A1.2 Program

A1.2 Guia

Expressing Ability

1) Read and listen to the following info:

Read the leaflet. Which do you think is the best charity event: the sports event,

the talent show, the art show or the food stall?

Every year Parkslde Youth Club has a charity weekend for Friends of the Earth. 

This year it’s on April 25th and 26th. What can you do?

SPORTS EVENT

Can you run five kilometers? Ask your family and friends for 50p for every kilometer that you run. Maybe you can’t run, but can you swim? Ask people for 50p for every 100 meters that you swim.

TALENT SHOW

Can you sing or dance? Maybe you can play a musical instrument or juggle. Join our talent show and help to sell tickets.

ART SHOW

Some people can’t sing or dance very well but they can draw, paint or take good photographs. Organize an art show at your school. Then sell the artwork

FOOD STALL

Can you cook? Cook a dish for the food stall at the youth club and sell it to your friends.

2) Abilities & Talents

3) Write Sentences using can or can’t plus the correspondent verb

4) Listening Practice A 5.8

5) Listening Practice B Can't & Can

 

6) Listening Practice C 3 People Abilities

   

7) We can use: can, be able to, know how to and be good at to express ability

		can	Be able to	Know how to	Be good at
		can+ verb(base form)	Be able to+ verb(base form)	How to+ verb(base form)	At+ verb(ING)
Singular	+	She can speak 5 languages	She is able to speak 5 languages	She knows how to speak 5 languages	She is good at speaking  languages
	-	She can’t=cannot speak 5 languages	She isn’t able to speak 5 languages	She doesn’t know how to speak 5 languages	She isn’t good at speaking  languages
	?	Can she speak 5 languages?	Is she able to speak 5 languages?	Does she know how to speak 5 languages?	Is she good at speaking languages?
Plural	+	They can speak 5 languages	They are able to speak 5 languages	They know how to speak 5 languages	They are good at speaking  languages
	-	They can’t=cannot speak 5 languages	They aren’t able to speak 5 languages	They don’t know how to speak 5 languages	They aren’t good at speaking  languages
	?	Can they speak 5 languages?	Are they able to speak 5 languages?	Do they know how to speak 5 languages?	Are they good at speaking languages?

8) Homework

Read the following information about 3 animals. Pay attention to the underlined words in the text to express ability.

You are going to look for some information about an animal describing where this animal comes from and the abilities it has using: can, be able to, know how to and be good at.

Example  

Information About Animals

https://www.activewild.com/a-to-z-animals/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/index/

9) Further Explanation and Exercises

Know how to / Be good at

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ELEMENTARY/unit12/page5.htm

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ELEMENTARY/unit12/page6.htm

Using Can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eunz-1dWRxg

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ELEMENTARY/unit12/page2.htm

Using Be able to:

http://www.shertonenglish.com/resources/es/miscelaneous-topics/to-be-able-to.php

Look at the following links and complete the exercises there:

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ELEMENTARY/unit12/page5.htm

http://www.ompersonal.com.ar/ELEMENTARY/unit12/page6.htm

Describing Places

 

Some Adjectives to Describe Places

Where are these people?  What are they doing?  What are they wearing?

Are they wearing appropriate clothes? 

Organize the following dialogue

BBC Shopping Clothes



Order of Adjectives

https://excuse-my-english-brighton.com/2014/12/17/describing-clothes-ordering-adjectives/

Clothes
Explore these links 

https://www.slideshare.net/chris1885/clothes-vocabulary-12691232

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/vocabulary-exercises/clothes-1

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/vocabulary-exercises/clothes-2

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/vocabulary-exercises/accessories

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/clothes-1

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/clothes-2

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/clothes-accessories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLP6ojzmcyQ

SHOPPING Phrases, Dialogs and Phrasal Verbs!

https://www.learning-english-online.net/speaking/dialogues/going-shopping/

https://www.eslfast.com/robot/topics/shop/shop.htm

http://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/shopping-vocabulary/#shoppingvocabulary

Order of Adjectives

https://excuse-my-english-brighton.com/2014/12/17/describing-clothes-ordering-adjectives/

Answer Key Preparation Test November the 26th Course A1.1

Preparation Test A1.1 November the 26th 2018

Present Progressive / Continuous Worksheet

Ing Spelling

Explanation & Exercises

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/preint/grammar/grammar_01_012e?cc=co&selLanguage=en

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_present_progressive2.htm

https://agendaweb.org/verbs/present-continuous-tense.html

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simpre-prepro

Check Out This Video and the Quiz there

https://www.engvid.com/5-ways-to-use-the-present-continuous-verb-tense-in-english/#quiz

Present Simple or Continuous?

Which is right?

Further Explanation

Reading Activities

Listening & Vocabulary

Frequency Adverbs:

http://www.agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/adverbs/frequency-1

http://www.agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/adverbs/frequency-2

http://www.agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/adverbs/frequency-3

http://www.autoenglish.org/basic/frequencypal/frequency.html

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/elementary/grammar/grammar_02_012e?cc=co&selLanguage=en

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adverbs_of_frequency.htm

More Explanation & Position of these Adverbs of Frequency

http://www.grammar.cl/Basic/Adverbs_Frequency.htm

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/adverbien1.htm

Vocabulary Adjectives

  

Transcription

Adverbs & Expressions of Frequency

 

Complete the following sentences about Tara

How often...? Expressions of Frequency Practice

http://www.teach-this.com/images/resources/find-someone-who-adverbs-of-frequency.pdf

Object Pronouns

More Explanation



Likes & dislikes

Reading

Object Pronouns:

http://www.agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/pronouns/object-2

http://www.adelescorner.org/grammar/object_pronouns/objectpronouns.html

http://www.englishmaven.org/HP6/Pronouns%20Exercise%201.htm

http://www.agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/pronouns/object-3

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1965

http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-object-pronouns.php

Listening

http://www.real-english.com/reo/16/16-2.htm

Asking Questions 

Look at these prompts and write the correspondent questions for each one of them. Check out the answers with the audio provided.

Subject / Object Questions Explanation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbYkfmdh-AA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6dgm-NhFX8

Ask Questions For The Underlined Info Exercise

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/questions/form.htm

Please check out this videos and links so we can have a better prior knowledege for next week's sessions👇

Questions: 

https://youtu.be/UIGASoczrHw 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWyMzwBmmfQ

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cd_o-94r8iE

Adverbs of Frequency: 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=1s&v=lrZI_tGUyw0

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AuZsKxyMp3o

https://www.engvid.com/grammar-how-often-always-usually-often-never

Adjectives to describe personality:

http://www.shertonenglish.com/es/gramatica/adjetivos/calificativos-personalidad

Have a restful weekend. Take care of yourselves!

Telling The Time

American

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQMfpM7E_2I

British

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9gtewVjkJ0

Family Vocabulary

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/lists/family.html

Daily Activities

Look at the following pictures and say what the woman does everyday

Present Simple

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/1g1-present-simple-gap-fill.php

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/1g62-elementary-sarahs-morning-gap-fill.php

http://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/1g63-elementary-present-simple-gap-fill-exercise.php

Writing Exercise

Use the words in the pictures to write sentences about this man

Example:

What a busy day for this man!

He gets up at 7:00 every Monday. Then, he goes to the bathroom and has a shower. After that he goes downstairs to the dinning room and has cereal and fruit juice for breakfast with his family. At 8:00 he leaves home and goes to school by bus. It takes him 45 minutes to get there. He has classses from 9:00 to 3:30 when he goes for lunch. After school he walks to a park nearby and plays basketball with a friend. The he goes back home and does his homework. He has dinner at 7:30. After dinner he watches Tv, listens to the radio or reads magazines. Finally, the man goes to bed at about 11:00.   

Listening Activity

Speaking Activity

Use the following chart to describe these people's information 

Content & Evaluation Course A1.1 From June the 18th to July the 9th

Demonstratives

Exercises

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/demonstratives/this-that-these-those

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/demonstratives/this-that

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/various/this_that.htm

Reading Practice