My Template for Grammar Teams

My Template for Grammar Teams (Grammar in Use)

/ Grammar Teams. Adjectives
Use the following adjectives in meaningful sentences:
Amazing
Annoying
Boiling
Boring
Exciting / Frightening
Interesting
Surprising
Tiring
Worrying
/ / Grammar Teams. Adjectives
Use the following adjectives in meaningful sentences:
Amazed
Annoyed
Boiled
Bored
Excited / Frightened
Interested
Surprised
Tired
Worried
/ Grammar Teams. Adjectives
Use the following adjectives in meaningful sentences:
Confusing
Deafening
Freezing
Frustrating
Gripping / Irritating
Killing
Maddening
Misleading
Time-consuming
/ / Grammar Teams. Adjectives
Use the following adjectives in meaningful sentences:
Concerned
Determined
Frozen
Hand-written Hard-boiled / Hard-headed Misunderstood
Mesmerized
Outraged
Wicked
/ Grammar Teams. Adjectives
Use the following adjectives in meaningful sentences:
Attractive
Careful
Careless
Cheerful
Fast
Forgetful / Funny (cf. n. Fun)
Hard
Harmful
Healthy
Nervous
Restless
/ / Grammar Teams. Adjectives
Use the following adjectives in meaningful sentences:
Bright
Courageous
Dangerous
Dark
Grateful
Important / Miserable
Quiet
Red
Remarkable
Strange
Windy
/ Grammar Teams. Adjectives
Make up a story using
as many as these phrases:
A beautiful day
A friendly neighbour
A hard-working person
A strange gadget
A heavy smoker
A man with freckles
A rewarding experience
A terrible nightmare
A very sweet person
An amazing trip
Spiky hair
The best thing
/ / Grammar Teams. Adjectives
Make up a story using
as many as these phrases:
A black-haired guy
A girl with glasses
A busy street
A complete idiot
A lovely walk
A sunny day
A terrifying experience
A tiring journey
A very cold person
An old friend
Curly hair
The worst thing

My Template for Grammar Teams (Grammar in Use)

/ Grammar Teams. Tenses
Think of a dialogue where you can use these sentences meaningfully
You’ll have to describe the context
Present simple
Present continuous
/ / Grammar Teams. Tenses
Think of a dialogue where you can use these sentences meaningfully
You’ll have to describe the context
Present perfect
Past simple
/ Grammar Teams. Tenses
Think of a dialogue where you can use these sentences meaningfully
You’ll have to describe the context
Present simple
Present perfect
/ / Grammar Teams. Tenses
Think of a dialogue where you can use these sentences meaningfully
You’ll have to describe the context
Past simple
Past continuous
/ Grammar Teams. Tenses
Think of a dialogue where you can use these sentences meaningfully
You’ll have to describe the context
Past simple
Past perfect
/ / Grammar Teams. Tenses
Think of a dialogue where you can use these sentences meaningfully
You’ll have to describe the context
Past simple
Conditional*
/ Grammar Teams. Tenses
Think of a dialogue where you can use these sentences meaningfully
You’ll have to describe the context
Present continuous (future)
”Going to” future
/ / Grammar Teams. Tenses
Think of a dialogue where you can use these sentences meaningfully
You’ll have to describe the context
”Going to” future
“Will” future

Timed task:

/ Grammar Teams. Tenses
Find useful sentences which make use these tenses:
Present simple
Present continuous
Present perfect
/ / Grammar Teams. Tenses
Find useful sentences which make use these tenses:
Past simple
Past continuous
Past perfect*
/ Grammar Teams. Tenses
Find useful sentences which make use these tenses:
Present continuous (future)
“Going to” future
“Will” future
/ / Grammar Teams. Tenses
Find useful sentences which make use these tenses:

My Template for Grammar Teams (Grammar in Use)

/ Grammar Teams. Modals
Find situations and sentences for these language functions:
can / General ability (present)
General ability (past)
Request (informal)
Permission (informal)
/ / Grammar Teams. Modals
Find situations and sentences for these language functions:
could / General ability (past)
Request (polite)
Possibility (not certain)
Suggestions / Proposals
/ Grammar Teams. Modals
Find situations and sentences for these language functions:
may / Possibility (perhaps)
Request (polite)
Permission (formal)
might / Possibility (very uncertain)
Past of “may”
/ / Grammar Teams. Modals
Find situations and sentences for these language functions:
will / Asking sb to do you a favor
Promising
Offering help
Threatening
shall / Offering to do sb a favor
/ Grammar Teams. Modals
Find situations and sentences for these language functions:
should / Giving advice
Reminding moral duty
must / Strong recommendation
/ / Grammar Teams. Modals
Find situations and sentences for these language functions:
must / Obligation (authorities, angry people)
Moral obligation (1st p.)
Deduction
have to / Obligation
Necessity
need / Necessity

My Template for Language Functions

/ Language Functions
Identify the language function
of each sentence
My name’s Maria
How can I get to the station, please?
Could I borrow your pen?
If I won the lottery, I’d buy a house
Would you like a drink?
I come here twice a week
That’s fine, thank you
It won’t hurt, relax
/ / Language Functions
Identify the language function
of each sentence
My house is in Mango Street
I hate getting up early!
I’m sorry I lost your notes…
What do we have to do?
When I was little, I used to hate fish
Will you carry this for me?
Go to this website & click on “Register”
Why don’t we take a taxi?
/ Language Functions
Identify the language function
of each sentence
This is my friend Susan
How old is your brother?
I can’t find my keys!
On Mondays I go swimming
Shall I open the window?
We could go for a walk, what d’ya think?
Your eyes are a field in spring
Your faithfully
/ / Language Functions
Identify the language function
of each sentence
What’s up?
What are you going to do, then?
Let’s party!
You mustn’t talk to me like that!
You can’t park here
Thank you so much for coming
How about hiring a boat?
You should wear the black jeans

Functional Translation

All groups work on the same sentences and we have a plenary to discuss them.

/ Language Functions
Find a good translation for these sentences
¿Qué me pongo?
Te escucho
¿Qué haces?
Llovía
Me marché
¿A qué te dedicas?
Cómprate éste, es más barato
Tengo que ir al baño
¿Tienes que ir por necesidad o por obligación?
Podríamos ir al parque esta tarde
¿Me dejas tus gafas de sol?
No tires las cosas al suelo
/ / Language Functions
Find a good translation for these sentences
What should I wear?
I’m listening
What are you doing?
It was raining
I left
What do you do?
You should buy this one. It’s cheaper.
I’ve got to go to the toilet / I need to go to the toilet
Do you need to or do you have to?
We could go to the park this evening
Could I borrow your sunglasses?
Don’t litter the ground /You can’t…
/ Grammar Teams. Indirect Speech
Imagine a situation where you can say three sentences using these tenses
Report on those sentences to someone who is on the phone
Present simple
Present continuous
Present perfect
A modal verb
/ / Grammar Teams. Indirect Speech
Imagine a situation where you can say three sentences using these tenses
Report on those sentences to someone who is on the phone
Past simple
Past continuous
A modal verb
/ Grammar Teams. Indirect Speech
Imagine a conversation where you can say three sentences using these tenses
Report on that situation the following day
Present simple
Present continuous
Present perfect
A modal verb
/ / Grammar Teams. Indirect Speech
Imagine a conversation where you can say three sentences using these tenses
Report on that situation the following day
Past simple
Past continuous
Past perfect
A modal verb

My Template for Grammar Teams (Grammar in Use)

/ Grammar Teams. Solve it!
Review what you know about ‘s. What can ‘s stand for?
What does it stand for here? How would you translate it?

Cheese Lover's pizza
Meat Lover's® pizza
Pepperoni Lover's® pizza
Sausage Lover's® pizza
Veggie Lover's® pizza
/

Timed activity

/ US/UK Varieties. Solve it!
Which of these words and expressions are British
and which are US American?
Have you got a light?
Yesterday I learned how to cook pancakes!
Monday to Friday
They live on X street
They live in X street
They live at 99 X street
The Women’s Centre
A beer can
Take that trolley / Color
Lawyer
Subway
Elevator
Rubbish
Ground floor
Sneakers
Pantyhose
Luggage
Petrol
/ US/UK Varieties. Solve it!
Which of these words and expressions are British
and which are US American?
Do you have a light?
Yesterday I learnt how to cook crepes!
Monday through Friday
They live on X street
They live in X street
They live at 99 X street
The Women’s Center
A tin of bins
Take that shopping cart / Colour
Solicitor
Tube
Lift
Garbage
First floor
Trainers
Tights
Baggage
Gas

My Template for Grammar Teams (Grammar in Use)

/ Grammar Teams. Use of “the”
Read aloud everything
Discuss the examples on your left
Check the numbered sentences

A dog (any dog), some dogs (any dogs) cf. the dog (that specific dog), the dogs (those specific dogs)
The dogs I’ve gotcf. Dogs are lovely
There was a dog in the street. The dog was barking.
I don’t like Maths much.
Children are noisy!
Poor people are a majority in the world
I love playing cards
I saw her on Monday
Spanish is my mother language

The people speak English
The people in this class speak English
British people speak English
Chinese people you met speak English
I go to school twice a week
I go to bed at about eleven
I play the guitar
I play the football
I love the songs
I love the music
The last week I saw P.
Coffee is a popular drink
The pop music is very popular, too

/ Grammar Teams. Prepositions
Read aloud everything
Find the correct preposition for each sentence
Say the completed sentences aloud
TIME (point in time): at, on, in
We could meet …………………… Monday
……………….. the afternoon I am always busy!
……………….. Tuesday afternoons I am always busy!
I was born ……………………………….. spring
We usually go on a holiday …………………….. August
My grandmother was born …………………….. 1936!
My plane leaves ………………….. 16.45
The movie starts ………………… six
/ Grammar Teams. Prepositions
Read aloud everything
Find the correct preposition for each sentence
Say the completed sentences aloud
TIME (extended period): since, for, by, from—to, from-until, during
I always go to the pool …………………………….. my summer holidays
I am going to Paris …………………….. two weeks!
My partner works …………………… nine ……………………………… three
On our exam day we have to be there …………………….. five
She hasn’t been here …………………… 2003
We have been here …………………… seven!
We have to hand in our essays …………………………….. next Tuesday
Wow! Julia! We haven’t seen each other …………………………. ages!

My Template for Grammar Teams (Grammar in Use)

/ Grammar Teams. Prepositions
Read aloud everything
Find the correct preposition for each sentence
Say the completed sentences aloud
PLACE (location): at, on, in

/

Leave your essays ………………….. my desk
Why don’t we put up that picture ………………… the wall?
I live ………………………… 34 Picadilly Road
I live ………………………….. Picadilly Road
Let’s meet ……………………… the airport at six
People are already ……………………….. the classroom
I’ll wait for you …………………………… the bank
We arrived …………………… London at midnight
Loey arrived …………………. the concert hall too late.
They’re already ……………………. the car
They’re already ……………………. the bus

/ Grammar Teams. Prepositions
Find sentences for wording these pictures:
PLACE (spatial relationship)

/ / /
/ Pronunciation. Phonetics
Pronounce these words
Write the phonemic transcription of the –ed endings
Push
Crush
Show
Shock
Wash / Rub it
Put it on
Look it up
Take it off
Switch it on / Shrink
Stretch
Through
Maths
Sixth / Dragged
Rushed
Cracked
Wiped
Wanted / Locked
Dropped
Started
Helped
Jumped / Opened
Robbed
Smashed
Received
Loved / Topped
Packed
Brushed
Tried
Played
/ Pronunciation. Phonetics
Pronounce these words
Write the phonemic transcription of the –ed endings
Spring
Scratch
Shell
Three
Stop / Save it
Take it
I loved it!
I love it!
Turn it on / Girl
Third
Thirty
Paths
Eighth / Breathed
Laughed
Changed
Passed
Added / Buzzed
Rained
Finished
Watched
Bathed / Needed
Painted
Asked
Trained
Hugged / Cheered
Scribbled
Sneezed
Coughed
Danced
/ WELCOME TO SPAIN!
YOUR FOREIGN VISITOR'S KIT
Background info: An English-speaking person is coming to Spain on a one-week holiday. He/She is going to stay at/in your house.
1. Would you go & pick him/her up at the airport? Or would you send him/her an e-mail explaining how to get to your house from the airport (giving directions)? Imagine the welcome dialogue or the e-mail.
2. Show him/her your house and the place where he/she is going to sleep.
Imagine the dialogue.
3. Ask him/her what he/she'd like to do in this visit. Imagine the dialogue.
4. Plan a sightseeing tour in Madrid and a day trip to a town in the CdM.
Imagine the dialogue where you make the proposal.
5. Describe your favo(u)rite place in Madrid or its surroundings.
/ WELCOME TO SPAIN!
YOUR FOREIGN VISITOR'S KIT
Background info: An English-speaking person is coming to Spain on a one-week holiday. He/She is going to stay at/in your house.
Would you go & pick him/her up at the airport? Would you send him/her an e-mail explaining how to get to your house from the airport (giving directions)? Imagine the welcome dialogue/e-mail.
/ WELCOME TO SPAIN!
YOUR FOREIGN VISITOR'S KIT
Background info: An English-speaking person is coming to Spain on a one-week holiday. He/She is going to stay at/in your house.
Show him/her your house and the place where he/she is going to sleep. Imagine the dialogue.
/ WELCOME TO SPAIN!
YOUR FOREIGN VISITOR'S KIT
Background info: An English-speaking person is coming to Spain on a one-week holiday. He/She is going to stay at/in your house.
Ask him/her what (s)he'd like to do in this visit. Imagine the dial.
/ WELCOME TO SPAIN!
YOUR FOREIGN VISITOR'S KIT
Background info: An English-speaking person is coming to Spain on a one-week holiday. He/She is going to stay at/in your house.
Plan a sightseeing tour in Madrid and a day trip to a town in the CdM. Imagine the dialogue where you make the proposal.
/ WELCOME TO SPAIN!
YOUR FOREIGN VISITOR'S KIT
Background info: An English-speaking person is coming to Spain on a one-week holiday. He/She is going to stay at/in your house.
Describe your favo(u)rite place in Madrid or its surroundings.

1. In a couple of minutes, skim this information. What is it about? (theme)
2. Take your time now. What can you learn from this and how can you explain it to people? Take turns!

Source: David Crystal’s The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 2005

1. In a couple of minutes, skim this information. What is it about? (theme)
2. Take your time now. What can you learn from this and how can you explain it to people? Take turns!

Source: David Crystal’s The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, 2005