3D Working with the Future!

Hi guys!

Welcome to our Unit 7 computer class!

Today we are going to revise the three forms we can use to talk about the Future!:

           Present Continuous (is/are/am + ING)
           to be (is/are/am) + going to + verb
           Future Simple (will/won't)

1. Practise the structure to be + going to HERE , HERE, HERE and HERE.


2.  Practise the Future simple tense with WILL / WON'T HERE, HERE and HERE.

3.  Practise the Present Continuous AQUÍ i AQUÍ.


Now you can relax a little bit from grammar and learn interesting aspects from another culture, in this case the Indian culture and its caste system.



0. You need an open office document and Wide World Web (internet).
1. Go to internet and look for a map of India. Copy and paste it on an open office document.
2. Look for the name of the most important cities in India.
3. Write the name of the four most important religions in India.
4. Go to google and write the name of ten official languages spoken in India.
5. What is the “Taj Mahal”? Which four architectural elements has it got?
6. Look for a picture of the Taj Mahal and paste it on your open office document.
7. The society in India is divided into groups. Go to internet and find the name of the five most important castes.
8. Who are the dalits? You can describe it in Catalan or Spanish.

Great job!

HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND! 

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ADG: Revising PASSIVE voice for the exam

Hi guys!

I hope you had nice Easter holidays! Here you have Passive Voice exercises to practise for the exam.

The passive voice in past

REMEMBER HOW WE FORM THE PASSIVE VOICE

PRESENT: ____ is/are + verb (ed / 3col)

isn't/aren't

PAST: ____ was/ were + verb (ed / 3col)

wasn't/ weren't

REMEMBER HOW WE FORM QUESTIONS INTO THE PASSIVE VOICE

WHAT

WHEN + was/were/is/are + _____ + verb (ed / 3col) ?

WHERE

Active: Do ......

Passive: Is /are + ____________+ verb (ed / 3col) ?

Active: Did ......

Passive: Was /were + ____________+ verb (ed / 3col) ?

1. Write the verbs in brackets in the right tense. All of them must be in the passive.

a. The children .............................................(take) to the zoo last week.

b. She ........................................(wake) by a strange noise, but she didn’t get up.

c. My house ...............................(build) in 1990.

d. The supermarket .......................................(open) last month.

e. Last week, the dog .................................................(take) to the vet by his owner

f. The exams ...........................................(mark) by the teacher yesterday.

g. “Don Quixote” .....................................(write) by Cervantes.

h. My keys ...........................................(find) in the street last Monday.

i. The bank .......................................(rob) this week.

j. The robbers ....................................(arrest) five hours later.

2. Rewrite these sentences. Write a passive sentence (instead of using “somebody”, “they” or

“people”.) You may find present and past verbal tenses.

e.g.: Somebody asked me the way to the bus station.

I was asked the way to the bus station.

a. They cancelled our flight because of the storm.

b. English people drink a lot of tea.

c. Someone broke my cup.

d. People warned us about pickpockets.

e. In Mexico, they cook very hot meat.

f. Somebody builds a hut in that hill.

g. People often buy clothes on sales.

h. They gave me three tickets.

i. Somebody sells this house.

j. They arrested him the day before yesterday.

3. Change into the passive voice in past.

1) She bought four apples.

2) We won the match.

3) The man stole the blue car.

4) The police arrested the thieves.

5) Jack swam the 200 metres.

6) The dog bit the old lady.

7) Tom and Max ate five hamburgers.

8) Oliver taught the children.

9) Victoria rode the brown horse.

10) Grandmother told good stories.

4.- Complete the sentences using the present simple passive. a) Coffee …....................(grow) in Brasil and Colombia. b) Kangaroos …..............................(find) in America. c) ........... Ford …...................(make) in Spain? d) El Prado …...........................(visit) by hundreds of people every day. e) How often ….........................general elections.................................(hold)? f) Dogs …...........................(not allowed) in restaurants in most countries. 5.- Put the sentences into the past simple passive. a) Etienne Lenoir made the first motor car in Belgium. b) How many paintings did the police find? c) I didn’t paint Las Meninas. d) Lennon and McCartney wrote the song Yesterday. e) The government ordered them to build a new bridge. f) When did Cook discover Australia? 6.- Put these sentences into the passive (present or past) a) The airline sent our luggage to Australia by mistake. b) Farmers grow soy in Argentina. c) People export Spanish tortilla to the US. d) El Greco painted The Burial of the Count of Orgaz. e) You don’t find penguins at the North Pole. f) Columbus didn’t discover America in 1491. g) They draw some paintings. h) My uncle sold the bicycle. i) The child broke all the plates in the cupboard. j) She didn’t find the book. 7.- Put these questions into the passive. a) When did Pasteur discover Penicillin? b) How do people make sushi? c) Where do people speak Mandarin? d) Did Spain win the last basketball Olympics? e) Do people speak English in Hawaii? 7.- Write questions for these answers in the passive form. a) Yes, rice is grown in Spain. b) Yes, the song was sung by them. c) No, the trees weren’t cut down. d) No, the story isn’t known. e) Yes, he was told to be quiet.

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2A & 2B "Just good friends" class

JUST GOOD FRIENDS

1. Listen (and pay a lot of attention) to the plot of the play we are going to watch tomorrow.

to; when; doesn’t; him; more; goes; come; can’t; but; is; to; who

Polly is a schoolgirl who 1.................. to the local comprehensive school. She 2....................really like it. She’d prefer to spend time with her friends, or go shopping, or go 3......................the cinema, or listen to music. What she’d really like 4.........................to become famous, be a pop star or a famous actress. That and make Peter notice her. Peter’s in her class and he’s a brilliant student 5...................... is good at everything. Peter likes school. He actually likes studying. Polly 6..................... understand this but she likes Peter anyway. But, the thing is, he is so shy. What can Polly do to make 7......................notice her and to make her school a bit 8........................exciting?

Well, we don’t want to give away all the story 9...................Polly does find a way. Something happens to change her school completely 10.........................she meets Stanley, her guardian angel. Her school becomes really strange. And what happens 11.......................... Peter? Well, he changes too, but to see how you will have to 12................to the performance.

2.Matching activity:

-After having listened to the story of “Just good friends” we will learn more about the characters.

-We are going to divide the class in three groups and we will give you a sheet of paper each.

-Try to match these two groups of sentences.

3. DREAM ON!

Polly is always dreaming but now it is your turn. Imagine the details about your perfect style of living.

Write a letter to a friend explaining your perfect life. Use these sentences to structure your writing:

Where are you?

In what country?

What is the weather like?

What’s your house like? Describe it.

What can you see from your window? What is around you?

What do you do? Your job, occupation?

What is a typical routine for you?

What are you doing today?

What did you do yesterday?

What will you do tomorrow? What would you like to happen tomorrow?

Who lives with you?

Who is with you at the moment?

What plans do you have for the future in general?

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ADG March 30th class

Good morning!

Before focussing on our book, now we are going to work on the play we will see next Tuesday.

Name of the play: WILLIAM B

1. Have a look at these words and try to write them in the appropriate blank.

a. who

b. always

c. wonderful

d. stealing

e. wants

f. he

g. isn’t

h. or

i. not

j. the

k. at

l. everything

m. all

n. closer

o. only

p. can

q. to

r. other

s. are

t. if

William B is the story of William B. (for Brian) Goode. William, 1.................... Billy, is a

normal, average schoolboy 2............................. is always in some kind of trouble or 3........................... . Billy is okay at

school – he’s 4 ................................ great but he isn’t terrible either but Billy is 5....................... having problems with

his teachers. It 6 .........................his fault really. What can he do if Dennis, another bigger, older boy, is

always 7........................ his homework? Billy’s life 8 ...........................home isn’t great either. His parents 9.................................

always telling him what to do, what not to do. They never seem happy with him.

So Billy’s life is not exactly 10...................... – except for one thing. Billy is average in 11.......................

except his imagination. Billy has one big escape in his life – he dreams, almost 12.................................. the

time.

In his dreams Billy becomes anything and anyone he 13....................... to be. He can have

perfect parents; he can be 14......................... perfect student. He can be a major rock star sensation; a

superhero; a master spy.

In his dreams Billy 15............................ get anything he wants. Or cannot 16 ..........................? There is a girl in

school, Beth, who Billy likes but Beth doesn’t seem 17...................... notice him at all. Worse still

none of his dream fantasies seem to make any impression on Beth at all. After all they are

18 .........................dreams. Watch William B to see 19................................. Billy can somehow make his real life a little

better as he tries to bring his real life a little bit 20........................ to his dream life.

2. Listen to the following fragment and correct exercise 1.

3. Read the text again and answer the following questions:

a) Who are William and Billy?

b) Is William a good student?

c) Who is Dennis?

d) How is the relationship between William and his parents?

e) Explain the relationship between Beth and William?

WORK FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS

A) Dennis is another character in William B. Rearrange the following sentences to find out something about him.

1. he Dennis wonderful is a at school who Billy’s thinks boy is.

2. likes He Beth also.

3. He’s always a bit him than Billy and he older bullies.

4. homework Billy him makes do Dennis his for.

5. even money takes He from Billy sometimes.

B) This is an extract from Bill’s fantasy diary. Read it and fill in the gaps with the words given below:

new , another , about, asking, after, everything, the, than, can, to, same, his, no, that, has, to, the

Dear Me,

Today’s been 1 ..........................typical day. My father the world famous racing driver came back home 2........................... another amazingly successful day at the track. He became 3.......................... first person to win three races on the 4 ..........................day. He won the 250 cc motorcycle followed by the 500 cc in the morning.

In the afternoon, now in 5.............................. car, he won the Formula 1 race by a record 22 laps. My mother is away at the moment. She’s shooting the 6........................... Spielberg movie in Antarctica. People are already saying 7............................. she is sure to win the Oscar again this year. That will make seven Oscars she 8............................... won in the last three years. Where are we going to put them all? She has just phoned me from the South Pole 9......................... thank me for my suggestions 10................................ how she should play her character. She said that Steven was very impressed and is thinking of 11............................ me to direct a film for him when I am older. I probably will. I 12............................. always do it during my school holidays.

Talking of school, everything is as fine as always here. I got 125% for 13.................................. essay on the economic history of post war Germany. Mr Higgins, 14 ....................................history teacher, said it was the best work he had ever read on the subject – far better 15 ................................all the other history books. So, 16 ............................is normal here. I am going to stop now. I’m going 17 .................................cook a seven course international meal for my father. A genius has 18.................................. time for himself it seems.

More later,

William B.

C) Billy’s fantasy parents are, of course, perfect. His mother is a world famous triple Oscar winning actress while his father is a world champion sportsman. What about you? What would your perfect parents be like? If you prefer, you can write about the perfect daughter or the perfect son! Think of qualities they should keep and try to write a small composition abour it.

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ADG March 28th class: Revising numbers

Hi everybody!

Here you have some help to remember the numbers in English:




A) Remember the numbers by clicking HERE , HERE (more difficult ones) and
HERE (more examples about difficult numbers)

B) Practice HERE and we will go on practicing with exercises from our class book.

Ready? Let's go then!

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