Saturday, 20 July 2013

VOCABULARY



Wordle: Untitled


COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE WORDS GIVEN



  1. Put the ______________ in the drawer.
   2. At the back of my house, I've a __________ for storing things.

   3. My friend has her garden decorated with beautiful ____________. 

   4. Clean the ____________ before you start cooking.

   5. She's got photographs of all her grandchildren on the __________________.

    6.   I've a ____________ made of wood covering the window. 

    7.  We've just had a new __________ laid in our bedroom. 
  
   8. Every evening we sat on  the __________ watching the sun go down.

   9. I've a beautiful statue made of ____________ on the ________________. 

   10. They would like _______________ as wedding presents.

   11. We have had our kitchen's floor covered with ceramic __________________















Saturday, 22 June 2013


Relative clauses.



Relative clauses are short phrases beginning with words such as who, that and which (called relative pronouns) that define or describe people and things.
There are two types: 

  • DEFINING RELATIVE CLAUSES: identify exactly which person or thing we mean. The information is necessary for the sentence to make sense. 
The doctor who treated me told me not to worry. 
In this example there is more than one doctor and we only know which one by the relative clause. We don't use commas in these clauses. 

  • NON DEFINIG RELATIVE CLAUSES:  give extra information. The information is not necessary for the sentence to make sense. To show this in writing we use commas. 
 Pablo Picasso, who died in 1974, was a painter and a sculptor. 


RELATIVE PRONOUNS.

  • WHICH/THAT:  In both types of relative clauses we use who for people and which for things.
      Do you know anyone who/that speaks French and Italian? 

      We can not use that in non defining relative clauses. 

      John, who (not that) speaks French and Italian, works as a tourist guide. 

  • WHOSE/WHOM/WHERE:  we use whom in relative clauses instead of his/her/their
       We saw some people. Their car was broken.
       we saw some people whose car was broken. 

      Whom is possible instead of who when it is the object of the verb in the relative clause. 

       The woman whom I wanted to see was away on holiday.
        Where is used in realtive clauses to talk about a place.

        The hotel where we stayed wasn't very clean. 


TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE!



Choose one of the following relative pronouns whowhich or whose from the dropdown menu.
1) I talked to the girl ___________car had broken down in front of the shop.
2) Mr Richards, __________ is a taxi driver, lives on the corner.
3) We often visit our aunt in Norwich ____________ is in East Anglia.
4) This is the girl  ____________comes from Spain.
5) That's Peter, the boy ____________has just arrived at the airport.
6) Thank you very much for your e-mail _____________was very interesting.
7) The man, ___________father is a professor, forgot his umbrella.
8) The children, _____________ shouted in the street, are not from our school.
9) The car, _____________driver is a young man, is from Ireland.
10) What did you do with the money _______________ your mother lent you?
HAPPY LEARNING!

        























Thursday, 20 June 2013

CONDITIONALS






MIXED CONDITIONALS
EXERCISE 1





1)   You ....................(be) tired if you ...................(not/go) to bed soon.

2)   Butter .......................(melt) if you ....................(leave) it out in the sun.

3)   I .................(not/like) it very much if they ..............(give) the job to mark.

4)   I ................(never/get) there on time if I ..................(take) the train.

5)   I .....................(not/meet) up with John if I ....................(stay) at home.

6)   You ..........(have) to work hard if you ..........(want) to pass your English exam.

7)   I ..............(help) you if you .......................(tell) me there was a problem.

8)   I ......................(not/get) so angry with you if you .............(do) more work.

9)   You .................(speak) better English if you .............(do) more homework.

10) I ................(buy) the bigger model if I ..............(can) afford it.





Exercise 2:      Choose a, b or c to complete the sentences

1. If he comes,

  1. we will go to lunch.
  2. we would go to lunch.
  3. we went to lunch.

2. I would buy a new house

  1. if I have a lot of money.
  2. if I win the lottery.
  3. if I inherited a million dollars.

3. If she misses the bus,

  1. I take her to school by car.
  2. I would take her to school by car.
  3. she have to walk.

4. If I had known you were in town,

  1. I would buy you some flowers!
  2. I would have bought you some flowers.
  3. I will buy you some flowers.


5. If he studies a lot,

  1. he might pass the exam.
  2. he would pass the exam.
  3. he is going to pass the exam.

6. I would get a new job

  1. if I was you.
  2. if I am you.
  3. if I were you.

7. He will surely fail his exams

  1. if he not work harder.
  2. unless he begins to study.
  3. if he weren't serious.

8. She would live in New York now

  1. if she stays.
  2. if she had stayed.
  3. if she was to stay.





LISTEN TO THE SONG AND FILL IN THE BLANKS











VERSE:
If God ________ a name, what_________ it be
And would you call it to His face
If _____________ faced with Him in all His glory
What __________ you ask if __________- just one question

REFRAIN:
Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

CHORUS:
What if God _____________

 Just a slob like one of us
Just ______________ on the bus
Trying to make His way home

VERSE:
If God ____________, what would it look like
And _________________  to see
If seeing meant that you _____________ to believe
In things like Heaven and in Jesus and the Saints
And all the Prophets and...

REFRAIN:
Yeah, yeah, God is great
Yeah, yeah, God is good
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

CHORUS:
What _________________ one of us
Just a ___________ like one of us
Just a stranger on the bus
Trying to make His way home

CODA:
Tryin' to make His way home
Back up to Heaven all alone
Nobody callin' on the phone
'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome