Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Blue Week 2011

Monday, May 16, 2011

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

 positivenegativequestion
II am going to speak.I am not going to speak.Am I going to speak?
you / we / theyYou are going to speak.You are not going to speak.Are you going to speak?
he / she / itHe 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

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Friday, April 1, 2011

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.

Monday, March 21, 2011

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.

 PronounAffirmativeNegativeInterrogative
II walked homeII didn't walk home.Did you walk home?
he, she, itHe walked homeHe didn't walk homeDid he walk home?
you, we, theyThey 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.