Modal verbs presentation C1

This is the presentation I projected about modal verbs in case you need it. 


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Passive voice

This is some information about passive voice that could be useful for you:

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These are activities to practice a little bit with it:

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Wish

"To wish" (to want something that cannot now happen or probably won't happen) doesn't have the same meaning as "to hope" (to want something to happen that you think is possible/likely). Sometimes, we confuse these concepts. Not only the meaning, but also the use of "wish" is different to "hope".

Please read some complementary information about unreal uses of past tenses here. Then, do activities a and b.

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Can you find the mistakes here?

Try to find the mistakes in these sentences and write the correct version. I'm sure you can do it!

Grammar mistakes

These are common mistakes at C1 level. Ideally you will not make all of these mistakes.  I would, however, greatly prefer you to make a few of them rather than use too simple sentences. 

1.                  TIME FRAME errors – We need to get rid of the present-perfect-used-in-the past. (NO: Yesterday I have finished the exam.)

We need to get rid of past tenses in the middle of a present-tense paragraph.

We need to use past simple for past time when there is a series of events (the first in a series is not past perfect.).

We need to work on “the future as seen from the past” as in I knew I wouldn’t be able to finish on time. (NO: I knew I will not..)

2.                  GERUND – INFINITIVE errors – These include both distinguishing between cases in which we need the former or the latter (a lot of that is memorization but there are some rules) and remembering how to form a negative infinitive (NOT TO, as in “I hope not to get sick.” You can practice here:  http://www.englishpage.com/gerunds/index.htm

3.                  PREPOSITIONS –  Practise them here: 

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepositions

4.                  RELATIVE CLAUSES – you need to use them, as they help avoid repetition and allow you to write longer, more interesting sentences. Don’t use double subjects. Practice here:    

 http://englishbigbottle.blogspot.com/2014/02/advanced-2-relative-clauses.html

5.                   LESS COMMON MODALS. There are some modals that you really ought to know by now. Others (had better, may well, etc) are less common. It means that you need to get used to using a variety of them.

6. HYPOTHETICAL FORMS this includes the 2nd, 3rd and mixed conditionals, as well as forms like “wish,” and “if only”

7. INVERSION : One example would be enough for a page- two might be too much. The most common error is with Only. If you begin with “Only by ..” or “Not only” you must invert the regular order of subject and verb. Not only requires an auxiliary as well.

Only by remembering our mistakes CAN WE AVOID making them again.

Not only DID HE lose his keys, he lost his car!

Practice this at : 

http://eoimarisa.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/inversion-exercises-exercises/

8. LINKING WORDS: Like modals, there are some that you really ought to know by now.  While C1 students may struggle with despite vs. although,  it’s important to try to use these. Practice them at :  http://www.vivquarry.com/wkshts/linkwd.html

9. ELLIPSIS AND SUBSTITUTION – again, you need to try to avoid repetition, and these are the techniques used by advanced writers. Find excellent practice at http://aeo.sllf.qmul.ac.uk/Files/Cohesion/Cohesion.html

Cleft sentences: activities

 A) READ THE INFORMATION IN GREEN. THEN, COMPLETE THE REPLIES. EACH REPLY MUST CONTAIN A CLEFT SENTENCE.

Nick turned up late for work on Monday because he got stuck in a traffic jam on the ring road.
Luckily Nick has a mobile phone so he was able to phone his boss and warn her that he would
be late. She was furious but managed to reschedule an important meeting for the afternoon.

1.Nick was late because he overslept, wasn’t he?
No, it ______________________________________________________ that he was late.
2.How on earth did Nick let the boss know he’d be late?
Well, what _______________________________________________ call her from his
mobile phone.
3.Wasn’t Nick late on Wednesday?
No, _________________________________________________ that he was late.
4. Nick’s boss had to start the meeting without him, didn’t she?
No, what she ______________________________________ the afternoon.
5. Didn’t Nick get stuck in a traffic jam in the town centre?
No, not in the town centre; it _____________________________________ got stuck.
6. I heard the boss was a little annoyed with Nick for being late.
No, she wasn’t “a little annoyed”. What ____________________________________!

 

 

B) FOR EACH OF THE SENTENCES BELOW, WRITE A NEW SENTENCE AS SIMILAR AS
POSSIBLE IN MEANING TO THE ORIGINAL SENTENCE, BUT USING THE WORDS GIVEN
IN BOLD.

1.We just need 5 minutes to fix it. ALL
_________________________________________________________________________
2.I’m not questioning his dedication. ISN’T
_________________________________________________________________________
3.These men a re totally ruthless. WHAT
_________________________________________________________________________
4.We inherited everything except the house. ONLY THING
_________________________________________________________________________
5.You know the sales assistant told me exactly the same thing. THAT’S
_________________________________________________________________________
6.We’re taking the au-pair with us. DOING
_________________________________________________________________________ 

Phrasal verbs

 

Phrasal verbs: these are structures composed by a verb and a preposition or an adverb. Some phrasal verbs may be formed by three words. There are four groups of phrasal verbs:

·         Group 1. No object: the verb and the preposition/adverb can’t be separated. E.g. The meeting went on for hours.

·         Group 2. With an object. In this group,  the verb and the preposition/adverb can be separated. Here, we need to be careful:

§  If the object is a noun, it can go after both parts of the phrasal verb or between them.                                                                              

E.g. Take off your shoes or Take your shoes off.

§  If the object is a pronoun it must go between the two parts. 

E.g. Take them off. Never Take off them.

·         Group 3: With an object, but the verb and the preposition/adverb can’t be separated. 

E.g. She looks after her young sister at weekends. Never She looks her young sister after at weekends.

·         Group 4: With two prepositions or adverbs, They can’t be separated. 

E.g. We are looking forward to our holiday. Never We are looking forward our holiday to.

Download the document titled “Phrasal verbs revision” and do activities 1a, 2a and 3 based on the previous explanation. Read the difference between separable and non-separable phrasal verbs in section 4. 

 

 

 

 

Conditional sentences C1 activities

Do these activities about conditional sentences.

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Reported Speech

Click here to get more information about reported speech. 


Click here to download activities to practice reported speech.

Relative Clauses

Click here to download the document about relative clauses.

Modal verbs

This is a presentation about modal verbs. Use it to complete the grammar information in the textbook.

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Inversions

Click here to download some activities about Inversions. 

Future

This year, we are going to study future perfect and future continuous. I thought it would be interesting for you to have this information about the different ways to express future in English before going further. Try to review this before studying future perfect and future simple.


Click here to download "Future in English"

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Narrative tenses / Adverbs and adverbial phrases review

These are activities to review the grammar we have studied in Unit n. 3

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Click here to download the adverbs and adverbial phrases activity

Revision Unit 2

Here you will find two worksheets to revise the grammar we've studied in unit 2. Please do activities a and b on worksheet 2A and activities a, b and c on worksheet 2B.

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Click here for worksheet 2B

Grammar activities unit 1

Please, download this pdf document and do these four grammar activities about question formation and auxilary verbs:

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Inversions

This is a complementary activity for the grammar we are dealing with in module 6: Inversions. 

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Cleft sentences

This is some information about the next grammar point we are going to study: cleft sentences.

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