International Students/ S2: English Course

Professor: Nabila Elyazale

Lesson 1 : simple past

Complete the following sentences:

1. I ____ to the university every day

2. It’s 3: 00 P.M. I_________ English
3. Yesterday, I _______ to the university and _________ English.
4. _________? Yes, I do. I go to the university every day
5. _________? Yes, Iam. Iam studying English now
6. _________? Yes, I did. Yesterday, I went to the university and studied English

Answers:

1. I go to the university every day

2. It’s 3: 00 P.M. Iam studying English
3. Yesterday, I went to the university and studied English.
4. Do you go to the university every day? Yes, I do. I go to the university every day
5. Are you studying English now? Yes, Iam. Iam studying English now
6. Did you go to the university yesterday? Yes, I did. Yesterday, I went to the university
and studied English

Regular verbs:
Watch _ watched didn’t watch
Exercise_ exercised didn’t exercise
Study_ studied didn’t study
Stay _ stayed didn’t stay
Shop_ shopped didn’t shop

Complete the paragraph:

On Friday night, I _____ (wait) for a phone call, but my girlfriend ______ (not call). I just
_____(stay) home and _____(watch) television. On, Saturday, I _____ (visit) my friend Frank.
We _______ (talk) and ______ (listen) to music. In the evening, he ______ (invite) some
friends over, and we _____ (cook) a great meal. I ______(not work) very hard on Sunday. I
______(not study) at all. I just _____(walk) to the mall and ______ (shop)

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Complete the sentences:
1. Yesterday, I ________ (watch) television
2. Last night, I ________(stay) home
3. Last week, I _______(exercise) every day
4. Last month, I _________ (shop) for clothes
5. Last year, I _______ (visit) a different country

Simple past –ed ending pronunciation: categorize the verbs from the list into the appropriate
pronunciation category:
• /t/: worked- watched
• /d/: cleaned-stayed
• /id/: invited- visited
cooked- exercised- listened- needed- shopped- waited
Simple past: irregular verbs
-I did my homework-I didn’t do my homework
-I got up at noon- I didn’t get up at noon
-he went to the museum- He didn’t go to the museum
-we met our classmates- we didn’t meet our classmates
-you came home late-you didn’t come home late
-they had a picnic- they didn’t have a picnic

Exercise: Write the simple past or infinitive form of the following verbs:

• Present--------------------------past
• Buy ------------------------------- ……..
• ……… ----------------------------- ate
• Feel ------------------------------- …….
• …….. ------------------------------read
• Ride -----------------------------……..
• ……. -----------------------------saw
• Sit ------------------------------ ……..
• ……… --------------------------- took
• Write ------------------------- ………
Write three things you did and three things you didn’t do last weekend

Write the simple past of the following verbs:

1.Last week, I _____ (have) an interesting weekend
2. My sister and I _____(visit) France for two weeks
3.My sister _______ (not feel) well yesterday after lunch
4. I _____ (take) her to the hospital
5.My brother ______ (stay) home. He _____ (play) basketball and _____ (go) running in the
park
6.John and Mary _____(get up) late last weekend. They _____ (ride) their bikes.
7. In the afternoon, they _____ (shop) and _____ (buy) some nice clothes. They _____(see) a
movie in the evening.

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Simple past/yes no questions:
Did you have a good summer?
Yes, I did. I had a great summer.
Did Erica like her vacation?
Yes, she did. She liked it a lot
Did they play basketball?
No, they didn’t. They played football

Put the words in correct order to make questions:

1. Go interesting anywhere you did?
2. Any take did you pictures?
3. Buy you did any souvenirs?
4. Eat you food new did ?
5. Sports play did you?
6. Good read books you did interesting?

Write the question or the answer:

1.________________? Yes, I did. I saw my friend
2.Did he take an exam? No, ______________
3._________________? Yes, we did. We bought a lot of clothes
4.Did she ride her bike? No, __________
5.__________________? Yes, I did. I had an interesting weekend
6. Did she feel well? No, __________

Use the correct tense for the verbs: simple present- present continuous or simple past:
1. Every day, children ____ (go) to school
2. They ____ (eat) at the moment
3. My cousin ____ (buy) a new book last week
4. She _____ (cook) every day
5. The teacher _____( speak) to children right now
6. We sometimes ____ (go) or a walk in the park
7. look! Peter ____ (ride) his bicycle

Write the question forms in the simple past using the information and then ask your partner
(did you…..):

Watch a movie last weekend

Study last Monday
Go dancing on Saturday night
Meet friends yesterday
Cook a delicious meal last weekend

Lesson 2: Simple past of ‘to be’: ‘was’ ‘were’

I______ a student in the faculty of economics and law
Last year, I _____ a student in ‘Zitoun’ High School
My two brothers ______ students in the school of management two years ago

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Read the conversation and underline the verbs in the simple past:
Chuck: Where were you born, Melissa?
Melissa: I was born in Korea.
Chuck: Oh, so you weren’t born in the U.S.
Melissa:No, I came here in 1990
Chuck: you were young then.
Melissa: I was only seventeen
Chukc: Did you go to College, right away?
Melissa:: No, my English wasn’t very good. So I took English classes for two years first.
Chuck: Well, your English is really good now.
Melissa: Thanks. Your English is very good, too.
Chuck: yeah, but I was born here.

I was born in Korea

I wasn’t born in Morocco. I was not born in Morocco
You were
She was
He was
We were
They were

Melissa is talking about her family. Complete the paragraph with the correct form of the verb
‘to be’:
My family and I _____ all born in Korea. We ______ (not) born in the U.S. I ____ born in the
city of Inchon, and my brother _____ born there, too. My parents _______ (not) born in
Inchon. They ______ born in the capital, Seoul.

Questions with ‘to be’ in the past

• ______________?
• Yes, I was born in the U.S.
• Yes, I was/ no, I wasn’t
• ______________?
• Yes, my brother was born in 2000.
• Yes, he was/ no he wasn’t
• ______________?
• I was born in Korea
• ______________?
• I was born in 1999

Economy students: brand/product. Match the numbers with the letters

a.Brand
b.Brand awarness
c.Leader
d.Segment
e.Research
f.Challenger

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g.Brand image
h.product

1.A product in the second position in the market

2.How much information people know about a brand/product
3.A product that satisfies the consumer’s wants and desires
4.A product in the first position in the market
5.Information you collect about consumer
6. A category of consumers: males/ females/teenagers/babies
7. What consumers think about a brand/product
8. A product that satisfies the consumer’s needs

Law students: types of law. Match the numbers with the letters
a.Public law
b.Constitutional law
c.Administrative law
d.Criminal law
e.Private law
f.Civil law
g.Business law

1.Includes taxes, public education, media law, national security, economic law
2.Includes contracts, family, property
3.Commercial, company, insurance, banking, transport, intellectual property
4.Governs the relation between the state and the people
5.Is concerned with the rights and duties among individuals
6. defines the role, powers, and structure of different entities within a state, namely, the
executive, the parliament or legislature, and the judiciary
7. Is concerned with the punishment of offenders.

Lesson 3: Sports
Which of these sports are good for…children/ teens/ Y.adults/ middle- aged/ older people:

Aerobics
Baseball
Bicycling
In-line-skating
Soccer
Swimming
Weight training
yoga

Sports with verbs

• Play basketball (game/ball)
• Do aerobics (individual/inside)
• Go swimming (individual/outside/ ____ing)

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Exercise: put go, do, play with the following sports
Aerobics
Baseball
Bicycling
In-line-skating
Soccer
Swimming
Weight training
yoga

Frequency adverbs:
I brush my teeth every day: or I always brush my teeth
I don’t go to the cinema because I prefer to watch movies at home: or I never go to the
cinema
• Always: 100%
• Usually
• Often
• Sometimes
• Seldom-rarely-hardly ever
• Never 0%

• Mark always goes to school early

• Mark is always early for school
• Sometimes Mark eats pizza for lunch
• Mark sometimes eats pizza for lunch
• Mark eats pizza sometimes

Explanation: frequency adverbs indicate the number of times you do the activity. They range
from always to never. The position of these adverbs is before the verb like: Mark always
goes to school early except when we have the verb ‘to be’. In this case the adverb is used
after the verb ‘to be’ like in this example: Mark is never late for school. For the adverb
‘sometimes’ , its position ranges between the beginning or the end of the sentence and also
before or after the verb depending if we are using the verb ‘to be’ or another verb, as the
examples above show.

Exercise: Write the frequency adverb in the right place in the sentence:
1.Ann is on time for class. (always)
2.Ann comes to class on time. (always)
3.Sue is late for class. (often)
4.Sue comes to class late. (often)
5.Ron is happy. (never)
6.Ron smiles. (never)
7.Bob is at home in the evening. (usually)
8.Bob stays at home in the evening. (usually)
9.She drinks tea. (sometimes)
10.She drinks coffee. (never)

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Exercise: Put the words in the correct order to make sentences:
1. I - have- breakfast- on- never- weekends
2. Work- I snacks- eat- at- hardly ever
3. Eat- for- pasta- dinner- sometimes- I
4. Have- I – dinner- with- often- family- my

Read the dialogue and underline frequency adverbs:

• Marie: you are really fit, Paul. Do you exercise a lot?
• Paul: well, I always get up early, and I lift weights for an hour
• Marie: seriously?
• Paul: sure, and then I often go in-line skating.
• Marie: wow, How often do you exercise like that?
• Paul: About five times a week. What about you?
• Marie: oh, I hardly ever exercise. I usually just watch TV in my free time. I think I’m a
real couch potato!

Frequency adverbs: question forms

• How often do you get up early on weekdays?
• I usually get up early on weekdays

• Do you ever wake up early on weekdays?

• Yes, (sometimes) I do
No, I never do/ No, I don’t

Exercise 1: complete the question or the answer

1. _______________? Yes, I usually play basketball on weekends
2. How often do you go swimming? _________
3. _____________? I never watch TV on weekdays
4. Does your friend ever practice sport? ______
5. ___________? No, my cousin never goes shopping on weekdays
6. How often do students do homework? _____

Read the conversation and underline the questions:

Ruth: you are in a great shape, Keith.
Keith: thanks. I guess I’m a real fitness freak.
Ruth: How often do you work out?
Keith: well, I do aerobics two times a week. And I play tennis every week
Ruth: Tennis. This is good. How well do you play?
Keith: I play tennis very well
Ruth: and How long do you spend doing aerobics?
Keith: about two hours in the Gym
Ruth: great. And how good are you in aerobics?
Keith: Iam not very good. I still need a lot of practice

Questions with ‘how’:

How often do you work out?

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-two times a week
-I usually work out on weekends

How long do you spend in the gym? (the period of time you spend in the activity)
-about one hour

How well do you play tennis?

-pretty well
-about average
-not very well

How good are you at sports?

-pretty good
-ok
-not so good

The questions ‘how good’ and ‘how well’ have the same meaning, except that we use ‘how
well’ with verbs and we use ‘how good’ with a person as the examples show.

Complete the questions:

• ________________at volleyball?
• I’m pretty good
• _______________spend online?
• About an hour after dinner
• _______________play cards?
• Two times a month
• ______________type on the computer?
• Not very well. I need to take typing classes

Lesson 4: Clothes
- You can look for clothes pictures and nouns on the internet. But we are going to
focus on the clothes vocabulary we have in this lesson

For Work
(Suit: jacket- pants) –Shirt- skirt- tie- scarf- Belt- blouse-Coat –heels- Dress-Shoes

For Leisure
Hat- gloves- boots- jeans- sweater- t shirt- shorts- socks- sneakers- pajamas- cap

These are two categories of clothes: for work meaning clothes I need to go to my work, and
clothes for leisure, which refer to clothes I usually wear at home, or to practice sports, or to
meet friends and family.

Clothes: singular/plural
• T- shirt : singular
• Pants: it is a pair. So it as a plural word

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Like most English vocabulary, it is possible to categorize clothes into singular and plural
words. Plural words as the example shows involve clothes which are pairs, like pants,
glasses, socks, etc.

Read the conversation and underline clothes words:

Pat: Great! Our clothes are dry. Where is my new blouse?
Julie: what color is it?
Pat: It’s white
Julie: Here is a blue blouse. Is it your blouse?
Pat: no, it’s not my blouse….. Wait. It is my blouse.
Julie: oh! No. all our clothes are blue
Pat: here’s the problem. It’s these new blue jeans. Whose jeans are they?
Julie: Uh, they are my jeans. Sorry
Vocabulary problems in the dialogue:
Dry: we wash our clothes with water. They become wet. Then we put them in the sun to dry.

Language in the conversation:

If you notice the words I put in bold in the conversation, you will find that they are
‘possessive adjectives’. They must be followed by a noun and then the verb like the example
shows:

• My example: my pen is blue

• Your
• His
• Her + noun
• Its
• Our
• Your
• their

Exercise: replace the personal pronouns by the possessive adjectives

Example: (I) book is on the table: my book is on the table

1.Where is (I) book? _______________

2. This is (we) teacher _______________
3.She goes to school with (she) brother ______
4.(they) father works in a car factory ________
5.(you) laptop is very expensive _________
6. (he) favorite hoppy is tennis _________
7. (I) husband and I want to go for Paris: ______
8.We want to see (it) historical monuments: ___
9.Leila likes (she) dog _______
10. (it) name is Boby ______

How much/ prices:

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When we talk about clothes, we automatically talk about shopping for clothes: pay for
clothes you buy with money. In English, we ask about the prices of clothes as follows,
depending if the clothing item is singular or plural:

• How much is this t-shirt? (singular)

• It is 5 Dollars

• How much are these pants? (plural)

• They are 10 Dollars

• Talk about prices: that is cheap # expensive

Reasonable: good price
To describe prices, we can use ‘cheap’ means: you do not pay much money for a clothing
item. While ‘expensive’ is the opposite. It means you pay a lot of money for the clothing
item. Between cheap and expensive, we can use ‘reasonable’ or ‘good price’.

Complete the following conversations:

1.A: Excuse me. How much ……. ………Jeans?
B: ……… …….. 20 Dollars.
A: that is ……….

2.A: I like this Shirt. How much ……. …..?

B: ……. ……… 5 Dollars.
A: That is ………..

3.A These glasses are beautiful. How much …… ……..?

B: ……….. ………. 200 Dollars
A: oh! They are very ……………

Technical Words: Economy (company words and places)-Match the numbers with letters

1-subsidiary
• e)a company which is at least half-owned by another company
2-factory/plant
h) a large building or group of buildings where goods are made (using machinery)
3-call center
• c)a place through which products are sold
4-service center
• g)a building for storing goods in large quantities
5-headquarters
• e)a company which is at least half-owned by another company
6-distribution center
• F)the main office or building of a company
7-warehouse
• d)a place where faulty products are mended
8-outlet
• b)a building from which goods or supplies are sent to factories, shops or customers

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Technical words: Law. Look at these situations and decide if the person needs a criminal
lawyer or a civil lawyer

A. Mr Bellerby is opening a new factory. He needs to visit a lawyer to get a contract for his
employees to sign.
_ B.Mrs Robson is thinking about what she wants to happen to her house and possessions
after her death. She needs to visit a lawyer to get the correct document, which is called a
‘will’.
_ The police are taking Mr Dean to the police station because they say he stole a car. He
needs a lawyer to come and visit him there to tell him what to do.
_ Mr Flynn owns a restaurant. He has a contract with a company to deliver fruit and
vegetables to his restaurant. The company didn’t deliver them on the agreed date, so Mr.
Flynn lost money because he couldn’t open his restaurant that day. He needs to see a
lawyer about asking the delivery company to give him the money he lost
_Mr Allen is a bank manager. The bank is saying that some money is missing. Mr Allen has a
new car and expensive clothes. The police are coming to ask his some questions. He needs a
lawyer immediately

Lesson 5: Future/vacation
• What do you like to do on vacation?

-Take an exciting trip: visit a foreign country/ travel through my own country
-Discover something new: take language or cooking lessons/ visit museums and art galleries
-Stay home: catch up on reading/ fix up the house
-Enjoy nature: go camping, hiking, or fishing/ Relax at the beach

Answer the following questions about the first slide:

-what activities do you like to do on vacation?
-what activities did you do on your last vacation?
-Make a list of other activities you like to do on vacation

Read the dialogue and underline words related to vacation:

Julia: I’m so excited! We have two weeks off! What are you going to do?
Nancy: I’m not sure, I think I will just stay home. May be I will watch a few films. What
about you? Any plans?
Julia: yeah. I’m going to relax at the beach with my cousin for one week. We are going to go
surfing every day.
Nancy: this is great
Julia: why don’t you come with us?
Nancy: are you serious? I would love too. I will bring surfboard.

Language: future with ‘be going to’ and ‘will’

Use ‘be going to’+verb for plans you decide on

What are you going to do?

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I’m going to relax at the beach
We’re going to go surfing every day
I’m not going to do anything special

Use ‘will’+verb for possible plans you are not sure about
What are you going to do?
I’m not sure. I think I will just stay home. May be I will watch films
I don’t know. I think I will go camping
I probably will not (won’t) go anywhere

Complete the conversations with the appropriate forms of ‘be going to’ or ‘will’:
A: did you make any vacation plans?
B: well, I decided one on thing. I ……..go camping
A: that’s great! For how long?
B: I…….. Be away for a week. I only have 7 days vacation
A: so, when are you going to leave?
B: I’m not sure. I …… probably leave around the end of May
A: and where are you going to go?
B: I did not think about that yet. I think I ….. Go to one of the national parks. And may be I
…… go hiking and do some fishing.
A: are you going to go with anyone?
B: No, I need some time alone. I…….. Travel by myself

Invitations in English:
Lynn: Say Miguel, what are going to do tonight? Do you want to go bowling?
Miguel: I would love too, but I can’t I’m going to go to a soccer game with my brother.
Lynn: well, may be some other time.
Miguel: Are you going to do anything tomorrow? We could go then
Lynn: Tomorrow is fine. I’m going to work until five.
Miguel: So let’s go around six
Lynn: great

• Informal invitations/suggestions
-do you want to watch a movie?
-let’s go to a football game?

• Formal invitations
-would you like to watch a movie?

Accept:
-sure, I would love too, thanks
-yes, great thanks

Refuse:
-I would love too, but I can’t. I have a doctor appointment
-Sure, but let’s do it another time
-I would love too, but I’m afraid I’m busy this Saturday

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Write invitations/ acceptance/ or refusal for these activities:
Example: do you want to see a movie tonight?
I would like to, but I have an exam tomorrow

• Go to a baseball game
• Attend a beach party
• Watch a comedy play
• Go to a dance performance
• Go on a picnic
• Go to a rock concert
• Play tennis
• Go to restaurant for dinner

Technical words: Economy Consumer behaviors

• 1.Go over your credit limit: ___
• a. Have regrets after making an unwise purchase
• 2.Be a bargain hunter: ___
• b. be unable to control your need to buy things
• 3.be a compulsive shopper: ___
• c. buy something suddenly without having planned to
• 4.have a buyer’s remorse:___
• d. spend lots of money shopping for pleasure
• 5.make an impulse buy:___
• e. enjoy looking at goods in stores without buying any
• 6. bid on an item: ___
• f. be a person who looks for low-priced products
• 7.go on a shopping spree: ___
• g. charge more to your credit card than the allowed amount
• 8. go window-shopping: ____
• h. compete against others to buy an item at an auction

Technical words: law Contracts: The most important elements in a contract are: offer,
acceptance, consideration, intention

Write the correct word of contract in the right definition blank:

1.One of the parties makes a proposal to the other party. The proposal is on certain terms: I
will sell you my car cleaning business on 1 January for 20,000 Dollars. This proposal is called:
_________

2.In order to make the contract valid, the parties must exchange something: money, work,
good. The car cleaning business in exchange of money. This is called: ______

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3.The court looks at the relationship between the two parties. The court decide if the parties
really want to make things legally related in this particular situation or not: If I agree to do
some work for my friend did I really mean to make the agreement legal? Did I have ________

4.It is necessary that a person accepting an offer does not change the terms of the original
offer: I will buy your car cleaning business, but not for 20,000 Dollars. I will give you 15,000
Dollars. Here, there is no binding contract because there was no _________

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