Teacher’s Basic class 3-4

Teacher Carlos Eduardo Olarte León

Contents of this class session

There’s what you’ll find in this presentation:

1. Nouns
2. Personal Pronouns.
3. Verb To Be in present.
4. Affirmative and informative questions
 Nouns

Nouns are everywhere in our writings.

A noun name something.

• Can name a person: Charles, The principal, a girl, etc.

• Can name a place: Mount Everest, my bedroom, the school, etc.

• Can name things (abstract and non-abstract): shoes, basketball, love, etc.

• Can name proper nouns: Charles, Duitama, UPTC, etc.

• Can name common nouns: a person. a city, the university, etc

 Nouns

Could be

Singular Plural

Regular Irregular
or
 Regular Nouns

Are nouns that become in plural

with an
_s or _es
Singular nouns Plural nouns

Student Students

Tomato Tomatoes

Class Classes
 Regular Nouns

Rules according the end of some nouns

Nouns ending in _f
or _fe
Nouns ending in
_s Nouns ending in Nouns ending in
_ss vowel + y consonant + y Drop _f or _fe and
_sh take _ves in the plural
_ch Take _s in the plural Drop _y and take _ies form e.g.
_x form e.g. in the plural form e.g.
_o
Boys Leaves
Take _es in the plural Toys wolves
form e.g. Strawberries
Applies Note: Some nouns ending
Buses
Dresses in _f or _fe take only _s
Brushes Roofs, cliffes
boxes

Note: Some nouns ending in _o take only _s

Radios, hippos
 Irregular Nouns

Are nouns that don’t become plural by

adding
_s or _es
Singular nouns Plural nouns

man Men

woman women

mouse mice
 Let’s practice
Write the plural form of:
Singular Plural Singular Plural
Orange Oranges Girl girls
egg eggs ox oxen
Radio Radios fox foxes
Leaf Leaves wife wives
ape apes sheep sheep
tooth teeth child children
 Personal Pronouns
Subject pronou
They are short words
They are useful for personal
that
introductions and descriptions
substitute
Object
nouns
pronouns

1st person 2nd person 3rd person

Singular Plural
 Subject Pronouns
Comes at the beginning of the sentence.

I am
the first person
You are the second person

I talk to you
 Subject Pronouns

WeI talk
talk about
about aa third
third person
person
 Subject Pronouns

1st person 2nd person 3rd person

He She They

I we it

You You
(s) (p)
 Let’s practice
Put the correct subject pronoun according to the
given noun:
Noun Subject pronoun Noun Subject pronoun
Oranges they Duitama it
Martín He
The United States it
Radio it
Patience it
Baby it
You and I we
Girl she
My dog and I we
women they

Tables and chairs they

Verb To Be

- Is one of the most important verbs in English

- It is an Irregular verb

- Is used to express locations, existence and descriptions.

- It has many different forms Infinitive: Be

Present: Is / are / am
Past: was / were
Past participle: Been
Present participle / gerund: Being
 To Be in present
Affirmative sentences

To Be in
Subject + present + Complement
Nouns
Personal Am
Is
pronouns are
Proper
Nouns

e.g. Peter is nice

 To Be in present
Negative sentences

To Be in
Subject + present + Negation + Complement
“not”
Nouns
Personal Am
Is
pronouns are
Proper
Nouns

e.g. Peter is not shy.

Isn’t
Verb To Be in present

If we use the Verb To Be with the personal pronouns

He is
I am

She is They are

We are You are

It is
(s)

You are
(p)
 Let’s practice
Replace the noun with the correct subject pronoun
and the correct form of the verb To Be in present:

he ____
My brother is Miguel, ________ is thirty years old, ______ is from
he ____
is an architect.
he _____
Sogamoso and ______

is Berlin, ________
The name of our pet ____ it is
____six it (he)
years old, ________

is a German shepherd.
____
 Affirmative and Informative questions

In any tense we are going to talk about these kind of questions

Affirmative questions Informative questions Tag questions

Yes / no Wh. questions To confirm any

questions information

Are you a teacher? What is your profession? You are a teacher,

aren’t you?
Yes, I’m a teacher. I am a teacher.
No, I’m not a teacher.
 Affirmative and Informative questions

Affirmative questions (Yes / no questions)

Present of Be

To Be in present + Subject + Complement + ?

(information) (question mark)

e.g.
Is Seminario School a good school ?
Yes, Seminario School Is a good school.

No, Seminario School Is not a good school.

 Affirmative and Informative questions

Informative questions (Wh. questions)

Present of Be

Wh. question + To Be in
present + Subject + (Complement) + ?
(question mark)

What (asking about a thing or idea)

Where (asking about a place)
When (asking about a time)
why (asking about a reason)
Who (asking about a person)
How (asking about a way of doing something )
 Affirmative and Informative questions
Informative questions (Wh. questions)

Present of Be

Wh. question + To Be in
present + Subject + (Complement) + ?
(question mark)

What is the animal In the picture ?

Where are you now ?
When is The party ?
why is she sad
?
Who is Your best friend ?
How are you today ?
 Affirmative and Informative questions
Informative questions (Wh. questions)

What is the animal in the picture? The animal in the picture (it) is _________ .

Where are you now? I am in my house now.

When is the party? The party (it) is ________.

Why is she sad? She is sad because she lost a test today.

Who is your best friend? My best friend is _____. _____ is my best friend

How are you today? I am excellent today.

 Let’s practice
Answer the questions using the verb to be in present, take into account the
image.

What is this place?

(it) is _________ .

Where is this place?

(it) is _________ .

What is this place like?

(it) is _________ .
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