Grammar Bootcamp

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Grammar Bootcamp

Week 5

How confident do you feel about
English grammar?

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Present Simple

Pick the correct one

1. She do her homework after school.
2. She doe her homework after school.
3. She dos her homework after school.
4. She does her homework after school.

Hele ww, behalve bij she/he/it:

  I walk

  you walk

  she/he/it walks

  we walk

  you walk

  they walk

Bijzondere gevallen:

  to be (am/are/is)

  to go / to do (goes/does)

  to have (has)

  -s klank (crash - crashes) 

  medeklinker-y (fly - flies)

Present Simple

Word Order

Pick the correct one

1. They do Aikido at the dojo on Fridays.
2. They do on Fridays Aikido at the dojo.
3. On Fridays they do Aikido at the dojo.
4. Do they Aikido on Fridays at the dojo.

Basisregel:

Subject-Verb-Object

Onderwerp-ww-lv/mv

wie-doet-wat

  I teach English

Opletten:

In het Nederlands mag je soms het werkwoord en het onderwerp omdraaien: 

  "Op vrijdag eten we frietjes."

In het Engels mag dit niet!

  "We eat fries on Fridays."

Word Order 1

Word Order 2

Extra:

In het Engels moet je eerst de plaats in de zin zetten, daarna pas de tijd: 

  "I watch TV in the living room on Saturday evenings."

Word Order

What is the rule?

1. does-where-when-what-who
2. when-does-who-what-where
3. who-does-what-where-when
4. when-who-does-what-where

Present Continuous

Wat is de correcte vorm?

1. He are typeing a reply.
2. He are typing a reply.
3. He is typeing a reply.
4. He is typing a reply.

Vorm van to be en ww + -ing:

  I am walking

  you are walking

  she/he/it is walking

  we/you/they are walking

  you walk

  they walk

Als iets nu aan de gang is:

  I am explaining the Present Continuous right now.

Tijdelijke dingen: 

  He's living with his grandma for a few months. 

Present Continuous

Past Simple

Wat is de correcte vorm?

1. She didn't bake cookies for everone.
2. She didn't baked cookies for everyone.
3. She bakedn't cookies for everyone.
4. She don't baked cookies for everyone.

Hele ww + ed:

  I walked

Bijzondere gevallen:

  ww met eind -e (baked)

  ww met eind -y (married)

  ww met korte klank  (stopped)

  ww met eind -c (panicked)

Important:

  adding a modal means the time and negation attaches to the modal

 - I worked

 - Did I work?

 - I didn't work. 

Past Simple

Prepositions

Pick the correct one

1. When we arrived to the apartment
2. When we arrived on the apartment
3. When we arrived at the apartment
4. When we arrived by the apartment

Direction: to, in, on, into, onto

Time: in, at, one

Location: in, at, on

Place: -->

Prepositions

Direction: 

Time: in unspecific times, at specific times, on specific days

Location: in an area, at a specific point, on a surface

Numbers

...and compound adjectives

Pick the correct one

1. 16 year old boy
2. 16-year-old boy
3. sixteen year old boy
4. sixteen-year-old boy

Numbers

Officially: one through one hundred (1-100) should be spelled out 

Usually: one through twenty  (1-20) is spelled out 

Always: spell the number if you start a sentence with it*

Compound adjectives

..multiple words used to describe a single thing. 

"neutral bathroom"?

"gender bathroom"?

"gender-neutral bathroom"

*or write around it:

Seventeen seventy-six was the year America became a nation.

In 1776, America became a nation.

Pitfalls! 

where/were/we're

there/their/they're

gonna/wanna/kinda

How confident do you feel about
English grammar after the bootcamp?

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Tasks

Now: send me a chat message about your work ethic: how you prepared for listening, how you've been preparing for the writing test; review letter conventions.

Next week: teacher feedback d-test, final recap of information, student questions.