четверг, 31 декабря 2015 г.

Happy New Year & Merry Christmas!!!;)
On this New Year I wish that you have a superb January, a dazzling February, a Peaceful March, an anxiety free April, a sensational May, and Joy that keeps going from June to November, and then round off with an upbeat December ;)
 

понедельник, 28 декабря 2015 г.

Extra Lessons! Be Ready for Your Exam!
Today was the 1st Extra Lesson at 11.00.
On Tuesday, December, 29, 2015 at 11.00. you are welcome to take another Extra Lesson!

And here is "Be Ready for Your Exam! Part 1" if you wish to practise at home:


1. Read the text and decide if the statements are True or False.
The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her family in east Tennessee and she was seizing every chance to change Bailey’s mind. Bailey was her son she lived with, her only son. He was sitting on the edge of his chair at the table, bent over the orange sports section of the Journal. “Now look here, Bailey,” she said, “see here, read this,” and she stood with one hand on her thin hip and the other rattling the newspaper at his bald head...
Bailey didn’t look up from his reading so she wheeled around then and faced the children’s mother; a young woman in slacks, whose face was broad and innocent as a cabbage and was tied with a green handkerchief that had two points on the top like rabbit’s ears. She was sitting on the sofa, feeding the baby apricots out of a jar.
“The children have been to Florida before,” the old lady said. “You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be abroad. They have never been to east Tennessee."
The children’s mother didn’t seem to hear her but the eight-year-old boy, John Wesley, a stocky child with glasses, said, “If you don’t want to go to Florida, why don’t you stay at home?" He and the little girl, June Star, were reading the funny papers on the floor.

* slacks - штани

1. The children had already gone to Florida.
2. Bailey was reading the sports section.
3. The grandmother wanted to visit her friends.
4. The grandmother had only one son.
5. The mother  fed the child apples.
6. The children’s mother was big and interesting like a cabbage.
7. The grandmother was excited to go to Florida.
8. John Wesley was eight years old.
9. June Star is the grandmother’s granddaughter.
10. John Wesley is very thin.

2. Add a suitable question tag to each sentence.
E x a m p l e : They helped you, didn’t they?
1. He lived there ,__________ ?
2. You don’t like sugar,__________ ?
3. She has finished the work ,__________ ?
4. She is too young, __________ ?
5. They didn’t see you, _______ ?
6. It fell down, _______?
7. You can help him, _______ ?
8. They aren’t learning English, ________ ?
9. He won’t come home, _______?
10. We liked coffee,__________ ?
11. You weren’t there,_________?
12. She couldn’t do it , _________?

3. Put the verbs in brackets into the Past Simple, Present Perfect or Present Perfect Continuous tense forms.
1. ‘I______ (to change) my job.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I ____  (not to like) the hours.’
2. ‘Look – I _____ (to find) some information.’ ‘Where _____  (to find) you _____ it?’
3. Michael _____ already ( to lose) his new watch.
4. The company _____ (to lose) a lot of money last year.
5. _____ Alex _____ (to speak) to the teacher yet?
6. It __________ (to snow) since Friday.
7. You can have the book. I _______(to flnish) it.
8. I _________ (to study) physics for 5 years.
 
Hearty Thanks, my dear Students, for your great work on Christmas and New Year Wall-papers!









вторник, 8 декабря 2015 г.

PRACTISE YOUR GRAMMAR BEFORE THE TEST.

Past Perfect Simple and Past Perfect Continuous

Use on-line exercises. They are easy to do and you can check them at once ;)
 Past Perfect Simple \ Continuous Ex. 1

Past Perfect Simple \ Continuous Ex. 2 
 

понедельник, 7 декабря 2015 г.

LEARN YOUR GRAMMAR

REPORTED SPEECH

in English 
 


in Russian:

вторник, 1 декабря 2015 г.

Revise Your Grammar



General Questions
Also known as "Yes/No questions" because a short answer (yes or no) is expected. This kind of question is formed by putting an auxiliary verb before the subject (=inversion).

For example:

A: Are you from Greece?
B: Yes, I am / No, I am not
A: Was she at home yesterday?
B: Yes, she was / No, she wasn't.

Special Questions
They ask for details (we also call them Wh-questions as most of them start with "wh": What? Which? When? Where? Why? Whose? Or: How? How many? How much?). Special questions require inversion.

For example:
-Where are you from? 
-I am from America.

!!! Note: Questions to the subject have the word order of an affirmative sentence.
-Who will buy milk?  
-Who wants some tea?       

Disjunctive questions
Or “question tags” \ “Tag Questions”( at the end of sentence). We use them to show emphasis, politeness, irony or lack of confidence.

Main Clause+comma+ Positive/Negative Aux. Verb + Personal Pronoun.

For example:

-They have just arrived, haven't they?    
-You like her, don't you?

Alternative Questions
They are questions that offer the listener a closed choice between two or more answers. They are formed like Yes/No questions.

For example:

-Would you like eggs, pancakes or waffles?
-Will you come at 3 or at 5 in the evening?
MUST LEARN
 New interesting topic for you, my dear Students!
Print it, read it, work on it and then learn :)

Hobbies
Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting.
Hobbies are divided into four large classes: doing things, making things, collecting things and learning things.
The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, everything from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball.
Gardening is one of the oldest of man’s hobbies. It is a well-known fact that the English are very fond of gardening and growing flowers, especially roses.
Both grown-ups and children are fond of playing different computer games. It is a relatively new hobby but it is becoming more and more popular.
Making things includes drawing, painting, designing costumes, and handicrafts. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill. Some hobbyists write music or play musical instruments. President Bill Clinton, for example, plays the saxophone.
Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, records, CDs, toys, watches. Some collections have no real value. Others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and galleries. People with a lot of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art objects.
No matter what kind of hobby a person had, he always has an opportunity of learning from it. By reading about the things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.