Homework Unit 8

This is a message to High Inter students:

I forgot to ask you to hand in homework unit 8 next Saturday (June 28), which is just a review and you’ll be able to do now. If you manage to do that, you’ll get it back corrected before the Final Test.

Thanks.

Wishes

This is a text in Portuguese which might help you understand the use of “wish”.

Hope that helps.

Past Perfect and Third Conditional

Here is a site with an exercise on Past Perfect.

These are sites with exercises on the Third Conditional:

 An exercise on the Third Conditional

The third conditional

 

I’m sorry

Dear High Inter students,

I’m really sorry for not having been able to teach you yesterday. I was not feeling ok and went to the doctor. But, anyway, I know you had classes with a great teacher.

Sorry, again.

Second conditional

The second conditional is used to talk about unreal situations in the present or in the future. For example:

If I won the lottery, I would buy a new house.

In this example, the first part of the sentence, the if clause, is formed with a verb in the past form (won: past form of the verb to win). The second part, which is the consequence of the condition, is formed with would + verb in the infinitive form (would buy).

The sentence can be inverted: I would buy a new house if I won the lottery.

In formal speech, the verb to be in the if clause is always were: If she were rich, she would go to France.

What would you do QUIZ: This quiz brings many predicaments (difficult situations) and you have to choose an option. The site tells you whether that would be the best alternative and explains why.

First Conditional

The first conditional is used to talk about possibilities in the present or in the future, and there must be a real possibility that the condition will happen. For example:

If you study more, you will have a good grade.

In this sentence, the first part, If you study more, is the if clause (because of the word if in its beginning). The if clause must have a verb in the present tense (study). The other part, you will have a good grade, must have a verb in the future form (will have). You can invert the sentence if you keep the present tense verb in the if clause and the future tense verb in the other clause:

You will have a good grade if you study more.

This is a quizz about the first conditional. You have to choose between two options to complete the two gaps. Click on Submit and you’ll know whether your answer’s correct. It is useful for learning which verb form you should use in each part of the sentence.

Important!

High Inter Students:

Last class I forgot to tell you that there will be no classes on March 22nd, due to the holyday on Friday. I’m really sorry.

Have a nice week!

Language skills

Here’s an article on how to improve your language skills (reading, listening, writing and speaking).

Superstitions

In this site you can find many different superstitions. As an exercise, you can try to use the first conditional to transform the sentences. If you go to the Animal Superstitions category, for example, there is one which is “A dog eating grass – rain“. Then, you can make a sentence using the first conditional: “If a dog eats grass, it will rain“. If you make some sentences and want them to be checked, you can send them to me and I will check them

For those who like creepy stories, this site seems to be a good one. The urban legends are separated in categories. I couldn’t spend much time in it because I’m afraid of this kind of thing, but I believe that for those who like this kind of stories it will be a good opportunity to practice reading texts in English.

How to use a dictionary

Here you can find some tips on how to use a dictionary. It will be helpful to review what we learned in class. One of the most interesting suggestions is to write a sentence with the word you’ve just looked up in the dictionary; it will help you memorize the new words and increase your vocabulary.