English week 3 project 4

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English workshop week 3 project 4

Future tenses and writing mistakes

What are we going to do today?

• Common writing mistakes
• Future writing assignment

What are some of the most common mistakes?

Choose the correct word:
''____ going to a party tomorrow''

1. There
2. They're
3. Their

There -> look over there!

Their -> It is their birthday!

They're = they are going to a party

Choose the correct word:
''Thank you, ____ my favorite customer.''

1. You're
2. Your

Choose the correct word:
''He hates blue, ____ is why he painted it red.''

1. Wich
2. Whitch
3. Which

Choose the correct word:
''I took two _____ of the sky.

1. photos
2. photo's

____ been a year since the last time they met.

The computer looked as though its power supply had failed.

A car is no good without ___ wheels.

The house, while old really has its charms. 

It's

Its

It's

It’s is a contraction of the words it is or it has. (Interestingly, we don’t really contract it was into it’s.)

Its

Its is a possessive form of the pronoun it, meaning belonging to it.

Rewrite the following sentence:
''he said he never talks to jane on friday but i don't believe that.''

Hoofdletters in het Engels

• Begin van een zin
• I = ik
• Namen
• Maanden en dagen

How to create an English sentence

• Tijdsbepaling altijd aan het begin of einde van een zin:
  EX: We will see him tomorrow OR Tomorrow we will see him
  NOT: We will tomorrow see him. 
• Algemene regel: subject, verb dan de rest van de zin
  EX:  Tom reads a book. 
  Subject: Tom
  Verb: reads
  Object: a book

Paragraphs!

New topic? New paragraph!

New idea? New paragraph!

Introducing a text? Paragraph!

Concluding your text? Paragraph!

Writing assignment week 3

• One paragraph: What will the world look like 1 year from now?
  
• Second paragraph: What will the world look like 10 years from now?  
• Third paragraph: What will the world look like a 100 years from now?
  

 

Your writing should be in English and between 100 - 150 words long. 

Deadline:

Hand in your work in Teams

Important future tenses

Got plans or predictions?​ -> Going to + infinitive

EX: I am going to London next week. ​

He is going to hurt himself on that roof.​

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Prediction? Future fact? A promise? An offer?​ -> Will/won't + infinitive

EX: I will get a 10 on my test next time.​

I will help you with that.