Hello!

This is what we have done this week:

We studied the imperative form of the verb: Sit down, stand up, ask, say, get, be quiet, close the door, listen, etc

The negative form: don't open the window, don't sit down, don't read, don't look, etc.

We also studied how to give instructions or make requests in a  polite way:

Can you open the window?

Can you give me the glue?

Can you spell your surname?

And how to ask for something or ask for permission:

Can I get a glass of water?

Can I borrow your pen?

Can I have a notebook? 


We started learning the names of family members.

HOMEWORK

Write about your family in this way:

I have got two brothers and one sister. My brothers' names are ........... and my sister's name is .....

X is 25 years old, Y is 30 years old and Z is 38 years old. Z has got two children: a son and a 

daughter. Etc.

http://www.manythings.org/b/e/3804/
Here is a video you can watch. After watching ask 5 questions like this:

Example: Who is Sara's mother?

Yesterday all the students read their dialogues in a shop. And they were all well done. Now students are quite familiar with expressions like:

Can I help you?

How much is it? (A book, a particular thing.)

How much are they? (those markers, those notebooks)

Here you are.

Can I have ...( a pen, some paper clips, etc.)?


Later we started a new unit. In this new unit we learn words and expressions we can use in the classroom. All those words and expressions have a verb. And here are the most important verbs for the classroom:

Look
Listen
Say
Ask
Answer
Mean
Go
Get
Give
Read
Write
Open
Close
Put
Understand

We studied how to make the imperative form of the verb, so we can give instructions or directions and we can understand them.
It is very easy:

Positive
Ask a question.
Look at the board.
Open the door.

Negative
Don't ( Do not) read the words.
Don't ( Do not) close the window.
Don't ( Do not) put the paper in your folder.

To make a request we can use a more polite form:

Can you open the window, please?
Can you answer my question,please?

We use the same verb, can, to ask for something and to ask for permission:

Can I go to the toilet?
Can I get a glass of water?

HOMEWORK

Give 10 directions. Use the imperative form of the verb in positive and negative sentences.

Write 5 questions using can as in the examples above. 

This time I am writing your blog first so you have plenty of time to read it. Students in this group are so hardworking!

I saw a great improvement on your use of have got yesterday. Everybody seems to be getting the knack of it.

On Tuesday we were practicing What have you got in your bag? in real life, with a bag and lots of objects inside. Our dialogues included the words also, keys, sunglasses, mobile phone, pen, papers, pencil case, rubber, ruler, etc.

We also asked question using other persons, as in What has she got in her bag? or What have I got in my bag? 

Most students are getting used to place the adjective before the verb: I've got an expensive mobile phone. This is different from saying: Is your mobile phone expensive? or Your mobile phone is expensive. In the last sentences the adjective is an attribute, it goes after the verb.

Yesterday we started a new unit. In this new unit we learn how to ask for the price of an item in a shop. We say:

How much is that book?    SINGULAR

or

How much are these scissors?   PLURAL

The answer can be: It's € 1.50.  It's one fifty or 1 euro and 50 cents. 
Other currencies used in English speaking countries  are the dollar ($) and the pound (£). 

When you go into a shop the shopping assistant usually says:

Can I help you?

And when you have decided what you want to buy you say:

Can I have (a red folder, a ruler, a pencil, etc.)?


We were also working on the pronunciation of plurals: there are 3 different possibilities.  The s may be pronounced /s/, may be pronounced /z/ or may be pronounced /iz/. 

/iz/: watches, glasses, sentences, cases, buses, brushes, horses, houses. Remember, this is the group of plurals I really want you to pronounce correctly.

Finally we studied some prepositions of place: in, on, under, in front of, behind, next to, between.

HOMEWORK  

1.Write 10 questions starting with How much?

2. Prepositions. Look at picture of a classroom in your book, at the end of the unit, and make 7 questions such as:

 Where is the clock?

And answer according to what you see in the picture..

The clock is on the wall.

Good morning.

It's cloudy today. It's an autumn day.

Last week we studied a lot of things. The most important thing we studied was the verb have got.

I have got

You have got

He/She/It has got

We have got

You have got

They have got


We use it to talk about possession.

If we ask questions with this verb we change the order of the words and say:

Have I got?

Have you got?

Has He/She/It got?

Have we got?

Have you got?

Have they got?

We studied some classroom objects which most students already knew and practiced questions and answers with the verb have got. We practiced the first (1st) and second (2nd) persons.

Have you got an old car?  And giving short answers: Yes, I have, or No, I haven't.

And the singular third (3rd) person.

Has Puri got a red person? And giving short answers: Yes, she has, or No, she hasn't.

We read a conversation aloud. Everybody read it twice. It was about the things Carol had in her bag.

Adjectives we have studied are: small/big, long/short, old/new, heavy/light. It's important that you remember that adjectives never take a plural form and are always used before the noun.

This is my new bag.  If you say  This is my bag new ,  it's very difficult to understand what you are saying.

HOMEWORK

I already asked  you to do an exercise from the book. You need to write the given sentences in the plural.

Extra homework: 

Here are some nouns: scissors, bag, computer, mobile phone, chair.

Here are some adjectives: old, new, heavy, light, hard, soft, cheap, expensive, good, bad.

Make 5 sentences: choose 1 or 2 adjectives for each noun and make a sentence.

Ex: I have got a new and cheap computer.

Hello!

Last week we reviewed all the units we have done so far.

Introducing yourself and somebody else:

Hello, my name is Mark, this is my friend Sue.

My name is Ben, nice to meet you.

Saying your surname, spelling it, saying how old you are,  telling your adress.

We studied how to ask about somebody's job and how to answer:

What do you do? or what's your job?

I am a journalist.

Using the 3rd person: he is a journalist.

Using the plural (without the article): they are journalists.

Asking questions with the verb to be: Is he a journalist? Are you a journalist?


We were practicing the vowel sounds /i:/ and /I/, long sound and short sound. Here is a link where you can listen to these sounds. http://usefulenglish.ru/phonetics/listening-for-vowels Listen to the first 2 sounds.

In the new unit we started after the review we are studying this and these: 
this is my friend, 
this is a pencil, 
these are pencils. 
See that we don't use an article with the plural form?

We learned a few adjectives: old new, long, short, big, small. Adjectives in English do not take a plural and are used before the noun: Ex: These are long rulers. This is a long ruler.

HOMEWORK
1/ Write 10 sentences using this and these, an adjective and the appropriate form of the verb to be. Ex: This is an old book.

2. Make 10 questions. Remember the order of words: verb + subject + XXXX? Unless you have to use a question word like who, what, where.

Examples:
Is the pencil on the table?

Who is this man?

Are the notebooks new?

Where are the big scissors?