Past Tenses
Complete: "She ___ (walk) through the jungle when she saw a leopard."
was walking
research has find that texting helps spelling
found
have you heard _____ Nigella's olive oil chocolate cake
have you heard _______ the old lady who swallowed a fly? Perhaps she'll die.
of
about
what word rhymes with "weaver"
fever
weather
clever
fever
right or wrong?
I'd better to get off the phone
wrong!
I'd better get off the phone
Which tense usually carries the main, sequential events of a story? Make a sentence with it.
Past simple
Yesterday, I woke up at 7am, brushed my teeth, got ready and then left for work at 8am
she _______ here since 1998
has lived/has been living
has been
"speak quietly, lest you wake the baby up"
what does "lest" mean?
in case / in fear of / so that doesn't happen
Give the British equivalents for both "car trunk" and "truck."
boot and lorry
right or wrong?
to who are you writing this letter?
wrong!
who are you writing this letter to?
Right or wrong? "She was exhausted because she was paddling for six hours."
Wrong — needs "had been paddling" (a duration phrase needs perfect continuous, not plain continuous)
"She was exhausted because she had been paddling for six hours."
if someone invites me to a Restaurante, what do I mean when I say:
"I have already eaten."
I'm not hungry now.
the travellers trudged across the muddy field, each step heavier than the last.
what does "trudged" mean?
to walk slowly, with difficulty and much effort
/kæt/
/fɑːst/
What one-word noun follows all of: formal, informal, handwritten, love, cover, chain? Make a sentence with it
letter
I have to send in a cover letter with my job application
Right or wrong?
"Yesterday, my back was hurting because I have been carrying weight all day"
wrong, the progressive action happened before the main event.
"Yesterday, my back was hurting because I had been carrying weight all day"
right or wrong?
I have been knowing you since August
wrong!
I have known you since August
'twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe.
what part of speech is toves (verb, noun, adverb, adjective, conjunction...)?
noun
write a sentence with an idiom that means "very happy"
she is over the moon with the marriage proposal
Say a full sentence containing at least two words that use the /ɑː/ vowel in standard BrE (the ask/aunt group).
Any valid sentence, e.g. "I asked my aunt to dance."
write a sentence that combines past simple, past perfect and past perfect progressive
"By the time she reached the mountaintop, the sun had already set, and she realised she had been climbing in the dark for almost an hour without noticing."
What are stative verbs and why they are special.
Give at least three examples
Stative verbs describe a state — a condition, feeling, relationship, or mental/sensory experience that just is, rather than an action someone actively does.
Under normal circumstances they don't accept -ing
examples: to love, to own, to know, to hate, to want, to like, to understand
"The old man pointed across the valley and said, 'My family has lived in that farmhouse yonder for five generations.'"
what do you understand by "yonder"?
adverbial use meaning "over there"
write the following words in phoneme symbols:
Through
Though
Thought
Tough
through - /θruː/
though - /ðəʊ/
thought - /θɔːt/
tough - /tʌf/
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
Infer the meaning of "frabjous"
some positive adjective, akin to joyful, wonderful