- •Eu jep catch project
- •Unit I education system in russia and english speaking countries Lesson 1
- •I see I’m afraid if I’m not mistaken and what about you
- •It seems to me that I don’t know exactly
- •Informal letters
- •Lesson 2
- •Introduction
- •To express your opinion
- •To agree or disagree with somebody
- •Lesson 3
- •Introduction
- •Lesson 4
- •My education
- •Asking and answering questions:
- •I’m not perfectly ready to answer this question, but next time I’ll try to answer!
- •Lesson 5
- •Lesson 6 The secrets of successful language learning
- •Self- study materials for unit I
- •Verb to be (the Present Simple Tense) Positive and Negative Forms
- •General Questions
- •Alternative questions
- •Special questions
- •Tag questions
- •The Present Simple Tense
- •General questions
- •Alternative questions
- •Tag questions
- •Special questions
- •The Sentence Structure
- •Unit II
- •Countries and cities
- •(Traditions, customs and holidays in Russia and English speaking countries)
- •Lesson 1
- •Lesson 2
- •Lesson 3
- •Lesson 4
- •Lesson 5
- •Lesson 6
- •Self-study materials for unit II The Present Continuous Tense
- •Unit III
- •Scientists
- •(Famous people)
- •Lesson 1
- •Lesson 2
- •Introduction
- •Invention, inspiration, closet, bulb, nap, wax, phonograph, genius, perspiration.
- •Thomas Alva Edison
- •Invent hired closet nap laboratory light bulb
- •Who was ... Thomas Adams?
- •Lesson 3
- •Invention, to explode, dynamite, powerful, closet, iron, bulb, fortune, phonograph, discovery, genius, to carry out, research:
- •Alfred Nobel
- •Lesson 4
- •1876 1886 1938 1940 1965 1971 1975 1976 1979 1995
- •How to be a successful inventor
- •Lesson 5
- •Invention, to explode, dynamite, powerful, closet, iron, bulb, fortune, phonograph, discovery, genius, to carry out, research.
- •I. Read the text The man who invented e-mail
- •II. Read the article Louis von Ahn
- •Lesson 6 Women in science
- •Problem-based task (webquest) Famous Women – Scientists and Inventors
- •Self-study materials for unit III The Past Simple Tense is used:
- •When we talk about actions and situations in the past we use:
- •Positive form — Regular verbs
- •Positive form — Irregular verbs
- •Negative form and questions
- •General questions
- •Alternative questions
- •Tag questions
- •Special questions
- •Verb to be (The Past Simple Tense) was/were
- •The past continuous tense
- •Positive form
- •Negative form
- •Past continuous vs. Past simple
- •Unit IV computer Lesson 1
- •Lesson 2
- •Lesson 3
- •Lesson 4
- •Lesson 5
- •Lesson 6
- •Self-study materials for unit IV The Present Perfect Tense
- •Present perfect and past simple
- •Unit V career prospects Lesson 1
- •Lesson 2
- •Lesson 3
- •Lesson 4
- •Lesson 5
- •Lesson 6
- •Self-study materials for unit V The Future Simple Tense
- •I’ll be… or I’ll probably be… or I don’t know where I’ll be.
- •The Future Continuous Tense
- •I ________________ soon. (to leave)
- •I shall be leaving soon. Or I will be leaving soon.
Self-study materials for unit III The Past Simple Tense is used:
to talk about a complete action or an event in the past. The action can be a short one
I missed the bus. I asked a question.
or a long one
I lived there for years. I walked for hours.
When we talk about actions and situations in the past we use:
a) adverbs of frequency to talk about habits
Always At school he always complained about bad food.
Usually When I was a child, I usually went to the cinema with my parents.
Seldom Jack's parents seldom went on holiday when he was a little boy.
Never My brother never missed a classical guitar performance.
b) adverbs of sequence to order events
Yesterday morning/afternoon/evening;
the day before yesterday;
Kate worked yesterday afternoon.
night/week/month/year; five minutes a week
Last spring/summer/autumn/winter; three hours two months ago
Monday /Tuesday, etc. five days a year
Jane moved into a new flat last week. He passed all his exams two months
ago.
Long ago Long ago, people learned to make musical instruments.
(Many) years later . Years later people learned to make more elaborate ones.
Many years ago Many years ago my mother taught me to play the piano.
After that After that I started taking piano classes with a professional
pianist.
(Soon) afterwards Soon afterwards I played the piano in many piano
performances.
In those days In those days piano performances were quite popular.
Then Then I gave up playing music.
At that time At that time I was rather keen on sports.
Positive form — Regular verbs
I watch television every evening. (present simple)
I watched television yesterday evening. (past simple)
watched is the past simple:
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I/we /you /they he/she/it
watched
■ The past simple is often -ed. For example:
work –> worked clean –> cleaned start –> started
stay –> stayed live –> lived dance –> danced
These verbs are regular verbs.
- I clean my teeth every morning. This morning I cleaned my teeth.
- Terry worked in a bank from 1981 to 1986.
- Yesterday it rained all morning. It stopped at lunchtime.
- We enjoyed the party last Might. We danced a lot and talked to a lot of people. The party finished at midnight.
Spelling ► study –> studied marry –> married
stop –> stopped plan –> planned
Exercise 1. Complete the sentences using the words in the list. Use the Present Simple or the Past Simple:
stay finish listen watch happen visit ask invite |
Example: Mike often asks questions. He asked a lot of questions in class yesterday.
1. Lily and Jack ___their grandparents every weekend. They ___ them last weekend too.
2. I usually ___to the news on TV before I go to sleep at night, but last night I ___ to the news on the radio.
3. Ann seldom ___ her homework before midnight. But yesterday she ___ her homework at 10 p.m.
4. I usually ___ a lot of people to my birthday party. But last year I ___ only my close friends.
5. Take care! This crossroads is extremely dangerous. Accidents are often here. A serious accident ___ at this crossroads only a few days ago.
6. In the evening my parents ___ at home and ___TV. As usual they ___ at home and ___ TV last night.