Online Class Notes (Joe)

We talked about Spain, travel, and the COVID pandemic. We learned how to use the present perfect continuous tense and the past simple tense correctly.

We must focus on pronunciation of the diphthong /eɪ/ in words like ‘Spain’ and ‘plane’.

Pronunciation

The /eɪ/ sound is a combination of /e/ and /ɪ/ or /i:
When you pronounce the /eɪ/ sound, your mouth will change position and shape as you say the sound, because they combine two vowel sounds.

Practice with this sentence
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain.

Vocabulary

pandemic (noun) – a disease which spreads across the whole world
We travelled to Spain before the outbreak

outbreak (noun) – a sudden spread of something unpleasant
The outbreak started in 2019

breakout (noun) – an escape from a place (usually prison)
The breakout from the prison happened at midnight.

severe (adj) – very serious
There is a severe drought

Grammar

they have a business trip (the future)
they had a business trip (the past)

I’ve been Spain 4 years ago
I’ve been Spain 
I went Spain 4 years ago

the mail couldn’t deliver to your house
the mail couldn’t be delivered to your house
they couldn’t deliver the mail to your house