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Sunday, 30 November 2008
reading, pg 21
(1) clothes company
(2) hip hop
(3) clothes companies
(4) shops
(5) pay
(6) friends
4. Match definitions 1-6 with words in the text on page 20
(1) hunt for
(2) Prototypes
(3) Admiration
(4) Given away
(5) Neighbourhoods
(6) Tactics
5.Read the steps to Reading. Then find extracts 1 and 2 in the text and read them again carefully. Match pronouns 1-5-with A-E
Extract 1 Lines: 3-6
(1) Tommy Hilfiger’s
(2) The rap musicians
Extract 2 Lines: 12-14
(3)Lizz Potts
(4)In the clothes shop
(5)The costumers
Activities pag 16
1. Read the text. Then answer the questions.
It was my birthday, but nobody had mentioned it at school.
My family had given me birthday cards at breakfast, but none of my friends had remembered by the time school finished.
As I walked out of school, I was feeling a little disappointed. I was eighteen, but I didn’t feel special.
Later, I was walking home with my girlfriend when she said that she wanted to go into a café because it was raining. As we walked in, I wasn’t really looking at the people. At first, Jess didn’t say anything, but then she pointed at them. As soon as I looked at them they all shouted, “Surprise”!.
He was eighteen years old.
2. What is the name of his girlfriend?
Her name is Jess.
3. Where did they have dinner?
They had dinner in the café.
2. Look at the table. Which time expressions are not in the text?
Main sequence Before and after
At first after
Next After a while
Then Afterwards
Later Before
In the end Earlier
Duration Simultaneous events
By the time As
until As soon as
When
While
3. Complete the sentences with the correct time expressions.
1. By the time we had finished, it was late.
2. At first I felt lonely, but later I was happy.
3. While we were celebrating, my parents phoned.
4. We started dancing as soon as we arrived. In the end, we were tired.
5. After the party, we talked for hours.
6. Afterwards, everybody went home.
Adjective suffixes
6. Complete the table. Then find words 1-5 in the text on page 20 and check your spelling.
Base form Suffix Adjective
Tactic -al Tactical
Nature Natural
Child Childish
Style -ish Stylish
Success -ful Successful
Faith faithful
Product Productive
Manipulate -ive manipulative
Comfort Comfortable
Fashion -able fashionable
Study Studious
Adventure -ous adventurous
7.Complete each sentence with an appropriate adjective from exercise 6.
1. Leeds didn’t play well. They made some tactical errors.
2. She’s very adventurous. She likes new things and going to different places.
3. He’s made millions of dollars. He’s a successful businessman.
4. He always wears what he likes. He doesn’t care if it isn’t fashionable.
5. I don’t wear make-up – I just want to look natural.
6. That advertising campaign is really manipulative – I refuse to buy their products.
8. Complete the sentences.Change the base from of the words if necessary.
1. This jacket hasn’t got any pockets – it isn’t very useful.
2. Look at my hair. It’s a disaster!
3. These shirts are delicate, but they’re washable.
4. I like that style. It’s so original.
5. The origin of Dr Martens boots is in Germany in the 1940s.
6. Her car is very luxurious.
7. She’s always in the library – she’s very studious
Monday, 10 November 2008
Practice tests unit 1 and unit 2
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Present perfect II
http://www.iesromerovargas.net/~ingles/english/eso4/adverb1.htm
Explanation + 3 exercises
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/upperf.htm
Here you have some more.
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.presper.i.htm
http://perso.wanadoo.es/autoenglish/gr.since.i.htm
5 quick exercises about for, since, already, just, never
http://english.baladre.org/sedaviwebfront/grammarindex.htm#yet
Present Perfect
All the past tensens explained in Spanish, in case you still have trouble understanding tham.
http://www.mansioningles.com/gram40.htm
Exercises: Simple past- present perfect