Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and exercises for English for Secondary education

Thriller Night

It's Close to Midnight

It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark.

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart.

You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it.

You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes.

You're paralyzed.

Thriller Night Begins

'Cause this is thriller, thriller night.

And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike.

You know it's thriller, thriller night.

You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight.

You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run.

You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun.

You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination.

But all the while you hear the creature...

Understanding Pronouns

Pronouns are words that constitute a noun phrase (NP) and function as the subject. They refer to entities (beings, objects, ideas) and have occasional meanings that vary depending on the situation.

Types of Pronouns

• Personal Pronouns: Variables used to designate the speaker, listener, or other entities. They function as subjects or objects and have tonic or atonic forms.
• Enclitic Pronouns: Pronouns attached to the end of a verb.
• Anaphoric Pronouns: Used when repeating a direct or indirect object before the verb in a sentence.
• Possessive Pronouns: Indicate possession or ownership.
• Demonstrative Pronouns: Indicate spatial or temporal distance between the speaker and the object.
• Numeral Pronouns: Express quantity or order precisely.

Hi mi name is Daniela Garro, I'm from Mexico And  i live in Merida. I'm studying the carrer (fashion desing)  I Also have a business with my sisters mink eyelashes. I love travel and i love To meet new places,  My favorite place is Monterrey and Guadalajara Because they are cold places and have a view wornderful views. I love horror Movies and romantic film, I'm a dreamy person 

At my holiday i didn’t go anywhere i Stayted in my citytown, my city is small but it has the same thing as a big City, on vacation i went to the movies many times and sometimes i went out with My Friends to a disco or bar. I went to the zoo with my boyfriend and many Times i spent it with my grandparents. 

Essential English Irregular Verbs

was/were - been (ser, estar)

beat - beaten (golpear; vencer)

became - become (llegar a ser)

began - begun (empezar)

bent - bent (doblar, flexionar)

bit - bitten (morder)

blew - blown (soplar)

broke - broken (romper)

brought - brought (traer; llevar)

built - built (construir)

burnt - burnt (quemar)

bought - bought (comprar)

caught - caught (coger, atrapar)

chose - chosen (elegir)

came - come (venir)

cost - cost (costar)

cut - cut (cortar)

dug - dug (cavar, excavar)

did - done (hacer)

drew - drawn (dibujar)

dreamt/dreamed - dreamt/dreamed (soñar)

drank - drunk (beber)

drove - driven (conducir)

ate - eaten (comer)

fell - fallen (caer)

fed - fed (alimentar)

felt - felt (sentir)

fought - fought (luchar)

found - found (encontrar)

flew - flown...

English Grammar Essentials

Unit 1: Common Phrases and Present Tenses

Common Phrases:

• At least: al menos
• At once: en seguida
• At last: al final
• At all: en absoluto

Present Simple

• To say when things happen if they take place regularly: I meet my friends on Saturdays.
• To talk about permanent situations: I live in a small flat.
• To state general truths: Teenagers sleep more than adults.

Present Continuous

• To talk about the present moment: I am watching TV.
• For a temporary action or event: I am staying with my granny.
• For repeated actions and events over a period of time: I am learning to play the guitar (not at the present moment).
• For changing or developing situations: The world is getting warmer.
• For events with a future meaning: We are playing football on Wednesday.

Does Money Bring Happiness?

Case Study: The Lewes Marina Cash Drop

1. Precautionary Measures Taken

The authorities had posted a police agent at the marina to prevent trouble.

Lewes police said they were aware of the planned event and had sent an officer to the area to make sure there was no fighting. (lines 7-8)

2. Date of the Cash Rain

The cash-rain took place on August 17, 2013, because the man who gave the money wanted it to happen exactly one year after his death.

This bizarre act of kindness came courtesy of a Lewes resident, Leonard Maull, who had died the year before. His lawyer made sure the plan he had written into his will was carried out accordingly: exactly on the first anniversary of his death, the money should be dropped from a helicopter...

Life and Legacy of George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw was born in July 1856 in Dublin. As the youngest child of the family, he was first tutored by his uncle. Although his education was irregular and he was not a successful novelist, he became a highly successful playwright. Shaw was a dramatist, literary critic, and social propagandist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 and died in 1950.

Plot Summary: Mrs. Warren's Profession

Mrs. Warren's Profession consists of four acts, with just a single scene making up each act. Miss Vivie Warren, an intelligent, strong, and confident young woman of 22, has just finished college and comes home to get acquainted with her mother for the first time in her life.

Conflict and Relationships

Her...

Preserving Linguistic Diversity in Africa

Challenges and Solutions

Theme: The preservation of linguistic diversity in Africa

Exercise B: Sound and Silence

1. Sound: There is another one.

2. Sound: It affects it directly and vitally.

3. Closed: The processes that were already taking place there.

4. Open: To give it up.

Exercise C: Vocabulary

1. Separation

2. To wonder

3. Distance reached by the action or influence of something.

4. When you suddenly become aware of something.

Exercise 3: Sentence Types

1. Subordinate adjective or relative clause functioning as a noun complement.

2. Improper adverbial subordinate clause of purpose functioning as an adverbial clause of purpose.

3. Substantive subordinate clause functioning as a direct object.

4. Substantive subordinate...

Lista de verbos en inglés con su traducción al español

A continuación encontrarás una lista de verbos en inglés con su significado en español. Corregimos la ortografía de las traducciones para facilitar tu aprendizaje.

Verbos de la A a la C

• Accept - aceptar
• Admit - admitir
• Agree - estar de acuerdo
• Answer - responder
• Apply - aplicar
• Argue - discutir
• Arrive - llegar
• Ask - preguntar
• Avoid - evitar
• Be - ser, estar
• Become - llegar a ser
• Begin - empezar
• Believe - creer
• Bring - traer
• Build - construir
• Buy - comprar
• Call - llamar
• Care - cuidar
• Carry - llevar
• Catch - coger
• Change - cambiar
• Check - revisar
• Choose - escoger
• Clean - limpiar
• Collect - recoger
• Come - venir
• Complain - quejarse
• Complete - completar
• Continue - continuar
• Correct - corregir
• Cost - costar
• Create - crear

Verbos

Unit Test 9 Level 1

Vocabulary

1

1. a 2. b 3. b 4. a 5. a 6. b

2

1. d 2. f 3. e 4. c 5. b 6. a

3

1. kind 2. wandered 3. misunderstood 4. disappointed 5. acceptable 6. sites 7. custom

Grammar

4

1. had been opened 2. had left 3. Have … decided 4. knows 5. may not have been stolen 6. Is … singing

5

1. He said that he hadn’t eaten the biscuits. 2. He asked me if / whether I wanted that
old jacket. 3. Lee suggested going out / that we go out
that night. 4. He said they had gone to Paris the year before / the previous year.

6

1. should 2. live 3. wear 4. has been 5. may change 6. will be made 7. whose 8. may have donated 9. where 10. brings

Unit Test 9 Level 2

Vocabulary

1

1. f 3. g 5. c 7. d 9. e

2. i 4. h 6. a 8. b

2

1. arrested 2. an appointment 3. wandered...