3H - 4B - Grammar - Past simple and present perfect contrast

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CH4 - Grammar - past simple and present perfect contrast

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What do you need this lesson?

- Your student's book

- Your workbook

- Your notebook

- A pen

- Smartphone (on quiet)

- Earbuds/headphones

- Food/drinks (this means water as well)

- Gum

* Bags on the floor

- Jackets/Coats + caps/hats

On your desk:

In your bag (not pockets):

In your locker:

What do you always have to do?

Only speak English!

Take notes!

• Always take a notebook with you to class. 
• Write down the grammar rules in your notebook.
• Write other important stuff in your notebook.

No notebook (or an empty one) means that you've forgotten your work.

Vocabulary list

Create a vocabulary list at the end of your notebook. This broadens your vocabulary and helps you remember more. 

Always do your homework + don't forget to bring your homework, books, pen and notebook with you.

Learning goals

• I know what a defining relative clause is;
• I know when to use: who, what, where, which
• I can use defining clauses in a sentence;
• I know what an object omitting a pronoun is;

Past simple

1. We use the past simple to talk about completed events in the past.

2. Often with words that refer to a specific time in the past (yesterday, two years ago, five minutes ago, etc.)

Example: I went to school yesterday.

- Who - people

- Where - places

- Which (that) things

- Whose (possessions)

Rule that you have must remember

Verb + ed (regular verb)

or

Verb + 2nd row irregular verbs

I walked to school yesterday

I went to school yesterday.

Present perfect

We use the present perfect to:

1. say how long a current situation has existed.

- Often with for or since.

Example: I have worked her for a year (I still work here).

2. To talk about a past experience as an unspecified time in the past. 

Example: Have you ever been to Paris? - No, I haven't. 

3. To talk about recent events that have a connection with the present. 

- Sometimes already.

Example: You look happy. 'I've just got my exam result'

Rule that you have must remember

- Happened in the past and is still happening.

have/has + verb + ed

or

have/has + irregular verb 3rd row

I have worked her for two years.

I have been there twice.

3b: Defining relative clauses

Exercise 1 - Choose the correct relative pronoun

• Circle the correct answer.
• If both answers are correct, circle them.
• Page 23 (Activity book)
  

Example:

1. A telesales operator is a person who/that sells things over the phone. 

You can use both. 

3b: Defining relative clauses

Exercise 2 - Complete the text with who, which, where or whose

• Fill in.
  
• It is possible that you can use more than one word
• Page 23 (Activity book)
  

Example:

The flight attendant _______served us on the plane is a cousin of mine.

3b: Defining relative clauses

Exercise 3 - Rewrite the incorrect sentences.

• Some of the sentences are incorrect. Tick the boxes of the incorrect sentences and rewrite them again (this means you need to do 2 things!)
• Page 23 (Activity book)
  

Discuss this with your classmate.

What have you learned

• I know what a defining relative clause is;
• I know when to use: who, what, where, which
• I can use defining clauses in a sentence;
• I know what an object omitting a pronoun is;

Homework

Exercises:

• Exercise 5 student's book (page 25)

Study: Student's book

- Defining relative clauses:  (p.112)

- Agent nouns + useful phrases with work (p.129)