Phonetics
E
1. [e] – bed,
led, Fred, men, Ted, content, pence, wedding, fed, lens, pet.
2. [i:] – Meme,
scheme, Pete,cedar.
3. [i] – enjoy,
entertainment, erotic, escape, estate BUT end, enter, error.
4. Ew – [ ju ] – new, dew, few, curfew, stew.
5. Ea – [i:] – lead,
read, meat, seat, bead, sea, dream, treatment.
6. Ea – [ei] – great.
7. Ea – [e] – bread,
instead, breath, heavy, head.
8. Ear – [iə] – hear, bear, fear, dear, beard, rear.
9. Ey –[i] – honey,
monkey, money.
10.
Ey – [ei] – grey, prey, hey.
11.
Ee – [i:] – see, bee, three, tree, agree.
12.
Er – [ɜ:] – Hermitage, her, term, learn.
13.
Ere – [iə] – here, mere, sphere, adhere.
Now read these
tongue twisters out loud:
1. Elegant elephants.Elegant elephants.Elegant elephants.
2. Eight eager eagles ogled old Edgar.
3. Eleven benevolent
elephants.
4. Eddie edited it.
5. Ken said Ted meant to send the rent but left the check
on a bench when he stopped to mend the fence.
6. Ken can ken that Ken’s kin can ken Ken’s kin’s ken.
7. They think that their teeth get thinner at times they
want to taste thick meat.
STATIVE VERBS
Say if the
following sentences are correct or not correct.
1. I am disliking garlic.
2.
I prefer winter to
summer.
3.
She is reading a
good book.
4.
I am thinking
about work.
5. Please don’t forgetting
me.
6.
He is knowing him
for a long time.
7. I am hate school.
8. You seem tired.
9. She has a cat.
10. They belong to the
music club.
11. Do you believing me?
PAST IN ENGLISH
Past Typical (Simple)
Choose
the correct answer (several options can be possible)
Practice
1) We use Past Simple when we talk about
1. past events
2. typical actions in the
past
3. everyday habbits
4. now
2) When we use Past Simple we need:
1. nothing
2. V2/-ed
3.
was/were for questions
and negative sentences
4.
did for
questions and negative sentences
3) When we use to be in the past we need:
1. wos/were
2. helper (did)
3. am/is/are
4. was/were
Irregular Verbs
Don’t
forget that in English language we have irregular verbs – and that means that
they change in a special way so when you need V2 (the second form of the verb)
you do not just add –ed – you need to learn special forms of irregularverbs.
You can find a list of the most common irregular verbs below. The best way to
learn them is not one by one in alphabetical order but rather to divide them
into groups which change relatively in the same way. This way you can learn
them in rhymes.
NB! Remember
that if you want to emphasize the action, you can put a helper DID before the
verb into a positive sentence. If you do so, you need to put the main verb into
the first form.
For
example: I DID call him yesterday. I DID visit you in the
hospital, how can you not remember that?
Patterns Past Simple
USED TO
In English language
we have a special construction which we use to talk about habits that we used
to have in the past but now we don’t. Also it can be used to talk about regular
actions or activities which we did in the past but now we don’t do them.
Here
is this construction: 😃+
USED TO + V1.
For example: I
used to smoke. – Раньше я курил.
I
used to wake up early. I used to go to school. – in this case it equals to
the sentence — I went to school when I was a child.
If you want to make a
question with this construction you can use this scheme:
Did
+😃 +
used to + V1?
OR Did
+ 😃+
use to + V1?
Both of them are possible and
correct but native speakers use Did + 😃 +
used to + V1? more often.
When you speak you
can’t hear “d” in “used to” anyway. Think about your habits over the last
ten years – what did you used to do? Look at these pictures and tell what
these people used to do in the past.
Pictures
WOULD in the Past
Would in the
past is another option to speak about our habits or some regular actions in the
past.
For
example: When I was small I visited my grandma
every weekend and she would always make carrot pies for me.
Please, watch the video
via the link provided to understand it better.
Choose would or used
to:
1. I (have) blue hair when I was a teenager.
2. We (go) to the same little café for coffee
every day when I was a student.
3. She (love) playing piano before she broke
her wrist.
4. He (walk) in the park every evening before
bed.
5. I always (lose) when I played chess with
my father.
6. She (be able) to dance very well.
7. My grandfather (drink) a glass of whiskey
after dinner every night.
8. Luke (not have) a cat.
9. We
(live) in Russia.
10. My
family often (go) to the road trips in summer when I was younger.
Past Process (Continuous)
Choose the
correct answer:
We use Past
Process:
1.
when we talk
about typical activities in the past
2.
when we talk
about long actions in the past
3.
when we talk
about actions which happened one by one
4.
when we know a
particular point of time when the action was happening
5.
when we talk
about short actions
Look at the pictures and say
what people were doing yesterday.
Example: She was
drinking coffee for breakfast at a café at 10 o’clock yesterday.
Pictures
NB!Remember
that in sentences like “My parents came home when I was reading a book” we have
two different actions – a short action (came) and a long action (was
reading).Past Typical stands for a short action, Past Process – for a long
action. Play an interactive game via the link provided to make sure you
understand how it works.
Practice Past Process
patterns.
Now imagine that
you are Jacomo Cazanova, you are old and you are telling a story of your love
life to a young friend. Tell the story.
Tell your story
as if you were Snow White / Sleeping Beauty / Cinderella.
Listen to these audios via
the links provided; answer the questions below the audio files.
Watch a cartoon
about Mr. Bean. It’s a silent cartoon so you have to become a narrator of the
story. This episode is called “Bean in Love” and you have to use new
vocabulary. Don’t do it silently in your head, speak! Don’t forget to use
various grammar patterns. For example: Mr. Bean is dancing
with his bear. He’s happy. He’s holding a flashlight in his mouth. Old woman
opened and closed the door.
Past Result (Perfect)
Choose the
correct answer
We use Present Result:
1.
when we talk
about something very important that happened
2.
when we talk
about something that happened before a certain point in the past
3.
when we want to
name an action or event that happened before the sequence of events
4. when something very
insignificant happened
Open the
brackets:
1.
The wave
destroyed the sandcastle that we (build) on the tideline.
2.
He (not / be) to
London before 2007.
3.
When she went
out to ride a bike, she (do / already) her homework.
4.
My father ate
all of the pancakes that our mum (make)
5.
The doctor took off
the plaster that he (put on) six weeks before.
6.
The waiter
brought a drink that I (not / order)
7.
I could not
remember the movie we (watch) the week before.
8.
The children
collected the chestnuts that (fall) from the tree.
9.
(Neil / phone)
Charlie before he went to see her in London?
10. She (not /
drive) a car before that day.
Past Process
Result (Perfect Continuous)
Choose the right
answer: Past Process Result is used:
1.
when we talk
about a long action in the past
2.
when we talk
about a long action in the past which stopped by certain point in the past
3.
when we talk
about a long action which has just finished
4.
when we talk
about something that happened before a certain point in the past
1.
They (to sit) in
a restaurant talking for over an hour before Neil came.
2.
She (to work) at
that company for three years when it went out of business.
3.
How long you (to
write) your book before it was published?
4.
Yann wanted to
sit down because he (to clean) the house all day at work.
5.
Ernie (to teach)
at the university for many years before he left for India.
6.
A: How long you
(to study) English before you moved to NYC?
7.
B: I (not to
study) English very long. Jenny was tired because she (to jog).
8.
John gained
weight because he (to overeat).
9.
Billy failed the
final test because he (to listen) in the class.
Now practice mixed patterns for Past in English Practice Past Process patterns.
Present Result (Perfect)
vs. Past Simple
These two tenses are very important in English language, it is crucial
to understand when and which we need to use. The key-point is time.
When we use
Present Result time is not important, we concentrate on the event\action
(experience, result). Note that this action might be very important only for
you personally. Example: I have been to
Paris! (It was your dream and you visited it at some point).
When we use Past Simple it usually implies that we know the time
when the event\action happened and this event\action is just one of many. Example: I visited Paris last year. (It happened last year)
Translate these
sentences into English
1. Прошлой зимой я был в Нью Йорке.
2. Я никогда не был в Сочи.
3. Я получил права!
4. Ты позвонил вчера Джону?
5. Я поговорил с Мари, всё в порядке.
6. Я не пошел вчера в театр.
7. Я сегодня хорошо поработал.
8.
Вчера
я много сделал на работе.
Now,
please, practice the patterns.
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