Giving directions

Here you have some links to help you to give directions. Have a look:

• a simple video with the simplest instructions: click here
• another video with directions: click here
• this is the BBC page for directions with listenings; click this

Irregular verbs

We have studied that the regular verbs have the pattern A - B - B like in work - worked - worked.
Irregular verbs have 4 different patterns as you can see here:

• A - B - B like think thought thought
• A - B - C like drive drove driven
• A - A - A like put put put
• A - B - A like come came come

The most usual ones are the two first patterns and there are very few in the last group, as you can see in the photocopy I gave you in class.

If you want to practise with irregular verbs, here you have some exercises:

• a long list with pronunciation; click here
• here you have a blog with irregular verbs, exercises, videos... click this
• another list with pronunciation (but not with the meaning); click here

If you just want to do exercises to write or choose the correct form, here you have some:

• exercise 1: a list of exercises
• exercise 2
• exercise 3 : apart from this exercise you can find some more at the end of the text.
• exercise 4: another list of exercises but this time with levels

Hope you have enough!

See you in class.

Past Simple: regular forms

There are two forms:

• regular: you add -ED
• irregular: the form changes in past and/or past participle.

Let's work with the regular forms. The problems you find are how to pronounce and how to write the forms, but it's very similar to the 3rd person in singular (-S or -ES). The principal rules are:

• consonant + y ------ ied ; copy -- copied
• consonant + stressed vowel + consonant -------- double consonant; stop -- stopped
• ending in -E you only add -D -------- arrive --  arrived

The principal problem is pronunciation. Let's see the rules by using this link  and this or this video

There was/were

We have already seen this impersonal form to work with past simple of the verb TO BE. Have a look at these exercises:

• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• exercise 4
• exercise 5
• exercise 6

This grammar point will be completed in lesson 8B and 8C in your book.

Lemmon Tree + Pressent tenses

Here you have an exercise to work with present simple and present continuous. Go to this link.
This is the song of lesson 6C with the lyrics. Here you can find both tenses, especially

Going to a Restaurant

This is a post for That's English! students. Here you have the listening we couldn`t see in class. Go to this link (but it's a bit difficult) :
http://www.elllo.org/Audio/A0501/512-akane-restaurant.mp3
Here you have the vocabulary and a typical situation to practise; go to this link:
http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/blwouldlike.htm
To finish with, here you have a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5dkB_Bcb_M