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.