Week 25/6 - 6/7

English Articles

Fill in the article >a<, >an< or >the< where necessary. Choose >x< where no article is used.

1) I like    a an the x  blue T-shirt over there better than    a an the x  red one. 2) Their car does 150 miles    a an the x  hour. 3) Where's    a an the x  USB drive I lent you last week? 4) Do you still live in    a an the x  Bristol? 5) Is your mother working in    a an the x  old office building? 6) Carol's father works as    a an the x  electrician. 7) The tomatoes are 99 pence    a an the x  kilo. 8) What do you usually have for    a an the x  breakfast? 9) Ben has    a an the x  terrible headache. 10) After this tour you have    a an the x  whole afternoon free to explore the city.

Fill in the article >a<, >an< or >the< where necessary. Choose >x< where no article is used.

1) I like    a an the x  blue T-shirt over there better than    a an the x  red one. 2) Their car does 150 miles    a an the x  hour. 3) Where's    a an the x  USB drive I lent you last week? 4) Do you still live in    a an the x  Bristol? 5) Is your mother working in    a an the x  old office building? 6) Carol's father works as    a an the x  electrician. 7) The tomatoes are 99 pence    a an the x  kilo. 8) What do you usually have for    a an the x  breakfast? 9) Ben has    a an the x  terrible headache. 10) After this tour you have    a an the x  whole afternoon free to explore the city.

Simple Past or Past Progressive

Exercise 8

Put the verbs into the correct tense (Simple Past or Past Progressive).

1. When I (get)  up yesterday, the sun (shine) .
2. It (is)  a beautiful morning.
3. So I (decide)  to cycle around a little.
4. I (go)  to the shed and (take)  out my bike.
5. While I (cycle)  past some villages, I (see)  some people in their gardens.
6. One man (mow)  the grass while his wife (pick)  strawberries.
7. After one hour of cycling in sunshine, a big fat raincloud suddenly (appear)  and it (start)  to rain.
8. Luckily, a farmer (notice)  me and (tell)  me to come in.
9. While it (rain)  outside, I (sit)  in the farmer's house.
10. After a while, the sun (come)  out again.
11. I (thank)  the farmer for his hospitality and (move)  on.

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List of 50 most common Irregular English verbs

Infinitive	Past Simple	Past Participle
be	was / were	been
become	became	become
begin	began	begun
bring	brought	brought
buy	bought	bought
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
do	did	done
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feel	felt	felt
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
get	got	got (gotten in USA)
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
keep	kept	kept
know	knew	known
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
let	let	let
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read (pronounced /red/)	read (pronounced /red/)
run	ran	run
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
sing	sang	sung
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
speak	spoke	spoken
stand	stood	stood
swim	swam	swum
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
understand	understood	understood
wear	wore	worn
write	wrote	written

1) She has never  (let) her daughter have a boyfriend..
2) Have you already  (read) today's newspaper?.
3) The house has been  (sell)..
4) He has  (lose) his wallet again..
5) I have  (write) three essays this week..
6) That clock was  (make) in Switzerland..
7) He had  (run) 6 miles when he hurt his ankle..
8) I have never  (see) such a beautiful view..
9) He has  (teach) hundreds of students during his career..
10) Have you ever  (meet) a famous person?.
11) Because she hadn't  (pay) the bill, the electricity went off..
12) They have  (send) Christmas cards to all their friends..
13) Where have we  (put) the car keys?.
14) We have never  (sing) in public before..
15) She had  (wear) her blue dress many times.

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A. Online discussion with client

Name of client: Richard Mueller from finance department in Germany


Purpose of the discussion: you met in last month's global meeting in Montreal and Richard asked you to provide him with dates when you will be able to come to Germany to do some training on the new business intelligence module.   


Start the conversation by reminding Richard about his request and provide a detail proposal of time and place for the training.  Please ensure that you try to reconnect with Richard at an informal level while at the same time meeting your business objectives.


You will need to use skype with the following account:
login: newyork.mili
password: 5rueducannau

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B. Tell me how to do....

Telling someone how to do something that we know how to do is never as easy as we think.  If you get puzzled looks, there is a good probability they did not understan or follow your instructions.  Well, today, you are going to explain to me how to do something.  What should you choose for a topic? Anything you want as long as it is not too simple.  Pick something that you know how to do well like a particular recipe, something about sports, something in the computer, a particular part of your job, etc. 

If you are still struggling to find something to explain in class, go through the following article, read it and then write down a good way to explain it to someone who does not know anything abou it: http://www.marcandangel.com/2008/06/02/50-things-everyone-should-know-how-to-do/

You can have as long as 15-20m to come up with the story that you will use to explain it to me in class.  Be ready to answer LOTS of question