Games at the beach. June 2011

Blue Week 2011

Using computers and an Interactive Whiteboard to practice English

Immediate Future - Going to

Going to future expresses a conclusion regarding the immediate future or an action in the near future that has already been planned or prepared.

Form of going to Future

	positive	negative	question
I	I am going to speak.	I am not going to speak.	Am I going to speak?
you / we / they	You are going to speak.	You are not going to speak.	Are you going to speak?
he / she / it	He is going to speak.	He is not going to speak.	Is he going to speak?

Use of going to Future

• an action in the near future that has already been planned or prepared
  example: I am going to study harder next year.
• a conclusion regarding the immediate future
  example: The sky is absolutely dark. It is going to rain.

Signal Words

• in one year, next week, tomorrow

Daily Routines activity

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Past Simple: Irregular verbs I

Past Simple of Irregular verbs: An Easy Approach.

Affirmative sentences.

We know that we can talk in past simple tense just adding an -ED at the end of the verb. (listen -> listened).
This rule works for the 99,99% of the verbs in English Language.
BUT
There are some verbs that DON'T FOLLOW this rule. They are called Irregular Verbs.
Irregular verbs make the Past Simple changing the verb in present into another word, sometimes a very different one.

Here you have some examples of some Irregular verbs (there are many others).

Castellano	Present Simple	Past Simple
Ir	Go	Went
Dar	Give	Gave
Decir	Say	Said
Tener	Have/has	Had
Ser / Estar	Am / is / are	Was / were
Hacer	Do /does	Did

Notice: You can't apply the regular verb rule to the irregular verbs. That won't have any sense  and English people won't understand you at all. 

For example:

Present: I go home

Past:       I went home

We can't say: I goed home. We can't add -ED at the end of an irregular verb, that would be a mistake.

If we want to make negative or interrogative sentences using irregular verbs, we do it as we do in the regular verbs, using "didn't" and "Did __ ?" and the verb in present. That doesn't change.

You can watch this video and learn even more irregular verbs.

Past Simple Regular Verbs

Past Simple, regular verbs

Affirmative
Subject	verb + ed
I	washed
Negative
Subject	did not	infinitive
They	didn't	visit ...
Interrogative
Did	subject	infinitive
Did	she	arrive...?

Examples: to walk, simple past.

Pronoun	Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
I	I walked home	II didn't walk home.	Did you walk home?
he, she, it	He walked home	He didn't walk home	Did he walk home?
you, we, they	They walked home.	They didn't walk home.	Did you walk home?

Note: For the negative and interrogative form of all verbs in the simple past, always use the auxiliary 'did''.
Affirmative video.            Negative video.              Interrogative video.

Present Continuous for 5th Grade students

Present Continuous

In Present continuous you have to use the verb "to be" with the action verb, adding an -ing suffix to the end of the action.

We use Present Continuous when we're talking about something happening NOW.

For example:

Ell està jugant a futbol -> He is playing football
Ell no està jugant a futbol. -> He isn't playing football
Ell està jugant a futbol? -> Is he playing football?

Use:

• am with the personal pronoun I
• is with the personal pronouns he, she or it (or the singular form of nouns)
• are with the personal pronouns you, we, they (or the plural form of nouns)

Pronoun	Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
I	I am playing.	I am not playing.	Am I playing?
he, she, it	He is playing.	He isn't playing.	Is he playing?
you, we, they	You are playing.	You aren't playing.	Are you playing?

Notice that you can use "is not" or "isn't" and "are not" or "aren't". It's the same thing.
Present Continuous is also called "Present Progressive".

Conversational widget

You can practice your English with this conversational bot. It's a Chatbot, ready to answer your sentences and questions. Please, be kind with her, it's a female device.


This is another example of Chatbot:

Carnaval 2011.

Telling the Time in English

Asking for the time: What's the time?  or What time is it?

For answering this question,

Say the minutes first and then the hours. Use past and the preceding hour for minutes 01 through 30. Use to and the forthcoming hour for minutes 31 through 59, but .

Example: 7.20 - twenty minutes past seven

Example: 7.40 - twenty minutes to eight

The way of saying '15 minutes past' is: a quarter past
The way of saying '15 minutes to' is: a quarter to

Instead of '30 minutes past' we say: half past

Example: 5:30 - half past five

Watch

Note

Use o'clock only at the full hour.

You can watch this video for more help and do the online activities about "the time" to practice.

You can work with this activity.

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Dia de la pau 2011

Tracking Barcelona World Race Regatta

Present Simple Verb To Be

The verb to be means "ser" o "estar" in Spanish.
You can practice the present simple of the verb to be using this activity.

zonaClic - actividades - To be