Crime and Punishment

The following paragraph and key words come from a mistery story.
You have to act the detective and ask your teacher questions. Use past simple, past continuous or past perfect.
Your teacher will only answer: YES or NO.

Crime and Punishment

A man got on the train and sat down in a compartment which was empty except for one lady. She took her glove off. A few hours later the man was arrested by the police. They held him for 24 hours and were then forced to let him go free. 

GARDEN
LOVER
30 YEARS
VANISH
JAIL

Solution:
Thirty years before, the gloved lady had been lmarried to the man on the train. She and her lover had disappeared and left the country. Before vanishing they had cut off the two middle fingers of her left hand and buried them on the garden. The police found the fingers while investigating her disappearance and accused the man of murdering his wife and burying the rest of her somewhere else. He was jailed for 30 years for a crime he had not committed. 
He did not recognise her at first on the train. When she took off her gloves he did. He killed her. The police had to release him as he had served his life sentence before committing the crime. 

Gerund or Infinitive

Gerund or Infinitive in Songs

Today I would like to try out an activity that was prepared by a Polish teacher who teaches English.
Thank you Natalia for sharing this activity in your blog!

Happy learning!


Songs used:

1. She will be loved, Maroon 5
2. New York New York, Frank Sinatra
3. Hey Jude, The Beatles
4. Let her go, Passenger
5. November rain, Guns’n’Roses
6. Lost on you, LP
7. Hello, Adele
8. Man down, Rhianna
9. Billy Jean, Michel Jackson
10. Love on the brain, Rhianna
11. Clocks, Coldplay
12. I want to break free, Queen
13. Lazy Song, Bruno Mars
14. Purple Rain, Prince
15. Rehab, Amy Winehouse
16. Stop cryin’ your heart out, Oasis

Present Tenses

     Read the following sentences.

·         What verbal tense is it?     Pr. S.    Pr. C.     Pr. P.

·         Match them with one of the uses of the present tenses.

	Verbal tense	Uses
1.       It’s raining right now.
2.       I have lived in Barcelona for 10 years.
3.       I do yoga twice a week.
4.       Prices are going up.
5.       My brother has never worked abroad.
6.       Water boils at 100ºCelcius.
7.       She’s always late.
8.       How often do you have toasts for breakfast?
9.       What are you doing on Friday night?
10.   He often goes out with my brother.
11.   I’ve lost my keys.
12.   I’m painting my flat these days.
13.   I live in a small flat.
14.   How long have you worked there?
15.   I’m having dinner with some friends tomorrow night.
16.   I’ve just seen your sister in the street

*State verbs and verbs describing feelings are not normally used in the present continuous: be, like, want, know, need, have (possession)

Present perfect		Catalan translation	Spanish translation
?  YET	Have you finished yet?	ja	ya
-   YET	Not yet. I haven’t finished yet.	encara	todavia
+  ALREADY	Yes, I have already finished.	ja	ya

Don't say "Yes" or "No"

Objective: practice of interrogative sentences. 

Whole class or team competition.

Each team prepares as many "yes/no questions" as you can. You can use all the different verbal tenses.

Each question must be answered without delay and without the use of "yes" or "no".
The team which answers the most questions in this way wins.

Alternative answers to "Yes" or "No" could be:

I might go.                          Obviously                      Obviously not.          
Maybe                                 Sure                                No way.
Perhaps                              Of course.                      Of course not.
Probably                             I hope so.                        I hope  not. 
Possibly                              I think so.                       I don't think so.     
                                            Absolutely!

                                            Of course I will.             Of course I won't.
                                            Of course I did.               Of course I didn't. 
                                            I definitely will.               I definitely won't. 
                                            I definitely did.               I definitely didn't. 

You never know.                  
It depends.                    
Who knows!                         
Why not?
I have no idea.  
I haven't got a clue.
I would rather not answer. 

Idea taken from Penny Ur's book, Grammar Practice, Cambridge, 1990.

More about relative clauses: WHAT

Use "what" as a relative pronoun to mean "the thing(s) that".

I don't understand what you are saying (= the things that).
What most annoys me about him is that he's selfish. (= the thing that most annoys me).

Grammar Notes

Class Grammar Notes

Comparatives and Superlatives

Read the following sentences and list the 4 people starting with the youngest. Then list them starting with the shortest.

the youngest <---------------------------------------------> the oldest

jack, molly, nelly, ken

the shortest  <---------------------------------------------> the tallest
molly jack ken nelly

Molly is yourger than Nelly.

Molly is older and shorter than Jack.

Nelly is taller and younger than ken.

Ken is taller than Jack. 

Answer Key to the modal verbs revision photocopy

A
a)

1. don't have to 
2. must
3. didn't have to
4. Do you have to 
5. had to 
6. Did you have to
7. shouldn't 
8. mustn't

b)

1. shouldn't go
2. they have to
3. don't have to
4. should speak
5. mustn't go 

B

1 -   I
2 -  G
3 -  A
4-   D
5-    J
6 -   C
7 -   F
8 -   E
9 -   B
10 - H

Results of events

The next Olympic games will be held in Badalona. 

What do you think will be done by the authorities to cope with it?

Language focus: future simple passive. 

________________________________________________________________________________

A flu epidemic was detected. 

What do you think was done by the authorities to cope with it?

Language focus: past simple passive. 


________________________________________________________________________________

Write as many sentences as you can to explain what you imagine will be done or was done, and any other consequences that can be expressed as passives. 

Write the results, and the results-of-results as a flow-chart. 

Reported speech

We spend our lives reporting what other people have said to us, our mum, our teachers, our friends, the president of Catalonia, our tutor, etc.
Can you transform these direct speech sentences into reported speech?
How many changes do you need to make?
It works exactly the same as Catalan and Spanish.
Good luck!

STATEMENTS:

Amanda: "I'm visiting my brother in Paris next Friday."
_________________________________________________________________


QUESTIONS:

Police officer: "Did you see any stranger coming into this building yesterday?"
__________________________________________________________________

Police officer: "Where did you go after the explosion?"
___________________________________________________________________


COMMANDS:

Teacher: "Tell me the truth."
_________________________________________________________________

Mum: "Don't come back after midnight."
_________________________________________________________________


Make a list of all the changes:

• Statements  (Reporting verb: _____________ / _____________)

1. 
   
2. 
   
3. 
   

• Questions  (Reporting verb: _____________ )

1. The same changes as statements
2. 
   
3. 
   

• Commands  (Reporting verb: _____________ / _____________)

1. 
   

Irregular Verbs

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Present Perfect review

1- Experiences

ever  /  never

Have you ever been to London?

My brother has never worked abroad. 

2- Unfinished actions

for  /  since  / how long...?

How long have you worked here in La Pineda?

I've worked here for 6 years. 

I've worked here since 2007.

3- yet / already

Have you finished your homework yet?

No, not yet. I haven't finished it yet. 

Do you want to see this film?

No, I've already seen it. 

4- Recent actions

just

My sister has just started a new job. 

Present perfect tenses

Perfect Tenses

Hexagon Race

Idea taken from Reward Intermediate Resource Pack.

Procedure:

1. The object of the game is to get a line of connecting hexagons, either from the top of the board to the bottom or from one side to the other. 
2. A team gets an hexagon by answering a question correctly. 
3. The first team chooses an hexagon from the top row of the game board. This is where their line will begin. 
4. It is a good idea to try to block the other team.
5. The first team to get a line of hexagons from top to bottom or from one side to the other is the winner.

Causative Passive: "have something done"

This is a very simple, clear and short explanation of the very English structure: "have something done"

Thanks to Abel, a teacher from Terrassa who created this presentation.

Causative passive

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Passive Voice

Can you rewrite the following sentence into the passive voice?
You can form two passive sencences because there are two objects, although it is more common to start the passive sentence with the indirect object.

Camèlia gave us the good news. 

1. ______________________________

2. ______________________________

Complete with the passive form of the verb make:

• make                        ____________________
• is making                  ____________________ 
• will make                  ____________________ 
• is going to make        ____________________ 
• made                         ____________________ 
• was making               ____________________ 
• has made                   ____________________ 
• had made                   ____________________ 
• to make                     ____________________ 

We use the passive voice when it is not clear or important who does the action, e.g. My bike has been stolen. 

If you want to say who did the action, use by. 

Passive Voice video explanation

This is a wonderful explanation of the passive voice by American teacher Jennifer.
You may want to visit her Youtube Channel: Quality English Lessons Online by JenniferESL.
Happy learning!

Passive voice (exercises online)

Click on the links below for further grammar practice at home:

Active or passive
Passive voice -various tenses

Conditional sentences (exercises online)

1. First and second conditional
2. Second conditional
3. Third conditional (1)
4. Third conditional (2)

Future forms (exercises online)

1. Future forms: going to, present continuous, will / shall (1)
2. Future forms: going to, present continuous, will / shall (2)