Sense it!

Our senses allow us to enjoy our food, the sound of music, the beauty of a sunny day, the softness of a child's hair -- in short, our lives!

Let's review the vocabulary you studied in unit 4 in your books related to the senses.


1.-I bet you didn't know there was an American holiday that celebrates the sense of smell. Listen to the extract and fill in the blanks. If you click on the Hint ? Button, you'll get the number of words needed for each gap.

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2.- Now review the words and expressions studied in Unit 4 before your written test.

3.- Finally, have fun with these optical illusions. Do not just browse through the different images. It's very important that you read through the instructions and act accordingly. But before starting, who can tell me where the hidden tiger is?

 

VERB PATTERNS

Unfortunately in English there are some things that you just have to learn. Verb patterns are one of them. Some verbs are followed by the gerund (-ing form). Some verbs are followed by the infinitive (to + verb).
Verb patterns are always difficult to master by English learners.
As everything else, it just needs practice.

Verbpatternsinenglish 

Check the list here

Practice 1
Practice 2
Practice 3 
Practice 4

REPORTED SPEECH

Telling someone what another said is called reported speech.
How often do you have to report what someone else said? Really often. We do this every day. Children tell parents what teachers and classmates said at school. Friends tell one another about events from their day, including what co-workers, classmates, neighbours, and relatives said. Because reported speech does not use the speaker’s exact words, it’s also called indirect speech. It’s different from quoted or direct speech, which uses the speaker’s original words.

What did they say?

The following presentation tries to sum up the main changes that take place when we report what somebody previously said:

Reported Speech Theory And Changes

Practice on Reported Speech
Reported Speech Worksheet

Online Practice

STATEMENTS	QUESTIONS	COMMANDS
Statements1	Questions1	Commands1 (Affirmative)
Statements2(time expressions)	Questions2	Commands2 (Negative)
Statements3 (gap-filling)	Questions3 (time expressions)	Commands3

Revise Reporting Verbs with this useful video:




The following video gives further and modre detailed explanation on reporting verbs.




The following presentation sums up the different reporting verbs and their patterns. 

Reporting verbs

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Now it's time to practice them by doing the activities below.

Reporting Verbs 1
Reporting Verbs 2
Reporting Verbs 3
 
Quizz 1
Miscellaneous
Report the text

Game on reporting verbs

THE PASSIVE VOICE

We often use the passive to describe things, especially when we don’t know -- or aren’t interested in -- who is doing the action. In order to sound natural in English you will need to use the passive sometimes, so let’s practise it!

Passive voice-

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Make sure you do some of the activities below:

Passive 1                                                     -Have something done 1

Passive 2                                                     -Have something done 2



Passive 3

Passive 4

For those of you who are still struggling with Passive Voice, try these exercises to revise the basics.


Now complete the passage with the correct active or passive form of the verbs in brackets.

Finally try playing this game. You can play alone or in pairs.

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Passive (advanced.1)
Passive (advanced.2)

MODAL VERBS

Last week you didn't have enough time to work on modal verbs, so today I hope you will.

1.- If you didn't become a millinaire last week, start by taking the Millionaire Quiz Challenge 

2.-Then do the two activities below the image.

3.- Now watch the following movie segment from Premonition and guess what might have happened to the characters. Check the options you believe are possible explanations for the characters’ current situation.








4.- Now try the following 4 rephrasing exercises.

5.- Finally, if you've finished all the above, you can listen to the following song by Abba, The Day Before You Came, where there are lots of examples of modals for deduction.

Lyrics | Abba lyrics - The Day Before You Came lyrics

FAME AND CELEBRITIES

Let's do some revision and extension on the topic of fame and celebrities.

Lots of people seem to be willing to do anything as long as they get their "fifteen minutes of fame", as Andy Warhol said in 1968. As things have turned out, the rise of celebrity culture and reality television in the Western world since then has shown Warhol to be quite prophetic.




1.- Dictation. Listen to the MP3 file below and complete the blanks

2.- Vocabulary: Revise some of the words studied so far by doing some of the free activities on the site below:

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3.- Now take the following quiz and find out which celebrity you would be. Share your results with us in a comment. Tell us who you are and something about you.

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4.- Think of a celebrity and challenge Akinator to guess the identity.

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CONDITIONS

Conditional Clauses are all around us, they are part of our lives. They are widely used in advertising or awareness campaigns, for example.

Let's revise how to express condition in English.
Watch the following presentation and pay attention to the uses and the verb patterns used in each type of condition.

Conditionals

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Let's do some practice.

CONDITIONALS TYPE 1: Exercise 1, Exercise 2

CONDITIONALS TYPE 2: Listen to the song, Exercise 1 

TYPES 1 + 2: Exercise

CONDITIONALS TYPE 3: Exercise 1,  Exercise 2

ALL TYPES: Type I, II & III + Exceptions


REPHRASINGS

Now try the Fling the Teacher Game

Check your understanding on Conditionals with the following quiz 

Now let's listen to some examples of conditionals used in different songs:




Now go to If it were my home , a site which compares living conditions in your country with those of another and imagine what your life would be like if a different country were your home.

You can compare countries in the following infographic by Newsweek

Expressing Wishes and Regrets

Uses Of `I Wish´ And if only

Make sure you've understood by making the following exercises on Wish 

PRESENTATIONS ON TENSES

Here you have a few presentations about basic verbal tenses in English. I hope they will help you understand their formation and use better.

English Tenses 2 on Prezi

Present Continuous and present simple

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Try these games: Snakes & Ladders , The Hangman , Adverbs of Frequency

Past Simple Vs Past Continuous

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Try the following quiz to test yourself on these tenses and get ready for the grammar test



Game on Past Simple and Past Continuous

Present Perfect Tense

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Present Perfect Tense II

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Present Perfect & Participles Hangman Game

Present Perfect vs Simple Past Game

Present Perfect Simple And Present Perfect Continuous

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Present Perfect or Past Simple
Present Perfect vs Past Simple Game


How Long + Present Perfect Continuous



Try this challenging game about the Present Perfect

Mastering the Present Perfect

Past Perfect

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past perfect continuous from loopito

Future Tenses

WILL OR BE GOING TO: Exercise 1, Exercise 2, Exercise 3,
Exercise 4

Be going to/ Will Test

Future Continuous and Future Perfect

FUTURE CONTINUOUS OR PERFECT: Exercise 1   
Exercise 2, Exercise 3,

In the link below you'll find lots of exercises to practise the different verb tenses and their uses:
Practice on English Verb Tenses
Quiz1 on tenses 
Grammar Aquarium