Wednesday, 7 June 2023

EF 1 2 Class 29 articles, Demonstrative Words

 

English Foundations 1&2

Speaking and Listening 1/2

 

 

Today’s class plan:

·      Exercises on articles

·      Finish vocab exercise

·      “Demonstrative Words”

·      Job interview dialogues

 

Thursday

·      Begin present continuous- new verb tense

·      Finish “Demonstrative Words”

·       

 

Friday

·      present continuous- new verb tense

 

 

 

Exercises on articles

articles- a, an, the

 

Exercise 1

a pair of jeans -singular

jeans - plural

John wants a pair of jeans.

John wants new jeans.

 

SINGULAR

a pair of jeans

a pair of scissors

a pair of glasses

a pair of shoes

PLURAL

jeans

scissors

glasses

 

6.Alfonso wants an Apple computer.

7.Lee wants a car.

Lee wants a new car.

Lee wants an old car. old  vowel sound  a e i o u- sound

Lee wants an electric car.

Lee wants a used car.   used – starts with a consonant sound  ‘you sd’ ‘y’

Lee wants an orange car. orange – starts with a vowel sound

8.Lisa wants an electric guitar.

 

 

Exercise 2

 

email – electronic mail

 

electrical- power from the wall, 120 volts

electronic- computer, cell phone, TV, complex

 

money – noncount noun, uncountable noun

I have two monies. I have some money. I have a little bit of money. I have lots of money.

 

other uncountable nouns

water          a glass of water

sand            a grain of sand

salt              a grain of salt

pepper

rice              One grain of rice. Two grains of rice.

sugar          a grain of sugar

oil                a teaspoon of oil

 

Do you have time to go to the gym?

Do you have time to grab some coffee?

Do you have time to grab some lunch?

She is going to grab some dinner on the way home.

grab – get something in a hurry, quickly

 

Do you want to grab some coffee?

Yeah, sure. Let’s go. It’s on me.

 

IDIOM It’s on me. It’s my treat. – I will pay

 

No, I can’t today. Can I take a rain check?

 

IDIOM take a rain check- plan to do it on another day

 

Part C

1.    She bought an orange shirt.

2.    He bought colourful paper.

a piece of paper

3.    I bought a new iPhone.

 

vowels – a e i o u and sometimes y

 

The t-shirt doesn’t have anything printed on it. It’s just a regular blank t-shirt.

 

We can finish these tomorrow.

 

 

“Demonstrative Words”

 

this (adjective)

This book is from the library.

 

this (pronoun)

This is a library book.

 

 

this ‘s’

these ‘z’

 

‘s’ unvoiced -just mouth

‘z’ voiced – mouth and voicebox

 

Ocean water is usually rough.

Lake water is usually calm.

 

Are those your kids?

Are these your kids?

Is that your phone.

is this your phone?

No, this is not my water bottle.

No. that is not my phone.

 

Men are wearing tie when they are wearing suit.

FIX

Men wear ties when they wear suits.

 

 

 

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