PRONOUNCING -ED

HAVE A LOOK AT THE VIDEO BELOW TO PRACTISE:

PARTS OF THE HOUSE

To review vocabulary: rooms of the house, furniture... Click on the picture below.

PAST SIMPLE: REGULAR VERBS

How do you know that the verb is regular?
There is just one answer to this question. You have to learn all the irregular verbs and then all the verbs that are not irregular are regular. 

NOW, SOME PRACTICE:

HOW DO WE FORM THE NEGATIVE IN THE PAST???

WATCH THE VIDEO

WHICH IS THE CORRECT SENTENCE?

AND NOW.... QUESTIONS IN THE PAST!

(WH-WORD) + DID + SUBJECT + INFINITIVE (without "to")

TIME TO PRACTISE...

WAS / WERE in QUESTIONS

A) Do you often take selfies?

B) When was the last time you took a selfie? C) How many selfies have you got?

D) Who looks at your selfies?

E) Do you post your selfies on Facebook, twitter...?

F) Do you like selfies?

G) Do you think selfies are good?

A) Was only Mark in Paris?

B) Were both Mark and Jane in Sydney?

C) Was Jane in New York?

D) Were both Mark and Jane in Rome?

E) Was Mark in Pisa?

F) Was Jane on a farm?

G) Was Mark in a clothes shop?

H) Were Mark and Jane in a café?

I) Were there many people in the clothes shop?

J) Was only Mark on the beach?

K) Were there any horses on the farm?

L) Was Jane in the theatre?

M) Was Jane at the airport?

N) Was Mark at the swimming pool?

O) Was Jane in Brussels?

P) Were both Mark and Jane in London?

THE BORROWERS

PLOT: 

Pod and Homily Clock and their 13-year-old daughter Arietty are "Borrowers"-little people, only 20cm. tall. They live under the floor and "borrow" things from the humans in the big house above them. The entrance t otheir home is undfer a grandfather clock -so they are called the "Clock" family. Life is comfortable, but a little boring...especially for Arietty. She wants to go into the big garden and explore. She wants to play with other children. 

Then a human boy comes to live upstairs. It's dangerous for a borrower to meet a human...but lonely Arietty wants a friend. Is it possible?

PRE-READING ACTIVITIES:

• Mention the different categories of stories (or films) you know.
• Look at the front cover of the reader and  guess what type of story it is: fact / fiction, adventure, etc. Describe what you can see. 
• Describe the characters and guess who they are:

• Choose a character,  and write some  adjectives to describe the character’s personality. You can find a list HERE and HERE.
• Find a picture in the book of:
•  a. a family having afternoon tea 
•  b. an enormous cat ;
• c. a frightened girl alone in a garden  
• Read the second paragraph on page 8. List three things you learn about the Borrowers. 
• Look at the top picture on page 10. 
• Why are the people sad? 
• Why do you think the man is climbing down the curtain on page 11? 
• Read the text above the picture on page 15. Why do you think Pod is telling Arietty this story? 
• Look at the pictures on page 16. Describe how the little girl feels in each picture. 
• Read the last two paragraphs on page 18. What do Pod and Arietty want to get? 
• Read the first 8 lines on page 22 and look at the picture. Why is Arietty frightened? 

YOU CAN FIND MORE ACTIVITIES AND LISTEN TO THE DIFFERENT CHAPTERS IN THE LINK BELOW: 

SOME and ANY

Now, try the exercises below:

1º ESO: REVISION

THERE IS, THERE ARE. PLACES IN TOWN. PLACE PREPOSITIONS

In this game you should write the missing words into the sentences to describe the picture on the right:

Look at the presentation below. Then write in your notebook the places there are and there aren't in your town.

And now, let's learn and practise the prepositions of place:

PLACES IN TOWN

LET'S PRACTISE ...

PARTS OF THE BODY

DESCRIBING APPEARANCE

ADJECTIVES

LET'S DO SOME REVIEW FOR YOUR TERM TEXT

TRY THESE TASKS:

WHY DO YOU WANT TO LEARN ENGLISH?

- Because I want to get a good job.

- To be able to communicate when I travel.

Can you add more reasons?

Now you are going to watch a video  in which you will see and hear three

students explaining why they are learning English. Try to understand each student’s reason for learning English.

The three learners in the video are asked a second question:

What do you want to after this course/in the future? Try to understand their answers. 

LET'S GO!: 

Now think about the following questions:

- How will your English have improved after this course?

- What will you be able to do with your English that you can’t do now? 

SNACK CULTURE: EATING HABITS

Let's learn something more about snack food and eating habits...

Read the texts HERE and do the exercises proposed 

READING FIRST TERM.1º ESO

This is the book ou are gooing to read this term. 



TITLE: A Secret Fear.

AUTHOR: Celia Starr.

PUBLISHER: Burlington Books.

LEVEL: 1º E.S.O

PLOT: The book tells the story of two boys (Joey and Kevin). One day of summer they’re making a tent in Joey’s garden. The boys go into the tent, it’sdark in the tent and Kevin tells ghost stories. But Joey has a secret fear. He’s frightened of the dark.

The next day Joey reads the e-mail from his friend Jamie. Jamie is celebrating a party on Saturday night and they are telling ghost stories. Joey must make an excuse to Jamie.

After school Joey discovers that his friend, Kevin, has got a secret fear, too.

Kevin is frightened of high places.

The boys decide to go in the lift but the lift is broken, the doors closed and the light off. Kevin and Joey are talking and to forget the fear and they surpass the fear.

YOU CAN LISTEN TO THE STORY HERE

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

AND NOW, SOME PRACTICE:

THE FAMILY

More practice:

WH- QUESTIONS

It's time to review for the unit1 test...

Wh questions from Chelo Parra

NOW, IT'S TIME TO PRACTISE... CLICK HERE

NATIONALITIES

MODAL VERBS IN PRESENT AND PAST

Once you have understood the explanation, it is time to practise your knowledge in a games on Modal verbs. It is called En Garde and your task is to choose the correct modal verb and then hit your opponent.