LISTENING

REGULAR VERBS

Regular verbs

1.    Complete the sentences with the Past simple of the verbs in the box

/ˈɡrædʒueɪt/       /ˈstʌdi/         /tʃeɪndʒ/         /traɪ/            /stɑrt/        /daɪ/         /wɜrk /         /end/        /lɪv/         /help/        /wɔk/

a.   My brother _______ last year. He was at Glasgow University.

b.   The Second World War _______ in 1939, and ________ six years later, in 1945.

c.   Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ' n ' Roll,_______in 1977.

d.   There were no more buses, so I ________home.

e.   When I was at school, my parents often________ me with my homework.

f.     I ________ French when I was at school, but I don't remember very much now.

g.   I ________ to phone you last night, but there was no answer.

h.   When he was a young musician, Reg Dwight _______ his name to Elton John.

i.     The composer Chopin was born in Poland, but he _______ in France for many years.

j.     I _______ in cinema for a big computer company in the nineties.

SPELLING OF-ED ENDINGS

Spelling of -ed endings

 Read the phonetic spelling and write the Past simple tense of the verbs 

a  like /laɪk/ ___________

b enjoy /ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/ ___________

c travel / ˈtrævəl/ ___________

d study / ˈstʌdi/ ___________

e look  /lʊk/  ___________

f. dance  /dæns /  ___________

9 play /pleɪ/ ___________

h believe  /bəˈliv / ___________

i arrive  /əˈraɪv/  ___________

j fly  /flaɪ/ ___________

k receive  /rɪˈsiv/  ___________

l. stay  /steɪ/

AMELIA STORY

AMELIA EARHART

(American, 1898-1937)

The first woman pilot to fly the Atlantic Ocean

1.   Complete the text about Amelia Earhart, using the correct form of the verbs

Seventy years ago, Amelia Earhart (1)  was (be) America's favourite woman. In 1932, she (2)______ (tly) across the Atlantic Ocean alone: the first woman to do this. Her Journey (3)______ (start) in Newfoundland, Canadá: fifteen hours later, her Lockheed Vega airplane

(4) ______(arrive) in Londonderry. Ireland. People all over the world (5) ______(want) to meet this incredible woman. She (6) ______ (meet) King George V of England and (7)______ (become) friends with the US President, Frankiin D. Roosevelt.

The American people (8)______(love) her. Five years later, Amelia (9)______ (try) to fly around the world. An American University (10)_______ (give) her $50,000 for a new Lockheed Electra airplane. On the morning of July 2nd 1937, Amalia and her co-pilot, Fred Noonan (11)______ (leave) Lae, in New Guinea, and (12)______ (begin) their joumey to Howland island in the Pacific Ocean.

On July 3rd 1937. the American ship Itasca (13)_______ (receive) a radio mess-age from Amelia: a few minutes later her plane (14)______ (disappear). American ships (15)_______ (spend) nearly two weeks looking for the plane, but they (16)_______(find) nothing.

BINGO GAME

IRREGULAR VERBS BINGO

VOCABULARY

Irregular verbs

1. students are going to play a bingo game with irregular verbs

2. each student have a bingo card with some verbs in past simple form.

3.  students check the irregular verbs in present and past form and practice making sentences using the verbs that they have.

4. teacher  has the verbs in a bag, they are written in present tense then  the teacher picks up one paper with a verb and show  it to her/his students

5 students who have the verb in past tense on their bingos card have to cross it off  and make a sentence, a negative sentence or a question in past form using the verb choosen by the teacher. -This depends on what the teacher make students do-.

6. the winner student is who has completed bingo card.or who has completed the letter given by the teacher. This letters could be: X, an L, or a M as a usual bingo game.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY

If you want you can include the USED TO topic and practice with the students. The teacher makes students to ask questions, or make negatives and affirmative sentences in written or oral way.

PRACTICE VOCABULARY

SINGING PRACTICE

/lʊkhwɑːtjuːvdʌn/
_______my photo ________the wall
If it _______won't ________for you.

'Cause all that's left _________away
And there's ______therefor you to ______.

Chorus

Oh, look what ______
______a fool of _______

Oh, well, it ______like such ____________you lose what you _______

______me ______my point of view
_______I just can't ______for you.

I can hardly ______you say
What _______I do?
Well, you _______

Chorus

Oh, look what ______
______a fool of _______
Oh, well, it ______like such ____________you lose what you _______


Oh, look what _______
_______a fool of everyone.

A fool of everyone (x2)
_______my photo ______the wall
If it _______won't _______for you.


'Cause all that's left _______away
And there's _______there
for you to _______.

Chorus


Oh, look what ________
________a fool of everyone.

A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone


1./siːms/
2./ ˈevriwʌn/
3. /juːv/dʌn/(x2)
4 / ˈnʌθɪŋ/
5. /ɔːf /
6./fʌn/
7./teɪk/
8./tʃuːz/
9./juːv/meɪd/(x2)
10./hæd/wʌn/
11./dʒʌst/
12./hæz/ɡɔːn /
13/pruːv/
14./ʃʊd/
15. /ʌnˈtɪl/
16./ɡɪv/
17./θɪŋk/

18./ˈkɔːz/
19./sɪŋ/
20./hɪə(r)/
21./bæk/
22./duː/

LOOK WHAT YOU`VE DONE

Takemy photo offthe wall
If it justwon't singfor you.
'Cause all that's left hasgoneaway
And there's nothingthere
for you to prove.

Chorus

Oh, look what you've done
You've madea fool of everyone.

Oh, well, it seemslike such fun
Untilyou lose what you had won.

Giveme backmy point of view
'CauseI just can't thinkfor you.


I can hardly hearyou say
What shouldI do?
Well, you choose

Chorus


Oh, look what you've done
You've madea fool of everyone.

Oh, well, it seemslike such fun
Untilyou lose what you had won.

Oh, look what you've done
You've madea fool of everyone.


A fool of everyone (x2)

Takemy photo offthe wall
If it justwon't singfor you.

'Cause all that's left hasgoneaway
And there's nothingthere
for you todo.

Chorus
Oh, look what you've done
You've madea fool of everyone.

Oh, well, it seemslike such fun
Untilyou lose what you had won.

Oh, look what you've done
You've madea fool of everyone.

A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone

1.Seems/siːm/
2. everyone/ ˈevriwʌn/
3.you've done (x2)/juːv/dʌn/
4 nothing / ˈnʌθɪŋ/
5. Off /ɔːf /
6. fun/fʌn/
7.Take/teɪk/
8. choose/tʃuːz/
9. You've made (x2)/juːv/meɪd/
10. had won /hæd/wʌn/
11.just/dʒʌst/
12.has gone/hæz/ɡɔːn /
13.prove/pruːv/
14. should/ʃʊd/
15. Until /ʌnˈtɪl/
16.Give/ɡɪv/
17.think/θɪŋk/
18.'Cause /ˈkɔːz/
19. Sing/sɪŋ/
20.hear/hɪə(r)/
21. back /bæk/
22. do/duː/

DIPHTHONG

DIPHTHONG SOUNDS

VOWEL SOUNDS CROSSWORD PUZZLE

EXERCISES Z-S

DOMINOES GAME

HOW DO THEY COMPARE?

DOMINOES GAME

Vocabulary

Nouns: watching TV, turtle, rabbit, theatre, cinema,hourglass,alarm clock, cat, lion, woman, girl, candle, light bulb, a glass of wine, a mug of beer, shopping bag, suitcase, credit cards, cheque, fat man , a thin man, fishing, gardening, elephant, mouse, computer, TV, hamburger , apple, playing cards, chess, ET, Titanic, sunny day, snowman, airplane, balloon, drum, violin, soccer, rugby, a building, a house.

1. Review the comparative adjectives using the nouns given and write them on the board giving an example: the building is higher than a house etc.

2. Look up in the dictionary the possible new vocabulary about adjectives

3. Divide the class into groups of four and give them the dominoes game

PLAYING THE GAME

The game it is played in groups of four. Each Player has five dominoes, the game starts when one dominoes is face up and players discard or put their dominoes connecting the figures or pictures. The player who has the correct domino has to make a comparison between figures that he or she has just connected .The first player who discard all of his or her dominoes wins the game.

EXAM

Name:_____________________________teacher

________________Date:___________

1. According to the following information ask and answer the Questions about Sally.

1.    What/  do /at 6:00/?

2.    she/take /bus?

3.    What/have for lunch?

4.    What time/finish/work?

5.    What/usually/do/in the evening?

6.    What time/ go to bed?

Hi, my name is Sally, I usually wake up at 6 o’clock and I get up at 7 o’clock and have a big breakfast. I don’t take a bus, I walk to work, which takes me about half an hour. I start work at 8:45. I never have lunch so I eat a sandwich and drink a soda. At work I write some letters and I finish work at 5 o’clock. After work I go to the supermarket and buy something I’m always tired when I get home. I usually cook a meal in the evening. I don’t usually go out. I drink a glass of milk or I read a book and after I go to bed at about 11 o’clock, and I always sleep well.

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7.    Correct the mistaken sentences, replacing the pronouns by the correct one.

a.Her is a beautiful person  ________________________

b.Us don’t have much time ________________________

c. She told I about the book _______________________

           

d. We see they every morning ________________________

e. Them go to they house _______________________       

• What’s wrong with my computer?

Complete the telephone conversation between Dennis and Vicky with the correct auxiliary verbs. Use contractions. Then listen and check.

D:  Good afternoon. This is the Computer Helpline. My name's Dennis. How can I help you?

V:  Hi I (1) `_m_  having a problem with my computer. It (2) isn`t (not) working.

D:  OK. Please tell me your name and the name of your company and describe what (3)____ wrong.

V:  My name's Vicky, Vicky Marks. I (4)_____ (not) work for a company. I 'm self-employed. I work at home, and I (5) trying to meet an important deadline. This morning I (6) ____working away happily, when suddenly everything stopped and a message carne up on the screen. Then the screen went blank.

D: OK Vicky, (7)_____ (not) worry! What (8)_____the message say?

V: I can't remember exactly, because

 I (9) _____(not) understand it. I think it said something about the computer's memory.

D: That's OK. Tell me, (10) ___ you turn the computer off?

V: No. I (11) ____(not). It's still on.

D:  Good. Now do exactly what I say. Go to your computer, OK? Can you see a W in the top right-hand corner of the screen? Click on that with the mouse.

What (12) ____ it say? Can you read it to me?

V:  There's a list of three things. First it says ...

2 Write questions and answers about the conversation.

1. Vicky / the / is / why / Computer Helpline /calling / ?

Q Why is Vicky calling the Computer Helpline?_______________________

A Because________________________

2. work / for / Vicky / does / company / which / ?

Q________________________________

A She______________________________

3. doing / when / computer / she / her/was / what /stopped / ?

Q________________________________

A She______________________________

4. Vicky/why/remember/message/the/can't/?

Q________________________________

ABecause_________________________

5. turn / computer / she / did / her / off/ ?

A No,____________________________

Making questions

Write the questions. Then write true answers about you.

1. parents / where / were / your / born / ?

Q Where were your parents born?____

A They were born in ..._____________

2. today/what/you/are/wearing/?

Q________________________________

A________________________________

3. living/ you /started / were / where/ when / you / school/?

Q________________________________

A________________________________

4. go / you / where /vacation/ were / d i d / child/when/you/on/a/?

Q________________________________

A________________________________

8.    Pluralization:  Classify and write the following plural’s form.

WIFE – CALF- MAN- FISH- SHEEP- KNIFE- SON WOLF- MOUSE- BOOK- CHILD- HOUSE- WATCH- TEACHER- DISH- PERSON- STUDENT- BOX- TOOTH- CAR- FOX- FOOD- DOG-PENCIL

-VES	-ES	-S	SAME	IRREGULARS

9.    Complete the sentences using some, any, much, many, a little, a few, or a lot of.

1.    Do you have _________brothers or sisters?

2.    Do we need _________olive oil?

3.    Here are ________ letters for you.

4.    I need _________ money

5.    There aren’t _____ __tomatoes left.

6.    Do you have_________ homework?

7.    We don’t need __________eggs.

8.    Is there __________ traffic in your town?

9.    I don’t know _______ students in this class.

10. How _ _________ people live in your house?

11. I have ________ close friends. Two or three-

12. He has ___________ money. He’s  a millionaire

13. Do you take sugar in your coffee? Just ___________. Half a spoonful.

14. Do you have _________ CDs? “Yes, hundreds”.

15. I’ll be ready in ______ minutes.

16. She speaks good Spanish, but only__________ Portuguese.

10. Choose the correct answer: This, that, these, or those.

* How much are (these, this) shoes?

* Can you lend me (that, those) glasses to go out?

* I need help. Can you reach (this, that) shirt for me? Please.

* I like (these, that, this) pants are they on sale?

* (This, These) is a really nice place. Thank you.

WRITING PART

1. Write a paragraph answering the question and use frequency adverbs. How often does your mother do these activities in her daily routine?

Take a shower, eat tacos, go to the movie, watch T.V, work, think, talk on the phone, use a laptop, play WII, go to the supermarket, travel by plane, go to Cartagena, go to the Gym, Have breakfast.

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