English TwoUnit One: The time

What time is it?

9:00 It’s nine o’clock.

6:18 It’s six eighteen, It’s eighteen minutes past, It’s eighteen after six.

11: 45 It’s eleven forty-five, It’s a quarter 12, It’s fifteen minutes to 12,

It’s fifteen minutes before 12.

5:50 It’s five fifty, It’s ten minutes before 6, It’s ten minutes to 6.

5:05 It’s five o five, It’s five minutes after 6, It’s five minutes past 5.

2:20 It’s two twenty, It’s twenty past 2, It’s twenty minutes after 2.

12:35 It’s thirty-five minutes past 12, It’s thirty-five minutes after 12.

Simple present information questions:

1. What’s your name?2. Where are you from?3. How old are you?4. Who is your father?5. Who is your mother?6. How old is your father?7. How old is your mother?8. What do you do?9. What does she do?10. What does he do?11. What am I do?12. What the cat does?13. How is the weather?

14. What do you do every day?15. What does she do every day?

United States and Nicaragua (Currency)

In the United States we have Dollars Bills such as:

One dollar, five dollars, ten dollars, 20 dollars, 50 dollars, and 100 dollars

One Dollar

Five dollars

Ten Dollars

Twenty Dollars

Fifty Dollars

One hundred Dollars

Nicaragua Currency

Unit Two: Daily Activities / Daily Routines

Simple present with Adverbs of frequency

I always work from Monday to FridayWe generallyYou usuallyHe seldom works from Monday to FridayShe hardly never

I always wake up at 6:00 am.

I generally get up at 6:05 am.

I usually eat breakfast at 7:00 am.

I seldom wake up at 8:00 am.

I hardly drink beer on weekends.

I never go to parties in Matagalpa.

I often go to the church in Holy week.

Unit Three: There is / There are

Part of the house

There is a kitchen in the house, there are two rooms, there is a car in the garage, there is a dining room in the house, there is a living room, there is bathroom in the house, there is a yard out of the house, and there is a dog near to the tree. There is a bed in the room.

Present continuous

What is Happening right now?

What am I doing? You are teaching English. Is he He is learning English. Is she She is coking her lunch. Is it doing It’s sleeping on the floor.What are you doing ? I’m writing a letter. Are we doing? We are learning English. Are they doing? They are cleaning their house.

Unit Five: Where were you yesterday?

TO BE Past.

Where was I yesterday? You were in Matiguas yesterday. Was he yesterday? He was in the kitchen. Was she yesterday? She was at the school.Where was it yesterday? It was in the yard. Were you yesterday? I was in the church. Were we yesterday? We were in Managua. Were they yesterday? They were at the university.

Negative

He wasn’t in the kitchen.

She wasn’t at the school.

It wasn’t in the yard.

I wasn’t in the church.

We weren’t in Managua.

They weren’t at the university.

Unit Six: Past events (Regular and irregular verbs.

Regular verbs:

Work – Worked- Worked. (trabajar)

Clean – Cleaned - Cleane. (limpiar)

Learn – Learned – Learened. (aprender)

Cook – Cooked – Cooked. ( cocinar)

Study – Studied – Studied. ( estudiar)

Irregular Verbs

Be – Was/were – Been. (ser o estar)

Become – Became – Become . ( llegar a ser)

Begin – Began – Begun. ( empezar)

Cut - Cut – Cut. (cortar)

Do – Did – Done (hacer o auxiliary para preguntar)

Speak – Spoke – Spoken (hablar un idioma)

Write – Wrote – Written. ( escribir)

What di you did yesterday? Yesterday I visited my family.

2. Simple past: regular verbs.

We have three different pronunciation with the regular Verbs in the past event

Work – Worked (t) Play –Played (d) Rest – Rested (id)

Pronunciation of regular past tense-ed

Pronounced the “d” after:

(y) (r) (n) (ve)

Enjoy appear listen love

Play cover open live

Destroy admire clean survive

Obey fear spin move

Try answer explain approve

Cry cheer complain believe

Study compare rain grieve

Carry enter train arrive

Annoy share plan arrange

Copy declare gain receive

Employ assure happen save

Worry suffer sharpen remove

Replay order sign improve

Vary number earn deceive

Justify acquire adorn achieve

Occupy adore abandon absolve

(M-b-e) (ge-) (w ) (ll or i)

Climb age allow call

Absorb rage follow control

Comb belong snow spell

Bomb beg borrow yell

Describe wag swallow kill

Disturb change chew fill

Rob arrange show fail

Stab sag bow travel

Scrub tag shadow cancel

(ee) (se)

Agree close

Disagree cause

Free pause

Past Events: What did you do yesterday?

1. Yesterday I worked on the farm with my parents and friends.

2. Yesterday I cooked lunch for everybody while my mother was in the hospital

3. Yesterday I talked on the telephone with my sister who is in New York.

4. Yesterday in the morning I brushed my teeth after I finished eating.

5. Yesterday in the evening I danced at discotheque with my friends.

6. Yesterday I watched TV, the show Big Saturday in the living room.

7. Yesterday about 9:00 I yawned because I was almost sleeping and I decided to go bed, Good night see you tomorrow!!!

3. Express opinion

A. How does John feel?

B. Not so good.

A. What’s the matter with him?

B. He has a sore throat.

A. Why?

B. Because he smoked all day yesterday.

Do the same dialogue with your classmate using the example before.

1. Mary – has a backache (danced all evening )

2. George – has a earache (listened music all night)

3. You – I have a headache ( read English all morning)

4. Barbara – has backache ( worked in the garden all day)

5. You – I have a sore throat ( smoked all day)

4. Simple past: irregular verbs,

Pronounced – de as “t” after

(ss) (ch) (sh) (k/e)

Pass watch wash work

Kiss scratch wish smoke

Miss search fish talk

Bless attach punish walk

Address pinch crash cook

Across pitch cash look

Dress lunch accomplish like

Boss switch finish thank

Confess match push bake

(x) (ce) (p/e)

Fix dance skip

Fax bounce wrap

Box advance ship

Wax convince shop

Mix glance help

Tax face develop

Annex spice drop

Place stop

Pronounced as “ id” after

(d/e) (t/e) (d/e) (t/e)

Add expect Fold fit

Depend deposit wound trust

Decide elect sound test

End celebrate Mend start

Attend decorate Intend suggest

Divide wait remind visit

Explode communicate Found paint

Flood exit Defend repeat

Need want Land report

Command appoint intend invent

Avoid admit include shout

Guard float import

Fold fit devote