IMPERATIVES

 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.

ADJECTIVES, COLOURS AND VERB TO BE

This is a video from MadridTeacher.com to learn not only daily objects and colours but also to review verb to be.

NOTE: colour is the British English spelling while color is the American English spelling.

COMMON ADJECTIVES

Watch the video below to learn and/or revise some common adjectives in English

ADJECTIVES

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

Be careful!

    * Don't place an adjective after the noun

NOT!!: an apple red

LET'S PUT THEM IN PRACTICE

Exercise 1 (Put the words in the correct order)
Exercise 2 (A crossword)
Exercise 3 (Choose the correct answer)
Exercise 4 (Put the words in the correct order)
Exercise 5 (Choose the correct answer)
Exercise 6 (Crossword, opposites)
Exercise 7 (Wordsearch, colours)

Exercise 8 (Match the adjective and the correct picture)

THIS - THAT - THESE - THOSE - DEMONSTRATIVES

There are 4 demonstratives in English: that, this, these and those. They are used to state the distance from the speaker.

    * "This" is used for singular nouns that are close to the speaker.

    * "That" is used for singular nouns that are far from the speaker.

    * "These" is used for plural nouns that are close to the speaker.

    * "Those" is used for plural nouns that are far from the speaker.

How good are you at using them? You can test yourself now. Take your notebook and a pen or pencil and go ahead!

SINGULAR INTO PLURAL

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

Exercise 4 (Singular or plural?)

A or AN

We use 'a' or 'an' with singular nouns, it is the indefinite article.

We use  'a' before consonant sound

   a book
   a cat
   a table
   a university


We use 'an' before vowel sound.

   an orange
   an apple
   an hour

Also remember that the plural is 'some'. Use 'some' only in the positive!
   some books
   some apples

Watch the video below, it can help you!

QUESTION WORDS

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.

POSSESSIVE ADJECTIVES

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.



Some exercises for you to practise:

- Exercise 1

- Exercise 2

- Exercise 3

- Exercise 4

- Exercise 5

HOW OLD ARE YOU?

To say how old you are you have to use verb TO BE!
The question is How old are you?
Possible answers:

- I'm 24 years old

- I'm 24

- 24

Wrong answers:

- I have 24

- I have 24 years

- I'm 24 years

Now watch the video and listen to the people. The second part of the video is the same but with subtitles.