ENGLISH WORLD 1 U.C.E.: junio 2017

jueves, 29 de junio de 2017

COMPARATIVES-EXERCISES

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/comparative-adjectives-exercise-1.html
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/adjectives-adverbs/adjectives/exercises
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2065
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-grammar-comparatives-superlatives.php
http://www.language-worksheets.com/comparative-adjectives-elementary.html

Formation of Comparative Adjectives

There are two ways to make or to "form" a comparative adjective:

short adjectives: add "-er"
long adjectives: use "more"

Short adjectives: add -er	examples
1-syllable adjectives	old, fast
2-syllable adjectives ending in -y	happy, easy
RULE: add "-er"	old → older
Variation: if the adjective ends in -e, just add -r	late → later
Variation: if the adjective ends in consonant, vowel, consonant, double the last consonant	big → bigger
Variation: if the adjective ends in -y, change the y to i	happy → happier

Long adjectives: use more	examples
2-syllable adjectives not ending in -y	modern, pleasant
all adjectives of 3 or more syllables	expensive, intellectual
RULE: use "more"	modern → more modern expensive → more expensive

With some 2-syllable adjectives, we can use "-er" OR "more":

quiet → quieter/more quiet
clever → cleverer/more clever
narrow → narrower/more narrow
simple → simpler/more simple

Exception: The following adjectives have irregular forms:

good → better
well (healthy) → better
bad → worse
far → farther/

Comparatives grammar animation -- Mosaic

martes, 27 de junio de 2017

Shopping for Clothes: Colours & Sizes

Object Pronouns Exercises

http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/jd-pronouns.html
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1965
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-13991.php
http://www.montsemorales.com/gramatica/Objectpronoun.htm
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1961
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronouns/exercises?02

Object pronouns-Grammar

The seven basic pronouns have one form when they are used as subjects and another form when they are used as objects.

Subjects are what the sentence is about. (See more about Subject Pronouns)
Objects are what is affected by the action of the subject.

I like orange juice. (I is the subject).
I read books. (Books is the object as it is receiving the action).

PRONOUNS
Subject Pronoun	Object Pronoun
I	Me
You	You
He	Him
She	Her
It	It
We	Us
You (plural)	You
They	Them

Object pronouns are used instead of nouns, usually because we already know what the object is. It makes the sentence easier to read and understand and avoids repetition. We normally use object pronouns after a verb or a preposition.

Examples
I like horses.	Subject Pronoun
Horses don't like me.	Object Pronoun

We talk to our neighbour.	Subject Pronoun
She talks to us.	Object Pronoun

They listen to the teacher.	Subject Pronoun
Listen to me carefully.	Object Pronoun

You speak very quickly.	Subject Pronoun
We watch them on TV.	Object Pronoun

The Object Pronoun - it

Be careful when using 'it' as an object pronoun because it is only in the correct context that it has meaning. It needs to have already been mentioned or obvious to the listener what you are referring to. Compare;

You are sitting on it! (The listener probably doesn't know what the speaker refers to).
The letter is on the sofa. You are sitting on it! (It is obvious in the second sentence that the reference is to the letter)

Subject and object pronouns in English

miércoles, 21 de junio de 2017

LISTENING-READING

Bruce Lee was the man who brought kung fu to the West with his famous film Enter the Dragon.

Although Bruce Lee was born in Chinatown in San Francisco in 1940, his parents soon moved back to Hong Kong. Unfortunately, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Hong Kong shortly afterwards but the family survived.

His father Lee Hoi Chuon was a famous Cantonese opera singer and actor and his mother Grace was a wealthy aristocrat from Hong Kong. In 1957 Lee fought and won the Hong Kong high school boxing championship and then became the Hong Kong cha cha cha champion for 1958.

At the age of 18, he returned to the United States where his sister and brother lived. He studied drama and philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle. Then he opened his first martial arts school where he taught his friends Jun Fan Gung Fu.

Bruce Lee then had the original idea behind the very famous TV series Kung Fu but Warner Bros. decided not to have a Chinese person as the star of the series. As a result, Bruce and wife and children caught a plane to Hong Kong.

Back in Hong Kong, Bruce immediately made three very successful films with director Raymond Chow called The Big Boss, Fist of Fury and The Way of the Dragon. There is a very famous fight scene in The Way of the Dragon with Chuck Norris filmed in the Colosseum in Rome where the gladiators fought. His last film was Enter the Dragon and was also a huge hit. The movie has made more than 200 million US dollars.

Bruce Lee was a philosopher as well as a fighter and wrote a lot of books. He believed that all knowlegde eventually became self-knowledge.

AUDIO:

http://www.autoenglish.org/listening/BruceLee.mp3

lunes, 19 de junio de 2017

SIMPLE PAST EXERCISES

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-simple-past.php
https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-past/exercises
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_mix.htm
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-7.html
http://www.grammarbank.com/simple-past-irregular-verbs.html
http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-past-exercises.html

SIMPLE PAST-GRAMMAR

1. Use of the Simple Past

1.1. actions finished in the past

I visited Berlin last week.

1.2. series of completed actions in the past

First I got up, then I had breakfast.

1.3. together with the Past Progressive/Continuous
The Simple Past interrupted an action which was in progress in the past.

They were playing cards, when the telephone rang.

1st action → Past Progressive → were playing
2nd action → Simple Past → rang

2. Signal words

yesterday
last week
a month ago
in 2010

3. Form

regular verbs → infinitive + ed
irregular verbs → 2nd column of the table of the irregular verbs

4. Examples

4.1. Affirmative sentences in the Simple Past – regular verbs

Long forms	Contracted forms
I cleaned my room.	not possible
You cleaned your room.
He cleaned his room.

4.2. Affirmative sentences in the Simple Past – irregular verbs

Long forms	Contracted forms
I went home.	not possible
You went home.
He went home.

4.3. Negative sentences in the Simple Past

Do not negate a main verb in English. Always use the auxiliary did (Simple Past of to do) and the infinitive of the verb for negations.

There is no difference between regular and irregular verbs in negative sentences.

Long forms	Contracted forms
I did not clean the room.	I didn't clean the room.
You did not clean the room.	You didn't clean the room.
He did not clean the room.	He didn't clean the room.