Review and Activities
Review and Activities
Review and Activities
TIP! We use manage to talk about something you are able to do, but is difficult.
TIPS! We can also say be brilliant/great/excellent/not bad at and be
hopeless/bad/terrible/awful/rubbish at
•We can also use a noun or pronoun after be good at/be useless at, etc. (I´m
really useless at football but Jordan is brilliant at it.
Activities : Make sentences with the following
words.
1. be able to
2. haven’t got a clue how
3. be useless at
4.manage
5. can
6. Find something easy
7. have no idea how
8. be excellent at
9. find something very difficult
10. could
11. be really good at
12. be terrible at
Vocabulary
Create sentences using the following words.
attachment
log on
back-up copy
password
Second Conditional
We use the second conditional to talk about imaginary situations. We
often use it to talk about the opposite of what is true or real.
If my car had a GPS, life would be much easier. (my car doesn’t have a
GPS)
1. (win/buy)
2. (go/visit)
3. (study/get)
4. (party/have fun)
5. (chat/have time)
6. (can/talk)
Vocabulary : Use the following vocabulary
words to create a short piece of news.
storm
gale
shower
E.g. In Narnia a huge hurricane has affected the coasts near
hurricane Cair Paravel. People could see the marvelous show that intense
fog lightning gave them. The scientists expect showers and eventually
heatwave fog for the rest of the week.
flood
tornado Use at least 4.
thunder
lightning
Direct and Indirect questions.
Pa s s i v e v o i c e i s u s e d w h e n t h e f o c u s i s o n t h e a c t i o n .
I t i s n o t i m p o r t a n t o r n o t k n o w n , h o w e v e r, w h o o r w h a t
is performing the action.
Example: My bike was stolen.
In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my
b i k e w a s s t o l e n . I d o n o t k n o w, h o w e v e r, w h o d i d i t .
Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than
active voice, as the following example shows:
Example: A mistake was made.
In this case, I focus on the fact that a mistake was
m a d e , b u t I d o n o t b l a m e a n y o n e ( e . g . Yo u h a v e m a d e a
mistake.).
THE PASSIVE VOICE
In the passive voice:
The object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence.
We often use the passive when we are more interested in what happens to someone
or something than in who ot what does the action.
We can use ‘by + the agent’ so say who or what does the action. (only when
necessary=
We make negative passive sentences by making the verb form of be negative
A / An
"A"and "an" signal that the noun modified is indefinite,
referring to any member of a group
The
The definite article is used before singular and plural
nouns when the noun is specific or
particular. The signals that the noun is definite, that it
refers to a particular member of a group
IMPORTANT