Young Offenders' Institution

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Grammar IMPROVEMENT - PAST TENSES

It is important to remember that when we are writing stories about the past, we must know the different past tenses. We will start by checking our level of knowledge with the SIMPLE PAST TENSE.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Complete this exercise by clicking here.
2. Take a screenshot of your final score. 
3. Copy and paste the text from the website into a word document. 
4. Save your work as SIMPLE PAST TENSES and save in your English folder. 

IMPORTANT FIRST TASKS

Important first tasks:

1) You need a gmail account. If you already have one you can use that but if you don't you need to create one. Make sure your name and password are easy for you to remember. If you are finding it hard to find a good name, add 'sfp' to the end of your name. (e.g. joesmithsfp@gmail.com)

2) Send an email to sellicksfp@gmail.com with your name and class as the title. This is to help me make a class email list for English.

3) Download google drive to your computer (using your new gmail account)

4) Join Studyblue -  Use this link 
http://www.studyblue.com

5) Join Headmagent - http://headmagnet.com

6) Join Quizlet - http://quizlet.com

Welcome to the class!... Who are you?

This week, we will be producing introductions to ourselves. Here are some areas which would be good to include:
Your favourite:

• -entertainment - books, films, songs, actors/actresses, programmes, singers, groups
• - foods, drinks, restaurants, things which you can cook! 
• - sports - sportsmen and women, which sports do you play outside of school, which teams do you like

Your family - include some details about your family, try to include anecdotes if possible
Pets
Interests outside of school
Interesting facts (e.g. about Seville)
Ambitions and dreams for the future

We're going to be using http://popplet.com/. 

You will be writing information about these topics as well as including pictures, so think about using the following expressions:

• I'm really into...
• I love...
• I used to love... but nowadays...
• Usually I...
• I am used to ... (i.e. I have become accustomed to...)
• I would like to
• Although many people ..., I ...
• I have always...
• To be honest...
• This is ..., who is...

If you don't know the word for something, use www.wordreference.com

What vocabulary do we need for the PET exam?

What vocabulary do you know for these topics?

Grammar checklist for 2016/2017

-Modal verbs (can, could, shall, must, need, used to, etc)

-Tenses

-Verb forms (negatives, imperatives, gerunds, etc)

-Conditional sentences

-Simple reported speech

-Interrogatives (what, who, where, how, etc)

-Nouns

-Pronouns (me, myself, this, that, something, whose, etc)

-Determiners (a, the)

-Adjectives

-Adverbs

-Prepositions

-Connectives