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The weather & the environment

• Vocabulary . . . →[01]← / →[02]← / →[03]← // ⇒[quiz]⇐

Picture dictionaries . . . ⇒[01] ⇔ [02]⇐

¤ Patterns & structures ↓ «What’s the weather like?»

When we talk about the weather, at a very basic level, we can follow any of these patterns:

• It is […]

Sports

• Vocabulary … [01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [vid] ⇔ [vidquiz]⇐

•→Body movements←

A-K ⇐… Sports illustrated …⇒ L-Z

• Quizzes: →[01]← / →[02]←

∞ Guessing Game⇐[pairwork sports worksheet]

¤ Extreme sports⇐

Sports classified as […]

On the blower

⇒ Telephone English ⇐

∴ Telephone Language

∴ Phoning a company: ⇒[01] ⇔ [02] ⇐

∴ Leaving a Message on an Answering Machine⇐

∴ Saying telephone numbers ⇐

∴ Spelling addresses ⇐

Φ Quizzes … ⇒[01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [03] ⇐

marzo 8th, 2015 | Tags: , | Category: FunctionaLang | Leave a comment

Conditionals

A comprehensive Powerpoint presentation on all conditional structures.

Notice there’s an omission near the end (count no. 6:14)

The subject’s missing from the last example (i.e. subject pronoun «I»); ‘mixed conditionals’:

Wish + Past Participle → I wish I hadn’t drunk so much ←

Remember to pause the player when […]

Mind your modals!

Auxiliary, or helping verbs, are used before infinitives to add a different meaning. The following auxiliaries are called ⇒Modal Auxiliaries or Modals⇐

Modal Auxiliaries Meanings / Functions can ability, permission, request, possibility could ability, formal request, possibility shall futurity, willingness, intention, suggestion, insistence should obligation, necessity, expectation, advisability will willingness, intention, prediction, […]

Time will tell

⊕ Telling the Time ⇐ / ⊗ Asking for the time ⇐

⇒words-about-time⇐ [www.english-at-home.com] ⇒time-expressions-in-english⇐

¤ Expressions of Time … ⇑ TASK (advanced)

•→Time markers associated to tenses⇐

Φ Time collocations ⇔ [quiz] ⇔ Time expressions⇐ Φ IT’S (HIGH) TIME + PAST SUBJUNCTIVE […]

At the airport

• Survival English for Travelers …⇒ [01] ⇔[02]⇐

· · · Common words and phrases

¤ QUIZZES ⇐… [definitions]

• AT THE AIRPORT: Looking for the check-in desk← • At the check-in desk: ⇒[01] ⇔ [02]⇐ →What’s wrong? Questions and answers←

marzo 4th, 2015 | Tags: | Category: FunctionaLang | Leave a comment

English at Work

•→ Safety at Work ⇐

10 ‘WORK’ Expressions in English ↓

‘overworked’ / ‘dirty work’ / ‘get worked up’ / ‘work out’ / ‘ work on’ / ‘ work up an appetite’ / ‘workaholic’ / ‘work it’ / ‘work … in’ / ‘work something out’

• Employment & Jobs vocabulary … […]

Spondulicks

¤ Pictionaries . . . ⇒[01]⇐ / ⇒[02]⇐

• Money Idioms . . . ⇒[01] ⇔ [02] ⇔ [03]⇐ Be closed-fisted : To be very stingy. Be pressed for money : To be very rich. Be rolling in money : When you have a lot of money. Live on a shoe string : […]

Yum Yum

• Ways of eating …→[01] ⇔ [02]←

•→www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionary/food.shtml ⇐

•→ http://photographicdictionary.com/food ⇐

•→Food Quantifiers ⇐

•→ In the kitchen ⇐

¤ Cooking terms Vocabulary . . . →[01]← / →[02]← / •→ QUIZ ⇐

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