Present Simple.

Pay attention to this slideshow to remember the rules

Now, try these exercises exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise 3

Remember the order when you ask questions!!!!!!!!!

ASI Auxiliary Subject Infinitive

Do you like football?

Does your sister work?

or QUASI

Question word Auxiliary Subject Infinitive

Where do you live?

What does Peter do?

Try these exercises exercise 1 exercise 2

Finally you can put it all in practice in this quiz or in this exercise

USE

We use the present simple to talk about routines and everyday activities.

Jobs.

I am a teacher, and you, what do you do? = What’s your job?

I work in a school in Elche, and you? where do you work?

I work for the government and you, who do you work for?

Check this useful vocabulary on jobs 1 and jobs 2.

There are three other interesting words related to the labour world:

I’m unemployed (=I have no job); I’m retired (=I’m over 65); I’m self-employed (=I have no boss)

Now match the jobs on the left with their definitions on the right here

Now, click on the interactive book to practise jobs + present simple, just up to page 25!

Now, watch this video and leave a comment on what their jobs are:

And you, what’s your job? Where do you work? Who do you work for?

Telling the Time

The White Rabbit is a character from Alice in Wonderland. He always tries to beat the clock, and his famous words are “I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! No time to say, Hello, Good-bye, I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!”.

El conejo blanco es un personaje de Alicia en el país de las maravillas. Siempre intenta ganar tiempo, y dice: “llego, llego tarde, a una cita importante. No tengo tiempo de decir hola. Adiós, llego tarde, llego tarde.”

In English, we ask What’s the time ? or What time is it? and we answer following this drawing. It’s…

You can tell the time following this picture (complete this exercise) or simply using ordinal numbers as in this exercise

Practise telling the time with the exercises in this book.

Now listen and pick the right time: listening 0, listening 1, listening 2.

Now watch this video and write the times they tell:

Food.

 
English people have three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner

Spanish people tend to have five meals a day: breakfast, snack, lunch, tea and dinner

And you, how many times a day do you eat?

People say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. What do you have for breakfast? Check this link on breakfast to learn and practice new vocabulary.

After breakfast, we all have two other meals during the day: lunch and dinner, what’s your favourite meal of the day? Why?

What’s your favourite food? Check this link on general food and do the exercises.

People usually eat 5 portions of fruits and vegetables a day, do you know any fruits or vegetables in English? Check these sites to learn some: fruit + vegetables

Obviously, we can’t just eat all the time, we need to drink, what’s your favourite drink? have a look at this list of drinks.

Famous shops.

Just a few more links to revise the shopping and places in town vocabulary
Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Just the first 2 exercises Exercise 5
Have a look at some of the most famous British shops in the world by clicking here:
Harrods Marks and Spencer
Here there are some funny images of shopping bags. Enjoy!

There is/There are

A bit of grammar to practise There is/ There are =Hay
Quiz 1 quiz 2 quiz 3
and the shops vocabulary

Just click on the book and practise, only until page 14

Have fun!

Pronunciation: cat /æ/, up /ʌ/, car /a:/

 

In Spanish, we only have one a sound . English has three different sounds. Let’s study them:

En español, sólo tenemos una letra para la a. el inglés tiene tres sonidos diferentes. Vamos a estudiarlos:

/æ/ as in cat is a new difficult sound for Spanish students. Make you lips as if you want to pronounce a but say e. Watch this video to copy the position of your mouth:/æ/video

El sonido /æ/ como en cat es un sonido nuevo difícil para los estudiantes españoles. Tienes que colocar tus labios como si fueras a decir una a, pero pronunciar e. Mira este video para copiar la posición y el sonido:/æ/video

It’s also very difficult to distinguish it from the other two sounds /a:/ as in car and /ʌ/ as in up. Watch these videos to check how we pronounce them: /a:/ video, /ʌ/ video

Es muy difícil además distinguir entre la /æ/ de cat, la /a:/ de car y la /ʌ/ de up. Mira estos videos para recordar cómo se pronunciaban la /a:/ de car y la /ʌ/ de up : /a:/ video, /ʌ/ video

Now complete this exercise to distinguish among: /a:/, /e/ and /ʌ/ and listen to this exercise to distinguish between /a:/as in car and /ʌ/ as in up and to this one that differentiates /æ/ as in cat and /a:/ as in car.

Pronunciation: clock/o/ – horse /o:/

 

horse /ho:rs/ clock / klok/ phone /fəʊn/

Check exercise 1 to distinguish how to pronounce words with the sounds /o/, as in clock and /o:/, as in horse and exercise 2 to distinguish among the sounds /o/, as in clock, /o:/, as in horse and /әu/, as in phone.

Colours.

This is a typical rainbow.
It’s made of different colours: these are the names of the colours in English.

Black White Red Yellow Blue Green Orange Purple Brown Grey Pink

Colours, like all adjectives, don’t take plurals or gender (feminine or masculine). See these examples:

	The Union Jack is red, white and blue.
	The German flag is black, red and yellow.
	Penguins are black and white.
	Aubergines are purple.
	Lettuce is green.
	Lemons are yellow.
	Oranges are orange!

There are different shades of colours, so you can say dark or light to specify.

Now check you know your colours here and now try here.

All adjectives, and also colours, go before the noun they modify. Example:

My car is a blue Fiat. My car is a red Ferrari. I have a pink house.

Complete these sentences with the right colour

Finally, test yourself with this funny song.

Possession 2: possessive ‘s

2) Possessive ‘s – genitivo sajón

When we want to show that something belongs to somebody or something, we usually add ‘s to a singular noun and an apostrophe ‘ to a plural noun, for example:

• the boy’s ball (one boy)
• the boys’ ball (two or more boys)

Cuando queremos expresar que algo es de alguien, añadimos ‘s al nombre de la persona que lo posee si es singular y sólo ‘ si es plural

Check how this structure is formed here.

Comprueba cómo se forma esta estructura aquí

Try this quiz and watch the video to check your answers

Completa este ejercicio y mira al video para comprobar tus respuestas

Exception: when a name ends in s, we usually add ‘s and pronounce /iz/: This is Charles’s chair. But it is possible to just add the apostrophe ‘: Who was Jesus’ father?

Excepción, cuando un nombre termina en plural, normalmente añadimos ´s y pronunciamos /iz/, pero es posible añadir sólo el apóstrofo ‘.

English businesses tend to be named after their owner’s names

Los negocios e inglés suelen llevar el nombre de sus dueños.

Possession 1: possessive adjectives

We have two possibilities when mentioning who has what:

Hay dos posibilidades para decir que alguien tiene algo:

1) Possessive adjectives - Adjetivos posesivos

There is one possessive adjective for each subject pronoun. Watch out! The possessive adjective to be used depends on who has what not on the number of things this person has. Example: my book = my books

Existe un adjetivo posesivo por persona. Atención, depende del poseedor no del número de cosas que se poseen. En español, mi libro – mis libros

When you have a list of things belonging to the same person, you should only used one possessive adjective.

Cuando tienes una lista de cosas que pertenecen a la misma persona, sólo se usa un adjetivo posesivo.

Example: his brother and sister, my mother and father, our chairs, tables and books.

Possessive adjectives + possessive ‘s exercise

 

The Family.

Families can be endless but English has a very easy system to learn the words for family members: you just need to learn the basics and add prefixes to form new relations.

 Las familias pueden ser interminables pero el inglés tiene un sistema bien sencillo para aprender el vocabulario de la familia: sólo tienes que aprender lo básico e ir añadiendo prefijos a estas palabras.
 And what’s the basics? As you have in your books, a family is formed by the parents – the father and the mother – and the children – the son and the daughter.
 ¿ Y qué es lo básico? Tal y como aparece en el libro de texto, una familia está formada por los padres - padre y madre - y los hijos - hijo e hija.
 From now on, you just have to add the following prefixes when you move up or down your family tree: grand- and great-
 A partir de ahí, sólo tienes que añadir los siguientes prefijos cuando te mueves por tu árbol genealógico: grand- y great-
 When your family gets expanded by new relations, we have two other bits to add: step- and -in-law
 Cuando tu familia crece por las nuevas relaciones, tenemos otros dos que añadir: step- y -in-law.
 Check this link to see and hear all family words and learn new words.
 Comprueba este enlace para ver y escuchar los miembros de la familia y aprender el resto de la familia.
 Now, let’s do some exercises: quiz 1, quiz 2 and quiz 3

Do you need more practice? Complete the following exercises:

¿Necesitas más práctica? Completa los siguientes ejercicios:

Revise family relationships

Type the family relationships in the exercise

Plurals.

Rule: In general, the plural is formed by adding an -s to the end of the word:

Regla: En general, el plural se forma añadiendo una -s al final de la palabra:

singular	plural
a car	two cars
a cassette	two cassettes
a lamp	two lamps
a hat	two hats
a cup	two cups

Rule: Nouns that end with an -s, -sh, -ch and -x add -es to the end of the world.
Las palabras que terminan en -s, -sh, -ch y -x, añaden -es al final de la palabra

singular	plural
a box	two boxes
a sandwich	two sandwiches
a suitcase	two suitcases
a rose	two roses
a garage	two garages

Rule: substitute y after consonant with -ies:

Regla: sustituye la y precedidad de consonante por -ies:

singular	plural
a city	two cities
a lady	two ladies

Add -s after vowel + y:
Añade -s tras vocal + y:

singular	plural
a boy	two boys
a day	two days

Be Careful! There are some excepciones we will study along the year. Check some:

¡Cuidado! Hay algunas excepciones que veremos durante el año, aquí van unas pocas

man – men, child – children, woman – women, person – people

+ Many animals do not have a plural form: Example: fish – fish, deer – deer

+ muchos animales no tienen forma de plural. Ejemplo: pez- peces, ciervo- ciervos

Click here to do some exercises: regular plurals 1 , 2 and 3

How old are you?

English people say they are X (years old). Watch this video and try to write how old they are.

Los ingleses dicen que son X años viejo. Mira este video e intenta escribir cuántos años tiene esta gente.

Adjectives.

Adjectives are words that describe a person, a place or a thing.

Colors - Colores

black (blak) - negro 
gray (gréi) - gris 
violet (váiolit) - violeta 
white (juáit) - blanco 
green (gríin) - verde 
orange (órendch) - naranja 
red (red) - rojo 
brown (bráun) - marrón 
sky blue (skái blu) - celeste 
blue (blu) - azul 
yellow (iélou) - amarillo 
pink (pink) - rosa 
purple (pérpl) - púrpura 
beige (béidch) - beige 
turquoise (térkuóis) - turquesa

• Mars is known as "the red planet".
  Martes es conocido como "el planeta rojo".
• John was wearing a blue uniform. 
  John estaba vistiendo un uniforme azul.

Size/Measure - Tamaño/Medida

big (big) - grande
large (lardch) - grande
huge (jiúdch) - enorme
small (smol) - pequeño
tiny (táini) - diminuto
heavy (jévi) - pesado
light (láit) - liviano
thick (zik) - grueso
thin (zin) - delgado
wide (uáid) - ancho
high (jái) - elevado
low (lóu) - bajo
tall (tóol) - alto
short (short) - corto, bajo
long (long) - largo
medium (mídium) - medio
narrow (nérrou) - angosto
deep (díip) - profundo
shallow (shálou) - playo
broad (brod) - ancho

• There was a huge tree in front of the house. 
  Había un enorme árbol en frente de la casa.
• Viruses are tiny organisms. 
  Los virus son organismos diminutos.

Shape - Forma

square (skuér) - cuadrado
round (ráund) - redondo
rectangular (rektánguiular) - rectangular
triangular (traiánguiular) - triangular
oval (óuval) - oval
conical (kónical) - cónico
spherical (sférical) - esférico
cubical (kiúbical) - cúbico
cylindrical (cilíndrical) - cilíndrico
straight (stréit)- recto
curved (kéervd) - curvo
crooked (krúkid) - torcido
broad (bróod) - ancho
narrow (nérrou) -angosto
flat (flat) - plano
steep (stíip) - empinado
hollow (jólou) - hueco
solid (sólid) - sólido

• I decided to buy the round table. Decidí comprar la mesa redonda.
• The bridge was too narrow for the truck. 
  El puente era demasiado angosto para el camión.

1- The adjective in English goes before the noun:
- It is a big house
- She is a tall woman
- I am a fat man
2- The adjective in English has no plural or gender:
- It is a big house
- They are big houses
- I am fat
- We are fat
3- A few adjective can also be after the verb ( be, get, become look, seem, appear, sound, taste, smell, feel)
- The house is big
- The woman is tall
- The man is fat
- The cat was asleep on the bed. ( not The asleep cat was on the bed)
Adjective order
When there are two or more adjectives, they go in this order. 

	opinion	size/age/shape	colour	materials
a	lovely	short	black	wool	skirt
a	beautiful		grey	leather	bag
my	favourite	long	red		boots
some		old	blue		jeans

We put "and" 
* between two colours adjectives : a black and white belt
* between twoadjective after a verb: Clothes shops are always boring and crowded. 
Watch these videos to practise:

Practise with these exercises put the words in the sentences in order, match the opposites, answer these questions.

 

Classroom Language

Time to stop speaking Spanish in class. Pay attention to the following actions and try to speak English in class from now on.

Ya es hora de dejar de hablar español en la clase. Fíjate cómo se dicen las siguientes acciones e intenta hablar en inglés a partir de ahora.

 

Classroom Objects

We are surrounded by multiple objects in our everyday classes. Let’s learn how you say them in English.

Estamos rodeados de objetos que usamos todos los días en clase. Vamos a aprender cómo se dicen en inglés.

When you don’t know a word, we ask..WHAT’S____IN ENGLISH?

Cuando no sepas una palabra, utiliza la pregunta What’s___ in English?

1 a board
2 a board pen
3 a noticeboard
4 a bag
5 a desk
6 a CD player and CD
7 a pen
8 a pencil sharpener
9 a ruler
10 a pencil
11 a folder
12 a piece of paper
13 a rubber
14 a notebook
15 a dictionary
16 a table
17 a chair
18 a radio