http://www.really-learn-english.com/present-perfect-exercises.html#01
http://www.really-learn-english.com/present-perfect-exercises.html#03
http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/present-perfect-quiz
Language for Life Staff
mercoledì 3 dicembre 2014
lunedì 1 dicembre 2014
Language for Life Christmas Caroling 2014
Let it Snow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY8NNBVmoaM
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UpFiOB5A80
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnIqLlBwzrc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY8NNBVmoaM
Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UpFiOB5A80
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnIqLlBwzrc
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9LvziuWVg
Frosty the Snowman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zW225k_O0
Jingle Bells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeNJmOsBS94
We wish you a Merry Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVKRVM1guP0&spfreload=1
The Twelve Days of Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyEyMjdD2uk
sabato 29 novembre 2014
Ser y Estar Ejercicios
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~eyepes/newgr/ser.htm
http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/serest2.htm
http://www.studyspanish.com/practice/serest2.htm
Article week Dec. 1
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30241459
Black Friday: Police called as sales turn ugly
Present Simple Exercises
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2829
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-present/form/exercises?02
http://www.english-4u.de/present_ex1.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/simple-present/form/exercises?02
http://www.english-4u.de/present_ex1.htm
Simple past Exercises
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-7.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-9.html
http://www.grammarbank.com/simple-past-tense-exercises.html
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2562
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-exercise-9.html
http://www.grammarbank.com/simple-past-tense-exercises.html
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2562
Listening Activities week Dec. 1
Extra English: Hector's Arrival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_PuOC2nGWk&list=PL6F609E3FE0D1D769&index=1
Animation movie for Children watch in English:Rio 2 no subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t68Mn63XYL8
Song: Aaron Neville: Please come home for Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6HwIumuhU8
Castle Season 1: Not all the words from the subtitle is correct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHLZxp8q4e8
Extra Espanol: La llegada de Sam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfb9-ZTCA-E
Ricky Martin: Lo Mejor de mi vida eres tu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdC0gryqx_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_PuOC2nGWk&list=PL6F609E3FE0D1D769&index=1
Animation movie for Children watch in English:Rio 2 no subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t68Mn63XYL8
Song: Aaron Neville: Please come home for Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6HwIumuhU8
Castle Season 1: Not all the words from the subtitle is correct
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHLZxp8q4e8
Extra Espanol: La llegada de Sam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfb9-ZTCA-E
Ricky Martin: Lo Mejor de mi vida eres tu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdC0gryqx_8
mercoledì 19 novembre 2014
An article from CNN - For the students that want to practice their reading
site: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/11/18/world/meast/israel-terror-attack-reaction/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Jerusalem terror attack 'strikes at soul' of Jews worldwide
By Daniel Burke, CNN
November 19, 2014 -- Updated 0224 GMT (1024 HKT)
(CNN) -- Books, filled with prayers for peace, splattered with blood. Sacred vestments shredded by bullets and knives. Lifeless bodies in the sanctuary.
The rabbis had gathered to ask God to bestow blessings upon their troubled land. Their prayers were interrupted by two men wielding butcher knives and a gun.
An Israeli police officer and four rabbis were killed, including an American whose family is considered "rabbinic royalty."
Combined with the site of the slaughter -- a synagogue in West Jerusalem -- the targeting of rabbis struck at the soul of Jews around the world, several Jewish leaders said Tuesday.
"This is an attack on all of us," said Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld, who leads Ohev Sholom Synagogue in Washington. "Any terrorist attack is a horror. But to attack people while they are engaged in prayer, are talking to God, is a new low."
In fact, both sides in the seemingly endless fight between Israelis and Palestinians have attacked people at prayer.
In 1994, a Jewish extremist murdered 29 Palestinians worshiping in Hebron. In 2002, Palestinian extremists attacked a Passover Seder in Natanya, killing 30.
Like those assaults, Tuesday's murders threaten to ignite another inferno of unholy violence.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, but Hamas and other Palestinians praised the terrorists, identified by police as two cousins from East Jerusalem.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office vowed to "respond with a heavy hand" to the killings.
The attackers, identified as Ghassan Abu Jamal and his cousin Udayy Abu Jamal, were killed by police responding to the synagogue assault, authorities said.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Hamas, linked the attack to the discovery Sunday of a Palestinian bus driver hanged in his bus not far from the synagogue where the rabbis were killed.
But relatives of the terrorists told The New York Timesthe men were motivated by Israel's recent closure of Jerusalem's Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary compound, a site holy to both Jews and Muslims.
The site has since been reopened, but the dispute has fueled small-scale attacks by Palestinians that have killed six Israelis in recent weeks.
In the United States, the horror of Tuesday's terror attack unified Jews across the political spectrum, even those who sharply disagree with Netanyahu's handling of the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
In an editorial, the Jewish Daily Forward said the frustration of Palestinians "living under occupation" is understandable.
But killing innocent men at prayer is morally indefensible, the newspaper said, noting that the synagogue is in West Jerusalem, not in "contested territory."
Killing innocents anywhere is detestable, Jewish leaders said Tuesday. But there is something especially heinous about killing people while they pray.
"We look on our ministers, priests, rabbis and mullahs as intermediaries between ourselves in the divine world," said Peter Machinist, a professor of Hebrew at Harvard University.
Within the slain rabbis' ultra-Orthodox tradition, respected rabbis are assumed to have a "hot line to heaven." "So an attack on them is a little closer to being an attack on God," Machinist said.
The four rabbis killed were: Avraham Shmuel Goldberg, 58; Aryeh Kopinsky, 43; Moshe Twersky, 59; and Calman Levine. Goldberg was a dual British-Israeli citizen, and the other three were U.S.-Israeli citizens.
"This was an attack by Palestinian terrorists of pure evil and would have been utterly deplorable wherever, whenever it had occurred," said Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the former chief of rabbi of Britain.
"But for this terrorist attack to occur in a synagogue, deliberately targeting innocent Jews deep in prayer, is something that strikes at the soul of Jewish people around the world."
The Muslim Political Affairs Council also condemned Tuesday's attack.
"We strongly believe that houses of worship should be a sanctuary for all people, not a place of violence as we regretfully witnessed today. Islam commands its followers to protect houses of worship," the group said in a statement on Twitter.
Moshe Twersky, originally from Boston, comes from an almost Kennedy-like clan of respected scholars and rabbis. His father, Rabbi Isadore Twersky, was a world-renowned expert on Jewish theology and founding director of Harvard's Center for Jewish learning.
Twersky's maternal grandfather was Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, a philosopher and professor at Yeshiva University who was considered one of the most important minds in Modern Orthodox Judaism.
"It's a very prominent family in Jewish life, in Jewish scholarship, in Jewish theology," Machinist said.
Herzfeld said Soloveitchik was responsible for training thousands of rabbis who passed through Yeshiva University in New York, where his legacy still burns bright. Twersky's brother, Mayer, teaches at the university.
Family legacy aside, what makes Tuesday's attack all the more galling, Jewish leaders said, is that the rabbis planned to engage in the very opposite of terrorism: praying for peace.
"That's what's so horrible about this," said Herzfeld. "These people were trying to do their part to bring good into this world through their dedication to God."
Other Jewish leaders noted that the rabbis likely did not expect their morning service to be interrupted by an assault.
"If you are truly at prayer, you are most vulnerable," said Jane Eisner, the Forward's editor-in-chief.
Worshipers are not looking around for potential terrorists; they are focused on God. During the central prayer of Jewish services, the Amidah, it is considered sacrilegious to interrupt worshipers.
"Amidah" means "standing" in Hebrew, and Jews are taught to imagine themselves standing before God, asking for his blessing, said Herzfeld.
By tradition, the last prayer asks for peace in Israel. It's unclear whether the rabbis had reached that point when the slaughter began.
The uses of Wish
Site: http://www.usingenglish.com/articles/using-wish-in-english.html
Wish + Infinitive
- I wish to see the manager.
This is like 'I would like to see the manager', but is more insistent and stronger, though still polite.
Wish + Noun/Pronoun + Past Simple
- I wish I had the time to do it.
This means either that I don't have the time now or that I won't have the time in the future to do it, depending on context:
- I wish I were/was rich.
Here, the speaker regrets that they are not rich now. Note that with the verb 'be', you can either use the past simple or the past subjunctive.
- I wish I were/was able to go to the meeting next week.
Here, the speaker is clearly talking about the future.
Wish + Noun/Pronoun + Past Perfect
- I wish I hadn't said that.
Here, the speaker is talking about the past. They said something and now they regret it.
Wish + Noun/Pronoun + Would/Could
- I wish I could speak German.
Here, the speaker cannot speak German, but it is possible to learn it, so it is not as impossible as the sentences above. It is imaginary, but wouldn't be impossible to change the situation. If the subject of the verb wish and the verb after it are the same, we use could.
- I wish he wouldn't play his music so late at night.
Again, the situation is imaginary, but it would be possible for the other person to turn their music down. As the two subjects are different, we use would. It is possible to use could when talking about someone not having the opportunity or ability: I wish he could come with us.
411 on Conditional Sentences
Site: http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/grammar/if.htm
Conditional sentences
The conditional sentences are sometimes confusing for learners of English.
Watch out:
1) Which type of the conditional sentences is used?
2) Where is the if-clause (e.g. at the beginning or at the end of the conditional sentence)?
There are three types of the if-clauses.
type | condition |
---|---|
I | condition possible to fulfill |
II | condition in theory possible to fulfill |
III | condition not possible to fulfill (too late) |
Form
type | if clause | main clause |
---|---|---|
I | Simple Present | will-future (or Modal + infinitive) |
II | Simple Past | would + infinitive * |
III | Past Perfect | would + have + past participle * |
Examples (if-clause at the beginning)
type | if clause | main clause |
---|---|---|
I | If I study, | I will pass the exam. |
II | If I studied, | I would pass the exam. |
III | If I had studied, | I would have passed the exam. |
Examples (if-clause at the end)
type | main clause | if-clause |
---|---|---|
I | I will pass the exam | if I study. |
II | I would pass the exam | if I studied. |
III | I would have passed the exam | if I had studied. |
Examples (affirmative and negative sentences)
type | Examples | ||
---|---|---|---|
long forms | short/contracted forms | ||
I | + | If I study, I will pass the exam. | If I study, I'll pass the exam. |
- | If I study, I will not fail the exam. If I do not study, I will fail the exam. | If I study, I won't fail the exam. If I don't study, I'll fail the exam. | |
II | + | If I studied, I would pass the exam. | If I studied, I'd pass the exam. |
- | If I studied, I would not fail the exam. If I did not study, I would fail the exam. | If I studied, I wouldn't fail the exam. If I didn't study, I'd fail the exam. | |
III | + | If I had studied, I would have passedthe exam. | If I'd studied, I'd have passed the exam. |
- | If I had studied, I would not have failedthe exam. If I had not studied, I would have failedthe exam. | If I'd studied, I wouldn't have failed the exam. If I hadn't studied, I'd have failed the exam. |
* We can substitute could or might for would (should, may or must are sometimes possible, too).
I would pass the exam. |
I could pass the exam. |
I might pass the exam. |
I may pass the exam. |
I should pass the exam. |
I must pass the exam. |
Exercise: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/conditional-sentences/exercises?06
Exercises on Conditional Sentences (Mix)
Pronouns - Exercises
site: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/pronouns/exercises
Exercise on Pronouns
CONJUGACIÓN DE VERBOS REGULARES E IRREGULARES
La lista se encuentra en este sitio: http://www.edu.xunta.es/centros/iesastelleiras/?q=system/files/CONJUGACI%C3%93N+DE+VERBOS+REGULARES.pdf
Frases Condicionales - Hipotéticas
Gramática: https://espanol.lingolia.com/es/gramatica/estructura-de-la-oracion/oraciones-condicionales
Ejercicios: https://espanol.lingolia.com/es/gramatica/estructura-de-la-oracion/oraciones-condicionales/ejercicios
Oraciones condicionales
Introducción
Las oraciones condicionales indican que una acción solo tiene lugar si se produce una condición determinada. Estas oraciones se suelen distinguir de las demás porque empiezan por la conjunción si.
Mamá: «Marcos, hoy voy a hacer un pastel, ¿me ayudas?»
Marcos: «Si tengo tiempo esta tarde, te ayudo.»
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Mamá: «Marcos, puedes ayudarme a hacer un pastel?»
Marcos: «Si tuviese tiempo, te ayudaría. Pero tengo que hacer los deberes»
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Mamá: «El pastel está listo. ¡Me dijiste que querías ayudarme!»
Marcos: «Si hubiese tenido tiempo, te habría ayudado. Pero tenía que hacer los deberes.»
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Tipo I – Oraciones condicionales reales
En este caso, se hace referencia a una condición que se cree que se cumple o se cumplirá (quizás tenga tiempo luego). Se usa el presente del indicativo en la subordinada condicional y el futuro opresente de indicativo en la oración principal.
- Ejemplo:
- Si tengo tiempo, te ayudaré/te ayudo.
Tipo II – Oraciones condicionales potenciales (presente)
Se expresan hechos que se consideran irreales en el presente (no tengo tiempo). Se usa el imperfecto de subjuntivo en la subordinada y el condicional simple en la principal.
- Ejemplo:
- Si tuviera/tuviese tiempo, te ayudaría.
Nota
Esta clase de oración condicional también expresa un hecho muy improbable en el futuro.
- Ejemplo:
- Si tuviera tiempo mañana, te ayudaría.
Tipo III – Oraciones condicionales irreales (Pasado)
Se describe un hecho que no se ha producido en el pasado (no he tenido tiempo). Se usa elpluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo en la subordinada y el condicional perfecto de indicativo o elpluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo en la oración principal.
- Ejemplo:
- Si hubiese/hubiera tenido tiempo, te habría/hubiera/hubiese ayudado.
Cuando la partícula si aparece después de la oración principal, entonces no separamos las oraciones mediante una coma.
- Beispiel:
- Te ayudaré/te ayudo si tengo tiempo.
- Te ayudaría si tuviera/tuviese tiempo.
- Te habría/hubiera/hubiese ayudado si hubiese/hubiera tenido tiempo.
Ejercicios: https://espanol.lingolia.com/es/gramatica/estructura-de-la-oracion/oraciones-condicionales/ejercicios
Oraciones condicionales – ejercicios
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