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When Actions Happen
Names of Words
Welcome to English 2
How English Works
Making Questions
Making Questions
In English we need to ask many questions. It is simple to
write the question. Follow the example.
What is your name?
My name is Sally.
How old are you?
Where are you from?
I am 12 years old.
I am from Chicago.
Listen and Write
You will need a piece of paper and a pencil to do the
following quiz. I will say four sentences and you write
four questions.
Are you ready?
Click on the quiz and listen to the sentence.
Quiz
Answers
Answers
These are the questions that should have on your paper.
1. What do Frank and Mary do every day?
2. Who is their teacher?
3. What does Mary read?
4. What do the students do?
Story
When actions happen
We will learn what to call an action
that happens today, happened yesterday or
will happen tomorrow.
These actions are called tenses:
present, past and future.
There will be a short quiz. Let’s look
at the examples.
When actions happen…
Is the action happening NOW? = Present
Today Mary goes to school.
Did the action already happen? = Past
Yesterday Mary went to school.
Will the action happen tomorrow? = Future
Tomorrow Mary will go to school.
Test
Click to listen!
Click on the button to tell when the story happens.
Happens Now
Happened
Will Happen
Excellent work my friend!
Here is some review. Study these verbs and listen again.
To have
Present
I have
We have
You have
You have
He
She has
It
They have
Past
I had
We had
You had
You had
He
She had
It
They had
Future
I will have
We will have
You will have
You will have
He
She will have
it
They will have
To go
Present
I go
You go
He
She goes
It
We go
Past
You go
They go
I went
We went
You went
You went
He
She went
It
Future
I will go
We will go
You will go
You will go
He
She will go
It
They will go
They went
To be
Present
I am
We are
You are
You are
He
She is
It
They are
Past
I was
We were
You were
You were
He
She was
It
Future
I will be
We will be
You will be
You will be
He
She will be
It
They will be
They were
To do
Present
I do
We do
You do
You do
He
She does They do
It
Past
I did
We did
You did
You did
He
She did
It
Future
I will do
We will do
You will do
You will do
He
She will do
It
They will do
They did
The Story
Frank and Mary have a nice school.
Every day they do something new. Today they
study animals. Mrs. Smith is their teacher. She
is very nice. Mrs. Smith reads many stories to
the students. The students like the stories, but
today it is the students turn to read. Mary reads
a funny story about cats. The class likes the cat
story. The students clap. Frank and Mary are
happy and they go home.
Please read the following examples.
I like to study in the computer lab.
You like to study in the cafeteria.
He likes to study in the library.
These sentences are all correct. Please go the next slide.
Which sentence is not correct?
Please choose one from the list.
A. I walk to the school.
B. You walk to the class.
C. She walk to the cafeteria
Fabulous, you have chosen the
sentence with a mistake.
This one is the incorrect sentence, but what grammar rule
does the sentence follow?
Subject/Verb agreement?
Double negatives?
Direct translation verb problems?
Sorry, that is wrong.
Try and look at examples to see if you can
understand the rules of grammar.
Sorry, this is wrong.
This is not the correct rule for this sentence.
Please go back and try again.
Excellent Work!
The third person singular in the present
tense needs an “s.” So the problem was that
the subject and verb did not agree.
Good work!
Click on the button. Let’s go
on to the next grammar lesson.
Language and Circles
When we make one U-turn, we go in the
opposite direction. If we make two U-turns, then we
go in the direction that we started. If we say two
negatives in English, we are turning completely
around. So, we should only have one negative word
in each sentence. Lets look at some examples.
Incorrect: Mary hasn’t no time to do her homework.
Correct: Tim has no time to work on his assignment.
Remember you can make U-Turns
in English, but you cannot make
two in the same sentence.
Quiz
Wonderful! Are you ready for the
quiz? Now use what you learned!
Which sentence is the correct?
1. I don’t have no time to do my homework.
2. I don’t have any time to do my homework.
Excellent Work!
Let’s go on to more to learn about
translation problems.
This is NOT correct!
Please go back and try again!
Remember to count the negative words.
There can only be ONE negative word in
each sentence.
Why don’t you look at it again?
Translation problems
When we learn a new language, we want to
directly translate from our first language. Sometimes
this works and other times it does not.
Let’s study some examples.
Direct Translation
Here are the examples.
Mark has ten years old. (age)
Correction: Mark is ten years old.
Bill takes coffee at noon. (to take food)
Correction: Bill drinks coffee at noon.
In these examples, the problem is that the
verb is not used correctly. Let’s see if you can
correct the next set of examples.
Click on the correct word
under the sentences.
My sister waited me yesterday.
waited for
waits
wait
I listen music.
listens
listens to
listen to
We asked to the man for a book.
asks for
asked
asks