October 2024 - Grammar Recap Unit 1 & 2

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• Leerjaar 3

October 2024 

Grammar Recap 

Today's Program 

- Recap Unit 1 

- Workbook Exercises 

- Today's Goal: I understand the grammar from unit 1 and I can use the grammar correctly in various exercises 

I need extra help with

Present tenses

Past tenses

Suffixes

articles (a/an/the/-)

Comparative forms (bigger / emotionally)

Collocations

Nothing really, I understand everything

Grammar Unit 1 

Present Tenses 

Present Perfect (simple/continuous)

If it is not finished or you talk about the result

Signal words: for/since/already/yet/ever/never

My sister has lived there since 2001.

Tom has broken some of his fingers on holiday, he still can’t write… (result)

Have you seen Tom today?

If it is an action or if you want to emphasise that it took a long time  use the continuous:

Sam's been learning Greek since June. (action, something you are doing)

We've been looking for you all morning. (it took long!)

Make a sentence:
we / hear that song / already

Make a sentence:
you / eat lunch yet ?

Make a sentence:
I / look / for our cat / all morning

Make a sentence:
Mike / just call

Make a sentence
my father / work / on that report / for more than 4 hours

Make a sentence:
they / never be / to Italy

Time for more Practice 

Workbook page 6: 1 & 2

Comparisons

Comparisons

Did you hear about the teenager who wanted an iPad? Look at what her parents gave her! Her parents must 

have a good sense of humour. So that got me thinking – what’s 1 __________________ (funny) thing you’ve seen 

recently? 

That must have been 2_____________________________ (disappointing) day of that kid’s life! Imagine the look on her face! But 3 _____________________ (even / good) than that was what I saw yesterday. A guy from my school who thinks he’s 4 ________________________________ (good) at everything was walking and texting at the same time. There was a lampost just ahead of him. 5 ___________________ (close) he got to it, 6 __________________________________ (convinced) I was that he’d look up and walk round. I called out to warn him, but he 7 ______________________ (not / near) to hear me. The next thing I saw was the guy walking straight into the lampost! He walked away 8 _______________________________ (as / quick) he could and pretended nothing had happened. But he definitely looked 9 __________________________ (lot / cool) than he usually does!

Comparisons

Adjectives (say something about nouns):

good - better (than) - (the) best

small - smaller (than) - (the) smallest

Beautiful - more beautiful (than) - the most beautiful

She is beautiful.       

She is more beautiful than me.

Look at that happy man.

That man is happier than me.

Adverbs (say something about verbs):

Beautifully - more beautifully (than) - (the) most beautifully 

Happily - more happily (than) - (the) most happily

She sings beautifully.       

She sings more beautifully than me.

He dances happily.

He dances more happily than me.

Verbs change - adverbs also change (they are different and a little bit more difficult)

Comparisons

Time for Practice 

Workbook page 9: 1 and 4

Goal: I understand the grammar from unit 1 and I can use the grammar correctly in various exercises

Yes I do and I can

I understand it but I need some more practice

I still have a lot of questions about unit 1

Tomorrow 

- We will go through Unit 2 together 

- Write down all the questions you have about unit 1 and 2 

- See you tomorrow! 

Today's Program 

- Recap Unit 2 

- Workbook Exercises 

- Today's Goal: I understand material from unit 2 and I can use what I have learned well in the exercises 

Grammar Unit 2 

- Past simple / Past continuous 

- Questions about collocations, phrases

Past Simple/ Past Continuous

Mike had an accident while he was driving.

Rick was sleeping when the teacher shouted at him.

My phone rang while I was playing on my guitar.

I jumped out of the closet to scare my dad while he was watching television.

Fill in:

While I ___ (sleep), my mum ___ (walk) into the room.

I ___ (snore) when my teacher ___ (yell) at me.

I was born in Italy, but I ....(grow up) in Spain.

..... (you work) at McDonald's last summer?

This morning, I ... (dream) about the
holidays when my mum woke me up!

I saw the film but I ... (not understand) the ending, can you explain it to me?

Matthey .... (always shout) when he was young.

My friend came to see me while
I ... (do) my homework.

When I got home, I .. (realise) I had left
my mobile at my friend’s home.

My friends ... (search) for the lost cat when they got a phonecall that he was already found.

Past Simple/ Past Continuous

Something was going on (=past continuous) and was interupted by something else (=past simple). 

- Mike had (p.s.) an accident while he was driving (p.c.).

- Rick was sleeping (p.c.) when the teacher shouted (p.s.) at him.

Past Continuous: was/were + verb+ing

Past Simple: verb-ed (2nd word of the irregular verbs)

Past Continuous

When something was really annoying in the past.

My old neighbors were constantly playing loud music.

Sadly, his father was always criticizing him.

Past Continuous: was/were + verb+ing

Time to Practice 

Worksheet past simple past continuous on it's learning

Questions about 

Collocations 

Idiomatic Phrases 

Phrasal verbs unit 1

Or any other questions?

Time to Practice 

Workbook page 17: 1 and 2 

Done --> continue with remaining exercises in the workbook

I feel well prepared for next week's test

Yes!

Yes, but I do need to study & practice well

Not really, I still have a lot of questions