Day 37

 



OBJECTIVES

* To continue reviewing the FUTURE Tenses in English

* To revise introduction to graduation speech

* To discuss feedback for Written Assignment 3

* To exercises front vowels

* To talk about Thanksgiving


GRAMMAR: Reviewing Future Tenses

The Simple Present used to indicate Future

Remember: 

The Simple Present is a tense used to: 

a. Express habits          I exercise everyday.      

             She eats lunch at the cafeteria on weekdays.


b. Facts/general truths       London is a large city.                           Water boils at 100 Degrees Celsius.


c. To give instructions or directions:   

You walk 200 meters and then turn left.


d. TO SPEAK ABOUT THE FUTURE

Fixed events:    It´s 8 a.m.  Your exam starts at 9:00 a.m.

Timetables:       It´s noon now. The trains leaves at 3:00 p.m.


To express future time after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:

He will give it to you when you come next Saturday.

He is going to give it to me as soon as you tell him.

Video

Exercise here.                            


PRONUNCIATION: Exercising the pronunciation of frontal vowels. 

See this. 

Exercises for the sound /E/

Exercises for the sound /ae/

Exercises for the sound /i/

Exercises for the sound /I/



FEEDBACK ON WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 3

a. a paragraph that looks like a paragraph, no spaces in the middle.

b. elements (topic sentence, main idea, supporting sentences, concluding sentences)

c. revising (grammar mistakes, spelling mistakes, punctuation)


TALKING ABOUT HANKSGIVING

Take 5 minutes to work on your presentation. Practice



READING COMPREHENSION

What is Space?

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