Presidents of the USA

Week 3^rd-5^th December

Nuria, Javier and Juan, thank you for coming to class!

On Tuesday, we revised the past of the verb to be.

Remember:

Present                                           Past

I am                                                 I was

s/he/it is                                          s/he/it was       

we/you / they are                          we/you / they were

We continued talking about when and where we were born.

We reviewed how to say dates and years in English and which prepositions to use.

Don’t forget to use ordinal numbers for the dates.

1^st first                     4^th fourth          7^th seventh      10^th tenth

2^nd second              5^th fifth              8^th eighth        11^th eleventh

3^rd third                    6^th sixth            9^th ninth          12^th twelfth    etc.

20^th twentieth         21^st twenty-first      22^nd twenty-second    23^rd twenty-third etc.

       21^st     December 1984                           or December      21^st 1984

(the)      (of)                (nineteen eighty-four)                      (the)

And we found out (discovered) information about three presidents of the USA.

·         What was Roosevelt’s first name?

·         Which president was Lincoln?

·         Where were Washington’s parents from?

·         Where was Lincoln born?

·         When was Roosevelt born?

On Thursday, we talked and talked, until the cows came home. (it means that we talked for a long time).

Because there was only Juan and me…

We learnt a lot about each other…