Tense review

Communication Review

A2B - 2021

Last week it was the friendship day in Brazil.

In the US it is celebrated on the 1st Sunday of August.

Thinking of friendship, answer these questions:Can you be friends with a person with beliefs opposite from yours? Can you forgive something severe because it was done by a friend? Can you remain friends with someone with whom you consntantly disagree? Can you be friends with anyone and have no regard towards our planet? How can you be friends with our planet?

Go to page 128, do the activities and come back here ASAP!

VIDEO

Pay attention to the tenses used in the video. Try to guess why they were used. Each tense has a purpose, use them wisely.

Last class we used the following tenses:

USED TO SIMPLE PRESENT PRESENT PERFECT PAST CONTINUOUS 2ND CONDITIONAL

Is it enough to know how to form the tenses? Isn't it more important to knoe when, why and how we use them? Let's check it out!

Ins and outs of tenses

SimplePresent

PresentPerfect

Used to

General truths. Routines. Present habits.

Past actions which: can be redone. effects remain. finished in a very short time.

Past habits that no longer happen. It follows the rule of simple past. Did you use to...? I didn't use to... I used to...

Now, watch this video carefully and answer the questions:

1. What was everyone doing when he started singing? 2. What was he doing while he slided down? 3. What were the girls doing when the band started playing? 4. What was he doing while he descended the stairs?

WhenxWhile

You can write an

HAVE YOU GOT THE DIFFERENCE?

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Let's share our impressions

What about hearing impaired individuals? How can we establish communication with them?

Up until now we've been talking about communication regading normal hearing.

VS

Go to page 129, read the text to find out more.

Communication should be suitable to all contexts. Knowing your words and your audience is half-way through.

In order to speak properly, whether with sound or gestures, and offer reasonable communication, you have to master the target language.

To master the language you have to master its words. To master its words, you have to mastes their parts. The suffixes are a great hand to understand tbe meaning of a word.

AbleIble

What do they mean?

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They make adjectives.

How to differ them

ABLE - COMPLETE WORDS Predict -> PredictABLEComfort -> ComfortABLE Desire -> DesirABLE (as usual, unvoiced Adore -> AdorABLE E isdropped)

As a general rule* they are attached to complete words to transform them into adjectives.

Able

IBLE - INCOMPLETE WORDS (the words have no meaning without the suffix)PossIBLE CompatIBLE AccessIBLE EdIBLE ResponsIBLE** InvisIBLE

Transforms a root (that is not a complete word) in an adjective.

Ible

* Over time, some wrong uses were aknowledged, and now there are exceptions

** Response is a synonym of answer. It's not from the family of responsible.

Now, go to page 130 and test if you learned

HW: pages 204 - 205