VALENTINE'S DAY

This lesson, is mainly about reading comprehension. So, for you to have a great comprehension and analysis, here there is a text. Read and click on the link to choose the correct answer.

Two sisters and the cat

Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Smith are sisters. Mrs. Wilson lives in a house in Duncan and Mrs. Smith lives in a condominium in Victoria. One day Mrs. Wilson visited her sister. When her sister answered the door, Mrs. Wilson saw tears in her eyes. "What's the matter?" she asked. Mrs. Smith said "My cat Sammy died last night and I have no place to bury him".

She began to cry again. Mrs. Wilson was very sad because she knew her sister loved the cat very much. Suddenly Mrs. Wilson said "I can bury your cat in my garden in Duncan and you can come and visit him sometimes." Mrs. Smith stopped crying and the two sisters had tea together and a nice visit.

It was now five o'clock and Mrs. Wilson said it was time for her to go home. She put on her hat, coat and gloves and Mrs. Smith put the dead Sammy into a shopping bag. Mrs. Wilson took the shopping bag and walked to the bus stop. She waited a long time for the bus so she bought a newspaper. When the bus arrived, she got on the bus, sat down and put the shopping bag on the floor beside her feet. She then began to read the newspaper. When the bus arrived at her bus stop, she got off the bus and walked for about two minutes. Suddenly she remembered she had left the shopping bag on the bus.

[Story by Laurie Buchanan]

Questions

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I LIKE TO EAT!

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Los sustantivos en inglés pueden ser contables o incontables.

Countable Nouns (Los nombres contables)

Los nombres o sustantivos contables son aquellos que se pueden contar.

Ejemplos:

one [a] pencil (un lápiz)

two cats (dos gatos)

three houses (tres casas)

Uncountable Nouns (Los nombres incontables)

Los nombres o sustantivos incontables son aquellos que no podemos contar porque no los podemos delimitar individualmente sino que forman parte de un todo. Son tratados como singulares (no se pueden hacer plurales añadiendo “-s”).

 salt (sal),  wood (madera),  tea (té),  wine (vino),  sugar (azúcar),  bread (pan),  furniture (muebles),  hair (pelo),
 information (información),  money (dinero),  weather (tiempo),
 time (tiempo),  rice (arroz)…

Sin embargo, en el momento que los delimitamos, estos mismos nombres o sustantivos pasan a ser contables. Deberán ir precedidos, si quieren individualizarse, de alguna palabra con
valor partitivo.

Ejemplos:

a gram of salt (un gramo de sal)

a piece of wood (un trozo de madera)

two cups of tea (dos tazas de té)

three glasses of wine (tres vasos de vino)

Practice time!

ASTROFLASH

ORDINAL NUMBERS

Spelling of Ordinal Numbers

Just add th to the cardinal number:

• four - fourth
• eleven - eleventh

Exceptions:

• one - first
• two - second
• three - third
• five - fifth
• eight - eighth
• nine - ninth
• twelve - twelfth

In compound ordinal numbers, note that only the last figure is written as an ordinal number:

• 421st = four hundred and twenty-first
• 5,111th = five thousand, one hundred and eleventh

 

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I haven't won a nobel prize

You can continue practicing the negative form of the present perfect clicking on here.

You can continue practicing the negative form of the present perfect clicking on here.

Past perfect

Past Perfect

El pluscuamperfecto

El pasado perfecto en inglés corresponde al pluscuamperfecto de español. En general, lo usamos para acciones que han ocurrido antes de otra acción en el pasado.

Grammatical Rules (Reglas gramaticales)

Form (Forma)

Igual que en el presente perfecto, se forma el pasado perfecto con el verbo auxiliar “to have” y el participio pasado. El verbo auxiliar estará en pasado.

Sujeto	Verbo Auxiliar	Forma Corta	Participio Pasado
I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had	I’d, you’d, he’d, she’d, it’d, we’d, they’d	studied, visited, worked…

Structure (Estructura)

1. Affirmative Sentences (Frases afirmativas)

Sujeto + “had” + participio pasado…

Ejemplos:

I had [I’d] visited the Louvre before, so I knew where the Mona Lisa was. (Había visitado el Museo del Louvre antes, así que sabía donde estaba la Mona Lisa.)

They had [They’d] studied English before they went to London. (Habían estudiado inglés antes de irse a Londres.)

Henry changed careers because he had [he’d] worked as an accountant for many years and was bored. (Henry cambió de profesión porque había trabajado como contable durante muchos años y estaba aburrido.) To continue practicing, click on here.

The game plan

Time expressions exercises

Games before and now

Expressions of Time

Past	Present	Future
yesterday	today	tomorrow
last week	this week	next week
an hour ago	now	in an hour
recently	as we speak	soon
a little while ago	at this moment	in the near future
a long time ago	these days	way off in the future
in the past	nowadays	eventually
this morning	at this time	later this evening

Time expressions usually go at the end

or at the beginning of a sentence:

Yesterday I went to school.

I went to school yesterday.

This week I'm going to New York.

I'm going to New York this week.

Other popular time expressions:

In the morning  When I wake up in the morning, I like to drink coffee.  What do you drinkin the morning?
during the day  During the day, they go to school .  What do you doduring the day?
at night  The stars and the moon come out at night. Most people sleepat night, but cats usually stay out late.
in the afternoon  In the afternoon, I come home from school and do my homework.

Using time expressions with the correct verb tense will improve your English: - Last week I went to the movies. (past tense. ) - This week I'm working early in the morning.(present continuous tense to describe the entire week) - Next week I'm going to take a trip to California.(the "going to" future)

Continue practicing checking out these exercises.

We danced all night

Simple Past: Regular Verbs

Introduction

The simple past tense is one of the most common tenses in English. Its form is the same with all subjects. It is usually formed by adding -ED to the verb. This page will explain the rules for forming the tense with regular verbs.

1. Forming the simple past tense

With most verbs, the simple past is created simply by adding -ED. However, with some verbs, you need to add -D or change the ending a little. Here are the rules:

Verb ending in...	How to make the simple past	Examples
e	Add -D	live  lived date  dated
Consonant +y	Change y to i, then add -ED	try  tried cry  cried
One vowel + one consonant (but NOT w or y)	Double the consonant, then add -ED	tap  tapped commit  committed
anything else including w	Add -ED	boil  boiled fill  filled hand  handed show  showed

When you are sure that you understand the lesson, you can continue with the exercises.

Don't do it!

Simple Present: Negatives and Questions

Introduction

In the simple present tense, negative forms and question forms are made using the auxiliary verb “do”. This page explains the rules.

1. Forming a negative

Negatives in the simple present are formed by adding don't or doesn't before the simple form of the verb:

Subject	Auxiliary	Example
I	don't	I don't sing
You	don't	You don't sing
He	doesn't	He doesn't sing
She	doesn't	She doesn't sing
It	doesn't	It doesn't sing
We	don't	We don't sing
They	don't	They don't sing

In other words, only third person singular subjects (he, she and it) have doesn't — the rest have don't.

2. Forming a yes/no question

Yes/no questions are also created using the auxiliary do. This time, the auxiliary is placed before the subject. Here are the rules:

Auxiliary	Subject	Example
Do	I	Do I sing?
Do	you	Do you sing?
Does	he	Does he sing?
Does	she	Does she sing?
Does	it	Does it sing?
Do	we	Do we sing?
Do	they	Do they sing?

3. Forming a WH- question

WH- questions (using words such as “what”, “when”, and “where”) are also created by putting the auxiliary do before the subject. Then, you add the WH- word at the beginning. Here are some examples:

Statement	Yes/no question	WH- question
I sing	Do I sing?	What do I sing?
You fight.	Do you fight?	Why do you fight?
He lives	Does he live?	Where does he live?

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Singers and actors

We talk about simple present tense, but you still have to keep an eye on the rules...

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Simple presente tense

I'm not!

To be - negative forms and contractions

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Full negative forms of the verb to be

I am not a singer. He is not a receptionist. She is not a nurse. It is not my book. We are not not musicians. You are not a shop assistant. They are not taxi drivers.

Contracted negative forms of the verb to be

I'm not  a singer. He isn't a receptionist. She isn't a nurse. It isn't my book. We aren't not musicians. You aren't a shop assistant. They aren't taxi drivers.

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Negative sentences

Our family

Possessive Adjectives

English Grammar Rules

Possessive adjectives are used to show possession or ownership of something. While we use them when we refer to people, it is more in the sense of relationship than ownership.

The possessive adjectives in English are as follows:

The possessive adjective needs to agree with the possessor and not with the thing that is possessed.

Examples

• My car is very old.
• Her boyfriend is very friendly.
• Our dog is black.
• Their homework is on the table.

Like all adjectives in English, they are always located directly in front of the noun they refer to. (Possessive Adjective + Noun)

We do not include an S to the adjective when the noun is plural like in many other languages.

Examples:

• Our cars are expensive. (Correct)
  Ours cars are expensive. (Incorrect)

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Possessive adjectives

Physical appearance

This topic will help us to describe people according to their physical features.

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Characteristics

Physical features