Abilities - What can you do, guys?

BEFORE WATCHING
1. Guess three musical instruments the people in the video can play.
2. Now, guess three dishes the people can cook.
3. Finally, guess four other things the people can do.

WHILE WATCHING
4. Check your guesses. How many have you scored? (0-10)
5. Watch the video again. Write down...
...the musical instruments the people can play.
...the dishes the people can cook.
...the other things the people can do.

Take your notes only at WORD level.

AFTER WATCHING
Make full sentences with the notes taken for exercise 5.

FOLLOW UP
Make a survey for all your classmates. Show your results graphically with a pie, bars, etc. Make sure there is a bar chart per question.

1. Can you play a musical instrument?
2. What musical instrument can you play?
3. Can you cook?
4. What's the favourite dish you can cook?
5. What other things can you do very well?

Look at this example for question #1. Do the same for all the questions:

When you are finished, send it to me at negroarroz@gmail.com


GRAMMAR PRACTICE with:
- can/can't: 1 2 3

- can/could: 1

Dare speak English in class! If Juande can, you can!!

The passive for emphasis

The passive is used for emphasis. What's emphasized? Watch the video and answer.

Pay careful attention to the explanations in Chinese!!!


Watch this second video. There are examples of passive sentences, basically in the present and the past. How do you know what the tense of a passive is?


Do you need a more contextualised presentation of the passive? Have a look at these.




EXTRA PRACTICE on the passive voice: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

That's Life!

As I told you in class, here you are the scenes, which are not longer than 4 minutes, that will let you do the exercises by next Friday.

Needless to say you can watch the video as many times as necessary.

Any questions? Send them as a comment. See below.