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FIRST SEMESTER
2nd STUDY GUIDE, DECEMBER 2013
1st & 2nd MIDDLE SCHOOL GREEN
TEACHER: Blanca Fuentes
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GRAMMAR (Simple Past Tense) Change the following sentences into simple past.
1. She comes to school by car.
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2. He writes all the answers in his notebook.
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3. He buys a ticket for the concert every summer.
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4. She is a very good student and gets very good grades.
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5. They love to come to London on weekends.
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Read the sentence then write the same sentence aI negative and b in a question form.
Ex. He had a big dinner last night.
a)He didn´t have a big dinner last night. (NEGATIVE)
b) Did he have a big dinner last night? (QUESTION)
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We saw an excellent movie last night.
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He gave me 50 dollars as a birthday gift.
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I heard about your next trip to Italy next vacation.
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3. We walked all the way from school to Jerry´s house.
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b.__________________________________________________
USE OF ENGLISH Read the text and think of the word which best fits each space. Use
only one word in each space. Use the articles a andthemore than once.
The morning in Spain lasts until two o´clock, when it is time for lunch. After that there´s
___________ siesta and the afternoon begins ______ about five o´clock. ________ eight o
´clock, people begin thinking about having ______ drink and so the evening begins. Dinner is
served from nine o´clock and the evening may continue well into the night.
There´s no town, large or small, without __________ main square and it is ____________ great
public festivities take place. ___________ square is the heart of the community life. In the past,
the entrances to the square used to be blocked so that it could serve as a bullring, something
which is still done ____________ villages where they do not have their own bullring.
In the cities, bars are popular meeting places where one goes for ________ aperitif at lunchtime,
to drink ________ glass or wine with friends and to try the tapas, which may be anything ______
olives _________ sea food. After work, comes the Tertullian, or informal club hour _________
men gather and, ___________ a glass of wine discuss the news, politics and football or tell jokes.
The end of the afternoon is ____________ people often have a cup of chocolate, or, in summer,
_________ refreshing, cold drink and churros: delicious, twisted frites.
COMPLETE THE SENTENCES USING ONE OF THE WORDS FROM THE LIST.
Park visit food drink meet talk shop buy eat dress stroll lamp turn suit order pay
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After the meal, how about going to the bar for a ____________?
You got that CD for only 5 dollars? That was a very good _____________ !!
Whose ______________ is it to answer the next question?
I always_________________ at the supermarket, it is quicker and cheaper.
There´s nothing like a _____________ at the beach on a sunny afternoon.
When I give an ______________, I expect you to obey, said the general.
Why don´t we pay our next door neighbours a ______________ on Christmas Eve?
WORD FORMATION Complete the following table.
Verb
noun
verb
noun
advertise________________________ disappear
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appoint_________________________ inform
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arrange_________________________ introduce
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arrive_______________________ know
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assist_______________________ persuade
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direct______________________ refresh
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SPELLING. Write a sentence with each of the following words.
1. prove __________________________________________________________________
2. upset __________________________________________________________________
3. approve ________________________________________________________________
4. qualify _________________________________________________________________
5. chorus _________________________________________________________________
6. motion_________________________________________________________________
7. telescope_______________________________________________________________
8. revolves________________________________________________________________
SHOULD AND WOULD
Remember that SHOULD is used in English to make a suggestion or to give advice,
whereas WOULD expresses a condition.
Write should or would in the blanks below:
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You ____________ study your math tonight Gerald, said his mother.
If I had my book ____________ I study very hard, said Gerald.
If Gerald studies properly, he ____________ the test.
_____________ you like pickles or mustard on your eggs?
Every child __________ always obey his parents.
My dog Bingo ___________ eat a donut if I gave one to him.
You _________ not make fun of Peter!!
If I had my choice, I ____________ live in Jupiter.
____________ you like a marshmallow?
All of you __________ be ashamed of teasing my son.
NOTE: From spelling section, page 2 lessons 2 and 3, make sure you know all the words
in order to write them correctly for dictation
PREPOSITIONS.Complete the sentences with prepositions use the words from the box.
To at in on by
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I usually come to school _________ car.
He asked me to meet him _________ the shopping mall.
I was born _____ May 15th, 1987.
They never go to work ______ foot, they always travel _____ bus.
She wanted me to come with her _________ the supermarket.
Let´s meet Peter ______ the stadium this afternoon.
I have to see the doctor _______ two weeks time.
She lives ______ a very nice house near the park.
Ann always drives ______ work _____ her own car.
I would like you to come with me _______ the mall tomorrow.
Reading Comprehension: Read the following reading and then answer
the questions from the bottom.
At the movies
It was one of those terribly hot days in Baltimore. We always had those for about a month between
July and August. They were the days that were so hot that they made you regret ever wishing it
would be summer. That day in particular was hotter than I could remember it being. The
weatherman on the radio said it would get up to 104°!
Needless to say, it was too hot to do anything outside. But it was also scorching in our apartment.
This was 1962, and I would not live in a place with an air conditioner for another ten years. So my
brother and I decided to leave the apartment to find someplace indoors. I suggested the drug store,
because I wanted to get a soda or malt. But he reminded me that the drug store would not let you
sit there all day, especially once the afternoon rush started. My brother instead suggested we could
see a movie. It was a brilliant plan.
Movie theaters were one of the few places you could sit all day and—most important—sit in air
conditioning. In those days, you could buy one ticket and sit through both movies of a double
feature. Then, the theater would show the same two movies again after that. If you wanted to, you
could sit through them twice. Most people did not do that, but the manager at our theater, Mr.
Bellow, did not mind if you did.
That particular day, my brother and I sat through both movies twice, trying to escape the heat. We
bought three bags of popcorn and three sodas each. Then, we sat and watched The Music Man
followed by The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. We’d already seen the second movie once before.
It had been at the theater since January, because Mr. Bellow loved anything with John Wayne in it.
Watching it again was better than going outside, and at least The Music Man was new to us.
We left the theater around 8, just before the evening shows began. Mr. Bellow was expecting a big
crowd for the premier of Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, so he insisted that we leave. But
we returned the next day and saw the same two movies again, twice more. And we did it the next
day too. Finally, on the fourth day, the heat wave broke.
Still, to this day I can sing half the songs in The Music Man and quote half of John Wayne and
Jimmy Stewart’s dialogue from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance! Those memories are some of
the few I have of the heat wave of 1962, and they’re not really my memories. They’re really
memories of the screen, not memories of my life.
1) Based on its use in paragraph 2, the word scorching most nearly means
A. very hot
B. very dry
C. very humid
D. very affordable
2) According to the passage, when did the narrator first live in a place with an air conditioner?
A. 1952
B. 1962
C. 1972
D. 1982
3) It can be assumed from the passage that the narrator saw The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
A. three times
B. five times
C. six times
D. more than six times
4) Which of the following statements best explains why the narrator and his or her brother chose to
see the same movies multiple times?
A. The drug store would not let them inside.
B. They wanted to avoid the heat outside.
C. The manager at the theater was friendly.
D. They were huge fans of John Wayne.
5) What does the narrator mean when he or she writes that the memories are “not really my
memories” in the final paragraph?
A. that he or she is remembering scenes from a film, not scenes from his or her life
B. that the only days of the summer of 1962 that he or she remembers are those days spent in the
movie theater
C. that the memories are actually those of the narrator’s brother, not the narrator himself or
herself
D. that he or she saw the films too many times and now can only remember what happened in
them
6) In this passage, we learn about someone who watches the same movies over and over. Is there
any movie or show that you have seen multiple times? Why did you watch it so much? Do you still
remember specific scenes or dialogue from it? What made you remember those things? Explain
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