Mary and Max - Present Perfect and Simple Past

A. Read the sentences taken from a letter Max is writing Mary and try to guess whether you should complete the blanks with the simple past or the present perfect tenses of the given verbs.


1. I ____________ (choose) the same numbers for nine years. 3, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12.

2. I _____________ (have) many different jobs during my life.

3. My first job ______ (be) collecting subway tokens in the subway.

4. I __________ (work) at the frisbee printing machine in my third job.

5. In my fourth job, I _____________ (get - neg) paid much but ________ (get) free cookies and coffee.

6. _____________ (you - ever - be) hang gliding?

7. _____________ (you - ever - be) a communist?

8. _____________ (you - ever - be) attacked by a crow or a similar large bird. When I __________ (be) nine, a crow _________ (attack) me on my way to school.

9. I _________________ (teach) myself to read two pages at once.

10. I have to go now. I __________ (tell - neg) you about my 7th job, in a condom factory.

11. I _______________ (eat - never) sweetened condensed milk.

12. I ________________ ( use - never) a condom.



B. Watch the movie segment and check your answers.

1. Have you ever had a pen pal? Why (not)?
2. Is it a good idea to have pen pals? Explain it.
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having pen pals?
4. Do pen pals have to like the same things? Why (not)?
5. Are pen pals real friends? Or it just a fantasy?

 http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com.ar/

BUENOS AIRES

Here's Danilo's description of our city. Don't miss it!

The place where I live

Martín did his homework and passed his writing to an audio file!!

Enjoy it:









Feel free to share your opinions about it!

Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

QUIZES
http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/preintermediate/comparatives%20superlatives.htm

http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.comp.i.htm

ACTIVITIES
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/regcom1.htm

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/compsup.html

http://www.autoenglish.org/gr.comp.i.htm

Have fun while learning:

SUPERLATIVES: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/drag_n_drop_games/files/superlative-adjectives.html

COMPARATIVES: http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/CET/flashactivities/learnenglish-central-grammar-comparative-adjectives.html

Some social English

Some of the most important phrases, responses and common expressions used in English every day. These are sets of phrases that always go together. Some people call them adjacency pairs. Learn many of these vital expressions in this episode of Luke's English Podcast, one of the fastest growing English language learning podcasts online.

Listen to Luke's podcast, it's really interesting. You will find the written expressions he mentions on this page

Rather long but quite interesting. Don't miss it! 

Present Perfect Tense

Last class we practiced this new tense. In case you need some reinforcement, you'll find some extra explanaition HERE.
At the bottom of the same page, you have some exercises. Just click on the links and do them!

If you find this TOO difficult, there are more exercises HERE or even on this other page.

And last, but not least, a wonderful page where you can watch a video, do exercises and record yourself. Where? HERE!

ENJOY YOURSELVES, WHEREVER YOU ARE!!

What is the best way to write work related e-mails?

The nature of the e-mails you receive partly depends on the quality of the e-mails you send yourself. This film about e-mail management explains what to watch out for when composing work related e-mails.

We'll talk about it in class!