at? in? on? at the front? in front?

Schwa!!!!

Enjoy this video focussing on the most common English sound schwa.

More practice on adjectives.

HOW DID YOU FEEL?

1. Complete the sentences to describe the situations. Use and adjective from the box

frightening surprising relaxing exhausting annoying depressing

1. I heard footsteps in the middle of the night. That’s really OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
2. The bus was full. I had to wait for the next one so I arrived late for work. That’s so OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
3. I saw Andy eating a burger! I thought he was vegetarian. That’s very OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
4. I was lying on the beach in the sun all day yesterday. How OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
5. On my holiday it rained every day. That’s just so OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
6. I ran my first full marathon on Sunday. How OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

2. Imagine you were in the situations. How would you feel?
Example: 1. I was really frightened

-ing and –ed ADJECTIVES
1. –ing adjectives describe a situation, person or thing: an interesting life, a boring weekend…
2. –ed adjectives describe how people feel: I´m very interested in modern art. We were bored…
3. Complete the sentences. Use one of these adjectives:
Shock- disappoint-
Bor- -ed frighten- -ed
Excit- -ing annoy- -ing
Confus- fascinate-

1. A: I watched a horror film last night. B: Were you OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?
2. A: I spent four hours round the museum. B: Oh no! was it OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO? A: Actually it was OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
3. A: Did you see the way she behaved? B: Yes, it was 00000000000000000000. Don’t invite her next time.
4. I had a second interview but I didn’t get the job. I’m so OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
5. The teacher was very OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO because all the students were late.
6. My daughter is very OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO because it’s her birthday tomorrow.
7. I don’t know how this camera works. The instructions are really 000000000000000.

Reflexive Pronouns

This slide show can help you understand the use of reflexive pronouns.

Reflexive Pronouns

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-ing and -ed adjectives.

Do you remember the differences between boring and bored? We can say challenging, but does challenged exist? If so, what does it mean? (look it up in your dictionary). Let´s freshen up! Enjoy this slide show!

ING AND ED ADJECTIVES

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Present Perfect Tense

Remember I studied Chinese vs I´ve studied Chinese? Check out this slide show and by clicking on comments tell me what you think is more recent in tha past: I´ve lived throughout two world wars and I saw him yesterday? Does it contradict our theory on verbal tenses? Let´s reflect!!! Waiting for your comments...

Presentation:

Present Perfect Tense

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Do you know if Wanda got married? (I hope you don´t get tired of her!) Getting into get.

One of the funny things in Englsih is that some verbs can have different uses / meanings. The vernb GET is an example of it.
Here you have a mindmap to help you remember the uses of Get. Are you ready to GET into GET ?????

Let´s do some group work on correcting writing texts!

1 GR grammar
2 T tense
3 WW wrong word
4 WO word order
5 SP spelling
6 P punctuation
7 ∧ * missing word
8 / extra word
9 AG agreement

As some of you need help with the correction code to assess your writing, here you have a text (TO BE CORRECTED IN CLASS) below:
MYSPACE WEBSITE PROFILE (www.uk.myspace.com)

Headline: Life and let life

About me:
Hi everyone! My name is Alessandra. It’s an Italian name, because my grandmother was from Italy, but I´m Argentenian and I live in Mendoza, a big city in the west of the country. I live with my parents and my two brothers. I have 19 years old, and I´m at university. I´m studing Computer Science. I´m in my first year and I’m really liking it.

I have to say that I have long and brown eyes (I wear contact lenses often). I think I´m a positive person. I´m quite extrovert and friendly. My mother say I´m very talkative (but she loves talking to me!)

Interests:
In my free time I love reading and going to the cinema. But I don’t have much free time because I have classes every day, and a lot of work to do even at the weekends. I also go to English classes in Friday afternoon.

I love learning languages! Apart of English I can speak French, Italian and of course Spanish, which is my first language. I´m interested in meeting people from different countries because I like to know different opinions, lifestyles, traditions. So, if you want to have a Argentinian friend, please send me a message or write a comment on myspace.
See you !

Remember you have been given a photocopy on that in class.

My second letter to the class.

Dear All,

Three weeks have passed since we first met and as I promised here you have my second letter to you. These are the aims I have been chasing throughout these introductory weeks. I hope now you can identify English sounds,you can introduce yourself, you can skim and scan information on how to get the most from our classes, you can understand the information in a dictionary entry, you can spell words, you can correct your own writing homework using the code given, you can produce a short text describing yourself, your friends or your relatives, you can use relative pronouns to paraphrase, you can use wh-words to ask for information, you can get information on how people learn English, you can decide when to use present perfect and simple past, you can talk about challenging situations in your life, you can not only describe people´s appearance but you can also talk about their personality using -ed and -ing adjectives. Finally, you can use your blog and your google documents!!!!!! Do you realise you have already made progress? This is just the beginning. Let´s keep on climbing!

Thanks so much for your contribution and I hope to keep on receiving feedback from you!

With warm wishes.
Laura E.


Note: fyi contents to be checked in textbook pages 6-7, 66-67 and...

What is more interesting? Who is more interested in finding it out? Are you more tired now? Hope not!

Hi class!

As you can see in the title name -ed and -ing adjectives form their comparative -and also superlative form by adding "more and most" regardless the number of pronounced syllables.

Can you help me decide if these sentences on the use of comparative structures is true or false? See the examples below to help you decide.

One- syllable adjectives add -er and -est to form the compartative and the superlative.

The number of syllables depends on the spelling, not the pronunciation.

Some common adjectives of quality and quantifiers have irregular comparative and superlative forms.

When two adjectives are compared more is used.

When the first part of a compound adjective is another adjective or an adverb, this first element is used to form the comparative and the superlative.

The comparatives and superlatives of compound adjectives are usually formed by putting more, most in front of the adjective.

Past participle adjectives require more and most.

Two or more syllable adjectives form their comparative and superlative forms by...


And now...

Adjective Comparative Superlative

1 NICE Nicer than. The nicest

2 INTELLIGENT More intelligent The Most intelligent

3 TIRED More tired. The Most tired

4 CLEVER/NARROW/SIMPLE. Cleverer- more clever. Cleverest/most clever
Simpler-more simple Simplest/most simple
Narrower-more narrow. Narrowest/most narrow

5. I was more angry than frightened.

6. good/ bad/much-many/little/old. Better. Best . Worse. Worst. More. most
Less. least. Elder -relatives only- Eldest.


7 Unhappy. Unhappier-more unhappy. Unhappiest-Most unhappy.


8.Nerve-racking. More nerve-racking. Most nerve-racking.


9.Good-looking. Well-paid. Better-looking/better-paid. Best-looking/best-paid.

CORRECT ANSWERS IN BOLD! Bored? Boring? Challenging enough? Describing...

Remember the difference between bored and boring?
1.Look at these sentences from the podcast Viva España:

Well, I am afraid I’m very boring…
And we had a day in Seville which was quite interesting, wasn’t it?
I was surprised about the fact that you are able to smoke in Spain.
I was disappointed with the graffiti.
It was very disappointing to see so much graffiti everywhere.
My first view of the Alhambra in Granada was absolutely amazing.

Remember: the thing you are talking about is -ing. The book is boring.
How you feel about things is –ed. I’m bored because the book is boring!

2.Now decide if the correct adjective is –ing or –ed.

There was a lot of building work everywhere which was annoying / annoyed.

But it was pleasing / pleased to see so many flowers, everywhere looked
very colourful.

I was astonishing / astonished by the number of olive trees in Andalucía.

It amazing / amazed us how expensive the beers were, Madrid is much more
expensive now.

Everyday was different so we were never boring / bored.

The weather wasn’t always good, it was a bit depressing / depressed when
it rained.

Jackie was fascinating / fascinated by the decorative tiles, especially in the
Alhambra.

We were shocking / shocked when we realized we had taken over 1,000
photographs during the holiday!

It was amusing / amused to see the little girls dressed up in their flamenco
outfits.

It was so relaxing / relaxed to spend the day on the beach