English 4th year A-B

Weekly   assignment

English 4th year A-B

Rosario

The following activities should be send back in a Word file. Format A4, letter: Times New Roman, 12. The due date will be next week, Friday 27th, March 2020

Double click the link below and listen to the link below and do the activity.

Listen to the dialogues and mark the following ideas with a (T) for true and (F) when the ideas are false.

Conversation 1                                                                     Conversation 3

1) Petr is an engineer                                                            5) they’re teachers.

2) Hiroaki is from Saudi Arabia                                           6) they’re from Russia.

Conversation 2

3) Francesca isn’t Brazilian

4) She’s an engineer

Now, write correct the false idea.

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Double click the link below and listen to the conversation.

Is this Jan’s first or second meeting with Ben? _______________________________________

Listen the dialogue again and complete the conversation.

Jan: Hi. __________Jan Kowalik.

Ben: Hello. _______________ to meet you, Jan. I’m Ben West.

Jan: What _____________ are you with, Ben?

Ben: I’m with Nerada Electronics. _______ you?

Jan: I’m __________ Bax Industries.

Ben: Ah! What do you do?

Jan: I’m an IT ________________. And you?

Ben: I ______ a finance ____________________.

Jan: Is Nerada a _________ company?

Ben: No. It____________. It’s _______________.

Double click the link below and listen to Katya and Graham talking.

Now, choose one option in each sentence to complete ideas.

1) I like a) small team b) big teams.

2) It’s important for a team to have a) team meetings b) have a plan.

3) It’s a good idea to meet a) every week b) every month.

4) International teams are a) difficult b) interesting.

5) Team members often have a) the same ideas b) different ideas.

6) It’s important to give a) advice) b) your opinion.

7) I like a) informal teams b) formal teams.

8) A good way to communicate is a) by telephone b) by e-mail.

Read the following article:

                                                  Teams with bright ideas

Better ways of working together

   Teams are important in modern business. Many companies want all their employees to be good at organising teamwork.

   In traditional teams, people usually work for the same company. Sometimes team members are from the same department and sometimes from different departments. Today’s colleagues often work on international projects, and modern technology helps members of the team to communicate. People use internet and video conferences to talk to each other when they are in different countries or when it is not possible to meet.

    Teams are not always formal. Employees often meet with people from other departments at work, for example, over coffee. These groups are not organised teams, but they are important. They network and talk about work, and they help to communicate information between departments.

    Some companies have teams that meet in unusual places. Companies build rooms for teamwork so that these special teams can meet outside their normal office. The rooms look different from normal offices, for example painted in bright colours. Some managers think this helps teams to be creative. It is also important to have regular contact with other departments in the main company – such as design, marketing, production and finance. This sometimes helps the team to decide if an idea is good or bad.

After reading the text say which of the following sentences summarises the ideas in the article.  

a) All managers are good at teamwork.

b) Modern teams are always formal.

c) There is more than one kind of team.

Write the number of the paragraph 1-4 that gives information about the following:

Interesting places for teams to meet. (paragraph_____)

Groups of colleagues. (paragraph ______)

Modern technology. ( paragraph _________)

People who need to be good team members. (paragraph _______)

Read the article again. Are these statements true or false?

1) Modern companies want bosses to organise teams.

2) Team members are always from the same country.

3) Teams are never informal.

4) Colleagues meet to discuss work.

5) Some teams meet away from the office.

6) It isn’t important for teams to communicate with other departments.

Use frequency adverbs to write sentences telling how often you do the following.

Go to meetings       get up early       have lunch in a restaurant        read a newspaper

Play sport                    eat dinner in a restaurant                    be late for appointments

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Complete the conversation with the correct form of the verb to be. Use also a/an, the.

1) a: _______ you Desmond Drake?

    b: No, I’ _________ Howard Drake.

2) a) Sabine and Martine _________ from France.

    b) That’s right. Sabine _______ from Paris.

3) a: ________ you and George American?

    b: No, we _______. We’ ________ British.

4) a: ____________  Helma ___________ designer?

    b: No, she _________. She’s __________ engineer.

5) a: __________ Ravi and Ali accountants?

    b: yes, They _________. They work in ________ finance department.

 Choose the correct option from the words in italics.

1) Jacob live/lives in Manchester.

2) I work/works in the city centre.

3) We catch/catches the 7:50 train to work.

4) She eat/ eats lunch in the staff restaurant.

5) You have/ has eight members in your team.

Make the following sentences into negative (-) or interrogative (?).

1) Luxottica makes glasses. (?) ___________________________________________________

2) The CEO lives in Germany. (-) _________________________________________________

3) They have offices in Tokyo. (?) _________________________________________________

4) We manufacture Porsche cars in India. (-) _________________________________________

5) You work in the USA. (?) ______________________________________________________

Correct the sentences, when necessary.

1) Francis has a meeting on Friday always. ___________________________________________

2) We usually have lunch in a café. _________________________________________________

3) Kelly is often late for work. _____________________________________________________

4) I leave the office never at six o’clock. _____________________________________________

5) The CEO is always in his office at 8:30. ___________________________________________

Choose the correct word.

   Franco Martinez are/is the CEO of Webplan, and it is a/the successful internet company. Webplan employs/employer five thousand people in Asia and Europe. Mr. Martinez always/does arrives in the office at 8 am. He has a glass of water because he not/doesn’t drink tea or coffee. Then he read/reads his emails. He has a meeting with a/the marketing department at 10am every day. He doesn’t often have/ has lunch. He has a sandwich at his desk. In the/an afternoon he meets the design team. The employees at Webplan never don’t work/ work after 6pm.

Complete the sentences with a country or nationality.

1) Mariella is from Barcelona. She’s _________________________.

2) Apple is an American company. It’s based in the ________________  _____________________.

3) Serona is an _______ company. It has offices in Rome and Milan.

4) Wei and Fang are ______________. Their home is in Shanghai.

5) Elena is ______________. She has an apartment in Moscow.

Complete the text with the following words (the first letter is given).

Manufacture                                    Manufacturing              Products                                          production              Sales                                               sells              Staff                                                produces

    Winway International is a m____________________ and retail company. It p________________ electrical equipment and it s_________________ its p_____________ in shops in Europe and Asia. We m__________________ digital radios. We has a good p_____________ department and s______________ department. We are a small company with good managers and s________________.

                                                                        Simple Past

     There are different ways to talk about past tense in English language, but simple past is the most common of all. We use it to talk about completed actions in the past. We find regular and irregular verbs according to the way the verbs behave..

In the case of regular verbs we add “-ed” to the base form of the verb.

Example:

want →   wanted

learn →   learned

stay →   stayed

walk →   walked

show →   showed  In case of the verbs that end in “e”, we only add “-d”. Example: change →   changed believe →   believed But when the verb ends in a simple vowel followed by a consonant (except “y” or “w”), it is necessary to double the final consonant.. Example: stop →   stopped commit →   committed  Now in cases of verbs that end in a consonant and “y”, a change is necessary “y” por una “i”. Ejemplos: study →   studied try →   tried

On the contrary, irregular verbs, as their name say, do not follow a rule.

was (I, he, she, it)   were (you, we, they)

did

had

 

 

                                                                           

Structure

Affirmative Sentences

Subject  + verb  + Complement

Exmple:

She was a doctor.

The keys were in the drawer.

I wanted to dance.

They learned English.

We believed him.

I bought a blue car.

Negative Sentences

To be:   

Subject + “to be”(in the past form) + “not + complement

Example:

She wasn’t a doctor.

The keys weren’t in the drawer.  Then, lexical verbs use auxiliary DID and the negative adverb. Subject + Did + “not” + main verb ( infinitive) + complement Example I didn’t want to dance. They didn’t learn English.  We didn’t believe him. I didn’t buy a blue car.   Interrogative Sentences   Did + subject + main verb( infinitive) + complement  Eg: Did you want to dance?              Did they learn English?  Wh-word + did + subject + main verb (infinitive) + complement Eg: What Did you want to dance?               Where Did they learn English?

The following list of irregular verbs show how they may behave.

                                                   IRREGULAR VERBS

   Awake                                Awoke                                   Awoken

become	became	become
begin	began	begun
break	broke	broken
bring	brought	brought
build	built	built
buy	bought	bought
catch	caught	caught
choose	chose	chosen
come	came	come
cost	cost	cost
cut	cut	cut
do	did	done
draw	drew	drawn
drink	drank	drunk
drive	drove	driven
eat	ate	eaten
fall	fell	fallen
feed	fed	fed
feel	felt	felt
fight	fought	fought
find	found	found
fly	flew	flown
forget	forgot	forgotten
forgive	forgave	forgiven
get	got	got (BrE) / gotten (AmE)
give	gave	given
go	went	gone
grow	grew	grown
have	had	had
hear	heard	heard
hide	hid	hidden
hit	hit	hit
hold	held	held
know	knew	known
learn	learned	learnt/learned
leave	left	left
lend	lent	lent
lose	lost	lost
make	made	made
mean	meant	meant
meet	met	met
pay	paid	paid
put	put	put
read	read	read
ride	rode	ridden
rise	rose	risen
run	ran	run
say	said	said
see	saw	seen
sell	sold	sold
send	sent	sent
set	set	set
show	showed	shown
sing	sang	sung
sit	sat	sat
sleep	slept	slept
speak	spoke	spoken
spend	spent	spent
stand	stood	stood
steal	stole	stolen
swim	swam	swum
take	took	taken
teach	taught	taught
tell	told	told
think	thought	thought
throw	threw	thrown
understand	understood	understood
wear	wore	worn
win	won	won
write	wrote	written

There are different ways of pronouncing the simple past.

1. When the infinitive  ends in “p”, “f”, “k” o “s” (except “t”),  past  form is pronounced “t”.

Example:

looked [lukt]

kissed [kisst]

2. When the infinitive ends in “b”, “g”, “l”, “m”, “n”, “v”, “z” (except “d”) or a vowel sound, we just pronounce “d”.

Example:

yelled [jeld]

cleaned [klind]

3. When the infinitive ends in “d” o “t”, we pronounce “ed” past form as “id”.

Example:

ended [endid]   waited [weitid]

   CIRCLE THE CORRECT OPTION.

   Last week there was/were a writing competition in my school. My friend Carla was/were one of the judges and another friend. Jake, was/wasn’t in the competition because Iam not good at writing stories.

   There was/were many participants. They wasn’t/weren’t from primary school. It was/wasn’t for students between thirteen and sixteen years old. They was/were all from secondary school.

  COMPLETE THE TEXT USING THE VERBS IN BRACKETSIN THE SIMPLE PAST.

   Last week I ………. .(get up) very early. I…………… (be) very happy because I ……………(have) some great plans. I …………… (meet) my friends and we ……………..(go) to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We ………….. (take) the train to Edinburgh. When we………………(arrive), we ………………..(not go) to the theatres because many shows ……………..(be) in the streets. We ………….. (see) people everywhere. It …………. (be) fantastic! There ……………(be) many new plays. We really ……….(enjoy) the festival a lot.

Read the following paragraph.

    Every morning Mr. Lester gets up at seven o’clock. First he gets dressed. Then he makes a cup of tea and some toast for breakfast. Then he goes to work by train. He has lunch in a bar. After that he keeps on working till five in the afternoon. At five thirty he catches the train back home. When he gets back home he has a shower. After that he cooks and has dinner together with his wife. After dinner Mrs. Lester puts the cat out of the house. Then both go upstairs, get into bed and go to sleep.

Now, rewrite the paragraph in the simple past.