Bat16 17-lesson 1

Lesson 1

Batxillerat 2016-17

Email about the holidays

After that there will be a big party with friends and relatives

Irregular adjectives

Acquaintance

• ðɪs səmər aj hæv med mɛni əkwentənsəz bət no frɛndz

Errors in your emails

• I'm going to explain you my briefs holidays• I’m going to explain TO you my brief holidays• I’m going to explain my brief holidays TO you• i need to explain a lot of things • I need to explain a lot of things• How are you? how is your family? here they are all

very well.• How are you? How is your family? Here they are all

very well.

TO is always needed with “explain” (for the Indirect object)

You need a capital letter after a question mark or an exclamation mark

Errors in your emails 2

•  I want explain my holidays• I want TO explain my holidays• I went with my father and my mother to

Guadalajara, because there…• I went to Guadalajara with my father and my

mother because there… • We went to the beach and I loved it• We went to the beach, and I loved it

No comma after “because”

Comma before “and” and “or” when they separate two full sentences

Phrasal verbs???

• Hang out (with): pasar el rato• Get back: volver• Catch up (on): Ponerse al día• Get together: juntarse• Meet up (with) : juntarse• Look forward to + ing : quedar a la espera de /

tener ganas

aɪ æm ˈlʊkɪŋ ˈfɔːwəd tuː rɪˈsiːvɪŋ ðə ʃiːp ˈʃɪpmənt nɛkst ˈwiːkˈɛnd.

Get on well

Young people from different countries get together when they join the

Erasmus program

Please, get in touch if you ever come to Barcelona

READING COMPREHENSION PAGE 6

Meet up

I wish we could meet up more often, but we are all very busy

Build up

This will help to build up his confidence

Put forward

I would like to ______________ some ideas on how to improve the students’ level of English

TURN OUT TO BE

He _________________ a dishonest man

Passtimes

DESCRIBING PEOPLE

Auburn

Casual clothes:

I mostly wear casual things, jumpers and jeans for example.

He is/ a ______ personHe has a ________ build

Medium / slim build Strong build

A clean-shaven man has no hair on the lower part of his face

Who likes to look scruffy?

Complexion

A pale complexion A tanned complexion

VERBS FOLLOWED BY ING / TO INF.VERB + ING VERB + TO INFINITIVE BOTH POSSIBILITIES

CAN’T STANDI cant stand doing nothing

ENJOYI enjoy playing tennis

CAN’T RESIST (no puedo resistirme a)I can’t resist reading other people’s mail

WANTI want to break free

WOULD LIKEI would like to be rich one day

CANT’ WAITI can’t wait to see you!

LIKEHATEPREFERLOVE

EXCEPTION I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO + GERUND

I’m looking forward to seeing you very soon

TAKE AFTER = LOOK LIKE

Dogs often take after their owners

PRESENT PERFECT

FORM

Present Perfect

• Subject + verb + past participle

• What is a past participle?• How well did you do last year in irregular

verb exams?

THE PRESENT PERFECTActions that started in the past, arrive to the present and may continue in the futureMy teacher has written three plays

Action started Action finished Present

Shakespeare wrote many wonderful plays (Why is this a simple past?)

THE SIMPLE PAST

To talk about experience

• HAVE YOU EVER… ? (in question, it means “at any time in your life”)

• I HAVE NEVER… (an experience I have not had)

• I HAVE ALWAYS… (since I can remember

I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO…

I have always liked

I HAVE just…. - actions recently completed

• Arrived to school

Yet and already to indicate completion

• Yet – REFERS TO PRESENT AND FUTURE

• end of negative sentence or clause –• I have not washed the dishes yet

• End of questions –• Is dinner ready yet?

• It is not used in affirmative sentences

• Already – REFERS TO THE RECENT PAST (surprise that something has happened / been done earlier than expected

• Usually in mid position – • I have already washed the dishes• At the age of three, Mozart had already learnt to play the piano

• But final position is also possible - • Have you finished the typing already?

• Already is not used in negative sentences

YET – questions and negative sentences

• Have you washed the dishes YET? – I haven’t washed the dishes yet

• YET has Future Connotations (I will wash them in the near future)

Already – affirmative sentences

• ALREADY HAS PAST CONNOTATIONS – (I washed them half an hour ago.)

Uncompleted actions and events• FOR AND SINCE• I have lived in Barcelona for ______________ PERIODS OF

TIME (3 MONTHS, 2 YEARS…)• I have lived in Barcelona since ___________ POINTS IN TIME

(September, 1960, six o’clock, August…)

TWO TYPES OF USES OF THE PRESENT PERFECT

• Actions completed in the Past actions that affect the present

• News – I have lived in Hospitalet since I was a child (no reference to time)• TIME SPAN IS STILL PRESENT (ALTHOUGH THE ACTION IS PAST)

» ALREADY (Usually used in affirmative sentences. To talk about something that has happened earlier than expected.)

» YET (Usually used in negative sentences to talk about something that ha not happened but will probably happen soon)

• TIME SPAN IS ALREADY PAST » JUST (a short time before)

Uncompleted actions» For + periods of time» Since + point in time

VOCABULARY REVIEW

• Watching movies is my favorite _________.• Jack is always making jokes – you can’t have a ___

conversation with him.• Are you _________ your holiday?• Some people talked _________ the film – it was

so annoying!• It’s important to ________ this hard work until

your exams.• I never accept ________ as friends online.

passtime

meaningful

Looking forward to

throughout

maintain

strangers