CAPTION: Do you know Malala? Read the text to learn more about this Pakistani activist who won the Nobel Prize at a young age!
Hello guys!
Hello guys!
How are you doing this week? Have you already gone for a walk? These are the activities for this week. Send me the correction of your exercises via email with a screenshot of the final score. There are 5 activities.
Thank you!
Best wishes,
Humberto.
DEADLINE 3rd April
1) Revision: tech vocabulary
2) Reading:
3) Listening: https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Present_Simple/Present_Simple_-_Video_gz25996xg
4) Grammar. Passive. *See explanation below
https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Passive_voice/Passive_cg34674na
https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Passive_voice/Passive_cg34674na
5) Writing. E-mail (deadline: 12th May)
- HOMEWORK: what type of online lessons do you enjoy the most (videoconference, email, blog) and what is your favourite activity so far
- LEISURE: What are you doing to keep fit? What new hobbies are you taking?
- GOING OUT: have you already gone out? why/why not? how was it if you did? What would you do when you can go out?
Answering machine message. Complain in Customer Service. Leave a message complaining about a gadget you have just bought recently. Follow the example in exercise 6 here:
https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Computers_and_technology/Revision_worksheet_spectrum_3_basic_tc90406no
**Answering machine = contestador automático.
*THE PASSIVE
The agent, when present, is followed by the preposition BY.
Humberto teaches English. => English is taught by Humberto.
Samsung produces mobile phones => Mobile phones are produced by Samsung.
The dog will eat the bone => The bone will be eaten by the dog.
Notice the changes in the pronouns (subject to object pronoun):
I studied English => English was studied by me. (by I)
They bought the French books => The French books were bought by them (by they)
He has enjoyed dancing => Dancing has been enjoyed by him (by he)
She reads fantasy books => Fantasy books are read by her (by she)
-Duration: 20-50 seconds
- -Say your name and a contact (email, phone number... you can invent it)
- -Say what you bought, when and where, and how much it was
- -Say what is the problem
- -Say what you expect: a refund, an exchange, a reparation...
- -Say thank you and good bye.
Example: Good morning, my name is X and my phone is X. I'm calling because I bought a X in X last X (e.g. a phone in your shop last week), it costed 200 euros and there's a problem: the screen goes black/I can't switch it on/it doesn't charge properly. I'd like to have a refund/it repaired/an exhange, please. Thank you, good bye.
**Answering machine = contestador automático.
*THE PASSIVE
The agent, when present, is followed by the preposition BY.
Humberto teaches English. => English is taught by Humberto.
Samsung produces mobile phones => Mobile phones are produced by Samsung.
The dog will eat the bone => The bone will be eaten by the dog.
Notice the changes in the pronouns (subject to object pronoun):
I studied English => English was studied by me. (
They bought the French books => The French books were bought by them (
He has enjoyed dancing => Dancing has been enjoyed by him (
She reads fantasy books => Fantasy books are read by her (