TODAY’S SCHEDULE

● Warm-up - Linkers
● Vocabulary & Reading
● Listening & Grammar - Tag questions
● Writing - Organising ideas

What words do you think of when you think of

‘the environment’?
You have 1 minute to type your words in the Zoom chat.

THE
ENVIRONMENT
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Many words come from the same “family” or “lexical set”. For example, create, creation, creative…
Learning word families is a good way to build your vocabulary!

reduce

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 QUESTION TAGS

Question tags follow a statement and a comma, and

are made of a verb + a subject pronoun.

We use question tags:

- To ask someone to agree with us.

We can all help, can’t we? (I think you agree.)

- To check our information to see if we are

correct.

There are only about half a million wild

elephants left, aren’t there? (I’m not sure if
this number is correct)

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QUESTION TAGS

Question tags follow a statement and a comma, and are made of We can all help, can’t we?
statement question tag Remember!
a verb + a subject pronoun
We can’t go,
For the present simple,
If the statement is positive, the question tag is negative. statement question tag
use the auxiliary verb
They know, do (don’t) or does
If the statement is negative, the question tag is positive statement question tag
(doesn’t).*
He hasn’t seen it,
The verb can be: statement question tag For the past simple, use
You will come, did (didn’t).*
- An auxiliary verb such as do, does, did, has or have
statement question tag
- A modal such as can, will, would, and so on I shouldn’t go,
statement question tag
- the ‘be’ verb such as am, are, was, etc.
You are married,
We only use the subject pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we, they in the statement question tag
She is a student,
question tag. Never use nouns or names. statement question tag

NOTE: Mary works here,

statement question tag
With “I am…” we use “aren’t I?” e.g., I’m late, aren’t I? Bob and I are fine,
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With ”Let’s …” we use “shall we?” e.g., Let’s dance, shall we? statement question tag
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QUESTION TAGS

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