Last English class in 2020

 Pages 49, 50, 51

3/ 49      past perfect simple / past perfect continuous

• I got to my friends’ house at 3 pm. They hadalready been playing  football for hours. (play)
• Before the match started, it had been raining /  had rained for a long time. (rain)
• I looked at my laptop and saw that somebody had broken  it. (break)
• She had been studying  Spanish for years when she went to university. (study)
• My dad got home late. He told me that there had been  an accident on the motorway. (be)

• The boy had been skiing  (ski) for five years when the accident happened.
• He had been walking   (walk) for two hours so his face was red.
• The women had been doing (do) exercise in the gym when there was a power cut.
• When I walked in the garden, she was watching  (watch) birds.

Week 14 ; 14th-18th December

     CLASS 1- 15th December 

KEEP HEALTHY

Objectives : - time linkers 

                   - listening comprehension 

when = cand 

as soon as= de indata ce 

then =apoi 

until = pana cand 

while = in timp ce 

Ex 1/ 46 

1. then 

2. when 

3. while

4.until 

5. as soon as 

ex 2/ 46 

ex 3/ 46 

• While I was walking to school this morning ...I saw two dogs playing / I noticed I had forgotten my notebook . 
• The first thing I did when I arrived at home yesterday ...was to wash my hands / was to check how much homework I had. 
• I had never eaten any ..sushi. until...you cooked me some/ you ordered some.
• As soon as I learnt how to swim , ...I went to the beach / I would take part in swimming competitions. 
• I heard my favourite singer for the first time in ..September . . Then ..,in October , I was at his concert .

Listen and complete the notes :

 1/ 47 

Sam's talk :

What everybody knows : exercise is good for :

-strengthening muscles 

-controlling .....YOUR WEIGHT 

4 things everybody might know about exercise :

1. helps with mental health 

reason : there is a link between lack of ..MOVEMENT ..and depression 

2.strengthens your immune ...SYSTEM

helps you fight colds and other ...INFECTIONS

3. it is good for your ...MEMORY

4. reduces the risk of dying from a . HEART...attack 

   CLASS 2- 16th December 2020

chilly, cloudy

Wednesday 

KEEP HEALTHY

Objective : - reading / listening comprehension 

therefore= din acest motiv/ in consecinta 

ex 1 and  2  from 47

Reading / 48 

cautiously = rezervat / de un optimism moderat 

slope = partie

steep = abrupt

Past perfect continuous 

The past perfect continuous tense (also known as the past perfect progressive tense) shows that an action that started in the past continued up until another time in the past:

 Ex : He had been drinking milk out the carton when Mom walked into the kitchen.

He had been throwing rocks at her window for five minutes before she finally came out on the balcony and said, “Hey, Romeo.”

• The past perfect tense emphasizes the result of an activity in the past; In contrast, the past perfect continuous tense emphasizes the duration of an activity in the past.

Page 49 

ex 2 / 49 

1. I arrived late . They had been waiting for 2 hours . 
2. They had been walking for half an hour before they realized they had left the picnic at the hotel. 

3. Our teacher got very impatient with Thomas because he hadn't been paying attention . 

4. We had been trying to get tickets all afternoon but the match was sold out by noon. 

5. They looked exhausted at the top. How long have they been climbing ? 

Week 13 ; 7th-11th December

 CLASS 1 - 8th December 

KEEP  HEALTHY 

Objective :- speaking / listening 

Watch , then discuss about : 

to affect = a influenta 

innate= natural/ innascut 

to ward off = a para / a inlatura 

1. Is the mortality rate higher in the case of COVID 9 infection ?

2. What can  cause a more severe manifestation of the infection ? 

3. Is the virus spread only by touching ? 

4. What can we do to improve our immune system ?

5. How can a hot bath help us fight the virus ?

Do you think is this information better than reading about bird watching ? 

CLASS 2 - 9th December 2020

chilly, cloudy 

Wednesday 

KEEP HEALTHY 

Objective : past perfect vs past simple 

Phoebe decided (2) to spend the time left watching birds after she ....had found  (1)out she  had cancer. 

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-perfect-exercise-3.html

pleased = multumit 

to please (ed) = a multumi 

After solving this exercise we can conclude that :

Past Perfect is used to talk about an event that had happened before another past event . In Romanian it is the same with mmcp.

 TASK  ex 2/ 46 to be done as a blog comment until the 13th December , at noon . 

CHAMPION'S TASK : 

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/past_perfect_simple_past.htm

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-present-perfect-4.html

Week 12; 2nd-4th December

 CLASS 1 -   2nd December 

SCIENCE COUNTS

Objectives : - second conditional 

                   - I wish 

 If only I could hold you,  you'd keep my head from going under ( water ) = Numai daca te-as putea tie in brate , tu mi-ai tine capul deasupra apei / sus ....

Cond 2 = unreal situation 

If + past simple ; would +v1 

Examples  conditional 2 from a song :

If I were a boy , I could understand . 

If I were a boy , I would put myself first and ( would ) make the rules as I go . 

If I were a boy , I would listen to her .

If I were a boy , I would drink beer with guys and chase after girls. 

Beyonce wishes she was / were a boy even just for a day  ( present desire ) 

 wish + past simple ( present desire ) 

Karina wishes that her mother came back home for her birthday .

Teo wishes her parents understood her more. 

Alexandra wishes this pandemic was finished.

George wishes he could learn programming better. 

Textbook  page 38 . Read the text and summarize the idea of each paragraph : 

1- a fuel that does not pollute

2- a time machine 

3- a cure for malaria

4- a machine for doing homework

5- a pill to sleep less

Spot examples of conditional 2 in the next song : 

TASK - deadline 6th December , at noon 

Page 42 , ex 1, 2  OR

Page 43 , ex 1,2,3,4  - as blog comments .