Weekly Assignment, Study Guide & Resources.

Hi there,

Weekly Assignment 1:

Material Needed:  Touchstone book & Touchstone Video (The disk is attached to the back cover of your book).

1. Open your touchstone book and go to the "Video Activity Pages". Watch the Touchstone Video on your computer and answer completely EPISODE 1, ACT 1. (Pages 1-4)

Weekly Assignment 2:

Do the following exercises on your noteebok.

A) Write wh-questions using the underlined information. NOTE: pay attention to the verb to use the correct auxiliary in the right tense, present or past.


1. Victor studied French with Mark.
2. The big tennis tournament was last weekend.
3. It takes me 1 hour to get home by bus.
4. My brother stayed home because it was too cold to go outside.
5. She has three brothers and one sister.

B) Correct the mistakes in the following sentences.


1. Did they drank all the juice?
2. The class didn’t was at 7:00 a.m.
3. I don’t have English class in Friday.
4. I am walks to school everyday.
5. Laura cook eggs for breakfast every day.
6. Does the U.S. has 50 states?
7. You study English in America why?
8. Does Emily walked to the park?
9. What do Victor has in bis bag?
10. Black and gray don’t is happy colors.

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STUDY GUIDE

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This is the minimum needed to do your mid-term exam successfully:

GRAMMAR

• Present simple (Positive, negative and questions: I / you / we / they )
• Present simple (Positive, negative and questions: he / she / it )
• Present simple (Information questions)
• Present simple (yes / no questions and short answers: yes, I do; no, he doesn't)
• Past simple (Be: was / were in positive & negative sentences as well as questions)
• Past simple (Positive, negative and questions: regular verbs)
• Past simple (Positive, negative and questions: irregular verbs)
• Past simple (Information questions)
• Past simple (yes / no questions and short answers: yes, we did; no, you didn't)

VOCABULARY

• daily routines
• determiners (All, Most, Some, A Few, None)
• school subjects
• free time activities
• weekend activities
• past time phrases with ago, last and in
• question words
• irregular verbs

SPOKEN INTERACTION

You can communicate in English by doing the following:

• introduce yourself, say your age, spell your name & last name, ask how people are
• ask and answer questions about yourself and other people, where you live, things you have
• say how often you do things, talk about your routine
• say what you like and don't like
• say what you did yesteday, last week, three weeks ago, etc.
• give and receive information about quantities, numbers and prices
• indicate time using phrases such as last Friday, in November, at 3:00 o'clock, on Monday
• express agreement and disagreement (I am too, I do too, I can too, I did too; I am not either, I don't either, I can't either, I didn't either)
• Use "Actually" to give new information and to correct things people say.

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO GET READY FOR YOUR EXAM

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Reading:

http://eoizara2.educa.aragon.es/indreading.htm

Listening:

http://www.elllo.org/

http://www.esl-lab.com/guide.htm

http://www.audio-lingua.eu/?lang=en

Grammar:

http://eoizara2.educa.aragon.es/indgrammar.htm

Vocabulary:

http://www.manythings.org/lulu/

Writing:

http://eoizara2.educa.aragon.es/indwriting.htm

Irregular Verbs (with music):

http://www.manythings.org/repeat/

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Don't forget that practice makes perfect!

Cheers,

Abraham