SEssion 25

 

27th March 2024 

cloudy , chilly 

 Wednesday 

HOMEWORK CHECK 

A) Use PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE to fill in the blanks:

1. I’m tired, because I …… have been working ………. (work) very hard.

2. He ……HAS BEEN WRITING………… (write) letters all morning.

3. Catherina is getting fatter because she ……HAS BEEN EATING…… (eat) too much.

4. My mother ……HAS BEEN PEELING ….. (peel) the potatoes all afternoon.

5. Cathy ……HAS BEEN ATTENDING … (attend) a cookery course since March.

6. How long ………HAVE…… you …BEEN LEARNING ….. (learn) English?

7. Where are my eye-glasses? I ……HAVE BEEN LOOKING  (look) for them for an hour.

8. Charles ………HAS BEEN ESCAPING…. (escape) from the police for years.

9. How long ……HAVE……… you ………BEEN USING (use) a computer?

10. Elizabeth …HAS BEEN LIVING……….. (live) with Mike for three years.

11. She …HAS BEEN EARNING………. (earn) quite a lot of money for the last two years.

12. It …HAS BEEN RAINING…. (rain) fro six hours.

B) Use PRESENT PERFECT TENSE or PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

to fill in the blanks:

1. I’ve bought / have been buying a new pair of shoes.

2. Have you finished / Have you been finishing reading that book yet?

3. They’ve eaten / have been eating fruit all afternoon, ever since they came from school.

4. I’ve been reading / have read this book now, so you can have it back.

5. I’ve been writing / have written eight pages already.

6. Your exam paper is completely blank! What have you been doing / have you done?

7. Oh, no! There’s nothing to eat. My sister has been eating / has eaten everything I left in the kitchen.

8. Oh, no! There’s no wine to drink. They have drunk / have been drinking all the wine.

9. No wonder your eyes hurt. You’ve been playing / have played computer games ever since you had your breakfast.

10. I haven’t seen / haven’t been seeing you for ages.

11. God! Hakan has scored / has been scoring.

12. They have danced / have been dancing for an hour.

13. I have been waiting / have waited for you for ages.

14. I’ve finished / ‘ve been finishing my work.

15. I’ve been writing / have written this letter for an hour.

16. He has visited / has been visiting ten museums this week.

17. I’m very tired. Because I have travelled / have been travelling around Istanbul all day.

18. She has found / has been finding a good job.

19. I’m hot because I have been running / have run.

20. I have written / have been writing letters for weeks.

to attend (ed) = a frecventa 

* I attend School number eight . 

to earn(ed) =  a castiga muncind

* Our parents work to earn money . 

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/3g9-present-perfect-simple-continuous.php

win - won - won = a castiga 

novel = roman 

short story = nuvela

https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/upperint/grammar/grammar_01_012e?cc=ro&selLanguage=en

nearly = aproape ca ...

* You have nearly finished your test . 

Verbe care nu sunt folosite cu "ing" 

Source : https://yourenglishpal.com/grammar/english-grammar-cefr-levels/stative-verbs/#google_vignette

- vb care arata posesia 

* have / own / possess / belong / contain / consist of...

- vb ' de gandire ' 

* think / agree/ suspect / understand / forget / believe / doubt ( a se indoi de ...) 

- vb. de perceptie 

* see/ smell/ hear/ touch / feel / look + be 

- vb care exprima simtaminte 

* wish / care/ deserve / like / love / adore / hate ....

TRIWORDS 

Teo -149

Ilaria -122

Patrick -164

yellow - 1

 orange - 2

 green -3

doughnut / donut = gogoasa 

SEssion 24

20th March 2024 

partly sunny, chilly 

Wednesday 

USED TO = A OBISNUIT SA ( OBICEIURI TRECUTE ) 

When we were in primary school we used to play mini games .  

When we were in primary school we didn't use to write so much . 

What did you use to do when you were in primary school ? 

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/used-to-exercise-1.html

Present Perfect Simple  vs Present Perfect Continuous 

(have+ V3)                           ( have + been + V-ing ) 

                                              ( se accentueaza perioada ) 

                                               ( rezultat vizibil si neplacut ) 

Ex : They have built  " Aurora" for a year now. ( normal period of time ) 

They have been building " Aurora " for a year now. ( too long period of time) 

 to  be fed up = a fi ' satul ' de ...

abroad = peste granita / in strainatate 

aboard = peste bord 

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-present-perfect-continuous-2.html

Homework 

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-perfect-present-perfect-continuous-3.html

A) Use PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS TENSE to fill in the blanks:

1. I’m tired, because I …… have been working ………. (work) very hard.

2. He ………………………………………… (write) letters all morning.

3. Catherina is getting fatter because she …………………………………… (eat) too much.

4. My mother ………………………………………….. (peel) the potatoes all afternoon.

5. Cathy …………………………………………… (attend) a cookery course since March.

6. How long …………… you ………………………………………….. (learn) English?

7. Where are my eye-glasses? I …………………………………………….. (look) for them for an hour.

8. Charles ………………………………………………. (escape) from the police for years.

9. How long …………… you ………………………………………… (use) a computer?

10. Elizabeth ………………………………………….. (live) with Mike for three years.

11. She ………………………………………………. (earn) quite a lot of money for the last two years.

12. It …………………………………………………. (rain) fro six hours.

B) Use PRESENT PERFECT TENSE or PRESENT PERFECT CONTINUOUS

to fill in the blanks:

1. I’ve bought / have been buying a new pair of shoes.

2. Have you finished / Have you been finishing reading that book yet?

3. They’ve eaten / have been eating fruit all afternoon, ever since they came from school.

4. I’ve been reading / have read this book now, so you can have it back.

5. I’ve been writing / have written eight pages already.

6. Your exam paper is completely blank! What have you been doing / have you done?

7. Oh, no! There’s nothing to eat. My sister has been eating / has eaten everything I left in the kitchen.

8. Oh, no! There’s no wine to drink. They have drunk / have been drinking all the wine.

9. No wonder your eyes hurt. You’ve been playing / have played computer games ever since you had your breakfast.

10. I haven’t seen / haven’t been seeing you for ages.

11. God! Hakan has scored / has been scoring.

12. They have danced / have been dancing for an hour.

13. I have been waiting / have waited for you for ages.

14. I’ve finished / ‘ve been finishing my work.

15. I’ve been writing / have written this letter for an hour.

16. He has visited / has been visiting ten museums this week.

17. I’m very tired. Because I have travelled / have been travelling around Istanbul all day.

18. She has found / has been finding a good job.

19. I’m hot because I have been running / have run.

20. I have written / have been writing letters for weeks.

Session 23

 

13th March 2024 

rainy, cool 

Wednesday 

scaly = cu solzi / solzos 

scale = solz 

scales = cantar 

whiskers = mustati ( de animalut ) / perciuni 

wire = sarma 

wiry = sarmos 

tough = dur / aspru 

to snore (ed) =  a sforai 

to tiptoe (ed) = a merge in varful picioarelor 

trail = urma continua si lunga 

track = urma 

to poke (ed) =  a tasni / a iesi in afara 

to gleam (ed) = a straluci 

fiery = fioros 

ought to / should = ar trebui ( sfaturi )

to unclench (ed) = a da drumul la stransoare 

hazel tree = alun 

boulder = bolovan 

sly = viclean 

hazard = pericol 

ASK QUESTIONS FROM THE STORY 

1. How did the Gruffalo describe the Big Bad Mouse?

The Big Bad Mouse had a scaly tale, his eyes looked like pools of fire, his whiskers were tougher than wire and he was teribly strong.

2.Why did the Gruffalo's child go to find the mouse?

The Gruffalo's child went to the deep dark wood to find the mouse because he was bored.

3. Who was the first creature that the Gruffalo's child met?

 The first creature that the Gruffalo's child met was a snake.

4.What did the Gruffalo's child say in the wood's?

The Gruffalo's child said he wasn't scared.

HONEYCOM 

Patrick -2

Rares -1 

Teo -4

Ilaria -6

Homework 

B) Fill in the blanks with the SIMPLE PAST of the verbs in brackets:

Last Saturday my father …. took…. (take) my friends and me to the circus. We …SAW……(see)

lots of things. My father ………BOUGHT…………. (buy) us some popcorn and orange juice. We

………ATE……………. (eat) the popcorn and …………DRANK……………… (drink) the orange juice.

We ……………LAUGHED……….. (laugh) at the funny clowns. There …………WAS………. (be) a lion-tamer.

The lions ………DID…………… (do) tricks; they ………………JUMPED………… (jump) through hoops. A girl ………………RODE………. (ride) an elephant around the ring. We all ……………HAD…… (have)

a wonderful time.

C) Write what Jean DID or DIDN’T do yesterday:

go shopping ( - ) ………… Jean didn’t go shopping yesterday. …………….

clean the house ( + ) ……………………JEAN  CLEANED ……………………………

feed the cat ( + ) .…………………………JEAN FED…………………

telephone Mary ( - ) …………………………JEAN DIDN'T TELEPHONE …………

watch a film on TV ( - ) ……………JEAN DIDN'T WATCH ………………………

visit her grandparents ( + ) ………JEAN VISITED ………………………………

take them a cake ( + ) ………………JEAN TOOK .........................……

D) Fill in the blanks with the PAST form of the verbs:

break swim have make sit write

spend buy drink lose wash

Benjamin Franklin …… was born ….. (be born) in Boston in 1706. He ………WAS…… (be) the fifteenth of the seventeen children of a poor candlemaker. He ……WENT……(go ) to school only one year. He ………BEGAN…… (begin) to work when he was twelve. At the age of fourteen he ………DECIDED  (decide) to be a writer. He ………COPIED ………….

(copy) the great stories of famous writers and later he ……BECAME …… (become) the best known writer in his time.

When he …………WAS ……….. (be) seventeen, he ……LEFT… (leave) Boston and

…… (arrive) in Philadelphia with only a few pennies in his pocket. He

…GOT……… (get) a job as a publisher of a newspaper and ………RETIRED . (retire)

from business as a very rich man at forty-two. Then he ………SPENT…. (spend) the next forty years for his government. He …PLAYED……. (play) an important role in the founding of the USA.

Franklin WAS…… (be) also an important scientist and inventor. He ……DREW…. (draw)

electricity from a cloud on a kite string. He ……WROTE…… (write) one of the first text books on electricity. He ……INVENTED……… (invent) a simple lightning rod and many other practical tools. He …MADE… (make) a study of water and ……………………DISCOVERED ….

(discover) many principles of hydrodynamics. He even …………INVENTED… (invent) bifocal glasses when he was seventy-eight and …NEEDED………… (need) them himself.

Franklin ………DID……… (do) all these things and many more because he ……………BELIEVED .………

(believe) he ……………COULD…………… (can).

Session 22

6th March 2024 

cloudy , chilly

Wednesday

5/ 64 

1. We didn't go to the park yesterday . 

2. He read a science-fiction book last week. 

3. Did she buy a new bike last month?

4. They didn't have a party last week . 

5. Did you make your bed yesterday ?

6. We saw a good film last night. 

6/ 64 

2. fed

3. didn't do 

4. did you tidy 

5. took 

6. did you make 

7/ 64 

2. No, she didn't make a cake. She made some biscuits yesterday . 

3. No, they didn't meet G for dinner. They met G for lunch . 

4. No, she didn't buy a new dress. She bought a new skirt . 

5. No, she didn't rent a car . She rented a bike. 

6. No, he didn't eat Y.pudding  . He ate roast beef . 

treetop = varful copacului 

stream = parau 

log pile = morman de busteni

feast = festin 

to slide - slid - slid =  a aluneca

prickles = tepi 

tongue = limba 

Later the mouse met a snake. The snake invited the mouse to have lunch with him. The mouse declined the invitation and he said he would meet a gruffallo. The mouse described the creature as having orange eyes, a black tongue and purple prickles on his back. The snake found out that the gruffallo's favourite dish was scrambled snake and he slid back in his log - pile house.

to  burst into laughter =  a izbucni in ras 

astounding / amazing = uluitor / grozav 

paw = labuta

to rumble (ed) = a chiorai

crumble = tip de prajitura cu coca rasa 

 The mouse met the gruffallo as described before. The gruffallo told him his favourite food was a mouse on a slice of bread. The little creature warned him  that he was the scariest  in the wods. All the animals showed fear and the mouse said his favourite food was gruffallo crumble. And the gruffallo was scared and ran away. 

HONEYCOMB 

pATRICK - 3

rARES - 4

tEO - 3

 iLARIA - 2

CARROT; CAT; GREEN APPLE; SEA HORSE; OWL; RABBIT;DUCKLING; FOX; HIVE

Once upon a time there was a cat which saved people from sly foxes. The sly foxes stole ducklings, rabbits and even carrots or green apples when they were on a diet. The cat had a friend named Owl which was a sea horse which lived in a hive. The sea horse guarded the yards and he called the cat whenever the foxes appeared.

Homework 

words x 2 

composition with STARFISH ; BEE; RABBIT ; PIGLET ; CUCUMBER ; PEAR; ACORNS ; GARLIC ; HEDGEHOG 

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