Thursday, 27 October 2011

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MACHINE AND A GADGET

MODULE 8: GADGETS


MACHINES 

Mechanical device: a device with moving parts, often powered by electricity, used to perform a task, especially one that would otherwise be done by hand. All machines use power.


  • E.g. a washing machine. 


  • GADGET
                 Small device: a device that is not essential but often useful. They performs or aids a simple taskNot  All gadgets use power



    Saturday, 22 October 2011

    WHAT WE DID IN CLASS OCTOBER 21ST

    ORAL EXAM



    • Dialogue
    • Picture description
    • Ask and answer questions about a celebration
         Place?
         People?
         Time?
         How?
         Food / drinks?
         Activities?
         Clothes?
         Weather?
          

    Thursday, 20 October 2011

    Monday, 17 October 2011

    SIT OCTOBER 19TH

    TRANSFORMATIONS

    You have to study
    • MODULE 5, 6 AND 7, UNIT 46 Reported Speech
    • Multi-part verbs page 45 exercise 5
    • (Student's book /142-143)
    •  Power book 101/109-110 / 116...
    Power point units 5 to 10                                            Frankenstein blog  http://frankenstein-projects.blogspot.com/

      Sunday, 16 October 2011

      WHAT WE DID IN CLASS OCTOBER 14TH

      • Frankenstein: Leandro chapter 9
                                   Tomas chapeter 10

      Handout: page 61 questions 6 and 7
                                

      Monday, 10 October 2011

      TOO / ENOUGH

      A-TOO

      TOO goes before adjectives and adverbs. It shows that something is more than enough/ necessary or wanted. It has a negative implication

      too + adjectives / adverts + to infinitive








      She is too young to talk on the phone (= She is so young that she can't talk on the phone)




      TOO MANY (= more than wanted/enough) goes with plural countable nouns. E.g. You eat too many sweets (= you eat more sweets than necessary)

      TOO MUCH (= more than wanted/enough) goes with uncountable nous. E.g. You spend too much time talking on the phone (= you spend more time talking than necessary)

      B-ENOUGH
      ENOUGH goes before nouns and after adjectives of adverbs. It show that there is as much of something as is wanted. That is the right amount. It has a negative or positive implication-

      NEG AUXILIARY + ADJECTIVES / ADVERTS + ENOUGH + TO INFINITIVE

      You room wasn't large enough to keep everybody (= it is small) NEG

      AFF AUXILIARY + ENOUGH + NOUN + TO INFINITIVE

      He has got enough money to eat out (= we can eat out) AFF