Household Chores.

• What are some ideas on how to assign household chores in a family? Should parents give money to their children as a reward?
• Listen to the conversation and answer the questions. Press the "Final Score" button to check your quiz. 

• Listen to the conversation again as you read the Quiz Script.

Functions.

As we saw in class, we have different ways to describe functions in English:

• ROM holds intructions which are needed to start up the computer.
• ROM is used to hold /is used for holding instructions which are needed to start up the computer.
• The function of ROM is to hold instructions which are needed to start up the computer.

Here you have some examples:

• A scanner is used for inputting text and graphics.
• A printer is used to print out data from a computer.
• An ATM (automated teller machine) provides cash and account information to bank customers on account of a swipe card.
• A PDA is used to store information such as appointments.
• The function of a hard disk drive is to store programs and data.
• A supercomputer is used to process quickly very large amounts of information, for example in a government department or a university.
• A mainframe computer is used for processing large amounts of data such as a major company's accounts and client database.
• Barcodes provide computer-readable information on a product so that it can be identified and priced automatically.
• Swipe cards are used to provide a secure means of identifying authorised users of many different facilities such as banks, libraries and computer labs.
• The function of memory is to hold the instructions and data used by the processor.

Prepositions of Place.

• If you need some information about prepositions of place read THIS.
• And you can do an online EXERCISE, too.

• Finally, you have an easy activity on Places HERE.

Digital Cameras - A Listening.

• Listen to PART 1 of a discussion about digital and conventional cameras and find the similarities and differences between them.
• Now listen to PART 2 and list the disadvantages of digital cameras.

• And if you need it, read the LISTENING SCRIPT.

(source: Oxford English for Information Technology Second Edition, Eric H. Glendinning & John McEwan)

Countable and Uncountable Nouns in English.

(source: English Is Fun/Facebook)

• Countable Nouns are used in singular and plural forms.
• Uncountable Nouns are ONLY used in singular forms.
• A/an, many and a few are used with countable nouns; much and a little with uncountable nouns.
• The, some and any are used with both countable and uncountable nouns, but you will find some only in affirmative sentences.
• You can do some online exercises HERE.
• And you can see an interesting PowerPoint presentation HERE.

Grammar Tips - Relative Clauses & Passives

RELATIVE CLAUSES

• We use Relative Clauses to join two sentences, and to give additional information about something:

              - Do you know the girl who is talking to Tom?
              - George ate the apple which was lying on the table.

• By combining sentences with a relative clause your text becomes more fluent and you avoid repeating certain words.
• If you want a more detailed explanation, click HERE.
• If you need more practice you can do some online EXERCISES.

 PASSIVES

•  The Passive voice is used when the focus is on the ACTION, it's not important who or what is performing it.

                - My bike was stolen.
                - The road is being repaired.

• See uses & form of passive sentences HERE.
• You can practise by doing some EXERCISES. For exercises with passives in simple present click HERE; for passives in simple past click HERE.

Price Tag

• Watch the video Price Tag by Jessie J and do the following EXERCISE. Do you think everybody's got a price?
• Russian buys world's priciest home: A LISTENING. And HERE is the audio transcription and the answers of the exercises we did in class.