Unit 5-lesson 5-Practice class 2

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.

Unit 5- Lesson 4- I hear something here.

Some of the most difficult words to learn in English are the ones that sound the same. There are a lot of words that sound the same, but have different meaning. These are called homophones. There are also other words called homographs. These are written the same, but are pronounced different and also have different meaning. Please check the following video to get a general idea about homophones.

The words that you heard are not the only homophones that exist. There are many more. You can search your local book store or online to get a list of them. A tip to learn homophones is paying attention to context. This way you can tell how to write each word.

Unit 5- lesson 3- A beautiful place.

Most people like to travel. We love to visit new places and get to know different cultures. With internet and social networks we can take pictures and upload them instantly. In this lesson we talk about different places and some of their characteristics. One of those places is a waterfall.

One of the tallest waterfalls in the world is Angel Falls, which is in Venezuela.

It has a height of 979 m (3,212 ft). The waterfall drops over the edge of the Auyantepui mountain in the Canaima National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Gran Sabana region of Bolívar State.

The falls are on the Gauja River, which flows into the Churun River, a tributary of the Carrao River.
Take a look at this impressive waterfall, in the following video:

Unit 5-lesson 2- The first of today.

Time expressions is one of the topics for this lesson. If you listen to someone speaking English it’s possible to hear a few of them during the conversation. That’s why it’s important that you learn them. To give you a general idea about time expressions, please read the following.

Look at these time expressions. It is important to use the right preposition when using time expressions.

at + the exact time 
I wake up at 6:30.
The movie starts at 2:35.
My math exam is tomorrow at 7 o’clock.

in + a period of time
She started working in the morning and left late in the evening.
We went to the beach in the summer.
I will return in a month.

on + a day
I was born on June 10.
He had an amazing party on his birthday.

for + a length of time
I waited for two hours.
He will be on a diet for 2 weeks.

since + a point in time 

I’ve been here since eleven o’clock.
She hasn’t seen a movie since Christmas.

There is no preposition before last, next, this/that day, every, all, whole, yesterday, tomorrow, today.

For example:
He arrived from France last night
I have a meeting with him next Monday

In time, you will see that you can use prepositions easily. It takes a lot of practice but it’s really not hard to get an idea about how to use them. Please take a few minutes to answer the questions and pay attention to the class that follows. Good luck.

Unit 5-Lesson 1- Through out the day.

 

Prepositions are a topic that seems confusing for most English learners. There are so many of them and it looks like there is no difference when choosing which one to use.

With this in mind, we have the following explanation about a few of them. Pay close attention and get ready to answer the questions at the end.

Recognize a preposition when you see one.

Prepositions are the words that indicate location. Usually, prepositions show location in the physical world. Check out the three examples below:

The puppy is on the floor.

The puppy is in the trash can.

The puppy is beside the phone.

On, in, and beside are all prepositions. They are showing where the puppy is. Prepositions can also show location in time. Read the next three examples:

 At midnight, Jill eats mashed potatoes with grape jelly.

In the spring, I always try to plant tomatoes but end up buying them at the supermarket.

During the marathon, Iggy felt pain in his legs.

At midnight, in the spring, and during the marathon all show location in time.

But is very seldom a preposition. When it is used as a preposition, but means the same as except—Everyone ate frog legs but Jamie. But usually functions as a coordinating conjunction.

 

You don’t have to worry about learning coordinating conjunctions. This is a topic that you will learn in future lessons. For now just keep these in mind, get ready for the questions and go ahead with the lesson.

Part of this text was taken and adapted from http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/preposition.htm