My students' work, part 2

 

Another infographic to present the uses of "There was/were", this one, done by Rocio with the Piktochart tool too. Congrats Rocio, good work!!

There is/ There are...shown in an infographic

Picktochart

My first infographic,  I used Piktochart, completely free and very easy to use; the only problem I had is to export it. I am really looking forward to my students using it...

Do you like the result?

Quantifiers for 1st Bachillerato

Affirmative	Both	Negative & Interrogative
Some No A good many A great many So many As many Too many So much As much Too much Very much		Any (some for offerings in questions) Many Much
	A lot of/lots of Several Enough A few A little Plenty of

My students are getting quite messed up with quantifiers, so I have decided to make up two charts so that they get things clearer, the first one (above) tells you  which quantifiers are used in affirmative sentences or negative and interrogative sentences; also those which can be used in the three circumstances.
The other one (below) tells you which quantifiers can be used with plural countable nouns and which ones are used with uncount nouns. ( I will only write about the ones in our textbook, but if you have any questions, just leave a comment!!)

Countable plural	Both	Uncountable
Many Several A few	Some Any No A lot of/lots of Enough Plenty of	Much A little

You can do some more exercises here:

• My English Pages
• Activities for ESL students (basic), on this same page for a little/ a few, and for much/many.
• Quantifiers: A basic quiz
• Quantifiers: Fill in the gaps.

I hope this clarifies you!! If it doesn't you know you can always leave a comment!!

What is there...?

Health for All

My students of first of ESO are working now on food and are learning how to say "there is something" or the contrary and to ask. We also get the chance to review what they eat and if they eat in a healthy way or not. There is a lot of information about how to eat healthily, you can find some at the National Health System of the UK's website.

I have made a brief  sketch to help you:

	Countable singular(1)	Countable plural (+1)	Uncountable
Affirmative	There is a/an...	There are some...	There is some...
Negative	There isn't a/an...	There aren't any...	There isn't any...
Interrogative	Is there a/an...?	Are there any...?	Is there any...?

I would like you to tell me what is on the table and what there isn't on the table that you would like to see. You can look for the vocabulary on this complete Visual Dictionary site.

You can do some more exercises on countable and uncountable  nouns at the study zone of the University of Victoria or at this page of English Grammar Exercises.
Leave your comments and tell us!!!

Dear students,

DO YOU KNOW WHAT A TONGUETWISTER IS?

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A tonguetwister may be a sentence or a poem which puts together similar sounds so that they are difficult to say and your tongue moves strangely!!

We are now starting to revise countable and uncountable nouns and so on. I have been looking for tonguetwisters that have items related with this grammatical point.
 I give you two examples:

Thirty-three thousand people think that Thursday is their thirtieth birthday.

                                                           by Julia Dicum

How many cuckoos could a good cook cook, if a good cook could cook cuckoos?

A good cook could cook as many cuckoos as a good cook could cook, if a good cook could cook cuckoos.

                                                              by Ramón Mas

I want you to help me in this task. Leave your comments with tonguetwisters related to these. You can look for them in internet or invent them!

You can also do a little test here