Thansgiving Day

Click on the history cartoon

          One of the greatest celebrations in the USA is Thanksgiving day. Last Thursday 24th November we were not in class so here we have a link to learn about the festival and revise the use of tenses in the past.

          We can also practise the use of prepositions with this exercise about the Wampanoag people.

Pointing to the FUTURE from the PAST

            Just before starting with the future, let's revise some irregular verbs with these exercises:

• irregular verbs 1
• irregular verbs 2
• irregular verbs 3
• irregular verbs 4

            In unit 3 we are going to express future time. In English we use "will, going to and present continuous" to refer to it . We may learn about the different uses in these links by Isabel Pérez, an experienced teacher and expert in Technology and Communication with English resources :

• Going to
• Will

Past time: Irregular verbs and Past Continuous

Just to check your knowledge of the irregular verbs and the correct use of past simple or continuous:

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• exercise 4
• exercise 5

Review vocabulary to check common mistakes:

• vocabulary 1
• vocabulary 2

What's the weather like? 2

Watch and listen to these people talking about the weather conditions in real situations.

• Then you can practise with this exercise taken from Real English website.
• Here you can study expressions and more vocabulary about the weather in Spanish and English.

What's the weather like? Holidays

          In Unit 2 we are working on the topic holidays, leisure time.When we plan to go out, abroad and travel it is important to know about the weather conditions.

As for grammar, let's practise simple past tense with these exercises:

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3