Sunday, August 31, 2014

Wh Questions Activities

Try to develop the next worksheets to apply the last lesson:




https://www.google.com.co/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi&ei=yKADVKG2HYWyggTs14HwBA&ved=0CAQQqi4oAg

Wh Questions


WH-QUESTIONS




Are used to obtain more information on a topic using the following interrogative words


When? ; ¿Cuándo?

 Where? ; ¿Donde?

Who? ;¿Quién?

Why? ; ¿Por qué?

How? ;  ¿Cómo?

What? ;  ¿Qué?

With WH-QUESTIONS,
you can obtain information about:

Time; Tiempo

 Place ;Lugar

 Person ; Persona

 Reason ; Razon

 Manner; Manera

 Object/Idea/Action ; Objeto/Idea/Accion


In other words can also be used to ask the specific information:

Which one?

Whose?

Whom?

How much?

How many?

How long

How often?

How far?


 What kind (of)? Choice of alternatives

 Possession

 Person (objective formal)

 Price, amount (non-count)

 Quantity (count)

 Duration

 Frequency

 Distance Description


How did you go to school? I went to school by car.
What time did you get up this morning? I got up at 7 o'clock.
What did you watch on TV last night? I watched a
fantastic film.


http://www.buenastareas.com/ensayos/Wh-Questions/2547827.html

Adjectives

ADJECTIVES
                                                                 https://www.google.com.co/search?q=past+simple+activities&source=lnms&tb


Appearance Adjectives
adorable
beautiful
clean
drab
elegant
fancy
glamorous
handsome
long
magnificent
old-fashioned
plain
quaint
sparkling
ugliest
unsightly
wide-eyed

Color Adjectives
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
purple
gray
black
white

Condition Adjectives
alive
better
careful
clever
dead
easy
famous
gifted
helpful
important
inexpensive
mushy
odd
powerful
rich
shy
tender
uninterested
vast
wrong

Feelings (Good) Adjectives
agreeable
brave
calm
delightful
eager
faithful
gentle
happy
jolly
kind
lively
nice
obedient
proud
relieved
silly
thankful
victorious
witty
zealous

Shape Adjectives
broad
chubby
crooked
curved
deep
flat
high
hollow
low
narrow
round
shallow
skinny
square
steep
straight
wide

Size Adjectives
big
colossal
fat
gigantic
great
huge
immense
large
little
mammoth
massive
miniature
petite
puny
scrawny
short
small
tall
teeny
teeny-tiny
tiny

Time Adjectives
ancient
brief
early
fast
late
long
modern
old
old-fashioned
quick
rapid
short
slow
swift
young

Taste/Touch Adjectives
bitter
delicious
fresh
greasy
juicy
hot
icy
loose
melted
nutritious
prickly
rainy
rotten
salty
sticky
strong
sweet
tart
tasteless
uneven
weak
wet
wooden
yummy

Touch Adjectives
boiling
breeze
broken
bumpy
chilly
cold
cool
creepy
crooked
cuddly
curly
damaged
damp
dirty
dry
dusty
filthy
flaky
fluffy
freezing
hot
warm
wet

http://english-primary-3rd-cycle.wikispaces.com/-+Adjectives.+01+Opposites



Match Opposites

Match the words which have opposite meanings (antonyms) to each other by drawing a line between them.

Right              Down
Big                No
Happy              Closed
Slow               Expensive
Yes                Left
Negative           Go
Up                 Fast
Off                Sad
Cheap              Old
Open               On
Stop               Positive
Young              Small


HERE IS THE LINK OF A PAGE IN WHICH YOU CAN FOUND A ADJECTIVES GAME




Past Simple Activities.




Write 8 sentences in past simple, which match with the last picture. 

1._________________________________________
2._________________________________________
3._________________________________________
4._________________________________________
5._________________________________________
6._________________________________________
7._________________________________________
8._________________________________________


Fun Stuff

Funny English Words
https://www.google.com.co/search?hl=es&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=136


The English language is full of weird, strange and unusual words that are either rarely used or have gone completely out of fashion.

Anencephalous - Absence of a brain.
Borborygmus - Stomach rumbling.
Brouhaha - An uproar or noisy response.
Canoodle - Hugging and kissing.
Cantankerous - Bad tempered or grumpy.
Crudivore - Someone who eats raw food.
Discombobulate - To confuse someone.
Doozy - Something really good.
Fartlek - A training system for runners.
Flummox - To perplex or bewilder.
Gobbledygook - Meaningless or nonsensical language.
Kerfuffle - A mild scandal, commotion or fuss.
Klutz - A clumsy or foolish person.
Lickety-split - As quickly as possible.
Lollygag - To dawdle or spend time aimlessly.
Mollycoddle - To treat someone leniently.
Pratfall - A fall on the buttocks or an embarrassing action.
Rambunctious - Uncontrollably excitable or exuberant.
Shenanigan - Silly behaviour.
Skullduggery - Deception or trickery


Palindromes

 http://www.bingocardcreator.com/bingo-cards/english-language/palindromes

Palindromes are words, phrases or even numbers that can be read the same way, no matter the direction

Eye
Pop
Noon
Level
Radar
Kayak
Rotator
Evil olive.
Mirror rim.
Stack cats.
Doom mood.
Rise to vote sir.
Step on no pets.
Never odd or even.
A nut for a jar of tuna.
No lemon, no melon.
Some men interpret nine memos.
Gateman sees name, garageman sees nametag

Tongue Twisters

http://blocs.xtec.cat/marenglish/2011/03/12/2nd-b-tongue-twister-chocolate-and-chicken-in-the-kitchen/

She sells seashells on the seashore.

Flash message. Flash message.

Mix a box of mixed biscuits with a boxed biscuit mixer.

A proper copper coffee pot.

I saw Esau sitting on a seesaw. Esau, he saw me.

Toy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.

Lovely lemon liniment.

Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.

Good blood, bad blood.

Three free throws.The instinct of an extinct insect stinks.
Comical economists. Comical economists.
Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches?

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

One-One was a racehorse.
Two-Two was one, too.
When One-One won one race,
Two-Two won one, too.

http://www.funenglishgames.com/funstuff.html

SOME WORKSHEET GAMES




http://www.funenglishgames.com/worksheets.html

Past Simple Tense

PAST SIMPLE



http://blog.educastur.es/bloggeoing/2013/03/11/2%C2%BA-nb-unit-8-past-simple-ii/

FORM 
To form the simple past regular verbs, add the ending "ed" to the verb. 
The form is the same for all persons (I, you, he, she, it, we, they)

want - wanted
learn - learned
stay -stayed
walk - walked
show - showed

Exceptions

For verbs that end in an "e", just add "-d"

change - changed
believe - believed

If the verb ends in a short vowel and a consonant (except 'and' or 'w'), double the final consonant.

Stop -stopped 
commit - committed

With verbs that end in a consonant and one "and" changes "and" by an "i".

study - studied
try - tried

STRUCTURE

Affirmative sentences

Subject+ main verb (past) 

She was at the doctor
I wanted to dance
He learned english

Negative sentences 

Subject + to be  (past) + not

I wasn't with you last week 
They weren't at the party

Subject + auxiliary verb (to do, past) + not + main verb

I didn't pay the bill
She didn't cook the meat

Interrogative Sentences 

To be (past) + Subject

Were they at the soccer match?
Was he in your house last night?

Auxiliary verb (to do, past) + Subject + main verb

Did they go to the cinema yesterday?
Did you play tennis at high school?

USES 

The simple past is used to talk about a concrete action that began and ended in the past. In this case it is equivalent to the indefinite preterit Spanish. 

1.Generally, we use it with adverbs of time as 'last year', 'yesterday',
 'last night'...
Kate worked last Saturday

2.The simple past for a series of actions used in the past
I received the good news and immediately called my husband

3.We also use it for repeated or habitual action in the past, 
the preterit imperfect Spanish can be used.
We always traveled to Cancun for vacation when we were young

4.We use it to stories or actions in periods of long in the past, such as the preterit

 imperfect Spanish.
 I worked for many years in a museum

5.Used to talk about general information or facts of the past.
The Aztec lived in Mexico



http://blog.educastur.es/bloggeoing/2013/03/11/2%C2%BA-nb-unit-8-past-simple-ii/