lunes, 4 de octubre de 2010

Shedule

What time?
Daily routines
wake up
take a shower
brakefast
make something
drink coffee
brush my teeth
cooking
make my bed
make up
do exercise
dressing
watch TV
listen music
go to bed
wash
dry hair
get dress
go to school
study
eat lunch
go home
eat dinner
comb hair

Lessons

Preposition and adverbs: on, from, in, under, behind and to.

Exercise: Pump air the bicycle.
From fly to the airplane.
Eat the food.
Rock baby in arms.
Open the door.
Close the door.

Classroom activity

Two word verbs or phrasal verbs.

Verb plus preposition


What are phrasal verbs?


1.- A phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition or adverb which creates a meaning different from the original verb.


Example:
I ran into my teacher at the movies last night. RUN + INTO = MEET
He ran away when he was 15. RUN + AWAY = LEAVE HOME

2.- Some phrasal verbs are intransitive. An intransitive verb cannot be followed by an object.

Example:
He suddenly showed up. " SHOW UP" CANNOT TAKE AN OBJECT.

3.- Some phrasal verbs are transitive. A transitive verb can be followed by an object.
Example:
I made up the story. " STORY" IS THE OBJECT OF "MAKE UP"


4.- Some transitive phrasal verbs are separable. The object is placed between the verb and the preposition.

Example:
I talked my mother into letting me borrow the car.
She looked the phone number up.


5.- Some transitive phrasal verbs are inseparable. The object is placed after the verb and

the preposition.

Example:
I ran into an old friend yesterday.
They are looking into the problem.


6.- Some transitive phrasal verbs can take an object in both places.

Example:
I looked the number up in the phono book.
I looked up the number in the phone book.


domingo, 4 de julio de 2010

There is - There are

We use there is - there are to express existence of something.
Singular: There is

There is a car in the garage.

There isn´t a ball under the bed.


We also use there is with non-countable nouns:


There is milk in the fridge.

There isn´t sugar for my coffee.

Plural: There are


There are some buildings on that street.

There are twenty students in my class.

For / Since

1. The word for is used to show an amount of time.

  • for three days
  • for a few years
  • for five months

2. The w0rd since is used to tell when an action started.

  • since 1987
  • since last wednesday
  • since she started school

Present perfect

We use present perfect to express a completed action in the past. The time when the action took place is undefined.

Example:
I have been to Europe.
My sister has eaten lobster.
We also use present perfect to express an action that began in the past and still continues in the present.
Example:
You have studied English for 3 semesters.
I have been in my classroom for 3 hours.
Affirmative pattern
Subject + have/has + verb in past participle + complement
I have written a book
She has given a lecture.
They have seen an accident.
Negative pattern
Subject + haven´t/ hasn´t + verb in past participle + complement
You haven´t drunk wine.
He hasn´t bought a new car.
We haven´t won any competition.

Simple past tense II

The pronunciation is also important. We have 3 different forms to pronounce the regular verbs in past tense:
/t/ /d/ /id/
1. We pronounce like a /t/ sound when the verbs are preceded by a voiceless consonant, for example:
/p/ /k/ /f/ /s/
Examples: kiss - kissed
dance - danced
fix - fixed
watch - watched
walk - walked
2. We pronounce like a /d/ sound when the verbs are precede by a voiced consonant, for example:
/b/ /g/ /v/ /z/ /n/ /l/
Example: stay - stayed
clean - cleaned
observe - observed
3. We pronounce like an /id/ sound when the verbs are preceded by a /t/ or /d/ sound.
Example: want - wanted
need - needed
invite - invited
end - ended