WEEK 14

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

WEEK 12 A CLOSE ENCOUNTER ; A TRICKY BET

Normal sentences in English are in active voice.

In active sentences the subject of the sentence is the actor of the verb or the doer of the action. In the above sentence, the subject Bill is the actor of the verb or the one who kicked the ball. The direct object the ball is the receiver of the verb action.

Bill kicked the ball.

In passive sentences the subject of the sentence is the receiver of the action.

The ball was kicked by Bill.

In the above sentence, the ball is the receiver of the action and is the subject of the sentence. Bill, the actor of the verb is the object of the preposition by.

Video presentation here

Chart with tenses at http://english-zone.com/verbs/pssvchrt.html

Exercises on present simple and continuous -passive- to be done :

http://www.kico4u.de/english/uebungen/passiv/simplepresein.htm

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?simple-present

http://www.ego4u.de/de/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?present-progressive

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?simple-present

Past Simple -passive

http://www.learnenglish.be/gr2_passive_study.htm

http://www.english-4u.de/passive_ex2.htm

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?simple-past

WEEK 11 DIARY ; THE DEATH TRIANGLE

WEEK 10 IT'S MY LIFE ; ROUTINES

 REPORTED YES/ NO QUESTIONS

Erik: Hi Armando. Did you get a new job?
Armando: No, not yet.
Erik: Are you still looking?
Armando: Yes, I am.
Erik: Have you had any interviews?
Armando: Yes. At the company where my friend works.
Erik: What’s the company?
Armando: XYZ Pool Service.
Erik: Do you think they will hire you?
Armando: I don’t know. I have to take a test.
Erik: When?
Armando: It’s next Tuesday. But my car isn’t working. Do you have a car I could borrow?
Erik: No, I’m sorry, I need my car to go to work. Does your brother have a car?
Armando: He has a bicycle.
Erik: Is it available?
Armando: I think so. I can ask him.
Erik: Good luck with the interview.
Armando: Okay. Thanks


PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS
 
Worksheet from http://busyteacher.org/11866-listening-activity-eternal-flame-the-bangles.html

Complete the following sentences with Present Simple or Present Continuous:

a)       I ________________ (not/ study) French now.

b)       We always ________________ (play) cards during break time.

c)       Where __________ your granny ___________ (live)?

d)       Peter ________________ (not/ take) the children to school in the morning.

e)       What ________ your brother _________ (do) every morning?

f)         You ________________ (talk) a lot!!!

g)       What _________ John _________ (write) now?

h)       What’s that noise? Peter ________________ (play) the guitar.

i)         We ________________ (usually/ travel) to England in summer.

j)         This kind of animal ________________ (eat) meat.

k)       Look! She ________________ (speak) to a stranger.

l)         I’m looking at that girl. She ________________ (wear) a beautiful skirt.

m)     I ________________ (never/ drink) wine at night.

n)       What languages _________ you ____________ (speak)?

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense. Present Simple or Present Continuous.

1. We usually ______________ (go) to Spain on holiday, but this year we ______________ (go) to Florida.
2. A: Why ______________ you ______________ (buy) so much food?

B: Because we ______________ (have) a party tonight.

3. My dad ______________ (live) in a house near the sea because he ______________ (like) sailing.
4. ______________ you ______________ (watch) the television Can I turn it off?
5. A: How often ______________ you ______________ (go) swimming?

B: About once a week.

6. What newspaper ______________  you usually ______________ (read)?
7.  A: The telephone ______________ (ring)!!

B: OK, I’ll answer it. Hello? No, Sally isn’t here at the moment. She ______________ (play) tennis. Can I take the message? OK. Bye!

 

WEEK 9 AN ALTERNATIVE CINDERELLA; A TYPICAL CHRISTMAS

Revolting Rhymes is a collection of Roald Dahl poems published in 1982, that re-interpret popular fairy tales. The poems are illustrated by Quentin Blake.

There are a total of six poems in the book.

In 'Cinderella', one of the ugly stepsisters switches her shoe with the one Cinderella left behind at the ball. However, when the prince sees whom the shoe fits, he decides not to marry her, and instead cuts off her head. When the prince removes the head of the second stepsister and makes to do the same to Cinderella, she wishes to be married instead to a decent man. Her fairy godmother grants this wish and marries her to a simple jam-maker.

In 'Jack and the Beanstalk', the beanstalk grows golden leaves towards the top. Jack's mother sends him up to fetch them, but when Jack hears the giant threaten to eat him, he descends without collecting any of the gold. Jack's mother then ascends herself, but is eaten. Undeterred, Jack decides to bathe, and then climbs up and collects the leaves himself as the giant was unable to smell him after he had bathed. Now rich, Jack resolves to bathe every day.

'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' begins familiarly, but after the huntsman agrees not to kill Snow White, she takes a job as a cook and maid for seven jockeys in the city. The jockeys are compulsive gamblers on horseracing, but are not particularly successful. Snow White resolves to help them, and sneaks back to steal the magic mirror, which can correctly predict the winning horse and makes the seven jockeys (and Snow White) millionaires, with the moral that "Gambling is not a sin / Providing that you always win".

'Goldilocks describes' the criminal activities of a wench who ransacks the house of a family of bears - stealing food, breaking antique furniture, and soiling their freshly made beds with her muddy feet. Instead of escaping, the title character is eventually eaten as a punishment for these transgressions.

In 'Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf', the wolf enters the grandmother's house and devours her before putting on her clothes in order to eat Little Red Riding Hood next. Riding Hood is not disturbed however, and calmly pulls a pistol out of her knickers and shoots the wolf ("The small girl smiles/Her eyelid flickers/She whips a pistol from her knickers/She aims it at the creature's head and BANG! BANG! BANG! she shoots him... dead.") - yielding her a new wolfskin coat.

In 'The Three Little Pigs', the wolf quickly blows down the houses of straw and sticks, devouring the first two pigs. The third house of bricks is too strong, so the wolf resolves to come back that evening with dynamite. The third pig has other plans, however, and asks Little Red Riding Hood to come and deal with the wolf. Ever the sharpshooter, Red Riding Hood gains a second wolfskin coat and a pigskin traveling case.

Resource : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolting_Rhymes

Now listen and enjoy them :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3uVQIhSYfY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5DS2DnsJ04&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtXGmnR9F5Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpAoCUN4toE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO2Ivw2S-BQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUlq2OA_Z0M&feature=related


 REPORTED SPEECH - QUESTIONS


http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-7.html
FRUIT IDIOMS

http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_low_intermediate.php?id=11398

WEEK 8 HALLOWEEN

http://busyteacher.org/2716-michael-jackson-thriller.html
http://busyteacher.org/24270-halloween-worksheet.html
http://a4esl.org/q/j/dt/mc-halloween.html
https://www.esolcourses.com/content/topics/autumn-festivals/halloween/history-of-halloween-listening.html

WEEK 7 GRIN AND BEAR IT ! HAVE A DREAM AND GO FOR IT !

WEEK 6 TRAVEL STORY ; HAVE YOU GOT A SENSE OF HUMOUR ?

TRAVEL WRITING

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/reading-comprehension-on-travel-writing-6098821

Bill Bryson- A walk in the woods 

Bill Bryson

   

Not long after I moved with my family to a small town in New Hampshire I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town. A sign announced that this was no ordinary footpath, but the celebrated Appalachian Trail. Running more than 2,100 miles along America’s eastern seaboard, through the serene and beckoning Appalachian Mountains, the AT is the granddaddy of long hikes. The Virginia portion alone is twice the length of the Pennine Way. From Georgia to Maine, it wanders across fourteen states, through plump, comely hills whose very names – Blue Ridge, Smokies, Cumberlands, Catskills, Green Mountains, White Mountains – seem an invitation to amble. Who could say the words ‘Great Smoky Mountains’ or ‘Shenandoah Valley’ and not feel an urge, as the naturalist John Muir once put it, to ‘throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence’? And here it was, quite unexpectedly, meandering in a dangerously beguiling fashion through the pleasant New England community in which I had just settled. It seemed such an extraordinary notion – the idea that I could set off from home and walk 1,800 miles through woods to Georgia, or turn the other way and clamber over the rough and stony White Mountains to the fabled prow of Mount Katahdin floating in forest 450 miles to the north in a wilderness few have seen. A little voice in my head said: ‘Sounds neat! Let’s do it!’

VOCABULARY : 

To beckon (ed) - to signal someone with your arm or hand 

comely -attractive

to amble (ed)-to stroll, to walk slowly 

beguiling-interesting and attractive but not to be trusted 

to clamber over -to climb using hands and feet

prow-the front section of a ship

1. Find two adjectives to describe the Appalachian trail.

2. Why do you think it is described as “the granddaddy of long hikes”?

3. Why are the names an “invitation to amble”?

4. What persuasive technique can you see at the end of the second paragraph?

CONCLUSION

Can you spot the features of the travel type of writing ? 

Now check if they are the same as here :http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/standard/english/close_reading_texts/autobiographies_travel_writing/revision/3/

Cartoons : )





Riddles : )

"The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place."

Letter "e"

What is the poorest bank in the world?
The river bank.



Why shouldn't you lose your temper?

No one else wants it.


Puns :D
A pun is a little word game, playing with language. Most puns use a word that has two meanings, or use two words that sound almost the same. For example, the title of this exercise contains a pun. "PUNS Upon a Time" sounds like "ONCE upon a time."

Example: Why is an empty purse always the same? Because there is never any change in it. In this pun, the word "change" has two meanings: 1. coins and small bills, 2. alteration.

1. Do you know why it’s easy for a hunter to find a leopard? Because a leopard is always spotted.

2.Did you hear about the Frenchman who jumped off the Eiffel Tower wearing a parachute and landed in the river? The police didn’t arrest him because he was clearly in Seine.

3.The principal called the young cross-eyed teacher into his office. "I’m sorry to say, Ms. Jones, we’re going to have to let you go." "But why, sir? I thought I was doing a good job." "It’s simple," said the principal, "you can’t control your pupils."

To have a little fun you can try the next link :
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-62615.php

Resources :
http://www.world-english.org/riddles.htm
http://www.yourhero.net/riddles.htm
http://www.texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog16/eslpuns.htm
Google Images

WEEK 5 WINDOW ON CANADA; ENGLISH SPEAKING COUNTRIES

LINKING SENTENCES USING PAST PARTICIPLES

Joining two sentences using a past participle

Two sentences can be made into one by using a past participle. Study the following examples carefully.

The car was damaged in the accident. It needed a new door.
Damaged in the accident, the car needed a new door.

He was deceived by his friends. He lost all hope.
Deceived by his friends, he lost all hope.

I was impressed by his performance. I congratulated him.
Impressed by his performance, I congratulated him.

He was driven by hunger. He killed himself.
Driven by hunger he killed himself.

Read more at http://www.englishpractice.com/children/ways-joining-sentences-part-iii/#cy0Mw6ODT4LwWpgi.99

LET'S WATCH THE NEXT VIDEO AND NOTE DOWN 10 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CANADA AND THE USA




http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/countries-with-most-english-language-speaker-map.html

WEEK 3 CROSSING BORDERS

http://sites.psu.edu/imanspassion/wp-content/uploads/sites/6762/2014/03/travewannn.jpg

SO/SUCH

Such + a/an + adjective + singular noun 
 It was such a beautiful day yesterday 

Such + adjective + plural / uncountable noun 
 They are such good friends
* It is such expensive furniture

So + adjective / adverb + that …. 
 It was so cold that we stayed in
* He ran so fast that he won

So much + uncountable noun + that 
 There was so much noise that I couldn’t hear him 

So many + countable noun + that
 So many people came that we needed more chairs 
too + adjective / adverb (+ to-infinitive)
 It’s too hot (to work) too + adjective / adverb + a/an + noun (+ to-inf.)
 He is too weak a person (to fight)
(as a person, he is too weak to fight) 

enough + plural / uncountable noun 
 There is enough soup

adjective / adverb + enough
 The soup is hot enough
He ran fast enough (to win) 

Fill the gaps with the suitable form: so / such / too / enough 
1. He’s __________ excellent worker! he deserves to get promoted
2. mmm… This pizza is _________ tasty. I think I’ll have another piece.
3. That wall is _________ high for me to climb. I need a ladder.
4. They had __________ terrible weather in England that they came back in two days.
5. It was __________ hot coffee that I couldn’t drink it.
6. You don’t need to hurry up, we have __________ time to finish this exercise
7. It was __________ small a car for all of us, so we had to go in two cars.
8. Alonso didn’t drive fast __________ to overtake Schumacher in the last race.
9. Don’t worry about her. She is clever _________ to realise what she has to do
10. She didn’t speak loudly __________ for the audience to hear her. 

Source:http://valmeenglishcorner.blogspot.ro/2010/02/so-such-too-enough-i.html

http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/sosuchexercise.htm

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5763

 Rephrase the sentences to replace such with so and vice versa, depending on the context 

Example: It was so lonely there. -> It was such a lonely day there. 

1. You have such a big and comfortable house! _______________________________________________ 

2. Her Swiss watch is so unique and expensive. _______________________________________________ 

3. She had such a busy preparation for her wedding. _______________________________________________ 

4. Your room is so untidy and not cozy. 

_______________________________________________ 

5. It was such an obvious decision for you.

 ________________________________________

VI. SO - SUCH

66. The weather was so warm that I didn’t need a coat.    It was such…

67. The lesson was so boring that she fell asleep.    It was such…

68. The stories are so good that nobody moves. They are…

69. She speaks with such a strong accent that people can’t understand her.    Her accent…

VII. TOO - ENOUGH

70. The weather is too bad for camping.   The weather isn’t…

71. The town was too small to be marked on the map.    The town wasn’t…

72. He speaks too quickly for me to understand.    He doesn’t speak…

73. The bridge is too narrow for trucks to pass.   The bridge isn’t…

74. He couldn’t reach the button because it was too high.    The button…

75. The window was very small. He couldn’t get through it.   The window wasn’t…

76. The suitcase was very heavy. She couldn’t carry it.   The window wasn’t…

77. These shoes are very small. I can’t wear them.    The shoes aren’t…

Rephrasing SO / SUCH 

SO - SUCH

1.  The girl was so beautiful, everyone stared at her.

She was.............................. girl that everyone stared at her.

2.  It was such   hot weather, I sat in the garden all the day.

The weather was ................................ that I sat in the garden all the day.

3.  It was such a surprise I didn’t know what to say.

I was so .............................................. I didn’t know what to say.

 4. The box was so heavy that we couldn’t lift it.

It was such .................. ........................... that we couldn’t lift it.

5. They were such naughty children that they were punished by the teacher.

The children were ........................... that they were punished by the teacher.

6. The English language  is so important that many people learn it every day.

English is ......................................  language that many people learn it every day.

7. Sarah was such a young girl that her parents wouldn’t leave her alone.

Sarah was ........................... that her parents wouldn’t leave her alone.

8.   These people are so poor that they always need help.

They are ........................... ........................... that they always need help.

WEEK 3 FAMILIES

USED TO - TO BE USED TO

http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/usedto.html

http://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/used-to-be-used-to-get-used-to

https://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/115.html

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-used-to.php

REPHRASING 

http://mbonillo.xavierre.com/exercises/bch2/2bch2011/usedgetR2bch3.htm

http://mbonillo.xavierre.com/exercises/bch2/2bch2011/usedgetR2bch4.htm

WEEKS 1 & 2 REVISION

SO/NEITHER
http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/so-and-neither
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/68.html
http://www.learn-english-today.com/lessons/lesson_contents/so_neither-ex.htm
GERUNDS & INFINITIVES
http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_1.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives_2.htm
SIMPLE PAST
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-6451.php
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/goldilocks?02
http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/pastsimple/exercise3.swf
ADJECTIVES
http://english.wsl.edu.pl/quiz/matters/pre/files/matpre03ex2.php
http://www.expandyourvocabulary.com/personality2/exercise4.swf
http://www.esltower.com/GRAMMARQUIZ/intermediate/what%20is%20she%20like.htm
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/regcom2.htm
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-5910.php

HOMEWORK
So or neither?
Add a response to the statements 1-8 using so or neither according to the +
(agreeing) or – (disagreeing) symbol.
1 I love using my imagination to tell a story! +
2 I can’t play the saxophone. -
3 I’m not in the mood to study at the moment. -
4 I went to the jazz evening last night. +
5 We didn’t make the pub last night. -
6 I had a great night’s sleep. I feel really energetic! +
7 We couldn’t see the stage properly from our seats. -
8 I really enjoy seeing live music! +

Correct the mistakes in the sentences/dialogues 1-8 below.
1 A: I’ve got so much energetic - I want to go jogging!
B: Neither do I!
2 She’s very intelligence - I think she’ll get good marks in her exams.
3 Relaxed is so important - you need to find time for it.
4 A: We don’t feel tired at all after the run.
B: So do we!
5 She used lots of imaginative to decorate this room - it’s beautiful.
6 A: He’s such an energy person!
B: Neither is Helen!
7 Intelligent is needed to work out these types of problems.
8 Tired is always a problem when driving late at night.

Resource : Copyright © 2006 Pearson Education.
All rights reserved.www.longman.com/totalenglish PRESENT SIMPLE VERSUS PRESENT CONTINUOUS
http://www.eflworksheets.com/onlineexercises/elementary/grammar/present_tenses1.htm
http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/present_simple_continuous_quiz_1.shtml
Present progressive vs Present simple, by Julio Cirnes
Find this and other present continuous exercises in English Exercises .org
PAST SIMPLE VERSUS PAST PERFECT
http://www.english-4u.de/past_perfect_ex6.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/past-perfect-simple/exercises?04
PAST SIMPLE VERSUS PRESENT PERFECT
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/upperf2.htm
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/2g11-past-simple-present-perfect-gap-fill.php
REPORTED SPEECH
http://www.redcamelot.com/camelot/exercises/SEPT26/Grammar/Reported%20Speech/Level%201.a.htm
http://www.kico4u.de/english/uebungen/reportedspeech/questions2.htm
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/reported-speech-exercise-1.html

HOMEWORK

1. Your teacher has given you these orders. Rewrite them in reported speech.
1. You must do your homework every day!
2. Could you please bring your textbooks to school every day?
3. You mustn´t eat in class!
4. Please, don´t be late for school.
5. Can you give this letter to your parents, please?
6. You must be quiet in class!.
7. Don´t run in the corridors!
8. Study for the exam next week!
2. Rewrite these questions in reported speech.
1. “Have you been to England before?” she asked me.
2. “Are you going to visit the cathedral?” she wanted to know.
3. “How old are you?” he asked me.
4. “How long are you going to stay in this village?” the barman asked us.
5. “When did you arrive?” the receptionist asked him.
3. Rewrite these statements in reported speech starting as shown.
1. “We liked Paris very much”. The American couple said …
2. “Can you do me a favour tonight?”. Jim asked me ….
3. “I can´t go to your birthday party next Saturday”. Sylvia told us…
4. “It will probably snow later today”. The weather forecast said that …
5. “My husband hasn´t booked the hotel yet”. Mrs Taylor said that…
4. Write in reported speech.
1.She said “I´ve found my keys!”
2.They asked me “Did you see Tom at the cinema last night?”
3. He asked me “Do you know where the post office is?”
4. “Her parents are getting married next Friday” she assured us.
5. The news said “There has been a big earthquake in Japan”.
6. “Stop making so much noise!” the mother said to the children.
7. “Pam visited us yesterday” Pete said.
8. I told them “I was late for work this morning”.
9. The criminal confessed “Yes, I lied to the police”.
10. Their friends told them “We are going to be a bit late next Monday”.

Source www.english-area.com

CLASS RULES

Verify if you have student's accounts activated on Class Dojo !

First English portfolio task : 

Class Dojo ,  Storytelling , Night Zookeeper , Creating a Character .
After creating the character you have to share it on Class Dojo, Student Stories, but also to add your work in your portfolio.

Deadline : 1st October