Grammar 1
Complete the sentences
I like........................ to the Cinema
I really hate ................... homework
I absolutely love................ videogames
Going
Doing
Playing
Name two action verbs and two non-action verbs.
Which ones are not usually used in the present continuous?
Example
1) Action verbs: run/study.
2) Non- action verbs (they don't describe actions, they describe feelings, emotions, etc)
Love, believe.
Complete with SENSITIVE, SYMPATHETIC and SENSIBLE
1)………………….a person who is very practical and rational.
2)…………………… A person who is easily hurt
3)…………………… A person who can understand other people’s feelings.
1) sensible
2) Sensitive
3) sympathetic
Driving a car is much safer than riding a bicycle. DANGEROUS
Riding a bicycle is much ________________ than driving a car.
Riding a bicile is much more dangerous than driving a car
Complete the sentences with say, tell, speak or talk.
My brother ............... me a lie! He ............ Senior Six was going to be easy but it's realy difficult! It is really hard to ................English! But maybe I can ............ to the teacher and ask for some tips to study more effectively.
told
said
speak
talk
- When I was a child I could play the piano.
- I can speak three languages
- My brothers are basketball players so they can jump really high.
- When I was a child I WAS ABLE to play the piano.
- I'M ABLE to speak three languages
- My brothers are basketball players so they ARE ABLE TO JUMP really high.
The dentist told me I shouldn't eat so many sweents.
Clue: CUT DOWN ON
What are the negative form of these adjectives: imaginative, kind, mature, sensitive, patient, responsible, helpful.
unimaginative
unkind
immature
insensitive
impatient
irresponsible
helpless
Senior Five is easier than Senior six
EASY
Senior six is ______________________Senior 5
What can you run out of? Think about 3 things.
Money
Battery
Time
Patience!
Food etc.
How can you express this in a different way?
They built the museum in 1977
The museum was built in 1977
How can you express the same idea in a different way?
The doctor said I can't eat fast food. Fast food can't be part of my diet.
Clue: CUT OUT
The doctor said I have to CUT OUT fast food from my diet.
How do you call people who...?
1) has good imagination
2) Love creating and inventing things
3) don't like obeying rules
1) imaginative
2) creative
3) rebellious
I couldn't buy the tickets for the concert
ABLE
I ____________________ the tickets for the concert
I WASN'T ABLE TO BUY the tickets for the concert.
Wealthy is a synonym of....
Example: Brunito comes from a wealthy family. He lives in a mansion and has a facy car.
RICH
How can you express this idea in a different way?
Clue: use the word FOR
I started to study English in 2020
I've studied English for 3 years.
I don't have enough money to buy a house
How can you express the same idea using the word AFFORD?
I CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY a new house.
What't the missing word?
1) If you are not careful when you play sports you can have an accident and get ______
2) The football player got a red card and was sent _____
1) Injured
2) off
We like eating homemade food. We never buy takeaways.
OWN
We prefer to cook ________________ food. We never buy takeaways.
We prefer to cook OUR OWN food. We never buy takeaways.
Come on, come on! Let's go to the party!!!! Nacho said.
INSISTED
Nacho___________ _____ _______ to the party.
(Complete the sentence with 3 words)
Nacho insisted on going to the party.
How can you express this in a different way?
The hairdressers cut my hair every two months.
Clue: use the word GET or HAVE
I GET/HAVE MY HAIR CUT every two months.
Nacho: "I passed the exam!"
Complete the sentence:
Nacho told me.........................
Nacho told me HE HAD PASSED the exam.
Match the phrasal verbs with their meaning
1) To set off a) to stop doing somemthing.
2) to end up b) to leave a place
3) to run out of c) when you don't have any more of something.
4) to cut out d) to do something differently than planned.
To set of: to leave a place
To end up: to do something differently than planed.
To run out of: when you don't have any more of something.
To cut out: to stop doing or eating something.
I didn’t have a good relationship with my mother when I was an adolescent.
USE
As an adolescent, I ________________ well with my mother.
As an adolescent, I DIDN'T USE TO GET on well with my mother.
You should revise for your English lesson more often! The teacher said.
ADVISED
The teacher _________ _____ ____ _______ for my English lesson more often.
The teacher ADVISED ME TO REVISE for my English lesson more often.