Saturday, May 23, 2015

Extra materials for revision for 1st Batxillerat

You can find some extra activities (more practice) for both vocabulary and grammar for your exam. You can also find the solutions here (it's a .rar file, so you have to extract it first). Don't forget to practise as much as you can for your exam and good luck! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxk5lrTuhCeVTzBWRXNSSTlUMkk/view?usp=sharing

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Should / Must

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It's Hot Outside

Ten Expressions to Use In Speaking And Writing 
  1. It's nice and warm today. 
  2. It's pretty hot, isn't it? 
  3. We're having a heatwave!
  4.  It's so hot! It must be over 80. 
  5. It's nice in the sun. 
  6. The weather's lovely. 
  7. It's a lovely day. 
  8. It's absolutely boiling! 
  9. It's positively tropical today. 
  10. It's sunny today, isn't it?  
 How To Use These Phrases


1 we often combine 'nice' + 'warm' to be very positive.
2 is useful when the weather is hot - maybe almost too hot.
3 is used when the weather has been very hot for a number of days.
4 This is like 2, so maybe it's almost too hot. Note we use Fahrenheit degrees.
5 is useful even for winter days - in the sun it's nice, but in the shade it may be cold.
6 and 7 are both common general expressions.
8 and 9 are used when the weather is unusually hot.
10 is the most common expression taught in books. It's particularly common with the tag question

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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Reported Speech. Questions

In Reported Speech questions become statements. The tense changes are the same, and we keep the question word -if any.

 ‘Do you like hamburgers?’ Charles asked me if/whether I liked hamburgers.

‘Where are we going?’ I asked Sue where we were going

YES/NO QUESTIONS
  Click here to practise indirect Yes/No questions

WH-QUESTIONS
 
 Click here to practise indirect Wh-questions

REPORTED SPEECH. COMICS






REPORTED SPEECH



1. Uses

We use it to report what another person said, but we don't use exactly the same words.

Direct speech                        Reported speech
'It's a good car.'                      He said it was a good car.
 'I've had it for two years.'      He told me he'd had it for two years.

 We can use both say and tell as reporting verbs.

* If we mention who we're talking to, we use tell + indirect object (me, him, the man, etc.).
               He told me it was a good car.
* If we don't mention who we're talking to, we use say.
  He said it was a good car.
 2. How verbs change in Reported Speech



Direct  Speech (He said,“…’’ )

Indirect Speech (He said (that)...)

Present Simple
She likes dancing
Past Simple
He said (that) she liked dancing.
Present continuous:

“I’m reading”
Past continuous
He said (that) he was reading.
Past Simple

 “They went there”
Past Perfect
He said (that) they had gone there.
Past Continuous

 “I was listening to him”
Past Perfect Continuous
 He said (that) he had been listening to him.
Present Perfect
 I’ve read this book
Past Perfect
She said (that) she had read that book.
Present Perfect Continuous

"We have been working all day."
Past Perfect Continuous
She said they had been working all day.
Past perfect:
I had done it.”
NO CHANGE
He said (that) he had done it.
Future WILL
“I’ll send you a copy.”
WOULD
He promised he would send me a copy.
Future:  am/is/are going to ..
“He is going to sell his house.”
Was/Were going to...
He said (that) he was going to sell his house
Modal: CAN
“You can come if you want.”
Modal: COULD
He said that I could go if I wanted.
Modal: MUST (obligation)
“You must be home before 6pm”
HAD TO
He said that I had to be home before 6pm.
MODAL: MAY
“I may not be at home.”
MODAL: MIGHT
She said (that) she might not be at home.
Modals: would, could, should, might, ought to
It shouldn’t give you any trouble”
NO CHANGE
He said it shouldn’t give me any trouble.



3. Other changes
- Pronouns and possessive adjectives:
“My name’s Lyn” She said her name was Lyn
- this –that (the)
“We’re meeting this evening” They said they were meeting that evening
- these –those
-  here -there
- now –at that time/then
-  today -that day
- tonight -that night
- yesterday -the previous day / the day before
- tomorrow -the following day/the day after/the next day
- next week -the following week
- last night -the previous night / the night before
- two days ago, a week ago, etc. -two days before, the week before, etc.