Grammar Workshop

Hi  everyone! Welcome to Grammar workshop. In these first assignments you will find some useful exercises from the topic   movies and stories. Among the themes we will learn about places (towns, cities and countries), feelings and also free time activities. Implicit in the topic, the grammar points that will be touched are the present and past continuous and tag questions.

Present/past continuous and tag questions Hello everyone! In the following videos you will be able to get acquainted with: ·          Present continuous ·          Past continuous ·          Tag questions ·          In the first video, you will study present continuous in famous movies scenes that show situations in which it is used. ·          In the second video, you will see the use of the past continuous in famous songs. ** Watch in full screen ** ·          In the website, you can access to the necessary information to understand the use of tag questions through some charts and clear examples. Resources: Video 1 https://youtu.be/bQJBOQmrtzE Video 2   https://youtu.be/q8ZBiotGvPk Website   https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/tag-questions.htm

Present continuous/ listening exercise The ring (Thriller) TASK #1:  For this activity you will have to open the following movie trailer  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uukQ_6szDm8  in your browser. Then,  please answer the specific question assigned to you on a comment in this entry. Before answering, please read well, think about your answer, and be clear and concise. Questions 1.      What was happening at the beginning of the video?   2.        Why was the boy thinking about the video?   3.      What happened to the girl that picked up the phone?   4.      What happened in the airplane?   5.       How was the girl feeling about all the events she was living?

Reading exercises   Past continuous Instructions 1: Read the story "Ann" abd abswer the questions assigned to you on a comment in this entry. Before answering, please read well, think about your answer, and be clear and concise. Remember to use the past continuous tense. “Ann” Who was she? Where was she? What was happening? Yesterday, it was raining and thundering all day. Ann was playing inside the house. She wanted to be outside. She wasn't playing outside because it was raining. She was feeling tired of being trapped inside the house. Ann was trying to keep busy inside the house. She was reading her book until the electricity went out. Then, she decided to practice her sewing. She was practicing sewing until lunchtime. After lunch, she sat by the window and watched the rain. While Ann was watching the rain, the phone rang. Her mother was calling to say she was coming home. She was bringing a new game. Ann and her mother ate ice cream and pla

   Writing practice Instructions: Based on the picture bellow, write a fifteen lines paragragh on a comment in this entry. You are going to describe what was family Smith doing last weekend. Before writing, please read well, follow the process of writing, and be clear and concise.