Lesson: Essentials/42

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Grammar



1. Fill the blanks with the past continuous:

a. When she called us we _______ (correct) our exercises.
b. The children _______ (cry) 5 minutes ago.
c. I _______ (study) Geography when you called me.
d. Lucy _______ (sing) in the garden.
e. Those girls _______ (look) for you.
f. Me and my friends _______ (watch) TV in my bedroom.
g. That man _______ (build) a doghouse.


2. Change he sentences from the simple past to the past continuous tense:


a. She walked to school
b. They played chess last night.
c. It rained a lot.
d. We wrote love poems.
e. I helped my mother with the lunch.
f. The teacher explained the lesson to the students.
g. They played a new game last weekend.

Pronunciation


Examples
dress head
bed many
medal dead
fell pen
test nest

Vocabulary

  • To build - built
  • To lay - laid
  • House
  • Building
  • Construction
  • Shape
  • Size
  • Tall
  • Short
  • Huge
  • Structure
  • Budget

-photo exercise-

Extra Vocabulary

Construction

  • Ladder
  • Cement
  • Cinder block
  • Lumber, wood
  • Brick
  • Carpenter
  • Crane
  • Architect
  • Foreman
  • Blueprint
  • Mason
  • Steel girder
  • Wheel barrow
  • Jackhammer
  • Earplugs
  • Construction worker
  • Welder
  • Blow torch
  • Bulldozer
  • Forklift
  • Steamroller
  • Dump truck

http://www.languageguide.org/english/vocabulary/construction/

Slang and Idioms /Phrasal Verbs

1.


Conversation

  1. Are you interested in the construction area?
  2. What´s the worst part of constructing something?
  3. What´s the best part of constructing something?
  4. Which do you think is worst, to construct or to remodel? Why?
  5. Would you like to build a house? What would be so necessary to have in it?
  6. What´s the favorite room in your house/apartment? Why?
  7. What´s your favorite color for houses?
  8. Do you know how to paint a wall?
  9. Are you afraid of using a ladder? Why?
  10. Which skill do you think you have to do a home improvement?

Travel…

1.


Review

1. Grammar

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b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.


2. Rewrite the sentences following the model.

The worker is feeling bad. / tired / sick
The worker is feeling tired.
The worker is feeling sick.


a. The architect is changing the project. / color of the house / decorating the new house
b. The workers need more bricks to continue the construction. / cinder block / cement
c. I need a ladder to fix the lamp. /
d. The foreman has to contract new people or he has to help the others. / to reduce the productivity / extend the deadline (deadline = prazo final)
e. That crane is huge. / not safe / That dump truck
f. We´ll buy a lot of board wood to construct the dog´s house. / My neighbor / cat´s
g. The party next door is very noisy / so


3. Vocabulary


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b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.


4. Text listening


a. The mason needs to wear the earplugs during work.
b. They need 2,000 more bricks to finish constructing the wall.
c. The engineer lost the blueprint.
d. The crane is rented until tomorrow.
e. We need the forklift to get these materials.
f. The wheel barrow is broken.
g. This cement is not the best one.

5. Free Exercise:

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b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.





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