Past Simple and Past Continuous practice

Past Perfect

The past continuous

Little Red Riding Hood listening

How do you learn? Look at the way Manu has found to learn his irregular verbs!

Manu Payet - Every Late - Preterit
Cargado por DumbaDonf

Anecdote activities: Speaking about a dangerous situation.

http://www.insideout.net/video/anecdote-video-player?video-id=844

Dangerous situations (watch and write a summary)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11917279

Watch and listen (and write a summary)

http://es.yappr.com/welcome/Video.action?videoGuid=F17D3A5F-9628-4491-A963-16CF25CA50BE

Irregular verbs practice - GAMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Practise your verbs with these games from manythings.org:

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past1-mw.html

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past1-sw.html

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past2-mw.html

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past2-sw.html

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past3-mw.html

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past3-sw.html

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past4-mw.html

http://www.manythings.org/wbg/verbs_past4-sw.html

Narrative tenses

Past tenses

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: grammar tenses)

Find out about the International Spy museum

This one is funnier. Spies like us, by Paul McCartney

Find out the meaning of the words in bold:
OOH, OOH, WHAT DO YOU DO?
NO ONE ELSE CAN DANCE LIKE YOU.
SO WHAT'S ALL THE FUZZ,
THERE AIN'T NOBODY THAT SPIES LIKE US.

HEY, HEY, WHAT DO YOU SAY?
SOMEONE TOOK YOUR PLANS AWAY.
SO WHAT'S ALL THE FUZZ,
THERE AIN'T NOBODY THAT SPIES LIKE US.

HEY, DON'T FEEL AFRAID
OF AN UNDERCOVER AID.
THERE'S NO NEED TO FUZZ,
AIN'T NOBODY THAT SPIES LIKE US, SPIES LIKE US.

OH!

WE DON'T KNOW THE MEANING OF FEAR,
WE PLAY EV'RY MINUTE BY EAR.
ONE FOR ALL AND ALL FOR ONE, (oh-oh)
EV'RYBODY'S ON THE RUN, (oh-oh)
ESPECIALLY AT THIS TIME OF THE YEAR.

OOH, OOH, WHAT DO YOU DO?
NO ONE ELSE CAN DANCE LIKE YOU.
SO WHAT'S ALL THE FUZZ,
AIN'T NOBODY GOT SPIES LIKE US.

HEY, HEY, WHAT DO YOU SAY?
NO ONE ELSE CAN LOOK THAT WAY.
SO WHAT'S ALL THE FUZZ,
THERE AIN'T NOBODY THAT SPIES LIKE US.

SNOOKIE!

SPIES -

OH!

WE GET THERE BY HOOK OR BY CROOK,
WE DON'T DO A THING BY THE BOOK.
NEVER NEEDED SPECIAL CLOTHES, (oh-oh)
HOW WE DID IT, NO ONE KNOWS. (oh-oh)
GUESS WE MUST HAVE HAD WHAT IT TOOK.

OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH,
OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH-OOH,
OH, WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH,
OH, WHEN THINGS GET TOUGH,
GUYS LIKE US ACT ROUGH,
GUYS LIKE US ACT ROUGH.

HEY, HEY, WHAT DO YOU SAY?
SOMEONE TOOK THE PLANS AWAY.
SO WHAT'S ALL THE FUZZ,
AIN'T NOBODY THAT SPIES LIKE US, SPIES LIKE US.

OH!

SPIES LIKE US,

A song about spies - slightly paranoid... (Coldplay)

Download the mp3 list of irregular verbs to listen and repeat as you come to school

http://www.4shared.com/audio/OPsGJoiB/irregular-verbs-alphabetical.html

Bruce Lee (with suffixes)

Practise your pronunciation (sing along, useful language for socializing)

Strangers in the night (some suffixes!)

Link to Burlington Web extras for Viewpoints 1

http://www.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=172

(scroll down the page)

Link to Burlington extra practice with answers

http://www.burlingtonbooks.com/Spain/Page.aspx?PageID=411

Some grammar books

M. VINCE: English Grammar in Context. Intermediate (with key). Macmillan.
S. CLARKE: Macmillan English Grammar in Context.Essential (with key). . Macmillan (for those who have little English, as a first step).
Editorial Cambridge: The series called Grammar in Practice (You should choose numbers 4, 5 and 6 for your level).
Editorial Longman: Grammar Express (with answers).
Editorial Oxford: N. COE: Oxford Living Grammar (with answers). Intermediate.