H3F 2023-02-21 Revision

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Schedule: Revision Unit 3

- Read your English book for 10 minutes

- Future tenses (revised 49, 53)

- Passive

- Linking words

 

AM GOING TO                       PRESENT CONTINUOUS

GENERAL FUTURE INTENTIONS 

(plan, but no real arrangements)

Next year I am going to lose some weight.

PERSONAL ARRANGEMENTS (fixed plans)

I am meeting my boyfriend this evening

Tomorrow I am flying to London

Present Simple

TIMETABLED EVENTS (DEPARTURES, TV PROGRAMME)

My flight departs in 15 minutes.

The lesson starts at 8:15.

The rest.. Will/shall

Will/shall (shall only with I/we in questions)

I'll help you. (spontaneous decision)

Shall I get you some coffee? (offering something)

I hope we will be in time. (hope)

I think there won't be robots that clean the house 20 years from now. (future prediction)

Exercise

The train _____________(to leave) at 11:45. 

We _____________(to have)dinner at a nice restaurant on Saturday, but we have't booked a table yet. 

My ski instructor believes it _____________(to snow) in the mountains tomorrow evening. 

On Sunday at 8 o'clock I _____________(to meet) my friend. 

They _____________(to fly) to London on Friday evening at 8:15. 

Wait! I _____________(to drive) you to the station. 

The English lesson _____________(to start) at 8:45. 

I _____________(to see) my sister in April. 

Listen! There's someone at the door. I _____________(to open) the door for you. 

Passive

                                                  What is the difference?

 

He paints the house every year.            vs     The house is painted every year.

Thieves stole lots of cars last year.       vs      Lot of cars were stolen last year.

Teenagers read fashion magazines.    vs        Fashion magazines are read.

 Mr. Jones taught German at school.    vs       German was taught at school.

Grandma bakes great cakes.                     vs       Great cakes are baked.

Passive

Used because:

- It is not important who did it 

- If you don’t know who did it. 

- Used in newspapers

Present Simple Passive

General truths & the present

 

Created with am/are/is + verb+ed (irregular: 3rd word)

The house is painted every year.

Many accidents are caused by reckless driving.

Past Simple Passive

It is finished in the past, you can see this because there is usually a date in the the sentence. (last year, in 1980, yesterday)

 

Created with was/were + verb+ed (irregular: 3rd word)

A letter was written yesterday.

The buildings were built in 1990.

Computers weren’t used in schools in 1985.

Past Simple Passive

This room ___ (clean) every Friday.

The roof of the building ___ (destroy) in a storm a few days ago.

Many accidents ___ (cause) by reckless driving.

In the Netherlands, elections for Parliament ___ (hold) every four years.

You can’t see the school from here. It ___ (surround) by a gate.

Six hundred people ___ (employ) by this company last year.

Can you tell me how mountains ___ (form)?

Past Simple Passive

Rewrite the sentences into the passive voice.

They asked the teacher a difficult question.

The teacher always answers the students’ questions.

Sue changed the flat tire.

Beautiful giraffes roam the savannah.

The saltwater corroded the metal beams.

linking words

Choose from: after, as, even if, even though, if only, since, rather than, unless, whether, while.

Mum: Eddie, will you come down for dinner _________ you've finished your homework?

Eddie: Sorry mum, I can't finish my homework tonight, _________ I promised Sarah I'd go to her house tonight.

Mum: You know you can't leave ____________ you've finished your homework.

Eddie: I thought it would be OK, _____________ it's Saturday night. ___________ doing it tonight, I thought I could finish it tomorrow.

Mum: it's Saturday, it doesn't mean you shouldn't work. Besides, you have a football match tomorrow. _______________ you are home on time, you'll still be too tired. ____________ you like it or not, you'll have to stay here until you're done.