Present perfect

You will learn how to express results frompast events, changes and achievements by using present perfect structure

Plans and Predictions

What will your life be like by the year 2050?
Maybe you will be married with children or you will be a sucessfull profesionist.

What the future may bring will you acccept?

Imagine you go to a fortuneteller and she fortells you that:








You will receive a fortune from an elder uncle,

who will inherit to you all his money when he dies.





Once you receive the money, you will be able to travel all around the world.







Then you will have your own business company.

But what are your long-term plans or goals for the future? Are they similar to the predictions of the fortune teller?

One last questions, what are going to do with your life for the next 10 years?

First, Iam going to finish High School

Then I am going to graduate from College and I am going to be the best professionist ever.

Embarrassed moments

Sometimes funny things happen to us, let me tell you a little about my experience:

It happened something similar to me as in the picture below. Last year I won first place in a school contest, there were important people from school, the principle and his assitants, people from the local government so I had to dress up, I had never worn high heels in my life, my mother convinced me to do it, everytime I walked with them I looked like if I were drunk, I balanced from one side to other. I am that kind of girl who is always wearing casual clothes, jeans, t-shirts and sneakers. That day I was nervous, the ceremony took place in a big auditorium, full of students and strangers, the time came when I was called to go up to the stage and receive my award but while I was coming down , my ankle twisted and I fell off the stairs, I was wearing a skirt so everybody could see my underware. That was the most embarrassing moment ever!

See the highlighted expressions:while I was coming down the stage, my ankle twisted and I fell off the stairs

this expression refers to a past continuous action, SOMETHING YOU CONTINUE DOING BUT IN AN SPECIFIC TIME IN PAST.



For example:
Just when I came home from school axhausted and starving, all my family was having dinner, so cool!

Now study a structure that will help you to understand more about embarrassing moments

past continuous structure and exercises

Read and watch more embarrassing moments from the next link. Choose the most insteresting or fun ones for you then  report and comment them to the class.

hilarious true ambarrassing stories

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What were you like when you were a small kid?

I was really restless

I was very mischievous

I used to play jokes to my classmates all the time.

I had braces

I used to play with my dolls

My highs and lows

Lifetime line

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PAST TENSE

We use past tense to express an action or event that has completed a process or a cycle and for that reason we cannot repeat it anymore.

How does the past tense work?
Analyze this mind map and study the pats tense structure.

Past tense

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What does it belong to you?

To express possession is to express what we own, to refer what it belongs to us, for example:
When you ask:
Whose bag is this?
Possible answers if you are the ownwer:

It's mine

It belongs to me

It's my bag

What if a third person refers possession or something belongs to someone ( a person)

For example:

Whose dog is that? (Megan)

It`s Megan's

It's hers

It's her dog

It belongs to her.

That dog belongs to Megan

What do you do everyday?

To talk about routines, habits and general information is to talk about Present simple.

These are some chores we do as routines: make the bed, do the laundry, do the dishes, clean up the house.


I always help my mother to do some chores:

I always make my bed in the morning before going to school.

We do the dishes after having dinner.

My mom cleans up the house, she always keeps it shining.








To talk about habits is necessary to use the frequency adverbs: always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom/rarely/hardly ever and never.

We can also use some time expressions which refer a habit or a frequency of action
Here you have some examples.



I always do yoga on Sunday morning

Students usually do their homework at the computer

We often go to the cinema on Wednesday.

I sometimes listen to music on the radio.

My family and I hardly ever go on vacation in December.

My dad never gets late to work.

I take a bath everyday

From Monday to Friday we take Art lessons.

On tuesday evenings we join our reading club.


We also use present simple to talk about personal information related to:


likes or dislikes:


I like cars but I don't like to wash them

Present Continuous

What are you doing right now?
You know present continuous or progressive expresses what events or situations are happening in this very moment.
e.g. I'm watching tv now.

But there’s another use of this tense, future. We can use present continuous structure to refer to arranged plans, for example:

Next weekend, we are having a costumes party.

what is there in your spot?

Talking about existance, we use the structure "there is" for sigular statements or "There are" for plural ones. If we describe a place or a spot we definitely must use these structures.
For example:

In the city where I live, there are a lot of pollution and noise which come mainly from cars. There are a lot of houses because there are a lot of people as well. However there are a lot of tourist attractions to visit, for instance: The government palace, Chapultepec´s castle, Center town, Benito Juárez enclosure, Coyoacán Plaza, just to name a few.
















I could mention not only good aspects about my country but also bad ones for instance:

Although there is a cultural diversity of Indian communities


There is still discrimination

Now let´s analyze there is/there are structures.

Heritage

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INTRODUCTION REVIEW

Let´s review a little about the verb to be. How much do you know about it? you know, this verb "be" is a chameleo

Why? because it changes according to each particular condition, for example,

• when you talk about your age, you use this verb to refer how old you are: I am 15 years old. ( Tengo 15 años)
• When want to express your state of mood, you say: I am really hungry ( en verdad tengo mucha hambre)
• when you want to talk about weather (climate) conditions, you say: It is cold ( I´m freezing) [Hace frío, me estoy congelando]
• when you describe someone, or even if you want to talk about what you are like, you say: I´m a sensitive and romantic guy [ soy un chico romántico y sensible]
• When we want to refer to cost or price, we say, how much is it? Oh! It is 5 dollars. ( ¿cuánto cuesta? ah, si! cuesta 5 dólares)

Now check the exercises and try to do them, but firs check the information pages or links to understand much better this "verb to be" topic.

welcome

In this space you will be able to accomplish with the contents of the Subject, English III.
First we will start with a review about some topics you already Know, which are: greetings, likes, dislikes, habits, routines and describing actions in progress. Afterwards we will be studying everything about past actions, such as past habits, past events, past situations affected by other ones and so.

Once we have learned about past tense, we will focus on future events, our life planning, date arrangements and commitments.
Finally we will learn reading comprehension strategies, we will go into lectures of any kind,from poetry, scientific texts, and literature to lyrics comprehension.
HONESTLY I HOPE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FULFILL THE LEARNING GOALS FROM THIS COURSE, BUT REMEMBER, THE MOST IMPORTANT IS :
" not to carry out what we are expected to do but to carry out what it is correct to ourselves." (unknown)