Friday, April 27, 2012

WALK: Are you Smarter than a Spanish Teenager prt. 2

As I discussed in prt. 1, I am the go to girl for all things relating to America and English. However, as the year has progressed my classroom questions have shifted from “where does Justin Bieber live” to "what is the Past Participle of ... ?" UHHH, WHAT? I’m not even sure that I ever learned what a Past Participle form of a verb is, but even if I did learn it at some point and time- I definitely don’t know what it is now. So I thought it was time for another pop quiz, so you can test your skills as well.

1)    List the Infinitive-Past simple-Past Participle of: DRIVE
2)    Provide an example of the Affirmative-Negative-Interrogative of:  
        TO BE
3)     List the Infinitive-Past simple-Past Participle of: DREAM
4)    Give an example of LIKE+Gerund
5)    Give an example of LIKE+noun

Answers:

1)    Drive-Drive-Driven
2)    I am at school. 
      She isn’t in my class. 
      Are they at the football game?
3)    Dream-Dreamt/Dreamed-Dreamt/Dream 
      * This one is hard because it has two options for the Past Simple and 
       Past Participle
4)    I like watching old movies.
5)    I like jazz music.

How did you do?? I’ll admit that I couldn’t answer (yet alone explain) most of these questions when I received them in class, but I'm proud to say that I can now. I knew that I would learn Spanish when I came to Spain, but I never thought I would lean a little English as well.

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