Curso de Inglés: Presente Simple y Actividades Divertidas

Free Time Activities Mind Map

This page presents a mind map of free time activities, categorizing them into different groups such as sports and music. It serves as a visual aid to help students remember and organize various leisure activities in English.

Highlight: The mind map includes activities like skiing, basketball, listening to music, dancing, and singing.

Vocabulary: Sports mentioned include tennis and football (soccer).

Spanish Translation

This page provides a Spanish translation of Jairo's letter, helping students understand the content in their native language. It serves as a tool for comprehension and comparison between English and Spanish expressions.

Highlight: The translation allows students to see how ideas are expressed differently in English and Spanish, reinforcing their understanding of both languages.

Example: "Estoy muy emocionado por lo que va a pasar" (I'm very excited about what's going to happen).

Letter Writing Practice

This page continues the letter writing activity, showing the full text of Jairo's letter. It discusses his feelings about the future, his ambition to become a pilot, and his concerns about financing his studies.

Quote: "I'm very excited about what's going to happen. I know everything will change, but I'm also a little nervous."

Vocabulary: Key phrases include "looking for friends", "feeling like I am about the future", and "worried because it's so expensive".

Present Simple Tense

This page focuses on teaching the present simple tense in English. It provides conjugation tables for affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms of the verb "play" in present simple. The page aims to help students understand the structure and usage of this fundamental tense.

Definition: The present simple tense is used to describe habitual actions, general truths, and scheduled future events.

Example: Affirmative: "I play", Negative: "You do not play", Interrogative: "Does she play?"

Present Simple Rules

This page delves deeper into the rules of forming the present simple tense, particularly focusing on the third person singular form. It explains when to add -s, -es, or -ies to verbs in the present simple.

Example: Verbs ending in -ss, -sh, -ch, -x, or -o add -es (e.g., miss → misses, watch → watches).

Highlight: The page also covers irregular verbs like "have" which becomes "has" in the third person singular.