English 6 - Merlo

Hi there! 
Welcome to another online lesson! 
In this class, we'll be dealing with unit 1a (pages 8 & 9).

Let's get started!

EXERCISE 1: Listening / Reading comprehension

A) Look at the picture and try to guess the answers.

Now listen to / read the conversation to check your answers. 


If you find the listening a little difficult, you can read the transcript here!

Now, I'd like you to pay attention to these three things:

a) Look at this. What do you call it in British English? And in American English? If you don't know, please listen to / read the conversation! 🙈

b) Read this definition of the word "misunderstanding":

"An occasion when someone does not understand something correctly"

B) Read the dialogue and answer the following questions.

C) Finally do ex D on page 9 in your student's book.


EXERCISE 2: Vocabulary

Ok, now that you've listened to the previous conversation, I'm sure you noticed that the English the speakers speak is different. What differences can you notice? (Listen / Read the transcript again!)

British and American English have differences in spelling (=ortografía), pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary.

We're looking at differences in VOCABULARY now.

Do the following exercise now. (page 9)

EXERCISE 3: Grammar - Indirect Questions

What is the difference between these two sets of questions?

1) 
a) What is your address?
b) Can you tell me what your address is?

2) 
a) Where does she live?

b) Can you tell me where she lives?

In the questions above, 
...question a) is a DIRECT question.
...question b) is an INDIRECT question.

MEANING

Indirect questions are more POLITE.

STRUCTURE

What differences in structure do you notice between these two types of questions? Look at the following diagram!

a) Indirect question WITH a question word ("what", "where", "how", etc.)

Indirect question phrase + wh question word + subject              + verb

Can you tell me                    what                           your address         is         ?

Can you tell me                    where                         she                        lives     ?

In indirect questions, you do not use "do", "does" or "did". But other auxiliaries ("can", "could", "will", etc.) ARE possible: 

Direct: Where can you go?

Indirect: Can you tell me where you can go.

b) Indirect question WITHOUT a question word

If the direct question does NOT have a WH- question word, then the indirect question has IF or WHETHER:

Direct: Do you like it?

Indirect: Can you tell me IF / WHETHER you like it?

("Whether" is formal)

In this last case, the diagram is like this:

Indirect question phrase  + if / whether            + subject              + verb

Can you tell me                    if / whether                 you                        like it?

The following are common "indirect question phrases:

"Can you tell me"
"Do you know"
"Do you remember"

So, now let's do an easy exercise (page 9)! 
In this exercise, you have to rewrite the direct questions as indirect questions. ALL the direct questions have a "wh-" word, so remember to include it in your indirect version.

AND do not forget that in an indirect question the subject goes BEFORE the verb! 🙆
HOMEWORK (YES, there's always some of this! 🙈)

Workbook

page 3: ex A, B

page 4: ex C, E (NOT D)

page 5: Listening

Ok, that's all for today!
Any questions, please let me know.

Bye bye! Take good care of yourselves!