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PASSIVE

Dear Students,

We will practice the English passive in our next lesson.


Here are some tips for you:

• Always ask, who is the active person (or animal, thing, etc) ? And who is the one that is acted on ? 

Criminals make counterfeit money. (Active sentence - Criminals are active people, money is acted on)
Counterfeit money is made by criminals. (Passive sentence - money is acted on, criminals are active people) 

• You should review the list of irregular verbs. Why? (Because passive verbs use the 3rd form verb)

 Here is a link to a game with irregular verbs. Have a little fun!

• Here is a video about the passive

• Here is a True/False quiz. Try to get all the answers right, then check yourself. Tell Mary your score!

• There are links on the right side of this page. Use them for practice, too.

Problem solving

Dear Team,

It was a good lesson yesterday:  lots of laughter and jokes (remember the one from Attila? if-if-if, hahaha).

Scratching his head

We learned about the three steps of problem solving - identify the problem, brainstorm, make a decision.

And the stages:
dealing with a problem (the continuous process), figuring out/working out the answer to the problem (the end)

Also, some new expressions were practiced:

• Can I have a word?
• What's up?
• It's a bit of a pain.
• So, what if we do a little experiment?
• I know what to do now.
• That was useful. Thanks!

I handed out a  practice paper with simple past and past continuous verbs. That's the homework.

Next week, the topic is "The History of Money" on pages 39-41 in your package.

Also, we will be practicing with passive verbs. I have put a new grammar practice on the links bar ---->

See you next week! And Attila: have a good trip to Denmark! Maybe you will practice English while you are there...

Sincerely,
Mary

Next lesson October 19

Dear Team,

The last lesson was about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and this year's new members:

Alice Cooper, Dr. John, Neil Diamond, Tom Waits, and Darlene Love

Alice Cooper and his snake

Some interesting notes from the listening: (with thanks to András!)

Alice Cooper: Phoenix Arizona

he became a solo artist

Dr John comes from Louisiana

His name was Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr.

Club musician by the time he was 17

Rolling Stone magazine ranked it in the top third of 500 greatest albums

Tom Waits - voice sounds like a truck crossing over hundreds of stones

He is alive!

Darlene Love had a band called The Blossoms

Only woman brought into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame this year

First big hit "He's a Rebel" 1962

Next week no lesson due to the conference.  Next lesson is Wednesday, October 19.

  

Homework is page 36 in your package titled "Problem Solving". Do tasks 1, 2, 3, and 4

See you later! 

Great Start!

Remember! Next week the lesson is Wednesday, September 14, 2-3.30 pm! 

Dear Team,


We have started the new school year at MNB Soroksár. Everyone brought their vocabulary exercise books today. I was just amazed at the wonderful and interesting words you collected during the summer break!

For example: weed, bottle (from Edit's garden), build-choose-put on/put off/put together (Attila's everyday words), in principle, measure (Erika's ECB law words), golf club, baseball bat, skyline (from András)

Everybody please bring your vocabulary exercise book to the next lesson, because you will build with them!


Homework is in your package: PAGE 29, Weird currency. There are 10 paragraphs in the article, and everyone has to do the tasks as follows and make a short report about them next week. 

Task list for page 29, "Weird Currency": 
Paragraphs 10, 9  -  Edit
Paragraphs 8, 7 - Erika
Paragraphs 6, 5, 4 - Attila
Paragraphs 3, 2 - András
Paragraph 1 - István

Looking forward to seeing you next week at the usual time: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2:00PM.

Mary 

Your review lesson is coming

Dear Students,

This week's lesson is REVIEW. Please look at your package and think about what you need to practice more.

I suggest more practice with comparatives and superlatives, speaking about ideas, vocabulary from the word bag, and passive verbs.

We can also practice how to say 'no' - maybe you want to say "No, Mary. I want to practice xyz." That's okay too!



You can write what you want in the "Comments" area below this post.

See you on Wednesday!

Comparative and Superlative this week

Hello, English Team!

Your homework is about comparatives and superlatives, so don't forget it on page 20 in your package.

Also you can see Attila's opinion about universal currency (package page 13) in the comment below. It's very interesting!

On Wednesday we will talk about schools, socializing, and...keys!

Sincerely,
Mary

 A lot of different keys

Alicia KEYS