How Old is your Body?

Week 15^th – 17^th June

Hi! How are you?

Mónica is very happy because she passed her exams! Well done!

As I had promised, we finished the story of Grace.

Who was going to think that after so many years, Jim Stewart would appear in Scotland again? Who would have thought that Grace would recognize him? And who had expected that Grace would take revenge by poisoning him?

But…did she go to prison?

Then, we changed subjects.

We read an article entitled ‘How old is your body?’

Did you know that our body age and our calendar age may not be the same? In fact, our body age can be much younger or much older than our calendar age (even eighteen years different!). We can calculate our body age by answering questions about the way we live.

First we read the answers of Tariq, a record producer, to the questionnaire.

These are some of his answers:

·         He doesn’t do enough exercise.

·         He eats a lot of fresh food but he eats too much meat.

·         He is too busy. There aren’t enough hours in the day!

·         He doesn’t have much free time but he has a few close friends who he tries to see regularly.

Then, we did the quiz to find out our body ages. Your body ages are even younger than your calendar ages! You’re ‘on the ‘minus’ side.’

Study the chart below:

		Big Quantities	Small quantities
Singular / uncountable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Little /(very)little
	-	much
	?	How much?
Plural / countable nouns	+	A lot (of) /plenty (of) /Lots (of)	(a) Few/ (very) few
	-	many
	?	How many?

“Much” and its compounds for singular; “many” and its compounds for plural.

·           “Too” before an adjective. He is too young to drive. He’s only 16.

·           “Too much” singular/uncountable nouns. There’s too much milk. Don’t buy more. It’ll go off!

·           “Too many” plural/countable nouns. There are too many chairs in this room. Take two to the other room, please.

·           “enough” before nouns. Are there enough photocopies for everybody?

                   After adjectives. Are you hot enough? Shall I turn the heating up?

Try this exercises /too much / too many / enough

And we finished the week talking about Phrasal verbs.

A phrasal verb is a verb+ one or even two particles. They can have a literal meaning (when you translate the verb + the sense of the particle) or a metaphorical meaning (something completely different).

·         Some verbs are separable: Turn the TV on, please.

·         Some are inseparable:  Can you look after my cat next week?

When the verb is separable, we can place the object between the verb and the particle or after the particle.

It’s hot. Take your coat off / Take off your coat.

But if the object is a pronoun, it never goes at the end, unless the verb is inseparable.

Inseparable verb: ‘What are you doing?’ ‘I’m looking for the keys.’ ‘I´m looking for them.’ ‘I’m looking them for.’

We had a look at the possible combinations and meanings of ‘get’.

This is what we are going to continue doing next week.

See you tomorrow!