ENGLISH LEVEL 5
Day 5
September 24th, 2011
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
DURING PRESENTATIONS:
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Excuse me,
Which is the theme of the
presentation?
What are the names of the team
members?
What is the name of your team?
What is the date of your ON THIS
DAY presentation?
Can you show us the next slide?
Can you read the title of the slide?
Can you read the entire slide?
Can you read again the slide slowly?
What is the meaning of the word
“playwright”?
Which is the definition of
“playwright”?
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How do you pronounce: p-l-a-y-w-r-i-g-h-t ?
Can you give me synonyms of the word “playwright”?
Can you describe the first picture?
Can you describe the second picture?
Can you describe the third picture?
Can you please repeat the word slowly?
When?
Where?
Why?
Which?
Who ?
What?
How many?
LISTENING
THE FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
TWO and a HALF MEN, season 9,
episode 1
PARTS OF SPEECH
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
PRONOUNS
ADVERBS
A
D
J
E
C
T
I
V
E
S
NOUNS
PREPOSITIONS
INTERJECTIONS
CONJUNCTIONS
VERBS
PARTS OF SPEECH
The PARTS OF SPEECH are the building blocks
of any language.
Whenever you speak, whenever you read
something or write something, whenever
you use words, you are using the
PARTS OF SPEECH.
I
V
A
N
- Interjection
- Verb
- Adjective
- Noun
C
A
P
P
- Conjunction
- Adverb
- Pronoun
- Preposition
To help remember them
think of… IVAN CAPP.
Each of the letters in
his name is the first
letter of one of the
PARTS OF SPEECH.
NOUNS
A noun is a word.
There are more nouns in the English language
than any other kind of word.
PERSON
THING
PLACE
IDEA
ANIMAL
NOUNS
PERSON
ANIMAL
PLACE
THING
IDEA
Teacher
shark
school
pen
concentration
student
hamster
gym
computer
wisdom
girl
fish
Lake Erie
mailbox
kindness
boy
aardvark
Chicago
skateboard freedom
Mrs. Li
bear
village
tree
fear
Tanya
flea
Africa
cereal
love
SINGULAR and PLURAL
NOUNS
Singular means one of something.
Plural means more than one.
PENCILS
PLURAL
PENCIL
SINGULAR
WAYS TO MAKE NOUNS
PLURAL
1
• You can make most nouns
plural by just adding s.
one pencil
four pencils
one car
a garage full of cars
WAYS TO MAKE NOUNS
PLURAL
2
• If a nouns ends with s, ch, sh,
x, or z, add es to make it plural.
one dress
one church
one brush
one fox
one buzz
a rack of dresses
three churches
a box of brushes
a den of foxes
many buzzes of many bees
WAYS TO MAKE NOUNS
PLURAL
3
• To make some nouns that end
with f or fe plural, change the f
to v and add es.
knife
knives
half
halves
leaf
leaves
WAYS TO MAKE NOUNS
PLURAL
4
• Add s if the letter in front of the
y is a vowel, to make plural a
noun that ends in y.
toy
toys
key
keys
WAYS TO MAKE NOUNS
PLURAL
5
• Drop the y and add ies if the
letter in front of the y is a
consonant.
dictionary
dictionaries
penny
pennies
WAYS TO MAKE NOUNS
PLURAL
• Some nouns have tricky plurals. They are
not regular.
• When irregular nouns become plural,
they change their spellings, or they stay
the same, and a few even have more
than one plural form.
IRREGULAR PLURAL NOUNS
SINGULAR
Antenna
(on a television)
PLURAL
antennas
antenna
antennae
(on a bug’s head)
cactus
cacti
child
children
crisis
crises
datum
data
deer
deer
foot
feet
SINGULAR
PLURAL
fish
fish
goose
geese
man
men
mouse
mice
series
series
tooth
teeth
woman
women
NOUNS
Common nouns name any one of a class of
people, places, or things.
Proper nouns name specific people, places, or
things. They begin with a capital letter.
Washington, D.C.
Proper Noun
city
Common Noun
COMMON and PROPER
Tina offered Antonio one of her
mother’s homemade oatmeal
cookies but only and Oreo would
satisfy his sweet tooth.
cookies is a common noun.
Oreo is a proper noun.
COMMON and PROPER
Charlie had wanted an easy teacher for his
composition class, but he got Mrs. Hacket,
whose short temper and unreasonable
demands made the semester a torture.
teacher is a common noun.
Mrs.Hacket is a proper noun.
COMMON and PROPER
Gloria wanted to try a new restaurant, so
Richard took her to Tito’s Taco Palace,
where no one dips into the hot sauce until
the drinks have arrived at the table.
restaurant is a common noun.
Tito’s Taco Palace is a proper
noun.
NOUNS
PROPER NOUNS
Herman Melville
Mrs. Hacket
Snoopy
Oreo
Orlando
Tito’s Taco Palace
Declaration of
Independence
University of Virginia
COMMON NOUNS
writer
teacher
beagle
cookie
city
restaurant
document
school
holiday
superhero
dog
Fourth of July
Batman
Lassie
English Level V
THE HELL MACHINES
JOSE DE JESUS OLEA BELLOSO
VICTOR PAUL RODRIGUEZ
THEMES:
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2.1 Introducción: clausula del Gerundio
2.2 Introducción de clausulas del Infinitivo
2.3 Gerundio vs. Infinitivo
2.4 Usos de los verbos con Gerundio e
Infinitivo
• A gerund is a verbal that ends in -ing and
functions as a noun.
• The term verbal indicates that a gerund, like the
other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb
and therefore expresses action or a state of
being.
• However, since a gerund functions as a noun, it
occupies some positions in a sentence that a
noun ordinarily would, for example: subject,
direct object, subject complement, and object of
preposition.
• Gerund as subject:
• Traveling might satisfy your desire for new
experiences. (Traveling is the gerund.)
• Gerund as direct object:
• They do not appreciate my singing. (The
gerund is singing.)
• Gerund as subject complement:
• My cat's favorite activity is sleeping. (The
gerund is sleeping.)
• Gerund as object of preposition:
• The police arrested him for speeding. (The
gerund is speeding.)
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT
Visit the following link:
http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/index.htm
Answer the exercises ON-LINE.
Basic Gerunds and Infinitives,
Intermediate Gerunds and Infinitives and
Advanced Gerunds and Infinitives Exercises
COPY YOUR SCORE IN YOUR NOTEBOOK!!!!!!
Correct! Well done.
Your score is 90%.
Sources:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/
http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/gerunds_infinitives 10.htm
Today is
September 24th, 2011
Gregorian calendar
Septiembre 24th
Is the 267th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar and the number
268 in leap years.
On This Day
1783
England recognized the
independence of the United States.
On This Day
1935
Astronomer Eugene Joseph Delporte
discovers asteroid Aphrodite .
On This Day
1990
Russian Supreme Soviet approves the
change of the free market economy.