Hi!

I just want to give you a link - as I promised Angel - in case you want to review in the summer.http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Blue%20Level/Blue%20Level.html

You can find all kinds of things there: grammar lessons, reading and listening, pronunciation, dictation, etc.

Use the blue and the red levels.

Well, here I am again. It's so hot, so hot, I find it hard to remember the blogs.

Anyway, last week we spent both lessons practicing the Simple Past tense. Students are making an effort to learn all those new words: the past form of irregular verbs.

So, what did you do last weekend?

Did you go anywhere?

Questions are easy because all we have to do is use did instead of do or does. It is the same thing with negative sentences, we say didn't + the base form of the verb.

If you want a little more practice, go to this link:http://www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/Listening_Lab/Listening_Lab_Exercise_13_past_tense_verbs.html

Yes, I know we haven't studied some of the verbs, but it is very difficult to find something with only the verbs you know.

Hello!

I was glad to see the four of you in class. Let's how many more times we get it. Well there are only a couple of weeks left.

Last week we first worked on asking questions about various people's daily life, using, of course, the Persent Simple tense of the verb and using frequency adverbs: usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, always.

Example:

What time does Judy usually go to work?

In our second class I explained how to make the Simple Past. I insist that it is easy even if we have to learn all those irregular verbs.

Remember: regular verbs make the past by adding the ending -ed

Talk    talked

Play     played

Listen  listened

Watch  watched

Cook    cooked

Some of them, the ones that end with a -t or -d sound add a syllable in the past.

Want   wanted

Paint    painted

Decide  decided

The past form of irregular verbs is different from the infinitive and you have to study it. Some examples are:

Read      read

Go         went

Buy       bought.

Eat        ate

To make questions we use an auxiliary, just like you do with the Present Simple, but this time the auxiliary is did, the past form of the verb to do.
Example:

Did you eat lentils yesterday?

Did she sing that song in the concert? ( As you can see, the 3rd person singular is just like the other ones, so it's easier than the Present).

We also studied the prepositions on, in and at to talk about units of time. On for days, in for years, months, weeks, seasons, at for time.

Hello,

Last week we only had a class. We reviewed the frequency adverbs  and watched a video on that.  Here is the link to the video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEVIKyTgL40

You can also watch this one to review daily actions; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZGsnv9ZEQo

We keep practicing both the Simple Present, which is used when we talk about what we do in a general way- what we do during the working days, or what we do every summer - and the Present Continuous, for specific and individual actions; what we are doing now or today. But we can also use the Present Continuous for actions in a very near future, for instance, tonight, or tomorrow or in the summer, as there are only 2 weeks left  for the summer.

What are you doing in the summer? Do you have any plans? Are you going to the beach? Are you working in July? Are you working in August?

See you tomorrow, are you coming to class?

I can imagine you will not get to read this. Anyway, I hope there are more people in class today. i suppose everybody has their homework, as you are very efficient with the wasap.

Last week we did a lot of questions starting How often and review possible answers:

once a day
             a week
             an hour
             a month
             etc.
twice a day
             a week
             an hour
             a month
             etc.
3 times, 4 times, 5 times... 
             a day
             a week
             an hour
             a month
             etc.

We also practiced frequency adverbs: always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, never.
When we make sentences with the verb to be we use these adverbs after the verb: He is never too happy.
When we use other verbs we place the adverbs after the subject: I usually play tennis in the evening.

We also used the verb can for ability:
She can drive very well.
And talked about thing we like doing or we don't like doing.

We can say, for instance:

She doesn't like driving but she can drive very well.

See you soon,

Hello!

Last Thursday students were asking each other about things they like doing in their free time. The questions are:

What do you like doing in your free time?

How often do you __________?

When do you ____________?

Who do you _________ with?

We also studied some sports. When we talk about team sports or the sport involves the use of a ball or something similar we use the verb play.

We play football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, tennis.

We use the verb go for other sports:

We go swimming, cycling, skiing, running. 

Still, there are some other sports that require the use of the verb do.

We do judo, yoga, aerobics.


I hope you enjoyed your weekend.I´ll see you Tuesday.

Hi!

How is it going? Are you having a nice weekend? I am glad it's not so hot any more. It's a bit windy though.

Here is a link for you to study food partitives. You must click on the video, the one on top. http://www.englishmedialab.com/elementaryvideos/food%20qty/food%20qty.html

You can also practice those partitives playing this game. http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/vocabulary/memoryaudio/food/index.html