Comparatives and Superlatives - World Knowledge Quiz

 World Knowledge Quiz

Practise your English with this fun video activity. Use comparatives (e.g. bigger than / more expensive than) and superlatives (e.g. the biggest / the most expensive) to answer the questions in the video.

Instructions: 1. Watch the video. 2. Read the questions before each clip. Watch the clip carefully to find the answer. 3. Write the answers on the worksheet provided. 4. Use comparatives (adj + er / more +adj) and superlatives (the adj + est / the most +adj) to answer the questions.

                                                               

                                        

as .......... as = tan ...... como

less........ than = menos ...... que

Click in the link and do the comparative exercises :

https://www.allthingsgrammar.com/comparatives.html

And now the superlative exercises :

https://www.allthingsgrammar.com/superlatives.html

Let's Explore a Little About Our Solar System and Its Planets .

Continents and Oceans :

Which continent has the most people? How about the least? Which one is the hottest? Can you name all five oceans? Our Earth is a very big place covered by water and land; learn about its seven continents and five oceans, because someday you might travel to each !

WHAT WERE YOU DOING YESTERDAY AT 10:30 ?

6th Grade

Diferencias entre pasado continuo y pasado simple en inglés

Tabla de contenidos

• ¿Cómo se forma el pasado continuo del verbo en inglés?
• ¿Cuándo se usa el pasado continuo en inglés?
• Excepciones
• Ejercicio de pasado continuo y pasado simple en inglés
• Ejercicio de Gramática

                            Past continuous                               Affirmative form / Forma afirmativaNegative form / Forma negativa:   Interrogative form / Forma interrogativa :                       

El pasado continuo expresa una acción pasada que tuvo una duración determinada sin indicar si la misma está terminada o no. En resumen, se trata de una acción que se estaba desarrollando en un momento determinado del pasado pero no indica si ya ha finalizado o continúa. Es muy habitual utilizar este tiempo verbal para referirse a acciones simultáneas que ocurrieron en el pasado.

Click on the picture :

ONLINE ACTIVITIES :

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

- http://www.adelescorner.org/grammar/past_cont/past_cont_1.html

- https://www.montsemorales.com/gramatica/PastContinAffnegSw2-6.htm

- http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-exercises-past-continuous-test-1.html#.XmUVqahKjIU

- https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_%28ESL%29/Past_continuous/Past_continuous_oh1569dz

https://es.liveworksheets.com/worksheets/en/English_as_a_Second_Language_(ESL)/Past_continuous

Send the next worksheet to the teacher :  

                                            

englishatespinheira@gmail.com

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-past-continuous-exercise-1.html

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/tenses/t086-past-tense.htm

When y while: parecidos, diferencias y trucos para usarlas

https://whatsup.es/blog/when-y-while-parecidos-diferencias

Cuando la acción que se interrumpe está en pasado continuo mientras que la acción que causa la interrupción está en pasado simple. El uso correcto sería emplear el pasado simple directamente después de when y el pasado continuo luego de while.

Past Continuous - Describing past events ( activity)
An easy activity to practise The Past Continuous tense while reading a news story that describes past events.

                                                    

Past Simple or Past Continuous
1. students put the verbs in brackets into past simple or past continuous tense 2. students write what Disney characters were doing yesterday afternoon second exercise cannot be seen on the preview but when I open the exercise it is there.

                                                                                                       

Unlucky Moments
This exercises contrasts de use of the past continuous and the simple past forms of some verbs in the context of "unlucky moments".

       

Do the activity and send it to the teacher :

englishatespinheira@gmail.com

4th IRREGULAR VERBS TEST

                                                IRREGULAR VERBS

SPANISH	INFINITIVE	PAST SIMPLE	PAST  PARTICIPLE
BEBER	drink	drank	drunk
COMER	Eat	ate	eaten
PERDONAR	forgive	forgave	forgiven
SER,ESTAR	be	was/were	been
LLEGAR A SER	become	became	become
CONDUCIR	drive	drove	driven
ESCRIBIR	write	wrote	written
HACER	do	did	done
VER	see	saw	seen
TRAER	bring	brought	brought

1- La semana pasada bebimos 2 vasos de leche.

2- Anteayer mi hermana comió conmigo.

3- El viernes pasado perdonaste mi equivocación.

4- Tu hermano estaba contento hace 3 días.

5- Barack Obama llegó a ser presidente en enero de 2009.

6- Ayer mi madre condujo hasta Madrid.

7- Rosalía de Castro escribió " Follas Novas ".

8- El jueves pasado no hice los deberes .

9- Hace 8 horas te vieron en el parque.

10-Tus amigos nos trajeron bombones la semana pasada.

                                                                                                           

ROSALIA DE CASTRO TIMELINE

ROSALIA DE CASTRO

Her name is Rosalía de Castro.

She was born on February 23rd , 1837 in Santiago de Compostela and she died on 15th July, 1885. She was 48 years old.

She was from Galicia, she was Galician.

She was a novelist and a poetess. 

SONGS TO SING AT THE ALDÁN ELDERLY HOME

 As you know, on December 21st, you ( 5th & 6th graders ) are going to visit the Aldán Elderly Home to sing and give them some Christmas cards and some Christmas Carols and wish them a Happy New Year 2023.

Happy Xmas ( War Is Over) by John Lennon :

Jingle Bell Rock  by Bobby Helms :

        

                                            

Jingle Bells :

Last Christmas by Wham :                                     

                      

                           

All I Want For Xmas Is You by Mariah Carey :                         

            

Thank you all for your collaboration in this project !