English 6 - Merlo

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Are you ready to learn yet a little more this time? 😃

Ok, here we go!

EXERCISE 1: GRAMMAR

SUBJECT AND OBJECT QUESTIONS

Read the following two different situations and write a question on each dotted line. (=en la línea punteada) 

SITUATION 1

You are a teacher and you overhear (=escuchás sin querer) part of a chat between two of your students:

"...broke that window today!"

And you really want to know the name of the person who broke the window. What question are you going to ask your students?

.........................................................................?

SITUATION 2

You are talking to your friend on the phone and, suddenly, you get disconnected. This is the only thing you could hear:

"And then Paul broke the......."

So, you want to know what Paul broke. What question are you going to ask your friend in this case?


.........................................................................?

ANSWERS:

Situation 1: Who broke that window?

Situation 2: What did Paul break?

So, in the previous situations, the speakers used two different types of questions. In situation 1, the teacher asked a subject question. In situation 2, one of the friends asked an object question.

But what is the difference between these types of questions?


📔Ok, first let's review two simple concepts in English: 

subject: this is the doer of the action
object: this receives or is affected by the action

Look at the sentence:

SUBJECT          verb       OBJECT
Paul                   broke      the window.

If you want to know the subject, you need to ask a subject question. 

  X      broke    the window.
  ↓
Who    broke    the window?

If you need to know the object / time / place / reason etc., then you must ask an object question.

Paul broke X.........................

What   did   Paul    break the window?  (object)
When  did   Paul    break the window?  (time)
Where did   Paul    break the window?  (place)
Why    did   Paul    break the window?  (reason)


Difference in structure

SUBJECT QUESTIONS

Question word  +  main verb (=conjugated)  +  ?

👉These questions look like affirmative statements! There are NO auxiliaries like in object questions

Paul   broke   the window.
Who  broke   the window?

OBJECT QUESTIONS

Question word  +  aux (do, does, did, can, should, will, might, etc)  +  subject  +  infinitive + ?

👉These questions use AUXILIARIES, and the verb is in the infinitive (except in some verb tenses, but we will talk about this later).

Please do ex. A "Practice" in your student's book (page 9).


EXERCISE 2: LISTENING

Discuss.
Is English becoming the world language? Why (not)?

Turn to page 10 now.

Discuss:
What purposes do YOU use English for?



EXERCISE 3: SPEAKING 


Discuss:
What are the most popular foreign languages that people learn in your country? Why?
What's the most common way of learning a foreign language? 
How do you prefer to study English?

Now look at ex B: 
Here you're going to practise discussing advantages and disadvantages of two ways of learning a foreing language: 

Learning in a classroom with other students VS Learning online

Look at the definition of "feedback":

feedback: in this case, it means the teacher's comments about the students' progress or work.

Example sentence: Our teacher always gives us feedback at the end of the lesson, so we can see how much we're progressing.

I would like to hear your opinions, which you can send as voice notes on Whatsapp! 
🙉

Other questions for discussion: "Speaking" ex C (page 10).


EXERCISE 4: WRITING A PARAGRAPH

Turn to page 11.


Ok, I believe you've worked really hard so we can pause here.

✎Oh, I almost forgot! Please remember to work in your workbook, as usual! 

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Take good care of yourselves, guys!

Bye for now!