Class materials



03/09/13

Grammar: a/ an, the no article

Same planet, different worlds! 



Informal letters

10/09/2013
Explanation of however, whereas, on the other hand. However, whereas, on the other hand

exercise

17/09/2013

Review of discourse markers from previous lesson

Homework:
write about obesity in pets and humans and suggested solutions.

24.09/2013

review past tense 1
review past tense Rules for all the past tenses!!!

simple past

Review on past continuous, past perfect:
Past continuous exercise past continuous
Past perfect exericse past perfect


Listening obesity

Reading obesity

Homework:
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/adjectives-and-prepositions-exercise-1.html

01/10/13







15/10/13



listening 2

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/passive.htm

Ask students to brainstorm the types of things that the government does for the population. The government repairs streets, cleans monuments, builds schools and hospitals.. eg. streets were repaired.

exercise

exercise 2

22/10/2013

NEWS: Saturday January 29, 2005

BNE: Hollywood and the movie industry yesterday took its latest step in trying to battle movie piracy and illegal file sharing – enlisting the help of Mums and Dads. Yes, parents are being encouraged to get involved in the fight against copyright infringement and the illegal downloading of movies via peer-to-peer (P2P) software. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has released software called Parent File Scan to allow parents to search the computers of their kids and then delete any illegal programs or files and thus avoid the risk of prosecution against copyright infringement.

MPAA boss, Dan Glickman said, “We cannot allow people to steal our motion pictures and other products online, and we will use all the options we have available to encourage people to obey the law," According to the MPAA web site, “Parent File Scan software helps consumers check whether their computers have peer-to-peer software and potentially infringing copies of motion pictures and other copyrighted material. Removing such material can help consumers avoid problems frequently caused by peer-to-peer software.” The MPAA assures parents no information would be passed on to it, “The information generated by the software is made available only to the program’s user, and is not shared with or reported to the MPAA or any other body.” Glickman said, “Many parents are concerned about what their children have downloaded and where they've downloaded it from.” Maybe many children have similar concerns about their parents.

OPINIONS: Discuss the following opinions with your partner / group. Find out which are the most commonly held opinions:
(a)  Parents should not be asked to spy on their kids like this.
(b)  The MPAA and the music industry is fighting a losing battle – kids (and adults) will always find software to download stuff.
(c)  The movie industry must protect itself – if everyone downloads everything free. Movie studios make no money and cannot make movies. We all lose eventually.
(d)  Movies are too expensive. Lower the cost of cinemas and DVDs and piracy will be reduced.
(e)  File sharing is the same as stealing from a store. People should go to prison for illegal downloading.
(f)  Movie stars and Rock stars make too much money. They are not really hurt by piracy.
(g)  What’s on a child’s computer is their own private matter. Parents have no right to search for and delete files.
(h)  Parents should check what their children are watching just to make sure the content is OK.
(i)  Breaking copyright laws is not new – everyone photocopies from copyrighted books, tapes music and videotapes movies. File sharing is just the next step

Present perfect  explanation

Exercise 1 Present Perfect

present perfect speaking exercise

28/10/13

Present Perfect continuous explanation

Exercise 1 Present Perfect Continuous

Speaking exercise. (1) How have you been spending your time lately?
(2) Find things you have been doing longer than the other classmates by asking questions in the present perfect progressive. Have students ask questions until they can name three things they have been doing longer than their partners.

 Movie segment- present perfect and present perfect continuous

Vampires - shouldn't, mustn't...

5/11/13

Halloween Video:
http://www.eslvideo.com/esl_video_quiz_intermediate.php?id=17216

Ghosts - reading/comprehension/speaking

Reminder of the difference between present perfect/present continuous!

Exercise

present perfect with just, yet, already, still

12/11/2013

http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/business-english-present-perfect-simple-progressive.pdf

Difference between present perfect and past simple

listening 1

listening 2

Fear of flying!

19/11/2013

Detective

unsolved mystery - listening

http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/questionstags/menu.php

listening 1

listening 2

listening 3

listening 4

25/11/2013

grammar: question tags

listening

direct/indirect questions/compound nouns

indirect questions listening

indirect questions explanation and exercise

compound nouns

03/12/2013
What games did you play as a child?
What was your favourite food when you were a child?
What were you like as a child?

To answer these questions we can also use the phrase 'used to'
Used to do
We can use used to to talk about things:

1. we did regularly in the past that we don't do now
She used to smoke 20 a day but gave up cigarettes almost 10 years ago.
He used to eat lots of meat but now he's a vegetarian so he doesn't eat chicken, lamb or beef any more.

2. that were true in the past but which aren't true now
You and John just don't seem as close as you used to be. Have you two fallen out?
There used to be loads of shops in our village but now there are only four.

Form:


The positive, negative and question forms of 'use to' stay the same no matter what pronouns you use: 

Positive:
This is made up of used to + base verb
Tim used to work in a newsagent's but now he works in a department store.
You used to like me. Why aren't we friends anymore?

Negative:
This is made up of Didn't use to + base verb 
There didn't use to be a cinema here.
She didn't use to like wine but now she drinks a glass of it every evening.

Question:
This is made up of Did + pronoun + use to + base verb
Did you use to play sport?
Did she use to be scared of spiders?

Note it's unusual to use this form when asking questions about the past. We're much more likely to ask:
Did you play sport when you were at school?
Are you scared of spiders?/Were you scared of spiders when you were young?

Used to refers to the past. We can't use 'used to' to talk about the present or future.

To talk about your daily habits you can't say 'Every day I use to go to work by bike' you need to use the present simple - 'I go to work by bike'

To talk about future habits you can't say 'When I live in New York next year, I'll use to take the subway everywhere', you need to use will + base verb - 'I'll take the subway'
Activity

Speaking: You are going to compile a mini questionnaire to find out how your classmates have changed over the years.
Write ten questions using the expression 'used to' 
Your questions could relate to : Organised  // mischievous  // messy  // naughty  // rebellious  // 
Interview three different people in the class.
Present your findings back to the class and present one of your classmates to everyone else.

Writing: Write a paragraph about what you were like as a child

Reading:

People used to believe that the world was flat.
What else did people use to believe?
Why have we stopped believing these ideas?

Suffering for science  click here
Science vocab  click here
Speaking:  click here

10/12/13

Speaking: TV speaking

Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal verbs: Grammar

Reading

Film clip: Karate Kid...phrasal verbs

17/12/2013

http://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/christmas-dinner-worldwide-healthiest-unhealthiest-uk-usa-turkey-151644653.html

christmas traditions

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5161


07/10/2014


New years phrasal verbs

Family Reading

Family2 Speaking

revision verbs

Revision of verbs, continued

Answers

13/01/14
Present perfect (simple and continuous)
illness and treatment

health

health2

health3

health4


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