Mr. Herz's English Page
2019

Read Singing Songs of Love on page 80, and answer the questions.

In a complete paragraph, describe your favorite place. (80-100 words would be nice):

  • What is your favorite space?
  • Where is it?
  • What do you like about it? What not?
  • Do you share it with someone else?
  • How is it decorated? How is it furnished?
  • What do you do there?

Translate:

competitive sport
realistic design
settle a disagreement
to refuse to support
obviously life-threatening
exceptional talent
stuffed animal
to be impressed by his qualities
lead a quiet life
be delighted by the process
look skyward
interesting incident

Fill in the right word. p. 45.

Insert the appropriate word. A word may be used more than once or not at all:
who, whom, that, whose, which, when or where.

This is the person ___________ car I stole.

This is the woman ___________ is having my baby.

This is the place __________ my children were born.

This is the town in ___________ I was born.

My father in law is the person for __________ my son was named.

Where is the knife ___________ is used to sharpen pencils?

Van Gogh is the artist __________ I admire most.

There are some things __________ are better kept to oneself.

This is the moment ___________ I have been waiting for.

That last answer was one __________ I just made up.

There are times ___________ I can not remember my own name.

Here is the teacher __________ class I just adore.

Answer in complete sentences:

Has Baruch ever been to AsunciĆ³n?

Have you ever been to San Jose?

Tell me something you must never do:

What is one thing Vladimir did last weekend?

What is something Boris does every day?

What is Bertram doing this afternoon?

What is your favorite subject?

Is there anybody out there?

Have you gotten used to the new teacher yet?

Has Katya been studying here long?

If you could eat only one food, what would it be? (or what would you eat?)

Pick the right word:

This car is fast/faster/fastest than my last one. I have never seen something so ugly/uglier/ugliest. Romeo is not as tall/taller/tallest as Juliette. This test was more fun/funner/funnest than the last one. Mr. Herz is a very funny/funnier man.

Points of Grammar:

Past Simple - Passive (p. 14)

was/were + V3

Present Simple - Passive (p. 24)

am/is/are + V3

Present Simple (fact, habit) (p. 23)

I/You/We/They V . . . .
I/You/We/They do (not) V . . . .
Do I/you/we/they V . . . ?
He/She/It Vs . . . .
He/She/It does (not) V . . . .
Does he/she/it V . . . ?
I am (not) . . . .
Am I . . . ?
He/She/It is (not) . . . .
Is he/she/it . . . . ?
You/We/They are (not) . . . .
Are you/we/they . . . ?

Present Progressive (happening now or soon)

I am (not) Ving . . . .
Am I Ving . . . ?
He/She/It is (not) Ving . . . .
Is he/she/it Ving . . . . ?
You/We/They are (not) Ving . . . .
Are you/we/they Ving . . . ?

Past Simple (past facts) (p. 13)

s - All subjects
S V2(usu. Ved) . . . .
S did (not) V . . . .
Did S V . . . ?

Present Perfect (p. 63)

I/You/We/They have (not) V3 . . . .
Have I/you/we/they V3 . . . ?
He/She/It has (not) V3 . . . .
Has I/he/she/it V3 . . . . ?

Modals and semi-modals (p. 38)

modal or semi-modal + V

must / is able to / might / have to / should / could / will

Modal Perfect (p. 38)

modal + have + V3

Suffixes: (p. 18)

-ward

toward / homeward / eastward / northward / backwards / forward

Relative clauses (p. 45)

who / when / where / whose / which / that

Know the past of: (p. 175)

be / build / draw / find / have / think / flew / throw / teach / speak / give / hear / make / do / have / ride

Special Vocabulary

who
what
when
where
how
somebody
anybody
nobody
something
anything
nothing
ever/never
sometime
anytime
much/many
a/an
good/better/best
bad/worse/worst
adjective/ -er / -est

Vocabulary

to abandon
abstract
achievement
aching
advanced
be (un)affected
animal
to appear in
art
back-up
backwards
border
boxer
build
canvas
cartoon
to cause a sensation
ceremony
to be challenged
to claim
cliff
competitive
complicated
connect
congratulate
to be considered
to create
critic
customers
deadly
deadly weapons
decorate
be decorated with
be delighted with
be dependent on
descend
design
details
determination
devise
develop
direct
discover
discourage
to display
down to earth
draw
efforts
engineer
be equiped with
exceptional
to exit
explore
forces of nature
to gain
glamorous
genius
gym
handful
be haunted
helpless
highly recommend
hold the record
hosts
hunting trip
important
to be impressed by
impressive
in honor of
incident
infection
be inspired by
intensity
invade
invent
layers
lead a quiet life
left-handed
life-threatening
to look fierce
to lower
modest
muscle
navigation system
obvious
to overcome
paint
parachute
part
paws
permission
photograph
process
to produce
professional
publish
qualities
realistic
I highly recommend
to refuse
report
rescue
reveal
role
to row
satisfy
scale
scientific discoveries
scissors
sculptor
to settle a disagreement
show
to slip
sophisticated
to be split
stuffed
support
talent
traditional
trailer
use
vegetarian
ward
the will