Funny English

quinta-feira, 10 de abril de 2014

DAILY ROUTINE

Common verbs to describe Daily Routine:

wake up – wash your face – do morning exercise – take a shower – watch morning news on TV – dry your hair – brush your teeth – eat breakfast – brush your teeth – get dressed – go to the bathroom – make your bed – go to school – go to work – study – have lunch – get home – do your homework – have dinner – take a bath – go to bed – go to sleep.

Now let’s look at the following reading and conversation! People are talking about daily routine. Then practice to talk about that in English

Reading activities about Daily Routine

Pre-reading questions

What’s your job?
What do you do in your free time?
How do you spend your day?
Do you get up early on weekends

Read the passage and conversation , answer the questions below:

Daily Routine

My name’s Christine Yang. I am from China. I am a university student. I study Economics. I get up very early at around 6.30 every weekdays. I do morning exercise in about 30 minites. I have breakfast at 7.00 am. I go to school at 7.30 because my classes start at 8.00 am. I finish school at 11.30, and I have lunch at school cafe. I leave school at 4.00 in the afternoon. I arrive home at 4.30 pm. I have dinner at 6 and then watch T.V or go on the internet for a while. I learn my lesson and prepare for coming class till 11.00 pm and I go to bed.

Questions:

What does Yang do?
What time does she get up on weekdays?
what does she do before having breakfast?
What time does she leave home?
Where does she have lunch?

Conversation 1: Daily Schedules

Kim: What do you do every day, Bob?
Bob: I get up at about 10.00 on weekdays.
Then I watch News on T.V for an hour and have breakfast at about noon.
Kim: Really? What time do you go to work? .
Bob: I start work at 4.00 pm.
Kim: And what time do you arrive home at night?
Bob: I get home quite late, at midnight.
Kim: What do you do exactly?
Bob: Well, I am an……..

Questions:

What time does Bob get up?
What time does he have lunch?
What time does he start work?
When does he arrive home at night?

http://englishonlinecenter.com/2011/11/learning-to-talk-about-daily-routines-in-english/

PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST SIMPLE

Can you use the present perfect and the past simple? Have a look at this cartoon and explain the difference to your partner.

Look at the signal words to distinguish both tenses:

In this link you have more practice:

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbs5.htm

http://2esobilingualnorba.blogspot.com.br/

terça-feira, 18 de março de 2014

PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE

Look at the pictures and write about what it is happening.

Use the following verbs: do homework/ travel/ play/ dance/ cry/ rain/ clean house/ fly plane/carry suitcases/hunt/ eat/ wave/cycle or ride bike/ open/sleep/ deliver mail/investigate/ run/ walk dog/ paint fence/ drink coffee

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6819

PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Use the Present Continuous with Normal Verbs to express the idea that something is happening now, at this very moment.

Spelling of Verb + ING

For many verbs we make the ING form by simply adding -ING to end of the verb.

eat – eating
speak – speaking
cook – cooking
start – starting
do – doing
stay – staying
fix – fixing
try – trying

Verbs ending with -e (with the exception of verbs ending in -ee and -ie)

Drop the -e and add ING

hope – hoping
ride – riding
make – making
write – writing

Verbs ending with -ee

Just add -ING

agree – agreeing
flee – fleeing
see – seeing

Verbs ending with -ie

Change the -ie to -y and add -ING

die – dying
tie – tying
lie – lying

Verbs ending with one vowel and one consonant (with the exception of w, x, and y)

For one syllable verbs

double the consonant and add -ING

jog – jogging
sit – sitting
run – running
stop – stopping

For two syllable verbs

If the 1st syllable is stressed, just add ING

answer – answering
offer – offering
listen – listening
visit – visiting

If the 2nd syllable is stressed , double the consonant and add ING

admit – admitting
prefer – preferring
begin – begining

NOW, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS IS, PRESENT SIMPLE IS FOR ROUTINES, THINGS THAT YOU ALWAYS, USUALLY, SOMETIMES DO, WITH A FREQUENCY OF TIME, THAT IS WHY THE ADVERB OF FREQUENCY GOES WITH PRESENT SIMPLE.

THEN, PRESENT CONTINUOUS IS AN ACTION I DO RIGHT NOW, AT A PERIOD OF TIME, AND AFTER THAT, IT ENDS.

http://englishteacherdotme.wordpress.com/tag/present-simple-or-present-continuous/

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