Thursday, February 06, 2020

B1 5-6/2/20

He met Sarah as/when he was walking to work.
The window opened as/when he was reading the newspaper.
The neighbour said hello as/when they were parking the car.


The car broke down while I was driving to work.
The kid got lost while his parents were buying in the supermarket.
We bought the tickets while we were waiting for the others.
The players were playing while we were having a snack.

Happened –were driving
Cheered – blew
Didn’t recognize – had changed
Stopped - wasn’t wearing
Weren’t listening – was talking
Couldn’t – hadn’t snowed
Weren’t able to – hadn’t booked
Got – had taken off / took off

crowd /kraʊd/ ●●● S3 W2 noun   
1 [countable] a large group of people who have gathered together to do something, for example to watch something or protest about something
crowd of
- a crowd of angry protesters
- a crowd of 30,000 spectators
- There were crowds of shoppers in the street.

GRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?
Police is a plural noun and is followed by a plural verb:
The police are investigating the case.
Don’t say: The police is investigating the case.
• When talking about someone who works for the police, you say a police officer, a policeman, or a policewoman.
Don’t say: a police

Past simple vs past perfect>






p. 184
L.L. was competing in Seoul Olympic Games.
The weather was terrible (because) the wind was blowing.
L. was in second place when he saw two sailors that had fallen out.
He went to help them. He pulled them out of the water and waited for another boat.
Finally, he continued the race but he didn’t win. He came the 22nd.

Terrible is not used with ‘very’. You say:
I feel absolutely terrible today.

A.M was competing in a cross-country race.
He was winning easily and he stopped running because he thought he had won.
The crowd was shouting and told him to carry on.
Mutai didn’t understand because he didn’t speak Spanish.
I. F. was the second.
He slowed down and told Mutai to keep running, so Mutai started running and he crossed the line first.

Called
Seoul
Pulled
Metres
Shout
slowed
crossed
said
rightful

p.190

asked happened friends
took obediently towards direction turned wasted
awful luckily
wanted /id/ started wasted
realized
‘cos - because


p. 190
when, However, instead of, but, So, because, as soon as, although

Homework: p. 190, ex 4c

Cheering
Meet – met
Missed /t/
Happened /d/


Betty Botter bought some butter but, said she, the butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter will make my bitter batter better.
So she bought some better butter, better than the bitter butter,
put it in her bitter batter, made her bitter batter better.
So ‘t was better Betty Botter bought some better butter.

She sells seashells on the seashore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
And if she sells seashells on the seashore,

Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.

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