) Answer The Following Questions Based on the Previous Information

3) Listen and Say A or B

4) Identify Pronunciation Regular Verbs

5) Listen and Transcribe the Following Audio

6) Past Simple Pronounciation Regular verbs -ed

7) Questions & Negatives

jueves, 20 de junio de 2019

Talking about a holiday

Exercises to Complete

Read the following letter & complete exercise 8

Listen to this audio and complete exercise 10

Ben's Transcription

Check out these couple of videos and try to identify language related to past simple

martes, 18 de junio de 2019

Irregular Verbs

Was Were

Past Simple Was / Were / Could

Look at the pictures and say where she was and what happened

Exercises on Past Simple Was Were Could

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/elementary/grammar/grammar_06_012e?cc=co&selLanguage=en

https://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Listening_Lab/Listening_Lab_Exercise_4_past_tense_be.html

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/1g81-elementary-was-were-exercise.php

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/was_were.htm

https://www.englishgrammar.org/grammar-exercise-33/

https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/77.html

Expressing Ability

1) Read and listen to the following info:

Read the leaflet. Which do you think is the best charity event: the sports event,

the talent show, the art show or the food stall?

Every year Parkslde Youth Club has a charity weekend for Friends of the Earth.

This year it’s on April 25th and 26th. What can you do?

SPORTS EVENT

Can you run five kilometers? Ask your family and friends for 50p for every kilometer that you run. Maybe you can’t run, but can you swim? Ask people for 50p for every 100 meters that you swim.

TALENT SHOW

Can you sing or dance? Maybe you can play a musical instrument or juggle. Join our talent show and help to sell tickets.

ART SHOW

Some people can’t sing or dance very well but they can draw, paint or take good photographs. Organize an art show at your school. Then sell the artwork

FOOD STALL

Can you cook? Cook a dish for the food stall at the youth club and sell it to your friends.

2) Abilities & Talents

3) Write Sentences using can or can’t plus the correspondent verb

4) Listening Practice A 5.8

5) Listening Practice B Can't & Can

6) Listening Practice C 3 People Abilities

7) We can use: can, be able to, know how to and be good at to express ability

		can	Be able to	Know how to	Be good at
		can+ verb(base form)	Be able to+ verb(base form)	How to+ verb(base form)	At+ verb(ING)
Singular	+	She can speak 5 languages	She is able to speak 5 languages	She knows how to speak 5 languages	She is good at speaking languages
	-	She can’t=cannot speak 5 languages	She isn’t able to speak 5 languages	She doesn’t know how to speak 5 languages	She isn’t good at speaking languages
	?	Can she speak 5 languages?	Is she able to speak 5 languages?	Does she know how to speak 5 languages?	Is she good at speaking languages?
Plural	+	They can speak 5 languages	They are able to speak 5 languages	They know how to speak 5 languages	They are good at speaking languages
	-	They can’t=cannot speak 5 languages	They aren’t able to speak 5 languages	They don’t know how to speak 5 languages	They aren’t good at speaking languages
	?	Can they speak 5 languages?	Are they able to speak 5 languages?	Do they know how to speak 5 languages?	Are they good at speaking languages?

8) Homework

Read the following information about 3 animals. Pay attention to the underlined words in the text to express ability.

You are going to look for some information about an animal describing where this animal comes from and the abilities it has using: can, be able to, know how to and be good at.

Example

Information About Animals

https://www.activewild.com/a-to-z-animals/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/index/

9) Further Explanation and Exercises

Know how to / Be good at

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ELEMENTARY/unit12/page5.htm

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ELEMENTARY/unit12/page6.htm

Using Can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eunz-1dWRxg

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ELEMENTARY/unit12/page2.htm

Using Be able to:

http://www.shertonenglish.com/resources/es/miscelaneous-topics/to-be-able-to.php

Look at the following links and complete the exercises there: