A Haunted House

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- House and Furniture
- File 6B: There was / There were (1)
- File 6B: There was / There were (2)

I live in a big dark house near the main road. The house has ten windows and seven of them overlook the garden. In the garden there is a big fountain with fish and a small swimming- pool.

On the ground floor there is a hall, a kitchen, a living room with lots of photos on the walls, a dining-room, a bathroom and a study room with hundreds of books in a giant bookcase. Upstairs, on the first floor, there are three bedrooms, a small toilet and bathroom.
This house is very cold because it hasn't got central heating. It's also dirty because it has lots of spiders and dust.

Strange things happen at night...
Be careful with monsters and try to do these activities.

VOCABULARY:

- Activity 1

- Activity 2
- Activity 3: Crossword 
- Activity 4: Wordsearch 

GRAMMAR:

- There is/There are (1) 

- There is/There are (2)

- There is/There are (3) 

- There is/There are (4) 
- How much / How many 

LISTENINGS:

- A big house 

- Frances's house

- Craig's house 

- Stephanie's house

- Pam's house 

VIDEO:

By courtesy of Isabel Bastida

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)  

- GAME 1 - Irregular Verbs 

- REVISION
- Past Simple - Negative sentences

- Past Simple - Questions 

- 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).

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) 

- Past Simple Regular Verbs (2) 

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.

NOTE: You can also download this document by clicking HERE

VIDEO - Pronunciation / t /  

VIDEO - Pronunciation / id /  

VIDEO - Pronunciation / d /

- Pronunciation practice /d/ vs /id/ 

"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.

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.

- Past Simple of To Be: was/were (1)
- Past Simple of To Be: was/were (2) 

- Past Simple of To Be: was/were (3)
- Past Simple: Regular & Irregular Verbs

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

Clothes Vocabulary

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Unchained Melody

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:

Possessive Pronouns (1) 

Possessive Pronouns (2) 

Possessive Pronouns (3) 

File 4C: Object Pronouns

"Talk to her" is a famous drama film by Pedro Almodóvar. In it, Pedro Almodóvar tells us the story of Benigno. Benigno is a nurse and he looks at Alicia from his window. With the passing of time Benigno is in love with her. When Alica suffers a car accident and Benigno finds her in his hospital, he spends his days taking care of her, but she can't say to him, "Thank you".

In the text there are some object pronouns in bold (en negrita). Who do they refer to? (the film, Benigno, Alicia, the viewers of the film).

Now, watch these videos to know how to use the object pronouns.





Now, you can work on these activities, but remember we use object pronouns after transitive verbs or after prepositions.
OBJECT PRONOUNS (1)
OBJECT PRONOUNS (2)
OBJECT PRONOUNS (3)
OBJECT PRONOUNS (4)

By courtesy of Isabel Bastida

Activities you like doing

The Simpsons are a very typical American family. Homer loves drinking beer and Marge works at home. Bart doesn't like studying and Lisa loves playing the saxo. The baby's name is Maggie and she really likes dancing. They only have one thing in common, they love watching TV on the sofa.

Now it's your turn (es tu turno). Do the activities and talk about your hobbies.

VOCABULARY (1)

VOCABULARY (2)

Now you can practise some activities and check your answers.

ACTIVITY 1

ACTIVITY 2

Finally, here you have a listening activity about Claudia's likes and dislikes.
Click HERE

By courtesy of Isabel Bastida