Adapted text from BBC Life a board [electronic document]. Practice the existence in the past by listening to a conversation between a boy and his grandpa. You will identify the existence of places and objects in the past. Listen to the audio and move the correct answer to each question.
After listening to the conversation between Mike and his grandfather, choose the correct option in each of the following questions. When you finish you will check how well you did it. Sometimes we travel on business, as you noticed in the previous activity, but people also travel by pleasure, for example, when you go on vacation or travel abroad, either way, any trip will give you memories to share. In this activity we will visit two important museums.
Frida Kahlo Museum. Your description will be in four paragraphs. You have to include existence in past, in negative and affirmative, singular and plural, and the quantity expressions for countable and uncountable nouns many, a few, a little, some, much, a lot of.
Los Angeles zoo [photo]. Lowin, M. Disney animal kingdom. Safari [photo]. Read the example carefully so that you have an idea of what to write in your description.
Please, before you send your description, make sure it has the characteristics contained in the rubric. Remember your bedroom when you were younger and make some notes. Try to describe your toys and pieces of furniture in your bedroom as a child or 10 years ago. You will record yourself describing existence in that time in your room. Record yourself describing your room for 1. Take a look at the following pictures to have an idea of what to describe.
Use negative and affirmative ideas and vocabulary provided. Listen to the example so you can have a guide before you record yourself. Read the rubric you will use to self evaluate and when you are ready do the recording. Use the rubric again and select the columns that best represent your recording to get a score and a feedback. Read the following ideas and choose the best option to complete them.
When you finish, check your results. Presentation Observe the images below. Cathedral of Mexico [photo]. Ysangkok You also know some expressions to talk about the quantity of objects.
Now study existence in the past! This is the affirmative form with singular nouns:. With plural nouns:. Now remember the previous picture and observe these ideas: Was there a dog in the park? Look at the following picture for some seconds and read the description. Have you ever wondered what was actually there on it?
Of course there was an enormous difference between the travelling conditions among the classes of passengers. For example, in first and second class there was a varied library, here there were many tables where passengers could write letters to their families, or sit comfortably to read or write on their diaries.
For men, there was a nice barbershop; there was also a dark room with all the materials to develop photos, because photography was a very new hobby. There was a gymnasium and a swimming pool with salt water too. If passengers wanted to relax, they could go to the deck, where there were a lot of chairs to lie down and rest.
On board, there were hundreds of men who liked to gamble and of course there were a lot of them playing cards or board games. Maybe some of them would go and smoke a cigar since there was also a smoking room on the ship. All the entertainment was there only for first and second class passengers, the ones in third class had to invent it by themselves. There were songs and some dancing. There were a lot of pets travelling with their owners.
There were nine dogs, four hens and roosters, 30 cockerels, one yellow canary and the ship's cat named Jenny. Five of the dogs stayed with their owners in their cabins. After the Titanic went down, only three dogs and a canary survived the sinking.
Activity 2. Memories from a Mexican worker in the USA. Observe the following pictures so that you have an idea of what to write about. Pixabay There was money in the safe. There was a dog barking at us. There was a grocery store right there.
There was a dog in the street. There were two police officers waiting for you outside. There were three friends of mine who wanted to do that. There were a lot of people outside the house There were many stores around here. There were 7 fish in the fish tank. A tag question is a grammatical structure in which a declarative or an imperative statement is turned into interrogative fragment.
Remember that if the sentence is affirmative, the question tag will then be negative and if the sentence is negative, the question tag will be affirmative.
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