What makes children unhappy?

Listen to some children answering the question: 

"What makes you unhappy?"

What about YOU? What makes YOU unhappy?

When you're down, what makes you happy?

Listen to some people answering the question:

When you're down, what makes you happy?

Listen to Pharrell Williams' song Happy. Do you like it? Does it make you happy?

What makes you happy?

Tell me in a comment :-D

Infinitives & Gerunds

It can be sometimes confusing when to use the infinitive or when to use the -ing form. To be or not to be that's the question!

To start, have a look at the theory and then watch the video from the British Council. And then all you need is practice and more practice!!

Infinitive With To

Gerunds

Pronunciation /ai/

The diphthong /ai/ is found with the following spelling -i- as in item, -y- as in shy, -igh- as in sights, but you can also find it in words such as buy, height, eyes.






Some examples are:

Watch the video to listen to the sound and practise it.

Don't stop me now

Writing an article

Articles

Pronunciation: linking words

When award ends in a consonant sound and the next word begins with the same or a very similar sound, we often link the words together and only make the consonant sound once. This happens when a verb ends in /t/ or /d/, so want to is pronounced /'wɒntə/ and decided to is pronounced /dɪ'saɪdɪ
tə/.

In these cases the word "to" is not stressed and therefore it is pronounced with a schwa /tə/

Short vowels: /ɪ/

Practise the sound /I/. Some examples we saw in class were slippers, linen, fish... 

Here you have more examples and a video to watch and practise.

Rules & Obligations

What do you have to do speak good English???

Well you have to:

• come to class regularly
• do your homework after each lesson
• study at home
• read as much as you can
• listen as much as you can and MORE!!!

And you can:

• arrange conversation meetings with a native speaker
• travel to an English speaking country

So there are a few things you have to do... and all of them are your obligations

How do we express rules & obligations in English?

Well have a look at the video and the notes

Rules and Obligations