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Workshop 1 Past participles pronounciation
Here you have a section dedicated to past forms and past participles forms pronunciation. First we are going to check the regular past forms and past participles rules for pronunciation.
Now check the following regular past forms and past participles in their pronunciation groups
The verbs you are going to listen are
ed = / t/ ed=/d/ ed=/ɪd/
Present Past Present Past Present Past
Work / Worked Live / Lived Act / Acted
Watch / Watched Study/ Studied Hate/ Hated
Finish / Finished Move/ Moved Start/ Started
Laugh / Laughed Die / Died Need/ Needed
Wash / Washed Love / Loved End / Ended
Here you have the link to listen to them
http://teachingpodcasts.podomatic.com/player/web/2011-08-03T05_52_34-07_00
Here you have the link to check the pronunciation of irregular past participles adn past forms, the ones that come in the book.
http://teachingpodcasts.podomatic.com/player/web/2011-08-08T11_26_19-07_00
Here you have some more links in internet to study and practice regular and irregular past forms and past participles. Go and check them
http://www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com/english-past-tense-pronunciation.html
http://edu.jccm.es/ies/covarrubias/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=224%3Apronunciation-of-ed-regular-past-and-plural-s-es-&catid=120%3Amateriales-de-ingles&Itemid=75
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/page2.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/page3.shtml
Work shop Module 13
1 Go and check the following link to revew the present perfect simple and continuous grammar.
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro
Then check the following links with exercises
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/exercises?ex10
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/exercises?ex11
Now work out the following tests about present perfect simple and continuous.
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/tests?test1
In this test the grammar part is the same but the final exercise the text is different and good for you to practice reading.
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/tests?test2
2. Now go and practice the following links to practice listening.
http://www.esl-lab.com/dui/duird1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/dui/duisc1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/small/smallrd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/small/smallfra.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/small/smallsc1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/call/911rd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/call/911fra.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/call/911sc1.htm
If you want to practice more listening exercises you can go to the following link:
www.esl-lab.com
3. Go to the following link and do a reading exercise and answer the questions under the text.
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/queen-elizabeth-life.html
4. Writing activity
Go to page 121 Look at the pictures and read the Email Ela Kwasniak has sent to vacation express a summer jobs company and complete the form on page 122 with her information. Then go to the blog and post Your email presenting yourself as a candidate for your ideal job include the format on page 122 filled with your information. This activity should be posted Today October the second by the end of the sesion.
Multimedia sesion workshop
1 Reading exercise
Read the following text about the beatles. Follow the link
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/beatles.html
Go to the cd rom module 15 and work out the crossword on the vocabulary section activity 1.
listen the song imagine from the students book on page 133 track 26 cd 3 and a prepare a little comment to be told in class about the beatles, and the song imagine give your opinions about the beatles and John Lennon as soloist.
2. Grammar focus
1. Go to the following link and read the grammar explanation and follow the links to do the exercises.
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/secondconditional/menu.php/
2. Then go to your cd rom and check in the module 15 the language focus section conditional phrases with would, do the presentation and practice 1 and practice 2.
3. Follow the next links and do the exercises
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/2cond1.htm
4. Go to your workbook and on page 90 do the exercise 3 "might or would" and listen to it and correct it.
and on page 91 exercise 4.
5. Video section
Listen and watch the video, then say what the people in the video would do if they won ten million dollars.
The verbs you are going to listen are
ed = / t/ ed=/d/ ed=/ɪd/
Present Past Present Past Present Past
Work / Worked Live / Lived Act / Acted
Watch / Watched Study/ Studied Hate/ Hated
Finish / Finished Move/ Moved Start/ Started
Laugh / Laughed Die / Died Need/ Needed
Wash / Washed Love / Loved End / Ended
Here you have the link to listen to them
http://teachingpodcasts.podomatic.com/player/web/2011-08-03T05_52_34-07_00
Here you have the link to check the pronunciation of irregular past participles adn past forms, the ones that come in the book.
http://teachingpodcasts.podomatic.com/player/web/2011-08-08T11_26_19-07_00
Here you have some more links in internet to study and practice regular and irregular past forms and past participles. Go and check them
http://www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com/english-past-tense-pronunciation.html
http://edu.jccm.es/ies/covarrubias/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=224%3Apronunciation-of-ed-regular-past-and-plural-s-es-&catid=120%3Amateriales-de-ingles&Itemid=75
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/page2.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1413_gramchallenge26/page3.shtml
Work shop Module 13
1 Go and check the following link to revew the present perfect simple and continuous grammar.
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro
Then check the following links with exercises
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/exercises?ex10
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/exercises?ex11
Now work out the following tests about present perfect simple and continuous.
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/tests?test1
In this test the grammar part is the same but the final exercise the text is different and good for you to practice reading.
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepersim-preperpro/tests?test2
2. Now go and practice the following links to practice listening.
http://www.esl-lab.com/dui/duird1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/dui/duisc1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/small/smallrd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/small/smallfra.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/small/smallsc1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/call/911rd1.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/call/911fra.htm
http://www.esl-lab.com/call/911sc1.htm
If you want to practice more listening exercises you can go to the following link:
www.esl-lab.com
3. Go to the following link and do a reading exercise and answer the questions under the text.
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/queen-elizabeth-life.html
4. Writing activity
Go to page 121 Look at the pictures and read the Email Ela Kwasniak has sent to vacation express a summer jobs company and complete the form on page 122 with her information. Then go to the blog and post Your email presenting yourself as a candidate for your ideal job include the format on page 122 filled with your information. This activity should be posted Today October the second by the end of the sesion.
Multimedia sesion workshop
1 Reading exercise
Read the following text about the beatles. Follow the link
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/beatles.html
Go to the cd rom module 15 and work out the crossword on the vocabulary section activity 1.
listen the song imagine from the students book on page 133 track 26 cd 3 and a prepare a little comment to be told in class about the beatles, and the song imagine give your opinions about the beatles and John Lennon as soloist.
2. Grammar focus
1. Go to the following link and read the grammar explanation and follow the links to do the exercises.
http://www.englishgrammarsecrets.com/secondconditional/menu.php/
2. Then go to your cd rom and check in the module 15 the language focus section conditional phrases with would, do the presentation and practice 1 and practice 2.
3. Follow the next links and do the exercises
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/second-conditional-exercise-1.html
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/410/grammar/2cond1.htm
4. Go to your workbook and on page 90 do the exercise 3 "might or would" and listen to it and correct it.
and on page 91 exercise 4.
5. Video section
Listen and watch the video, then say what the people in the video would do if they won ten million dollars.
6. writing section
Read the questions the teacher gave you and say what you would do in each case. Post your answer in the blog extension B1.1 blog, on the comment what would you if. The deadline for this activity is for Thursday the 3rd of October 2013. On Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th read your partners comments and reply them with what you would if you were in their situation.
7. Speaking section
1. Pronunciation go to your cd room, check and do the pronunciation activity 1. Use a microphone to record yourself and to compare your pronunciation with the English pronuciation of the questions with would.
2. Check the questions that come on the worksheet called "Conditional squares" and answer them in the order you want. Then swap papers with a partner and then ask him questions about his/ her answers that aren't very clear for you. Then record yourself talking about the questions you like the most (they have to be 4 questions) and send them to your teacher's mail. It should be maximum on October the 5th midnight.
Here you have the quiz about the book. This for the group B1.1
A Catskill Eagle quiz
Read the following questions and answer them giving your opinion, supporting your ideas with accurate reasons and using simple and complex structures. Once you have finished writing your answers take your time to read them again, in order you can correct the possible mistakes or you can organize your ideas in a suitable way.
The quiz must be sent to your teacher’s mail maximum on the 10 of october 2013 before 12:00 am (midnight)
1) Describe the principal characters (Spencer, Suzan, and Russell Costigan, and Hawk), what you like, what you don’t like about them and possible idea of what you think their past was. (For this question use what have learn from the story to create a picture of them, describe them in their physical part and in their personality).
2) Who do you think Suzan really love Spencer or Russell Costigan? Why? (For this question use your ideas and the evidence the book gives to support your answer.)
3) What do you think it was Russell’s biggest ambition? What makes you think so? (For this question use your ideas and the evidence the book gives to support your answer.)
4) What do you think it happened in the end of the book? How do you explain the final line “But this time Grace Costigan switched on a light and I left them there. Outside on the grassy hill the wind started to blow the darkness out of my head and heart.” (For this question you have to reconstruct and give your interpretation of the final line quoted in the question. The idea is to show how you see and understand the end of the story.)
5) What do you think about the book? Is it good story? Do you want to read the original one or you just think far better books have been written? If the case is that you don’t like it which book would you like to read if you had the chance to choose another to be read in the English class? Why?
Read the questions the teacher gave you and say what you would do in each case. Post your answer in the blog extension B1.1 blog, on the comment what would you if. The deadline for this activity is for Thursday the 3rd of October 2013. On Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th read your partners comments and reply them with what you would if you were in their situation.
7. Speaking section
1. Pronunciation go to your cd room, check and do the pronunciation activity 1. Use a microphone to record yourself and to compare your pronunciation with the English pronuciation of the questions with would.
2. Check the questions that come on the worksheet called "Conditional squares" and answer them in the order you want. Then swap papers with a partner and then ask him questions about his/ her answers that aren't very clear for you. Then record yourself talking about the questions you like the most (they have to be 4 questions) and send them to your teacher's mail. It should be maximum on October the 5th midnight.
Here you have the quiz about the book. This for the group B1.1
A Catskill Eagle quiz
Read the following questions and answer them giving your opinion, supporting your ideas with accurate reasons and using simple and complex structures. Once you have finished writing your answers take your time to read them again, in order you can correct the possible mistakes or you can organize your ideas in a suitable way.
The quiz must be sent to your teacher’s mail maximum on the 10 of october 2013 before 12:00 am (midnight)
1) Describe the principal characters (Spencer, Suzan, and Russell Costigan, and Hawk), what you like, what you don’t like about them and possible idea of what you think their past was. (For this question use what have learn from the story to create a picture of them, describe them in their physical part and in their personality).
2) Who do you think Suzan really love Spencer or Russell Costigan? Why? (For this question use your ideas and the evidence the book gives to support your answer.)
3) What do you think it was Russell’s biggest ambition? What makes you think so? (For this question use your ideas and the evidence the book gives to support your answer.)
4) What do you think it happened in the end of the book? How do you explain the final line “But this time Grace Costigan switched on a light and I left them there. Outside on the grassy hill the wind started to blow the darkness out of my head and heart.” (For this question you have to reconstruct and give your interpretation of the final line quoted in the question. The idea is to show how you see and understand the end of the story.)
5) What do you think about the book? Is it good story? Do you want to read the original one or you just think far better books have been written? If the case is that you don’t like it which book would you like to read if you had the chance to choose another to be read in the English class? Why?