Thursday 18th of April, 6-7:30

Prepositions

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/prepositions

http://www.usingenglish.com/handouts/64.html

 Don't call me  lunch time, please. I won't be able to hear you in the restaurant. 

 You should come  time. It's impolite to be late. 

 Could you come  Monday morning? 

 I'm going to do the presentation at their company  next week. 

 They're getting married  two months. 

 This beautiful building was built  the 16th century. 

 The situation  present is very difficult. 

 John's away on holiday  the moment. 

 I've got two days off  Easter. 

 We told him about it  the following day. 

 You can wait for him. He'll be back  ten minutes. 

 The company is closed  public holidays. 

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Grammer: Past tenses

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RXkfKgkFzXS293NTZzRmRjMXM/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0RXkfKgkFzXQmt0RjVjQkxUWjg/edit?usp=sharing

Put the following verbs into the past simple

Thomas _______ (live) in the small town of Brington. Thomas _______ (love) walking through the beautiful forest that surrounded Brington. One evening, he ____ (take) his umbrella and _____ (go) for a walk in the woods. He ______ (meet) an old man named Frank. Frank _______ (tell) Thomas that, if he _____ (want) to become rich, he should invest in a little known stock called Microsoft. Thomas ______ (think) Frank _____ (be) foolish because Microsoft ____ (be) a computer stock. Everybody _____ (know) that computers _____ (be) just a passing fad. At any rate, Frank _______ (insist) that Thomas _____ (be) wrong. Frank _______ (draw) a wonderful graph of future possibilities. Thomas ______ (begin) thinking that maybe Frank ______ (understand) stocks. Thomas _______ (decide) to buy some of these stocks. The next day, he ______ (go) to the stock broker's and _____ (buy) $1,000 worth of Microsoft stock. That _____ (be) in 1986, today that $1,000 worth of stock is worth more than $250,000!

Talk on dangerous things that are good for a childs development.
http://www.ted.com/talks/gever_tulley_on_5_dangerous_things_for_kids.html

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