The Big Bang Theory - Wh Questions and Simple Present

Hi guys, here is one more video class with The Big Bang Theory to work Simple Present and Wh-Questions.

Here we see an episode which Penny sleeps in Leonard and Sheldon´s apartment. Observe their conversation to answer the following activity.



1- Answer the questions based on the video.
a- Who is sleeping on the couch? _________________________________________________________________
b- What time does Sheldon wake up on Saturday? _________________________________________________________________
c- How often does Sheldon watch Doctor Who? _________________________________________________________________
d- What´s Leonard´s suggestion? __________________________________________________________________
e- Who has a tv in his room? __________________________________________________________________
f- Why doesn´t Sheldon take it? __________________________________________________________________
g- Who arrives in the apartment? __________________________________________________________________
h- Whose robe Howard is wearing? __________________________________________________________________
i- Where is Christy?
__________________________________________________________________

2- What about you? Use your personal information to answer.
a- What time do you wake up on the weekend? __________________________________________________________________
b- What´s your favorite tv show? __________________________________________________________________

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The Rock Show - Pronouns

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Today I bring to you a punk rock song to study Pronouns. Let´s have a lot of fun with this great song.

1 – Listen to the song and complete the lyrics with the pronouns below

Hanging out behind the club on the weekend
Acting stupid, getting drunk with _________ best friends
_________ couldn't wait for the summer and the Warped Tour
I remember was the first time that _________ saw her there

_________'s getting kicked out of school cause she's failing
I'm kinda nervous, cause I think all ________ friends hate ________
She's the one, _________'ll always be there
She took my hand and I made it _______ swear

'cause I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
________ said "what?" and I told her that _______ didn't know
She's so cool, gonna sneak in through her window
Everything's better when she's around
I can't wait til _________ parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show

When _______ said we were gonna move to Vegas
I remember the look her mother gave _______
17 without a purpose or direction
We don't owe anyone a fuckin explanation

'cause I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
________ said "what?" and I told her that _______ didn't know
She's so cool, gonna sneak in through her window
Everything's better when she's around
I can't wait til _________ parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show

Black and white picture of _______ on my wall
I waited for ________ call, she always kept _______ waiting
And if I ever got another chance I'd still ask _______ to dance
Because she kept ________ waiting

'cause I fell in love with the girl at the rock show
________ said "what?" and I told her that _______ didn't know
She's so cool, gonna sneak in through her window
Everything's better when she's around
I can't wait til _________ parents go out of town
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show

I'll never forget the night

With the girl at the rock show

2 – The Pronouns used in the song refer to who or what?
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 – Classify them:
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4 – Collocations
Hang out means:
( ) Go out and have fun
( ) Playing a game
( ) Hanging objects above the ground
Kick out means
( ) Quit
( ) Expelled
( ) Drop

5 – Informal language
a- Identify the informal written language in the lyrics: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
b- Can you write them in a formal way? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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The Big Bang Theory - Simple Past and Collocations

Hey guys

After some time without video classes I bring to you a Simple Past and Collocation class.
Let´s have fun with.


1 – Observe the dialogue below where Mary Cooper narrates a story which happened to Sheldon. Watch the video and try to fill in the verbs below in the correct forms:

Leonard: Sheldon, your mom ____________ dinner.
Sheldon: I'm not hungry!
Mary Cooper: I tell you, I love the boy to death, but he has been difficult since
he _______________ out of me at the K-Mart.
Mary Cooper: I ________________ chicken.
Mary Cooper: You know, we have an Indian gentleman at our church, Dr. Patel--
It's a beautiful story. The Lord ____________ to him and ______________ him
to give us all 20% off on Lasik— You know, those that ________________ it.
Mary Cooper: He once _______________ to fight a bobcat for some licorice.
Penny: Has Shelly ever freaked out like this before?
Mary Cooper: I remember one summer when he _______________ 13, he _________________ a small nuclear reactor in the shed and ________________ everybody he was gonna provide free electricity for the whole town.
Well, the only problem was, he ______________ no what you call "fissionable" materials.
Anyway, when he ______________ on the Internets to get some, a man from the government
_______________ by and _______________ him down real gentle, and __________________ him it's against the law
Penny: What _________________?
Mary Cooper: Well, poor boy ______________ a fit. ________________ himself in his room
and _________________ a sonic death ray.
Leonard: A death ray?
Mary Cooper: That's what he ___________________ it.
_______________ even _____________ down the neighbor kids (negative). It ___________________ our dog off to no end.
Mary Cooper: __________ I pluck a nerve there? (interrogative)
Howard: Oh, yeah.

2- Text Comprehension
What did Sheldon do when he was 13?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who came to talk to him? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Why? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
What did he build? Did it work? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 – What do the expressions below mean?
a- Piss off
( ) get late ( ) get angry ( ) get anxious
b- To the death
( ) never ( ) once ( ) forever
c- Slow down
( ) stop ( ) fast ( ) speed up
d- Freak out
( ) lose temper ( ) get patience ( ) get lost

4 – Do you have any fun story to share? Narrate it below and share with your class. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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ANSWER KEY SOON

Text and Reading

Hey Guys

Today I´m adding a new type of classes on the blog which will work with text interpretation and reading. Calm down, I´m not stopping the videos or the songs, just increasing the number of different opportunities to study. In order to make it more attractive I´ll work with news and current topics.
Today I´ll start with something which recently happened in the US.

Twelve people killed at Washington Navy Yard

At least 12 people have been killed and at least four injured in a shooting at a naval installation in Washington DC.
A gunman was killed at the scene. Police were initially searching for two additional "potential" gunman but one has since been ruled out.
Shots were reported at 08:20 local time (12:20 GMT), and authorities have sealed off a swathe of south-east Washington DC.
President Barack Obama said he mourned "yet another mass shooting".
Police responded to reports of two additional suspects in the shooting at Washington Navy Yard, but have since cleared one of them, a white male in a tan short-sleeve military-style outfit.
A black male, 40-50 years of age and wearing olive kit and seen carrying a long gun, was still being sought.
Reuters

1- How many people were killed? How many injured?
________________________________________________________________________________

2- How many suspects are still being looked for?
________________________________________________________________________________

3- What are their descrption?
________________________________________________________________________________

4- The word Gunman is formed by the union of two words? Which ones?
________________________________________________________________________________

5- What does it mean?
________________________________________________________________________________

6- List below the words which use suffix?
________________________________________________________________________________

7- The sentence At least 12 people have been killed is in the Present Perfect. How can you explain its use? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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ANSWER KEY
1- 12 people killed and 4 injured

2- 1 suspect

3- A black man, 40-50 years old, wearing military-style clothes with a big gun

4- Gun and Man

5- A shooter, a person who is shooting a people with a fire weapon

6- Shooting - Potential - Instalation - Additional

7- It´s because the event consequences are still in progress and the information has the chance of changing