Present Simple/Present Continuous

4 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up, recycling vocabulary with flash cards.

2) Grammar: Present Simple/ Present Continuous: Handout:

Present Simple

Spelling:

Pair work activity: Spelling: Sts formed the rules.

1. Verbs ending in the letter ‘y’

marry marries, cry  _______, apply  _______, hurry  _______, try  _______, worry  _______

Exception: if there is a vowel before the -y:
play --> plays, pay --> _____________, enjoy --> _____________, pray--> __________________

2. Verbs ending in ending in: -ss, -x, -sh, -ch

pass passes, fix____________, mix ___________, push  ___________, catch ___________

3. Verbs ending in: -o

go goes, do____________, undo ____________, echo____________

Usage:

Pair work activity: Sts had to form the rules based on bunches of example sentences.

1) Habits

He drinks tea at breakfast. She only eats fish. They watch television regularly.

2) Repeated actions

We catch the bus every morning. It rains every afternoon in the hot season. They drive to Monaco every summer.

3) General truths and facts

Water freezes at zero degrees. The Earth goes around the Sun. Money doesn’t grow on trees.

4) Giving instructions and directions

Open the packet and pour the contents into hot water.

First you roll out the pastry, then you cut circles with a cup or a glass.

You take the bus number 711 to Rossio and then the number 735  to Cidade Universitária.

5) Schedules, timetables and itineraries (travelling, cinema, etc.)

Our flight leaves at 12:30. The train leaves Plymouth at 10:15 and arrives in London at 14:00. Our holiday starts on the 26th March.

Your exam starts at 09.00.

What time does the film begin?

6) After conjunctions: when, after, before if, as soon as, until

I’ll give it to you when you come next Wednesday.

She'll see you before she leaves.

We'll give it to her when she arrives.

7) The following words are normally not used in the continuous.

like, dislike, hate, want, need, prefer, wish know, realise, suppose, mean, remember, recognise, understand, think, recognise belong to, contain, consist, depend on, own, possess, include , have hear, feel, taste, see, smell measure, weigh, cost appear, resemble, seem, be

Present Continuous

Spelling:

Pair work activity: Spelling: Sts formed the rules.

1. Verbs ending in ‘–e’

come coming, move  _______________, write  _______________(!), smile  _______________

Exceptions: words ending in ‘-ee’ : see  seeing, flee    _______________

2. Verbs consisting of one syllable, ending in vowel + consonant 

stop stopping, hit ______________, swim ________________, plan _________________

3. verbs of two syllables, stress on the last syllable, ending in vowel + consonant

commit committing , admit  _______________­_______, refer _______________­_______

4. Verbs ending in -ie

lie lying, die  _________________­________, tie _______________­_________

5. Verbs ending in ‘l’ (BrE)

travel travelling,  marvel _____________________, cancel ______________________

 

Usage:

Pair work activity: Sts had to form the rules based on bunches of example sentences.

1. Actions that are happening at the moment of speaking

We are studying English grammar.

You are using the Internet.

Please do not make so much noise. I’m working.

We cannot go out now. It’s raining.

2. Happening in a period of time around the present moment/ Temporary states and actions

I am reading a very interesting book.

Sophie wants to go to Italy. She is learning Italian now.

Jack is building his own house.

3. Gradual changes

Your English is getting better and better.

More and more people are becoming vegetarian.

The population of the world is rising very fast.

4. With "always, forever, constantly", it is used to describe annoying or frustrating actions

You are always complaining about everything!

You're constantly complaining about your mother-in-law!

Jack and Jill are always arguing!

Mom is always forgetting where she has parked her car, so we usually get home late.

5. Future plans and arrangements

I’m going to the dentist on Tuesday at 10 a.m.

What time are you meeting Ann tomorrow?

What time Jane is arriving tomorrow? What time are you leaving?

At 10:30 I’m meeting her at the station.

  

3) Homework: Unit 1, Unit 2 from Raymond Murphy's Grammar in Use.

The End of Grammar

2 Outubro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Students finished learning about prepositions today, namely time, position and direction prepositions.

Students who missed this class are HIGHLY recommended to go through the prepositions PowerPoint that they were sent at the beginning of the year.

All students are recommended to do the following online exercises to practice their prepositions:

• https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/time_prepositions_1.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/time_prepositions_2.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/position_prepositions_1.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/position_prepositions_2.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/direction_prepositions_1.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/direction_prepositions_2.htm

Following this, we did our first reading exercise.  Those of you who missed the class, are HIGHLY recommended to complete the exercise online:  

http://www.examenglish.com/B1/b1_reading_job_application.htm

Next class: we will be carrying out our first listening exercise and in-class speaking exercise.  If there is enough time, we will do the next reading exercise as well.

Speaking and Listening: Identity

2 Outubro 2019, 12:00 • Zsófia Gombár

1) Warm-up, find your new partner, recycling vocabulary: Matching words with sentences. Vocabulary used: maternal grandfather, single-parent family, widower, (to) be expecting a baby, in his/her mid-twenties, go out with somebody, toddler, (to) take after, (to) make a fortune, extended family

2) Grammar: Revising tenses: Checking homework: Exercise 5, Exercise 6, B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, page 18.

3) Speaking and Listening: Identity, B1.1 Workbook 2019-2020, 19-20.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8tjhVO1Tc

Whose heart...

2 Outubro 2019, 08:00 • Rui Vitorino Azevedo

More Grammar.  Whether we like or not.

30 Setembro 2019, 16:00 • Hilda Alexandra Prazeres Eusebio

Today we learned about WHEN to use:

• the future simple (will vs. be going to)

In class, we completed the following exercises (and you know the score: if you didn't come to class, you should really do these at home):  

• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs18.htm
  

For homework, please complete the following exercises: 

• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs19.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs20.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs21.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs22.htm

We then learned about Location Prepositions.  Those of you who missed this class are HIGHLY encouraged to read the PowerPoint at home (this was emailed to you at the beginning of term) and to do the homework exercises which can be found here:

• https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/location_prepositions_1.htm
• https://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/location_prepositions_2.htm