Month: September 2017

Back to school…………………… are you looking forward to the long summer days ?

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Homework

Write a short text about you and how you spent your summer: remember you will have to use the  simple past tense. Use sentence connectors like  when, while, then, in the end.  If you are making a list of what activities you did you can also use  at first, secondly, thirdly  and  in the end.   Your text should  have at least 150 words.

Sunday Bloody Sunday: a Song by the U2

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Read the text of this famous song by the U2: which words are repeated and why? Have you ever studied about the history of Ireland and the conflict in Northern  Ireland?

Now watch the video and try to understand the song: did you like it? What do you  know about the band of the U2? 

TOPIC  FOR DISCUSSION

What’s the message of the song? Is there any hope for people whose families were destroyed by violence?

If you  have visited Ireland: have you ever talked with Irish people about  the conflict in the North?

 

 

Ireland: what do you know about this island?

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Brainstorming: questions about  Ireland 

Where is Ireland?  What languages do people  speak there ? Why?

What do you know about  Dublin?

Watch the video: what places in Dublin are described?

Now look at the map of  Ireland: what do you know about  the island and its main two political areas?  Why do we have   Ireland and Northern Ireland?

Map of ireland

Credits :  By Michael 1952 ((Michael,2009)) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Now google ” Bloody Sunday” : what kind of information did you find?

Homework

Did you know about it?  Now watch the video and be ready to report about what  you have learnt about the issue of  Bloody Sunday and  Ireland ( SPEAKING  ACTIVITY)

 

 

Food

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What do you know about  British  Food?

Watch the video

What have you learnt about the  typical  British meals?  Are they the same or do they change on Sunday?

Now watch the second video about   British  food

Homework

Now make a mind map with the most important types of food and words you have met in these videos.

Write about what you have learnt in the videos: you can make a slide or a short presentation by using images and Google Docs.

 

London

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What do you know about  London?  Which are the main symbols of  London?

When was the London Underground  born?

What do you know about  Big Ben?  Where is it located?

Now watch this video about  London: what are its most important  landmarks?

Search online: which are the origins of London?

Now watch the video about  London  and Londinium

Homework

Summarize the content of what you know about  this important  city based on the videos you have seen and search for images which you can use for the text and your presentation.

Help: for  free images you can search online https://pixabay.com/

Quantifiers in English: talking about quantities

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Talking about  quantities in English

When we talk about quantities we can use a lot of words depending on the quantities we have and the nouns.

In questions when we ask about quantities we can use two wh-questions :
how much+ uncountable nouns
how many+ countable nouns

Some/any  mean not much/not many: they can be used to talk about  quantities with countable nouns in the plural and uncountable nouns:

some is usually used in affirmative  sentences (+)

any is used in negative  sentences (-) and  interrogative  sentences (?)

I’ve got  some fruit and some  eggs

I haven’t got any  eggs and  any  meat

When we talk about a  huge quantity we use    a lot of, much and many:

a lot of  is usually used in affirmative  sentences  (+) with  countable and uncountable nouns

much is used in negative and interrogative  sentences with uncoutable nouns   (+/-)

many is used in  negative and interrogative   sentences with  countable nouns  (+/-)

When we talk about  small quantities  we can use   a few and  a little in English

A few is used with countable nouns in the plural while  a  little is used with  uncountable nouns.

Now watch the  videos where you can find some more details about  talking about quantities in English:

Exercises on line about quantities:

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/some-any/exercises

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1657

http://www.grammarbank.com/some-or-any-exercise-dd3.html

http://www.grammarbank.com/determiners-quiz.html

http://www.grammarbank.com/how-much-vs-how-many.html

Handout with exercises online