The final countdown... for holidays!

This post is to encourage all my first year CSE students to study and work (A, B, C)... we have 2 weeks left for summer holidays...I know you have a lot of tests, now, study hard, you can pass!

Now, you can watch the next song we'll be listening to in class. We'll have to do some activities about it soon. In this video you can read the lyrics and dance, it will be fun ;-)

Your homework for the day your teacher won't come to class (next Thursday and Friday).

Hi everyone:

As you know, I won't come to class on Thursday (1º CSE A and B) and Friday (1º CSE C).I know what you are thinking...

Here is the homework you'll have to do in class during the English lesson:

1º) Do the next exercises online. When you finish, check the solutions online. Did you do them well? In the past simple link you have more than one exercise. Do and correct all of them.

Presente simple
Presente continuo
Pasado simple
Futuro be +going to

Remember: if you don't know the meaning of a word, you can check it in :

www.wordreference.com

When you have finished, and only then, you can watch the next video and do a task...

You'll have to do the next task:

- Write 10 English words related to objects you can see in the video (very easy).
- Write 5 words related to verbs you can see in the video (easy).
- Write 3 sentences in simple present, 3 in present continuous, and 3 in simple past related to things you can see Mr Bean does in the video.

If you can't see the video in the blog, try this:

Go to www.youtube.com and write Good night Mr Bean. Search for the video directly. 

I hope you don't miss me too much. We'll correct the exercises next Monday, so please work hard during that English lesson if you want to finish them. And please behave well...

Poetry for kids.

Click this link and you'll enter a webpage where you can read and listen to a funny poem. You can practice the pronunciation while you listen to it, just click the symbol.

If the link doesn't work, just copy this webpage:

http://www.poetry4kids.com/blog/category/podcast/

The poem is called "Wayne the Stegosaurus".

Sk8er boi ;-)

We'll listen to this song in class and we'll do some exercises. There are a lot of verbs in the past tense in it, I hope you like it.

And now, the lyrics... if you read them carefully, there is one verb ending in -ing form which is not well written...which is this verb?

Past simple: regular and irregular verbs.

Now some more practice, but this time you'll find regular and irregular verbs in the exercises.  Click here. Come on, it's easy.

Past simple: regular verbs.

Now let's practice the past tense using regular verbs. Click here and do the exercises. Some practice will be good for you!

TO BE in past tense.

In unit 7, we are going to study the past tense of the verb TO BE. It's very easy, have a look:

Now you have to memorize the verbal forms and ask your teacher if there's something you don't understand.

Is it clear? Let's do some exercises to show you don't have any doubt:

Exercises TO BE IN PAST TENSE

There are 4 different exercises in this webpage, do all of them to check that you understand perfectly.