jueves, 21 de mayo de 2015

Irregular verbs

2nd semester students:

Please answer the questions contained in this next link, PRINT IT OUT, and bring it to our next class.


Ejercicio 1

Prepositions of place, time and movement

4th semester students:

Please fill out the questions contained in these links, PRINT THEM once answered and bring them to our next class.

Ejercicio 1
Ejercicio 2
Ejercicio 3

domingo, 3 de mayo de 2015

Study guide for the 4th semester 2/2


Complete the sentences with the correct tag question.

1.     Bob doesn´t have a black cat, does he?
2.     Your parents are traveling around Europe, ________________?
3.     You didn´t bring lunch, _______________?
4.     Rosie lives next to Jim, _______________?
5.     Tanya found a wallet, ______________?
6.     Your friends won´t go to the movies tonight, _________________?

Complete the sentences with the Past Simple or the Past Perfect Simple of the verbs in parentheses.

1.     By the time we arrived  (arrive) at the movie theatre, the movie had started (start).
2.     After Peter ___________ (wash) his car, it __________ (start) raining.
3.     They _________ (rob) three banks before the police ____________ (arrest) them.
4.     ___________ Martha _________ (come) back from work when you ____________ (call) her?
5.     Karen ____________ (not clean) her room by 6 o’clock yesterday afternoon.

Study guide for the 4th semester 1/2


Circle the correct words

1.      The tourists on the bus SHOWED / WERE SHOWN the best sights in the city.
2.      The Red Sox PLAYED / WAS PLAYED against the Tigers last night.
3.      A lot of tea PRODUCES / IS PRODUCED in India.
4.      Barry’s car GAVE / WAS GIVEN to him by his parents for his birthday.
5.      All my friends WATCH / ARE WATCHED too much television.
6.      In the movie, humans TOOK / WERE TAKEN to another planet by aliens.
7.      Scientists FOUND / WERE FOUND lots of oil under the ocean a few years ago.
8.      Dr. Howard PERFORMS / IS PERFORMED surgery almost every day.
9.      The machines at the gym USE / ARE USED by many people every day.
10.    This salad OFTEN MAKES / IS OFTEN MADE with ricotta cheese.

Complete the letter with these prepositions.

Off                                    In                                    After                                    From                                    Into
Around                                    On                                    At                                    In                                    For

Dear Michael,

I’m having a great time here on our sailing trip. It’s much more fun than staying __________ a hotel. We’ve been sailing __________ almost a week now. We set out ____________ Seabourne _____________ the 6th and we arrived ____________ Felixstone yesterday.
Every morning ___________ breakfast my sister and I usually jump ____________ the yatch _________ the ocean and swim for a few hours. There are lots of fish and you can see the big ones swimming ___________ the yacht. ________ the afternoon we spend most of the time fishing so, guess what’s for dinner: Fish, of course. That’s only if we catch some.

Anyway, sailing is awesome! You should try it some day.

Bye for now,
Jonathan

Join the pairs of sentences using the linking words / phrases in the box. More than one answer may be correct.

But                                    When                                    While                                    As soon as
Because                                    So…that                                    So / as

1.      I heard someone screaming in the street. I ran outside.
__________________________________________________________
2.      Her leg hurt very much. She started crying.
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3.      Terry got lost in the forest. He wasn’t scared.
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4.      We were exploring the attic. We found an old map.
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