October Assignments
October 5th-31st

Dear students,

It is time to review some grammar tenses.

1. The link English Grammar Online presents an overview of all the English Tenses: a table, a diagram, and some example sentences for all the tenses. Please read the information, and make sure you review the irregular verbs list, the simple and progressive or continuous tenses for present, past, future, and present perfect. Please, read all the information and do all the exercises after the explanations. You may write some of the exercises in your notebooks, and others you may print.

https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar

2. From English Grammar Online study the information about the following Parts of Speech: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions. Please, do the exercises following the explanations in your notebook.


3. BBC Learning English. Please click the link and do Unit 1: Pop-ups
Do the three activities in Session 1: Do you need a hyphen? 
The three activities in Session 2: Present Tenses
The activity in Session 3: The Power of pop-ups
The two activities in Session 4: How to haggle
The activity in Session 5: New Drama

http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/intermediate


4. Read and listen to Isaac Asimov's Biography in the 5 Minute Biographies link. You may play the podcast in a new window, so you can simultaneously read and listen to the text as many times as you wish. Then answer the questions.

http://www.5minutebiograhies.com/isaac-asimov/

a. Who was Isaac Asimov?
b. What did Asimov do for a living besides writing books?
c. Where did Asimov's family migrate from?
d. Did he speak his parents' language? Why?
e. What kind of texts did Asimov write?
f. Why did he become famous?