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.

Clothes and shopping

If you want to practise with vocabulary you can use these links:

• a video with clothes but no spelling for the words and another one with words to show how to write it. 
• here you have a really good link with vocabulary and the pronunciation. It also have exercises and if you want to pass the page of the book, just click on the number of the page. Click now

You can watch this video about shopping but they use MAY instead of CAN. They are synonyms in this context. Another example is this As a curiosity you can watch this trailer on Pretty Woman about shopping.

To have a good time here you have a Mr. Bean's video about going shopping. Click here. You can practise if you say what he is doing.

The weather

We are studying the weather. Remember we can use two questions; they are very similar but not the same:

• What's the weather like? ---- You use this to describe the weather: It's dry, with little rain and very sunny.
• How's the weather? ---- You say a short comment: It's cold today

However, you can see both sentences when talking about the weather. 

If you want to revise the vocabulary or learn more words about the weather you can go to this link

If you want to have a good time, go to this link where you can find a lot of videos

We are a family - Revision of Saxon Genitive ('S)

Here you have some exrcises to work with this topic. Let's start with a video to revise the vocabulary and the Saxon genitive ('S). Click here.

If you want to do some exercises you can use these links:

• Saxon genitive: explanation and exercises. Click here
• Family: click here and do this exercise here
• The Simpsons: vocabulary here

Here you have a video with idoms or expressions connected to the family; it's a bit difficult for beginners but it's quite interesting and you can practise some listening if you are not a beginner of English. Click here to see the video.

Starting with prepositions

I've just found this page to learn the most important prepositions of place. It is for children but I think it's quite funny and interesting, especially if you use it with your own children. Enjoy it!
When you are sure about the use of these prepositions you can work with them using these examples:

• Where's my laptop?  It's on the table, near the lamp, between the books and the printer, etc.
• Where are my pencils?  They're in the box and on the table, behind the laptop, etc.

If you still have problems go to this link to see a diagram of prepositions and the translation into Spanish:

http://www.lingolex.com/prepositions/prepositionsen.htm