Welcome everyone,

This week has been a bit awkward with different students everyday. I guess we'll settle dawn little by little.

We started talking about celebrations like Christmas, Halloween, Valentine's Day, birthdays, weddings, etc.

Some words we have studied are: bride & groom,best man, Christmas carols, New Year's Eve and New Year's day, resolutions, cards, decorations, fireworks. Verbs like deliver, send, guess.

The grammar point in this unit is the Present Perfect. We are studying it by itself and also in contrast to the Past Simple.

As I cannot download documents onto this blog I'll copy one about the Present Perfect, so you can check it out:

Use of Past Simple

Use the Simple Past to express the idea that an action started and finished at a specific time in the past. Sometimes, the speaker may not actually mention the specific time, but they do have one specific time in mind.

Use of Present Perfect

ñ puts emphasis on the result

Example: She has written five letters.

ñ action that is still going on

Example: School has not started yet.

ñ action that stopped recently

Example: She has cooked dinner.

ñ finished action that has an influence on the present

Example: I have lost my key.

ñ action that has taken place once, never or several times before the moment of speaking

Example: I have never been to Australia.

Words that often go with each one of theses verb tenses Past Simple
ñ yesterday ñ ... ago ñ in 1990 ñ the other day ñ last ... Present Perfect ñ just ñ already ñ up to now ñ until now / till now ñ ever ñ (not) yet ñ so fa ñ lately / recently Homework

To add to the printed exercises I gave you last Wednesday, please write 2 sentences with each one of the verbs I wrote down above: deliver, send and guess.

Don't work too hard. I'll see you Monday.