ETB Grammar

In this class we looked at narrative tenses;  Past Simple Past Continuous Past Perfect

In this class we continued talking about question tags.... You are from China, aren't you? But - I am smart, aren't I? Some other irregulars... Let's go to the beach, shall we? Don't touch that cup, will you? We then looked at phrasal verbs.... to make up  - to become friends again after an argument to bring up - to educate, raise to turn out - to finish up, - It all turned out all right other vocab - to follow in someone's footsteps - to do the same job that they did, mainly connected to parents...

In this class we studied the past continuous again, especially how to make questions..... He was eating when I saw him. What was he doing when you saw him? We need to change the subject (he) and the verb to be (was) to make the question.. We then went on to the past perfect.. When I got home, the children had gone to bed.  "had gone" tells us what had happened before another action in the past...

In this class we looked at Question Tags.... You are from Ireland, aren't you? "aren't you" is a question tag, we use it to check or confirm information..... If the sentence is positive, the tag must be negative.....and vice versa.... To Be We use the same verb as in the sentence, but change negative to positive etc... He is quiet, isn't he? She was late, wasn't she? Present Simple We use "do", "don't", "does" or "doesn't" You live in Sligo, don't you? He doesn't play tennis, does he? Past Simple We use "did" or "didn't" Present Perfect We use "have", "haven't", "has" or "hasn't" More practice here

We revised the present perfect in the negative.... I haven't been to Dublin for six months.  I haven't seen my friend since last year. WE then continued to learn about the Past Continuous.... While I was cooking dinner, my friend rang.  I was cooking is the Past Continuous.... We need  was were          +          verb-ing

In this class we studied reporting verbs other than "say" and "tell" "I didn´t do it!"   -     He denied doing it.  We have to look out for the verb patterns here, as "deny" is always followed by "verb+ing".  "I am sorry for being late".  - She apologized for being late.  "I won't do it!"         -               He refused to do it. "Come in"           ---           She invited me to come in. "I will do it, I swear."           -         He promised to do it. More info and practice here ......

In this class we continued with the Present Perfect Continuous with for and since..... We also looked at the Present Perfect in the negative, to talk about things we haven't done for a while... I used to play football when I was a kid, but I haven't played for 10 years.  I haven't seen my cousins for two years.

We continued with the theme of Reported Speech, played a game to practice this and read some texts on p.101 and 102 to practice.  WE also looked briefly at some verbs that we use to report.... to threaten to offer to refuse to deny to accuse to blame