NOTES

What does he do? What’s his job?

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Possessive adjectives

My book Our class

Your Your

His Their

Her Their

Its Their

My dog is called Smokey. Its kennel is in my garden.

I have ten dogs. Their kennels are in my garden.

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Whose book is it? It’s Noeh’s.

Who’s he speaking to? To Saad

America, Argentina

Brazil

Canada

Denmark

England

France

Germany, Georgia

Holland

Iceland, Ireland

Japan

Korea

Lebanon

Morocco

Norway, New Zealand

Oman

Poland, Pakistan

Qatar

Russia

Saudi Arabia, South Africa

Tunisia

Uruguay

Venezuela

Wales

X ----

Yemen

Zimbabwe

Australia

New Zealand

South Africa

Scotland

The United States

Canada

Riyadh is a very busy city.

There is a lot of traffic in the city.

It’s difficult to get around the city.

Underground (The Tube) = subway (usa)

Subway = a tunnel under the ground used to cross a road

graduated - to graduate

degree

living / staying

compound

foreigners

facilities

taught

wanted

love / enjoy / like

cultures

speak / practise

are studying

retire

am working

improve = make better

1) to be keen to do something = you want it very much

2) to be keen on doing something = you like it very much

I am also studying

Holiday

Going

At night

In the morning

During the day

5) The sun doesn’t shine at night. It shines during the day.

3) The S.A. football team don’t wear red shirts. The players wear green shirts.

The S.A. football team doesn’t wear a red shirt. It wears a green shirt.

4) Kangaroos don’t come from Canada. They come from Australia.

6) In Britain people drive on the right. They don’t drive on the left.

What do you usually do at the weekend?

Where do you usually go at the weekend?

What time does the bank open?

(What time do the banks in Riyadh open?)

Where does your father come from?

He comes from Riyadh.

(Does your father come from Dammam? Yes, he does / No, he doesn’t)

6 – 11 = primary school (usa = elementary school)

11 – 18 = secondary school (usa = high school)

Which school do your children go to?

My brother works in a bank, in a government office, in a clinic etc.

Where does your brother work?

What do you do?

I’m an officer in the National Guard Signal Corps

Corps /kor/

Corpse /korps/

What sort of car does your brother drive?

What make of car does your brother drive?

What car does your brother drive?

! an exclamation mark

?a question mark

. full stop (or ; semi-colon)

We enjoyed the holiday, but it rained a lot.

We enjoyed the holiday. However, it rained a lot.

learn learnt/ learned learnt/ learned

He’s moving to London next month, but he doesn’t like big cities.

He’s moving to London next month. However, he doesn’t like big cities.

She isn’t English, but she speaks English perfectly.

She isn’t English. However, she speaks English perfectly.

She went home because she was tired.

She was tired, so she went home.

(Because she was tired, she went home)

formal

informal

We didn’t enjoy our holiday because the weather was bad.

The weather was bad, so we didn’t enjoy our holiday.

He worked hard so he passed all his exams.

He passed all his exams because he worked hard.

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To sweat

Wants

Goes

Carries carried

Catches

Thinks

Crash

Washes

Reads read /red/

Does

Flies

Studies studied

Misses

Eats ate /et/

Has

Cries

Frequency adverbs = often, never, always, usually, sometimes = go before the main verb or after the verb to be

I always arrive early = I am never late

Do you often go to the library?

I never eat meat because I don’t like it.

I don’t like meat so I don’t eat it.

My parents always listen to the radio in the evenings.

How often do you have a holiday? QASI

We sometimes go to a Japanese restaurant.

Sometimes we go to a Japanese restaurant.

I am never late for school.

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How many people are there in his/her family?

How big is his/her family?

Does he have any brothers and sisters?

What’s his surname/ family name?

Acronym = GPT, MONG, BBC

Where does he usually go on holiday?

Where did he go on holiday last year?

What does he/she do in his/her free time?

Vowels = a e i o u

Consonants = b c d f g h etc

Swim swimming

Hunt hunting

Rain raining

Wearing

Thinking

Shining

Having

Taking

Waiting

Get Getting

Stop Stopping

Run Running

Begin Beginning

Market marketing

Prefer preferred

Travel travelled

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Aptis test

IELTS = International English Language Testing System (General / Academic)

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, = comma

“ “ = speech mark

There

Their house was destroyed.

My house Our

Your Your

His / her / its Their

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tidy / neat “a tidy room”

untidy / messy

messy = adj

mess = noun

There is a mess in my room.

To be in a mess

My room/ the kitchen is in a mess.

(You needn’t study page 34 in the book for homework. We are going to study it in class.)

What time have you got lunch? x

What time do you have lunch?

Have you got a brother?

Do you have a shower every morning?

Have you got a shower every morning? x

HAVE = 1) possession 2) action verb

HAVE GOT = 1)possession e.g. I have got a house with a garden.

Action verbs

Do (homework)

Study

Drive

Eat / Have breakfast

Sleep

Wash

Think about something

Stative verbs

Like

Love

Understand

Agree

You can’t

Think (opinion)

(There are two policemen in plain clothes0

23 February – 27 February = mid-term break?

14 November students' day

12 December

9 January

6 February

6 March

3 April

1 May

29 May

26 June

Tests

13 Nov

19 Dec

23 Jan

18 Feb

27 March

23 April

APTIS test ?????? Very, very soon!!!!

To pay somebody a compliment= to say something nice about somebody to them

What a lovely ring you have…you are wearing!

You’re very intelligent / nice

To give a girl an engagement ring