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Língua inglesa III

Talking about weekends

02/12/2020

Regras de convivência

Regras de Convivência

Lift or Stairs?

Have you ever used a lift?

If you worked on the 12th floor of a building, would you use the lift or the stairs to go to work?

Talking about

weekends

Listening

Activity

Listening Activity

Listen to Sven describing his weekend. Which of these Indefinite Pronouns were mentioned?

- somebody, someone, something

- anybody, anyone, anything

- nobody, no one, nothing

- somewhere, anywhere, nowhere

Indefinite Pronouns

Answers: nothing, nobody, anything, somebody (2), nobody and anywhere.

- I pressed the button again, but nothing happened.

- I pressed the alarm and shouted, but nobody heard me.

- I couldn't do anything.

- I just sat on the floor and hoped maybe somebody would realize what had happened.

- But on Saturday and Sunday I knew nobody would be there.

- I phoned the police and they looked for him, but they couldn't find him anywhere.

- On Monday morning, somebody came and repaired the lift.

Indefinite Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns

The use of "some" in questions

Use "some" in a questions when you are expecting the person to answer "yes".

Are you looking for someone?

Have you lost something?

Could somebody help me, please?

Would you like to go somewhere this weekend?

The use of "some" in questions

These questions can also be used in the negative form. I this case, the speaker is sure that the answer is going to be "yes".

Aren't you looking for someone?

Haven't you lost something?

Couldn't somebody help me, please?

Wouldn't you like to go somewhere this weekend?

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