Let's practice gerunds, infinitives and using the bare infinitive. What's THAT???

Goto this page, read my posts and try the exercises:

http://preintduan.blogspot.com/search?q=gerunds

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Homework June 9th due THURSDAY

Hi class!

OK, good work.

Let's practice conditionals:

Try: http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/if-clauses.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/mb/adv_conditional.html
http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/bl_conditionals1.htm
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarlessonplans/a/l_condreview.htm
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarlessonplans/a/chant13.htm
Study:

http://esl.about.com/od/gramma1/a/conditional.htm
FROM http://prof.usb.ve/bleiva/Ingles/Gramatica/Sesion7.htm...

Links:

For information or explanations on Conditionals, go to

http://www.englishspanishlink.com/gram%20conditional.htm

http://valenciaenglish.netfirms.com/conditionals.htm

http://grammar.englishclub.com/verbs-conditional.htm check the six links of this page, especially the ZERO CONDITIONAL, so important in scientific English.



To practice conditionals go to:

http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/if1.html

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/if-clauses.html

http://www.better-english.com/grammar/secondconditional1.htm

http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_conditionals.htm

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/2nd3rdconditionals1.htm Fill in the gaps

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/2nd3rdconditionals2.htm Rewrite the sentences

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/2nd3rdconditionals3.htm Say if the sentences are correct or incorrect

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/condit2.htm fill in the blanks

http://wwwedu.ge.ch/cptic/prospective/projets/anglais/exercises/condit3.htm An exercise to reinforce the use of the second and third conditional.



Modal verbs:

Remember to check explanations of MODAL VERBS in previous sessions.



May, might and would are modal verbs which are used as follows:



We use may and might for events which could happen in the future . Their most common meaning is POSSIBILITY.



Examples:

* I don't know what I will do on my vacation, but I may stay home.

* I can't help you. Why don't you ask the secretary? She might be able to help.

* It is cloudy today. It might rain this afternoon.



The negative forms of these verbs are may not, might not , would not



Examples:

* I may not go to the party tonight. I have a lot to study.

* Classes might not start next week. The teacher is traveling.



They can also be used in the continuous tense may/might be doing


Examples:

* If you call after 10:00 pm. I might be sleeping

* She may be going out off town next summer.



Sometimes we use would after the verb wish


Examples:

* I wish it would stop raining. It's raining a lot. I want to go out to play, but my mother says I can not because it is raining.

* Tom wishes He would be able to speak German. He needs to travel to Germany soon and he doesn't know a word in that language.



We use I wish...wouldn�t to complain about the way some people do certain actions .


Examples:

* I wish my father wouldn't smoke so much. He might get sick.

* He wishes you wouldn't drive so fast. It makes him feel nervous.



You can also use would to express the past and remember events which have happened.


Examples:

* When my brother was a child, he went to the USA by ship. He would wake up very early every morning to see the sunrise.

* Whenever Linda was sad, she would just walk out of the room.

* When we were children, we all used to get up very early and go to the beach every day during summer.



Taken and modified from: Murphy, R. and William Rutherford (1999). Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press, UK.



Links:

For explanations and exercises on Modal Verbs go to: http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalintro.html

http://esl.lbcc.cc.ca.us/eesllessons/modals/modals.htm

http://www.i-claudius.com/esl/modals.html

http://smccd.net/accounts/sevas/esl/gramcheck/gramcheck3-5/modalflashcds.html

Try searching on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHbkjCviC0&feature=PlayList&p=EEA0D5FA42DB4C58&index=2&playnext=2&playnext_from=PL

Or Google:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=conditional+quiz+esl&meta=

More test practice here:

http://preintduan.blogspot.com/2009/04/toeic-youtube-tests.html

How many kilos?

One more

Choose which verb. Causative? To? that?

http://www.quia.com/quiz/288695.html?AP_rand=1738602401

Causative verbs

REad this please:

http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/22581-causative-verbs-make-have-get-let-etc.html

http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/causative_verbs.htmlCausative Verbs
Causative verbs designate the action necessary to cause another action to happen. In "The devil made me do it." the verb "made" causes the "do" to happen. Here is a brief list of causative verbs, in no particular order: let, help, allow, have, require, allow, motivate, get, make, convince, hire, assist, encourage, permit, employ, force. Most of them are followed by an object (noun or pronoun) followed by an infinitive: "She allows her pet cockatiel to perch on the windowsill. She hired a carpenter to build a new birdcage."

Three causative verbs are exceptions to the pattern described above. Instead of being followed by a noun/pronoun and an infinitive, the causative verbs have, make and let are followed by a noun/pronoun and the base form of the verb (which is actually an infinitive with the "to" left off).

Professor Villa had her students read four short novels in one week.
She also made them read five plays in one week.
However, she let them skip the final exam.

Try:

http://www.eslgold.com/grammar/causative_verbs.html
http://www.learnenglishfeelgood.com/lefg1_causative2.html

Causative verbs

FOLLOW

What is following a blog?

Read this:
http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=104226

So, after you "follow" you need to read this:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=99761

OKAY, so next you need to create a blog!!! Yay!

After you have created a blog, you can go to your dashboard and you add the blog by scrolling down to the reading list.

So,:

1. Create a blog.
2. Go to http://preintduan.blogspot.com/
3. Click FOLLOW and use your blog login.
4. Go to your blog.
5. Click DASHBOARD.
6. Scroll down to Reading list.

That's it!