Classical three part structure

In every essay-writing, as high school student know, you lead with an introduction, elaborate your main points in the body, and summarize your argument in the conclusion. A well-developed oral presentation adheres to the same structure.

Opening

Of the three parts, it is your opening that will vary the most from essay to essay in terms of style and content. Before you dive into your main points, the reader must know: 1) who you are, 2) what you are going to talk about, and 3) why they should care. 

Review these points prior to your essay and spend no more time addressing them than you have to. 

Body

Dive into your main points but remember to keep them short. 

Conclusion

A conclusion should summarize your key points and reinforce the overall message of your essay. 

Consider if your essay was intended to motivate your audience to a particular action. Your conclusion should make this suggestion explicit. If, however, the essay was for information purposes only, then it might be a good idea to repeat the most important information one last time.

 

Sequency words

 

 

Ex. 1

Happy Halloween!

Past Simple vs Past Continuous

A picture is worth a thousand words…

We use the Past Simple to talk about finished actions in the past:

– We visited our grandparents last weekend.

…

We use the Past Continuous to talk about an activity in progress in a particular moment in 

the past:

– Last Saturday at 10.00 pm we were visiting our grandparents.

…

We can use both tenses, Past Simple and Past Continuous, in the same sentence, and here we will find that something suddenly happens when 

an activity is in process:

…

– We were waiting for the bus, when the accident happened.

– When my mother arrived, I was watching TV.

– The students were speaking, when the teacher came in.

• Activity 1

Activity 2

• Activity 3

Articles & Quantifiers

A vs An

How much vs. How many

Many vs much & lot vs few

Verb to be

 

Here you have mind map for the verb TO BE and the personal pronouns.

In these videos, you can watch a tutorial about the verb to be with some sentences to practice.

The verb "have got"

 

 Watch the video and answers the different questions that are presented to you during the video.

The video contains pictures from the movie "The Croods" and the main aim of the activity is to learn and practise how to describe people and their appearance.

Ex. 1