Physical Description

Week 4^th – 6^th March

What’s new? Not much.

Last week we continued talking about “Go, get,have”. We asked and answered questions about ourselves using these verbs

We read a funny story about a Japanese businessman who had a meeting in London but took the wrong bus. He didn’t get to the airport, he went to a birthday party. He drank, he danced and had a fantastic time. But, he missed the plane and when we got to the meeting it was too late!

We worked a little on pronunciation.

And we started with vocabulary to describe people’s appearance.

For homework you had to describe somebody, either in your family or a celebrity.

This afternoon we’re going to focus on descriptions. Remember that we also learnt vocabulary about personality. So, you can talk about people’s appearance and also about their personality.

See you in this afternoon.

Useful links from the last lessons.

Irregular Verbs

Appearance
http://www.learnenglish.de/basics/appearances.html

Girls' Night Out

Week 25^th -27^th

Hi again!

Well, Sabina lives in Moscow and Sharon lives in Beijing.

And what about their “Girls’ Night Out”?

·         Did Sabina wear a dress? No; she wore a black sweater and trousers.

·         Did Sabina go to a bar? Yes; she went to “Piramida”, a bar and a restaurant.

·         Did she drink alcohol? Yes; she drank some wine.

·         Did they talk about men? Yes; they talked about men and fashion.

·         Did Sharon get home after 1.30? No; she got home at about 12.30.

·         Did they have a good time? Yes; they had a great time!

And now, can you think about a night out and tell me…?

·         Who did you go with?

·         What did you wear?

·         Where did you go?

·         What did you do?

·         What did you have to eat and drink?

·         Did you meet anyone?

·         How did you get home?

·         What time did you get home?

·         Did you have a good time?

Remember:

There are two types of verbs: regular and irregular.

Regular verbs make the past simple adding “-ed” to the infinitive. Irregular verbs  have a complete different form that we have to study. We usually study the three forms of the verb. The first one is the infinitive, the second is the past simple and the third one is the past participle.

Infinitive     Past simple      Past Participle

To wear       wore                  worn

What did you wear?            I wore a long dress.       I didn’t wear trousers.

What did you study?           I studied maths.              I didn’t study English.

We studied different meanings of “Go, Have and Get”.

GO

·         Go out: leave a room or leave home. I go out with my friends.

·         Go away: to travel.                          Did you go away last weekend?

·         Go by: with transport.                       He goes to work by bus.

·         Go for a walk.                                    I like going for walks in my free time.

HAVE

·      Have breakfast, lunch, supper.

·      (eat)                                                      I have coffee and orange juice for

·      breakfast.

·      Have a bath, a shower. (wash)     I have a shower in the evening.

·      Have a good time. (enjoy)              They went out and had a good time.

·      Have a coffee. (drink)                      She has three cups of coffee a day.

GET

Get a newspaper. (buy)                       Wait for me! I’m going to get a

                                                                  newspaper.

Get a taxi, a bus. (take)                        What bus did you get?

Get an email, a letter.(receive)           How many emails do you usually get?

Get home. (arrive)                                 What time do you get home after work?

Get up. (rise from bed)                          Do you get up late at the weekend?

                       

If you want to practise a little more, here you have a list of  irregular verbs with their pronunciation.

Irregular Verbs

CD - ROM with vocabulary and grammar exercises

"When did...?"

Week 18^th -20^th

So, this week we continued talking about the past of regular verbs.

·           Did you study English yesterday?

·           Did you watch TV last night?

·           Did you travel by plane last year?

·           Did you cook dinner yesterday?

·           Did you start learning English a year ago?

Do you remember when…?

·           When did the Wall Street Crash happen?

·           When did the Second World War finish?    

·           When did Neil Armstrong land on the moon?

·           When did mobile phones first appear?

·           When did George Harrison die?

We also learnt that…

·         Yesterday Sam walked to work, but he didn’t walk home.

·         I study French at school, but I didn’t study German and Spanish.

·         The teacher helped me with the exercise, but she didn’t help my friend.

·         We painted the living room, but we didn’t paint the bedroom.

And we started reading about three women journalists in Rio, Beijing and Moscow that went on a “Girls’ Night Out” and had to write a report for their magazine.

Where do you think Sabina lives? And Sharon?

Wait and we’ll find out later!

Practise the past with this exercise - video

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"