The Present Perfect Tense and Prepositions

Hi everyone!

Today I'll give you an abstract about our two last classes.

First, the Present Perfect Tense.

We saw a video on the website "Inglês na ponta da língua", where the teacher Denilson Lima has explained some aspects about the differences between Past Simple and Present Perfect.

1) To use Past Simple we must to have an adverb of time.

Example: Mike broke his leg last week. (Here we emphasize the time when the fact has occurred).

2) To use Present Perfect we do not need to use a temporal adverb.
Example: Mike has broken his leg. (Here, the action of braking the leg is more important).

Note 1: In the Present Perfect tense, the action is done in the past but its  effects continues to happen at the present time.  So, 'Mike has broken his leg and now he can't play football with us'.
Note 2: The journalistic forms at newspapers, magazins, on tv or websites uses, as standard, the Present Perfect tense. Why? The stories that are told happened in the past, but its effects still going on when we read them.



Task 1:  Could you tell us other examples of those differences?




Second, Prepositions IN/ON/AT

Our last class was about the prepositions in-on-at. We saw a video on Small Advantages where Gavin has told us the differences between them.

IN: used when you want to say that something is INSIDE other space.
Exemple: The ball is in the box (It is into a box).
ON: used when you want to say that something is ABOVE a thing.
Example: The ball is on the box (It is upside a box).

When we talk about time, we have other possibilities
IN: used when we talk about a large period of time.
Example: In the 19th Century the italian people became an unified nation.
ON: used to explain days and months, with some precision.
Example: I was born on April 20.
AT: used to precise a short period of time.
Example: Our class is going to be on Thursday, july 5, at 2 p.m.

Task 2: Tell us about the exceptions that Gavin explained on the video!!


See you on next Thursday, july 5, at 2 p.m.

Prepositions IN, ON and AT! Tips!

Hi everyone! How're you?

According Rachel tell us in our last class, I'm sending below two Gavin's videos about the prepositions in, on and at!

Good luck for us!;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZxZgHEGiM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKpCijdAcWg

Let's get started

Hello!

The last class we have discussed about "To Get".

The proposed video has showed four ways to use this verb:

1) To receive, to have, to bring
Examples: You will get (receive) a letter explaining all about it; I've got (have) a secret for you; Could you get (bring) me another beer, please?

2) To become
Examples: The old lady got (bacame) mad at the little thug; Will they get (become) married?; Get (become) well soon.

3) To arrive:
Examples: How can I get (arrive) to that city?; They got (arrived) home so late!

4) To understand
Examples: I don't get (understand) it; Gotcha (I have got you/ I understand you)

After that, we can observe that the sense of 'to get' is made by the words that are together.

We have also the 'phrasal verbs' with GET. See on this website:

https://www.ef.com.br/guia-de-ingles/gramatica-inglesa/verbo-get/



Our nex class is going to be about "Present Perfect". See you soon!!
Wednesday, may 6th 2018 - 2 p. m.

To Get

Hello!

This message is only to bring to you our next video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV2IF1g0jlU

Get your notes and  show us!

See you tomorrow!!

What?

Hello everyone!

Today we had our lesson about: what?

Questions that we can make to ask, as kindly as possible, people to 'repeat' an information.

So, we have talked about the proposed video and its seven ways to ask 'what did you say?'

1) What? [unformal, casual, applied specially to ask quikly about a short information]

2) What'd you say? [is the same of 'what did you say?', also informal]

3) Could you say that again (please, more slowly, more clearly)?[more polite form]

4) Come again? [very specifc language expression, also unformal]

5) Sorry, I didn't understand that. [It is an affirmative sentence that inform  you need something to be told again]

6) Sorry, I didn't catch that. [Similar to the statement above, unformal]

7) I beg your pardon? [That sounds like 'Sorry or excuse me' when used in affirmative form, but the correct use is the interrogative form, that shows you didn't understand something]

To be polite, ask using 'please, sorry, excuse me'.
Task: Can you tell us another ways to ask -  'what'd you say?'


The second part of our class was a reading time. Ana, Joelma and Raquel read three short news. You can find them at: https://www.newsinlevels.com/
Texts: British Pompeii; Fire in São Paulo; British Royal Babies

After reading them, you can listen to the news and practice the speach!!


Next class: may 23th 2018 - 2 p.m
Joelma, please, could you select our next video?

First Lesson

Hi Everybody,

Wellcome to our blog!

From now on, we must talk in english most of the time. But somentimes we are going to explain also in portuguese. OK?!

Our first video is about how to tell someone that you did not understand something said by them!!

click here or copy the adress to the search bar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJRUHLiIUCs


After the video, please, make your notes and bring them to our next class.
Save the date: Wednesday, may 9th 2018 - 11 a.m.

Let's enjoy our time!!

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