This document contains various lesson plans and teaching tips for an English language class. It includes vocabulary words, exam lessons on reading comprehension and grammar points like conditionals and verbs. It also provides feedback on student work with examples of errors and tips for improvement, such as combining long and short sentences when writing paragraphs.

1. Teacher Tips – Lesson 4

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Bart will never
amount to anything

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6. A reader’s poll
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7. Exam lesson 4
They help the police by phone the programme.
They needed more facts to arrested him.
Because they needed more facts they could
arrest him.
The police know who is the criminal

8. Reading comprehension
issues
Help the police by phoNING the program
(after a preposition you can only have a gerund.
You can never use an infinitive)
To usually precedes an infinitive,
They needed more facts him
I am looking forward to meetING you soonHow
did the directors decide when to put the
programme on? Meaning…..

9. How to use the verb WANT
It is followed by an infinitive verb with to
• I want to tell you something
• I want ask you why you are in hospital.
It is also possible to have a noun or a
pronoun before the infinitive
• I want Maria to tell you something
We do not use WANT with “that” clauses
• I want that you have a souvenir from
Andorra
• I want you to have a souvenir from
Andorra

10. Expressions to avoid in
letters
Kisses
See you later,
See you, / see ya.
Take care,
XOXO, xxx,
Must go now,
Talk to you later,
Write me
Hope to hear from / see you soon
I’m looking forward to hearing from you

11. Errors in your alien stories
They didn’t fin any track of life in that
place, but they found a very dangerous
weapon in a cave, and decided to take
them to him.
From the other side appeared three
aliens.
The waterfalls have beautiful colours and
in them fish swim.

12. Errors in your alien stories
2
Last Tuesday two robbers stole 50,000 $
in a bank because the robbers need
money.
He arrived on Earth in order to mug a
bank. They were Juan and Luis, and they
hadn’t got any money.
One day, they decided to go to Earth and
mug a bank. While they were stealing…

13. Writing a good paragraph
Combine short and long sentences, too!
No more one sentence paragraphs in the wiki, please!

14. Conditionals
They have a
main clause
A subordinate or “if clause”

15. Zero Conditional to talk
about the present
We use it to talk about general truths and things
we believe to be true generally
If + present simple + present simple
If I am sad, he is happy.
If I am (not) sad, he is (not) happy
Is he happy if I am sad?
He is happy if I am sad.
If you heat water, it boils
If you travel to Madrid, it is best to take the train.
It is best to take the train if you travel to Madrid.

16. Second Conditional to talk
about the present
We use it to talk about things in the present that
are hypothetical. Things we think are unlikely
or impossible, or things that are opposite of the
facts
If + past simple + would + base
form
If I worked around here, I’d walk to the office
If I were a millionaire, I would have a castle in
Ireland
If he were younger, he would come with us.
If I had wings, I would fly to Majorca.
* We use were with to be for all the persons.

17. First conditional to refer to
the future
It is used to talk about things that are possible and may
happen in the future
If
Unless
If I go to Paris, I will visit the Tour Eiffel
Negative
If you don’t come for lunch, I will cook paella.
If you come for lunch, I won’t cook paella.
If you don’t come fore lunch, I won’t cook paella
Interrogative
Will + base form + if + present
• Will you come if I cook paella?
+ present + will + base
form

18. Third conditional to refer to
the past
We use it to reflect on things that happened or
didn’t happen in the past and how changing
these events might have made a difference.
If + subject + past perfect + would +
have + past participle
If he had known his mother was dying,
he would have visited more often