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.