Welcome to the second practice class in this course. This time the topics are: This, that, these and those; present progressive and prepositions of time. Take a look at the examples and get ready to answer the questions.
Topic No. 1.
This, that, these, those.
Here is a quick reminder of how these work:
This- one object close to you.
That-one object that is far away.
These- Two or more objects close to you.
Those- Two or more objects far away.
Examples:
- Those blue shirts- plural, far away.
- These white cars-plural, close to you.
- That red car- singular, far away.
- This green house-singular, close to you.
Topic No. 2
Present progressive is a tense that we use to talk about something that happens in this exact moment. We use it with the following structure:
Subject + am/are/is + ing- verb + complement
Example: Bruce is driving to work.-This means that in this moment, Bruce is driving.
Here is a chart to remember how to use present progressive with each pronoun.
|
PRONOUN |
TO BE |
ING VERB |
COMPLEMENT |
|
I |
am |
eating |
a pizza. |
|
He/ She/ It |
is |
||
|
We/ You/ They |
are |
Topic No. 3
Prepositions of time: IN, ON, AT.
Use these to talk about moments in time. To talk about a long time period we use IN.
Examples:
In the summer.
In the winter.
In the weekend.
To talk about a specific day or date, use ON.
Examples:
We ate cake on my birthday.
You will go to school on Monday.
I visited my grandmother on Sunday.
To talk about specific time, use AT.
The movie starts at 8:00 pm.
I talked to him at noon.
Ross arrived at 3 o’clock.
Check the examples as many times as you want. This class is for practice only. During the lesson you will see a few examples of each topic, but not in detail. We talked about each one of the topics in previous lessons. So this information is just to review some of them.
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