martes, 17 de noviembre de 2020

Superlatives

Read the information about the superlatives and do the exercises:


Superlatives, una ficha interactiva de victor
liveworksheets.com

Present continuous tense

• We use the present continuous to talk about things that are happening now.

• We make the present continuous with the verb to be + verb-ing. E.g.: You are reading.

• How to form the gerund:

o We add -ing to the verb; e.g. play → playing.

o We take away the final e e.g. cycle → cycling, write → writing.

o We double the consonant after one vowel, one consonant e.g. run → running, hop → hopping.

You can do the next exercise as interactive here. 

Practising the time

Here, there are two worksheets about the time. When you finish each one press "Terminado" and then "Comprobar mis respuestas".




viernes, 6 de noviembre de 2020

The 2020 presidential elections in the USA

 Every four years, on a Tuesday in November, people in the USA elect their President.

The 2020 United States presidential election is the 59th presidential election, and it is on Tuesday, November 3, 2020.


There are two candidates:

  • Donald Trump
 
Donald Trump is the 45th president of the USA. he was born on 14th June, 1946, in Queens, New York City. His father, Fred Trump, was a builder. His mother, Mary Anne Macleod, was a housewife, an inmigrant girl who had moved from Scotland when she was 117 years old. Fred and Mary got married and had 5 children, three boys and two girls.

Trump took a degree in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, in 1968. In the seventies and in the eighties, he was a sucessful businessman: he built hotels, casinos and became very rich.

  • Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., Joe Biden, was born on November 20th, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Delaware in 1965 followed by a law degree from Syracuse University in New York in 1968. Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, at the age of 29. From 1991 to 2008, while serving in the Senate, he was an adjunct professor at the Wilmington, Delaware, branch of the Widener University School of Law.


Trump is republican (conservative).

Biden is democrat (liberal).

Democrats symbol is a donkey and republican symbol is an elephant.