Monday, 22 January 2024

Session 16

 

22nd January 2024 

foggy , cold 

Monday 


Present Perfect 

Affirmative 

S + have / has + V3 

Ex. We have talked about past simple. 

He has written his homework. 

Negative 

S + haven't / hasn't + V3 

Ex. We haven't talked about past simple. 

He hasn't written his homework. 

Interrogative

 have / has + S +  V3 ?

Ex.Have we  talked about past simple ?

 Has he  written his homework ?


Usage 

-  actiuni petrecute dar la care nu mentionam cand s-au intamplat 

- actiuni care au inceput in trecut , dar nu s-au incheiat inca ( insotite de for / since

for + perioada de timp 

since + inceputul per de timp 


https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/for-since/exercise-2.htm

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/for-since/quiz-1.htm

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/for-since/sentences-1.htm


busy = ocupat 

We have been busy since morning.

We haven't been busy since morning.

Have we been busy since morning ? 

Yes, we have.  

No, we haven't.  


He has worked here for seven years.

He hasn't worked here for seven years.

Has he worked here for seven years ? 



5/ 46 ArtKlett

  • 1. Rebecca doesn’t live in Italy now. (three years)
    Rebecca hasn’ t lived in Italy for three years.
  • 2. They are in the youth club. (three hours)
  • They have been in the youth club for three hours .
  • 3. Joanne and I are good friends. (primary school)
  • J and I have been good friends since primary school . 
  • 4. She plays in the volleyball team. (two months)
  • She has played in the volleyball team for two months.
  • 5. I should see a doctor. I am sick. (a week)
  • I have been sick for a week.
  • 6. I don’t hear a lot from Sandra. (last October)
  • I haven't heard a lot from S since last October. 

1. Complete the exchanges. Use the present perfect forms of the verbs in brackets and for or since.

1   A   …Have you… (you) always …loved… (you, love) horses?

      B   Yes, I ……HAVE LOVED…………… (love) horses SINCE… I was a little girl.

2   A   …HAVE YOU LIVED… (you, live) in Cambridge …FOR… a long time?

      B   Yes, we …HAVE LIVED……………… (live) here all our lives.

3   A   How long …HAVE YOU BEEN… (you, be) married to Sarah?

      B   We …HAVE BEEN……… (be) married …SINCE… 2005, but I …HAVE KNOWN… (know) her …FOR…… longer.

4   A   How long HAVE YOU HAD (you, have) your stomachache?

      B   I HAVE HAD… (have) it …SINCE… last night.

5   A   How long …HAVE YOU WORKED…… (you, work) as a journalist?

      B   I HAVE BEEN…… (be) a journalist …FOR… over 20 years.




to hold - held - held = a tine/ detine 

to own (ed) = a detine/ a avea 




  I work here.  I’ve worked here since January.

  I live here.   I have lived here for  three months.

  He holds the record.   He has held the record since the last Olympics.

  She owns that car.   She has owned that car since  2011.

  They are married.   THey have been married for two days.

  I don’t listen to pop music.   I haven't listened to pop music for a long time.

  We are not friends.   We haven't been friends since we had a fight.

  I don’t have a TV in my home. I haven't had a TV in my home for   a few years.

  He doesn’t eat meat.   He hasn't eaten meat since New Year’s Day.



Correct the mistakes in these sentences.

1   We live   HAVE LIVED here since 2014.

2   She’s studied English since  FOR two years.

3   I’ve had my job from  SINCE 2010.

4   They’re  HAVE been football fans all their lives.

5   We’ve been married for  SINCE 2012.

6   I HAVE loved their music since I saw them at a concert.


Monday, 8 January 2024

Session 14

 


8th January 2024 

cold, windy 

 Monday 


1/ 49 

2. D fell over while she was skating .

3. I was playing a computer game when the electricity went out . 

4. S was cooking when she burnt ...

5. They were jogging when a dog attacked them .

6. The alarm went off while we were sleeping. 


to go off = a porni pe neasteptate 

to go out = a se intrerupe ( curentul ) 

tire / tyre = cauciuc 


ex 2/ 49 


2. L was sleeping when the earthquake happened . 

3. S was walking in the park when it began to rain . 

4. T was exercising when he pulled a muscle. 

5. K was driving her car when he got a flat tyre . 

6. P was chopping wood when he cut his finger . 


ex 3/ 50 


1. was playing / fell/ broke/ did he go 

2. did you see / was waiting 

3. called / didn't answer / was exercising 

4. were your kids doing / came / were watching 



ex 6 / 50 


2. H was watching TV while his dog was playing in the garden . 

3. S broke a glass while she was drying them . 

4. As D was doing his homework  his brother was having a bath . 

5. D was cutting vegetables when she cut her finger . 

6. I was lightning a candle when my dad stopped me. 

7. While H and P were eating , Batman was saving our souls ! 

8. My friends were playing tennnis while I was playing video games . 



https://www.liveworksheets.com/w/en/english-second-language-esl/1145218


to snore (ed) = a sforai 

acquintance = cunostinta ( pers ) 



Lucky accidents

Is it true that Sir Isaac Newton understood gravity because an apple (1) fell / was falling on his head when he (2) lay / was lying under a tree in his garden? Probably not. However, many great and small discoveries are the result of lucky accidents …

One day in 1879 chemist Constantin Fahlberg (3) didn’t wash / wasn’t washing his hands before dinner. While he (4) ate / was eating he (5) noticed / was noticing that the bread (6) tasted / was tasting sweet. The sweetness was saccharin.

Alexander Fleming (7) became / was becoming interested in the control of bacteria while he (8) worked / was working as a doctor during the First World War. In 1928 he (9) tidied / was tidying his laboratory when he (10) saw / was seeing that one of the dirty dishes (11) didn’t have / wasn’t having any bacteria on it, but that something else (12) grew / was growing there. It was penicillin.

In 1930 dietician Ruth Wakefeld (13) prepared / was preparing some cookies for guests when she (14) realised / was realising that she had no chocolate powder. She (15) decided / was deciding to use small pieces of ordinary chocolate instead. The chocolate pieces (16) didn’t melt / wasn’t melting, and the first chocolate chip cookies were a great success.


Dr Percy Spencer was a physicist in the 1940s who probably enjoyed chocolate chip cookies. He (17) walked / was walking past some equipment in the laboratory when he (18) felt / was feeling something strange in his pocket. It was his chocolate bar and it (19) melted / was melting. This accident (20) led / was leading to the invention of a new piece of cooking equipment – the microwave oven.





7. Complete the first sentence with the verb in the past continuous. Write a second sentence with the verb in the past simple to say what happened next. Use your own ideas.

  When my phone rang, I …was watching TV. ……….

      …I answered it but it was a wrong number

  I was playing football when it started to rain.

      I went in the house and I had dinner.

  Everyone was partying when the lights went out.

      All of them went back home in fifteen minutes/ in a quarter of an hour.

  When we came out of the cinema, the sun was shining so much that I didn't see the road ahead.

      



HOMEWORK 


De copiat ambele texte pe caiete :

5. Put the verbs into the correct form: past simple or past continuous.

From:   Ada
To:   Becky
Subject:   Naomi

Hi Becky,

Guess what, my sister Naomi is married! She (1) …got…… (get) home from her round the world trip last week with a husband!! She (2) ……MET…………. (meet) him when she (3) ………WAS TRAVELLING………. (travel) round New Zealand. One afternoon, while her friends (4) …WERE SHOPPING……………. (shop), she (5) ………WENT………. (go) to look round an art gallery. She (6) …WAS LOOKING……………. (look) at a small sculpture when a young man (7) ……CAME…………. (come) into the room and he (8) ………STARTED………. (start) to put it into his rucksack. She (9) …CALLED……………. (call) the security guard because she (10)  THOUGHT ……………. (think) the man (11) ……WAS TRYING…………. (try) to steal it. She (12) ………WAS………. (be) really embarrassed to discover that he (13) ……DIDN'T STEAL…………. (not steal) it – it (14) ………BELONGED………. (belong) to him! Anyway, he (15) …DIDN'T MIND……………. (not mind) and he (16) …………ASKED……. (ask) her to go for a coffee. They (17) ………GOT MARRIED………. (get married) a month later in Bali. We (18) …………DIDN'T KNOW……. (not know) anything about it! Can you believe it?
He’s really nice and they are very happy together!

Love, Ada



AIDAN FLANAGAN

Aidan Flanagan was born in 1994 in Bray near Dublin, Ireland. In 2011 he became very seriously ill. While he (1) …was recovering…… (recover) at home, his uncle (2) ……GAVE…………. (give) him an old drumkit. He enjoyed playing and practised in a friend’s garage every evening.

One day in 2013, John Leaf, the manager of several successful musicians, (3) ………WAS PASSING………. (pass) the garage when he (4)HEARD ………………. (hear) Aidan practising. He (5) …BANGED……………. (bang) on the garage door and (6) ……INVITED…………. (invite) Aidan to appear in one of the concerts he (7) ……ORGANIZED …………. (organise) that year. Aidan, however, (8) …………DIDN'T ACCEPT……. (not accept) Leaf’s invitation, because at that time he (9) ……WAS PREPARING…………. (prepare) for some important school exams.

Aidan (10) …PASSED…………. (pass) his exams and (11) …………WENT……. (go) to university to study engineering. There he (12) ……MET…………. (meet) Kim O’Malley, who (13) ……………WAS STUDYING…. (study) chemistry. Kim played the saxophone. Being students, they (14) ………DIDN'T HAVE………. (not have) much money and they usually (15) ………WORKED………. (work) as waiters at weekends.

One evening in April 2016, while Aidan and Kim (16) …………WERE SERVING ……. (serve) customers, the manager (17) ……ANNOUNCED…………. (announce) that there would be no live music in the restaurant that night as the regular band could not come. Aidan and Kim (18) ………PERSUADED………. (persuade) the manager to let them play. All the customers and staff (19) WERE………………. (be) amazed to hear how good their music (20) …WAS……………. (be). In the next six months Aidan and Kim (21) ……EARNED…………. (earn) so much money they (22) ………DECIDED………. (decide) to leave university and go on tour. Their success has continued ever since.



Monday, 18 December 2023

SEssion 13

 


18th December 2023 

cool , sunny 

 Monday 


SCRABBLE 

Alex - 54

 David 80

Ianis 117



lap = poala 

to dwell - dwelt - dwelt = a locui 

pot = ghiveci / cratita 

dot = punct 

den = vizuina 

 hut = coliba 

to nag (ed) = a cicali 

goo = mazga 

AT the weekend = in weekend 

godparents = nasi 

metro/ underground / subway



See you on the 8th January , tenses !!!


 


Monday, 11 December 2023

SEssion 12

11th December 2023 

cloudy, chilly 

Monday

frost = ger  

frosty = geros 

sole = talpa

soul = suflet 

tusk = colt ( de fildes) 

trunk = trompa / portbagaj / trunchi 



1/ 12 

1. men
2. knives
3.countries
4.people
5.feet
6.glasses
7.foxes
8.cherries
9.baskets
10.keys
11.leaves



irregular 

mice / feet / children / fish 

- ves 

scarves / shleves / 

- ies 

ladies / babies / cities/ strawberries/ 

-es 

buses / brushes/ foxes / dresses/ potatoes/ peaches 



stapler = capsator 

cupboard = dulap 

at dawn = in zorii zilei 

along= de-a lungul

across = pe partea cealalta 

over = peste 

through = prin 

on foot = pe jos / cu piciorul 

by train = cu trenul 

by + ways of transport 




PAST CONTINUOUS 


- act in desfaurare intr-un anume mom din trecut 

- se traduce prin imperfect ( gateam / gandeai / jucau ) 


Affirmative 

S + was/ were + V-ing 

Eg. They were talking while their parents were driving . 

Negative 

S + wasn't / weren't + V-ing 

Eg. Yesterday when you saw her she wasn't talking on the phone. 

Interrogative 

Was/ were + S + V-ing ? 

Eg. Were they driving too fast yesterday at 5 pm ? 


firecracker = petarda

ex 2/ 47 

2. I was sleeping ...

3. I was sleeping ..

4. I was going to the football practice ...

5. I was going to my grandparents ...

6. I was playing computer games with my cousin 

7. I was swimming in Turkey ...

8. I was  doing my homework ...



ex 5/ 48

1. Were your parents watching the news at 8 last night ?

No, they weren't . 

2. Were you having breakfast at 7 this morning ? 

Yes, I was . 

3. Was your best friend playing football at 4 last Friday ? 

Yes, he was . 

4. Were you sleeping at 6 this morning ? 

No, I wasn't . 

5. Did it snow qall day ? 

No, it didn't . 


6/ 48 

2. While B was ironing her blouse she burnt her hand . 

3. We were having a picnic when it started to rain . 

4. Helen was washing the dishes when she broke a glass . 

5. While they were getting ready to go out the doorbell rang . 


    WHILE + PAST CONTINUOUS 

   WHEN + PAST SIMPLE


M was listening to music at 2 pm yesterday . 

Anna was reading a book at 2 pm yesterday . 

S and N were eating sandwiches at 2 pm yesterday . 






Homework 

Review Past Simple 

pages 20, 21 ,  22, 23 , 46


 

Monday, 4 December 2023

Session 11

4th DEcember 2023 

clear,  chilly 

Monday 


page 10 

Definite artcle  THE 

- unique nouns ; the Eiffel Tower, the sun , the moon 

- rivers, seas, oceans, mountain ranges : the Danube, the Black Sea , the Indian Ocean , the Sahara Desert 

- play the piano/ guitar 

- in the morning/ afternoon/ evening 

- go to the cinema/ theatre/ hospital 

- the Romanians/ Bulgarians 

- the Pagilas 

the 

   generalization : Flowers are beautiful. 

- countries , exception the UK , the USA , the Netherlands

- towns , exception the Hague

- mountains : " Omu " peak 

- lakes ; Bilea Lake 

- streets : Decebal Street 

- seasons ; in winter / spring 




this = acesta 

 these = acestea 


that = acela 

those = aceia 


2/ 13 

2. Those are lamps. 

3. These are toys .

4. Those are knives. 

5. These are cherries.


ex 1 / 16 

the girl's sweater 

the boys' pencils 

Adam and Julie's house 

Frank's ties

The tennis players' raquets 

Claire and Emma's computer

The girls' notebooks 


ex 3/ 18 

Are there any pillows on the bed ?  Yes, there are . 

Is there a magazine on the coffee table ? No, there isn't. There isn't a magazine on the coffee table. 

Is there a cooker in the kitchen ? Yes, there is. 



ex 5 / 19 

3.  Are there any books on the desks ? 

4. There isn't a dog in the park. 

5. Is there a dish in the sink ? 


there is = exista / se afla / este 

there are = exista / se afla / sunt 


Reluat there is / are - Alex 







Homework 

 pages 9,  11, 12, 13  


Session 24

  16th June 2026  stag beetle = radasca  pincers = clesti / cleste  to inherit (ed) = a mosteni  tree sap = seva  decaying = in putrefactie ...