HAPPY EASTER

WRITING A LETTER OF COMPLAINT

 

Go to 'writing' to get a copy of this picture  and some model letters. 

RELATIVE CLAUSES

Let's practise relative clauses with these exercises ...

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Exercise 4

Exercise 5

GERUNDS AND INFINITIVES

Let's revise when to use an infinitive and when to use a gerund. If you want to see this , download and/or print as a document, just go to 'Grammar'

INFINITIVE + TO

- after adjectives
          My flat is easy to find
- to express a reason or purpose
          He is saving money to buy a new car
- after some verbs
          She's never learnt to drive
          They want to go on holiday

INFINITIVE (without to)

- after most modal and auxiliary verbs
          I can't drive
          I must hurry
- after make and let
          My parents don't let me go out much
          She always makes me laugh

GERUND

- after prepositions and phrasal verbs
          I'm very bad at remembering names
          She's given up smoking

- as the subject of a sentence
         Eating out is quite expensive here
- after some verbs
          I don't mind getting up early
          She hates playing tennis

DIFFERENT MEANING

Stop

          We stopped talking each other (we didn’t talk each other anymore)

          We stopped to have lunch (in order to have lunch)

Remember

          I remember going to that place (refers to what you did in the past)

          I must remember to send this letter (refers to the future)

Forget

          I have forgotten telling you that (refers to the past)

         Don’t forget to close the door when you leave (refers to the future)

Try

          I tried to reach the book but I couldn’t, it was on the top and I’m small

          I tried taking an aspirine but it didn’t work, my headache was terrible!

Go here if you need some practice. Watch the sentences and the verbs used, it will help you remember when a verb takes the gerund or the infinitive.
You can also do these exercises:
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
A page with many exercises

REPORTED SPEECH - Practice

LET'S PRACTISE REPORTED SPEECH!!!

Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3

Reporting Questions
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Exercise 8
Exercise 9



And remember that you can go to 'Our Bits and Bobs' to see, download and/or print some documents on how to use the reported speech with statements, questions, commands and requests.

REPORTED SPEECH - STATEMENTS AND QUESTIONS

These are the powerpoints we used in class to learn about the indirect speech or reported speech in English. You can go through them to revise.


REPORTING STATEMENTS

REPORTING QUESTIONS

WRITING AN ARTICLE

An opinion article, as the very name suggests, mainly reflects the author's opinion about a particular subject.

Steps to follow:

1) Analyse the task: who is going to read the article? It will be decisive in order to choose a style and the kind of information to be included.

2) Brainstrom and Organise your ideas. This crucial steps are disgracefully skipped by most students. If you don't know what to say and in which order, you are likely to fail in cohesion.

3) Write you article in paragraphs. Remember to make your writing more interesting by using a variety of adjectives. Don't forget your linkers and connectors! Introduce the topic, expand the different ideas and finish the piece with a final conclusion to give a sense of completion.


Go to 'Writing' for a more accurate explanation on how to write an article, well as to see some models.

And finally, remember you have homework! You have to write an article in about 150-170 words on the advantatges and disadvantatges of smartphones, page 120 of our student's book.