Halloween stuff

Halloween is almost here...

Complete the gaps in the text with the missing words.

Once a ......................bit me and now I'm a ..................too. Daylight makes me weak, so I sleep all day in a................ and I'm awake at night. I drink...............
I have...............skin and long................I always wear dark clothes and a black .................I can fly if I become a ..................

vampire, vampire, pale, blood, cape, fangs, coffin, bat

I'm a ................ I always wear a hat and a tunic. I use my...................... to fly and go everywhere very fast. I have some........................ to cast a ................... to wake the dead and make a................. to poison an apple. I also have a pet. It's a .........................., its name is Gwen.

spell, broomstick, witch, magic books, black cat, potion

Halloween Haikus

 A haiku is a Japanese poem with no rhyme with a typical structure (5 syllables / 7 syllables /5 syllables)

Let's read these Halloween haikus. Can you write one?

http://www.chicagonow.com/listing-beyond-forty/2014/10/halloween-haikus/

Wh- questions

It is important to know Wh- questions because they are very frequent.

  

What       qué

    When      cuándo

 Who        quién

 Where    dónde

   Why        por qué

How        cómo

Structure:
WH   +   DO/DOES   +   SUBJECT    +   VERB

Where do you live?

WH   +   BE    +    SUBJECT 

Who are you?
      

Adding -ed and -ing

These are the rules:
-Verbs ending in silent - e: drop the final -e before adding -ed and -ing
-Verbs ending in -ee, -ye, and -oe, just add -ed or -ing
-Verbs ending in vowel plus -l: add an extra -l before adding -ed and -ing
- Verb ending with a single vowel plus a consonant, and the stress is at the end of the word double the final consonant before adding -ed and –ing
-Verb ending with a vowel plus a consonant and the stress is not at the end of the word, just add -ed or -ing.
-Verb with only one syllable and ends with a single vowel plus a consonant, double the final consonant before adding -ed and -ing.
-Verb ends in -c, add a -k before adding -ed and -ing .

You can find here a detailed explanation with examples.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/verb-tenses-adding-ed-and-ing

Irregular verb list

Here's the irregular verbs list. Study 5 verbs a day and you'll know all of them before the summer break!

http://www.profesordeingles.eu/verbos-irregulares-en-ingles/lista-verbos-irregulares-en-ingles.php

The - s in the Present Simple

As you know, we add an -s in the Present Simple when we talk about he, she or it.

He reads

She cooks

It explains

But you have probably realized we sometimes add -es, or change a y into ie when adding -s.

These are the spelling rules:
(The chart is copied from http://www.learnenglishlanguagewell.com/grammar/verbs-with-s-in-present-simple/)
 

Spelling of third person singular forms in Present Simple Tense
Most verbs: Add “s” to infinitive(1) verbs finishing with  one vowel + “y” :add “s”	Work ->	works	Sit ->	sits
	Stay ->	stays (1)	See ->	sees
	know ->	knows	Live ->	lives
*Verbs ending with consonant and “y”: Change “y” for “ies”	Cry->	cries*	Hurry->	hurries*
	Fly->	flies*	Imply->	implies*
	Try->	tries*
Verbs ending in sibilant sounds –s, -z, -ch, -sh, or -x add “es” to infinitive	Push->	pushes	Fix->	Fixes
	Catch->	catches	Confess->	confesses
	Buzz->	buzzes	Finish->	finishes
Verbs ending with “o” Verb “have”	Go->	goes	Do->	does
	Have->	has