English File ELEMENTARY A1.2

Online English Class

withInesa Čenienė

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Grammar

What are we going to learn? How are we going to learn?

• Past Simple
• There is / there are
• Countable / uncountable nouns
• Articles
• Quantifiers
• Comparative & superlative adjectives
• Future (be going to)
• Adverbs
• Present Perfect
• Question formation

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Speaking

• Where were you?
• Famous people
• A memorable night
• Describing your home
• Food & cooking
• Tourist information about your town
• Holidays
• Making suggestions
• Talking about a city
• What do you want to do with your life?
• What people do on the internet?
• Film experiences
• What I've done recently / in my life
• Questions

Your teacher's profile

• Inesa Čenienė - an English & German teacher/ translator
• teaches adults and kids
• teaching experience - 15 years
• loves what she does
• never stops learning
• speaks 4 foreign languages: English, German, Russian, Esperanto
• accepts challenges
• does yoga
• loves art, photography, walking, reading, writing postcards

November 25th

• Introduction
• Getting to know you
• Listening & speaking. Personal information
• Review. Present Simple & Present Continuous
• Speaking. Find someone who...
• Video task. My shoes

Info

Present Continuous

Present simple

Happening right now or around time of speaking

Routine, regular action, fact.

FORM: I love. He loves. We love. Don't / Doesn't Do you...? Does he...?

FORM: I am ... -ing. She is ... -ing. I'm not ... -ing. We aren't ... -ing. Are you...? Is he...?

VS

alwaysusually often sometimes never

at the momentnow right now today this week

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November 30th

• Warm-up. Questions
• At the National Portrait Gallery
• Grammar. Was / were
• Pronunciation
• Speaking. Famous people
• Quiz

Info

Let's make the questions!

... be / home / Sunday afternoon?

... in the shower / 7 o'clock / this morning?

... in bed / 11 o'clock / last night?

... tired / Monday morning?

... happy / yesterday?

... on holiday / last August?

December 2nd

• Speaking. Describing pictures
• Listening & speaking. Famous people
• Vocabulary. Word building
• Grammar. Past Simple. Regular verbs
• Quiz. Was / were

Info

December 2nd

• Speaking. Describing pictures
• Listening & speaking. Famous people
• Vocabulary. Word building
• Grammar. Past Simple. Regular verbs
• Quiz. Was / were

Info

WORD FORMATION

4b 1. singer 2. composer 3. politician 4. scientist 5. policeman / policewoman 6. novelist 7. businessman/ businesswoman 8. sailor 9. artist 10. inventor

4a 1. sportsman 2. musician 3. poet 4. writer 5. painter 6. actress 7. film director

PAST SIMPLE

REGULAR VERBS

+ - ?

I you he she it we you they

I you he she it we you they

I you he she it we you they

lived

Did

live

didn't live

Regular verbs

listen study visit travel talk watch wash want call help play walk argue arrive bake collect copy exercise hate love joke kiss marry smoke worry

December 7th

• Reading & listening. Chelsea girls
• Grammar. Past Simple. Spelling
• Pronunciation -ed
• Vocabulary & speaking. Past time expressions
• Video task

Info

December 9th

• Reading. A night to remember
• Grammar. Past Simple (irregular)
• Speaking. Picture cards
• Quiz. Past Simple corrections

Info

December 14th

• Warm-up. Spin & answer!
• Vocabulary. Go / have / get
• Listening. A memorable New Year's Eve
• Pronunciation. Sentence stress
• Speaking. My memorable New Year's Eve
• Review. Past Simple questions
• Quiz. Past Simple corrections

Info

December 16th

• Warm-up. What did you do...?
• Practical English. Asking the way
• Speaking. Giving directions
• Review. Was / were
• Review. Past Simple questions. Exercises
• Test 1

Info

December 21st

• Warm-up. Questions
• Reading & listening. A murder story
• Grammar. Past Simple
• Speaking. Police interview
• Watching & speaking. The difference between British & American Christmas

Info

Did you read yesterday? Why? Why not?

Are you a bookworm?

What is the best age for kids to learn how to read?

What did people do before reading was invented?

Tell us about an interesting book you've read.

Will the Internet ever replace reading?

PAST SIMPLE of BE

WAS / WERE

+ - ?

I ...? you ...? he ...? she ...? it ...? we ...? you ...? they ...?

I you he she it we you they

I you he she it we you they

wasn't weren't wasn't wasn't wasn't weren't weren't weren't

was were was was was were were were

Was Were Was Was Was Were Were Were

PAST SIMPLE

REGULAR VERBS

+ - ?

I you he she it we you they

I you he she it we you they

I you he she it we you they

lived

Did

live

didn't live

• Crimbo
• Father Christmas
• stockings
• Christmas crackers
• Christmas hats
• pudding
• Boxing Day
• pantomime
• the Queen's royal message
• Christmas tree

January 6th

• Vocabulary. The house
• Grammar. There is / there are
• Pronunciation
• Speaking. Your home
• Quiz. Houshold items

InfO

January 11th

• Warm-up. Rhymes
• Reading & speaking. Haunted hotels
• Vocabulary. Prepositions of place & movement
• Grammar. There was / there were
• Speaking. The ghost room
• Video. A haunted castle

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Prepositions of movement

Name three

Name three things you would never run towards

Name three things you can walk across

Name three places you can walk through

Name three things in nature that go up and down

Name three places you can't go into without buying a ticket

January 13th

• Warm-up. Secret door
• Speaking. Food
• Reading. What I ate yesterday
• Grammar. C/U nouns; a/an, some/any
• Pronunciation /ea/
• Speaking. My food diary
• Quiz. Food & drink

InfO

January 18th

• Warm-up. Past Simple Questions
• Revise & check
• Listening. My dinner last night
• Pronunciation /ea/
• Speaking. What do you usually have...?
• Quiz. Some/any /a/an
• Vocabulary. Food containers
• Quiz. Food & drink

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PAST SIMPLE Question time

This morning

What time / get up? / make your bed? What / have for breakfast? When / leave home? / check your email? How / go to work?

When you were 12 years old

Where / live? Where / go to school? What singers / like? / have a mobile phone? Who / your best friend? What / like doing in your free time?

Your last birthday

What presents / get? / go to work? Who / celebrate it with? / have breakfast in bed? / have a party? / have a good time?

Yesterday

Where / have lunch? Who / have lunch with? What / do in the afternoon? Where / be / 7.30pm? / watch TV? /go to bed before or after midnight?

January 20th

• Warm-up. Riddles
• Your presentations
• Vocabulary. Food containers
• Grammar. How much/how many/a lot of...
• Pronunciation
• Speaking. How much sugar/salt do you have a day?
• Reading. White Gold
• Quiz. Countable or uncountable

InfO

January 25th

• Warm-up. Name 5
• Vocabulary. High numbers
• Grammar. Comparative adjectives
• Speaking. Quiz night
• Reading. The best quiz contestant
• Quiz. Comparatives

InfO

January 27th

• Warm-up. Boardgame
• Reading. The best quiz contestant in the country
• Speaking. Guess the comparative
• Practical English. At a restaurant
• Unit 9 test
• Quiz. What's on the menu?

February 1st

• Warm-up. Secret door
• Vocabulary. Places & buildings
• Grammar. Superlative adjectives
• Speaking. Comparative & superlative predictions
• Quiz. Comparatives

February 3rd

• Warm-up. Comparatives & superlatives speaking
• Reading. The most dangerous road in the world
• Speaking. A tourist in Kaunas
• Listening. Five continents in a day

February 8th

• Warm-up. Questions about holidays
• Grammar. Be going to (future plans)
• Speaking. What are you going to do?
• Listening. Planning a holiday
• Vocabulary & speaking. Holidays
• Writing. A formal email
• Quiz

Are holidays really relaxing? What stressful things are involved in taking a holiday?

When your holiday is finished are you happy to get back to work or not? Why?

Where did you use to go on holiday when you were a child?

Do you eat more when you're on holiday? Do you put on weight?

February 10th

• Warm-up
• Vocabulary. Verb phrases
• Watching & speaking. It's written in the cards
• Grammar. Be going to (predictions)
• Speaking. Describe the pictures
• Short film. The history of the sandwich

February 15th

• Warm-up. Guess the city
• First impressions of a new place
• Grammar. Adverbs
• Speaking. Tell me about...
• Listening. Impressions of Costa Rica
• Speaking. People in Lithuania
• Quiz. Famous landmarks

February 17th

• Warm-up. Tell me about...
• Review. Present Simple questions (3B)
• Speaking. Does he/she...
• Grammar. Verbs+to+infinitive
• Pronunciation. Sentence stress
• Speaking. What do you want to...?
• Writing. My bucket list

February 22nd

• Vocabulary. The Internet
• Speaking. Life before the Internet
• Review. Present Simple vs Present Continuous

February 24th

• How smart is your phone?
• Vocabulary. Phones
• Listening & speaking. What do you use your phone for?
• Grammar. Articles
• Pronunciation: THE
• Articles board game
• Watching & speaking. I forgot my phone
• Review. Was/were

March 1st

• Warm-up. Learning English
• Practical English. Going home
• Vocabulary. Public transport
• Speaking. Getting to the airport
• Review. Past Simple
• Speaking. Making questions
• Quiz. Different tenses
• Test 11

March 3rd

• Warm-up. Films
• Listening. Film experiences
• Grammar. Present Perfect
• Vocabulary. Irregular past participles
• Speaking. Have you ever...?
• Quiz. Present Perfect

March 8th

• Warm-up. Have you ever...?
• Grammar. Present Perfect (exercise)
• Vocabulary. Past participles
• Speaking. For/since guessing game
• Listening. He's been everywhere!
• Quiz

March 10th

• Warm-up. What have you never done?
• Listening. Film experiences
• Grammar. Present Perfect vs Past Simple
• Vocabulary. More past participles
• Speaking. What I've done recently/in my life
• Grammar quiz
• Watching & speaking. Have we met before?

March 15th

• Watching & speaking. Have we met before?
• Reading. Interview with Sir Ian McKellen
• Grammar. Question formation
• Speaking. Different questions
• Quiz. Questions

Question formation

Do you ...? Does he/she ...? Are you ...ing? Is he/she ...ing? Did you go... ? Were you/they/we...? Was he/she/it...? Are you going to...? Is he/she/it going to...? Have you...V3? Has he/she/it... V3?

Present Simple Present Continuous Past Simple Past Simple (to be) Future (be going to) Present Perfect

March 17th

• Warm-up. Riddles
• Grammar review. Present Simple questions
• Speaking. Famous people
• Grammar. Prepositions of time & place
• Watching & speaking. What are you doing this weekend?
• Test 12

Info

March 22nd

• Warm-up. Questions
• Review. Future tenses (be going to)
• Speaking. I'm going to improve my English
• Grammar. Be going to / will
• Speaking. Different Questions
• Recommendations

Info

WILL spontaneous decisionspredictions offers promisses

BE GOING TO plans predictions based on facts

Talking about the future

PRESENT CONTINUOUS arrangements (100%)

PRESENT SIMPLE timetables

Thank you!