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