quinta-feira, 29 de fevereiro de 2024

Talking about the future


Future with 'will'


Exercises:

Will - Future Tense
Will - Negative
Will - Questions

Future with 'going to' 

PositiveNegative
I am going toI am not going to
You are going toYou are not going to
He is going toHe is not going to
She is going toShe is not going to
It is going toIt is not going to
We are going toWe are not going to
You are going toYou are not going to
They are going toThey are not going to


AffirmativeYouaregoing towin the race.
 SubjectBEGOING TO
 
QuestionAreyougoing towin the race?
 BESubjectGOING TO

Exercises:
Going To - Future Tense
Going To - Negative
Going To - Questions

Will or going to?


segunda-feira, 19 de fevereiro de 2024

Talking about the past - Negative and interrogative

 

We use did to make questions with the past simple:

Did she play tennis when she was younger?
Did you live abroad?
When did you meet your wife?
Where did you go for your holidays?
But questions with who often don't use did:
Who discovered penicillin?
Who wrote Don Quixote?
We use didn't (did not) to make negatives with the past simple:

They didn't go to Spain this year.
We didn't get home until very late last night.
didn't see you yesterday.


 


Talking about the Past - the verb to be


Job interview from present to past

 Exercise 1 -Watch, listen, read and answer the questions
 
Exercise 2 - Identify the verbs in the present and change them to the past rewriting the text

They just finished law school. They are looking for new jobs. They see an ad for a job opening at Torre & Associates. But they know it won't be easy.

Tom and his friends go to the office on the day of the interview. The hall is full of potential job candidates waiting to be interviewed.

Tom and his friends realized their chances of getting a job are pretty slim. So, they come up with an awesome plan.

The interviewer steps out of the office and calls for Mr. Goodman. Goodman is Bill's last name. So, he steps into the office. The interviewer looks at his resumé and asks, "What makes you think you qualify for this job?"

Bill pretends he is being harmed. He screams and makes a lot of noise. Joe pretends to be afraid. He stands up and walks out. The other interviewees start to leave too. They are scared out of their wits.

Bill continues to make a lot of noise. He slams himself against the wall. More interviewees start to leave. Meanwhile, Bill opens the door and hurls himself across the hall.

Everyone else leaves too...except for Tom. The interviewer looks at him dumbfounded and says, 'next'. Tom just smiles and waves.


This is the original video

quinta-feira, 1 de fevereiro de 2024

Talking about the past (regular and irregular verbs)

Regular verbs
With most verbs, the past tense is formed by adding –ed:
called liked wanted worked

Irregular verbs
But there are a lot of irregular past tense forms in English. 



We use the past tense to talk about:
  • something that happened once in the past:
I met my wife in 1991.
We went to Spain for our holidays.
They got home very late last night.
  • something that happened several times in the past:
When I was a boy, I walked a kilometer to school every day.
We swam a lot while we were on holiday.
They always enjoyed visiting their friends.
  • something that was true for some time in the past:
I lived in Angola for 3 years.
He enjoyed being a student.
She played a lot of tennis when she was younger.
  • we often use expressions with ago, last..., yesterday with the past simple:
I met my wife a long time ago.
I visited my parents yesterday 
last week I went to Foz do Arelho

Exercises:

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