Assignments - Monday 04/04/16

Basic English Grammar:
Do exercises 23, 25, 26, 30, 32, 33, 36, 38, 39, and 40. (pages 346 - 357)

Assignments - Wednesday 03/30/16

More True Stories:
Read Unit 14 - The Auction

Basic English Grammar:
Do exercises 2, 3, 4, and 7 on pages 334 to 338.

ESL Conversation Groups

Dear Students,

You can find the April 2016 schedule for the ESL conversation groups on the school website. Just click on the link below:

http://www.saddleback.edu/tutoring/esl-conversation-groups

Enjoy the rest of your spring break, and don't forget to review your grammar!

Noosha :-)

HAPPY NOWRUZ!

Quiz 03/16/16

A-     Fill in the blanks with prepositions of time and place.

Saddleback College classes begin _______ January.  All of the students start going ________ school.  Some of them have classes _______ the morning _______ nine o´clock and others have classes _______ the afternoon _______ two o´clock. Some students have classes _________ night.  _______ the 19th of January, the first day of school, the students meet many new classmates _________ their classes.  Some become good friends and spend the whole semester sitting next __________ each other. 

B-       Put the verb in brackets into the present continuous or simple present tense. 

1.       Wow! That man __________________ (have) a beautiful dog.

2.       Look! They ___________________ (have) a lot of fun.

3.       Who _____________ (know) the answer?

4.       I _______________ (call) my grandparents once a month.

5.        Can you hear them?  They ________________ (fight).

6.       These guys ______________ (watch) a movie every week.

7.       Listen! Someone ____________________ (knock) on the door.

8.       Look outside the window. The sun _________________ (shine) again.

9.       He _________________ (understand) many English words.

10.   She ________________ (wash) the dishes every morning before going to work.

C-      Complete the sentences with how much and how many.

1.       ___________________ money do you spend every week?

2.       ___________________ sugar do you want in your coffee?

3.       ___________________ furniture do you have?

4.       ___________________ books do you buy every semester?

5.       ___________________  bags of money did he find?

 

Assigments - Monday 03/28/16 (after spring break)

Basic English Grammar
Review Chapters 7, 8, 9, and 10.

Spring Break: March 21----March 25

Assignments - Wednesday 03/16/16

More True Stories
Unit 13 - The Husband

TOEFL Workshop

TOEFL Workshop
Fridays 1pm-2pm
LRC - room 240

Assignments - Monday 03/14/16

Basic English Grammar:

Study the charts and do all the exercises on pages 125 to 137.
Review SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE and PRESENT PROGRESSIVE TENSE.

More True Stories:
Unit 12 - Finders Keepers?

Order of Adjectives

Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal Verbs (http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html)

1.  A phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition or adverb which creates a meaning different from the original verb.
separable verbs: (talk * into)
inseparable verbs: (run into +)
object can be in both positions: (look * up +)

Example:
I ran into my teacher at the movies last night. run + into = meet
He ran away when he was 15. run + away = leave home

2. Some phrasal verbs are intransitive. An intransitive verb cannot be followed by an object.

Example:
He suddenly showed up. "show up" cannot take an object

3. Some phrasal verbs are transitive. A transitive verb can be followed by an object.

Example:
I made up the story. "story" is the object of "make up"

4. Some transitive phrasal verbs are separable. The object is placed between the verb and the preposition. In this Phrasal Verb Dictionary, separable phrasal verbs are marked by placing a * between the verb and the preposition / adverb.

Example:
I talked my mother into letting me borrow the car.
She looked the phone number up.

5. Some transitive phrasal verbs are inseparable. The object is placed after the preposition. In this Phrasal Verb Dictionary, inseparable phrasal verbs are marked by placing a + after the preposition / adverb.

Example:
I ran into an old friend yesterday.
They are looking into the problem.

6. Some transitive phrasal verbs can take an object in both places. In this Phrasal Verb Dictionary, such phrasal verbs are marked with both * and + .

Example:
I looked the number up in the phone book.
I looked up the number in the phone book.

7. WARNING! Although many phrasal verbs can take an object in both places, you must put the object between the verb and the preposition if the object is a pronoun.

Example:
I looked the number up in the phone book.
I looked up the number in the phone book.
I looked it up in the phone book. correct
I looked up it in the phone book. incorrect

https://peracollege.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/the-50-most-common-phrasal-verbs-b-t-stoakley.pdf


http://online-english-lessons.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/50-common-English-phrasal-verbs.pdf

Assignments - Wednesday 03/09/16

Basic English Grammar:
Study the charts and do all the exercises on pages 110 to 124.

Non-Progressive Verbs

Common non-progressive verbs

Here is a list of some common verbs which are not often used in progressive forms.

believe, doubt, feel, imagine, know, dislike, love, hate, prefer, realize, recognize, remember, see, suppose, think, understand, want, wish, appear, hear, look, see, seem, smell, sound, taste, agree, deny, astonish, disagree, impress, mean, please, promise, satisfy, surprise, belong, concern, consist, depend, fit, involve, lack, matter, need, owe, own, possess, weigh, ...

Notes

Feel does not have a progressive form when it means ‘have an opinion’.

• I feel you are making a mistake. (NOT I am feeling you are making a mistake.)

See does not have a progressive form when it means ‘understand’.

• I see what you mean. (NOT I am seeing what you mean.)

Look does not have a progressive form when it means ‘seem’.

• She looks like she is rich. (NOT She is looking like she is rich.)

Weigh does not have a progressive form when it means ‘have weight’.

• He weighs 70 kilos. (NOT He is weighing 70 kilos.)

Assignments - Monday 03/07/16

Basic English Grammar:
Do the exercises 57 to 60 on pages 91 to 94.
Then review the charts and do all the exercises on pages 96 to 109.

More True Stories:
Unit 11 - pages 42 to 45.