Archive for April 2015
Contrast clauses
Posted 28/04/2015
on:Dear students,
As promised, here are the exercises about the contrast connectors and clauses.
But first, you can consult the information HERE.
Then, you can do a worksheet…
Or ONLINE EXERCISES.
Good work! 🙂
PS: the resolution of the exercises on the worksheet are in the comment section.
Oral assignments – 10th J
Posted 26/04/2015
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Dear students,
These are the topics for the oral assignments. Sign up by making a comment to this post.
Please check the comments before you choose the topic, in order to see if they have been already chosen.
1. Technology affects our life in many ways.
1.1. Show how technology affects family life, positively and/or negatively baring in mind the household chores (cooking, dusting, cleaning…), the free time, family relationships, travel… (6th May – 2 groups)
1.2. Analyze the benefits and/or drawbacks of technology in education and the effects of computer-based lessons and other technological resourses, digital devices in class (cell phones, minidisc players, portable games…), the student-student relationships, research, students’ autonomy… (8th May – 2 groups)
1.3. Analyze the social changes brought by technology and its impact in community life in what concerns the way people experienced life about 10 years ago (talk to your parents), the way people behave and/or interact with one another, the way people spend their free time… (11th May – 2 groups)
2. Space exploration: Should so much money be spent on space exploration? Present your opinion on this matter, baring in mind the general information about space exploration and present some arguments for and some arguments against (13th May)
3. Social networks play a very important role in people’s lives. Present your opinion on the way or ways they can affect social and family life. (18th May – 2 groups)
4. Internet was one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century changing our life in many ways. Present the social consequences of the Internet use. (20th May – 2 groups)
5. The world is divided by the Internet use. Make a research, present the consequences of the called “Digital Divide” and point out some solutions for this problem. (22nd May – 2 groups)
6. Think about the dangers of cyberspace and present some problems people may have when using the Internet (e.g. loss of privacy, hacking, virus, spam, security…) (27th May – 2 groups)
Good work!!! 😉
Oral assignments – 10th F
Posted 26/04/2015
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Dear students,
These are the topics for the oral assignments. Sign up by making a comment to this post.
Please check the comments before you choose the topic, in order to see if they have been already chosen.
1. Technology affects our life in many ways.
1.1. Show how technology affects family life, positively and/or negatively baring in mind the household chores (cooking, dusting, cleaning…), the free time, family relationships, travel… (4th May-2 groups)
1.2. Analyze the benefits and/or drawbacks of technology in education and the effects of computer-based lessons and other technological resourses, digital devices in class (cell phones, minidisc players, portable games…), the student-student relationships, research, students’ autonomy… (6th May – 2 groups)
1.3. Analyze the social changes brought by technology and its impact in community life in what concerns the way people experienced life about 10 years ago (talk to your parents), the way people behave and/or interact with one another, the way people spend their free time… (11th May – 2 groups)
2. Space exploration: Should so much money be spent on space exploration? Present your opinion on this matter, baring in mind the general information about space exploration and present some arguments for and some arguments against (13th May – 1 group)
3. TV plays a very important role in people’s lives. Present your opinion on the way or ways it can affect social and family life. (13th May)
4. Internet was one of the most significant inventions of the 20th century changing our life in many ways. Present the social consequences of the Internet use. (14th May – 2 groups)
5. The world is divided by the Internet use. Make a research, present the consequences of the called “Digital Divide” and point out some solutions for this problem. (20th May)
6. Think about the dangers of cyberspace and present some problems people may have when using the Internet (e.g. loss of privacy, hacking, virus, spam, security…) (21th May- 2 groups)
Good work!!! 😉
3rd Conditional
Posted 26/04/2015
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Dear students, as promised, here is some information and exercises on the 3rd Conditional.
Third Conditional: no possibility
The first conditional and second conditionals talk about the future. With the third conditional we talk about the past. We talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. That is why there is no possibility for this condition. The third conditional is also like a dream, but with no possibility of the dream coming true.
Last week you bought a lottery ticket. But you did not win. 😦
condition | result | |
Past Perfect | WOULD HAVE + Past Participle | |
If | I had won the lottery | I would have bought a car. |
Notice that we are thinking about an impossible past condition. You did not win the lottery. So the condition was not true, and that particular condition can never be true because it is finished. We use the past perfect tense to talk about the impossible past condition.
We use WOULD HAVE + past participle to talk about the impossible past result. The important thing about the third conditional is that both the condition and result are impossible now.
Look at some more examples in the tables below:
IF | condition | result |
past perfect | WOULD HAVE + past participle | |
If | I had seen Mary | I would have told her. |
If | Tara had been free yesterday | I would have invited her. |
If | they had not passed their exam | their teacher would have been sad. |
If | it had rained yesterday | would you have stayed at home? |
If | it had rained yesterday | what would you have done? |
result | IF | condition |
WOULD HAVE + past participle | past perfect | |
I would have told Mary | if | I had seen her. |
I would have invited Tara | if | she had been free yesterday. |
Their teacher would have been sad | if | they had not passed their exam. |
Would you have stayed at home | if | it had rained yesterday? |
What would you have done | if | it had rained yesterday? |
Source: http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-conditional_4.htm
Here are some links to online exercises:
Exercice 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4
And REPHRASING exercises!
And More!
Good work!!!! 😉