Teacher Chema
Wednesday 3 February 2021
Have something done (causative have)
Watch this video if you need help to understand the "Causative have" (or "have something done").
Explanations are given in Spanish.
Tuesday 17 September 2019
Countries and Nationalities
Mira esta presentación y repite como en el ejemplo
Podéis aprender aquí vocabulario sobre Countries and Nationalities.
- I'm from Spain
- I'm Spanish
- I speak Spanish
- Where are you from?
Podéis aprender aquí vocabulario sobre Countries and Nationalities.
- http://www.yourchildlearns.com/mappuzzle/europe-puzzle.html
- http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-10860.php
Friday 22 March 2019
Passive Voice & Causative Passive. (Bachillerato)
Hello, everyone!
These are some exercises that will help you get some extra practise on the passive voice and the passive causative.
Passive Voice.
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Transforming the active into the passive voice, here.
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Transforming the passive into the active voice, here.
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Transforming the passive into the passive, start with the
suggested word, here.
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Questions in the passive voice - 1, here.
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Questions in the passive voice - 2, here.
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Different tenses for the passive voice, here.
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Double object: active into passive (start with the
suggested word), here.
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Double object: active into passive (start with Indirect
object), here.
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Passive voice, different tenses, here.
(difficult)
Sunday 27 May 2018
Past Simple for Beginners.
USE
Usamos el Past Simple para hablar del pasado. En español se puede traducir por el pretérito indefinido (I danced – Yo bailé) o el pretérito imperfecto (I danced – yo bailaba) Lo más importante es que es el tiempo en el que contamos las cosas que nos sucedieron, es decir, las narraciones.FORM
Para construir el Past Simple debes saber dos cosas, una buena (good news) y otra mala (bad news):Good News :)
El Past Simple es muy fácil de construir, fíjate bien:
Affirmative*
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Negative**
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Interrogative***
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I danced.
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I didn't dance.
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Did I dance?
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You danced.
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You didn't dance.
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Did you dance?
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He/She/It danced.
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He/She/It didn't
dance.
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Did he/she/it dance?
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We danced.
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We didn't dance.
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Did we dance?
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You danced.
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You didn't dance.
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Did you dance?
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They danced.
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They didn't dance.
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Did they dance?
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** La forma negativa se forma con el auxiliar didn't + infinitive
*** La forma interrogativa se hace con el auxiliar did delante del sujeto
Bad News :|
Además de los verbos regulares existen otros que son irregulares. Se llaman así porque su forma del Past Simple en afirmativa es diferente.Estas formas debes aprenderlas de oído, y cuando digo de oído quiero decir que es mejor aprendarlas escuchándola. Mucha gente se las aprende de memoria leyendo listas de verbos irregulares... y al final no se familiarizan con su pronunciación y no son capaces de entender cuando las escuchan.
To Do es un verbo irregular, y su Past Simple es Did. Pero solo para la forma afirmativa (Don't panic!), fíjate bien:
Affirmative*
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Negative**
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Interrogative***
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I did some
homework.
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I didn't do any
homework.
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Did I do any homework?
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You did some
homework.
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You didn't do any
homework.
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Did you do any
homework?
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He/She/It did
some homework.
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He/She/It didn't do
any homework.
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Did he/she/it do any
homework?
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We did some
homework.
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We didn't do any
homework.
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Did we do any
homework?
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You did some
homework.
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You didn't do any
homework.
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Did you do any
homework?
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They did some
homework.
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They didn't do any
homework.
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Did they do any
homework?
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LET'S PRACTICE
Puedes aprender pronunciación de verbos regulares e irregulares rapeando con Fluency MC:IRREGULAR VERBS RAP:
-ED Pronunciation
Con éste aprenderás las a pronunciar bien todos los verbos regulares en past simple cuando acaban en -ED.
Wednesday 4 April 2018
Modal Verbs: Ability. Advice, Necessity and Obligation. Possibility and Certainty.
Hi, everyone! We're going to revise the form and use of modal verbs.
Form.
The first thing we have to know is the type of modal verbs there are:
Pure modals
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Semi-modals
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can
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be able to
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could
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may
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have better
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might
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must
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have to
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shall
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should
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ought to
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will
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would
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need ***
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need to
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The pure modals are used just exactly as the auxiliary verbs in the sentence word order.
Subject
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Modal / Auxiliary
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Verb
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Object
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Manner, place and time
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You
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shouldn't
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be
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so stressed
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for driving
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You
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needn't
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drive
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to school
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I
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can
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give
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you
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a lift
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Their main difference is that pure modals are invariable forms, that is, we can't use them in the past or future forms.
Instead, the semi-modals can be used in the past, future and the rest of tenses too.
Use.
For understanding the meaning and use of the modal verbs we can establish different uses: ability; advice, necessity, and obligation; possibility and certainty.Ability
We express ability by means of the modals can and could and the semi-modal be able to.Here a presentation to learn more about the modals of ability:
Exercises:
- http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/modal-verbs-of-ability-exercise-1.html
- http://usefulenglish.ru/grammar/modal-verbs-exercise-one
- http://www.learnenglish-online.com/grammar/modals/tests/modalability.html
Advice, necessity, and obligation
For expressing advice we have the modals:- should
and ought to
(ought to
isn't
usually used in
the negative and
interrogative form)
to express advice.
- need to
to express necessity (only in the affirmative form).
- needn't
(without to)
and the don't/doesn't have to
are used to make
clear there's no need
to do something.
- must and
have to
express obligation.
- mustn't
for expressing prohibition (obligation
of not doing)
- Advice
Exercises:
- Necessity
Exercises:
- Obligation
Exercises.
Possibility and certainty
The modal verbs we use to express possibility and certainty are may, might, can, could, must- to express possibility
in the present or the future we may
(may not),
might
(mightn't)
and could.
- To express logical
deduction we use must
(in the affirmative form) or can't
(in the negative form).
- When we are sure
something is true we use must.
- When we are sure
something is impossible we use can't.
Exercises:
Thursday 25 January 2018
Reported Speech (Revision and Exercises)
Hi, there!
It's time to revise "Reported speech". The basic idea is that you use 'Reported Speech' (or estilo indirecto in Spanish) for telling what other people told.
Here is a video you should watch because it offers many examples of tense shift.
You could practise the reported speech with the following exercises.
- Mixed Tense Reported Statement Exercise
- Present Simple Reported Yes/No Question Exercise
- Present Simple Reported Wh Question Exercise
- Mixed Tense Reported Question Exercise
- Reported Requests and Orders Exercise
- Reported Speech Mixed Exercise 1 (difficult)
- Reported Speech Mixed Exercise 2 (difficult)
Here's a bunch of exercises to practise reporting verbs.
Tuesday 9 May 2017
Obligation and Advice in the song “Should I Stay or Should I go?: Have (got) to / Should
With this activity you can learn the use of the modal verbs HAVE (GOT) TO and SHOULD:
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We use SHOULD to express ADVICE.
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We use HAVE TO to express OBLIGATION in written and oral
communication. But we usually use HAVE GOT TO in oral communication,
for example in song.
So it's very common to find HAVE GOT TO in many different versions, as they appear above:
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have got to = 've got to = got to = gotta
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have got to = 've got to = got to = gotta
Remember that have got to can appear in different versions.
Here is the official video by band who sings it: The Clash.
These are the answers for the activity.
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