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Present Prefect Simple Vs. Present Perfect Continuous

2011-07-20T04:21:00.000-07:00

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pronunciation - simple past

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songs 4 kids

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Simple Past Vs. Present Perfect

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PRESENT PERFECT
En inglés utilizamos el tiempo presente perfecto cuando existe una conexión o relación entre el pasado y el presente. Tiene dos usos principales:

a) Lo utilizamos cuando nos encontramos interesados en el resultado presente de algo que ocurrió en un momento no definido del pasado:

- The secretary has decided to look for a new job.
La secretaria ha decidido buscar un nuevo trabajo.

- I'm afraid I have forgotten your name.
Me temo que he olvidado tu nombre.

b) Lo utilizamos para hablar acerca de una acción o situación que comenzó en el pasado y aún continúa:

- How long have you worked here?
¿Cuánto tiempo has trabajado aquí?

- She has been away on business since last week.
Ella se ha ausentado por negocios desde la semana pasada.

- I haven't seen Sylvia for several years.
No he visto a Silvia durante varios.

Con el presente perfecto utilizamos How long...? (¿Cuánto tiempo...?) en preguntas relacionadas con la duración y for (durante) o since (desde) para las respuestas.

- How long have you worked at OM Personal?
¿Cuánto tiempo has trabajado en OM Personal?

Observa que usamos for para expresar la duración de una acción, y since para indicar cuándo comenzó la acción.

- I've worked here for twelve months (for twenty years, etc).
He trabajado aquí durante doce meses (durante veinte años, etc)

- I've worked here since January (since 1990, since Christmas, etc).
He trabajado aquí desde Enero (desde 1990, desde Navidad, etc)

A menudo el presente perfecto se utiliza con los adverbios just (justo), yet (aún), still (todavía), already (ya), ever (alguna vez), never (nunca), recently (recientemente), lately (últimamente), so far (hasta aquí), up to now (hasta ahora). Observa algunos ejemplos:

- They 've just signed an important contract.
Ellos acaban de firmar un importante contrato.
(RECUERDA: Present Perfect + JUST >> Acabar de hacer algo)

- Sheila hasn't received an answer yet.
Sheila no ha recibido respuesta aún.

- Have you ever used this type of machine?
¿Has utilizado alguna vez este tipo de máquina?

- We've had good results so far.
Hasta aquí hemos obtenido buenos resultados.

PAST SIMPLE
Usamos el pasado simple para hablar de algo que sucedió en el pasado y que no tiene relación con el presente. Se refiere exclusivamente a un lapso de tiempo ya finalizado:

- Pasteur made important medical discoveries.
Pasteur realizó importantes decubrimientos médicos.
(Si Pasteur viviera y continuara su carrera podríamos expresar, por ejemplo:
Pasteur has made important medical discoveries)

- Did you go to the meeting yesterday?
¿Fuiste a la reunión ayer?
(Si la reunión no se hubiese interrumpido aún podríamos expresar, por ejemplo:
Have you gone to the meeting?)

- Sandra worked in Paris for five years before moving to Rome.
Sandra trabajó en París durante cinco años antes de mudarse a Roma.
(Si Sandra continuara viviendo en París podríamos expresar, por ejemplo:
Sandra has worked in Paris since 1990)

¿Va quedando un poco más claro, amigo/a hispanoparlante?

Con el pasado simple usamos When...? y How long...? para realizar preguntas acerca del tiempo y duración de los acontecimientos en el pasado:

- When did you come to the States? (TIMING)
¿Cuándo viniste a los Estados Unidos? (TIEMPO)
- How long did you live in Buenos Aires? (DURATION)
¿Cuánto tiempo viviste en Buenos Aires? (DURACION)

Podemos responder la primera pregunta dando el tiempo exacto en el pasado o dando la cantidad total de unidades de tiempo que separan el acontecimiento del presente o momento actual:

- I came here in 2002. Llegué aquí en el 2002.

- I came here three years ago. Llegué aquí hace tres años.

Some exercises to practice

"TH" Pronunciation English Meeting ESL Lesson

2010-11-29T23:50:00.000-08:00

FINAL REMARKS ON 3RD CONDITIONAL

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Third Conditional: no possibility
The first conditional and second conditionals talk about the future. With the third conditional we talk about the past. We talk about a condition in the past that did not happen. That is why there is no possibility for this condition. The third conditional is also like a dream, but with no possibility of the dream coming true.

we have two clauses: CONDITION: PAST PERFECT + RESULT: WOULD HAVE + P.P.

Notice that we are thinking about an impossible past condition. You did not win the lottery. So the condition was not true, and that particular condition can never be true because it is finished. We use the past perfect tense to talk about the impossible past condition. We use WOULD HAVE + past participle to talk about the impossible past result. The important thing about the third conditional is that both the condition and result are impossible now.

Sometimes, we use should have, could have, might have instead of would have, for example: If you had bought a lottery ticket, you might have won.

WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?

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HOW SMART U THINK U ARE?
let´s play!

Starting a Sentence With "However"

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this is a grammar point not explained in the book. However, several exercises include using HOWEVER at the beginning of a sentence and this, as a consequence, leads to the question: Can You Start a Sentence with the Word However?

The answer is here!

these are quick and dirty tips from the site "Grammar Girl"
(very useful)

ed- VERBS

2010-10-08T02:54:00.000-07:00

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PPT PRESENTATION ON PRONUNCIATION OF REGULR VERBS IN PAST
IT WORKS FOR EVERY LEVEL

ENGLISH English - a cockney slang lesson

2010-09-14T14:55:00.000-07:00

remember our talk about cockney slang??? captain cooks and bristol cities and rosy leaf???

well this is what they call english englihs! enjoY!

level 18 -SONGS FROM THE 3RD UNIT - Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (lyrics)

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LEVEL 18 - SONGS FROM THE 3RD UNIT - U2 Still Haven't Found (with lyrics)

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LEVEL 18 - SONGS FROM THE 3RD UNIT -Bob Dylan - Blowing in the wind (sub español)

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LEVEL 18 - SONGS FROM THE 3RD UNIT: Imagine

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GUIDE TO THE ORAL EXAM

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INSTRUCTIONS
1. Teachers will form groups of three or four.
2. Students will converse on only one topic per group.
3. The conversation must last 3 minutes per person (not including pauses).
4. No books, cell phones, papers, or notes of any kind may be used while taking the exam.
5. The exam will be conducted in the classroom.
6. In order to prepare for the exam, students will be given a list of all the possible topics, considering the possibilities to use grammar and vocabulary studied in class.
7. Students are expected to review all the structures and words from the topics and accurately incorporate them into the conversation whenever appropriate.
8. Students will be graded on their use of grammar and vocabulary covered in class as well as fluency, content, discourse, continuity and pronunciation.
9. The conversation should be planned but not scripted. Scripted conversations are likely to receive low marks for fluency, content and continuity.
10. A few selected phrases, however, can be memorized so that when they are needed during the conversation they can be easily recalled.
11. Students should come prepared to:
a. Express their opinions and give details to support them
b. Describe personal experiences or anecdotes related to the topic
c. Make and answer questions related to the topic
d. Keep the conversation going with follow up questions

oral exam topics for level 18

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Stress:
a) Stress:How does it affect us?
b) Most effective ways of relieving stress.
c) Most common causes of stress.

2- Dieting:
a) Reasons why people go on a diet
b) Most effective ways to stick to a diet.
c) Reasons why people usually give up or stop dieting.

3- Status anxiety:
a) Causes of status anxiety ?
b) What advantages does society status bring? Give examples.
c) In your opinion which professions have more status in your country? Why ?

4- Vegetarians VS Meat-eaters:
a) Advantages and disadvantages of being a vegetarian or a meat-eater.

5- Prizes and awards:
a) In what way can an award winning movie affect its popularity ?
b) What other Nobel Prize category should be created in your opinion ? Explain.

LYRICS AND EXERCISES

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practice with songs in english.

download the exercise HERE

THERE ARE 2 SONGS:
WESTLIFE - “IF I LET YOU GO”
OASIS - DONT GO AWAY

personal information

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this activity is designed for level 1

CLICK HERE

introductions

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a pronunciation exercise for level 1

here

Learn the phonetic alphabet.

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go to http://www.soundsenglish.com/phonetic.html

Oral Topics for Level 13

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1- Names:
a) Reasons why people change their names.
b) In what ways can names shape people’s personalities?
c) How do people usually get nicknames?
d) What’s your opinion about parents who give unusual names to their children?

2- Colors:
a) Colors and their different meanings in our culture.
b) Feelings and their association with colors.
c) Clothes color as a reflection of people’s personality.

3- Money:
a) How important is money to you?
b) Which is more important love or money? Why?
c) Why are poor people more generous than rich people?
d) Money and its connection with happiness.
e) How can money affect a person’s personality and attitude?
f) Explain one of these proverbs.
a) Time is money.
b) The best things in life are free.
c) Money doesn’t grow on trees.

4- Cell phones:
a) Advantages and disadvantages of cell phones.
b) The use of cell phones while driving.
c) Cell phones and their new functions.
d) Potential health problems caused by cell phones.
e) How would life be like without cell phones?

5- Internet:
a) The impact of internet on people’s daily life.
b) The internet addiction vs the internet phobia.
c) Positive effects of the internet on people.

bethany hamilton now

2010-08-04T16:44:00.000-07:00

On October 31, 2003, Hamilton went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai with friend Alana Blanchard, and Blanchard's father and brother. Around 7:30 a.m., she was lying sideways on her surfboard with her left arm dangling in the water, when a 14 ft tiger shark attacked her,[1] ripping her left arm off just below the shoulder. If the shark had bitten two inches further in, the attack would have been fatal. Hamilton had lost almost 60% of her blood that morning. Her friends helped paddle her back to shore, and fashioned a tourniquet out of a surfboard leash around what was left of her arm before rushing her to Wilcox Memorial Hospital. Her dad was supposed to have a knee surgery that morning but she took his place in the operating room. She then spent seven more days in recovery at the hospital.

Despite the trauma of the incident, Hamilton was determined to return to surfing. Less than one month after the incident, she returned to her board and went surfing again. Initially, she adopted a custom-made board that was longer and slightly thicker which made it easier to paddle. She has observed that she has to kick a lot more to make up for the loss of her left arm. After teaching herself to surf with one arm, she has again begun surfing competitively. She is now back to using competitive performance short-boards again.

In July 2004 Hamilton won the ESPY Award for Best Comeback Athlete of the Year.[2] She was presented with a special courage award at the 2004 Teen Choice Awards.

In 2005, with one arm, Hamilton took 1st place in the NSSA National Championships, a goal she had been trying to achieve since before the shark attack. In 2008, she began competing full-time on the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS). In her first competition against many of the world's best women surfers, she finished 3rd.

Film, television, magazines, and books

Since the attack, Hamilton has appeared on 20/20, Good Morning America, Inside Edition, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and The Tonight Show, as well as in magazines People and Time. Additionally, she was the cover story in the premier issue of niNe magazine.[3] Hamilton also won $25,000 on the August 7, 2009 edition of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?. She was stumped on a Grade 3 grammar question involving articles.

In 2004, MTV Books published Hamilton's book, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board (ISBN 0-7434-9922-0), which describes her ordeal. Hamilton's story is also told in the 2007 short subject documentary film, Heart of a Soul Surfer, directed by Becky Baumgartner. Described as a "faith-based documentary", the film addresses Hamilton's courage in the aftermath of the shark attack, and follows her quest for spiritual meaning.[4][5]

In 2011, AnnaSophia Robb will portray her in the upcoming film Soul Surfer. Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, & Carrie Underwood are set to co-star in the film.

She appeared on the May 2, 2010 episode of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.

(via wikipedia)

TASK=

1. HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF U WERE IN BETHANYS SHOES?
2. WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE TO OVERCOME THE SADNESS OF LOSING A LIMB?
3. WHAT WOULD YOU TELL HER IF SHE CAME TO VENEZUELA?
4. IN YOUR OPINION, WHAT DID SHE DO TO TACKLE THE FEAR AND TO GO BACK TO THE OCEAN?

DANNY KAYE - 'Tongue Twisters' - 1951 78rpm

2010-08-02T23:41:00.000-07:00

this is the song featured on my presentation WHY PETER PIPER PICKED SOME PICKLES?

LOVELY SONG W A CLASSIC VIBE PLUS A GREAT PRONUNCIATION EXERCISE!

LYRICS
Everybody’s heard of Peter Piper
And the peck of pickled peppers that he picked
That’s such a silly simple children’s game
It hasn’t even got a name
But I’d like to bet that it’ll trip you
And I bet you’re gonna have to say you’re licked
If Peter Piper you pronounce with ease
Then twist your tongue around these
Moses supposes his toeses are roses
But Moses supposes erroneously
For Moses he knowses his toeses aren’t roses
As Moses supposes his toeses to be
That’s tongue twisters
And it seems so easy till the word gets sprung
If you insist you want to try a lisp
Then step up mister and twist your tongue
Now Kissle will whistle at busty Miss. Russell
Who’ll rustle and bustle till Kissle will roar
So Russell asked Axle for Kissle’s dismissal
And this’ll teach Kissle to whistle no more
That’s tongue twisters
And it seems so easy till you twist your tongue
Tito and Tato were tattooed in total
But Toto was only tattooed on his toe
So Tato told Tito where Toto was tattooed
But Tito said Toto’s tattoo wouldn’t show
Theda thought Thora was thumping her thimble
But Thomas thought Thora was thumping her drum
Said Theda if Thora’s not thumping her thimble
I think that she surely is thumping her thumb
That’s tongue twisters
And it seems so easy till the word gets sprung
If you insist you want to try a lisp
Then step up mister and twist your tongue
Now Charley is chary when choosing his cheeses
And cheese is a challenge when Charley arrives
When Charley is charming and chooses a cheddar
Then chews it and chips it and chops in some chives
Heda is hoping to hop to Tahiti
To hack a hibiscus to hang on her hat
Now Heda has hundreds of hats on her hatrack
So how can a hop to Tahiti help that
Snobby Miss. Nora is sniffing her snuffer
The snuffer’s no sniffing it makes Nora sneeze
When Snyda lets Nort know his Nora is sneezing
She snappily snorts Nora’s sneezing a breeze
Sheila is selling her shop at the seashore
For shops at the seashore are so sure to lose
And she’s not so sure of what she should be selling
Should Sheila sell seashells or should she sell shoes
That’s tongue twisters
And it seems so easy till the word gets sprung
If you insist you want to try a lisp
Then step up mister and twist your tongue
Twista felt Twister was trying to whistle
But Twister had twisted his tongue

WHY PETER PIPER PICKED SOME PICKLES?

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MY FUTHER AHEAD PRESENTATION IS ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO DOWNLOAD AND PRACTICE AT HOME.
HAVE FUN W IT!

THIS IS THE LINK (COPY AND PASTE IN ANOTHER WINDOW)
http://sites.google.com/site/misscuelloeslroom/home

ANSWER SHEET

2010-07-23T21:21:00.000-07:00

FIND THE CORRECT CONDITIONS (TYPES OF IF CLAUSES). MIND THE UNDERLINED VERB FORMS
1. Type 1 (probable condition)
2. Type 3 (impossible condition)
3. Type 2 (improbable condition)
4. Type 2 (improbable condition)
5. Type 1 (probable condition)
6. Type 2 (improbable condition)
7. Type 3 (impossible condition)
8. Type 2 (improbable condition)
9. Type 2 (improbable condition)
10.Type 3 (impossible condition)

PUT THE VERB IN BRACKETS INTO THE RIGHT TENSE. (PRESENT, PAST, FUTURE CONDITIONALS)
1. Would have brought
2. wouldn't buy
3. had
4. had known
5. don't go
6. will answer
7. wouldn't have bought
8. would you choose
9. had read
10. had worn
11. will you stay
12. will celebrate
13. won't be
14. would you do
15. would not have
16. will steal
17. will go
18. run out
19. would you do
20. don't change

FILL IN THE SPACES WITH THE RIGHT MODAL VERBS
1. Will
2. shouldn't
3.4.5.6. should
7. mustn't or can't
8. may or can
9. may or might
10. may or could
11. have to
12. have
13. could
14.15.16.17. could
18. can't
19. can
20. can or could

TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES INTO INVERTED SENTENCES
1. in no other way could the matter be explained
2. hardly had we started whe it began to rain
3. seldom have i heard such a beautiful singing
4. never shall i forget your kindness
5. only then did i see the danger we were in
6. no sooner had we left the house than it exploded
7. not till he got home did he realize that he had lost
8. not only did they rob you, they smashed everything
9. should an emergency arise, dial 999
10. were rex a little more hardworking, he would not have failed
11. had mr. chan been kinder to his employees, his business would not have collapsed.