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Past time expressions

Las expresiones de tiempo en pasado, nos ayudan a estructurar mejor nuestras oraciones, ya que señalan el tiempo en el que sucedió cierta acción. Estas expresiones tan comunes las utilizamos cuando decimos – Ayer yo estudié inglés,  – Hace tres horas yo estaba en el súper, Hace un mes fui al Tajín; etc.

Usando estas expresiones podemos darle un mayor contexto a nuestra idea. Chequemos la siguiente tabla.

Tabla 1. Expresiones de tiempo en pasado comunes.

Last	Ago	Yesterday
Last night	10 minutes ago	Yesterday
Last Sunday	An hour ago	Yesterday morning
Last weekend	Three days ago	Yesterday afternoon
Last week	A week ago	Yesterday evening
Last month	A month ago	The day before yesterday
Last year	A year ago, two years ago…
In (Para indicar un mes o año en especifico) In 1990, In March.

Estas expresiones pueden ser colocadas al inicio ó al final de mi oración, por ejemplo:

• Yesterday, i was in the bank.
• I left college three years ago.
• Three days ago, we were in Peru.
• I saw him last week.
• In 2002 he was in Alaska

Si notas, cuando usas tu expresión de tiempo al inicio de tu oración, utilizas una coma después de este.

Ejercicio

Realiza el siguiente ejercicio.

1. Today is________
2. Yesterday was _______
3. The day before yesterday________
4. The year is_________
5. Last year was___________
6. Today´s date is__________
7. One week ago was_______

Present and past perfect

Present perfect and Past perfect

Check the video above for a better understanding of these tenses.

HOMEWORK

Visit the following link and practice.. Print it and take it to the classroom

Aquí

Holidays and festivals

RIO DE JANEIRO’S CARNIVAL

The anual carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, started around 1840. They celebrate this famous carnival at the beginning of February. They offer prizes for both, costume and music; the competition results in varied and imaginative entries in both categories.

THE DAY OF THE DEAD

The day of the dead is celebrated in Mexico on November 2^nd. It is a time when Mexican families spend time at the cemetery, visiting the graves of their relatives, cleaning and painting the headstones. They specially arrange flowers to the dead and light candles. They offer food to their dead and then they have lunch together there. 

Verbs are subdivided into two groups, regular verbs and irregular verbs, on the basis of how their past tense and past participles are formed. See below for tips on how to distinguish between them.

Regular Verbs

Most verbs are regular verbs. Regular verbs are those whose past tense and past participles are formed by adding a -d or an -ed to the end of the verb.

"To roll" is a good example of a regular verb:

• roll, rolled, rolled

Sometimes the last consonant must be doubled before adding the -ed ending. For example:

• plan, planned, planned

Irregular Verbs

There is no formula to predict how an irregular verb will form its past-tense and past-participle forms. There are over 250 irregular verbs in English. Although they do not follow a formula, there are some fairly common irregular forms. Some of these forms are:

• break, broke, broken
• cut, cut, cut
• run, ran, run
• meet, met, met
• come, came, come
• repay, repaid, repaid
• swim, swam, swum
• be was/were been

Distinguishing Regular and Irregular Verbs

Dictionaries are perhaps the most valuable tool one can use in distinguishing between regular and irregular verbs. If only one form of the verb is listed, the verb is regular. If the verb is irregular, the dictionary will list the principal parts of the other forms.

HOMEWORK

WRITE DOWN THE FOLLOWING EXERCISES IN YOUR NOTEBOOK.. 

MATCH THE CORRECT PRESENT FORM WITH ITS PAST FORM.

What do they do? What are they doing?

SIMPLE PRESENT vs. PRESENT 

PROGRESSIVE

Check out this video for a better comprehension:

Daily routine or just for a limited period of time?

Do you want to talk about a daily routine? Or do you want to emphasis that something is only going on for a limited (rather short) period of time?

Simple Present	Present Progressive
daily routine Bob works in a restaurant.	only for a limited period of time Jenny is working in a restaurant.

USE

In general or right now?

Do you want to express that something happens in general or that something is happening right now?

Simple Present	Present Progressive
in general (regularly, often, never) Colin plays football every Tuesday. present actions happening one after another First Colin plays football, then he watches TV.	right now Look! Colin is playing football now. also for several actions happening at the same time Colin is playing football and Anne is watching.
Signal words
always every ... often normally usually sometimes seldom never first then	at the moment at this moment today now right now Listen! Look!

HOMEWORK!

Click on the link below and write the correct sentence in your notebook-

- https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises

- https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro/exercises?ex02

EGYPT

Egypt

In this lesson, we use the characteristics that describe a country or a city depending on its geographic characteristics.

Here you are some characteristics:

The indefinite articles: A vs. An

USE 1

The article A is used before singular, countable nouns which begin with consonant sounds.

Examples:

• He is a teacher.
• It is a flat country
• There is a large desert called the Sahara desert.

USE 2

The article AN is used before singular, countable nouns which begin with vowel sounds.

Examples:

• He is an actor.
• Egypt is an African country.
• An economic activity in Egypt is tourism.

USE 3

Remember that A(AN) means "one" or "a single". You cannot use A(AN) with plural nouns (ᶲ

).

Examples:

• An American countries. Not Correct
• American countries. Correct
• A flat cities. Not Correct
• Flat cities. Correct

HOMEWORK

Check out the following link and write the answers in your notebook.

http://www.englishpage.com/articles/articles_1.htm

What does he do everyday?

Present Tense - Third Person

Normally in the present tense we add S to the end of the verb in the 3rd person (He, She, It). // Normalmente en el tiempo presente, agregamos s al final del verbo en la tercera persona del singular (él, ella, eso). Usamos el presente simple para describir rutinas y hábitos.

Verb	3rd Person
Speak	Speaks
Play	Plays
Get up	Gets up
Make	Makes

• He speaks three languages.
• She drinks coffee every morning.
• My dog hates my cat.

Present Progressive or Present Continuous

Basic form

Subject + IS/ARE + Verb ING (continuous form)

Quick examples

• He is sleeping.
• I am visiting grandpa in the afternoon.
• You are always coming late to school!

The Present progressive or Present continuos is mainly used to express the idea that something is happening at the moment of speaking. Another use of the tense is to talk about temporary actions or future plans. // El presente continuo se utiliza principalmente para expresar la idea de que algo está ocurriendo en el momento de hablar. Otro uso de la tensa es hablar de acciones temporales o planes futuros.

Para aclarar aún más el tema, visita esta página:
https://prezi.com/apamj4f6wekd/daily-routines-vs-actions-in-progress/

Click on the link below and continue practicing (para practicar):
- http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3443
- http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1703

Irregular verbs

Most verbs have past tense and past participle in –ed ( worked, played, listened). But many of the most frequent verbs are irregular. Example:

I want to build a sand castle like the one we built last year.

→ In this example, the irregular verb build is in base form. The irregular verb built is the past simple form of “build”. When you look at the complete list of examples, you’ll notice that built is also the past participle of the irregular verb “build”.

Visit the following link and keep on practicing :)
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2030