Summary of Richard Vaughan’s lessons

Sharon Sarai Maygua Mendiola

November 28, 2019

1 Lesson 7 (beginners)
Richard Vaughan talks about some important cities in the United States.
First, mention four of them:

• Los Ángeles

• San Francisco

• San Diego

• Boston

Later he mentions other important cities such as Houston, Dallas, San

Antonio and Florida.
He deepens his talk in the cities of Florida. Miami is one of the most impor-
tant cities in Florida, as well as Tampa, Orlando and Tallahassee.

The political center of the United States is in a less important city.

The reason is that they try to separate the political center from the business
industry because there is a possibility of incurring corruption if these two
institutions work very closely.
The capital also needs to be far away.
In Washington D.C. there are no industries or businesses, but it has the cen-
ter of political organization.

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 Vaughan also talks about California and the many interesting places that
this city has. Finally, he speaks a little about Spain and asks the audience
what they think is the most beautiful city in Spain.

2 Lesson 6 (advanced)
Richard Vaughan begins by talking about modal words and how to formulate
them:

T here + could/would + have/has + participleverb (1)

He says ”I” has many applications. He also says that using the word
”there” is very useful for pointing or showing places when someone asks us
where something is.

He asks some questions of the ”yes / no questions” type applied to places.

For example:
”Is there any paper on the table?”

Subsequently, he grabs two objects, a paper and a pencil and begins to

put them in different places on his table.

He also makes sentences with objects in the three main tenses of English,
which are past simple, present simple and future.
For example:

• There were two objects

• There are two objects

• There will be two objects

He talks about how useful it is for us to use the verbs ”to be” in the
present, past and future.

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Are, is / were
And also
Will / would for the future.