Present perfect vs. past simple

Click here for an explanation and exercises (scroll down to find the exercises)

You'll find some easy exercises here.

Try some more exercises here, here, here, here and here and lots of them here.

Present perfect or past simple

Watch the videos to remember how to use the past simple and the present perfect:

Numb3rs

For an explanation on how to say numbers click here

You will find out how to say 0 and other curious things here

You can try lots of exercises here

Ka-Ching!

Listen to Shania Twain singing a song about money:


Can you fill in the words in the gaps? If you can, write ONE ANSWER on the wall below.

We live in a greedy little world--

that teaches every little boy and girl

To  (1) ____________ as much as they can possibly--

then turn around and

(2) _____________ it foolishly

We've created us a (3) _____________ mess

We spend the (4) _____________ that we don't possess

Our religion is to go and (5) _____________ it all

So it's (6) _______________ every Sunday at the mall

All we ever want is more

A lot more than we had before

So take me to the nearest store

[Chorus:]

Can you hear it ring

It makes you wanna sing

It's such a beautiful thing--Ka-ching!

Lots of diamond rings

The happiness it brings

You'll live like a king

With lots of money and things

When you're (7)_________________go and get a (8) _________________

Take out another (9) ________________ on your home

Consolidate so you can (10) _______________

To go and spend some more when

you get bored

All we ever want is more

A lot more than we had before

So take me to the nearest store

[Repeat Chorus]

Let's swing

Dig deeper in your (11) _____________

Oh, yeah, ha

Come on I know you've got it

Dig deeper in your wallet

Oh

All we ever want is more

A lot more than we had before

So take me to the nearest store

[Repeat Chorus]

Money, money, money!

Click here to learn and practise money vocabulary.

Try some exercises here, here and here.

Pronunciation of regular -ed endings

Learn how to pronounce -ed past endings correctly.

First, you need to know the difference between voiced and voiceless sounds in English. Watch this video:



 Now, you´re ready for this:



And now practise!

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8

Irregular verbs

Forget the future! It's all about the past now! You can start by revising and practising irregular verbs here. Don't forget to learn the pronunciation, too. It's just as important as the spelling.

You can download the exercise we did in class here.

Writing: description of a person

She's a bit forgetful.

Write a description of a person you know well. You have a model text and instructions on page 113 of your book.

Remember:

• Plan your paragraphs carefully (see your book)
• Use a variety of personality adjectives.
• When you say something negative, use a bit + negative adjective (a bit messy) or not very + positive adjective (not very organized)

Deadline for this is November 24th.

Reacting to news

Click here to learn how to respond to news with the BBC.













Remeber how to respond using HOW or WHAT (A)

And now practise HOW + ADJ and WHAT (A) + NOUN here  and

here

More about the future

Watch this BBC video and see how to use will, going to and the present continuous in a natural way.



If you need more practice, here you have plenty of exercises and you'll find a video, explanation and exercises here. Are you GOING TO (plan) try them? I think you WILL find them useful (prediction 😉)

Personality

Learn and practise personality adjectives here.

You can practise them here.

Family video

Listen to some people talking about their families.


We did this exercise in class with the Tues/Thurs group. It's voluntary for the Mon/Wed groups.