Writing about a country

Start writing here. Remeber to follow the instructions placed in the TEC-Digital.

General Practices Part I

Web pages for improving your English skills

 http://www.hugosite.com/
 This page is for students to practice the prepositions with audio review, vocabulary of food, adjectives and their opposites, yes/No questions, Information questions, common expressions, ordinal and cardinal numbers, giving the time, and many more topic to listening to.

http://www.manythings.org/e/easy.html

 Go to Easy Vocabulary quizzes. Next, click on Light Pollution which is under the heading of Environment Report. Then, listen to the reading. Now, Go back to the first page and choose four other readings to do the same. Finally, go again to the first page and click on You tube videos. Please click on Listen and read along videos. In order to watch and listen to the video, click on keep Agriculture Healthy-Drip by Drip. Do the same with another video.

 http://www.manythings.org/e/pronunciation.

Click on Minimal pair practice & quizzes. Next go to Minimal pairs Lesson 2 Ferry-Very. Finally, go to Minimal Pair Practice and Quiz to read the instructions and click on start. Do the same with ten other lessons.

 http://www.english-grammar-lessons.com/

This page is really helpful the exercises are on-line. Here you will find all the grammatical practices you need. Just click on the topic and next you will find explanations and examples. Then on your right you will find some exercises, they are online practices. Just do them and save your answers. Go to the – ing form here you will practice gerunds and infinitives, so click to see the explanations and examples. Then do all the exercises. Follow the same steps for the following topics: Present Simple, Irregular verbs, present perfect, future with will

Gerunds and Infinitives

Gerunds and Infinitives

Practice:

Quiz 1

Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica Escuela de Ciencias del Lenguaje Área de Inglés Practice Prof. Ana Kennedy Russell Name ______________________________________ Grade _______ ________PTs _______ % Part I 10 Pts.
Complete the following conversations with the expressions from the box
 Hello,  you must be …                         Good bye                               Pleased to see you                           I look forward to our next meeting      Can I introduce myself?        My name is …                         Excuse me are you Ms. / Mr.                 Yes, that´s right                      See you soon (Good) morning/ afternoon/evening                                   I´d like you to meet               Nice to see you again                  How are you?                                         I´m afraid                               I´ve got to go                             Have a good weekend

1. A: Hi B ___________________________________ A: yes, I am. ___________________________ Mr. Parker. B: Is this your office? A: ______________________. Please have a seat.
 2. A: Good _________ B: ________________________________________ _____________________ Mark. A: ______________________________ Mr. Rivas.
 3. A. Fred this is Paul B: ___________________________ A: ______________________________ B: ___________________________________

 Part II5 Pts. Complete the chart with the corresponding country or nationality.
  COUNTRY                                                          NATIONALITY
Korea                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Australian                                                              Turkey                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             Thailand
                                                                                      American                                                                Part III 12 Pts. Complete with the correct form of the verb when indicated.
1. 1. A: ____________ from Cartago? B: No, I _____________. I _________ from Guanacaste.
2. A: _________ she Argentinian? B: No, she ________. She _________ Brazilian.
3. A: Where _________ Mark ____________ (work) ? B: He ______________ (work) in the main office.
4. A: What ___________ you ____________ (do)? B. I _____________ (be) a Personal Assistant.

Part IV. Write 10 sentences about your daily routine. Include the hours you do the different activities. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Do the exercises below using the simple past tense and click on the button to check your answers.

(Before doing the exercises you may want to read the lesson on the simple past tense)

Principio del formulario

Put the verbs into the simple past:

1. Last year I (go) to England on holiday.
2. It (be) fantastic.
3. I (visit) lots of interesting places. I (be) with two friends of mine.
4. In the mornings we (walk) in the streets of London.
5. In the evenings we (go) to pubs.
6. The weather (be) strangely fine.
7. It (not / rain) a lot.
8. But we (see) some beautiful rainbows.
9. Where (spend / you) your last holiday?

Write the past forms of the irregular verbs.

Infinitive		Simple Past
1.	meet	.
2.	drive	.
3.	speak	.
4.	put	.
5.	write	.
6.	sing	.
7.	do	.
8.	sit	.
9.	stand	.
10.	run	.

Complete the table in simple past.

Affirmative	Negative	Interrogative
He wrote a book.
	He did not sing
		Was she pretty?

Put the sentences into simple past.

1. We move to a new house. →
2. They bring a sandwich. →
3. He doesn't do the homework. →
4. They sell cars. →
5. Does he visit his friends? →

Write sentences in simple past.

1. Janet / miss / the bus →
2. she / tidy / her room →
3. Nancy / watch / not / television→
4. she / read / a book →

Choose "Was“ or "Were“:

1. The teacher Final del formulario

________  nice.

2. The students _______  very clever.  But one student ________  in trouble.

 3. We _________  sorry for him.

4. He ___________nice though.

 Also go to this page and do the exercise

 Now practice with the regular verbs

There is also a practice for the irregular forms

PRESENT PERFECT TENSE