FCE links

https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/index.html

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/tests/tsindex.htm

http://hibernia-institute.cz/on_line_testy/fce/index.htm

Links Grammar

Links to revise FCE grammar and vocabulary


General grammar test:
https://www.examenglish.com/FCE/fce_grammar.htm

Vocabulary tests:
https://www.examenglish.com/B2/b2_vocabulary_education.htm
https://www.examenglish.com/B2/b2_vocabulary_free_time.htm
https://www.examenglish.com/B2/b2_vocabulary_holidays.htm
https://www.examenglish.com/B2/b2_vocabulary_health.htm

Grammar tests:
Future Cont. https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_future_continuous.htm
Future Perfect: https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/future_perfect.htm
Future Perfect Cont.https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/future_perfect_continuous.htm
Past Modals https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_past_modals.htm
Past Perfect https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_past_perfect.htm
Past Perfect Cont. https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/past_perfect_continuous.htm
Relative Clauses: https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/d_relative_clauses.htm
Passive: https://www.examenglish.com/grammar/B1_simple_passives.htm

Passive voice

PASSIVE VOICE:

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/passive-exercise-5.html
https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_09_012e?cc=global&selLanguage=en
http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/4g1-causative.php

Passive voice

PASSIVE advanced

https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/fce/students/strategy/transfrm/passive2.htm

http://www.teachenglish4u.com/Rephrase_B2/kwt08.htm

https://elt.oup.com/student/oxfordenglishgrammar/advanced/oegc_advanced_section06/advanced_section06_01?cc=global&selLanguage=en

infinitive vs gerund

INFINITIVE (to):

• after adjectives I’m happy to meet you.
• after certain verbs I plan to leave on Monday.
• after superlatives Joe was the first to finish the race.

GERUND:

• subject of the sentence    Smoking is bad for you.
• after certain verbs I hate doing my homework.
• after certain expressions I’m looking forward to meeting Jane.
• after prepositions I’m thinking about travelling to Italy.

• with go Let’s go hiking on Saturday.  

Classwork - 5th March

Hi 3rd graders,

I'm not at school tomorrow, so please do these activities.

1) From workbook (ficha), p. 47 ex 5, 6

2) From Student's Book, p. 71, ex 1, 2

3) From Student's Book, p. 141, ex 1, 2, 3, 4

Whatever you haven't finished - it's your homework (for Friday).

The Future

Hi 3rd graders,

Copy this explanaition to your notebooks. This is your homework for Thursday, 22nd of March. 

THE FUTURE

WILL
-  a prediction or speculation about the future -> I think Maria will be famous one day.
- an offer or spontaneous decision -> It’s too heavy for you. I’ll help you.
- a promise -> I will take care of your dog while you're on holiday.
- a refusal to do something now -> I won’t speak to him, no way!

GOING TO
- a prediction of the future based on the evidence  -> Stop swinging on your chair, you’re going to break it.
- future plans and intentions -> We are going to spend the summer in Scotland.

PRESENT SIMPLE
- timetable -> Come on! The bus leaves in 15 minutes!

PRESENT CONTINUOUS
- a fixed personal arrangement -> I’m playing football with my friends tomorrow.

FUTURE PERFECT
- an activity that will be completed by a certain time in the future -> I’ll have travelled to 20 countries by 2020.

FUTURE CONTINUOUS
- an action that will be in progress at the certain time in the future -> Don’t call me in the morning, I’ll be having yoga class.


Links:

1. 

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/willgo.htm

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/goingto3.htm

2. 

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/allFuture.htm

http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/willGoing.htm

3.

https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/fut1.htm

http://baladre.info/english/sedaviwebfront/goingtowill.htm

4.

http://digitalcampus.free.fr/Level2/Unit22/SubUnit222/ComplSentQCM.jqz.htm

http://baladre.info/english/sedaviwebfront/futuremixed5.htm

https://www.montsemorales.com/gramatica/Willorbegoing4-5.htm

5

http://www.spraz-ila.de/grammar/future1.htm

http://www.spraz-ila.de/grammar/future2.htm

6.

 QUIZ

http://eslbluesapps.com/m/mc/futurem.html#

MODAL VERBS

Modal Verbs

MUSTN'T	prohibition
SHOULD	advice
CAN / BE ABLE TO	ability
MUST BE	certainty
MIGHT / MAY	future possibility
MUST	necessity
CAN'T BE	impossibility
NEEDN'T / DON'T HAVE TO	lack of necessity
COULD / WOULD	polite request
CAN / MAY / COULD	permission

Modal Perfect 

MUST + HAVE + Past Participle (3rd column)	certainty that something was true
MAY / MIGHT / COULD + HAVE + Past Participle (3rd column)	possibility that something was true
COULD + HAVE + Past Participle (3rd column)	ability to have done, but didn't
WOULD  + HAVE + Past Participle (3rd column)	willingness to do, but couldn't
SHOULD / OUGHT TO + HAVE + Past Participle (3rd column)	criticism / regret
CAN'T + HAVE + Past Participle (3rd column)	impossibility that something was true

EXTRA EXERCISE TO PRATICE MODAL VERBS

https://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal1.htm

https://www.englishpage.com/modals/interactivemodal8.htm

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-modal-verbs-exercises-with-answers.html#.WpU_163Mygw

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions1stedition/ui_unit_page/unit8/grammar/exercise1?cc=eg&selLanguage=en

Modal Perfect

https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/410-modals-in-the-past1.htm

https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/410-modals-in-the-past2.htm

https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/410-modals-of-possibility-and-probability-for-past-situations1.htm

https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/courses/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/410-modals-of-possibility-and-probability-for-past-situations2.htm

Relative Clauses extra

Hi 3rd graders,

You can practise Relative Clauses with this exercise:

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/relative-clauses-4
http://oudwww.bonhoeffer.nl/engels/3eklas/unit2/wb284.html
https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_03_012e?cc=global&selLanguage=en
https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/int/grammar/grammar_03_022e?cc=global&selLanguage=en
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6084
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/tests/relative-clauses-3

RELATIVE CLAUSES

Hi 3rd graders - please copy this to your notebooks for tomorrow (THURSDAY - 1st February)

IRREGULAR VERBS 4

HOMEWORK for 2nd of February (FRIDAY)

Hi 3rd graders. Please, bring you homework on the separate piece of paper.

BASE FORM                 PAST SIMPLE             PAST PARTICIPLE           TRANSLATION

SIT
SLEEP
SMELL
SPEAK
SPELL
SPEND
SPILL
SPIT
SPOIL
SPREAD
SPRING
STAND
STEAL
STICK
STING
SWEAR
SWEEP
SWIM
SWING
TAKE
TEACH
TEAR
TELL
THINK
THROW
UNDERSTAND
WAKE UP
WEAR
WIN
WRITE

Present and Past Perfect Tenses

Hi 3rd Graders, copy this into your notebooks at home for 11th January (Thursday).

                               TENSE                                                                           TIME EXPRESSIONS

IRREGULAR VERBS 3

HOMEWORK for 12th January (FRIDAY)

Hi 3rd graders. Please, bring you homework on the separate piece of paper.

BASE FORM                 PAST SIMPLE             PAST PARTICIPLE           TRANSLATION

LIGHT
LOSE
MAKE
MEAN
MEET
PAY
PROVE
PUT
READ
RIDE
RING
RISE
RUN
SAY
SEE
SELL
SEND
SET
SEW
SHAKE
SHINE
SHOOT
SHOW
SHUT
SING
SINK

Story

Write a story that begins with:

I was looking forward to the trip, but it nearly ended in disaster.

Your story must include:

• a market
• a purse

150-190 words

1 PARAGRAPH - setting the scene

Where were you? What were you doing? (visiting new city, visiting another country, in the city centre…)

Who was with you? (friends, family, alone...)

How did you feel? (excited, in a good mood, impatient...)

2 PARAGRAPH - what happened first

When did you set off? (early in the morning, when it was still dark, in the afternoon...)

What kind of market it was? (flea market, antique market, fruit market...)

What were you doing there? (browsing, shopping, looking for bargains, looking for something unique, special, unusual…)

3 PARAGRAPH - what happened to change things

Whose purse was it? What happened to it? (it was stolen, lost, swapped…)

How did you feel? (in a panic, scared, annoyed, afraid, frustrated…)

What did you do? (went to the hotel, called the police, searched for it, chased someone…)

4 PARAGRAPH - the end

What happened in the end? How did you feel? (relieved, pleased…)

USEFUL LANGUAGE

1 PARAGRAPH - set the scene

It all began when...  / That day… / When…

2 PARAGRAPH - what happened first

I set off early / While we were walking in the city centre / As I was bargaining….

A moment before… Shortly afterwards…

3 PARAGRAPH - what happened to change things

Suddenly / All of a sudden…

At that moment…

A little later…. / By now…(a estas alturas)

...that’s when I noticed…. I realised

To my horror…

To my surprise…

I started to panic….

4 PARAGRAPH - what happened in the end

Then, as if from nowhere…

Ten minutes later…

In the end, I was relieved that…

To my relief….

Fortunately, it all ended well.

Finally,....

Eventually...

IRREGULAR VERBS 2

HOMEWORK for 5th December (Tuesday)

Hi 3rd graders. Please, bring you homework on the separate piece of paper.

BASE FORM                 PAST SIMPLE             PAST PARTICIPLE           TRANSLATION

EAT
FALL
FEED
FEEL
FIGHT
FIND
FLY
FORBIT
FORGET
FORGIVE
FREEZE
GET
GIVE
GO
GROW
HANG
HAVE
HEAR
HIDE
HIT
HOLD
HURT
KEEP
KNOW
LAY
LEAD
LEARN
LEAVE
LEND
LET

USED TO AND WOULD

Hi 3rd graders, please copy this into your notebooks. Then, do Ex. 6 and 8 on p.22 in your book. And ex.9 on p.22 IN YOUR NOTEBOOK.

When we talk about past routines and habits, we can use PAST SIMPLE as in this example:

When I was a child, I spent my summers in India.

But we can also use two other forms to express the same. 

USED TO

• past routines and habits that happened regularly

I used to spend my summers in India when I was a child.

I didn’t use to spend my summers in England.

• past states and situations

I used to have long hair when I was a child.

I used to live in Miami.  

WOULD

• past routines and habits that happened regularly

I would play football when I was a child.

BUT NOT past states and situations

I would have long hair when I was a child.  

I would live in Miami.

BEWARE! (ojo!)

be used to - estar acostumbrado

get used to - estar acostumbrándose

Explain the difference in these sentences IN YOUR NOTEBOOK:

I'm used to waking up at 5am.

I'm getting used to waking up at 5am.
I used to wake up at 5am.

PAST SIMPLE and PAST CONTINUOUS

Hi 3rd graders, watch the video and copy the explanation into your notebooks. This is your HOMEWORK for Tuesday, 14th of November.

PAST SIMPLE and PAST CONTINUOUS

PAST SIMPLE

1.Mary visited her sister yesterday.

completed action that took place at a specific time in the past

2. He woke up late, ate breakfast in a hurry and arrived late for school.

sequence of actions that happened in the past one after another

3. When I was a child, I spent my summers in India.

past routines or habits

TIME EXPRESSIONS
yesterday, two days ago, last Monday, last night in 2010, in 1982,  the other day, when I was a child, when I was younger, when I lived in Japan….

PAST CONTINUOUS

1.At midnight I was listening to music,

action in progress at a specific time in the past

2.While I was preparing dinner, John was watching TV.

two, or more, unfinished actions in progress at the same time in the past

3.It was a beautiful day. The Sun was shining, the birds were singing and I was feeling happy again.

background information in a story

TIME EXPRESSIONS
as, while, at 9 am, at 10pm, yesterday

Past Simple vs Past Continuous

I was walking to school when I saw Billy.

She was driving when she called me.

unfinished action in progress (Past Continuous) interrupted by a shorter action (Past Simple)