A2.1 - The end of the term

This is a summary of the things we've already seen in class in these three months:

• the verb TO BE and presentations: What's your name? How old are you? Where are you from?
• habitual present and routines: I live in Alcalá, I usually go to work by car, I never play golf
• my hobbies and what I like: I love cinema, I often go out with friends, I hate going shopping
• to speak about people (3rd person in singular with -s): Peter has breakfast at home
• to tell the time: What time is it? It's quarter to nine (it's 9.45)
• your family and friends: My sister is a nurse and she works in a hospital in Madrid
• the food you eat: vocabulary and principal meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
• to describe things: A glass is something I use to drink water, wine, milk...
• prepositions of time: IN - a period of time (in July, in the morning...); ON - with days (on Monday, on holyday...) AT - festivities or times (at Christmas, at half past seven...)
• prepostions of place: in - on - under - near - next to - far from - behind - in front of - over ...
• different vocabularies: colours, food, numbers, characteristics (adjectives: big-small), family members, countries, professions, objects in the class and in a shop...

You have learnt a lot! Here you are my presents for you:

• the song A big, big world: click here
• a "difficult" grammar course of 4 minutes: click here
• Another song that I like for you (My name is Luca): click here
• Some Christmas carol: (Silent Night) click here (We Wish You a Merry Christmas) click here
• This easy video is about Christmas in the UK: click here

If you want to check your level, go to this link to see what level you have: click here

There is / there are

This is a lesson in your book (10A) but it's something we're going to do now as a review of the verb TO BE and to start (or continue) with the use of prepositions.

Here you are a very good link to a blog with a drawing and some exercises to practise: click here.

Remember that:

• THERE IS: singular, so you use A when it's necessary --- there's a car in the street but also you say there's (some) milk in the glass. You can say some to indicate the quantity
• THERE ARE: plural, so we say the number or a quantity --- there are some chairs or there are 3 children in the room.

About prepositions (taken from this link)

To practise you have some exercises here:

• there is/there are: exercise 1  exercise 2 (a list of exercises)
• prepositions of place: exercise 1 (a list of exercises)