"An optimist? A pessimist?" "Promises, Promises"

Week 18^th - 20^th November

This week you told me how you see life. Things are difficult at the moment but I’m lucky because I have optimistic students!!

So, you are optimists.

Adjective	Noun
I am an optimistic person.	I am an optimist.
I am a pessimistic person.	I am a pessimist.

But before talking about optimism and pessimism, we wrote a news report. The news was really interesting. “Kangaroo saves farmer’s life.”

Remember: we use present tense in headlines, (the “titles” in the news) so the item of news looks more interesting or shocking. After that we use a variety of tenses, past simple, continuous or present to report the piece of news.

Look out! News is uncountable in English and takes the singular form of the verb.

I’ve got two news. I’ve got some news. 

The news are bad.  The news is bad.

We also learnt to use “will / won’t” for predictions and promises.

Which promise do you find the most difficult to keep? Why?

Think about it and tell me on Monday!!!

And finally, we made sentences with some opposite verbs and also some confusing verbs.

Do you often lose your glasses?

Have you missed any English lessons?

Have you ever missed a bus? And a plane?

What things do people lose more frequently?

Do you lend money to friends? Why/ why not?

Do you borrow money from friends? Why/ why not?

will vs. going to