week 7

COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE

English quantifiers help us indicate the number of objects, names and things, so always use them to express the idea of quantity or number. Many of these quantizers are used only by plural nouns and in other cases by singular

UNCOUNTABLES	COUNTABLES
How much?	How many?
much money	many bills
much traffic	many cars
little food	few cookies
little fruit	few apples

EXAMPLES:

We have many dollars in the bank

How much milk your baby drinks?

UNCOUNTABLES	COUNTABLES
much	many
so much	so many
too much	too many
little	few
a little	a few
less	fewer
the least	the fewest
a large amount of	a large number of
a great deal of	a great many

speech: i love this topic because we must take care with the tings, if are contables or uncontables 

week 6

this week we had talked about zero conditional and first conditional.

zero conditional:

We can make a zero conditional sentence with two present simple verbs (one in the 'if clause' and one in the 'main clause'):

If + present simple, .... present simple.

This conditional is used when the result will always happen. So, if water reaches 100 degrees, it always boils. It's a fact. I'm talking in general, not about one particular situation. The result of the 'if clause' is always the main clause.


The 'if' in this conditional can usually be replaced by 'when' without changing the meaning.

example:


If people eat too much, they get fat.

If you touch a fire, you get burned.

People die if they don't eat.

You get water if you mix hydrogen and oxygen.

Snakes bite if they are scared


If babies are hungry, they cry

first conditional:

he first conditional has the present simple after 'if', then the future simple in the other clause:

if + present simple, ... will + infinitive


It's used to talk about things which might happen in the future. Of course, we can't know what will happen in the future, but this describes possible things, which could easily come true.

example:

If it rains, I won't go to the park.

If I study today, I'll go to the party tonight.

If I have enough money, I'll buy some new shoes.

She'll be late if the train is delayed.

She'll miss the bus if she doesn't leave soon.


If I see her, I'll tell her.

SPEECH: conditional tenses are used to speculated about what could happen, what we wish would happen.

week 5

this week we had talked and studied about permission prohibition obligation and no obligation.

permition: for this topic we use verbs modals like: can, might and may because these are more common for permission.

prohibition: for this, we use can't  and musn't  because its about something that we can´t do.

obligation: for this we use have to and must because is about a rule or a law.

no obligation: for this we use don't have to because is abput something you can if you want but its not compulsory.



examples:


we can carry this books from library for one week.

we can't swin when the swimming pool had been cleaned

we have to do all homework tomorrow

we must wear corrently the school's uniform 

speech: the use of spresions that let us know if something is forbbiden or not are important to understand the rules nad the duties that we have with our society and with ourselves, this is why we must learn those espresions such as "must, have to, don't have to, can, can't, may, might. 

week 4

this week we talked about superlatives and comparatives

Comparative is the name for the grammar used when comparing two things. The two basic ways to compare are using as .. as or than

comparatives:

Comparative adjectives are used to compare differences between the two objects they modify (larger, smaller, faster, higher). They are used in sentences where two nouns are compared, in this pattern:

Noun (subject) + verb + comparative adjective + than + noun (object).

ex:

1. My house is larger than hers.
2. This box is smaller than the one I lost.
3. Your dog runs faster than Jim's dog.
4. The rock flew higher than the roof.
5. Jim and Jack are both my friends, but I like 
6. Jack better. ("than Jim" is understood)

superlatives:

Superlative adjectives are used to describe an object which is at the upper or lower limit of a quality (the tallest, the smallest, the fastest, the highest). They are used in sentences where a subject is compared to a group of objects.

Noun (subject) + verb + the + superlative adjective + noun (object).

ex:

1. My house is the largest one in our neighborhood.
2. This is the smallest box I've ever seen.
3. Your dog ran the fastest of any dog in the race.
4. We all threw our rocks at the same time. My rock flew the highest. ("of all the rocks" is understood)

SPEECH: superlatives and comparatives are important in our daily life, not justo to speak a fluid or a good english, but to compare quialities of objects, animals or people.

week 3

This week we have talked and studied all about relative clauses.

We use relative pronouns to refer to a noun ( a person or thing ) mentioned before and we want to add more information or change .

Relative pronouns can refer to something or someone in singular or plural. Some relative clauses can be used only with people , others only with things and some with both.


speech: relative clauses hep us to identify the characteritics and qualities of the objects, in that way we can talk and undestand about the daily things.