English in the Morning B1 #1

sarah.muhlenbock@folkuniversitetet.se

Guest wifi:  Folkuniversitetet-P

Introduce yourself to the person sitting closest to you.

Here are some ideas:

• – why you are taking this course
• – your experience of learning English
• – what you do in your free time
• – what you did at the weekend
• – what makes an English lesson fun
• – what do you feel that you particularly need to improve during the course?

 

Happy Belated Birthday!

He moved here in July/in the summer.

He moved here last July.

he is bilingual – multilingual

a windmill

I had/drank some beers at the party.

I had a fried egg for breakfast

a sculpture

strawberry jam   jelly (USA)

 a roller coaster in an amusement park

grammar, writing, speaking, listening

 

generous with money/time  opposite = mean, stingy

He is very stingy and never buys anyone a drink

 

volunteer – work without being paid

to do voluntary work

active  opposite = lazy, inactive

a “fur kid” – my pets

She is allergic to cat fur

She works as a volunteer at her daughter’s sports club.

He works as a nurse at the clinic

She drinks like a fish  (= similar)

I usually give/donate books and clothes to charity.

He donates blood several times a year. He is a blood donor.

Thank you for your donation.

My brother’s/sister’s daughter = my niece

My brother’s/sister’s son = my nephew

What makes you happy?

Do you know anyone who is generous?  In what ways are they generous?

Have you ever worked as a volunteer?

What kind of charities do you support and why those?

 

 

 

Does money make you happy?  Yes, it does.

Is he late?  Yes, he is

Do you want some coffee?  Yes, I do

Parents spend a lot of money on their kids.

She spends a lot of time on her studies.

Working with children is very rewarding  (= I get something back)

 

I had/drank some beers at the party.

I had a fried egg for breakfast

Before I moved/came to Sweden, I worked/lived/taught English in Japan.

went, took, ate  “ett/eight” , caught, did, saw, drove, fought, made, rode, drank, let

write – wrote

 

I’ve lived in Japan.

When did you live there? I’ve lived there at the end of the 90s

I lived there at the end of the 90s

 

I‘ve seen the Northern Lights. (no specific time reference)

When?  I saw them in April.

• eat – ate – eaten
• teach – taught – taught
• ride – rode – ridden
• kept – kept
• met – met
• wore – worn      Have you ever worn a school uniform?`  My son’s jeans are worn out.
• grew – grown
• heard – heard  “hurd”
• spoke  – spoken
• cut – cut
• let -let
• wrote – written
• sang – sung
• read – read “redd”
• lost – lost
• swim – swam – swum   / sing sang sung
• sleep – slept – slept   I slept for 8 hours last night
• threw – thrown
• see – saw – seen
• put put put
• cost cost cost

 

known  did

made

(made a decision)

done/seen/eaten

broken

been