Wednesday 30 March 2011

Past Simple: REGULAR and IRREGULAR Verbs

- READING ACTIVITY - "Sherlock Holmes, a great detective".

Sherlock holmes was born in England on 6th January, 1854. He worked as a detective and Doctor Watson helped him. They shared a house at 221B Baker Street in London and they travelled a lot.
  Sherlock Holmes didn't believe in superstition and he was famous for his logic and astute observation to solve difficult cases, so he always caught the murderer.
  Apparently, he never fell in love with a woman. However, Irene Adler stole his heart because she was very good at deduction too. 

Exercises:
  • Can you identify the verbs that are in the Past Simple form? 
  • Can you say the infinitive of those verbs? 
- ONLINE EXERCISES
- Past Simple (1) (Read the information and do the activities on this website).
- Past Simple Irregular Verbs (1) 
- Past Simple Irregular Verbs (2) 
- Past Simple Regular & Irregular Verbs (1)
- Past Simple Regular & Irregular Verbs (2) 
- Past Simple Regular & Irregular Verbs (3)  


- VIDEO - Irregular Verbs.


- READING - Exam Practice
Read this story and answer the questions.
To read the story "Two sisters and a cat", click HERE

- LISTENING - Exam Practice
Try this listening activity where a woman talks about her wedding day.
Click HERE to listen and then check your answers.

- GAME 2 - A CHALLENGE - Irregular Verbs! (Very interesting and useful).
Click HERE to play. The instructions are very easy. Enter your name or login as "guest", then choose the level Beginner or Easy. After that, click on Cue and you can start the game. Write the infinitive, past simple and past participle and finally click on Check to see if your answers were correct. Good luck!

- VIDEO - What did you do yesterday?

What did you do yesterday? A Real English Classic por realdogswimming

Finally, click HERE to read the transcript. (Una vez hayáis visualizado el vídeo las veces que os sean necesarias, pinchad en ese enlace para poder leer todo lo que dicen las personas entrevistadas en el vídeo).

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Past Simple Tense: REGULAR Verbs

Welcome to the interesting and difficult world of Past Simple of Regular Verbs.

Activities to practise:
- Past Simple Regular Verbs (1) 

WRITING ACTIVITY -

- Write a short story that includes the following regular verbs in the Past Simple. Use Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative sentences:
play - want - score - need - finish - clap - smile - study - work - answer - ask - stop - like - kiss - be - cook - watch - arrive
(Use the comments section to write your story 
 -ed Pronunciation in VerbsView more documents from Rafaarabit33.

Tuesday 22 March 2011

"To be born" quiz

Do you want to play a game? Try this quiz /kwɪz/ (concurso, prueba).
A big thank you to my colleague Sergio Viñals for this quiz.

Monday 14 March 2011

Famous people around the world

"Ernesto "Che" Guevara was born on 14th June, 1928. He was born in Rosario, Argentina. He was a doctor and a famous guerrilla leader. As a guerrilla leader, he was hope for poor people in South America and Cuba. Che Guevara's parents were Ernesto Guevara Lynch, a civil engineer of Irish descent, and Celia de la Serna, of Spanish descent. They were born in Argentina too. There are some very good films about his life."

Now, click on this LINK and read the paragraphs about other famous people. Then, you can answer these questions:
- Where were they born?
- When were they born?
- What were they famous for?

Now, you can do some activities about the verb "To Be" in the past simple.

Finally, watch this video and practise some questions and answers.

Monday 7 March 2011

File 4D: Possessive Pronouns

Welcome to the interesting and important world of Pronouns! You know how to use Subject Pronouns, Object Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives. Now, it's time to learn how to use Possessive Pronouns.
















Now, see this example with a Possessive Adjective and a Possessive Pronoun.


- And now... do you need more practice? It's very easy, click HERE to learn more about these pronouns.
- And now you can see a video about Pronouns and read an explanation in Spanish. Click HERE
- And finally, you can complete these activities: