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PROM 2021
English class
Stella Rincón V.
Session 2: Diagnosis -General Review

Skills Grammar

Test-Takers Vocabulary

Learning Objective:
-To review some grammar aspects seen in previous
levels.
The forms of
DO- HAVE- BE
Activity 1 Read the following sentences.

I LIKE music.
I DON´T LIKE music.
Do you like music?
Activity 2: Say the following sentences in the same way:
My mom likeS music.
1-I listen to music everyday.
M y mom doesn´t like music.
2- I’m learning English.
3- I saw Madonna in the Airport.
4- I have lived in Bogotá for 4 years.
 2. AUXILIARY VERBS
The forms of BE HAVE Do
DO- HAVE- BE
Present (am- Is Are) Present (Have has) Present( do does)
Past ( was were) Past. ( had) Past. (did)
1. FULL VERBS
Be : I am a teacher.
Questions: Did you….? Is she….?
Have: You have 2 cars. Negative sentences: I haven’t got
Support another verb:
DO: I do exercises in the I am working
park. I have lived

Full verb OR
Auxiliary verb?
Write A or F next to the
following sentences to
show
whether have, be, or do is
used as an AUXILIARY
verb or a FULL verb.
1 HAVE you ever stayed at 8. Where WERE you
the Ritz Hotel?___ yesterday?____
2 We HAD breakfast in bed. 9.Mary never DOES the
3. DID John give you those
washing up.____
flowers?___ 10. Thank goodness we
HAVE a dishwasher.____
4.I DID my homework very
quickly last night. ___ 11.How many people HAVE
you invited to the party?
5.She HAS a shower every
morning before breakfast. 12. Why ARE you leaving so
early?_____
6We WEREN’T talking to
James about his exam.____ 13. We’VE got a beautiful
puppy called Molly.____
7. Lots of trees WERE blown
down._____ 14. We HAVE a beautiful
puppy called Molly _____
Contracted forms

• Rewrite the sentences with contracted

forms where they are possible.

• Example:

• I do not know where the post office is.

• I don’t know where the post office is

 Let’s Practice: Read the telephone conversation and put the correct auxiliary
verb in each gap. Use the contracted forms where possible.
My computer’s gone wrong !
D: good afternoon. Apple helpline here.
I’m Damian, How can I help you?
V: Oh, at last! Hello Damian. I ________ got
a terrible problem with my computer.
It________(not) working at all!
D: Ok, Ok. Tell me your name and your
company name and describe what _____
happened.
V: My name’s Valerie, Val actually, Valerie Marks. I _______(not) work for a
company . I’m self-employed. I work at home and I______ trying to meet a an
important deadline at the moment.
This morning, I _______ working away happily, when suddenly everything
stopped and a message came on the screen. Then, the screen went blank.
D: OK, Val, ________(not) worry! What _______ the message say?
V: I can’t remember, exactly, because I __________(not) understand it., but
I think it said something about ”not enough memory”.
D: It’s Ok. I understand. Tell me, Val __________you switched the computer off?
V: No. I _________. It’s still on.
D: Fine. Now do exactly whay I say. Go to your computer OK? Can you
see a ”W” in the top right corner? Click on the “W” with the mouse.
What ________it say? Can you read it to me?
V: It says three things. There’s a list of three things. First,, it
says…..
 Let’s practice! Speaking
• After correcting the dialogue play one of the roles Valery (self-
employed) or Damian ( the Apple’s Technician).

• Practice the conversaition taking into account the pronunciation,

entonation, and the phone call context.

• Record the conversation using vocaroo https://vocaroo.com

• Upload your recording in Teams

(Archivos- Folder My computer’s gone wrong)

 IMPORTANT!!!

Learner Oxford dictionary

You can use this dictionary to ckech and improve the

pronunciation of the words you aren’t sure .
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/