martes, 26 de octubre de 2010

It's Halloween!

On the night of the 31st October it is HALLOWEEN. 
Halloween is an ancient pagan festival. People used to believe that it was the night that witches flew and that horrible beasts and monsters walked around. 
Do you know how Americans celebrate Halloween? Children dress up in scary costumes and go treat or treating door by door saying this rhyme:

Trick or treat
smell my feet 
give me something
good to eat

Read more
Have fun with some Halloween games

domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010

's = "has", "is" o saxon genitive?

Do you think it is confusing? Read about it HERE

Practice the Saxon GEnitive with this activity

SAXON GENITIVE

When we want to show that something belongs to somebody or something, we usually add 's to a singular noun and an apostrophe ' to a plural noun, for example:
  • the boy's ball (one boy)
  • the boys' ball (two or more boys)
Notice that the number of balls does not matter. The structure is influenced by the possessor and not the possessed.

one ballmore than one ball
one boy
the boy's ball

the boy's balls
more than one boy
the boys' ball

the boys' balls
The structure can be used for a whole phrase:
  • the man next door's mother (the mother of the man next door)
  • the Queen of England's poodles (the poodles of the Queen of England)
Although we can use of to show possession, it is more usual to use possessive 's. The following phrases have the same meaning, but #2 is more usual and natural:
  1. the boyfriend of my sister
  2. my sister's boyfriend

Proper Nouns (Names)

We very often use possessive 's with names:
  • This is Mary's car.
  • Where is Ram's telephone?
  • Who took Anthony's pen?
  • I like Tara's hair.
When a name ends in s, we usually treat it like any other singular noun, and add 's:
  • This is Charles's chair.
But it is possible (especially with older, classical names) to just add the apostrophe ':
  • Who was Jesus' father?

Irregular Plurals

Some nouns have irregular plural forms without s (man > men). To show possession, we usually add 's to the plural form of these nouns:
singular nounplural noun
my child's dogmy children's dog
the man's workthe men's work
the mouse's cagethe mice's cage
a person's clothespeople's clothes

miércoles, 20 de octubre de 2010

HAVE GOT


“tenir”
     HAVE GOT
Two forms  
                        HAS GOT (used for 3rd person singular HE/SHE/IT)
AFFIRMATIVE
I/you
have got

a bike.
He/she/it
has got
We/you/they
have got
NEGATIVE
I/you
haven’t got

a bike.
He/she/it
hasn’t got
We/you/they
haven’t got
YES/NO QUESTIONS
Have
I/you

got

a bike?
Has
he/she/it
Have
we/you/they
              Short Answers

Yes,
I/you
have
He/she/it
has
We/you/they
have


No,
I/you
haven’t
He/she/it
hasn’t
We/you/they
haven’t
WH- QUESTIONS

Wh-**
Have
I/you

got

………?
Has
he/she/it
Have
we/you/they
** Where, when, why
Ex:       When has she got her holidays?  -   Where have they got the bikes?
Why have you got a red pen?       -   What have we got for breakfast?


Some PRACTICE

ORDINAL NUMBERS

 Figures Spelling
1st first
2nd second
3rd third
4th fourth
5th fifth
6th sixth
7th seventh
8th eighth
9th ninth
10th tenth
11th eleventh
12th twelfth
13th thirteenth
14th fourteenth
15th fifteenth
16th sixteenth
17th seventeenth
18th eighteenth
19th nineteenth
20th twentieth
21st twenty-first
22nd twenty-second
30th thirtieth
40th fortieth
50th fiftieth
60th sixtieth
70th seventieth
80th eightieth
90th ninetieth
100th hundredth
101st hundred and first
200th two hundredth
1,000th thousandth
10,000th ten thousandth
100,000th hundred thousandth
1,000,000th millionth


Spell the numbers HERE

domingo, 10 de octubre de 2010

Cardinal Numbers

Cardinal Numbers 
0    zero, oh, nought, nil, love, nothing
1    one
2    two
3    three
4    four
5    five
6    six
7    seven
8    eight
9    nine
10   ten
11   eleven
12   twelve
13   thirteen
14   fourteen
15   fifteen
16   sixteen
17   seventeen
18   eighteen
19   nineteen
20   twenty
21   twenty-one
22   twenty-two
23   twenty-three
24   twenty-four
25   twenty-five

26   twenty-six
27   twenty-seven
28   twenty-eight
29   twenty-nine
30   thirty
40   forty  (no "u")
50   fifty
60   sixty
70   seventy
80   eighty
90   ninety
100   a/one hundred
101   a hundred and one
110   a hundred and ten
120   a hundred and twenty
200   two hundred
1,000   a/one thousand
1,001   a thousand and one
1,010   a thousand and ten
2,000   two thousand
10,000   ten thousand
11,000   eleven thousand
100,000   a/one hundred thousand
1,000,000   a/one million
2,000,000   two million
1,000,000,000   a/one billion


Expressing Numbers in English

:: If a number is in the range 21 to 99, and the second digit is not zero, we should write the number as two words separated by a hyphen:



25   twenty-five
57   fifty-seven
89   eighty-nine

:: Numbers over 100 are generally written in figures. However if you want to say them aloud or want to write them in words rather than figures you put 'and' in front of the number expressed by the last two figures. For example:
203      two hundred and three             (AmE: two hundred three)
622      six hundred and twenty-two     (AmE: six hundred twenty-two)

:: Numbers between 1000 and 1,000,000 is usually said or written in words as:
1,803    one thousand, eight hundred and three          
1,963    one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-three   
2,840    two thousand, eight hundred and forty            


:: Saying years. We normally say a year in two parts. In the case of years ending in "00", we say the second part in "hundred":

1058   ten fifty-eight
1706   seventeen hundred and six (or 'seventeen oh six')
1865   eighteen sixty-five
1900   nineteen hundred


Practice: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/numbers/exercises?type=cardinal

Ways of expressing the number 0


0 = nil
in football and other sports, for scores of 0 (AmE: zero or nothing)

0 = love
in tennis

0 = zero
in temperatures to refer to freezing point (0° Celsius, 0° Fahrenheit)

0 = nought
in mathematics (AmE: zero)

0 = oh
for telephone numbers

0 = oh (or zero)
for flight numbers


Notes:
1. We use zero to express some numerical values such as temperatures, taxes, and interest rates.
2. We can pronounce "0" like the letter "o", when we are reading out numbers figure by figure (e. g. telephone number, flight number, credit card number, etc.)

Days of the week

Do you know where the names of the days of the week come from?
Guess it here: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/date/exercises2?02