Grammar+practice

[|The English Tenses]

THE INTERROGATIVE IF CLAUSES [|(If clauses exercises])

Now answer the following questions: 1. What would you like to do if you had more time? 2. If you had the power to turn back the time, what would you change? 3. What would you do if you won a big amount of money at the lottery? 4. What would you do now if you could foresee the future? 5. What would you do if you only had a short time to live? 6. What would you do if you didn't have to go to work tomorrow?

1. If you could edit your past, what would you change? 2. If you had the chance who would you most like to say sorry to? 3. If the whole world were listening, what would you say to them? 4. If you could change one thing about your spouse/friend, what would you change? 5. If you could meet any person, dead or alive, who would you like to meet? 6. If you could choose between love and no money or money and no love for the rest of your life, what would you choose?

1. If you were the leader of your country, what would you change?

Voxopop practice YouTube - Grammar

Listen to the following song: Hotel California and then fill in the worksheet with the missing words and the correct form of the past tensemedia type="youtube" key="a-xA2bWcf9c" height="342" width="423" media type="custom" key="5364587" WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THIS MORNING? WHAT DID YOU DO YESTERDAY? media type="custom" key="5793745"

Now it's your turn to answer the questions: 1. What have you done this morning? If it's still morning, your answer might be: I've driven to work and I've made a couple of phone calls (present perfect). If it's afternoon when you answer this question, your answer will be: I drove to work, which was a real challenge as it took place during the rush hour, then I made a couple of phone calls... (past tense) 2. What did you do yesterday?
 * HOMEWORK: **

To answer these two questions, you will have to record your voice on [|VoxoPop], which is a Web 2.0 speaking tool. Follow the next steps: 1. Create an account with [|Voxopop] (i.e. sign up - right hand top of the page, a green star) 2. Go to the [|Conversation E-club] and click on **JOIN THIS TALK GROUP** - introduce yourself and request the administrator's permission to join the talk group. 3. When your permission has been granted (depending on how busy the administrator is :-) ) you can go to the following Discussion [|What have you done this morning], listen again to the instructions, if necessary, and then Record your comment (the red button). This might require that you upload a plug-in, such as the latest version of Java, but it takes a just a few seconds and you can do the recording using a microphone. You record your answers, listen to what you have recorded and if you are not satisfied, delete it and record again, until you are satisfied with your production. When you are satisfied, click Save, and you're done.

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THE BALL GAME : "If I didn't have to go to work tomorrow, I'd have a lie in, most probably doing staff on my laptop, with some nice cuppa coffee and sweets" What would you do if you din't have to go to work/school tomorrow? Throw the ball to another student in the class. Post-activity: Write the answers on the BB(not from memory - elicit them from the ss) Self corrections, rewards. WISH constructions. I'm a witch, so go to the following Wallwisher below and express three wishes! Do it again - ss will probably respond more fluently.

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LISTENING - Listen to the following Woody Allen monologue and then do the quiz. Retell the story using Simple Past: media type="custom" key="5769787" align="left"

HOMEWORK Something funny/strange/absurd happened to me (group work)

Read the following story and, using the Past Tense Simple, write a similar account: Yesterday, I had a very rough day. I got up early to go shopping, but as soon as I stepped out of the door, it began to rain, so I had to go back to the apartment and get my umbrella. The elevator was out, so I had to climb six flights of stairs to get to my place. When I got back downstairs, I was so exhausted that I had to sit down on a bench to rest. By that time, it had stopped raining, but the ground was still wet. A brown dog came to where I was sitting and begged for something to eat. I tried to ignore him, but he splashed water all over my brand new shoes. Finally, the bus came, and I was on my way to the supermarket. When I got to the supermarket, I realized I had forgotten my shopping list, so I couldn't remember everything I wanted to buy. The cashier was too busy to help me, so I gathered up a few items and carried them to the counter. After the cashier finished ringing up my purchase, he gave me the wrong change and stuffed my groceries into my small shopping cart. I was not in a good mood when I left the supermarket. If that wasn't bad enough, I had a terrible time on the bus ride home. First, the bus driver yelled at me because I took too much time to get on. Couldn't he see that I had a cart full of groceries? Then, there were not seats. I'm sure that someone on the bus could have offered me a place to sit, but everyone was so rude. They pretended not to see me. I just stood there, leaned against one of the poles in the aisles, put my head down, and sighed.