Four foreigners in Britain talk about the people and the country...
Listen to what they say. Read the text while you are listening. This will improve your reading, writing, listening and speaking skills!!
Nicolae from Romania works in a pub in Manchester
‘British people like children but not in restaurants or pubs. In my pub we have a rule: ‘No children under 12’. People in Britain drink a lot of coffee – cappuccino and espresso are really popular. They drink a lot of beer too – men and women.’
Alexandra from Russia is a student at Bristol university
‘This is not a good country for smokers! Many coffee bars and restaurants are ‘no smoking’. I live with three British students and they don’t smoke. When I want a cigarette I go into the garden.’
Carlos is a tourist from Spain
‘People read the newspaper everywhere – on the train, on the bus, at the bus stop. And the newspapers are really big! Cars stop in Britain when you stand on the zebra crossing – it’s incredible! Cars don’t stop for you in Madrid.’
Marília from Brazil works as an ‘au pair’ in Cambridge
‘I think my British family is typical. The woman doesn’t cook – she just puts a pizza in the microwave. But she watches cooking programmes on TV every day! The man cooks at the weekend – he makes fantastic Indian curries. Their child has a terrible diet. She eats ‘fish fingers’ and chips and she goes to Burger King every week.’
We use imperatives to tell someone to do something or to give instructions, orders, warnings, directions, etc.
Imperatives are divided into two groups: a) Positive Imperatives b) Negative Imperatives POSITIVE IMPERATIVES
To form a positive imperative we use the base form of the verb. The base form is the form in the dictionary. Some imperative verbs: read, listen, put, run, walk, move, eat...
Examples: - Listen! - Raise your hands. - Do your homework. - Speak English. - Come here. - Be quiet!.
NEGATIVE IMPERATIVES
To form a negative imperative we use: Do not + the base form of the verb
Examples: - Do not come here. - Do not put your hat on the chair. - Do not drink it. - Do not park your car here.
NOTE: The contraction for do not is don’t. - Do not come here. = Don’t come here. - Do not speak Spanish in the class. = Don’t speak Spanish in the class. - Do not sit there. = Don’t sit there. - Do not park your car here = Don't park your car here.
An adjective describes how something 'is'. For this reason, we usually use the verb 'to be' when using adjectives. Adjectives are used to describe nouns. Examples: - He is a good doctor. - Beautiful trees. - They are happy. Be careful!
* Adjectives don't have a singular or plural form OR a masculine, femine or neuter form.
* Adjectives are always the same! Never add a final -s to an adjective.
Example: these are difficult books.
NOT!!: difficults books Rule: Adjectives are placed before the noun.
Example: - a wonderful book - very interesting people
Are you good at forming the plural of the nouns? In case you need some extra help this is a presentation for you to review how to make singular nouns plural. If you download it to your computer you will see it better.
Now it's time to practise! Look up the words you don't understand in the dictionary and you will learn more vocabulary.
In these exercises each time you load them you will get new words, do them more than once. Remember, the more times you do the exercises the more words you will learn! Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3
We use question words to ask certain types of questions. We refer to them as WH words because they inlcude the letters W and H. This is the presentation we saw in class, I hope it helps you remember the question words in English.
Remember that an adjective is a word that goes with the noun to say more about it. My, your, his, her, its, our and their are possessive adjectives, they indicate possession.
Here you have a list of classroom language that can be useful for you to use in class. You can just see it or if you want you can download and print. Remember we are going to use it in class!!!!!
This is an old video very good to learn the countries of the world. Some of them aren't countries anymore but it's good listening practice. You have them in order below the video. Sing with Yakko!
Narrator: And now the nations of the world, brought to you by Yakko Warner!
Yakko:
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Carribean
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.
Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.
India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, Taiwan,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.
Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylvania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan
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This is a slow version, probably you'll feel more comfortable with it but, where's is the fun?
Do you still have problems with the ABCs? Not a problem, here you can sing the song with Sesame Street.
Why don't we put it into practice now? Watch the video and write down the names they say. In the second part of the video you can ckeck your answers. Good luck!!!
Why don't you watch this video to review the days of the week?
And now, why don't you do these exercises? it's good practice! exercise 1 (what's the correct spelling?) exercise 2 (put the days in the correct order and give Tom one of his bed bits each time you are right, then another exercise will show). exercise 3 (this time you have to put the letters in order to get the correct day of the week) exercise 4 (here you can play hangman, it might not work with firefox, sorry)
