Homework answers

Here you have the answers to the exercises about the use of the article:

EXERCISE A:
2. a    3. a     4. the     5. the      6. a     7 the     8. a     9. a   
10.(-)     11. (-)     12. the     13. the     14. (-)

EXERCISE B:
1 (-)    2. (-)     3. a     4. a     5. a     6. the     7. a    8.a    9. the

EXERCISE C:
1. (-)     2. (-)    3. the    4. (-)    5. a    6. (-)    7.a   8. a
9. (-)    10. the     11. a      12. (-)    13. (-)     14. the

The Passive Voice

The passive voice is used for different reasons:

      1. When the subject is not important or unknown,

      2. When the object is more important than the subject,

When rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following:

• the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence
• the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle)
• the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped)

"New houses will be built in the city."

To practise go to this link!

Recuperación de clases

Hi all! I remind you next day and on 15th December our class will finish at 21:00!

How / What!

Exclamative sentences are used to make exclamations. These are also referred to as exclamative sentences or exclamatives. These are used to express strong feelings, strong emphasis or emotion.

Exclamative sentence can begin with "what" or "how":

WHAT + NOUN Phrase (sintagma nominal: (adjetivo) nombre)

What a stupid man he is!
What a surprise!
What a nice hat!
HOW + ADJECTIVE / ADVERB (adjetivo o adverbio)
How wonderful you look!
How well everyone played!

To practise click on these links:
1. Choose the correct option
2. More practice

(A) few vs. (a) little

The use of "a few" and "a little" depends on nature of the following noun, that is, if the noun is countable, "few" is used. On the contrary, if it´s uncountable, "little" is the correct one. Remember countable nouns are those which can be counted and therefore, they have singular and plural forms. On the other hand, uncountable nouns cna´t be counted and they always appear in the singular (they don´t have plural forms).

As you know, "little" and "few" can appear without article "a/an" and when this happens their meaning changes.

Let´s do some exercises!

Exercise 1

Exercise 2

Exercise 3

Second Conditional Sentences

The second conditional is used to talk about a future unreal situation, that is, there isn´t any possibility this condition will happen. On these links you have some exercises. In the first one you have to make second conditional sentences and the second one is a gap filling exercise.

Remember the first conditional is different in construction and use (we talk about a real possibility in the future). Let´s do this exercise where you have to decide what conditional is the correct one !

Past Perfect Simple

We use the past perfect simple to talk about an action taking place before a certain time in the past:

"When Sarah arrived home, their parents had already gone to bed." Which action happend first? 

Sarah´s parents went to bed before she arrived. he past perfect simple is also called "the past of the past".

Exercise 1: Fill in the gaps with the correct form of the past perfect simple.

Exercise 2: Past simple or past perfect?

Exercise 3: Past simple, present perfect or past perfect?