Sydney, Australia or Sydney, Canada?

Week 11^th -13^th

In the last episode…

…Emma and Raoul’s plane landed at a small airport. They walked to the information desk and showed their tickets to the woman.

- “When does the next plane leave?” asked Raoul.

- “The next plane?” asked the woman. “This is the end of your journey. “Where      

   did you want to go?”

Were they in Sydney? Yes, they were.

Were they in Australia? No, they weren’t. They were in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada!

Be careful if you buy tickets on the net! Don’t make a mistake!

Look at this chart and compare:

	PRESENT	PAST
Affirmative	The plane lands at 5	The plane landed at 5.
Negative	The plane doesn’t land at 6.	The plane didn’t land at 6.
Question form	Does the plane land at 6?	Did the plane land at 6?
Short answers	Yes, it does. No, it doesn’t.	Yes, it did. No, it didn’t.

We make the past simple of regular verbs by adding  “- ed”. We only use the verb ended in “-ed” in affirmative sentences. In negative sentences and questions we use “didn’t” or “did”. So, the verb doesn’t change. It’s always in infinitive.

We tried to find people who…

travelled by plane last year.

Did you travel by plane last year? Yes, I did.

Where did you travel? I travelled to Berlin.

Who did you travel with? I travelled with my family.

When did you travel? I travelled in August.

…cooked a meal yesterday.

Did you cook a meal yesterday? Yes, I did.

What meal did you cook? I cooked lunch.

What did you cook for lunch? I cooked “cocido” for lunch.

When did you cook it? I cooked it in the morning.

And we learnt how to pronounce the past of regular verbs, that is the group “-ed”

DON’T PRONOUNCE “e”, ONLY AFTER “t” OR “d”

Want   wanted                land     landed                wait    waited

                   /ɪd/                                   /ɪd/                                    /ɪd/

When the verb does not end in “t” or “d”, “e” is never pronounced. Sometimes it sounds like “d”; sometimes it sounds like “t”. Don’t be lazy and try to read it in Spanish because native people won’t understand you and it sounds awful (terrible!)

If you want to practise pronunciation, follow this link.

Pronunciation of Regular Verbs

A Tale of Two Sydneys

Week 4^th -6^th

This week we read an article titled: “Water – facts and myths”

We found out ( discovered) that we don’t need to drink less water when the weather is cold. This is because we wear more clothes and sweat more, so we lose water. It’s false that Coke and coffee make us dehydrated. They contain a lot of water.

And finally, we learnt that it can be dangerous to drink a lot of water. A British actor nearly died after drinking eight litres of water a day for several months!

Don’t try to do it at home!

We talked about our favourite day and we learnt to use connectors.

Juan likes football and motorbikes.  + and +

She likes going to the cinema but she doesn’t like going to the theatre. + but -

Nuria doesn’t like coffee or tea. – or -

On Saturdays, I go out or watch TV.I do one thing or the other, but not both                       

                                                          at the same time.

We started listening and reading a story called “ A Tale of two Sydneys”

Two British teenagers wanted to go to Australia but the tickets were very expensive. They looked for cheap tickets on the Internet. They arrived at the airport, checked in and waited for the plane to leave. After six hours they landed at a big airport and changed planes. The second plane was very small. After one hour, the plane landed at a small airport. They wanted to know what time the next plane was. But the lady at information said: “This is the end of your journey.”

 Do you think they were in Sydney?

 Most of you think they weren’t in Sydney. But, you’ll have to wait until Tuesday to find out! (discover)

TO BE CONTINUED…

See you on Tuesday!

Food and Water

Week 28^th – 30^th

Last week we went on (continued) talking about food and we also talked about drinks, - water, in fact -

Let’s revise vocabulary on food.

Can you name:

6 vegetables?             6 pieces of fruit?   6 things you usually have for breakfast (food and drink)?    6 desserts or snacks?

We played “Food families”.

Do you have an onion / any bread /any mushrooms?

And I won!

We had a survey on “How much water do you drink?

Juan doesn’t drink much water.

Nuria drinks tap water and she sometimes drinks mineral water.

Juan doesn’t drink any mineral water.

And we think that water is perfect when we are thirsty!

Remember:

I don’t drink any water.               XXX

I don’t drink much water.            +

I drink quite a lot of water.          ++

I drink a lot of water.                    ++++

 Don't forget that if you travel to the United Kingdom you will have to specify if you want still mineral water, otherwise they’ll serve you fizzy mineral water!

Summing up

		Big Quantities	Small quantities
Singular / uncountable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Little /(very)little
	-	much
	?	How much?
Plural / countable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Few/ (very) few
	-	many
	?	How many?

This week we’ll finish talking about food and drink and we’ll start talking about the past.

Get ready! See you!

Listening "Best Burgers in Town"