TIME FOR THE TEST!!!!!!

When you are ready click in the following link, download the test and send it to me at my e-mail irving.salas@uabc.edu.mx so when you are ready, just remember you have until the 31st to send the test, so click on the link:  Test

I wish you good luck but I know you don't need it 😊

Back to the future!!!

So let's start with the future, like I just mentioned we are going to use 3 different methods to use the future tense, the first one will be using the present tense to make an arrangement in the future, here is an example: My birthday is tomorrow / The UBER arrives at noon, as you can see the bolded part mentions, so remember to tell if a sentence is in present or future see the complement.

Be careful don't get confused!!!!

The second way to speak in future tense is to use "will" it is used to make promises, predictions, and to say you want thing in the future, examples:

Promises: We will see you tomorrow.         

Predictions: It will rain next week.   

To want: John will help us at the party. 

NOTE: Please notice how the will goes after the noun.

We will finish this course!!!!

The third one we will use in this course will be the "going to", that is used for plans and things that will or are likely to happen, examples:

Plans: I am going to cook tomorrow.

Will happen: You are going to fail if you don't work.

We should look out!!!

Now that we have that all cleared up let's do some exercises 😃

Download the following Word Document and complete it: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9mm8kido9y9u1s/FUTURE.docx?dl=0

After you finish the work please e-mail it to me so I can grade it, if you need futher assistence please read page 108 of "Basic English Grammar" the link of the pdf. is in out introduction page, you have until Sunday the 24 to send it, if you have any doubts please contact me at the same e-mail: irving.salas@uabc.edu.mx

Time to go to the Past!!!!

 

So let's get more in debt to what I said, to use a past we must first take the verb from present and turn it into a ver in the past, example:

Present Form	Past Form
Play	Played
Drink	Drinked
Help	Helped
Cook	Cooked
Open	Opened

This is very simple, the difficult part of the past form are the Irregular Verbs, they are verbs that do not follow the rule of the "ed" so they change the word, examples:

be begin break bring buy build choose come cost cut do draw drive eat feel find get give go have hear hold keep know leave lead let lie lose make mean meet pay put run say sell send set sit speak spend stand take teach tell think understand wear win write

was/were began broke brought bought built chose came cost cut did drew drove ate felt found got gave went had heard held kept knew left led let lay lost made meant met paid put ran said sold sent set sat spoke spent stood took taught told thought understood wore won wrote

So let me give you an example:

Present: I sell cars - Past: I sold cars.

Present: I swim at the pool - Past: I swam at the pool.

Now that we have that all cleared up let's do some exercises 😃

Download the following Word Document and complete it: 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1hspx5ckxrk7bgw/SIMPLE%20PAST.docx?dl=0

After you finish the work please e-mail it to me so I can grade it, if you need futher assistence please read page 98 to 102 of "Basic English Grammar" the link of the pdf. is in out introduction page, you have until Sunday the 17 to send it, if you have any doubts please contact me at the same e-mail: irving.salas@uabc.edu.mx

Present Time!!!!

Let me explain more, it's not always simple to learn about a time tense so easy, we must always be careful with the use of the verb in the present perfect, since in the verbs that goes after nouns or pronouns of "He", "She" and "It", must have an "s" at the end, for example:

SUBJECT	VERB	COMPLEMENT
I	Play	Videogames
We	Call	911
You	Eat	Pizza
They	Drink	Soda
He	Plays	Soccer
She	Calls	Her mom
It	Drinks	Water

Now that we have that all cleared up let's do some exercises 😃

Download the following Word Document and complete it

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6qf6dk3iy7s8zr0/PRESENT%20SIMPLE.docx?dl=0

After you finish the work please e-mail it to me so I can grade it, if you need futher assistence please read page 80 and 81 of "Basic English Grammar" the link of the pdf. is in out introduction page, you have until Sunday the 10th to send it, if you have any doubts please contact me at the same e-mail: irving.salas@uabc.edu.mx

Welcome to the course!!!!

I want to welcome you to this first step you will have to help you learn the English Language, we know that the journey will not be easy but I want to tell you that you are not alone, I am teacher Irving Salas and I will be glad to guide you, I want to let you know that you can ask me anything about the subject, be it a doubt that was presented to you while you were doing the exercise, any pointers you want me to give you or if you want some extra exercises; so here is my contact e-mail that will help me get in contact with you as soon as possible:

irving.salas@uabc.edu.mx

Now as for what we will see in the course, we will have three topics in specific: "Present Tense", "Past Tense" and "Future Tense" these topics are all essential to learn English, and the books that will help us to guide us into this journey are: "Essential Grammar in Use of suplementary exercises" and "Basic English grammar.

The first one you can download the pdf from here: http://mi.anihost.ru/Murphy/Essential%20Grammar%20in%20Use%20%28second%20edition%29%20by%20Hicks81_for_rutracker_org.pdf

Present Tense starts at page 10.

Past Tense starts at page 22.

Future Tense starts at page 46.

The second one you can download the pdf from here: http://tratu.coviet.vn/download/50/Basic%20English%20Grammar%201.pdf.html 

Present Tense starts at page 80.

Past Tense starts at page 98.

Future Tense starts at 108. 

While both books have the same topics they have a different difficulty so I would recommend to read both if any doubts may occur. 

In case you still have some problems with the basics of English you can read about it in the content page of both pdf, you can also watch the following videos:

NOUNS AND PRONOUNS

ADJECTIVES

VERBS

ARTICLES

So now that we are ready let's start with the course.