Manners Around the World!

Monday & Wednesday 23^rd – 25^th November

Hi! How’s it going?

So, we have finished studying  modal verbs for obligation, prohibition, permission and advice. Here’s a summary:

Obligation	Must (I must, when you impose the obligation yourself)	Have to (usually for rules  or laws)
Prohibition	Mustn’t /Can’t /  isn’t- aren’t allowed to
No necessity	Don’t / doesn’t have to
Advice / recommendation	should / shouldn’t ought to / ought not to

Exercises with modal verbs. http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/modal1.htm

We learnt about cultural differences. Different countries or cultures, different manners.

“When in Rome, do as Romans do.” (When you travel abroad behave as the people behave in their countries)

We learnt that it’s rude to blow your nose in public in Japan. That you mustn’t point your feet at anybody in Thailand. That it’s bad luck to shake hands in the doorway in Russia … so, now we are ready to travel to these countries!!!

We worked on pronunciation of “t” at the end of words.

·         You shouldn’t arrive late.    You shouldn’t leave immediately.

·         You must ask the hostess.  You must say you like the food.

·         We don’t often take food.     Most British people don’t smoke.

We learnt how to use the infinitive of purpose.

Why are you studying English?

·         Because I want to find a job in the USA.  

Because + Subject +Verb (a clause)

·         To find a job in the USA.                           

To + infinitive

REWRITE THESE SENTENCES USING THE INFINITIVE OF PURPOSE.

1. I'M GOING TO THE BANK BECAUSE I WANT TO GET SOME MONEY.
I'M GOING TO THE BANK TO GET SOME MONEY.

2. I WENT TO THE BEACH BECAUSE I WANTED TOSUNBATHE.

3. She went to the South because she wanted to visit her grandchildren.

4.They're going to study hard because they don't want to fail again.
5. The dog did all the tricks because it wanted to get the rewards.

6. Francis is going to Africa because he wants to go on a safari.

And that was all! Enjoy your weekend!

"Meet the Parents"

Monday & Wednesday 17^th – 19^th November

Hello! How are you?

Last week we continued using modal verbs for obligation, permission and advice or recommendation.

We listened to a boy talking about his new job.

He has to wear a uniform. It’s made up of a red cap, a name tag, a white short –sleeved shirt and navy trousers. He has to be polite. He has to take the customers’ orders and fix the food. Later he has to serve it to the customers.

Exercise modals for obligation.

http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/modal-verbs-of-obligation-exercise-1.html

You can practice listening with this exercise

http://www.esl-lab.com/week/weekrd1.htm

Then we listened to Antonia, from Italy asking her friend, Polly for advice. Antonia has been invited to have dinner at her boyfriend’s parents’ and she doesn’t want to be rude. But she isn’t sure what is polite and what isn’t, in England.

·         You shouldn’t kiss people who you don’t know.

·         You should arrive on time.

·         You should take something for the hostess; a box of chocolate or a bottle of wine, but we don’t usually take food when we are invited for dinner.

·         You shouldn’t leave immediately after supper. English people love to have a chat after dinner.

 We’ll continue tomorrow. Bye!

'Should I Stay or Should I Go?'

Monday & Wednesday 10^th – 12^th November

We continued talking about rules and obligation. We also talked about advice and recommendations.

We give advice using should / shouldn’t.

Do you have a headache? You should take an aspirin.

You shouldn’t travel to Thailand during the rainy season. It’s dangerous.

Instead of “should” you can use “ought to.” “Ought to” is a little more obligatory than “should”; but the main difference is that after “ought” you need to

Song : “Should I stay or should I go?” but in this case ‘should’ sounds more like a suggestion.

Exercises, must/ should

We practised the expressions “would rather” and “would prefer to”

I’d rather have a hamburger for dinner.

I’d prefer to have a hamburger for dinner.

(I’d = I would)

Rather & Prefer- exercise

We practised the expressions “I think you should …” “I don’t think you should…”

I think you should book the tickets in advance.

I don’t think you should take too much luggage.

Remember:

I think I’ll go away next weekend.

I don’t think I’ll go away next weekend .I think I won’t go away next weekend.

We only use the negative form in “I think” “I don’t think”

And we finished the class laughing out loud (LOL)!

We started listening to two friends planning a trip to Thailand. We ended up talking about hangovers and films. Why? Because Thailand reminded you of the film “Hangover 2”. Then , we talked about film comedies such as “Scary Movie” “Airplane” “Hot Shots” “The Naked Gun” etc.

Have a nice week and weekend. See you on Monday!

Permission and Rules. What Were your School Days like?

Monday & Wednesday3^rd – 5^th November

Hello! How are you doing?

Last week we finished Elaine’s story.

We learnt phrasal verbs and expressions with get.

Split up / break up: to separate, break a relationship.

Look for: search for, try to find.

Get to know : start to know to each other.

Get married / get divorced.

Get on somebody’s nerves: make angry.

Be fed up with: can’t bear.

We listened to teenagers talking about rules.

We recalled (= remember) the rules we didn’t like when we were teenagers.  We realized how much we have changed as adults!

You were lucky because you didn’t have to wear a uniform, I did and I hated it! but I now agree that it has big advantages.

	Affirmative	Negative	Question	Short Answers
Obligation	I have to work long hours.	I don’t have to work long hours.	Do you have to work long hours?	Yes, I do. / No, I don’t.
HAVE TO	She has to wear a uniform.	She doesn’t have to wear a uniform.	Does she have to wear a uniform?	Yes, she does. / No, she doesn’t.
Permission	I can go out with my friends.	I can’t go out with my friends.	Can you go out with your friends?	Yes, I can. No, I can’t.
CAN / CAN’T	She can spend as much as she wants.	She can’t spend as much as she wants.	Can she spend as much as she wants?	Yes, she can. / No, she can’t.
BE ALLOWED TO	They’re allowed to stay up late on Saturdays.	They aren’t allowed to stay up late on Saturdays.	Are they allowed to stay up late on Saturdays?	Yes, they are. / No, they aren’t.
	She’s allowed to use a mobile phone.	She isn’t allowed to use a mobile phone.	Is she allowed to use a mobile phone?	Yes, she is. / No, she isn’t.

 Video on School Rules

Wednesday was Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes’s Night in Englad.

 You can watch a video and learn about Guy Fawkes’s story and the history of England.

Can you tell the meaning of these words:

Bonfire, fireworks display, plot, plotters, gunpowder, cellar, drawn, hang, kill, scaffold, treason, throne and gruesome?

And…this was all! Tomorrow, more things!

See you tomorrow. Enjoy the rest of Sunday!!!

Telling Tales

Monday & Wednesday 27^th- 29^th October, 2014

Hello! How are you?

I hope you are having a nice weekend. I also hope you to enjoy the concert.

We finished the topic of ‘Holidays’ last week. And we put an end to it (finished) by listening and watching ‘La Isla Bonita’ by Madonna. We laughed at the video clip! It’s funny to look back, but everything looks sort of (looks like)…’old’, ‘outdated’, ‘old-fashioned’?

Anyway, it’s good to look back on the past from time to time.               

I’m glad to know you have also decided on the topic of your project.

So, you are going to do it about “Beach Handball”. Remember that the deadline (the dates to hand the project in) is 15^th-17^th December.

We spent the rest of the week, telling tales.

We read a story about two people that were very much in love and didn’t have much money. Christmas was getting closer (there was little time for Christmas) and they wanted to give a special present to each other. The husband pawned his watch (take something to a shop and have money in return. You have the opportunity of rebuying it if you want to) to buy his wife the combs she liked so much. But she had her hair cut and sold it so as to get money to buy her husband a beautiful chain for his watch. He didn’t have a watch to use the chain with. And her hair was too short for sporting the combs he had bought her. But they had lots of love!

Our second story was “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

It starts like all the tales: ‘Once upon a time’

Once upon a time there was an emperor who wanted to have a very special suit, so when his people saw him they could say “What wonderful clothes our emperor is wearing”. Two tailors came from a remote land. They told the emperor that they were going to make a special suit that only intelligent people could see. The emperor liked the idea very much. Time went by and the tailors worked on the clothes. The emperor was worried because he couldn’t see anything. The day came when the suit was finished and the emperor paraded along the streets of his kingdom completely naked. Everybody cheered and admired the wonderful clothes he was wearing, even though he wasn’t wearing any clothes! Suddenly a child said aloud what everybody was thinking “Which clothes? The emperor is naked”. The emperor felt embarrassed and ran to the palace as fast as he could. He looked for the tailors, but they were gone!

The morale of the story could be that we should all tell what we really think and not remain silent when we are told lies. This is especially true nowadays with all the things that are going on (happening) in our country!

The stories helped us to practice the past and to use adjectives and adverbs, as well as connectors in a narrative.

Adverbs modify adverbs, adjectives or verbs.

Very good, really quickly, run fast

Adjectives modify nouns.

Wonderful clothes

Most of adverbs of manner come from adding ‘–ly’ to the adjective.

They tell “how”. He ran quickly. How did he run? Quickly

Adjective	Adverb
quick	quickly
sad	sadly
happy	hapily
fast	fast
hard	hard
good	well

You can do more exercises online on this link

Exercises on adjectives and adverbs

This was all! See you on Monday!