четверг, 31 декабря 2015 г.
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:
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.
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
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 :)
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.
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