First Graders: junio 2014

lunes, 23 de junio de 2014

SPELLING BEE CONTEST

Colegio Piave

Spelling bee contest

1.UNDERTAKE

2.ABANDON

3.ACCOMPANY

4.ACHIEVE

5.ADAPT

6.ADJUST

7.AID

8.ALTERNATIVE

9.APPEARENT

10.APPROACH

11.ARTWORK

12.ATMOSPHERE

13.ATTAIN

14.AVAILABLE

15.AWARENESS

16.BIOLOGIST

17.CAPABLE

18.CHALLENGE

19.CHART

20.CIVILIZATION

21.COLLAPSE

22.COMMITMENT

23.COMMUNITY

24.CONCLUDED

25.CONDENSATION

26.CONDUCTED

27.CONFLICT

28.CONSEQUENCE

29.CONSIDERABLE

30.CONSUME

31.CONTRIBUTION

32.CONVINCE

33.CORPORATION

34.CULTURAL

35.CYCLE

36.DESIGN

37.DIAGRAM

38.DIALOGUE

39.DISPLAYED

40.DISTINCTIVE

41.DRAMATIC

42.ELEVATION

43.EMPHASIZE

44.ENABLE

45.ENTERPRICE

46.SURVIVE

47.SUSPENSE

48.SYMBOL

49.TEMPORARY

50.UNIQUE

51.WIDESPREAD

51. Experiment

52. Fever

53. Hypothesis

54. Mosquitoes

55. Virus

56. Volunteers

57. Transmit

58. Theory

59. Objective

60. Influences

61. External conflict

62. Survive

63. Structure

64. Available

65. Injured

66. Irony

67. Foreshadowing

68. Rejected

69. Residents

70. Distributes

71. Positive

72. Barriers

73. Confrontation

74. Cultivate

75. Enemies

76. Political

77. Violence

78. Assumed

79. Focus

80. Individuals

81. Similarities

82. Oral tradition

83. Legend

84. Character motive

85. Authoritative

86. Consent

87. Reaction

88. Encounter

89. Commensal

90. Mutualistic

91. Nature

92. Parasites

93. Protection

94. Symbiosis

95. Interact

96. Partnerships

97. Role

98. Beneficial

99. Exhibit

100. Inspectors

101.DEFECTS

102.DEFINE

103.DESPITE

104.DETERMINATION

105.DEVELOP

106.DIALOGUE

107.DICTION

108.DIPLOMAT

109.DISCRIMINATION

130.DISTRIBUTION

131.DOCUMENT

132.DRAMATIC

133.ECCENTRIC

134EMBRYO

135.ENERGY

136.ENVIRONMENT

137.EQUIPMENT

138.EQUIVALENT

139.ESTIMATE

140.ETHICAL

141.EXISTENCE

142EXPOSE

143.FACTORS

144.FANTASY

145.FUNCTION

146GERMINATION

147.HEROISM

148.HONOR

149.IGNORANCE

150.IGNORE

151.IMAGERY

152.IMITATE

153.IMMIGRANTS

154.IMPACT

155.INACTIVE

156.INDIVIDUAL

157.INDUSTRIAL

158.INHUMANITY

159.OUTCOME

160.PARTICIPATE

161.PERCENT

162.PERSONIFICATION

105.PHOTOSYNTHESIS

163.PHYSICIST

164.ORGANISM

165.PORTRAIT

166.PRECIPITATION

167.PRECISE

168.PREVIOUS

169.PRIORITY

170.PROCESS

171.PROJECT

172.PUBLISHED

173.RACISM

174.REACT

175.REGION

176.REGULATION

177.RELY

178.REMARK

179.REPETITION

180.REPRESENT

181.REPRODUCE

182.RESIDENTIAL

183. Foreshadowing

184.Rejected

185. Residents

186.Distributes

187. Positive

188. Barriers

189. Confrontation

190. Cultivate

191. Enemies

192. Political

193. Violence

194. Assumed

195. Focus

196. Individuals

197. Similarities

198. Oral tradition

199. Legend

200. Character motive

martes, 17 de junio de 2014

Reported speech

Direct Speech	Indirect Speech
1.Present	1.Past
2.Simple Past	2.Simple Past or Past Perfect
3.Present Continuous	3.Past Continuous
4.Past Continuous	4.Past Continuous
5.Present Perfect	5. Past Perfect
6.Past Perfect	6. Past Perfect
7. Can	7. Could
8.Shall	8. Should
9.Will	9.Would
10.May	10. Might
11.Need	11. Had to or Need
12.Must	12. Had to or Must

Backshift of tenses
from	to
Simple Present	Simple Past
Simple Past	Past Perfect
Present Perfect
Past Perfect
will	would
Progressive forms
am/are/is	was/were
was/were	had been
has been
had been

Backshift of tenses
from	to
Peter: "I work in the garden."	Peter said (that) he worked in the garden.
Peter: "I worked in the garden."	Peter said (that) he had worked in the garden.
Peter: "I have worked in the garden."
Peter: "I had worked in the garden."
Peter: "I will work in the garden."	Peter said (that) he would work in the garden.
Peter: "I can work in the garden."	Peter said (that) he could work in the garden.
Peter: "I may work in the garden."	Peter said (that) he might work in the garden.
Peter: "I would work in the garden." (could, might, should, ought to)	Peter said (that) he would work in the garden. (could, might, should, ought to)
Progressive forms
Peter: "I'm working in the garden."	Peter said (that) he was working in the garden.
Peter: "I was working in the garden."	Peter said (that) he had been working in the garden.
Peter: "I have been working in the garden."
Peter: "I had been working in the garden."

If the sentence contains an expression of time, you must change it as well.

Peter: "I worked in the garden yesterday."
Peter said that he had worked in the garden the day before.

Shifting/Conversion of expressions of time

this (evening)	that (evening)
today/this day	that day
these (days)	those (days)
now	then
(a week) ago	(a week) before
last weekend	the weekend before / the previous weekend
here	there
next (week)	the following (week)
tomorrow	the next/following day

Note:

In some cases the backshift of tenses is not necessary, e.g. when statements are still true.

John: "My brother is at Leipzig university."
John said (that) his brother was at Leipzig university. or
John said (that) his brother is at Leipzig university.

miércoles, 11 de junio de 2014

H! guys, here is the link to do the interactive activities of units 4 and 5 as practice before doing the bimestral exam. Remember that it is only about vocabulary, word study and grammar.

http://www.blangenberg.com/protected/ebook/index.html

Copy the address in google as I was not able to do it as a link.

miércoles, 4 de junio de 2014

Spelling Bee