New York
These are nicknames for New York City.
What are: The Empire City, The Big Apple, The City, The city that never sleeps, etc...
What is a stative verb?
A stative verb describes the state of an object, not the action that it takes.
What is an adjective?
Adjectives describe nouns.
Is this indirect or direct speech:
Tommy told his brother, "Don't touch that or mom will get angry."
Direct (quotation marks)
What are the four narrative tenses?
past simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous
This the person who was called "Her Deepness" because of her work under water. She is a well-known marine biologist.
Who is Sylvia Earle?
Give two examples of stative verbs.
i.e. to hear, to seem, to smell
Complete the sentence with three adjectives in the correct order:
Did you already see my ___________, ____________, and ___________ car? It is great!
i.e. big, red, American car.
opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose
Change this to indirect speech:
Angelina said, "You are next."
Angelina said (that) I was next.
Complete with the correct tense:
When _______________ (his father -- to tell) him that he had been to Alaska?
When did his father tell him that he had been to Alaska?
This is the name of the largest park in New York City.
What is Central Park?
Complete with a stative verb:
This whole problem ______________ pretty difficult to us.
I.e. seems, looks, feels, appears...
Complete with the comparative form of these adjectives:
Brian's hatchet is actually _____________ (old) his father's hatchet, even though his father's is _______________ (fashionable) than Brian's.
Brian's hatchet is actually older than (old) his father's hatchet, even though his father's is more fashionable than (fashionable) Brian's.
Change this to indirect speech:
Noelle said, "This product is on sale."
Complete with the correct narrative tense:
Alvin was so disappointed that he could not go to Tokyo. He _______________ (already book) his flight and he _______________ (even start) learning Japanese.
Alvin was so disappointed that he could not go to Tokyo. He had already booked his flight and he had even started learning Japanese.
This is how many boroughs New York City actually has.
What are five? Manhattan, Statten Island, The Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens.
Use the verb to have in a sentence as a stative verb.
i.e. He has a new car. (possession)
Comparative adjectives: when do we use the -er ending and when do we use more [adjective]?
It depends on the number of syllables. Shorter adjectives use -er.
Change this to indirect speech:
Josephine said, "Mary has been working here for years."
Josephine said (that) Mary had been working there for years.
Which tense is this:
She was working on that assignment for days!
past continuous: was working
This is the name of the most famous song about New York by Frank Sinatra.
What is New York, New York?
Use the verb to smell in two sentences: One time as a stative verb, one time not as a stative verb.
stative: The dog smells bad.
active: I smell the dog.
i.e. The man is taller and wiser than his sister.
Change this to indirect speech:
Peter told us, "I am working in the garden this morning."
Peter told us (that) he was working in the garden that morning.
Double Jeopardy:
Create a sentence with two narrative tenses and the words pumpkin, fireworks, alternative.
i.e. The pumpkins had been taken out as a fine alternative to the fireworks which were not nearly as green as they were supposed to be.